37,253,956 people can’t be wrong: California is the place to be! Continue reading
The California State Association of Counties (CSAC) has released a “Support In Concept” letter to the Brown Administration regarding the Governor’s revised realignment proposal. Continue reading
Understanding the complexities of the county-state fiscal relationship is difficult, even for seasoned county officials. For new county supervisors who have only been in office a couple of months, it can be downright mind boggling. Attendees at this morning’s session of the CSAC New Supervisors Institute in Sacramento, though, were treated to a very informational and easy-to-understand explanation and historical perspective of state county-state fiscal relationship. Continue reading
Government hates to give up control. It isn’t good at it. But sometimes it is necessary. This is one of those times.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal makes the case for realignment, the restructuring of state-local relationships that, in this case, redirects responsibility and resources for government programs from the state to the counties. Continue reading
California’s 58 counties are as diverse as the residents and regions they represent. For CSAC, depending on the issue, there is a sense of both beauty and challenge in this diversity. Take, for instance, the Governor’s proposal to eliminate redevelopment agencies. In the past two weeks, this blog has published entries written by two county supervisors with differing opinions on redevelopment.
On Feb 4, Contra Costa County Supervisor John… Continue reading