Chico City leaders are pushing to bring Chico State students back on campus this fall because they are concerned about the financial fallout.
City leaders are pushing to bring chico state students back to campus this fall.
Action news nows vanessa romo spoke with city council members today and shows us their plans to lobby the governor and c- s-u- chancellor.
City leaders say they are very concerned about the financial fallout of not having students on campus this fall.
Last week the california state university chancellor announced that all 23 universities will move to online classes this fall.
"in chico, not having the students here has an unbelievable, economic, negative impact& because the university is the largest employer& the chico city council is taking action and plans to either write a letter or lobby the governor and the csu chancellor to keep students on campus.
We already have 7.5 million dollar potential loss over the next 14 months for the city of chico that's really hard to deal with and that was before the chancellor said the csu system is defaulting online... take away all that revenue... nobody knows.
According to the cal state page, the university generates nearly $50 million in local tax revenue, nearly 12,000 out of area students, and $761 million to the regional economy.
Our health of our students, faculty staff is first and foremost our highest priority and then we work with our civic leaders to figure out how we keep the economy rolling along.
The city council says it would like to work with chico state on the letter.
However, president gayle hutchinson has plans of her own for the fall semester.
What i would like really to happen is to sit down with the city and really share with them our plans and see where we go from there.
So i'm optimistic that when we sit down we can engage in some collaborative planning and decide after that which way we need to move forward..
President hutchinson says she hopes to release those details with the city next week.
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