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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 02011994 - 2.2 2 .2 THE BOARD OR SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Adopted this Order on _February 1, 1994 by the following vote: AYES: Supervisors Smith, Bishop, McPeak, Torlakson, Powers NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None SUBJECT: "Reinventing California - The California Compact 1994" The Board received a letter, dated January 11, 1994, from Tom Rogers, Co-Chair, California Council on Partnerships and Supervisor of Santa Barbara County, requesting counties to adopt "Reinventing California - The California Compact 1994. IT IS BY THE BOARD ORDERED that the above referenced California Compact is ADOPTED . IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Supervisor Gayle Bishop is REQUESTED to present Contra Costa County's position at the February 17, 1994, meeting of the CSAC Board of Directors. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the California Compact is REFERRED to the Association of Bay Area Governments for their support. I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an e.ction taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown. ATTESTED: 7 -P / /f� T' PHIL BATCHELOR,Clork of the Board of Supervisors and County Administrator cc: Supervisor Bishop Deputv County Administrator CSAC ABAG California Council on Partnerships 1100 K Street, Suite 101 Sacramento CA 95814-3941 ' CONTRA COSTA COUNTY rb CALIFORNIA RECEIVED ► COUNCIL IAN 12 !994 ON PARTNERSHIPS I 1100 K Street,Suite 101 •S cra nto,CA 95814-3941 •(916)327-7507• FAX(916)441-5507 OFFICE OF January 1�, 1Wg4 COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR i TO: Chair, Boards of Supervisors FROM: Toni Rogers, Co-Chair, California Council on Partnerships Supervisor, San Barbara County RE: CALIFORNIA COMPACT The California Council on Partnerships was established by CSAC in 1983 to promote public- private collaboration and to join the public and private sector resources to address issues of mutual concern. Its role is to bring together diverse interests around major issues in order to reach consensus on solutions and to assist in assuring implementation of an action plan. At its December 3, 1993 meeting, the California Council on Partnerships adopted a proposal, the CALIFORNIA COMPACT, which details what we believe must be accomplished to sustain and improve the economy and quality of life in California. Both counties and the private partners are asked to adopt the attached COMPACT and commit efforts and energies to accomplish its goals. As the CALIFORNIA COMPACT will be placed on the agenda of the CSAC Board of Directors on February 17, 1994, we are asking all counties to place the item on their agenda for adoption and mail cies of their Board's action to CSAC Executive Director Steve Swendiman prior to the Board of Directors meeting in mid-February. We know there are several efforts to "reinvent government" going on simultaneously in the state. In an effort not to duplicate what other organizations are doing, during January the Council will conduct a fact-finding effort to identify what role it can play to complement these efforts. A Council steering committee will evaluate this information and make recommendations to the full Council when a decision is made on February 25. Thank you for your consideration of this action. cc: Clerks, Boards of Supervisors TOM ROGERS Supervisor,Santa Barbara County Co-Chair BRUCE CORWIN Initiated by President,Metropolitan Theatres the County Supervisors Co-Chair Association of California MURIEL STACPOOLE Public Relations and Citizen Education Director Pacific Visions Communications "REINVENTING CALIFORNIA" The California Compact 1994 We, the undersigned, hereby declare that in order to sustain and improve the economy and quality of life in California, it is imperative that we: • redesign and rediscover governance • remove obstacles to economic investment • protect and enhance California's environment • promote job growth and economic revitalization for all Californians To achieve this goal, we hereby commit our efforts and energies to accomplish the following in 1994: • Cut permit processing time, to the extent possible, in half in the next year. • Streamline and "reinvent" local government to focus all efforts and service delivery on outcomes (not imputs) and to institute "performance-based budgeting." • Adopt a philosophy of "lean and nice" and "user friendly" for local services and institute customer service training for our employees. • Develop a local "strategic economic revitalization plan" which incorporates the strengths and advantages of public-private partnerships. • Advocate for, and take all steps possible within the powers of local general purpose governments, to functionally integrate and organizationally consolidate special districts and service areas to eliminate inefficient duplication, excess overhead, and redundant administrative costs. • Redesign human services to move from an illogical system that reinforces dependency to a program of assistance that fosters self-sufficiency and rewards personal responsibility. Coordinate county, city and school resources to best achieve positive outcomes for children and their families. Reorganize human services and welfare administration to achieve maximum efficiencies and savings. • Participate in the formation of a statewide strategic economic revitalization plan and "ratification convention on competitiveness" in 1994 that will REINVENT CALIFORNIA. To further and facilitate the above actions, we hereby call upon the Legislature and Congress j to immediately enact the following: • Integrate and consolidate existing "single purpose" environmental legislation and regulations in order to reduce the number of separate permits required from different agencies, allow for the balancing of priorities among competing needs, and to achieve GREATER environmental protection and biodiversity enhancement. In particular, pursue a geographic information system (GIS). • Streamline and reform permit-processing regulations, particularly the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), which discourage and delay economic investment. • Redesign government to realign revenue and responsibilities that will provide fiscal stability to local government and encourage economic investment. • Repeal and/or modify human services laws so that counties and other local governments may better use taxpayers' dollars to organize human services in a more rational, efficient, and effective manner that focuses on the needs and outcomes of families and children and which fosters and encourages self- sufficiency instead of dependency. • Immediately develop and implement a statewide economic revitalization plan that will retain and grow industries for which today California has a competitive edge; foster growth in emerging industries that embrace high-skilled technologies; retain California's "best minds" and their research capacities; retrain our workforce for the jobs of the future and establish a continuum of services for "school to work" transitions; and ensure affordable housing and efficient transportation for the future workforce. • Enact a Public-Private Partnership Tax Credit program so that state and federal income taxpayers may direct at their option a portion of their income tax liability to high-priority public-private partnerships officially designed by local government through a community-involvement process. Further, acknowledge that a Public- Private Partnership Tax Credit is one of many significant ways in which we can rediscover governance and, therefore, more effectively reinvent government and REINVENT CALIFORNIA. • Enact tort reform and alternatives to litigation.