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PRESS RELEASE – 6/20/201
Title: Salas Declares Budget
Victor y for Ag Education
Incentive Grant
get; $4.1 Million for Ag
Governor signs state bud
Preser ved
released the following
er Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield)
ERSFIELD – Assemblymemb
BAK
2014-2015 fiscal year:
ing the State Budget for the
ement about the Governor sign
stat
countless students, farmers,
e been possible without the
“Today’s victory would not hav
w legislators who stood by
community members, and fello
business owners, educators,
is now secured for this next
erve Ag Education. Funding
FFA and fought with me to pres
ational skills and leadership
students and give them the voc
budget cycle to invest in our
t local industry demands.
advance California and mee
development necessary to
AB 2033, which seeks to
to be diligent and support my
However, we must continue
ortant program.”
in the future years for this imp
guarantee dedicated funding
nt Program give students and
iculture Education Incentive Gra
rams funded by the Agr
Prog
demands through welding,
needed to meet local industry
teachers the technical skills
r vocational programs. The
hanics, and a variety of othe
husbandry, agriscience, mec
e - over 75,000 students.
nearly every region in the stat
Ag Incentive Grant services
rict, including: Arvin, Avenal,
s in the 32nd Assembly Dist
There are several FFA chapter
coran, Delano, Paramount
lden Valley, Mira Monte, Cor
Bakersfield, Foothill, ROC, Go
Wasco.
oore, McFarland, Shafter, and
Bard Academy, Hanford, Lem
dedicated future funding to the
(AB) 2033 which calls for
r.
Salas authored Assembly Bill
ntly passed the Assembly floo
nt Program, and which rece
Governor.
Ag Education Incentive Gra
will later go to the
considered in the Senate and
d Assembly
AB 2033 is currently being
by FFA students from the 32n
s was joined
In April, Assemblymember Sala
Subcommittee on
ly Budget
to testify before the Assemb
District and across the state
to the Agriculture
million in funding be restored
that $4.1
Education where they urged
emblymember Salas also
ram for 2014-2015. Later, Ass
Education Incentive Grant Prog
ut the importance of
committee on Education abo
before the Senate Budget Sub
testified
oring $4.1 million in
mittees voted in favor of rest
ing this program. Both Subcom
fund
year’s fiscal budget.
funding to the program in this
Assemblymember Frank Bigelow
Senator Cathleen Galgiani
Assemblymember Adam Gray
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Senator Jim Nielsen
Assemblymember Rudy Salas
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