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When Californians attend local government meetings for the sake of disruption, lawmakers often don’t know what to do.That could change soon, under a bill passed by the Legislature Monday. SB ...
California has just 72 percent of the assets needed to make payments to retired public workers, many of whom get to collect six-figure annual payments. California's Leaders Still Ignoring State ...
California's massive budget deficit, coupled with the state's relatively high level of joblessness, has become a major barrier to reducing the billions of dollars of debt it has incurred to pay ...
California faced another budget gap for 2010, [8] with $72 billion in debt. [9] California faced a massive and still-growing debt. [10] In June 2009 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said "Our wallet is empty, our bank is closed and our credit is dried up." [11] He called for massive budget cuts of $24 billion, about 1 ⁄ 4 of the state's budget. [11 ...
Historically, members of the Big Five met in private to negotiate California's state government budget. These meetings were held under governors George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson, Gray Davis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. [1] In 2010, California voters passed Proposition 25, which reduced the threshold to pass a budget from a 2/3 supermajority to a ...
As of Jan 26, 2022, there were 482 incorporated municipalities in the state. [19] Under California law, the terms "city" and "town" are explicitly interchangeable; the name of an incorporated municipality in the state can either be "City of (Name)" or "Town of (Name)". [20] Counties exercise the powers of cities in unincorporated areas. [7]
Because towns self-govern and maintain their autonomy, town meetings vary from state to state, as well as from town to town. Since town residents directly participate in their own governance and represent themselves without any intermediary, town meeting is an example of direct democracy , [ 1 ] and examined as a case study in democratic theory.
News reports and commentators have cited the state's various legislative supermajority requirements as a contributing factor to the state budget crisis. [23] [24] The state has a long history of supermajority requirements with a 1933 state ballot measure mandating a two-thirds supermajority to pass the state budget and California Proposition 13 (1978) mandating another two-thirds supermajority ...