Letter to Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review endorsing SCA 19 (April 2, 2010)
SCC endorses SCA 19 which is consistent with SCC's our own guiding principles of healthy communities, responsive government, stable revenue, and alignment of resources, responsibility, and accountability.
To: senator.ducheny@sen.ca.gov, senator.leno@sen.ca.gov, senator.dutton@sen.ca.gov, senator.liu@sen.ca.gov, senator.alquist@sen.ca.gov, senator.lowenthal@sen.ca.gov, senator.ashburn@sen.ca.gov, senator.negretemcleod@sen.ca.gov, senator.cogdill@sen.ca.gov, senator.padilla@sen.ca.gov, senator.desaulnier@sen.ca.gov, senator.simitian@sen.ca.gov, senator.harman@sen.ca.gov, senator.wright@sen.ca.gov, senator.huff@sen.ca.gov
Date: Friday, April 2, 2010, 3:29 PM
Dear Members of the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review,
Saving California Communities is a Davis coalition that brings together local elected representatives and a wide cross-section of community members. We advocate for the resources necessary to support strong, healthy communities.
Our organization endorses the package of state government reform proposals introduced by California Forward that we believe will create more responsive, representative, and cost-effective government. These include:
- Responsible budgets on time, with proposals to identify stable funding for state programs, continue only those programs proven effective, and reduce the legislative vote requirement for approving the state budget to a simple majority while retaining the two-thirds threshold to raise taxes.
- Government that is closer to the people, including proposals to give communities more control by preventing state borrowing of local revenues, and lowering the vote threshold for local tax measures.
Although this package represents only first steps in needed reform, we believe that improving our governance structures is essential for the success of the state and the well-being of its citizens. The status quo is simply not acceptable to us.
Saving California Communities endorses SCA 19 as consistent with our own guiding principles of healthy communities, responsive government, stable revenue, and alignment of resources, responsibility, and accountability.
We encourage the Subcommittee to support this bill.
Respectfully,
Members of the Saving California Communities Coalition (e-mail addresses copied herein):
Bob Agee
Jan Agee
Sheila Allen
Barbara Archer
Ruth Asmundson
Jorge Ayala
Rick Baker
Robert Bakke
Janet Berry
Kay Bogart
Mark Braly
Daniel Braunstein
Davis Campbell
Nancy Cole
Delaine Eastin
Rebecca Edwards
Glen Erickson
Lucas Frerichs
Julie Gallelo
Cathy Haskell
Jackie Hausman
Anne Hawke
Jim Herrington
Jim Hopp
Karen Hopp
Sara Husby
Christopher Kelsch
Jonathan London
Susan Lovenburg
Joel Mandel
Betsy Marchand
Jerry Marr
Kathy Marr
Rita Montes Martin
Jenny Melton
Kingsley Melton
Karen Mo
Joan M. Moses
Don Palm
Richard Reed
Karl Reinking
Ada Rinne
Sarah Rock
Don Saylor
Richard Seyman
Daniel Sharpe
Jill Miller Theg
Dan Wolk
Pauline Wooliever
Jay Ziegler