[NormsRevenge]

I saw a clip of Fabian earlier and he really couldn't say anything bad, he was happy, the unions are happy, everybody's happy! Right?

I'm still sticking to my earlier guess..

125 to 127 B minimum

final approved and signed
potentially 131-133 B ..

a ~25% increase in state budget outlay in 3 years?

wow.

[calcowgirl]

Here's some reference numbers comparing enacted budgets to the current proposal. 

I added the "Change" and "Percent Change" rows.  The rest is raw data from sources noted.

	General Fund	Special Funds	Selected Bond Funds*	Budget Total
2003-04 Total Budget And Bond Programs As Changed	71,136,964	20,537,903	7,468,538	99,143,405
2004-05 Total Budget And Bond Programs As Changed	78,681,001	23,701,076	2,995,257	105,377,334
2005-06 Total Budget And Bond Programs As Changed	90,025,960	23,332,837	4,003,719	117,362,516
2006-07 Budget Proposal  - January 2006	97,901,837	25,023,542	2,677,952	125,603,331
Change:  2003-04 to 2006-07	26,764,873	4,485,639	-4,790,586	26,459,926
Percent Change	37.6%	21.8%	-64.1%	26.7%

 

* Selected bond funds are general obligation bond funds which have traditionally been shown in overall expenditure totals displayed in the governor’s budget.
The specific funds are listed in the ’description of fund classification in the state treasury’ included in the appendix of the governor’s budget.

Sources:

Enacted Budgets (per Final Change Book)
http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/osp/GovernorsBudget/pdf/2003-04fbudsum.pdf
http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/osp/GovernorsBudget04/pdf/fchgbook_04.pdf
http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/osp/GovernorsBudget05/pdf/fchgbook_05.pdf

Proposed Budget
ftp://ftpgovbud.dof.ca.gov/pub/BudgetSummary/FullBudgetSummary.pdf