On Monday, May 14, 2012, Governor Brown released his May Revise for the 2012-2013 budget.  

California's budget deficit has grown from $9.2 billion to $15.7 billion. As a result, Brown's budget proposal relies on $8.3 billion cuts. $5.9 billion in tax increase and $2.5 billion in a variety of other solutions.   

Click here to ready the summary of the Governor's May Revise. 

Click here to read the Trailer Bill Language. 

We need to urge the Legislature and Governor to oppose the cuts to child development. A budget package will be adopted by June 15, 2012, the time to act is NOW!

1. Contact your local Senators and Assemblymembers where you live and work. Let them know you are a constituent, and give them your address in the message. Call their local office or write or e-mail them. The e-mail address for all legislators (enter your own legislator's name) is assembly.lastname@assembly.ca.gov or senator.lastname@senate.ca.gov.     

2. Call their Sacramento office, write or e-mail the top 8 legislators who will decide what cuts go into the budget:

Email Senate President Pro Tem Darryl Steinberg
E-mail:  senator.steinberg@senate.ca.gov 

Phone: (916) 651-4006

Assembly Speaker John Perez
E-mail: assemblymember.perez@assembly.ca.gov

Phone: (916) 319-2046

Senate Budget Chairperson Mark Leno
E-mail: senator.leno@senate.ca.gov

Phone: (916) 651-4003

Assembly Budget Chairperson Bob Blumenfield
E-mail: assemblymember.blumenfield@assembly.ca.gov

Phone: (916) 319-2040

Senate Budget Subcommittee on Education Chairperson Carol Liu
E-mail: senator.liu@senate.ca.gov

Phone: (916) 651-4021

Senate Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services Chairperson Mark DeSaulnier
E-mail: senator.desaulnier@senate.ca.gov

Phone: (916) 651-4007

Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Chairperson Susan Bonilla
E-mail: assemblymember.bonilla@assembly.ca.gov

Phone: (916) 319-2011

Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services Chairperson Holly Mitchell 
E-mail: assemblymember.mitchell@assembly.ca.gov

Phone: (916) 319-2047

The mailing address for all legislators is: State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814.        

The web sites to find telephone numbers are:  

http://www.senate.ca.gov and http://www.assembly.ca.gov.

3. Most Importantly, call, write or e-mail the Governor to tell him that he needs to save child development programs for low income working parents and for the children. That the best policy is to have all child development programs in the Department of Education, including CalWORKs Stage 1.