CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : Assembly Unit Urges Pay-Raise Rollback

The 21% to 43% salary raises for top California State University officials should be rolled back to only 3.7% and an audit should be done of the university’s administrative costs, an Assembly subcommittee urged in Sacramento. The unanimous action by the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Education clearly was intended as a message to the Cal State Board of Trustees, which will be meeting to deal with the controversial pay hikes and allegations of secrecy surrounding them. Subcommittee chairman Robert J. Campbell (D-Richmond) said his budget amendments were intended to make the 20-campus Cal State system “more responsible, more responsive and more open.”