Washington State
University
2003 – 2005
Biennial Operating Budget
Conference Committee Report
June 4, 2003
Summary provided by the WSU Planning and Budget Office
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Overall Funding
$375.2 million in general fund appropriations (5.2% less than the 2001-2003
budget). This is $6.8 less than proposed by the House, and $12.4 more
than proposed by the Senate.
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State Fund Budget
Cuts
Cut the state appropriation by $21.5 million through several reductions.
a. General cut: $20.7
million. The legislature assumes tuition for all categories of students will be
raised by 7% per year to offset this part of the state fund cut.
b. Waiver offset:
$564,000 that the legislature assumes will be offset by reducing tuition
waivers.
c. Travel, equipment
and legislative liaison funding cut: $275,000.
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Tuition Setting
Authority
Allows governing boards to increase tuition for resident undergraduates by
up to 7% per year.
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Waiver Authority
Lowers
the limit on waivers
from 20% to 19.5% in FY 05, and assumes WSU will collect $564,000 more from
students as a result.
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Veterinary Medicine
Program
$1.5 million toward the loss of funding as OSU withdraws from the DVM
consortium.
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Salary Increases
No general salary increase.
A small recruitment and retention pool of $2.9 million is funded.
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Health
Benefits
$5.8 million more for employee health benefits, but employees will still be
required to pick up a greater share of the increased cost of health services.
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Maintenance
of New Facilities
$1.2 million to fully fund the utilities and maintenance of recently
completed buildings.
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New Program
-- Wine Industry Education
$360,000 for Extension and $477,000 start-up funding for an instructional
program. Assumes continuations through the HECB high demand enrollment pool.
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New Program
-- Vancouver Engineering & Science Institute
$1,350,000 for a WSU, Clark College and Lower Columbia Community College
regional partnership.
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New High
Demand Enrollment
$8.3
million high demand enrollment pool to be funded through the HECB. Funding
would average $11,000 per student. Enrollment contracts will be awarded
principally to prepare undergraduates for careers in nursing and other health
services, applied science and engineering, teaching and speech pathology,
computing and information technology, and viticulture (grape growing) and
enology (wine making).
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Building
Maintenance Funding Swap
Moves $7.9 million in funding for maintenance from the operating budget to the
capital budget.
