Well, it appears that we have a state budget. It’s not a pretty picture, because the Legislature in effect decided to punt the tough decisions to next year. However, it didn’t raise taxes on the backs of our students, who rely on the part time labor market to work their way through school, and I’m happy about that.

It will also get payments flowing to Sierra College again. Because we budget conservatively, we’ve had the cash to make it through without having to borrow extra money. We were getting close though, so it’s good to have our cash flow resume.

I also wanted to post another response I received from my letter to our state leaders regarding the budget. This one was from one of my favorite State Senators (I have several :>), Sam Aanestad of Grass Valley. As usual, “Senator Sam” is dead on in his analysis. I post it here for your reading pleasure.