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FROM: Supervisor Tom Torlakson „ _ <
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Aril 6 1993
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DATE:
SUBJECT: REPORT ON .FISCAL UNITY SUN IIT II 1
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
'(1 ) Acknowledge receipt of Summary of Proceedings and
Outline of Action Plan developed at the Fiscal Unity Summit II held on
January 16 , 1993 .
( 2 ) Adopt the attached resolution urging all local
government elected officials to adopt a legislative strategy.
( 3 ) Direct the County Administrator to prepare a letter for
the Chair' s signature to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors
urging them to adopt the same resolution.
(4 ) Acknowledge staff assistance provided by District -V
staff in planning the summit.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The Fiscal Unity Summit II which
took place on January 16, 1993, brought together a large and diverse
group of elected officials representing both.;;Alameda County and
Contra Costa County. The summit promoted the concept which we
adopted in 1991 of school districts, cities, special districts and the
county working .together to establish fiscal ,stability by providing
mutual support for one another' s efforts to increase a stable source
of revenue and encouraged cost savings ventures such as consolidation
of services and/or elimination of duplicated services, inter-agency
services, contracts, or joint powers authorities .
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VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
—&UNANIMOUS(ABSEAND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
cc: County Administrator ATTESTED J41e
PHIL BAT HELOR.CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMJNISTRATOR
BY ,DEPUTY
M382 (10/88) .
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IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,CALIFORNIA
IN THE MATTER OF RESOLUTION NO. 93/173
Supporting a Legislative Program
Addressing Local Government Financing
WHEREAS,local government units in California are experiencing traumatic shortfall of revenues and increasing
demands for government services;and .
WHEREAS,the State government,in response to its financial shortfalls has seen fit to redistribute the revenues among
local governments further impacting the revenue%xpenditure shortfall already being experienced because of th nationwide
recession;and
WHEREAS,the Legislature and Federal Government continues to impose new program requirements;thus,increas-
ing costs without like revenue to cover,and
.,..WHEREAS,there has not been a comprehensive review of the taxing and revenue-raising abilityof local government in
this century,and
WHEREAS,the deteriorating situation at the local government level is bordering on economic chaos and action must
be taken;and
WHEREAS,at the recent Contra Costa/Alameda County Fiscal Unity Summit of all local governments in this two-
county area,a comprehensive action program was developed calling for legislative action,expended economic development
efforts,and innovation in local program service delivery leading to decreased costs and a review of the taxing structure of
California.
NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED that the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors does hereby proclaim
our commitment to join forces with other local government units and specifically put forth a legislative program addressing the
following:
•Freeing local governments from specific mandates
unless funding is provided;
•Encouraging local agencies to act in an innovative,
entrepreneurial mnner by repealing laws
that impede such actions;
•Calling for adoption of the State Budget by a majority
vote of the legislature;
•Requiring a simple majority vote on bond issues and
taxes where the law requires such a vote;and
•Calling for specific revisions to the tax system so that
it better meets the needs of the California economy for,the future.
PASSED by unanimous vote of the Board Members present on April 6 ..1993.
I certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an Order entered onto the minutes of said Board of Supervisors
on the date aforesaid.
Witness my Hand and the Seal of the
Board of Supervisors affixed
April 6 ,1993.
1 PHIL BATCHELOR,Clerk of the Board
/�„ � ��✓, of Supervisors and County Administrator
Supervisor Tom Torlakson,Chair ay. zq
District :v uty elerk
SS pervisor Tom ower,District l Supervisor Gayle Bishop,District III
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Super�viso J ff Smith,District 11 Supervisor Sunne Wright McPeak,
District IV
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Report on Fiscus Unity Summa II:
New Visions for Government
January 16, 1993 • Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek
Ns conference broke new ground In the political life of Contra Costa and Alameda
counties. First, it brought together a large and diverse group of public offidals from two
counties to discuss the structural factors In the State's Anandal crisis. Second, a
consensus was reached on actions to be taken which, If implemented, will Initiate major
changes in the way governments do business.
Represented at the conference were 24 cities, the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors, the State
Assembty, 12 school boards, 14 special districts and a number of special Interest organizations.
(A complete list of participants Is on the last page.)
The morning general session featured three speakers:Ted Gaebler. co-author of Relnventlrts
Government Bruce Cain, Associate Director of the University of CaliforNa Institute of Govem-
ment Studley; and Johan Klehs, Chair of the State Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation.
During the aftemoon, seven concurrent workshops dealt with specific issues involved in refbrm-
Ing governance. These workshops were charged with proposing an action program.
The action Items which follow are based on the workshop reports as refined by a panel of elected
local officials and the rest of the participants In the final general session. Though no votes were
taken, there was a general consensus that these were of priority interest. The conference consid-
ered a number of other Ideas but agreed that they needed hutr er study and should be taken up
at a future conference.
The conference committee Is submitting this report to all those who attended the conference as
well as to each of the various jurisdictions Invited to participate, and to the sponsoring bodies.
Now Is the time for actions
RICHARD G. HEGGiE
Conference Chair
March 40 1993
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Fiscal Unity Summit II • Action Plan
Summit Conference: Action Items
a* Develop a legislative action plan that would:
• Free local governments from specific mandates Responsibility/Coordinator:
unless funding is provided. 9 All local government elected bodies
• Encourage local agencies to act In an Innovative, in Alameda/Contra Costa counties
entrepeneurtal manner by repealing laws that • Mayors`Conferences
Impede such actions. a East Bay Division, League of
• CalI for adoption of the State budget by a California Cities
majority vote of the Legislature. + League of California Cities
• Require a simple majority vote on bond issues + Special District Association
and taxes (where the law requires such a vote). • School Boards Association
• Call for speciflc revisions to the tax system p.e., • Supervisors Association
sales tax on services, etc.) so that It better meets
the needs of the Callfomla economy for the
future. (Ns will entail considerable research and help from appropriate specialists.)
�+ Develop a regional economic development Responslbillty/Coordinator.
program. Involve the private sector In Alameda S Contra Costa counties
formulating this program.
In cooperation (consultation) with other units Responsibtilty/Coordinator.
of local government: Fiscal Unity Committee
• Catalogue the current joint projects and
Innovative efforts that have reduced costs of
services, Increased accessiblilty, efficiency and
effectiveness.
• Explore still further new ways of doing things. Encourage employees to be Innovative
by providing Incentives.
• Develop a plan for shared local government delivery service. Implement several high
proi}le projects for demonstration purposes.
• Streamline current operations and concentrate on priority needs.
• Study public services that might be privatized and public services now provided by the
private sector to determine If current arrangements are efficient and effective,
u+ Establish a permanent county-wide Responsibility/Coordinator.
structure Inclusive (eventually) of all local Fiscal Unity Committee
agencles to: 1 0 J
• Oversee all recommendations outlined above.
• Develop a political base for change through on-going dialogue with each other and the
public.
• Work for consensus among local governments. Seek to achleve mutual trust through
open and frequent communication.
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GOVERNMENT IN CALIFORNIA
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"� Angeleno voter was allotted ten minutes in
�,,,J the ballot booth to make over 40 different
electoral choices, varying from statewide
1 propositions to loa€judgeships;in 1940 the
total was over 100.little over 60%ofpoten-
tial voters are registered,and of those not
47 much more than half bother to vote even in
ppresidential elections.In many elections to
Ioca1 office,a candidate can win with the
backing of 5%ofthose eligible to vote.
Like many crumbling political systems
,-,- before it,California's has encouraged its cit-
izens to secede.Rich Californians are flock-
ing to self-sufficient, self-governing gated
communides—the modem equivalent of
a - medieval city states.A row has just broken
out in Hollywood over whether inhabitants
can block off public roads. Poorer citizens
Buckling under the strain secede in a different way.by not taking part
in elections.California's voters are whiter,
richer and older than its population.
When Mr Wilson gave up a safe seat in
the United States Serrate to come to sacra-
mento in 1991,he was publicly warned that
California was "ungovernable". Now Sac.
SW Clinton wants to bring about a new era in government. But do America's ramento is dotted with committees of sca-
political institutions work?Consider the evidence fxom its lamest state demics and politicians looking at constitu-
tional reform.Solutions offered vary from
44ARNING:the Iight at the end of in the words of one local politician,looks altering the ballot-initiative process to split-
y ythe tunnel has been delayed."So `as if it had been designed by a child on ting the state into three parts."Everything".
reads a small sign in one office in Sacra- LSD". Local (ic, below state level)elective says Sherry 9ebitch lefft:, of Claremont
mento,seat of the state government of Cali- power is multiply dispersed: among 58 Graduate School,"is now on the table".
fomia.The state is in deep trouble.Its econ- counties, varying from Los Angeles (1990 California's institutional paralysis has
omy, the world's seventh-largest,has been population,8.7m)to Alpine(1,220);447 cit- wider implications that stmch far beyond
humbled by recession.The Republican gov- ies,as Americans call them,ranging from the sute's boundaries.For a start,Califor-
emor,Pete Wilson,and the Democratic leg- Los Angeles(3.4m)to neighbouring Vernon nia, thanks to the ballot-initiative move-
islature are stuck in political trench warfare; (80);and more than 5,000 special districts, ment, has been the western world's chief
last year the two took 63 days to close a bud- covering everything from sewerage to air test-tube of"direct democracy":its troubles
get deficit of to billion--more than the en- quality. raise questions about electronic town halls
tire budgets of all but three of America's Many new suburban "edge cities"have
state governments. And from Sacramento no formal constitution at all. Even in the Who votes, who doesn't
downwards,the state's whole system ofgov- older parts of Los Angeles,a passing police teovrmt»r tsaz r«ttoeu
ernment is a shambles. car maybelong to one of a dozen forces.sev- x vossre
Administratively,the map of California, oral of the city's mayoral candidata now hat VIW"
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advocate breaking up the enormous
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Th* market of poilifts 650,000-pupil Los Angela '!
Unified School .. 3t s
♦ot]tal spendtn8,ten in 19W donM District—a good idea, but technically not .......
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w within the mayor's power. Cenvsl Vana7t9
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in Sacramento,roughly 8596 of the lute's __ tratndseo i2
1° proposed $51 billion budget for 1993-94 is
outside Mr Wilson's control. It has been 1. ........._...". �! .............:29 yon
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caned tither by ballot initiatives of XH" 53 41
. are o by f doral law—t division of powers which Race
America's founding fathersiii d not antici- white(AM10) 60. 40
Pate. Even within the executive branch. gdKr ii ..S9
e many of the chief officers,such as the tree- , Umme
surer and the superintendent of public in. urger 520,000 _.....47
muction,are separately elected—and thus ..
have little incentive to help S40,000.-W.000 �t ._......... S9-.....
p Mr Wilson. _. .00OdiO... M 63 3>'
Faced with this muddle,the electorate is - . . • - __. ... ._._._....._. _
$60,000 thS 74 26
in equal measures angry,bewildered and i,,Q,,,,,w„r
uninterested. Last November any Lott
live econoaen eseev4at.7Tr 1"S
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and instant mfcmndums.
Similarly,West Europeans,now toying How It Comes... ...whom It gots
with ideas of"subsidiarity"and federalism, CatifuNa's 1993.94 state budget
should take a hard look at California's ill-
functioning structure of government. Its pwooner
multiple layers have often served just as a nen=Ju— s.wa UK rate Nwft Al ""b°""dO°311
complicated channel for the buck to be
passed among federal, state and local au-
thorities. As with every bad business,it is '
difficult to see where the customers fit in. % %
Third,another much vaunted Califor-
nian "virtue", which Ronald Reagan „ .
(among others)helped to spread,now looks u'see—” —yam to
a liability:distrust of gave
mment.CaMr- row UK res
nia has seen sporadic movements for politi- a,,, &Ws~
cal reform,notably the Progressives at the w pa. fusee r o`r"'"a ir0i"""'"'taw wd U
turn of the century. Moro often, though, I a..e....ww.,nr..m.r
Californians have thrown their creativity
and energy into the private sector.Now the place representative government," argues share swimming pools or,like one city,ban
state's distnw of government appears to Bruce Cain.of the University of California people in prison to anothercityas cheap la-
have led to a self-fulfilling prophecy:Cali- st Berkeley. Although most budget initia- bour. However, total education spending
fomians think government is bad,and bad tives have failed, the cumulative effect of per pupil has dropped rapidly across the
their government has become. those that have succeeded is immense. state.As ever,it is the poor who suffer worst.
Proposition 98,passed in 1988,ensures Los Angeles county can muster 8,000 beds
Propositions for chaos that 40%of the state's general fund is spent for the homeless.It needs 40,000.
California's legislature of 6o assembly on education.That maybe a good thing,but Mother victim of this endless passing of
members and 40 state senators dates back to it leaves elected officials little space to make the buck is strategic planning.Califomia is
a constitutional convention in 1879,when decisions. Spending on many health and a triumph of micromanagement, riddled
the state was a small agricultural commu- welfare programmes,the next-biggest part with little rules designed for individual situ-
niry of 660,000 people.The population has of the general fund,is laid down by the fed- ationL This "ruling by anecdote"has cm-
since increased to 32m,swelling the num- eral government.Add in the state's special- ated plenty of rad tape,from complicated
ber of registered voters in the average state- fund revenues (many of which are ear- environmental laws to absurd ones saying
senate district to about 350,000. marked for specific uses)and bond funds that a librarian must be either male or fe-
With electorates of such site,politicians (ditto),and what is left for Mr Wilson and male.In the meantime the state has nostra-
have had to rely on television.A campaign the legislature to squabble over is some- tegic plan to face its two biggest economic
for a sat in the state legislature can cost as where—it depends which number-cruncher challenges:the decline of the defence busi-
much as Sim. This gives undue power to you talk to--between lo%and 1A%of the to- ness,and changing demography.
chequebook-wielding lobby groups like the al budget. "What chief executive would
California Teachers Association and the want to run a$50 billion company where he Too marry people,too little money
Califomis Trial Lawyers Association. has only 20%of the power and 100%of the California's 32m population is already
'in 1966 the California Constitutional responsibility+"asks one politician. thrice that of 1950.By 2000 it is expected to
Revision Comission professional ised both Proposition u also destroyed the inde- reach 36m.By some counts,the number of
the state legislature and its staff.its master- pendence of local g ovemment,bydepleting taxpayers per tax-recipient has declined
mind,Jesse Unruh,speaker of the state as- its revenue base.Immediately after Proposi- from eight to three.Before Mr Wilson,mast
sembly.later said he had wanted a third re- tion t3, the sate government, then flush governors were judged on the way they allo-
form: public financing of elections. with cash,began"the great bail-out"ofloal e:ated the budget surpluses that the thriving
Countless attempts have been made since government.Before 1978,roughly 75%of the economy left in its wake.Now the state's de-
then to rid the state of money politics;the money for schools came from local authori- mand for schools is growing faster than its
latest,accepted on a ballot but disputed in ties;today 75%comes from the state.Now, economy;so too is its demand for prisons,
the courts,is term limits. with its coffers empty,and Mr Wilson un- water,rail transport and hospital beds.By
However.the chiefweapon of fnutrated willing to raise taxa, the government in the end of the decade,California will have.
voters has been the proposition movement. Sacramento has begun the great pullout: to produce 4So,o00 extra jobs a year just to
Ballot initiatives, which directly change subsidies have been slashed and respon- kap unemployment at bay.
Californian law,were set up in 1911 by a st'bilities handed back California now gets leas money from
great Progressive governor,Hiram Johnson, For counties,which rely almost entirely Washington than it gives.As in many other
largely as a way to restrict the power of the on sate funds,this has been a disaster.Cit- states, its govemment bears the brunt of
Southern Pacific Railroad.In 1976,Propow- ies are cleverer at raising revenue..but have America's social problems pike the one
tion ls,which sought tohalve local property todosoinincreasinglyweirdways.Accord- baby in eight,according to the governor's
taxa and then kap them low,was put for- ing to one recent study,IS%of the money statistics, that is born with drugs in its
ward.it had no great popular support,until directly raised by the eery of Los Angela bloodstreams In these wretched circum.
voters discovered that the state budget was came from its shrunken property-tax rove- stances,gloomsters depict even the state's
in -obscene" surplus. Then the initiative nues;another 7%from a sales ax;the other diversity as a cost,lamenting that it attr4ets
went through handsomely. 78% came from "nickel and dime" taxesroughly one in three of all America's immi-
Proposition 13 was well numbered. It such as fees added to water bills. grants,and that only a third of the 600,000
saysged representative government in two Fighting over scarce resources has led to babies born thtmevery year ate white.
ways.The first was that it made budgeting what the state treasurer, Kathleen Brown. Much of this pessimism has a racist
by proposition respectable. "Nobody fore- dubs"intergovernmental cannibalism.'At tinge.Complaints about the cost of immi-
saw that initiative government would m its best,this means that local governments gration seem strange in a state built on the
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ingenuity of its new arrivals. In the long when hundreds of tom-up charge cards ar- the heart of America's constitution. Mr
tem,few economists would willingly swap rived in the mail. Keene replies that the current system offers
California's technology-rich economy for. A more subtleway to approach the same more checks and balances on executive ac-
say,Michigan'soreven Britain's.When that problem might be a convention charged tion than the founding fathers ever
economy comes roaring back, might not with reforming local government.it might dreamed of—from the federal government,
California's political institutions look a lit- allocate specific tasks to specific layers of from local government,from the judiciary,
tle stronger--particularly if both the gover- government. Thus water, welfare and from the stare's smorgasbord of special dis-
nor and the majority in the legislature came higher education might be controlled by the tricts and from the initiative process.
from the same party?Is Califumia's institu- state; responsibility for schools might be
tional paralysis merely temporary? pushed down to the cities(with the state of. Ltssons from the Wert
Supporters of the Democratic Parry, fering a safety net);regional governmental Talk to any state politician about Califor-
keen to remove Mr Wilson,argue that po- authorities could take charge of things like nia's problems,and he will insist on two
litical paralysis can be ended as quickly in transport,planning and air quality,all of things: first, that the state will somehow
Sacramento as (supposedly) it is being which affect more than one city, muddle its way through;second that all the
ended in Washington.Other optimists sug- Even such a vague blueprint has its problems it is facing today are ones that the
gest that demographic rules of supply and problems. For instance,it raises the(good rest of America will face tomorrow.Many
demand art already at work:Califomis is but politically unpopular) question of other states have caught California's initia-
now driving away the people whom it can- whether modern California needs county tive fetish;many more are grappling with
not afford to educate,imprison and nurse. government. Before the recession, those governmental paralysis and declining bud-
Last year the state's birth rate dipped. who worried about uncontrolled growth gets.The state remains the national econo-
Anecdotal evidence suggests the oppo• pushed plans to develop superstnictures of my's powerhouse—,as well as President
site: that the people leaving the state are regional government in southem Califor- Clinton's political linchpin.
mostly well-off,white taxpayers.Moreover, nia and the San Francisco bay area.'their Indeed,Mr Clinton should be almost as
even if the optimists'theory is trate,it still arguments have little appeal now. concerned about California's predicament
seems a thin argument against reform.As The most radical form of regionalism, as Mr Wilson is. The new president will
Barry Keene,the former m*rity leader in which has considerable support north of have to push his programmes down con-
the state senate,argues,"What does it mean San Francisco,is a proposal to split the state torted institutional pipelines similar to
to say that we have a government that works into three parts.Counties in northern Cali- Califomies.Even at this early stage,has&d-
well when times are good,but is paralysed fomia resent having to comply with state- ministration's faith in electronic town halls
when we most need it?"A strong economy wide "mandated programmes" (laying looks naive.As Mr Cain at Berkeley puts it,
will not straighten out Califamia's tangled down,for instance,how they bum theirntb- politicians must balance "the attractive al-
system ofgovernment. bish)which are obviously designed for the lesion that technology has made direct de-
more crowded areas to the south.If nothing mocracy possible with the reality that vot-
Reforrn,but which? else,a local legislature in Las Angeles might ers'interest is so bw."
The real argument is probably not so much encourage southern California's media to However,the real lesson from Califbr-
over whether reform will corse as when and take serious note of state politics,a journal- nia may be wider still. Nearly every state
how much.An early target is the state's inef. istic badcwater today. government, W California's, mimics the
ficient bureaucracy.Mr Wilson last month Some people propose reducing the legis- federal system that the newborn United
belatedly proposed integrating 40 or so ex- lature's present two chambers to one.That States set up two centuries ago.Yet the popu-
isting (and contradictory)state plans--on would speed up the legislative process and lation of modern Califomis alone is ten
housebuilding,congestion and air quality, could--depending on its size—mean fewer times bigger than the entire republic held
for instance—that are hanging around Sac- voters per member.Others suggest lowering then;and its state government is responsi-
ramento.Other Republicans want to start the majority required for budget votes from ble for a plethora of services unimagined in
privatising many government services,in- 66%to 50%.Mr Wilson last year sponsored the 18th century.
eluding Los Angeles airport and the Depart- an initiative that would have increased his More than one national president has
meat of Motor vehicles. own powerover the budgetand lessened the argued that America's states can be labora-
institutional reform requires the voters' legislature's;it was defeated,but,even if it toric for experiment in government.They
approval.Even fairly simple proposals—for had got through,it would not have affected can,and a few have;California not least,
example, changing from 66% to 50% the the 80.90%of the budget which is outside with its ballot initiatives.That is an unper-
backin from voters that a school district the control of either. suasive example:these initiatives have con-
needs �a bond issue—have to wait their Most controversially, a few people in tn'buted handsomely to the muddle of Cali-
tum on the ballot.Tinkering with the initia- Sacramento believe that California should fbmian government. But by now the
tive process(eg,by increasing the number of look at parliamentary government,where muddle is so great, the lines of govern-
signaturts needed to put an initiative on the the legislature, rather than the electorate; mental command so stretched, the state's
ballot) would probably require another would choose the governor.That would go voters so exhausted and alienated that some
constitutional convention orcommission— against the separation of powers that is at sort of deeper reform looks inevitable.
and the 1966 commission was seven years in
the making. �
Accepted wisdom in Sacramento is that .
to touch the initiative process would out-
rage voters.Proposition 13 has rooted itself
in California's class system by keeping taxes ✓ `""`
on those who have owned property sins
before 1478 artificially low.In 1491 Macy's t� ,
triad to challenge:the:result as inequitable. f �,,,� '
because a new store that it had opened had �'' x
to pay taxes several times higher than its -
neighbours'. The firm changed its mind
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Fiscal LI ummit II
New Visions for Government
Sponsored by the
Contra Costa Mayors Conference
Contra Costa Board of Supervisors
Contra Costa County School Boards Association
Contra Costa Special Districts Association
East Bay Division, League of California Cities
Fiscal Unity Summit II Conference Committee
Chair Dick Heggie, Orinda City Council
Gwen Regalia, Walnut Creek City Council
Donald A. Blubaugh, Walnut Creek City Manager
Cassandra Forth, President, School Board Assn.
Tom Torlakson, CC County Board of Supervisors
Chuck Beesley, Chair, CC Special District Assn.
Muriel Smallheiser, Walnut Creek School Board
Sue Rainey, CC Central Sanitary District Board
Brenda K. Barrie, Conference Coordinator