The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2009 state of the state addresses. To assure that this information reaches you in a timely manner, minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) or format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the state.
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| Governor John Lynch's State of the State Address
At-Risk--Foster Care
-- Redesign foster care reimbursement rates, increasing the average daily rate but ending special bonus payments.
-- Change state policies to move children more quickly out of expensive placements and into permanent homes.
Community Colleges, Finance, Finance (Postsecondary), Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary
-- Minimize the financial impact on the Community College and University Systems. Both systems will see a slight increase in the state contribution over actual state spending in fiscal years 2008-2009.
-- Expect both the University and Community College systems to work aggressively to mitigate tuition increases for students.
-- Close the Tobey School--these students will continue to be served in appropriate community college settings.
Economic/Workforce Development, Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Coordinate with neighboring states to develop a 2,000- to 3,000-bed Northern New England Correctional Facility--in order to provide jobs in a struggling part of our state.
-- Accelerate important road projects in our ten-year plan, which will create jobs--use the estimated $130 million in federal transportation stimulus funds to help do this.
-- Submit to the Public Utilities Commission a proposal for using our greenhouse gas and renewable energy funds to create new jobs for our citizens – by expanding weatherization of older homes; by providing training for energy-related jobs; by upgrading the energy efficiency of state and municipal buildings; and by creating a low-interest loan fund to help businesses upgrade to reduce their energy costs.
-- Created an Office of Economic Stimulus to make sure we use stimulus funds wisely and quickly so that we can put New Hampshire citizens back to work.
-- Focus (in the capital budget) on critical maintenance projects that we can begin quickly, to help create jobs.
Faculty, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Postsecondary, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality
-- Cut current expenses, organizational dues, out-of-state travel, equipment, employee training, and subscriptions across state agencies.
-- Asked agencies to identify programs that no longer match current priorities. For example, in the Department of Education we cut a program that provided $17,500 for geography education at Keene State.
-- Consolidate the staff and administrative functions of professional boards.
-- Propose that all licensing boards and commissions be consolidated by subject matter within four major departments – health and human services, safety, environmental services, and the secretary of state. From there, commissioners will work with the boards to strengthen their operations, and we will implement a plan to achieve a full consolidation of all of the State's licensing functions by 2012.
-- Eliminate the practice of "bumping"--where a laid-off employee can "bump" another employee in a different job, in some cases anywhere in the agency.
-- Retain protections for employees based on their seniority within their specific unit and job classification.
-- Reduce administrative burdens on state agencies so they can focus on their core missions and look at how we are using state employee time.
-- Propose sunsetting all commissions, committees and non-regulatory boards by the end of fiscal year 2011and then only re-enact those that are essential.
Faculty, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies, Teaching Quality--Compensation, Unions/Collective Bargaining
-- Align the benefits of the retirees' health insurance plan to those provided to active state employees.
-- Charge premiums to younger retirees similar to those that older retirees already pay.
-- Propose a new health insurance plan for state employees focused on wellness, disease management and prevention. We can and should implement the change in the next biennium for unclassified and non-classified employees. To compensate employees for the change, this budget returns some of the savings to employees in the form of a one-time payment.
-- Offer the same proposal above to unionized employees. If they are willing to participate in a wellness health plan, we will return some of the savings to them as one-time payments.
-- Unfund nearly 400 vacant positions and continue the hiring freeze into the next biennium, allowing agencies to fill vacancies only with a waiver.
Federal, Federal--Aid, Finance, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Send the money from the state fiscal stabilization fund included in the federal stimulus legislation to communities to offset other reductions. This will result in property taxpayers receiving the same or a slight increase in aid.
Finance, Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost, Finance--Funding Formulas, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures
-- Review and improve the state's adequacy formula, which provides an additional $123 million to schools over the next biennium. In the long term, I believe we must direct more state resources to communities with the greatest needs. And, I continue to support a constitutional amendment that would make such a plan possible. But I also recognize that this was the formula approved by the legislature last session, and this is not the time for wholesale changes. That is why this budget funds the additional $123 million called for by the adequacy formula.
Finance, Finance--Lotteries, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, Finance--Taxes/Revenues
-- Balance the state budget for fiscal years 2010-2011by using the remaining $60 million from the medical malpractice surplus, increase the tobacco tax by 35 cents, increase the meals and rooms tax by three-quarters percent and tax gambling winnings over $600.
-- Would veto increases on either the income tax or sales tax.
-- Project a $275 million revenue shortfall in the general and education trust funds for fiscal year 2009.
-- Project that, on average, existing revenues will remain flat for the next two years.
-- Re-think everything state government does and how we do it.
-- Meet our education commitments by suspending revenue sharing, rooms and meals distribution, and reducing the state's contribution to retirement costs from 35 to 30 percent.
Finance, Finance--Resource Efficiency, Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures, State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies
-- Include $3 million in the capital budget to upgrade energy efficiency in state government buildings.
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