It looks like California ‘leaders’ have reached a tentative deal to settle the 2009-10 budget.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders reached a tentative budget compromise Monday to plug a $26.3 billion deficit by making hefty cuts in education, health and welfare services, and taking billions of dollars from county governments.
The plan also includes handing over some nonviolent illegal- immigrant prison inmates to federal officials for deportation, allowing an off-shore oil drilling project near Santa Barbara and closing some state parks.
Cal Grants would be cut but college students who were promised the awards this year will get them, and HIV/AIDS programs would lose some, but not all state funding.