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TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator
DATE: September 5, 1989 'C;
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SUBJECT: LEGISLATION: AB 1861 (Maxine Waters)
Specific Request(s) or Recommendations(s) & Background & Justification
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a position in OPPOSITION to AB 1861 by Assemblywoman Maxine Waters regarding appointments to the
Private Industry Council(PIC)and authorize the Chairman to request the Governor to veto the bill if it reaches his
Desk.
BACKGROUND:
Current federal law requires that the Board of Supervisors appoint business representatives to the PIC from
nominations made by a general business organization, such as chambers of commerce.
AB 1861 imposes a requirement on a Board of Supervisors that one-half of the business appointments to the PIC
represent businesses that employ persons in occupations with future high-growth potential for the service delivery
area. The Executive Director of the PIC notes the following problems with this requirement:
1. There is no definition provided as to what qualifies as"high-growth potential".
2. If the Chambers of Commerce do not nominate representatives of businesses with"high-growth potential"there
is no way for the Board of Supervisors to comply with this requirement.
3. The bill makes a false implicit assumption that businesses with high-growth potential will be those businesses
with available jobs for Job Training Partnership Act(DTPA)participants. In fact,it is just as likely that businesses
with high-growth potential will hire very few employees in relation to the entire job market and that these jobs
may not be suitable for JTPA participants. Businesses with low-growth potential may actually hire more
employees to replace retiring workers and because of the expansion of facilities as they are modernized.
Continued on attachment: XX yes Signature:
Recommendation of County Administrator Recommendation of Board Committee
T� Approve Other:
Signature(s):, � �/�(
Action of Board on: September 12 1989 Approved as Recommended X Other
Vote of Supervisors I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
X Unanimous (Absent ) AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE
Ayes: Noes: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON DATE SHOWN.
Absent: Abstain: SEP 12 1989
cc: County Administrator Attested
Executive Director,PIC Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board
Senator Boatwright(via CAO) of Supervisors and County Administrator
Assemblyman Baker(via CAO)
Governor George Deukmejian(via CAO)
Les Spahnn,SRJ.Jackson,Barish&Associates By ,Deputy Clerk
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4. There is a subtle implication in the bill that representatives of businesses with low-growth potential are less
desirable representatives of business than are representatives of businesses with high-growth potential.
For the above reasons the PIC recommends that the Board of Supervisors oppose AB 1861. AB 1861 was in the
Senate Appropriations Committee at this writing and may be sent to the Governor by the time the Board acts on this
recommendation. We have therefore recommended that the Chairman be authorized to ask the Governor to veto
AB 1861 if it reaches his Desk.