With Retirement Costs Consuming One-Fifth of Discretionary Spending, California Must Reduce Un-Accrued Pension Benefits
Crossposted on Advancing A Free Society Pensions and other retirement costs will consume more than 23% of discretionary state spending in fiscal year 2012-13, according to the budget recently passed by the California State Legislature and signed by Governor Jerry Brown – nearly three times the share taken up by retirement costs just ten years […]
Is That Proposition 30? Or Proposition –30–?
I’m still not sure about what I’m going to do on Prop 30, if I vote on it at all. On one hand, it’s terrible policy (temporary taxes, constitutional changes in spending and revenue flows) from a governor who has simply refused to grapple with the broken governing system. On the other, boy it would […]
School Districts and Legal Bills
California has over 1,000 schools districts and governing boards. Some of these districts represent just a small number of students, while the largest, Los Angeles Unified School District, represents nearly 800,000 students. Managing a school district is a big and difficult job, but California’s legal climate makes one aspect of that job much more difficult: […]
Elections in Anaheim: Getting it Right by Engaging the Community
Crossposted on OCRegister Over the past several weeks, there has been a very public dialogue questioning how the City of Anaheim is governed and whether the current system should be changed. The media stories following the city’s special meeting on August 8 were rife with sensational headlines claiming that the Council majority had rejected or […]