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They play a number of official roles in state governmental processes such as developing regional housing need allocations (RHNAs). The state has 23 councils of governments: Association of Bay Area Governments; Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments; Butte County Association of Governments; Calaveras County Council of Governments
California Association of Voting Officials (CAVO) is a non-profit organization that works with community members and voting officials to develop open source voting systems for use in public elections.
The Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) of California is a five-member independent nonpartisan commission that has primary responsibility for the impartial and effective administration of the Political Reform Act of 1974. The commission's objectives are to ensure that public officials act in a fair and unbiased manner in the governmental ...
The United States has a history of citizen, nonprofit, and other non-partisan groups advocating good government that reaches back to the late-19th-century municipal-level Progressive Movement (see Progressivism in the United States Municipal Administration) and the development of governmental professional associations in the early part of the 20th century, such as the American Public Human ...
It ranked particularly low in public access to information and judicial transparency. [21] In 2005, Pew Research Center's Government Performance Project gave California a grade C−, tied for last with Alabama. [22] By 2008, when the last report was issued, California had a C, which placed it near the bottom of the states. [23]
California Municipal Treasurers Association (CMTA) is the professional society of active public treasurers of California counties, cities, and special districts. It sets ethical standards for the treasury profession in state and local government in California. The treasurer of a public agency is elected [1] by the voting public or are appointed ...
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), established in 1975, is a "nonpartisan public officials' association composed of sitting state legislators" from the states, territories and commonwealths of the United States. [1]
The California State Association of Counties (CSAC) is a lobbying, advocacy and service organization representing the state's 58 counties at the state and federal level. Areas of focus include the state budget, health-care reform, corrections reform, transportation funding, water and climate change.