Governor Brown took his pen to the budget Saturday and signed a line-item veto eliminating $100 million in deferred maintenance funds that California public universities were hoping to share, $50 million for UC and $50 million for the CSU.
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The money was allocated with the passage of AB1476 by Democratic Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner of Berkeley, but there was a condition attached.
The funds were dependent on property tax revenues meeting certain projections by July, and those projections were not met.
In his veto message to the Assembly, the Governor wrote: "Making investments to maintain the state's aging infrastructure continues to be a major priority for my administration, ... However, ..."
The Governor said that he was concerned with debt and other long-term liabilities. He concluded by noting: "we should not commit additional General Fund monies of this magnitude when we are facing unanticipated costs such as fighting the state's extreme wildfires."
