Virus, schools, small business, people, wildfires: California budget forecasts $15B windfall
By Adam Beam article
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $227 billion budget plan released Friday would turn a $15 billion windfall into economic relief as the state faces a rapid surge in coronavirus cases and deaths.
His budget proposal comes as the state faces a challenge the likes of which we never expected, Newsom said.
Newsom said the budget addresses five urgent needs: Vaccinating people against coronavirus, reopening schools, supporting small businesses, getting money into people’s pockets and preparing for wildfires, for which he includes $1 billion.
On vaccines, he said his focus is getting out of the freezers and administering into people’s arms, these vaccines.
California budget proposes $15 billion for economic relief Share Updated: 1:08 PM PST Jan 8, 2021 By Adam Beam Share Updated: 1:08 PM PST Jan 8, 2021
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Show Transcript Today we re presenting a spending plan, an investment plan, a balanced budget. It s $227 billion.164.5 billion. That is reflected in the general fund. Here s the remarkable news. I humbly submit considering where we were just a few months ago as we work together in June to address that $54 billion shortfall. Here we are, just a few months later, with a budget that now enjoys $34 billion in resiliency. And that s defined by what we have in our reserves and what we are enjoying in terms of a surplus. Let s look at the reserves. Here we are again. Reserves that are actually higher. Then, this time last year were projecting $22 billion in reserves, a record high in this budget. 15.6 you see in the rainy day Reserve, the School Stable Stabilization Reserve, who would
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $227 billion budget plan released Friday would turn a $15 billion windfall into economic relief as the state faces a rapid surge in coronavirus cases and deaths.
His budget proposal comes as the state faces “a challenge the likes of which we never expected,” Newsom said.
Newsom said the budget addresses five urgent needs: Vaccinating people against coronavirus, reopening schools, supporting small businesses, getting money into people’s pockets and preparing for wildfires, for which he includes $1 billion.
On vaccines, he said his focus is “getting out of the freezers and administering into people’s arms, these vaccines.”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Nerissa Black was already having a hard time tending to four COVID-19 patients who need constant heart monitoring. But because of staffing shortages affecting hospitals throughout California, her workload recently increased to six people infected with the coronavirus.
Black, a registered nurse at the telemetry cardiac unit of the Henry Mayo Hospital in Valencia, just north of Los Angeles, barely has time to take a break or eat a meal. But what really worries her is not having enough time to spend with each of her patients.
Black said she rarely has time to help patients brush their teeth or go to the bathroom because she must prioritize making sure they get the medicine they need and don’t develop bedsores.