Community College Update

A vital resource for community college clients, School Services of California Inc.'s Community College Update delivers timely and useful information on fiscal and policy issues. The Community College Update features in-depth articles on topics such as the State Budget, Proposition 98 allocations, capital outlay, Lottery estimates, bonds, student fee questions, and much more. The Community College Update contains summaries and analyses of all major legislation that has an impact on community colleges.

Volume 24 No. 24
  • AB 1344 Impacts Local Executive Contracts and Brown Act Meeting Requirements
  • By the Way . . . Brown Makes Appointments to the Board of Governors
  • By the Way . . . SSC Alum Appointed to Student Aid Commission
  • Bipartisan Federal “Super Committee” Fails to Reach Agreement on Budget Cuts
  • By the Way . . . Supreme Court to Hear Case Challenging Federal Health Care Reform.
  • By The Way . . . Board of Governors Meets to Discuss Student Success Task Force Recommendations
  • PPIC Finds Californians Concerned About Higher Education
  • A Conversation with Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor
  • In Trigger Country—Legislative Analyst's Revised 2011-12 Revenue Forecast is $3.7 Billion Short of the Budget Estimate
  • Trigger Tracker—The “Trigger Track” Continues to Challenge our Revenue Runner
  • It's Official: CPEC Closing Its Doors This Week
  • October Revenues Fall Well Below Forecast
  • By the Way . . . Board of Governors Elects Officers for 2012
Volume 24 No. 23
  • State Controller John Chiang Releases Disappointing October Revenue Report
  • Ask SSC . . . How Can I Estimate the Impact of a Midyear Cut to my Home-to-School Transportation Program?
  • Bid Limits Change for the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act
  • Legislative Analyst's Office Issues Response to Governor's Pension Proposal
  • By the Way . . . STRS Penalty and Interest Regulations Revised
  • California Pension Reform Group Says They Will Qualify One of Two Pension Reform Initiatives
  • Governmental Accounting Standards Board Exposure Draft on Pensions
  • Ask SSC . . . Is There a New Provision in Law Clarifying When Proposition 39 Audits Should Be Sent to the Citizens' Oversight Committee?
  • A Case for Preparing Multiyear Financial Projections
  • Ask SSC . . . Is There a New Provision in Law That Makes Changes to Retention Amounts for Public Construction Contracts?
Volume 24 No. 22
  • Should We Be Focused On the Triggers"?"
  • Governor Brown Releases Pension Reform Plan
  • Pension Reform Committee Holds First Hearing
  • California Adds Jobs in September and the Unemployment Rate Drops
  • When it Comes to Reserves, How Much is Enough?
  • By the Way . . . Referendum to Overturn State Financial Aid for Undocumented Students
  • Student Success Task Force Hearing in Sacramento
  • By the Way . . . First Student Success Task Force Town Hall Meeting Details Available
  • By the Way . . . CCC System is Awarded $6.9 Million Grant to Address Student Mental Health
  • Report Urges California Policymakers to Stop the Higher Education Policy Drift
  • Trigger Tracker—Going in the Right Direction, But a Lot of Ground Still to Cover
  • The Public Pension Initiatives Keep on Coming
  • Ask SSC . . . Will the State of California Treat the Cell Phone Provisions the Same as the Internal Revenue Service?
  • 2012 Legislative Calendar
  • By the Way. . . Pension Reform Committee Members Named
  • State Revenues Slightly Below Forecast for September