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The 2024-25 Budget: California State University
The largest union is the California Faculty Association (CFA), which accounts for half of CSU’s overall salary base. CFA represents professors, lecturers, counselors, librarians, and coaches. The second largest union, accounting for nearly 25 percent of CSU’s overall salary base, is the California State University Employees Union (CSUEU). CSUEU represents support staff in various roles, including administrative support, technology, operations, and health services. The remaining six unions (representing student services staff, skilled trades workers, and graduate students, among others) together comprise 10 percent of CSU’s overall salary base. Managers and executive staff, who comprise about 15 percent of CSU’s salary base, are not represented by a union. 
Most Employee Salary Levels Are Determined Through Collective Bargaining. Whereas the Legislature ratifies collective bargaining agreements for most represented state employees, state law authorizes the CSU Board of Trustees to ratify collective bargaining agreements for CSU’s employees. These collective bargaining agreements determine salary increases for represented employees. The agreements also often indirectly guide salary increases for CSU’s non‑represented employees. Over the past decade, CSU employees have received salary increases in all years except 2020‑21, when the state reduced General Fund support for CSU in response to a projected budget shortfall due to the COVID‑19 pandemic.
CSU Has Negotiated Salary Increases for 2023‑24. As Figure 5 shows, CSU has negotiated agreements with all of its unions to provide a 5 percent general salary increase in 2023‑24. As of this writing, three of these agreements are tentative (pending ratification by the Board of Trustees and union membership) and the remaining have been ratified. As is its typical practice, CSU also is providing a comparable (5 percent) salary increase to its non‑represented employees in 2023‑24. 

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CSU Has Negotiated 5 Percent Salary Increases Across Groups
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It is painfully apparent when looking at the points system for this grant application that such due diligence has been completely ignored and circumvented. Our trail is under a continual microscope, with any and all projects needing to be done with complete attention to detail given the level of Government oversight. Being an “OHV Enthusiast” in this situation in no way qualifies or guarantees any success or protections for the trail. Neither does it qualify one to complete the work. We no longer enjoy the days of putting in a trail and just using it. Any work has to follow and satisfy the overzealous Government need for detail. Anything put forward without this understanding of the system is doomed to fail and be used against us. While volunteer efforts are admirable in many aspects, a project of this magnitude moves to the next level of detail. Without it, I point no further than the aforementioned Barrett Lake Jeep trail and its, for all intense and purposes, closure! Re Routes; In many cases re routes either fail or result in losses to the trail user. Again, I mention Barrett Lake and also the re route many years back at the pleasant lake area of Rubicon which resulted in a property owner losing their easement rights even though promises we’re made by the USFS personnel at the time. In this regard, questions have been asked about repairing the existing trail to which we have been informed that it was not cost effective. A blank statement with zero documentation to follow it up or substantiate. With the risk to the public of losing any and all protections if the existing trail is moved and abandoned, it is clear that researching and documenting the possible repair of the original trail is absolutely worthy of complete and written documentation which does not exist and has not been researched. In my mind, absolute negligence of the duty to serve the publics best interests. To summarize: Most folks would agree that work needs to be done in the area of concern and as always, the community of Rubicon, property owners, trail users, and volunteers stand ready and willing to help BUT in its current form the Grant app does nothing to protect the precious little we have left in the way of protections for the trail and it’s future.
The Current Trail | Placer County, CA
At one time, it was revered as the most difficult, rated 10 on a scale of one to 10, due to its narrow passages, rocky climbs, and occasional mud hole. Because of its difficulty, the trail is recommended for short wheelbase vehicles with all skid plates in place. The Rubicon Trail attracts both street legal and “green sticker” off-road motor vehicles. As a result, users travel the trail on and in wide range of all-terrain vehicles, including dirt bikes and a variety of 4-wheel drive vehicles, from street-legal SUVs to vehicles built for the sole purpose of driving the trail. Because the trail lies adjacent to the Desolation Wilderness, the Rubicon Trail is also used as an access route by hikers, backpackers, and fishers.Description of the TrailBeginning in Tahoma at the entrance to the McKinney-Rubicon Trail, the Trail starts with a mile and a half of pavement. It is a narrow winding single lane road through the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. This part of the trail sees a wide variety of users from Jeeps to bicycles to joggers. Please drive slow and keep an eye out for others recreating on the trail. About half way down the paved portion of the Trail you’ll see a trail on your right. This is the Noonchester Mine Road. This trail is a short, easy drive but still requires four wheel drive and dead-ends with a beautiful vista of Lake Tahoe. At the end of the pavement, there is a Forest Service staging area. There is plenty of room to air down your tires, fold down the windshield and to secure your cargo for the bumpy drive on the Rubicon. There are pit toilets, maps and other information about the Rubicon Trail and the local forests. There is also a spill kit depository. This provides a place to dispose of the rags, bags or soil that was used to pick up the fluid for anyone who might have had a fluid leak or spill while on the trail. It’s a big white box with a mail slot type opening on the side. Heading out of the staging area, you’ll soon come to a cobble strewn incline.
Mobile Equipment | CAL FIRE
In 1938 the Davis Equipment Facility was in operation and assistant rangers were given winter work building fire trucks there. By 1945 the inventory had reached 733. Military surplus vehicles were widely used by CAL FIRE after WWII. In 1948, 61 Dodge crew trucks were added to the fire fighting fleet.
From the beginning to the present, great changes have been made. The fleet size reached 1,400 vehicles in 1961. Crew buses were added to the fleet in the early 1960s to transport Conservation Camp crews to projects and fires. Thirteen passenger Crew Carrying Vehicles (CCVs) built in the 1970s have evolved into 17 passenger, code 3 equipped, fully air conditioned Emergency Crew Transports (ECTs) equipped with automatic transmissions and retarders.
Over the last 50 year period many improvements have kept CAL FIRE fire apparatus in the lead for state of the art developments. Safety and operational innovations have made the CAL FIRE fleet one of the most effective in the world for protection of both the wildland and urban interface. Major improvements were made in the 1980s. Though some personnel used to ride on the back of engines, protected by roll bars, better, larger and easier to operate fire engines have since evolved featuring fully enclosed, air conditioned cabs for all personnel to ride in safety and comfort. Two-stage, hydrostatically driven fire pumps developed in the late 1980s allowed for more versatile and effective fire fighting techniques.
Other mobile equipment has been added to the fleet as well. Modern 1,000 meal capacity Mobile Kitchen Units (MKUs) provide healthy and nutritious food on emergency incidents. Large Mobile Command Centers (MCCs) provide a full range of communications and statistical management information to more effectively handle the large variety of emergency incident work that CAL FIRE personnel are now asked to manage.
The bulldozer fleet has also undergone change. Enclosed, air conditioned cabs on bulldozers protect the operators from heat, dust and noise and provide a better environment from which to do their fire fighting work. CAL FIRE's dozer/transport fleet has seen minor upgrades from Caterpillar D6C dozers built in the 1960s to later model Caterpillar D6XL and D6M series high-track dozers with enclosed cabs.
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(c) (1) The commission shall use the standardized student financial aid application described in Section 69432.9.(2) An official financial aid application shall be submitted pursuant to Section 69432.9 and submitted or postmarked no later than September 2 of the academic year for which funds would be applied.(d) Cal Grant A and B awards shall be used only for the purposes set forth in Article 2 (commencing with Section 69434) and Article 3 (commencing with Section 69435), respectively.(e) (1) A student who receives an award under this article may subsequently transfer to a University of California or California State University campus and remain eligible to receive the award, if the student meets all other requirements of this article and the general Cal Grant eligibility requirements set forth in Article 1 (commencing with Section 69430).(2) A student who receives an award under this article and subsequently transfers to an independent institution of higher education or a private for-profit postsecondary educational institution shall not remain eligible to receive an award under this article. The student shall remain eligible to apply for a California Community College Transfer Entitlement Award under Article 4 (commencing with Section 69436) or a Competitive Cal Grant A or B award under Article 5 (commencing with Section 69437), if the
	 student meets all requirements of the relevant article and the general Cal Grant eligibility requirements set forth in Article 1 (commencing with Section 69430).(f) (1) An individual selected for a Cal Grant A award who enrolls in a California community college may elect to have the award held in reserve for a period not to exceed two academic years, except that the commission may extend the period in which the individual’s award may be held in reserve for up to three academic years if, in the commission’s judgment, the rate of academic progress has been as rapid as could be expected for the personal and financial conditions that the student has encountered. The commission shall, in this case, hold the award in reserve for the additional year. Upon receipt of a request to transfer the award to a University of California or California State University campus, the individual shall be eligible to receive the Cal Grant A
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fourteen times a day and observes nearly the entire globe. 

 

High-resolution artist’s rendering of Terra satellite
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Sending home roughly 1 million megabytes of data per day, Terra is helping scientists all over the world tackle 
	 important questions about the causes and effects of environmental changes. While the mission is still in the 
	 process of fulfilling its main science objectives, Terra’s portfolio of achievements to date already marks 
	 the mission a resounding success.
A key focus of the Terra mission is to help scientists measure the movements of carbon through Earth’s 
	 climate system. To meet their needs for industry, agriculture, and transportation, humans annually release more
	 than 7 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuel. Yet, scientists cannot 
	 account for where all this carbon ends up. Between 1 and 2 billion metric tons of carbon per year are 
	 “missing” from the global carbon budget. 
Today Terra is providing scientists with some important clues to help them solve the mystery of the missing 
	 carbon. For example, every eight days the mission’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
	 instrument produces a global map of where and how much carbon dioxide is drawn out of the air and fixed by 
	 vegetation during photosynthesis. 
“These maps give scientists the best global measure ever made of the amount of carbon taken up by plants,”
	 said Jon Ranson, Terra Project Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 
	 “Carbon fixation by plants is the basis for capturing and storing the energy that fuels our world’s 
	 living systems and forms the foundation of the food web.” 

 

 This false-color map represents the Earth’s carbon “metabolism” — the rate at which plants 
 absorbed carbon out of the atmosphere. The map shows the global, annual average of the net productivity of 
 vegetation on land and in the ocean during 2002. The yellow and red areas show the highest rates, ranging from 2 
 to 3 kilograms of carbon taken in per square meter per year. The green, blue, and purple shades show progressively
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For further information, please refer to the full list of accepted forms of identification.
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Pursuant to California Elections Code § 2157.2, information on your voter registration affidavit will be used by elections officials to send you official information on the voting process, such as the location of your polling place and the issues and candidates that will appear on the ballot. Commercial use of voter registration information is prohibited by law and is a misdemeanor.
Voter information may be provided to a candidate for office, a ballot measure committee, or any other person for election, scholarly, journalistic, political, or governmental purposes, as determined by the Secretary of State. Driver’s license and social security numbers, or your signature as shown on your voter registration card, cannot be released for these purposes.
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PACT Act - VA News
Veterans exposed to toxins and other hazards during service now eligible for VA health careExpansion eliminates phased-in approach called for by the PACT Act. Millions of Veterans exposed to toxins now eligible for VA health care without first applying for VA benefits. 

2023: End-of-year Veteran benefits updateVeterans have applied for benefits at record rates over the past year. As a result of your applications, VA has been able to deliver more earned benefits to more Veterans than ever before, including $150 billion during 2023 alone. 

Battle Creek VA Outreach team conducted over 70 PACT Act information eventsBattle Creek VA's outreach team crafted a comprehensive communications plan to reach primarily rural Veterans for PACT Act information events.

More than 1,000 Veterans apply for PACT Act benefitsMore than 1,000 Veterans attended three-day PACT Act claims clinics in Colorado Springs

ICYMI: VFW, VVA and VA Live event cover PACT Act benefits and eligibilityRecently, VA joined Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) live on Facebook to discuss PACT Act benefits eligibility, who is impacted and what Veterans need to do now. 

Next PACT Act deadline: Health care enrollment for Veterans deployed to combat zonesThe PACT Act’s special enrollment period deadline is approaching. The law lets Veterans who served in combat zones enroll in VA health care without applying for disability compensation benefits. 

El Paso VA’s VetFest brought music, fun and excitementEl Paso VA turned the Summer VetFest and PACT Act Claims Clinic into a Veteran family affair with dozens of community organizations.

VetFest screens 280 Veterans, connects 400 with benefits280 Veterans were screened for toxic exposures and 400 others were connected with PACT Act-related benefits at the North Texas VetFest.

Black Hills VA supports PACT Act at Sturgis Motorcycle RallyFort Meade VA joined in this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally to bring information about the PACT Act to hundreds of Veterans. 

VA hosts 3,500 people for VetFest in southwest FloridaMore than 3,500 Floridians traveled to St. Petersburg for a VetFest to receive one-on-one assistance with the PACT Act. 

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