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Divisional Finance Leaders,

The FY2018-19 budget call letter, assumptions and guidelines, and working templates are now available on the budget process webpage

Please see the linked FY2018-19 Budget Call Letter sent this morning on behalf of EVCP Alivisatos.

CalPlanning Community,

The FY2018-19 Operating Budget is now open in CalPlanning. Please read below for information about tool enhancements and budget process planning.

Actualized compensation data and simplified HCP now available

We’re excited to announce that CalPlanning is now open with the following updates:

The Office of VC Finanice is pleased to welcome Chris Stanich, our new Associate Vice Chancellor of Financial Planning & Analysis. 

Dear campus community, 

We are writing with an update on efforts underway to address the campus’s budget deficit and to provide the University with a strong, stable and sustainable financial foundation.

Three years into our efforts to achieve a balanced budget by 2020, we are pleased to inform you that there is cause for cautious optimism. We are on track to reduce the budget from $149 million to $57 million by July 2018 and to eliminate the deficit altogether by 2020.

UC Berkeley’s chief financial officer, Rosemarie Rae, laid out her vision for the campus’s budget and took questions from a standing-room-only audience of faculty, students and staff during a Friday forum. Read the complete article.

CalPlanning Community,

Cal Answers Financials and BAIRS Community,

The Controller’s Office has rolled out a simplified travel reimbursement process that eliminates duplicate data entry by CSS, shortens processing time to payment and puts more control of the process in the hands of employee-travelers.

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos sent a letter to Deans and Vice Chancellors requesting they submit their FY2018-19 strategic plans to the Office of the EVCP at evcp@berkeley.edu by Friday, February 2. 

CalPlanning Community,

Dear members of the campus community:

You may recall earlier this year we announced that our campus would be better served if the portfolio of the former Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance was separated into two: one focused on financial issues and one focused on administrative issues. At that time, Rosemarie Rae was elevated to the role of Vice Chancellor of Finance and Chief Financial Officer while this September, Marc Fisher joined us from UC Santa Barbara to become Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor of Administration.

Associate Vice Chancellor of Capital Strategies Rajiv Parikh sent campus leadership an announcement today about his department's recent and upcoming changes.

Today, the League of American Bicyclists recognized UC Berkeley with a Gold Bicycle Friendly UniversitySM (BFUSM) award, joining more than 180 visionary colleges and universities from across the country.

Colleagues,

In order to align the functions of the Real Estate portfolio with the organizations that best support their work, we are pleased to announce that the Capital Strategies department is now a part of the VC Finance organization and the Facilities department is a part of the VC Administration organization. Capital Strategies is led by Associate Vice Chancellor Rajiv Parikh and Facilities is led by Associate Vice Chancellor Sally McGarrahan. We encourage you to learn more about these restructured functions on their websites: