Senate releases budget version
The Ohio State Senate’s version of the state’s budget bill is very close to what we budgeted for Fiscal Year 2010—within $120,000 of what we budgeted. Nevertheless, there is still great uncertainty in Columbus. The president of the IUC sent the following email to all Ohio public universities earlier this week:
“As a follow up to the last email – I want you to know that NOTHING is settled in this budget process. We may end up with a budget that looks like the Senate or House version, and we may end up with a huge cut in the SSI. This financial situation is too perilous to know anything for sure, and even if we get a budget with some growth, if the revenue projections don’t pick up, we will remain at-risk. Key members are talking about cutting higher education – so it is not off the table.”
Thus, we continue to follow what is happening in Columbus very closely. In the meantime, we continue to exercise strict position management control.
More to follow…
Scott Scarborough
June 5th, 2009at 1:40 pm
I’d only note for those unfamiliar, the IUC is the the Inter-University Council of Ohio, the association that represents Ohio’s 14 public universities. Former Ohio Lt. Gov. Bruce Johnson is the current IUC president. More info: http://www.iuc-ohio.org/default.asp
June 8th, 2009at 1:31 pm
Thanks for the update Scott!