“We don’t want to unnecessarily alarm people,” President Elson S. Floyd told the somber crowd of mostly WSU employees. “That would be cruel, and I won’t do it.”
He did offer to include talking points in his next Perspectives column for employee use in making the case for higher education to the Legislature and said he would be grateful for those efforts.
A second budget forum was scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday in the CUB auditorium.
Governor, 6 percent
Senate, 12 percent
House, 18 percent
These will be hammered out in conference committee in the next month.
Questions at the forum concerned:
Breakdown of budget reductions
Notifying students over the summer about how cuts would affect them
Whether furloughs still are under consideration
How many employees are taking advantage of the voluntary early retirement incentive
A videostream of the budget forum will be available later this week at www.experience.wsu.edu.
