July 2019

Community Colleges

California Community Colleges Funding by Source

(Dollars in Millions Except Funding Per Student)

  2017-18
Actual
2018-19
Revised
2019-20
Enacted
Change from 2018-19
Amount Percent
Proposition 98          
General Fund $5,757 $6,117 $6,193 $75 1.2%
Local property tax 2,980 3,056 3,244 188 6.2%
Subtotals $8,737 $9,173 $9,437 $264 2.9%
Other State          
Other General Fund $466 $895a $636a -$259b -29.0%
Lottery 231 245 245 c -0.1%
Special funds 96 95 99 4 4.6%
Subtotals $793 $1,235 $980 -$255b -20.6%
Other Local          
Enrollment fees $457 $473 $475 $2 0.4%
Other local revenued 4,627 4,726 4,762 36 0.8%
Subtotals $5,084 $5,200 $5,237 $38 0.7%
Federal $288 $288 $288 $0 0.0%
Totals $14,903 $15,896 $15,942 $46 0.3%
           
Full-time equivalent (FTE) students 1,125,665 1,123,393 1,130,091 6,698 0.6%
Proposition 98 funding per FTE student $7,762 $8,166 $8,351 $185 2.3%
Total funding per FTE student $13,239 $14,150 $14,107 -$43 -0.3%
aIncludes $405 million in additional retirement payments authorized in the 2019-20 budget package ($315 million in 2018-19 and $89 million in 2019-20).
bThese year-to-year comparisons are notably affected by how the administration attributed the additional retirement payments authorized in the 2019-20 budget package across fiscal years.
cProjected to decline by $205,000.
dPrimarily consists of revenue from student fees (other than enrollment fees), sales and services, and grants and contracts, as well as local debt-service payments. Administration assumes local debt-service payments remain flat throughout the period.