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THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Date: April 8, 2003 Public Comment
The following persons presented testimony during public comment:
Ralph Hoffinan, 60 St. Timothy Drive, Danville, regarding the following
issues: 1. Shaping our Future meeting on May 3, 2003, 2. Employee layoffs
within the county, state, school district, and special districts, 3. An editorial
in the Contra Costa Times regarding Budget bipartisanship.
Rollie Katz- Local One, P.O. Box 222, Martinez regarding, television
viewing preferences.
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FRIENDS OF RALPH HOFFMANN n ID #123712
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Thursday Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world.
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Ptally in Sacrainento
rotest all cuts to ubl'ic nc 'ion■
Tell the state Iegislature and governor Gray Davis enough is enough.
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We won't allow them to gouge public education.
Parents,, Students,, Teachers and Concerned community Members
Are you ready for
Increased class sizes of up to 40 students to 1 teacher in public schools?
Teacher, counselor, librarian,, clerical,, and other support staff lay-offs?
Increased failure rates for Black,, Latino, and lower income students?
Wholesale loss of student support programs and services?
A tuition increase of over 100% for community colleges ?
Increased teacher workloads and less student contact ?
Severe cuts in community college class offerings ?
Overall reduced access to higher education?
Deep cuts to the arts and athletics ?
AND
Increased Prison Spending?
Education Noncarcera lon.one dollar frow a uca mion.
Put Students yrs .
Contact: ed-not-inc0earthlink.net www.mayS.org
Endorsed By. San Francisco Say Area Chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild,The National Coaltion of Education Activists,The East Say Educators Justice
Network justice Now,,Teachers 4 Change, California Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education(CaICARE),UC Hastings College of the Law Chapter'of the
Lawyer's Guild,A New Way of Life,Critical Resistance,The Berkeley Federation of Teachers,CRY Lights Booksellers and Pubfishers,,The Dolores Nuerta
National
The National Lawyer's Guild Prison Law Project,The California prison Moratorium Project,California Prison Focus,The Harm
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Famdy Resource Center,del Monte Seminars,El Can.Para Bienestar Ear1knart,California Coalition for Women Prisoners,The Gr - ood
Council,Chalienging White Supremacy Workshop, Rick Ayers&The Communicative Arts and Sciences SMA School(CAS-BHS)
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LL TOO OFTEN there is a high wall of separa- P.O.Box 492 Danville,CA 94526
tion between rationality and politics,which
prevents timely and fair solutions to problems. Vision without action is merely a dream.
We are encouraged when some of our repre- Action without vision just passes the time.
sentatives make an effort to breech the barrier. Vision with action can change the world.
Such a courageous effort is taking place among a bipar-
tisan group of state legislators who seek a course to solve
California's massive budg et problems. Much of the credit
for the group's formation goes to Assemblyman Joe Canci-
amilla, D-Pittsburg, and Assemblyman Keith Richman, R-
Northridge. They launched a bipartisan gathering of 14
lawmakers to discuss the budget.
They understand that no one party is going to dictate how
the budget will be balanced and that everyone is going to
have to make some compromises because budget passage re-
quires a two-thirds vote,as do all new tax measures, a broad
consensus is going to have to be reached.Clearly,that re-
quires both parties.Yet neither the Democratic nor Republi-
can leadership in the Legislature has made any real move-
ment toward bipartisanship;the lack of cooperation is
nothing new.That is why Canciamilla and Richman took ac-
tion,meeting in secret at first,and now more openly.
That they had to work privately demonstrates just how
partisan the Legislature is. There is nothing wrong with
adherence to political philosophy and party loyalty,but
that does not mean each party's lawmakers must behave
like enemy camps on a battlefield.
Unfortunately, party leaders in Sacramento seem to
have that mentality and often threaten reprisals against
"wayward" legislators. The Republican leadership is partic-
ularly suspicious of bipartisan activity because the GOP
has only a few votes more than needed to block the re-
quired two-thirds vote for a budget and fear a handful of
defectors will undermine the entire party.
Bipartisanship allows for a fuller discussion of possible
ways to solve a problem and is essential when two-thirds
votes are required.
The hope is that more legislators will join bipartisan ef-
forts. Rationality must trump narrow partisanship to con-
struct a budget solution. The longer it takes, the more dif-
ficult it will be as deficits continue to increase.
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