OPB News and Announcements
February 17, 2012
House Republicans Release Budget Proposal
While we anticipate operating budget proposals from House and Senate Ways & Means Chairs next week, the House Republican caucus released its version of an operating budget today. Note that this proposal is not binding; it is a list of House Republican funding priorities. These priorities focus on funding K12 education, including funding for all-day…
February 16, 2012
State Revenue Update Shows Little Change
See the latest OPB brief for information about today’s state revenue forecast update.
November 29, 2011
New OPB Website!
We’ve been a bit quiet on the blog front lately. Mainly due to our focus on redesigning the OPB website, which has just gone live! In particular, we have: Created a new office directory that allows the user to search for staff by content area. Created multiple ways to identify or locate the content you…
November 21, 2011
Governor Cuts UW Funding by $37M, Proposes Offsetting Tax Increase
The Governor’s budget office released the first supplemental budget proposal today, further reducing state expenditures for the 2011-13 biennium by $1.7 billion. All told, higher education institutions would absorb about nine percent of the total cut. Under the Governor’s proposal, each of the state’s six baccalaureate institutions would receive 16-17 percent cuts in state funding for…
November 17, 2011
State Revenue Down Again as Governor Prepares Budget
Released this morning, the November state revenue forecast indicates that the state is short another $122 million below needed revenue for the current biennium. Dr. Arun Raha, Executive Director of the Economic Revenue and Forecast Council, wrote that uncertainty over Southern Europe’s debt crisis and potential political gridlock in Washington, D.C., produced largely expected economic results…
October 27, 2011
Governor’s Budget Options Include 20% UW Cut
The Governor released a preliminary list of potential budget reductions for FY13 today. The list includes a set of severe cuts across state government but demarcates which reductions she would include in her formal November budget. For higher education, the Governor would cut colleges and universities 15 percent in FY13 and suspend the State Work…
October 26, 2011
New from OPB
Make sure to check out the following recent additions to the website: Updated printable UW Fact Cards for your wallets and pockets and new UW Fast Facts! Please let us know if you have any questions. Updated brief on Institutional autonomy among UW peer institutions across the US. Final Decision Summary and Overview report on…
September 22, 2011
Governor to Call November Special Session
Governor Gregoire announced that she will call the Legislature back to Olympia for a 30-day special session at the end of November after the next revenue forecast is released. Gregoire will outline her expectations for the special session during a press conference this morning, which will be aired on TVW. A November 2011 special session is…
September 16, 2011
$1.4b Deficit Opens up for 2011-13 in WA
On Thursday, September 16, the Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council (ERFC) released its quarterly update of State General Fund Revenues. The forecast reduced expected revenue for the upcoming 2011-13 biennium to $30.3 billion, $1.4 billion less than the previous forecast released in June. A deficit of this magnitude is expected to necessitate another…
July 21, 2011
UW Remains More Affordable Than Most Peers
As of July 15, all UW Global Challenge State Peers had approved resident undergraduate tuition increases for the upcoming 2011‐12 academic year. See the latest OPB brief for details. Despite implementing a 20 percent tuition increase for resident undergraduates, the University of Washington, which has consistently ranked as the least expensive among the GCS peers,…
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