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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-1-71
#390
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 108 - Greene, L. Includes state transportation allowances in the
(Chapter 231)
reimbursements made to parents of handicapped
minors for whom no appropriate educational programs
are available locally.
AB 377 - Ketchum
Authorizes the Director of Corrections and the
(Chapter 232)
Department of Mental Hygiene to purchase tax-
sheltered annuities for certain employees of the
respective departments, if specified conditions
are satisfied.
AB 461 - Knox
Specifies that certain tide and submerged lands
(Chapter 233)
granted in trust to the City of Richmond may be
used for various conservation and recreation
purposes. The bill further provides that the lands
are required to be substantially improved, restored,
preserved, or maintained on or before January 1, 1973,
rather than before September 18, 1969.
AB 588 - Knox
Provides that the Council on Intergovernmental
(Chapter 227)
Relations shall include one member representing
a regional organization, three members representing
special districts and that the three special district
members shall be appointed by the Governor from a
list submitted by the California Special District
Association. The bill also specifies that a special
district may attend any legislative body including
Congress to present information or to aid or present
passage of legislation and may participate in
associations for such purpose.
AB 595 - Wilson
Increases the amount transferred annually from the
(Chapter 241)
Motor Vehicle Fuel Fund to the Harbors and Watercraft
Revolving Fund.
AB 601 - Barnes
Permits local governments to pay for replacement or
(Chapter 234)
employees property which is lost as well as damaged
in the line of duty without fault of employee.
AB 708 - Chappie
Deletes the requirement that identification plates
(Chapter 235)
or devices issued for snowmobiles be attached to front
of the handlebars on the upper part of the machine
and instead specifies that such plates or devices
shall be attached on the front of the vehicle by any
bracket, method, or device securing the plate to the
cowl or body member.
AB 766 - Knox
Authorizes the board of directors of a water
(Chapter 236)
conservation district to disburse district funds in
a prescribed manner by a district treasurer as an
alternative to the currently prescribed method of
disbursal performed by the county treasurer and
county auditor of the principal county of the district
AB 777 - Arnett
Permits retirement boards in systems established
(Chapter 224)
pursuant to the County Employees' Retirement Law
of 1937 to compute the employer contribution to the
Retirement Fund as a level percentage of compensation
which, when applied to the future compensation of
the average new member entering the system, will be
sufficient for payment of all prospective benefits of
such member plus amortization of any existing liability
over a period of 30 years.
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#390
AB
778 - Foran
Provides that proof that a vehicle was leased or
(Chapter 237)
rented when such vehicle was cited for a parking
violation shall rebut the presumption that the
vehicle was parked by the registered owner provided
the owner gives proof of the lease or rental to the
court within a specified time. The bill further
provides that the period of time in which a
registered owner has to appear in court in response
to a notice of violation issued by a court for failur
to appear on a parking citation shall be at least
ten days, rather than five days.
AB 953 - Belotti
Authorizes the sale of pasteurized manufacturing
(Chapter 225)
cream in amounts and containers not less than one-
half gallon. The present minimum is three gallons.
AB 1080 - MacGillivray
Establishes a commercial size limit of 4 inches
(Chapter 238)
on the pinto, threaded and flat abalone.
AB 1187 - MacGillivray
Adds state agencies to the list of specified
(Chapter 239)
bodies which, if otherwise authorized by law,
may adopt measures regulating vessels.
AB 1270 - Dent
Allows the board of directors of any municipal
(Chapter 240)
utility district operating a water distribution
system for 10 years or more and maintaining a
prescribed uniform accounting system to provide by
resolution for payment of certain categories of
demands against district approved by the general
manager without prior approval of board.
AB 2658 - Lanterman Extends the deadline for filing of conservatorship
(Chapter 242)
petitions for persons committed to state hospitals
from July 1, 1971 to July 1, 1972.
SB 39 - Harmer
Increases from $500 to $1,000 the maximum amount of
(Chapter 220)
purchases by the Trustees of the California State
Colleges which is exempt from purchasing supervision
of the Department of General Services.
SB 286 - Mills
Changes the appointment procedures for legislative
(Chapter 226)
members of the Committee on Special Education,
State Transportation Board, and the Council on
Intergovernmental Relations. The bill provides that
the legislative members of the State Transportation
Board shall be one Senator appointed by the Senate
Rules Committee and one Assemblyman appointed by
the Speaker, instead of the chairmen of the Senate
and Assembly Transportation Committees. The bill
also provides for the appointment of three members
each of the Assembly and Senate, chosen by the Speaker
and the Senate Rules Committee to the Committee on
Special Education, instead of the Chairman of the
Assembly and Senate Education Committee and two
additional members. The bill also adds one member
of the Senate and one member of the Assembly to the
existing legislative membership of the Council on
Intergovernmental Relations.
SB 287 - Lagomarsino Adds the tide and submerged lands within the three-
(Chapter 221)
mile area surrounding the Santa Barbara Channel
Islands (Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa and San
Miguel) to those areas that may not be leased for
oil and gas extraction operations by the State Lands
Commission.
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#390
SB 359 - Gregorio
Temporarily increases, during the 1971-72 fiscal
(Chapter 229)
year, the limit on the annual tax rate imposed to
support a police protection district from .75 percent
to 1 percent, of assessed value of real property in
the district.
SB 446 - Alquist
Provides for disability retirement upon the
(Chapter 222)
application of employer as well as upon the
application of a member of the State Teachers'
Retirement System or his guardian or conservator.
The bill requires reinstatement of a person found
not to be disabled after application for disability
retirement by his employer.
SB 734 - Grunsky
Authorizes issuance of State of California notes,
(Chapter 223)
in amounts equivalent to demands issued but not
negotiated payable from the General Fund in the
same fiscal year. Provides that such notes cannot
be issued after December 31, 1971, and must be
redeemed by March 31, 1972.
SB 803 - Mills
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(Chapter 230)
to loan up to $95,000 to the Meadows Union School
District to enable the district to pay contracted
indebtedness, due and owing, in the 1970-1971
fiscal year.
SB 1598 - Marks
Requires boards of supervisors of counties in which
(Chapter 228)
assessment ratios are changed by reason of the law
specifying that property shall be assessed at 25
percent of its full cash value for the 1971-72
fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter to make
specified public announcements concerning property
tax revenues. Fresno, Humboldt, Imperial, Marin,
Napa, Sacramento, Siskiyou and Stanislaus Counties
are affected by the bill.
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WAS
how
to get
more out of
your
school dollars
A Summary Report by the Governor's
Education Task Force,
July, 1971
TASK FORCE ESTABLISHED BY
THE GOVERNOR
In June 1970 the Governor became aware of the
conclusions reached by the California Taxpayers'
Association in their examination of business practices
used in the San Mateo School District. He asked
members of his staff to establish a task force to
determine whether the Cal Tax conclusions were
indicative of the State as a whole. His charge was met
by joining the most capable management auditors of
the Audits Division of the State Department of
Dear School Board Member:
ance with leading accounting and consulting firms
This brief summary of a broader study is mean
to observe what was really going on in a representa-
you-for every school board member and every
tive sample of our local schools. The Governor's
school superintendent in California. Without excep-
request for volunteer assistance from these firms was
tion, our task force members found a sincere desire
overwhelming. The insight into governmental opera-
on the part of all school administrators to meet the
tions of the State's management auditors was success-
fiscal and educational challenges that are increasingly
fully matched with the management consulting
evident as California moves into this new decade. The
expertise of the volunteers. This report is a condensa-
matter of educational curriculum was not covered in
tion of their conclusions and recommendations.
this study. Instead, our task force team studied the
problems of school operations, and the effect of these
operations on the taxpayer. Most specifically, we
were concerned about whether taxpayers' dollars are
being well spent. You not only share this concern,
THE DETAILED REPORT IS
but you have the opportunity to do something about
NOW AVAILABLE
it. You can ask the hard questions of your managers
The detailed report was specifically developed to
and administrators, and you can so inform yourself
serve a single purpose; namely, to assist local school
that you will know if their answers are correct. We
boards in evaluating the management practices being
can give you the questions and suggest possible ways
used in their respective school districts. Therefore, it
of obtaining answers. But the rest is up to you.
is written as a management tool or aid for school
Rand Reagan
board members. Inasmuch as the detailed report is
somewhat voluminous and the anticipated demand
should be well in excess of 10,000 copies, we are
RONALD REAGAN
making it available for a nominal charge of $1.00
GOVERNOR
(inc. tax) to cover printing and mailing costs. The
report should be requested by writing Office of
Procurement, Documents Section, P.O. Box 20191,
Sacramento, California 95820, together with your
ck for $1.00 made out to the State of California,
and it will be forwarded. The report should be
available by August 1. Orders received after that time
can be filled within 30 days.
We fully believe that this report will be a significant
first step in the implementation of improved manage-
ment practices in our local schools and, therefore,
within a short period of time, every school board
member in the State of California will have access to
a copy of the detailed report and will be using it as a
mechanism for improvement within his own school
district.
I.
INTRODUCTION
Tenure
We see two broad areas for questions:
Existing law gives what is equivalent to "in-
First, there are questions about instructional
stant tenure" to teachers, thereby effectively
costs-primarily, credentialed salaries. About 80
creating a haven for those few teachers who
percent of current expenses fall in this category
should not be permitted in the classroom.
(85 percent if all salaries are included). This area
State and district rules and regulations should
requires continuing, in-depth analysis. We can see
change to give you more flexibility in this area.
that the present system totally ignores ability and
However, we look to the teachers themselves as a
performance, but a lasting solution will require
major source of change. Teachers are profes-
meaningful commitment to change and consider-
sionals, are better educated than most citizens,
able time to effect a plan.
and most are sincerely interested in improving
Second, there are questions about the busin
the quality of education. We do not believe that a
management of school districts. In this area,
rational distribution of resources should require
where about 20 percent of current expenses are
that an inadequate teacher be paid as much as the
found, we developed a substantial amount of
outstanding one, and so-paid until retirement. We
data. Management auditors from state govern-
do not believe that most teachers believe this.
ment joined private consulting firms who
Teachers themselves are in the best position to
offer solutions. Let us hope they will recognize
volunteered their services in visiting 127 repre-
their responsibility and opportunity to do SO.
sentative school districts. We are grateful for the
There are other ways of structuring compensa-
full cooperation of the administrators of these
tion systems which put the primary emphasis on
districts, for without it the study would not have
performance, but teacher inputs should be
been possible.
invaluable.
The constraints of some aspects of the present
tenure laws are under active legislative considera-
II. PERSONNEL
tion. While the restructuring of salaries does not
Teachers
appear to be a short-term possibility, there are
questions which can nevertheless be asked:
Although salaries and fringe benefits make up, by
far, the largest share of current expenses, the
Is your district sending recruiters outside
usual management tools for cost control and
California? It should not do so, for many
analysis are lacking. For example:
California teachers are unemployed.
Promotions
Is your district giving over-all cost-of-living
increases, rewarding all teachers regardless of
Teacher promotions and salary increases are
merit?
presently based on a grid system that is used to
move a teacher across a pay scale based on the
Do you know the total cost of fringe benefits?
number of degrees or the number of units that
Can you compare these with private compensa-
a teacher has taken. These units may be toward
tion scales in your area?
a degree or may even be interpreted as bro
Do you have skilled negotiation capacity equal
as credits relating to vacation travel or Other
to those who represent your teachers?
such activities. Teachers move on the other axis
Is the average pupil/teacher ratio in your
of the grid based solely on the number of years
district equal to 30/1, an acceptable norm?
that they have been in the system. Your
management has no control of the teacher's
Are the 25 hours of classroom instruction per
advancement within the salary schedules, thus
week the norm in your district?
resulting in a financial situation that prevents
Does your district use all available volunteer
the districts from having any control over
help to free teachers for their primary task.
teachers' increased compensation or, worse,
There are no easy answers. Your obligation to
from using increased compensation as a moti-
consider each individual teacher must be viewed
vating tool in providing excellence in the
in light of your primary obligation to assure the
classroom.
public-parents and taxpayers-that resources are
Each district faced with the prospect of new
wisely and frugally used. There are answers,
construction do an in-depth analysis of exist-
however, and you are in the best-perhaps the
ing space utilization before starting building
only-position to find them.
plans.
Other District Employees
Other alternatives be analyzed, such as changes
There are many questions which concern all
in school boundaries and in the breaking
employees, teachers, as well as others, and fall
points between elementary, junior high, and
within the scope of normal management
high school.
responsibility.
Consolidation with other districts be given full
consideration.
Do you have a detailed summary of absen-
teeism and turnover in your district?
Operations and Maintenance
Do you have training programs for all levels 01
Facility operations and maintenance afford you
employees?
significant opportunity for cost control through
better management techniques, such as improving
Does your district work together with other
planning, methodology, control, and evaluation.
districts in training programs?
Districts that have installed a modern custodial
Does your district have an active program to
and maintenance management system have al-
prevent accidents and assure the safety of
leviated many problems and reduced custodial
employees and students?
costs by 15 to 25 percent.
Maintenance management systems can take many
forms. A comprehensive package, which is ex-
III. PHYSICAL PLANT
plained in detail in the full study, includes:
General
Physical inventory of spaces needing custodial
Building, operating, and maintaining school
care or maintenance.
buildings have costs second only to those of
Level of care standards, expressed in measur-
instructional salaries. While your district has its
able terms.
individual problems, some questions are appli-
cable to all:
Methods and materials improvement should be
analyzed for cost improvement.
Are you obtaining the most use out of existing
facilities? Have you considered year-round
Organization of custodial personnel (teams and
operation?
individuals).
The Valley View Elementary District in Illinois is
Work measurement, analyzed after improved
operating a year-round system called the "45-15
methods, equipment, supplies, and organiza-
Continuous School Year Plan". Each child is
tion are implemented.
assigned to one of four groups. Group A begins
Budgets for the operations and maintenance
its school year June 30, and each of the three
functions are developed based on inventory,
other groups start at 15-class-day intervals there-
level of service, and measured time required.
after. Groups attend school for 45 class
(about nine weeks) and then have a 15-class day
Scheduling work for the best use of available
vacation. Thus, each group attends 180 days per
forces and equipment.
calendar year, with three months vacation, plus
Controls and evaluation reporting system to
holidays.
monitor quality, time, and cost performance.
You are urged to make an in-depth study of the
Not all districts have physical plants large enough
feasibility, advantages, and disadvantages of year-
to profit from all the above steps, nor do they
round operations. This analysis should include a
have trained staff to do the needed analysis, but
full consideration of all potential cost savings and
all districts:
cost avoidance, additional expenses, and educa-
Can improve their records and reporting sys-
tional and social advantages and disadvantages.
tem in custodial and maintenance areas so that
It is recommended that:
superintendents and governing boards will
know what value they are receiving for the
The larger districts also had, on the average, a
money spent. They will then be able to make
lower purchasing overhead per purchase dollar
cost comparisons with historical data and with
than the smaller districts. Clearly, there are
other districts.
advantages in forming larger economic units
through cooperative purchasing or other means.
Can improve methods, equipment, and sched-
uling.
In purchasing, it is axiomatic to say greater
volume brings lower prices. Yet, only relatively
Can develop quality standards and staffing
few districts have attempted to consolidate pur-
guidelines.
chasing power. For example, the extent of
Can establish controls and evaluate perform-
statewide cooperative purchasing between school
ance.
districts and other public agencies is less than 5
The complete report includes questions wh
percent of total purchase dollars. In some dis-
address themselves to:
tricts, cooperative purchasing is nonexistent; in
others, it involves only the purchase of bulk
Land Acquisition.
gasoline through the county. The few districts
Use of relocatables.
that are active in cooperative purchasing reduce
New construction.
prices 12 percent to 35 percent.
Peripheral use and user fees.
In addition, the full study considers:
Real property insurance.
Competition and bidding.
Stop thinking of buildings and grounds mainte-
Effective purchasing staff.
nance as a sunk cost about which nothing can be
Purchasing procedures, warehousing, and
done. Money can be saved, but only you are in a
inventory.
position to save it.
Standardization of items.
IV. PURCHASING
High cost equipment
The complete study covers many aspects of
Economy of scale and other efficiencies in
purchasing. While most of you are probably
purchasing is "old hat", but it is still fashionable.
weary of "nickle and dime" comparisons in this
Be sure that your district purchasing is as
area, you should consider the following short
efficient as others. What does your district pay
excerpt from the study.
for the items on the following list:
Does increased volume result in lower prices? In
PURCHASING
the study, 80 districts of varying size reported
California K-12 School Districts
prices paid for standard items. These districts
Price Survey Results - 1970
were grouped by ADA, as follows:
Price Range in Dollars & Cents
Group 1
1 - 2,500 ADA
Items
Unit
Low
Avg.
Median
High
Group 2
2,501
-
20,000 ADA
Group 3 20,001 - 50,000 ADA
Folder, manila, let-
Group 4 50,001 - 750,000 ADA
ter size, 100/box
Box
1.240
1.410
1.540
2.370
per, adding machine
The prices paid by the larger districts were
2½ X 200'
Roll
.088
.120
.128
.180
invariably much lower than those paid by smaller
Tissue, Facial, box
of 300
Box
.136
districts. For example:
.189
.200
.320
Unprinted newspaper,
8½ X 11"
Case
4.150
4.320
5.040
7.200
Straws, reg., 6½,
Average Prices
unwrapped,
Item
Unit
Gp. 1
Gp. 2
Gp. 3
Gp. 4
25M/case
Case
9.100
11.940
12.520
16.050
Tissue
roll
$.259
$.205
$.191
Cups, hot & cold,
$.181
M
Handtowels
styrofoam, 6 OZ.
5.880
6.690
7.490
10.000
case
4.28
3.85
3.74
3.13
Blackboard Erasers
doz.
4.58
3.88
Toilet paper, roll,
3.61
2.21
4½ X 4½"
Case
9.100
11.010
11.550
16.450
Mimeo Paper
ream
.867
.819
.705
.679
Paper hand towels,
100W Lamps
each
.255
.169
.119
.104
single fold
Case
3.001
3.290
3.820
5.350
Price Range in Dollars & Cents
Items
Unit
Low
Avg.
Median
High
Binder paper, ruled,
sub 16, 8½ X 11"
Ream
.700
.804
.787
1.170
Paper, mimeograph,
sub 20, 8½ X 11"
Ream
.580
.724
.800
1.170
Ruler, 12", 1/16
scale, wood, steel
edge 24/box
Box
.908
1.430
1.440
2.400
Blackboard erasers,
5x2x1%"
Doz.
1.820
2.900
3.780
6.700
Pencils, classroom,
w/eras., ½ gross
/box
Box
.934
1.230
1.250
2.220
Book, teacher class
record
Each
.540
.795
.850
1.800
Basketball, leather
Each
8.350
11.050
11.900
25.500
Softball, 12",
6½ X 6 3/4 OZ.
Doz.
9.240
11.800
13.440
18.000
Tennis balls, 3 to
a can
Can
1.370
1.620
1.650
2.375
Cards, data proces-
sing, basic card
M
.910
.927
.935
1.110
Lamp, incandescent,
120 volt, 100 watt Each
.100
.115
.135
.420
Lamp, fluorescent,
F40 TIZCW
Each
.381
.513
.540
1.120
Spark plugs
Each
.430
.539
.625
1.000
Chalk, 3 1/8" X
7/16", all
colors
Doz.
.071
.147
.222
.530
Crayons, pressed,
16 color asst,
3 1/2 X 5/16
Box
.062
.136
.150
.340
Ink, waterproof
black, drawing,
India
1 oz.
.170
.216
.310
.400
Paint, liquid
tempura, non-
toxic, all colors
Pint
.282
.340
.420
.600
V. OTHER SECTIONS
The complete study has many substantive sec-
tions. Personnel, physical facilities, and purchas-
ing have been mentioned. In addition, there are
discussions of:
Electronic Data Processing.
Textbooks.
Pupil Transportation.
Food Service.
Management Style.
Each chapter is written for you and gives the
questions which you must ask in your district to
DETAILED REPORT AVAILABLE
be sure that dollars are well spent. We believe we
The detailed report should be requested by
have set out the hard questions which must be
writing Office of Procurement, Documents, Sec-
asked and have outlined the ways in which
tion, P.O. Box 20191, Sacramento, California
answers can be found. Only you can ask the
95820, together with your check for $1.00 made
questions and act upon the answers.
out to the State of California.
OF
THE
THE SEAL OF CALIFORNIA STATE REPUBLIC CALIFORNIA OF
XXXIII
NOT PRINTED OR MAILED AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE:
Imm
liate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-2-71
#391
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today the following bills have
been signed:
AB 322 - Badham
Deletes the December 31, 1971, expiration date of
Chapter 247
provisions authorizing performance of blood gas
analysis under designated circumstances.
AB 371 - Moorhead
Provides that the guardian of an estate may commence
Chapter 248
an action for partition of a ward's undivided interest
in real or personal property after first obtaining
authority from the court having jurisdiction of the
estate on ex parte application.
AB 419 - Barnes
Provides for the continuation of part of the
Chapter 249
retirement allowance of a patrol, law enforcement, or
local safety member of the Public Employees'
Retirement System to his spouse, child or parents
after his death after retirement for disability rather
than industrial disability.
AB 596 - Wilson
Corrects an erroneous cross-reference to the
Chapter 250
Government Code provision relating to the State
Environmental Goals and Policy Report.
AB 599 - Stull
Increases from $350,000 to $500,000 the amount a
Chapter 251
county can appropriate to a revolving fund to be used
by specified local districts for specified purposes
and includes county flood control districts among
those districts to which such revolving fund money
may be appropriated.
AB 806 - Priolo
Makes technical amendments to the Savings and Loan
Chapter 258
Association Law.
AB 965 - Johnson, R
Continues in effect for another year certain
Chapter 252
regulations of the Director of Agriculture which
provide definition and standards of composition for
certain acidified dairy products.
AB 1061 - Burke
Repeals an inconsistent Vehicle Code provision
Chapter 253
relating to the apportionment of the cost of
flashing traffic signals in the vicinity of schools.
AB 1123 - Dent
Separates and recodifies the provisions of the Brown
Chapter 254
Act, which regulates state employer-employee relations,
Exam the provisions of the Meyers-Milias-Drown Act
regulates employer-empioyee relations in local
government. The bill stipulates that its provisions
are declaratory of existing law.
AB 1308 - Brown
Provides that the fee for examination and reexamination
Chapter 255
of applicants for a dental license is to be fixed by
the Board of Dental Examiners, rather than providing
that the fee for the examination of applicants for
such a license is to be fixed by the board.
AB 1650 - Stacey
Repeals the conflict of interest provisions in the
Chapter 256
Community Services District Law.
AB 1895 - Davis
Provides that certain community services districts
Chapter 257
shall be deemed formed for assessment and taxation
purposes for the 1971-72 fiscal year and thereafter,
if such formation is completed prior to the effective
date of the bill and if required documents are filed
on or before April 15, 1971.
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SB 81 - Nejedly
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to a Penal Code
Chapter 243
provision relating to the humanetreatment of animals.
SB 201 - Song
Revises the law relating to counterclaims and
Chapter 244
cross-complaints and joinder of causes of action.
SB 251 - Rodda
Permits the governing board of a school district
Chapter 245
maintaining a community college to adopt rules and
regulations regarding withholding of grades,
transcripts, diplomas, or registration privileges
of students or former students until specified
obligations owed to the school library are met.
SB 777 - Marler
Reduces the amount of downpayment from 50 percent
Chapter 246
to 30 percent of the purchase price for the sale of
excess state highway property.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-2-71
#392
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"The state's budget is now before the members of the legislature
for a vote.
"I would like to urge enough Republican support for the budget
to prevent further delay which would continue to jeopardize
California's fiscal integrity. I have assured Republicans that I
will exercise my veto power to the maximum extent possible that is,
at the same time, reasonable in view of this state's financial
problems.
"The budget as sent to the legislature by a Democrat-controlled
committee obviously would demand a massive increase in taxes from
the working men and women of California.
"I know it is extremely distasteful for Republicans to have
to vote for such a budget. However, I suggest they do so only to
get the budget passed and the state away from the brink of disaster."
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PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-2-71
#393
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has approved federal
OEO grants to the Economic Opportunity Council of San Francisco and
the Los Angeles South Central Multi-purpose Health Service Center, in
Watts.
The grant to the San Francisco agency is for $2,627,801 for
funding through September 30.
Funding for the Los Angeles center, through December 31, 1971,
amounts to $1,230,700.
The Economic Opportunity Council of San Francisco is responsible
for local OEO-funded neighborhood and housing services, along with
youth and economic development programs for the poor.
The Watts Multi-purpose Health Center serves ambulatory patients
in the South Central Los Angeles area.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVEl )R
MEMO TO TH. PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-2-71
#394
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
July 5, 1971
through
July 11, 1971
Monday, July 5
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, July 6
Office appointments.
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, July 7
10:30 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, July 8
Office appointments.
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, July 9
Office appointments.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, July 10
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - LOS Angeles
Sunday, July 11
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califo ia
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-3-71
#395
The following items have been blue-pencilled by Governor Reagan:
Item 18
For support of the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal and
Judicial Council. I reduce this item from $8,775,741
to $8,425,000. (Reduction: $350,741)
I am approving this item at the level originally proposed
in my budget. The courts have sufficient administrative
flexibility to meet work load needs.
Item 60
For support of the Commission on California State
Government Organization and Economy (Little Hoover Commissic
I reduce this item from $53,000 to $50,564. (Reduction:
$2,436)
I have reduced this item to eliminate funds for a salary
increase for the executive secretary.
Item 62
For support of the Military Department. I reduce this
item from $4,152,938 to $4,112,938. (Reduction: $40,000)
I have eliminated the augmentation for security fencing
at Camp San Luis Obispo. Funds included in my budget
already meet the highest priority security problems of
the Department.
Item 61
For support of California Commission on Interstate
Cooperation. I reduce this item from $115,530 to
$110,730. (Reduction: $4,800)
I am eliminating funds proposed for operating expense and
travel. Any expenses incurred, other than California's
share, to the Council of State Government must come from
other sources.
Item 65
For support of Public Utilities Commission. I reduce this
item from $6,970,057 to $6,500,000 by reducing paragraph
(a) Personal Services from $10,996,639 to $10,536,971 and
paragraph (b) Operating Expenses and Equipment from
$2,047,343 to $2,036,954. (Reduction: $470,057)
The level of expenditure which I am approving is consistent
with the original budget and provides sufficient resources
for the Commission to meet its responsibilities efficiently
and effectively.
Item 78
For support of increases in compensation for judges. I
reduce this item from $820,144 to $100. (Reduction:
$820,044)
In a time of great financial stress, employees generally
must forego a salary increase. It would be unfair to
grant one segment of public service an increase while not
granting it to others.
Item 92
For support of Department of Commerce. I reduce this item
from $1,501,827 to $1,274,676 by reducing paragraph (a)
Personal Services from $1,198,430 to $1,087,608 and
paragraph (b) Operating Expenses and Equipment from
$309,397 to $193,068. (Reduction: $227,151)
I have eliminated the augmentation for the public
education in science and industry program. I believe
this is sufficient to meet the essential needs of this
program.
Item 95
For support of State Athletic Commission. I reduce this
item from $192,800 to $152,800. (Reduction: $40,000)
I have eliminated the legislative augmentation and returned
this item to a level consistent with the present require-
ments of the program. If there are future requirements
for this program they can be considered within the
regular bill process.
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Item 111
For su ort of State Board of Guiae Dogs for the Blind.
I reduce this item from $5,000 to $2,600. (Reduction:
$2,400)
I have eliminated the legislative augmentation and reduced
this item to an amount sufficient enough to continue the
program at the current level of service.
Item 173
For support of California Highway Patrol. I reduce this
item from $132,476,890 to $131,625,940 by reducing
paragraph (a) Personal Services from $110,033,581 to
$109,182,631. (Reduction: $850,950)
I am eliminating the $850,950 included to provide uniform
allowances since to grant such a benefit to only one
group of employees would be clearly ineqitable.
Item 191
For support of State Lands Division, Department of
Conservation. I reduce this item from $1,620,800 to
$1,520,800 by reducing paragraph (a) Personal Services
from $2,151,874 to $2,101,874 and paragraph (b) Operating
Expenses and Equipment from $522,259 to $472,259.
(Reduction: $100,000)
This General Fund augmentation is not essential to the
basic mission of the State Lands Division of the Department
of Conservation.
Item 214
For support of Department of Water Resources (flood control
projects). I reduce this item from $4,500,000 to $4,000,000
Reduction: $500,000)
This item provides State reimbursement to local jurisdictions
for the costs of lands, easements, and rights-of-way
related to authorized flood control projects. The
$4,000,000 appropriation level is considered sufficient
to meet the needs for projects currently authorized under
State law. Local participation in flood control projects
is essential before any added projects may be considered.
Item 279
For transfer by State Controller to the Teachers'
Retirement Fund. I reduce this item from $98,000,000 to
$20,000,000. (Reduction: $78,000,000)
The State Teachers' Retirement Fund has sufficient
resources available in contingency reserve funds, which
when added to this appropriation are sufficient to main-
tain retirement benefits. These reserve funds are by law
available for contingency purposes. We have determined
that the contingency of adverse actuarial experience is
a factor which must be recognized. The board of administra-
tion has authority to insure that benefit payments will be
made in an orderly and timely manner.
Item 80.1
For State Employee Salary Increase Fund. I eliminate this
item. (Eliminated: $43,525,000)
This year marks the first time since I became Governor
that state employees have been asked to forego a general
salary increase. Inthe past four years, state employees
have received salary increases totaling 21 percent plus
merit salary increases and improved fringe benefits
greater aggregate total than in any previous comparable
period. In fact, twice during the previous administration
(1962-63 and 1964-65), the state did not provide across-
the-board general salary increases.
This is an unusual year, one which requires that we face
up to hard fiscal realities. The relationships we have
developed jointly with state employee organizations have
already resulted in improved employee benefits, including
premium pay for overtime, night shift differential, an
improved retirement plan, unemployment insurance coverage
for state employees, added employee health benefits, and
a "meet and confer" procedure which I established by
executive order to permit employees and their spokesmen to
confer directly with my representative.
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Item 80.2
For University salary increases. I eliminate this item.
(Eliminated $18,030,000)
In addition to the reasons I have cited in Item 80.1,
salaries in the University remain in the top 5 percent of
all universities in the country. At a time when the
resources of these same universities, as well as those of
this State, are strained, further salary increases cannot
be granted.
Item 80.4
For California State Colleges salary increases. I
eliminate this item. (Eliminated $21,130,000)
In addition to the reasons I have cited in Item 80.1, at
a time when State resources are strained, no additional
salary increase can be granted.
Item 263
For support of Department of Education. I reduce this
item from $11,065,000 to $5,065,000. (Reduction:
$6,000,000)
I have reduced funds for the Duffy-Moscone Family
Nutrition Education and Services Act of 1970 since
increased Federal funding will enable the program to
expand dramatically to meet child nutrition needs in the
schools. Last year, the State received approximately
$33 million in federal funds. It is anticipated that in
1971-72 the State will receive approximately $60 million
for child nutrition programs in California schools.
Item 263.5
For support of the master teacher program, Department of
Education. I eliminate this item. (Eliminated: $150,000)
Legislation now before the legislature carries an
appropriation for this same purpose.
Item 270.1
For transfer by the State Controller from the General Fund
to the State School Fund. I eliminate this item.
(Eliminated: $100,000,000)
I have eliminated this item inasmuch as there has been no
clearly demonstrated need for additional funds nor any
identification of the benefits which may be expected.
Item 273
For support of special elementary school reading
instruction programs and Project SHARE pilot tutoring
programs, Department of Education. I reduce this item
from $18,835,000 to $18,360,000. (Reduction: $475,000)
I have reduced this item to the amount originally budgeted.
Funding for the SHARE program can satisfactorily be
accomplished within budgeted funds by means of special
legislation now before the legislature.
Item 273.5
For Mathematics Improvement Program, Department of
Education. I eliminate this item. (Eliminated: $925,000)
This program has not shown the results necessary to
warrant continued funding.
Item 274
For support of Children's Centers, Department of Education.
I reduce this item from $21,750,000 to $19,750,000.
(Reduction: $2,000,000)
I find it possible to reduce this item inasmuch as additional
resources will become available for this program through
the use of State and local in-kind matching funds.
Item 277
For assistance to public libraries, Division of Libraries,
Department of Education. I reduce this item from $1,800,000
to $800,000. (Reduction: $1,000,000)
I have reduced the funds in this item in order to assure
that funds are available for higher priority programs in
public education.
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Item 278.5
For support of summer vocational and technical education
programs, Department of Education. I eliminate this item.
(Climinated: $71,000)
I have eliminated this item in the absence of positive
results from previous expenditures for this program.
Item 284
For research in conversion of sea water, University of
California. I reduce this item from $334,900 to $308,100.
(Reduction: $26,800)
This level of budget finances the planned University
program.
Item 285
For research in dermatology, University of California.
I reduce this item from $100,000 to $92,000. (Reduction:
$8,000)
This level of budget finances the planned University
program.
Item 293
For support of State Scholarship and Loan Commission. I
reduce this item from $22,853,000 to $20,000,000.
(Reduction: $2,853,000)
This program has grown from 5.7 million dollars in 1967-68
to 20 million dollars for 1971-72. The number of awards
in this same period has increased from 6,902 in 1967-68
to 21,509 in 1971-72. This represents a quadrupling of
funding for the program over a four-year period.
Item 229
For transfer to the Health Care Deposit Fund to provide
for Medical Assistance Program expenditures. I reduce
this item from $734,877,719 to $597,097,750 and reduce
the County Option Program limitation from $65,000,000 to
$35,000,000. (Reduction: $137,779,969)
I am reducing this appropriation to reflect the most recent
cost estimates for implementation of the Medi-Cal Reform
Plan. I am also reducing the County Option Program
limitation to the amount originally budgeted. This
appropriation is consistent with the legislature's
appropriation for welfare. It is within the power of the
Administrative and Legislative branches to provide meaning-
ful reform for this program.
Item 242
For support of Department of Mental Hygiene. I reduce
this item from $19,888,465 to $16,360,075 and I am
eliminating the restrictive language requiring me to
continuously operate all state hospitals during 1971-72.
(Reduction: $3,528,390)
By reducing admissions to DeWitt and by accelerating the
placement of patients into community facilities, the
Department will be able to operate the hospital within the
funds I have proposed. With the continuing decline in
state hospital population, it is neither economical nor
desirable from the patients viewpoint to continue
operating all the hospitals. The current excess bed
capacity will enable us to care for patients in the most
up to date facilities available within the system.
I have eliminated two Protestant Chaplain positions leaving
each state hospital with one such position. With the
continuing decline in state hospital population there is
no justification for retaining more than one Protestant
Chaplain at each facility.
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Item 242 (continued)
I have also deleted the following language from Item 242
which limits the availability of any funds for any hospital
on the condition that all hospitals will be continuously
open and accepting admissions for the entire fiscal year:
"Provided, that the funds appropriated by this item shall
be available only if all of the following hospitals are
continuously open during the 1971-72 fiscal year and
operated by the state and are accepting admissions:
Agnews State Hospital
Atascadero State Hospital
Camarillo State Hospital
DeWitt State Hospital
Mendocino State Hospital
Metropolitan State Hospital
Napa State Hospital
Patton State Hospital
Stockton State Hospital
Fairview State Hospital
Pacific State Hospital
Porterville State Hospital
Sonoma State Hospital."
This limitation is an infringement upon my constitutional
authority as a violation of the separation of powers; it also
destroys my constitutional right to reduce or eliminate an
item of appropriation.
Item 243
For support of Department of Mental Hygiene. Program for
the Mentally Retarded. I reduce this item from $84,485,873
to $83,983,873 and I am eliminating the restrictive language
requiring me to continuously operate all state hospitals
during 1971-72. (Reduction: $502,000)
The budget I submitted to the legislature in February in-
cludes funds for 160 new nursing staffing positions. This
represents the third increment of a 5-year plan toward
reaching 100 percent of SCOPE staffing standards. The addi-
tion of these positions together with the continuing decline
in state hospital population will allow the department to
reach 91 percent of the standard in 1971-72. In keeping
with the 5-year plan, we will attain 100 percent of standard
by June 30, 1974, without an additional augmentation in
1971-72.
With the continuing decline in state hospital population
within the system, it is neither economical nor desirable
from the patient's viewpoint to continue operating all the
hospitals. The current excess bed capacity will enable us
to care for patients in the most up to date facilities avail-
able within the system.
I have also deleted the following language from Item 243
which limits the availability of any funds for any hospital
on the condition that all hospitals will be continuously
open and accepting admissions for the entire fiscal year:
"Provided, that the funds appropriated by this item shall
be available only if all of the following hospitals are
continuously open during the 1971-72 fiscal year and opera-
ted by the state and are accepting admissions:
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Item 243 (continued)
Agnews State Hospital
Atascadero State Hospital
Camarillo State Hospital
DeWitt State Hospital
Mendocino State Hospital
Metropolitan State Hospital
Napa State Hospital
Patton State Hospital
Stockton State Hospital
Fairview State Hospital
Pacific State Hospital
Porterville State Hospital
Sonoma State Hospital."
This limitation is an infringement upon my constitutional
authority as a violation of the separation of powers; it
also destroys my constitutional right to reduce or eliminate
an item of appropriation.
Item 244
I have deleted the following language from Item 244 which
limits the availability of any funds for any hospital on
the condition that all hospitals will be continuously open
and accepting admissions for the entire fiscal year:
"Provided, that the funds appropriated by this item shall be
available only if all of the following hospitals are con-
tinuously open during the 1971-72 fiscal year and operated
by the state and are accepting admissions:
Agnews State Hospital
Atascadero State Hospital
Camarillo State Hospital
DeWitt State Hospital
Mendocino State Hospital
Metropolitan State Hospital
Napa State Hospital
Patton State Hospital
Stockton State Hospital
Fairview State Hospital
Pacific State Hospital
Porterville State Hospital
Sonoma State Hospital."
This limitation is an infringement upon my constitutional
authority as a violation of the separation of powers; it also
destroys my constitutional right to reduce or eliminate an
item of appropriation.
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Item 276
For publishing, purchasing and shipping free textbooks
(Department of Education). I reduce this item from
$18,342,666 to $17,828,000. (Reduction: $514,666)
I have reduced this item by eliminating funds for
supplementary social science textbooks and for the
distribution of basic social science textbooks to
institutions other than public schools for grades 5 through
8 which are lower priority public school textbook uses.
Item 282.1
For support of University of California medical education
programs. I reduce this item from $5,000,000 to
$4,022,230. (Reduction: $977,770)
I have reduced this item but retained funds for the support
of the medical education programs at County operated
hospitals for Davis and Irvine Medical Schools. The need
for the $977,770 has not been sufficiently demonstrated.
Item 282
For support of University of California. I reduce this
item from $342,753,205 to $332,017,965. (Reduction:
$10,735,240)
In making this reduction I have maintained the planned
level of the University program. We are accepting the
reimbursements and related revenues approved by the
legislature in this item to fund items 282.1 and 282.5.
Item 232
For support of Department of Human Resources Development.
I reduce this item from $5,243,893 to $3,743,893.
(Reduction: $1,500,000)
The same level of service may be provided from the amounts
budgeted in the service center areas with the influx of
Federal ly funded positions, increases in the WIN program
and increased rehabilitation service. This reduction is
consistent with our attempts to provide centralized
services within the newly reorganized HRD.
Item 248
For assistance to counties for services to physically
handicapped children. I reduce this item from $14,480,400
to $13,280,400. (Reduction: $1,200,000)
The treatment item as reduced provides a $300,000 increase
for treatment over 1970-71. Estimated family repayments
are increased $600,000 to reflect the adoption of a
revised repayment schedule.
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Item 288
For support of Trustees of the California State Colleges and
the California State Colleges. I reduce this item from
$334,823,129 to $315,660,159. (Reduction: $19,162,970)
Nonfaculty Reclassifications
$530,000
This item can be financed by salary savings
which become available when positions are
vacated.
Center for Technological Education
75,000
This pilot project has served its purpose and
should be carried on within regular instructional
resources if desired by the Trustees.
Faculty Recruitment
100,000
Recruitment activities can be carried on within
the allotment for administrative travel.
Instructional Television Program
400,000
Progress has been very nominal, and expenditures
should be deferred until institutional and
faculty resistance are overcome.
Frederic Burk Laboratory School
387,104
This school is basically a district laboratory
school and should be financed by local sources.
Relations with Schools
134,000
This function of improving student articulation
from high schools and other collegiate institutions
can be carried on by administrative and admissions
personnel in the colleges.
Faculty Positions
11,130,000
Faculty positions are deleted in order to start
the return to the policy of having full-time
faculty teach 12 weighted teaching units in
regularly scheduled classrooms and laboratories.
International Program
225,000
The State College program should be coordinated
with those of other educational institutions for
greater economies and an increased proportion of
expenses for overseas educational experiences
should be contributed by the students rather than
the general taxpayer.
State Financial Aids
1,500,000
This program provides a new level of financial
aids never before funded by the state; federal
funds for this same purpose are being increased.
Educational Opportunity Program
2,472,546
Federal congressional action indicates that
increases are being made on a national basis
that will provide additional financial aids
to needy students.
Master of Social Work Program
290,000
Changes in teaching methods are being studied
which should increase the effectiveness of this
high cost program. With the reduced demand for
MSW degrees, the amount budgeted should be
sufficient.
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Item 288 (Continued)
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Foreign Student .uition
1,919,320
The Trustees of the California State Colleges
have the authority to increase reimbursements
out of foreign student tuition.
Item 291
For support of Board of Governors of the California Commun-
ity Colleges. I reduce this item from $7,677,064 to $4,309,57
(Reduction: $3,367,490)
I have reduced the funds for the Extended Opportunity Pro-
gram to the amount proposed in the original budget. The
legislative augmentation is not necessary because additional
federal funds will be available in 1971-72. The funds for
federal student financial aid programs (EOG and Work-Study)
were substantially increased by Senate Bill 659 passed by
Congress on July 1, 1971.
Item
301.5 For capital outlay, Trustees of the California State Colleges.
I hereby eliminate the General Fund appropriation of
$6,893,000. (Reduction: $6,893,000)
I consider continuing support for state operations of
higher priority than capital outlay projects until utiliza-
tion of existing physical facilities is improved.
Item 305
For capital outlay, Department of Navigation and Ocean
Development. I reduce this item of $430,000 to $230,000 by
eliminating the construction of launching ramp at Crescent
City. (Reduction: $200,000)
I am eliminating this project because it is not of suffi-
cient priority in the building program of the Department
of Navigation and Ocean Development.
Item 255
I have deleted the following appropriation language contained
in Item 255 which attempts to establish an open-ended
appropriation for the state's share of public assistance
programs:
"Provided further, that in order to avoid any resultant and
inequitable increase in local property taxes, the Controller
shall approve expenditures in those amounts made necessary
by changes in either caseload or payments, or both, which
are in excess of Budget Bill estimates for 1971-72 and funds
necessary to make such expenditures are hereby appropriated
in addition to any other appropriation contained in this
item."
An open-ended appropriation is one which authorizes the
appropriation of expenditures of an unlimited amount. I
hereby reduce Item 255 to $573,573,000, which is all that is
needed to provide the necessary funds for this program if
the welfare reform legislation previously submitted is
enacted in a timely manner.
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Item 216
For sup )rt of the Department of a rections. I reduce
this item from $106,577,534 to $105,777,534. (Reduction:
$800,000)
$800,000 in federal funds have been included in the
Department of Rehabilitation's budget to fund a behavioral
program in the Department of Corrections. I am leaving
$200,000 in this program to provide the necessary General
Fund support. I am also deleting the following language,
which constitutes an appropriation, from Item 216:
"provided further, that it is the intent that any
savings in this item be used by the department to
distribute the inmate population under its jurisdiction
on the basis of one inmate per cell."
Any savings which result from the closure of conservation
camps or from efficiency in the operation thereof, should
be available for expenditures to be determined by officials
of the Department of Corrections, who are responsible by
law for making such determinations. There may be needs
other than single cells for inmates during the 1971-72
fiscal year within our correctional institutions which merit
a higher priority. Department officials must retain the
flexibility to use any operational savings for programs
which they deem to fall within the highest priorities.
Item 220
For support of the Department of the Youth Authority. I
reduce this item from $50,681,933 to $50,537,933.
(Reduction: $144,000)
$144,000 in Federal funds has been included in the Departme
of Rehabilitation's budget to fund a behavioral program
involving the Department of the Youth Authority. This
augmentation is unnecessary. I am leaving $36,000 in the
budget to provide the necessary General Funds for this
program.
Item 238
For support of Department of Industrial Relations. I
reduce this item from $22,883,392 to $21,702,374.
(Reduction: $1,181,018)
I am reducing this item to the amount proposed in the
Department of Industrial Relation's budget for 1971-72,
which adequately provides for the total program require-
ments of that Department.
REDUCTIONS
Investigation, Mediation, Arbitration
and Adjustment of Labor-Management
and Public Transit Agency Disputes
-124,124
Elements
A. Investigation, mediation and
arbitration of labor-management
disputes
-122,286
B. Adjustment of transit agency
disputes
-1,838
The Prevention of Industrial Injuries
and Deaths to California Workers
-18,510
Elements
C. Safety for employees while using
or repairing elevators, escalators
or aerial tramways
-44,010
Reimbursements pertaining to
Element C
+25,500
Promulgation and Enforcement of Labor
Standards for Women and Minors and
Enforcement of Equal Pay Law for Women
and Men
-146,189
Elements
B. Enforcement of labor standards for
women and minors and Equal Pay Law
for women and men
-146,189
Enforcement of Laws relating to Wage
Payment Conditions of Employment,
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Licensing and Adjudication
-162,969
Elements
B. Labor Law Enforcement
-162,969
Promotion, Development, and Administration
of Apprenticeship and Other on-the-job
Training
-453,492
Elements
A. Promotion, development and
administration of California
apprenticeship
-453,492
Labor Force Research and Data
Dissemination
-105,004
Elements
A. Work injury statistics
-77,326
B. Industrial relations research
-27,678
The Prevention and Elimination of
Discrimination in Employment and
Housing
-170,730
Elements
A. Prevention and elimination of
discrimination in employment
-170,730
Item 239
For support of Department of Mental Hygiene. I reduce
this item from $6,753,700 to $6,603,700. (Reduction:
$150,000)
The department has the staffing and resources necessary to
update SCOPE staffing standards without additional funds.
Item 240
For support of Department of Mental Hygiene. I reduce this
item from $6,770,202 to $4,948,193. (Reduction:
$1,822,009)
Training funds in the Department have been reduced consistent
with the decline in patient population. Research funds
have been reduced in order that the limited resources
available can be channelled for direct care of patients
through the maintenance of nursing staffing levels at
100 percent of SCOPE standards. I have approved augmenta-
tions of $126,500 for Drug Abuse Research at Mendocino,
$71,400 for Sexual Behavior Research at Atascadero, and
$45,900 for Alcoholism Research at Patton State Hospital.
Item 245
For support of Department of Public Health. I reduce this
item from $10,347,867 to $10,044,507. (Reduction:
$303,360)
Increased effort by the Federal government under the newly
enacted Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970, Public
Law 91-596, will permit a reduction in the state level of
this program.
Item 252
For assistance to local agencies in the establishment
and operation of mental retardation diagnostic and counciling
centers. I reduce this item from $20,947,653 to $20,647,653.
(Reduction: $300,000)
Federal funds available under Public Law 91-517 (Developmental
Disabilities Act) will be sufficient to provide for the
operation of a regional center in each of the 13 mental
retardation planning areas.
Item 259
For cost of Special Social Services. I reduce this item
from $6,053,385 to $5,923,385. (Reduction: $130,000)
The need for social work stipends is no longer justified
in view of the current availability of qualified social
work professionals.
Item 299.1 For capital outlay, University of California. I hereby
eliminate the General Fund appropriation of $13,207,000.
(Eliminated: $13,207,000)
The portion of this item to be funded from the Education
Fee income will continue to be available for the highest
priority projects requested by the University.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-3-71
#396
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"I am about to sign a budget which I have reduced by the largest
amount in California's history. It will provide all the essential
services I have asked for and will not require a tax increase if the
legislature will act on the still unresolved issues.
"At this point, I would like to again note that Republican
legislators who voted for the budget did so with great reluctance and
only after I assured them I would use my constitutional authority to
veto the increased spending proposals advanced by the Democrats.
"I regret having to ask state employees to forego a cost-of-living
salary increase. I appreciate their continuing to work even though
the state was without a budget. I hope they will understand that a
salary increase would have required new and additional taxes on our
citizens who are already hard hit by unemployment and reduced earnings.
"As you know, the legislature sent me a budget that totalled a
record $7.3 billion. I have vetoed more than half a billion dollars
from that spending plan. That too, is a record.
"But even though I have signed this budget, and even though I have
cut more than half a billion dollars from it, I regret to say the state's
budget problems are still not solved.
"The budget as reduced by my vetoes is still beyond expected
revenues. Curiously, the legislature appropriated $573.5 million for
welfare---a figure that is at least $108 million less than needed
without complete welfare reform, while they added $140 million to our
Medi-Cal reform budget figure of $589 million.
"If the Legislature--after six months--will now agree to total
welfare reform and major changes in Medi-Cal, the gap between revenue
and expenditures will be lessened substantially.
and
"The imposition of payroll withholding and welfare / Medi-Cal reform,
will
mean that taxes need not be raised. Any other minor shortages could
easily be covered by the funding transfers we requested in February.
"Without these changes, the legislature will be forced to raise
taxes in the neighborhood of $500 million.
"I do not think that is the responsible solution in these trying
times.
"Instead, I propose to meet with the legislative leadership next
week to see if we can agree to reform welfare and Medi-Cal. At the
same time, we will again attempt to reach a bipartisan agreement on tax
reform, including meaningful property tax relief and payroll withholding.
"If this can be accomplished in a spirit of cooperation, the tax-
payers of California will be the ones who have gained a victory. And
our budget problems can be solved without increasing taxes."
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BUDGET FACTS
General Fund
Special Fund
Total
Budget as submitted to Legislature
$4,875,436,284
1,863,215,491
6,738,651,775
Budget as passed by Legislature
5,385,890,818
1,907,582,765
7,293,473,583
Budget as reduced by the Governor
4,904,454,507
1,885,395,520
6,789,850,027
General Fund Budget Items Vetoed
-481,436,311
Other Budget Items Vetoed
-22,187,245
Total amount Vetoed
-503,623,556
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-3-71
#397
Following are additional items blue-pencilled by Governor
Reagan:
Item 106
For support of State Board of Dry Cleaners. I reduce this
item from $318,970 to $40,000.
I have eliminated the legislative augmentation since it is
inconsistent with the provisions of Reorganization Plan 2
of 1971.
Item 253
For support of Department of Rehabilitation. I reduce this
item from $7,368,098 to $6,882,098 by reducing paragraph
(a) Vocational Rehabilitation of the Disabled from
$7,218,029 to $6,732,029.
The Department of Rehabilitation can by re-evaluating
existing resources maximize federal funds to rehabilitate
welfare recipients. Therefore, I am reducing this item by
$250,000.
In addition, I am reducing this item by $236,000 relating
to Behavioral Disorder programs. These programs will be
conducted through the Department of Corrections and the
Youth Authority with the necessary General Funds I have
provided in those two departments.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Release:
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-6-71
#398
Governor Reagan today announced he has vetoed the following
bill:
AB 569 - McAlister
Requires school districts to furnish every
classified employee and his supervisor with twice
yearly statements showing the employees' sick
leave and vacation accrual. In addition, school
districts must inform each classified employee who
is paid on an hourly basis his rate of pay at least
once a month.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I do not believe that school districts should be
compelled to provide classified employees with
their hourly rate of pay on a monthly basis when
such information is now readily available to such
employees. The bill mandates added cost to school
districts, without a corresponding benefit to the
employees concerned.
Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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Contact:
Paul eck
445-4571
7-7-71
#399
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Mrs. Marie H. Fish,
a housewife of 72 Plaza Way, Chico, to a four-year-term on the board
of the Third District Agricultural Association (Silver Dollar Fair,
Chico).
Mrs. Fish has served on the board since 1955. She is a
Republican.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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a
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#400
Governor Ronald Reagan today named three new members to the
State Hospital Advisory Board.
They are William A. Heideman of South Pasadena, Marall H. Smith
of Orinda and Henry Z. (Hank) Arklin of Pacoima.
Heideman, administrator of the Hollenbeck Home in Los Angeles,
lives at 440 Camino Verde, South Pasadena. He will represent nursing
home administrators, succeeding Richard J. Footner of Orange, whose
term has expired.
Smith, who lives at 65 Scenic Drive, Orinda, is administrator
of the Oak Park Convalescent Home in Pleasant Hill. He will represent
nursing home administrators, succeeding Edward Crotta of Saratoga,
whose term has expired.
Arklin, a contracto{and former Assemblyman from the 14th
District, will serve as a public member of the board, He lives at
13219 Osborne Street, Pacoima. He succeeds Cass D. Alvin of Downey,
whose term has expired.
All three mem are Republicans.
Board members serve four-year-terms and are paid expenses.
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445-4571
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#401
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of
four new members and the reappointment of four other members to
District Forest Practice Committees.
New members of the committee for the North Sierra Pine Forest
District are Robert E. Eiler, Jr., a packing company operator in
Gazelle and John B. Rice, Jr., an Alturas cattle rancher, both of
whom will represent the public on the committee.
Eiler, who lives at 813 Lane Street, Yreka, and Rice,
whose address is P. O. Box 1726, are both Republicans.
Reappointed to the committee were Sidney D. Haynes, a Burney
rancher, and Elmer D. Zimmerman of Weed, a logging company superintendent
Haynes, whose address is Box 104 Burney, has served on the
committee since 1953. He represents private timber owners and operators.
Zimmerman, who lives at 458 Main Street, Weed, has served on the
committee since 1953. He represents private timber owners and operators.
Both are Republicans.
New membersof the committee for the Coast Range Pine and Fir
Forest District are Conrad L. Cox, 3 Tan Oak Drive, Ukiah, an
attorney, who will represent the public, and David M. Dillon, 3170
Brian Court, Arcata, a bank manager, who also will represent the public.
Reappointed were Albert L. Fearrien, a rancher of P. O. Box
371, Hydesville, who has served since 1960 as representative of
farmers and timber owners, and James P. van Loben Sels, manager of
the Southern Pacific Company's land department,
1420 Montgomery
Street in San Francisco, who has served since 1965. He represents
private timber owners.
All four men are Republicans.
Committee members serve for four years and receive necessary
expenses.
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#402
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Mrs. Lee Richmond,
a San Diego secretary, as a public member of the Collection Agency
Advisory Board in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Mrs. Richmond, who is employed by Ryan Aeronautical Company,
lives at 535 Alameda Boulevard, Coronado. She is a widow with two
children. She is a Republican.
Members of the board serve for four years and receive per
diem and travel expenses.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul F
k
445-4571
7-7-/1
Clem Eller, Pacific Coast marketing director for United
States Savings Bonds, U. S. Treasury, will present a special flag
to Governor Ronald Reagan at 11:15 a.m. today in the Governor's
Office.
The flag presentation to the governor for his "continuing
support of the U. S. Savings Bonds program" will kick off a savings
bond campaign for state employees.
Photo coverage is welcome.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Cont act:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-7-71
#403
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"I am pleased to announce that, following conversations between
the Simpson Timber Company and Resources Secretary Livermore, the company
has agreed to withdraw its permit application for clear cutting 145,000
acres of forest in northwest California.
"In fairness to the Simpson Timber Company, who have been most
cooperative, the entire text of their letter follows:
"Honorable Ronald Reagan
Governor of California
State Capitol
Sacramento, California
Dear Governor Reagan:
The recent approval by the State Board of Forestry of our application
to harvest timber on our properties in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties
under an alternate reforestation plan has resulted in evident
misunderstanding of our long-range forestry objectives.
We are confident that what we have proposed is sound forest
management. It is based on experiences Simpson has gained in 81 years
of practicing forestry. Alternate forestry plans are provided for by
the laws of California and we have complied with these laws.
However, it appears there has not been sufficient communication of
the facts among interested authorities and organizations. We want the
facts to be known.
rescind
Therefore, we are requesting that the Board of Forestry review its
action of June 30 whereby it approved this alternate plan. After such
recision, we intend to resubmit a plan at hearings which we will request
the Board of Forestry conduct in a manner allowing full public discussion
and review.
We hope that further clarification within a time period not
detrimental to our employees and customers will result in the public
confidence so vital to the future of forestry in California.
Signed: Henry K. Trobitz, Manager
California Timberland Division
Simpson Timber Company
Arcata, California"
Returnship
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Be
445-4571
7-7-71
MEMO TO THE PRESS
CORRECTION
Release #403:
The fourth paragraph of the letter from the Simpson Timber Company
quoted in Release $403 should read as follows:
"Therefore, we are requesting that the Board of Forestry rescind its
action of June 30 whereby it approved this alternate plan. After such
recision, we intend to resubmit a plan at hearings which we will request
the Board of Forestry conduct in a manner allowing full public discussion
and review."
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PB
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul
ck
445-4571
7-,-71
#404
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 101 - Mobley
Makes the violation of provisions relating to
(Chapter 259)
weight limitations by vehicles upon highways, except
in cases of weight violations where the amount of
excess weight is less than 4,501 pounds, a mis-
demeanor, rather than an infraction. The bill
also reduces from $55 to $50, the fine for violation
of weight limitations when the amount of excess
weight is in the range of 4,251 - 4,500 pounds.
AB 236 - MacDonald
Requires notification of the Department of Motor
and
Vehicles of actual mileage, as indicated by vehicle's
LaCoste
odometer, of every motor vehicle under 6,001
(Chapter 260)
pounds subject to registration under the Vehicle
Code which is transferred or sold by its owner,
transferred by sale, lease or otherwise, by a
dealer, excluding sale or transfer by such a dealer
to another dealer of new unregistered vehicle. The
bill specifies that records of the department concern
ing mileage of motor vehicles shall be open to
inspection by the public.
AB 369 - Gonsalves
Eliminates the present cigarette tax exemption for
(Chapter 261)
donations of samples of five or less cigarettes in
a packet. It requires donors of cigarettes to
collect applicable cigarette taxes from donees and
makes the cigarette taxes that must be collected
by distributors and donors of cigarettes a debt
owed by them to the state.
AB 715 - Fenton
Requires issuance of reciprocity certificate
(Chapter 262)
authorizing practice as a physician and surgeon to
individuals possessing specified qualifications
who successfully complete a designated examination.
AB 784 - Fong
Provides a procedure whereby a local agency
(Chapter 263)
formation commission in a county other than the
principal county in which a special district is
located may exercise exclusive jurisdiction for
any particular proposal over such district.
AB 1035 - Dunlap
Requires that classified school employees be
(Chapter 267)
furnished written information regarding class
specification, salary data, assignment or work
location, duty hours, and work week, at the time
of initial employment and at each change in
classification.
AB 1464 - Knox
Revises the provision regarding mailing of notice
(Chapter 268)
by a county surveyor of the filing of a proposal
for change of district boundaries and requires
notice to be given to a city, county, or district
the boundaries of which contain any portion of the
lands described in the proposal and to each person
who has filed a written request for special notice.
AB
1570
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Johnson, H. Requires that coldpack cheese food be sold in
(Chapter 264)
prepackaged formlabeled in accordance with
specified provisions of the Agricultural Code,
rather than requiring such food be sold in the
original unopened package.
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AB 2782 - Knox
Authorizes a board of supervisors to conduct and
(Chapter 265)
complete a district annexation, detachment or
consolidation after local agency formation
commission approval if the affected district fails
to act after such approval.
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te
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
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#405
Governor Ronald Reagan today vetoed the following bills:
AB 217 - Ralph
Revises the geographical zones for horse racing
days from two to three zones (northern, central
and southern). The bill also increases the number
of weeks of quarter horse racing in the southern
zone from 13 weeks in 1971 to 25 weeks per year in
1974.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The complex problems facing the horse racing
industry today will not be resolved by the enact-
ment of AB 217. There is a real need for
comprehensive legislation affecting all elements
of the racing industry in California. I recommend
that the legislature consider such legislation at
an early date.
Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
SB 319 - Kennick
This bill revises the geographical zones for
horse racing days from two to three (northern,
central and southern). It also increases the
number of harness racing days in the southern
zone.
REASON FOR VETO
"The complex problems facing the horse racing
industry today will not be resolved by the
enactment of SB 319. There is a real need for
comprehensive legislation affecting all elements
of the racing industry in California. I recommend
that the legislature consider such legislation at
an early date.
Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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Sacramento, Califor.ia
Contact:
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445-4571
7-8-71
#407
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that Dr. Raymond A.
Fleck, an environmental toxicologist at the University of California
at Davis, has been named to head a state pilot project to monitor
pollutants in the Monterey Basin.
He will direct the Monterey Basin Pilot Monitoring Project,
which will focus the knowledge and experience of researchers from
federal, state and local government, scientific institutions and
private firms on the environmental problems of the basin.
Governor Reagan in announcing the pilot project last March
said the Monterey Basin and its offshore waters were selected for
the study because it is a small, well-defined geographical area that
will allow researchers to measure and trace all potential sources of
pollution: agricultural, industrial and municipal.
Dr. Fleck was chosen to head the project by the secretaries of
Resources, Human Relations, and Agriculture and Services Agencies.
Other members of the project committee will include Cecil
Martin, environment specialist, who will represent the Resources
Agency, Henry J. Ongerth, chief of Sanitary Engineering in the Berkeley
Bureau of the Department of Public Health, who will represent the
Human Relations Agency, and Dr. Gordon F. Snow, special assistant to
the Director of Agriculture, who will represent the Agriculture and
Services Agency.
Dr. Fleck said the immediate goals of the project are to gain
experience with a monitoring system that will reveal the movement
and fate of harmful substances in the environment.
Dr. Fleck said that the next six months will be spent in
defining goals and planning a program to achieve them. The actual
monitoring will be carried out during calendar year 1972, and a project
report will be issued early in 1973.
The work will be done with existing resources, he said.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-9-71
#408
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Dr. J. M. Stubblebine,
a San Francisco psychiatrist, as Director of California's Department
of Mental Hygiene, subject to Senate confirmation.
Stubblebine, 50, Program Chief of Community Mental Health
Services, San Francisco Department of Public Health, succeeds Dr. James
J. Lowry in the $32,500 per year post. Lowry retired July 1.
A founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Marin
Mental Health Foundation, Stubblebine also served as Chief of Psychiatry
at San Francisco General Hospital from 1966 to 1970. Previously, he
was engaged in private practice in Marin County and also was Director of
the Psychiatric Unit at Ross General Hospital and Psychiatric Consultant
to Marin County Juvenile Hall.
Stubblebine was graduated from the University of Oregon in
1947 with a B. S. degree and received his medical degree from the school
in 1951. After receiving speciality training at Langley Porter Institute
in San Francisco from 1952 to 1956, he served on the staff as chief of
Day and Night Service, He also has served as a member of the Board of
Directors of Community Health Program and faculty member, Crime and
Corrections Workshops for the past four years.
Since 1962, Stubblebine has been an assistant clinical
professor, Department of Psychiatry, at the University of California
Medical Center. He also has served on the clinical faculty at two
theological seminaries in the bay area, and is the author of numerous
works on mental retardation and community mental health.
Stubblebine lives at2433 Stockton Street, San Francisco.
He is a Democrat.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
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445-4571
7-9-71
#409
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced a new coastal highway
planning policy to prevent unwarranted intrusion by the State highway
system on California's coastline.
Under the policy, the State Department of Public Works will
permit only minimal freeway construction along a coastal zone that runs
the length of the state.
The zone begins at the shore and extends inland to approximately
the highest elevation of the nearest coastal mountain range. In areas
where broad plains join the ocean, the zone will be extended at least
a mile inland.
The plan will encourage traffic to use inland highways and
consideration will be given to the construction of only those roads
necessary for recreational and business travel, the governor said.
The new policy will also encourage and support uses which
are dependent on the coastal zone's natural resources; enhance and
conserve environmental qualities while minimizing disruption to stable
ecological systems and will harmonize as nearly as possible with
natural forms, he said.
In addition, it calls for maintaining the widest options for
future generations; will assist in preserving unique scientific,
educational and recreational opportunities, and will emphasize safe
business and recreational driver enjoyment of the coast rather than
the speed of vehicular movement.
The Governor said the new policy will also make local government
a "working partner" with State Department of Public Works to implement
the plan and seek creative solutions to transportation problems.
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#410
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
July 12, 1971
through
July 18, 1971
Monday, July 12
Office appointments.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Tuesday, July 13
a.m.
Trustees Meeting, Los Angeles.
Afternoon
Depart for Jackson, Wyoming for Western Governors'
Conference.
Overnight - Wyoming
Wednesday, July 14
Welfare Panel - Western Governors' Conference.
Return to Sacramento
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, July 15
2:45 p.m.
Taping of Bill Buckley's "Firing Line, KCRA.
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, July 16
Regents' Meeting - San Francisco.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, July 17
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, July 18
Overnight - Sacramento
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RELEASE:
NDAY A.Ms.
Sacramento, Califor.
July 11, 1971
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-9-71
PLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE
RELEASE.
#411
Governor Ronald Reagan today urged the State Senate to adopt a
comprehensive series of administration-sponsored welfare reform amendments
which would enable the state to prevent a tax increase this year.
He said rejection of the amendments would amount to "a vote for a
tax increase" and would "constitute a stunning blow to the people who are
depending on us, their elected representatives, to reform wefare so that
it truly helps those who need it most at a cost we can all afford."
The governor also announced he has sent a letter to all county
supervisors urging their support for his welfare reform program "to stop
the automatic annual imposition of new state and local taxes caused by
runaway welfare costs." He again pledged "that there will be no cost
shifts to county government and the local property taxpayer as a result
of our reforms."
Governor Reagan said he was "distressed to learn that the Democrat
--on a strictly partisan political vote--
members of the Senate Finance Committee Thursday rejected/the amendments
which would have produced meaningful welfare reform.
"In doing so," he said, "the Democrat members of the committee chose
to turn their backs on the fervent hopes, indeed demands, of the working
men and women of the state for significant and truly meaningful welfare
reform."
The governor said the bill (SB-796, Beilenson) the committee passed
out and sent to the Senate floor "is not welfare reform. Without the
amendments we have offered, it actually allows many of the present anbuses
and inequities of the welfare system to continue.
"Moreover," he said, "the bill as approved by the committee not only
denies the $108 million in legislative and related administrative savings
to the state which the administration's amendments would have made possible
but, even worse, it piles on up to $86 million in additional state general
fund costs during the current fiscal year."
The governor said the total difference between the increased state
to the state that
costs of the Beilenson bill and the savings/the administration's proposed
amendments would provide adds up to nearly $200 million.
"This is an intolerable burden which the taxpayers would be forced
to bear. Our citizens have a right to expect better from their elected
representatives. They want and deserve true welfare reform---not schemes
to perpetuate higher and higher welfare costs which can only end in
bankrupting the state treasury.
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"In turning down the amendments we have offered, the Democrat
majority on the committee rejected out of hand more than 40 specific
legislative proposals to reform welfare, he said.
"It would be tragic if the full membership of the Senate were to
allow the partisan intransigence of the majority party members of the
Finance Committee to prevail, he added.
Governor Reagan said, "For this reason I expect that the same
welfare reform amendments which were rejected by the committee will be
offered to the full Senate next week.
"The people of California will be watching. For, rejection of true
welfare reform on the floor of the Senate will constitute a vote for a
tax increase on the people," he warned. "It is that simple."
In his letter to the supervisors, the governor said:
"I am greatly concerned with what appears to be a misunderstanding,
at least among some, about the reasons behind my veto of certain budget
items relating to welfare and Medi-Cal.
"My sole objective in taking that action is simple and straight-
forward: to insure that California's already-overburdened local property
taxpayers are not required to pay any more for welfare.
"As you know, I have repeatedly assured you that our welfare reform
program will not shift costs to the counties. I am sure you also are
aware that the legislature appropriated an unlimited amount to fund
welfare this fiscal year.
"It was my intention in deleting certain appropriation language
to reduce this infinite number of dollars (which was also infinite for the
counties' share) to the figure required to fund a totally reformed system.
Without reform, this leaves a $108 million deficiency.
"I am hopeful that you will support our efforts to stop the
automatic annual imposition of new state and local taxes caused by
runaway welfare costs. I am sure we all share the same goal of making
government more efficient while simultaneously taking care of those who
truly need public assistance.
"It is unfortunate that some of the paid staff of the County
Supervisors Association of California have chosen to misrepresent to you
and to the public my intent. One staff member, who called my budget
action a 'bleak day for the local property taxpayer, is sorely
misinformed,
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"For it indeed will be a 'bleak day' for all taxpayers unless we
join in reforming a system we all acknowledge to be in a complete mess.
"If my action in vetoing budget language helps to focus attention
on the fiscal calamity that is sure to come without complete welfare
reform, then it will have served its purpose. I hope you will understand
this and join with me in stopping the ever-increasing spiral of higher
and higher property taxes caused by uncontrolled welfare spending.
"Again, I pledge to you that there will be no cost shifts to county
government and the local property taxpayer as a result of our reforms.
I ask for your understanding and support."
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Department of Social Welfare
ly 9, 1971
THE 48 SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE WELFARE REFORM
MEASURES BY SENATOR CLAIR BURGENER (SB 544, 545 and 546)
AND SB 796 (BEILENSON) AS AMENDED ON JULY 8, 1971
2 of Senator Burgener's welfare reform proposals are not contained in
SB 796 (Beilenson), as amended on July 8, 1971. SB 796 (Beilenson) also
contains six new concepts which would significantly add to the cost of
welfare in California. The following is a detailed comparison of the 48
substantive provisions which differ in these two proposals:
1. Maximizing Grants
Section 3 of SB 545 (Burgener) would delete the word "maximum" from
Section 10500 of the W&I Code which presently provides that: "Every
person administering aid under any public assistance program ... shall
endeavor at all times to nerform his duties in such a manner as to
secure for every person the maximum amount of aid
"
The Burgener
measure would require those administering welfare to only secure that
amount of aid to which a recipient is entitled. SB 796 (Beilenson)
would restore the maximum aid language and would require those administer-
ing welfare to secure maximum aid for each recipient. This is very
pertinent when compared to Section 28 of SB 796 (Beilenson), which
provides a new maximum amount of aid which is substantially higher than
the aid presently being granted under California's AFDC Welfare Program.
2. Treatment of Income
Section 11008 of the W&I Code presently provides that in computing the
amount of aid, earned income of a recipient shall not be considered to
he maximum extent permitted by federal law. Section 9 of SB 545
Burgener) would provide that earned income would be considered, except
where federal law requires that it be disregarded. SB 796 (Beilenson)
would restore the existing language of 11008. This difference is quite
significant when attempting to reduce aid to those recipients with higher
income. SB 796 (Beilenson) would assure that every regulation change
directed at the higher-income recipient would be fully challenged in the
courts. Presently, one Superior Court has held that this application of
Section 11008 is unconstitutional and constitutes a gift of public funds.
Another Superior Court has upheld the provision. Until the California
Supreme Court rules on this issue, SB 796 (Beilenson) would assure
complicated legal challenges concerning the regulatory reform measures
proposed by the State Department of Social Welfare.
3. Equitable Anportionment
Section 27 of SB 545 (Burgener) provides for a new system of equitably
distributing funds to welfare recipients. Under current law, the more
destitute recipients receive the least benefits. Under SB 545, appropriated
funds would be distributed in an equitable manner to assure that grants to
the needy will significantly increase without any additional burden on
the California taxpayers. This redirection and redistribution would
result in a significant reform of California's welfare reform program
and will redirect goals toward the better distribution of funds, while
giving full consideration to the interests of both the recipient and
the taxpayer. SB 796 (Beilenson) would delete this major reform and
rather than redistribute funds would increase grants and substantially
increase the cost of California's welfare program at the expense of the
California taxpayer.
4. Payment of Full Needs
Section 28 of SB 796 (Beilenson) will eliminate the only fiscal controls
that presently exist and would require payment of the full need of every
recipient. "Need" is stated to be established pursuant to Section 11452
of the W&I Code. That section defines "need" and includes food, clothing,
housing, medical and dental. In addition it includes any "items verified
as needed, including household operation, education and incidentals,
recreation, personal needs, and insurance." In other words, full need
includes any need that can be established, without limit. In requiring
the payment of full needs, this provision opens up a potential substantial
increase in the cost of welfare in the costly AFDC program.
5. $70 Maximum Grant Per Person (Inserted by Amendments of June 21, 1971)
California has been paying approximately $53.00 per person in the Aid to
Families with Dependent Children program. During June 1971, $59 per
person was paid. This amount is determined after income has been deducted,
and is only an average. SB 796 (Beilenson) provides that the average grant
comnuted statewide shall not exceed $70.00 per month per recipient, plus
cost-of-living adjustments from January 1, 1971. When combining this
feature with the maximizing grant language (see Item No. 1, above), the
elimination of present fiscal limitations (see Section 28 of SB 796
(Beilenson)), nlus the broad language of Section 11452 which defines needs,
he $70.00 maximum assures that what is described to be a maximum would
.ctually become a standard of aid. If this occurs, the financial difference
between SB 796 (Beilenson) as amended July 8, 1971, and the Burgener
reform measures would approach $600 Million annually in state, county and
federal costs.
6. Verification of Eligibility
Section 15 of SB 545 (Burgener) would provide that eligibility must be
verified before an applicant receives assistance. SB 796 (Beilenson)
does not contain this reform and would allow the granting of assistance
prior to the verification of eligibility.
7. Stenfathers
Sections 22, 23, 24 and 29 of SB 544 (Burgener) would provide reasonable
means to enforce present law concerning stepfathers and which provides
that a wife's community property interest in her husband's earnings shall
be available for support of the wife's children who otherwise would be on
welfare. The Legislative Analyst in its 1971 AFDC Financial Character-
istics Survey Report indicates that 4.8% of the AFDC families involve a
stepfather earning on the average of $606 per month and are not
contributing. SB 796 (Beilenson) would completely eliminate this
significant stepfather reform.
8. Confidentiality - Franchise Tax Board Records
Section 1 of SB 546 (Burgener) would allow inspection of the welfare
r ipients' or the responsible relatives' income tax returns. SB 796
(beilenson) would delete this reform. The January 1970 Fraud Review
Panel Report indicates that during 1969, $27,958,908 was improperly
paid to welfare recipients because of their failure to fully report
their income.
9. Cost and Attorneys' Fees in Absent Parent Support Actions
Section 5 of SB 544 (Burgener) would provide for the award of attorneys'
fees and court costs to the prevailing party in absent parent support
actions. SB 796 (Beilenson) eliminates this reform.
10. Award of Attorneys Fees and Court Costs to the County
Section 6 of SB 544 (Burgener) would allow the court to award attorney
fees and court costs in absent parent support proceedings brought by a
county. SB 796 (Bcilenson) would delete this reform.
11. Attachment of Earnings
Sections 11 and 28 of SB 544 (Burgener) would allow the attachment of the
absent parent earnings in any court action brought by the District Attorney
or the County Department to enforce the support obligation of children
receiving welfare aid. SB 796 (Beilenson) would delete this reform.
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Child Protection
Section 16 of SB 544 (Burgener) would provide that a non-needy responsible
relative's liability for child protective services to a child placed in a
county institutions shall commence from the time the child is removed
from the home or taken into custody. SB 796 (Beilenson) would delete
this reform.
13. Child Protection - Legal Services
Section 17 of SB 544 (Burgener) would provide that in child protective
situations, the cost of legal services shall be borne by the parents, if
financially able, unless the child is taken into custody unlawfully.
This reform is deleted by SB 796 (Beilenson).
14. Child Protection - Social Services
Section 18 of SB 544 (Burgener) provides for the non-needy responsible
relative's liability for the reasonable value of any public social
services rendered to the ward or dependent child including the services
of social workers. This reform is not contained in SB 796 (Bcilenson).
15. Prohibition against Liens
Section 19 of SB 544 (Burgener) would delete the prohibition against
aid granted to a recipient of public assistance constituting a lien
upon any property of the recipient. This reform is not contained in
SB 796 (Beilenson).
16. Lien on OAS Program - ($20,000 exemption)
ection 20 of SB 544 (Burgener) would provide for a lien on the estate
of an OAS recipient in an amount equal to the aid granted to the
recipient or an amount equal to the value of the estate exceeding
$20,000, whichever is less. SB 796 (Beilenson) does not contain this
reform.
17. Enforcement of Support
Section 26 of SB 544 (Burgener) would shorten the time for referral to
the District Attorney of absent parent cases, would provide for use of
liens in the event of default and would give the District Attorney the
authority to request immediate referral of any absent parent case.
SB 796 (Beilenson) does not contain these provisions.
18. Support of Aged Parents
Section 30 of SB 544 provides for a realistic contribution scale
concerning OAS recipients and their children. SB 796 (Beilenson) as
amended on June 9 significantly reduces this scale.
19. Obligation of the Deserting Parent
Amendments were submitted for SB 544 (Burgener) which would obligate a
deserting parent whose family is granted aid to repay the value of such
aid to the county and which would require the District Attorney or, by
greement with the county, the state to enforce such obligation. SB 796
bes not contain such provision and this amendment would insert it in
SB 796.
20. Application for Hearings
Section 6 of SB 545 (Burgener) would reduce the time in which a recipient
can request an administrative hearing to 90 days rather than one year.
In view of the current recipient efforts to swamp the Department with
their requests for hearings, it is essential that a more realistic time
period for filing recipient claims be established. SB 796 (Beilenson)
does not contain this needed reform.
21. Restitution for Under Payments
Section 8 of SB 545 (Burgener) would reduce the period for claiming
under payment from four years to one year immediately following
discovery. A one-year period from the time of discovery is more than
reasonable for filing such a claim. SB 796 (Beilenson) does not
contain this reform.
22. Burden of Proof Where Property Exceeds Allowable Amounts
Section 8 of SB 545 (Burgener) would place the burden of proof on the
recipient, rather than on the county, where it is found that the
recipient was possessed of property in excess of the amount permitted
by law. SB 796 (Beilenson) does not contain this reform.
23. Casual Income and Inconsequential Resources
Sections 9 and 34 of SB 545 (Burgener) would provide that in computing
income of a recipient, income shall include the value of casual income
and inconsequential resources or assistance. SB 796 (Beilenson) would
delete this reform.
24. Work-related Expenses
Section 10 of SB 545 will allow the Department to establish a reasonable
allowance for work-related expenses. SB 796 (Beilenson) would add a
deduction for payroll deductions. Since the $30 of the federal $30 and
one-third income disregard requirement was intended to cover such payroll
deductions, this addition contained in SB 796 (Beilenson) is an
unnecessary duplication and would deprive the Department of the power
to implement a desirable cost savings.
25. Interest on Savings Accounts
Section 12 of SB 545 (Burgener) would provide that interest on savings
:counts shall be considered as income of the recipient. SB 796 would
delete this reform.
26. Free Board and Lodging
Section 13 of SB 545 (Burgener) would delete the prohibition against
deducting the value of free board and lodging of not more than one
month from the grant. SB 796 (Beilenson) does not contain this
reform.
27. Income-producing Property
Section 16 of SB 545 (Burgener) would not allow a recipient to own
income-producing property apart from his home. SB 796 (Beilenson) does
not contain this reform.
28. Multinle Dwelling Units
Section 17 of SB 545 would delete the provision which allows recinients
to own multiple dwelling units. SB 796 does not contain this reform.
29. Personal Property Reserves
Sections 18 and 21 of SB 545 would require a recipient to use 75% of
the allowable personal property reserve before being entitled to an
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ditional special needs allowance. SB 796 does not contain this reform.
30. Maximum Value on Personal Property
Section 19 of SB 545 would place a maximum ceiling on the personal
jewelry, personal effects and home furnishings for adult aid category
recipients. SB 796 does not contain this reform.
31. Limit Eligibility to Age 18 Where Attending College
Section 20 of SB 545 would limit eligibility to age 18 where the recip-
ient is attending college. SB 796 does not contain this reform.
32. AFDC Personal Property Maximum
Section 22 of SB 545 would place a maximum value limitation on personal
property owned by an AFDC recipient. Present law fully exempts the
value of clothing, furniture, houschold equipment including musical
instruments and other recreation items, foodstuffs, fuel, personal
effects and jewelry, exempted earned income of a child, and a child's
accumulations saved for future education, preparation for future employ-
ment or other future identifiable needs. Section 796 does not contain
this reform.
33. Lumn-sum Income
S. tions 23, 33 and 35 of SB 545 would require all lump-sum income to be
considered income for all purposes. SB 796 does not contain this reform.
34. Annual Income
Section 24 of SB 545 would provide that no aid shall be paid because of
unemployment, which is temporary in nature, if the annual gross income
of the family equals or exceeds its annual need standard. SB 796 does
not contain this reform.
35. Deletion of Maximum Participation Base (MPB)
Section 26 of SB 545 would eliminate the MPB, which is an artificial
maximum grant limitation, resulting in higher-income recipients having
a disproportionately higher percent of their unmet needs paid by
welfare (in addition to the federal work incentive). SB 796 also would
repeal the MPB, but would not replace it with a reasonable fiscal
limitations such as would make the welfare system accept fiscal
responsibility.
36. Flat Grants
Section 29 of SB 545 (Burgener) would allow the Department to establish
a uniform statewide minimum basic standard of adequate care consolidated
on the basis of statistical averaging. This will facilitate the
adoption of a flat standard for each family group from which its income
would be deducted in order to determine the allowable amount of aid.
This extremely significant reform is not contained in SB 796 (Beilenson).
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Duplicate Grants
Section 32 of SB 545 would prevent the duplication of aid to multiple
grant families or where there is shared housing and other needs by
more than one family group. SB 796 does not contain this reform.
38. Over Payments
Section 6 of SB 546 would extend from two to six months following the
month of payment for a county to seek an adjustment for an over payment
to the recipient. The existing two-month period is entirely unrealistic.
SB 796 does not contain this reform.
39. Fraud
Section 6(d) of SB 546 would allow a county one year following the
discovery of a fraudulent over payment in which to adjust grants.
Such adjustment would be permitted concurrently with any suit for
restitution. SB 796 does not provide for this reform.
40. Negotiation of Warrant Only by Payee
Section 7 of SB 546 would provide that only the named payee may negotiate
a public assistance warrant. SB 796 does not contain this reform.
4.
Uniform Penalties for Fraud
Section 11 of SB 546 would make the penalties for welfare fraud coincide
with nonwelfare criminal penalties for fraud. These penalties would not
be applicable to a child under age 18. SB 796 does not contain this
reform.
42. Civil Penalties for Fraud
Section 11 of SB 546 provides comprehensive provisions for civil redress
where a person knowingly obtains aid or service where there is no
entitlement thereto. Restitution, nlus liability for punitive damages
where appropriate, is provided regardless of whether a criminal complaint
is also filed. These penalties would not be applicable to a child under
age 18. SB 796 does not contain this reform.
43. Redetermination of Eligibility to be Under Penalty of Perjury
Section 12 of SB 546 would provide that the certifying of eligibility
in connection with an annual redetermination of eligibility shall
contain a written declaration that it is executed under penalty of
perjury. SB 796 does not contain this reform.
44. Additional Work Program
S
tion 15 of SB 796 (Beilenson) would require the Director to develop
special work projects, submit a plan by the 1972 session and have
employed no less than 25,000 persons by July 1972 at no less than the
80 hours per month at $2.00 per hour. These payments would be in
addition to the welfare grants and represent a substantial increase
in cost of the welfare program. A more desirable and less costly
approach is to provide public service employment whereby a recipient
makes a contribution to the improvement of his community commensurate
with the amount of his welfare grant and the number of hours it would
take him to have earned such monies apart from welfare.
45. Family Planning Service
Section 16 of SB 796 (Beilenson) would require family planning service
to be offered to all former, current or potential recipients of child
bearing age. The Department will be required to make an annual report
to the Legislature. Section 40 of SB 796 (Beilenson) would appropriate
$1 Million of state general funds to be available for this program.
46. Exemption of Student Loans and Grants
Section 21 of SB 796 (Beilenson) would exempt loans or grants to under-
graduates from the State Scholarship and Loan Commission from considera-
tion in determining eligibility or the amount of a welfare grant.
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Emergency Assistance
Section 32 of SB 796 (Beilenson) would require each county department
to provide emergency assistance to any family having children under
age 21. This would expand welfare in California and would nullify
recent regulation changes implemented by the State Department of Social
Welfare. This would result in a significant increase in welfare costs.
48. Elimination of Relative's Responsibilitv for Health Care (Abortions)
Section 39 of SB 796 (Beilenson) would require Medi-Cal to finance
abortions for non-needy pregnant minors and would eliminate the liability
of a non-needy parent for reimbursement to the State.
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-12-71
#412
Governor Ronald Reagan has submitted a sweeping reorganization
plan to the legislature for environmental protection that sets up "a
high command to direct the war against pollution on every front."
In announcing the plan, the governor said "all of our pollution
problems, whether they concern air, water or solid waste, are related.
Unless we attack and conquer them on a united front, we will fail to
pass on to our children their rightful legacy of a clean land, clean
air and clean water."
The plan creates a new Department of Environmental Protection
to operate within the Resources Agency which will be re-named the
Environment and Resources Agency.
Under the reorganization, functions of the State Water Resources
Control Board, the Air Resources Loard and state agencies concerned with
solid waste management will come under the wing of the new department.
"By this action we are strengthening our ability to move
quickly to control and prevent pollution problems before we reach the
point of no return," the governor said.
In addition to marshalling anti-pollution forces under a single
command, the plan will reduce overhead and administrative expenses
and avoid overlapping and duplicating efforts, he said.
The plan would also bring the San Francisco Bay Conservation
and Development Commission and the state's interest in the California
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the bi-state Tahce Regional Planning
Agency in the new department for fiscal and personnel purposes, with the
state's position with respect to Tahoe and BCDC continuing to be expressed
by the Secretary for Environment and Resources.
Under the direction of the Secretary for Environment and Resources
the new department will also work with the Office of Planning and
Research in developing, evaluating and updating the State Environmental
Goals and Policy Report, and will assist in developing plans and programs
for transportation, water development, open space and recreation as
they relate to the protection and enhancement of the environment.
It will also coordinate and help to develop the operation of
a state-wide environmental monitoring system to assess implications
of present growth and development trends on the environment as well as
identify potential threats to public health, natural resources and
environmental quality.
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The plan calls for a coordinated effort by state, local and
private groups in environmental research projects with the department
acting as clearinghouse between the executive and legislative branches,
state agencies and the private sector.
The Director of the Department of Environmental Protection
will be appointed by the governor, subject to Senate confirmation.
A seven-member Environmental Quality Advisory Committee
will be named by the governor to assume the functions, authorities
and responsibilities of the Environmental Quality Study Council and the
Water Quality Advisory Committee, both of which will be abolished.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-12-71
Governor Reagan will install a sign depicting
the mounting deficit caused by failure to enact
welfare, Medi-Cal and tax reform at 11:30 a.m.
today. The ceremony will take place at the State
of California display case in the corridor of the
Capitol next to the entrance to the Governor's
Office.
The press is invited.
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PE
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE:
mmediate
Sacramento, Califor. a
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-12-71
#413
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of
John R. Teerink as chief deputy director of the Department of Water
Resources.
Teerink, who has served in the post since 1967, joined the
Department of Water Resources in 1946 and participated in the planning
of the State Water Project.
He receives an annual salary of $28,332.
Teerink lives at 2020 Latham Drive, Carmichael.
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WAS
July 12, 1971
The following statement, audiotaped in his private study by
Governor Reagan, was made available to radio station news editors
(via the Governor's Office beeper machine) after 3:30 p.m. today,
July 12, 1971.
"Even though I bluepencilled a half-billion dollars from the
state budget ten days ago, it still is out of balance because we
don't yet have welfare reform, Medi-Cal reform and withholding.
"In fact, as the poster shows, the state is operating in the
red at the rate of $1.2 million a day because these reforms
which
I proposed months ago haven't been adopted.
"As of today the state has accumulated a deficit of $14,400,000
dating back to the beginning of this fiscal year, July lst. Tomorrow
that will be $5.6 million more and so on into the future. I would
be derelict in my duty if I failed to warn the people of California
that if the legislature does not act on these reforms in the next
three weeks the opportunity to balance the budget without a massive
tax increase will have been lost.
"Indeed, by the end of this month, the deficit will have grown
SO large that it cannot be made up by these reforms alone. And, if
the legislature goes ahead and takes the three-week vacation in August
as it is now planning, the direct cost to the hardworking men and
women of California will be at least $25 million in increased taxes.
"Therefore, if the legislature has not balanced the budget
either by passing these reforms, or by imposing new taxes, prior
to August 1st, and does indeed go on vacation, I will consider it
my duty to call them back into special session the next day, August 2nd,
to take up these critical matters,"
OFFICE OF THE GOVEP OR
RELEASE:
mediate
Sacramento, Califor La
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-12-71
#414
Governor Ronald Reagan today unveiled a poster in the corridor of
the State Capitol which depicts the growing deficit facing state
government caused by failure to enact welfare, Medi-Cal and withholding.
"Even though I eliminated half a billion dollars from the budget,
it still is out of balance without these reforms," the governor said.
The poster shows the state faces a daily $1.2 million deficit which
has grown to $14,400,000 since the start of the fiscal year July 1.
The governor pointed out that action must be taken quickly on the
reforms which he proposed months ago.
"Should the legislature fail to act in the next three weeks," the
governor said, "the opportunity to balance the budget without a massive
tax increase will be lost.
"At the end of this month, the deficit will be so large it cannot
be made up by the reforms alone.
"If the legislature takes its three-week vacation in August as they
are now planning, the direct cost to the taxpayers of California will
be at least $25 million.
"Therefore, if the legislature has not balanced the budget either
by passing these reforms, or by imposing new taxes, prior to August 1---
I will consider it to be my solemn duty to call them back into special
session on August 2."
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PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califory
Contact:
Paul Beuk
445-4571
7-12-71
#415
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 353 - Crown
Deletes the provision allowing the board of
(Chapter 289)
directors of a hospital district to appoint two
additional directors where the voters approve
an increase of directors, from five to seven, in
a qualifying district. The bill provides for
submission of the names of candidates for
additional directorships at the time the measure
proposing an increase in the number of directors
is submitted to voters.
AB 1186 - Badham
Removes the requirement that the Department of
(Chapter 290)
Finance approve contracts for loans made by the
Department of Navigation and Ocean Development
to local governmental agencies for boating
facilities.
AB 1374 - Johnson, R.
Changes the salaries and number of positions of
(Chapter 291)
personnel of the municipal courts in Santa Cruz
County and the Chico Judicial District.
AB 1497 - LaCoste
Repeals the provisions in the Agriculture Code
(Chapter 292)
relating to sales, production, importation and
labeling of egg products intended for human
consumption. The Federal Egg Products Inspection
Act which becomes effective July 1, 1971,
preempts the state law. The U. S. Department of
Agriculture has contracted with the California
Department of Agriculture to carry out the
inspection program.
AB 1508 - Burke
Dissolves the Talbert Drainage District in
(Chapter 293)
Orange County, subject to approval of the local
agency formation commission of Orange County,
upon adoption of a declaration of intention to
dissolve by the board of directors of the district
and filing with the Secretary of State of an agree-
ment by the City of Huntington Beach to assume all
powers, duties, and functions of the district.
AB 1532 - Hayden
Makes it a misdemeanor for anyone to remove,
(Chapter 294)
tear, mark or otherwise deface the index to the
book of affidavits of registration posted at or
near polling places with the intent to falsify
or prevent others from readily ascertaining the
name, address, or political affiliation of any
voter, or the fact that a voter has or has not
voted. The bill requires a notice of such fact
to be posted on such index.
AB 1671 - Badham
Provides for a dissolution of a highway lighting
(Chapter 295)
district upon annexation of the district to a
specified maintenance district if the board of
supervisors finds that prescribed conditions
exist.
AB 1673 - Badham
Permits a manufacturer or supplier licensed by
(Chapter 296)
the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to
lease Real property to a licensed retailer under
certain conditions. It also permits such
licensees to hold stock in corporate retail
licensees and allows retail licensees to hold
stock in corporate manufacturers and distributors
under specified conditions.
AB 1685 - Dent
Permits a county to pay the expenses of a newly
(Chapter 297)
created county service area prior to the formal
adoption of a budget under certain circumstances.
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SB 625 - Carrell
Establishes new requirements with respect to
(Chapter 285)
signs and display of licenses covering the
established place of business of an automobile
dismantler.
SB 708 - Carrell
(Chapter 286)
Deletes and re-enacts, with various revisions, the
Vehicle Code provision prescribing permissible
turns at intersections.
SB 843 - Carrell
Revises the exemption from the "slow-moving
(Chapter 287)
vehicle emblem" requirement provided for vehicles
used by highway authorities or bridge or highway
districts in highway maintenance, inspection,
survey, or construction work so that such vehicles
must be engaged in work at the job site upon a
highway.
SB 946 - Marks
Revises salaries of certain attaches of the San
(Chapter 288)
Francisco Municipal Court.
Governor Reagan also announced the following bill has been
vetoed:
AB 378 - Z'berg
Provides that State employees replacing employees
in other public jurisdictions shall receive their
rate of pay, or the rate of pay of employees
in that jurisdiction that perform the same tasks
for the jurisdiction, whichever is higher.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 378 could require a premium payment to state
employees in the event they are required to serve
in response to an appeal from local government
to meet a local emergency. The powers enabling
me to act in emergency situations are necessary
to assure the continued functioning of vital and
necessary services when the public welfare is
threatened for any reason. This authority should
not be encumbered by consideration of the
compensation to be paid state employees or by
the possible stigma of state interference in a
local public agency labor dispute.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, California
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-12-71
Because of the press of office business the governor will not
attend tomorrow's meeting of the state college trustees in Los Angeles.
He will be overnight tonight in Sacramento.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE:
mediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-13-71
#416
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 301 - LaCoste
Permits a school district governing board to
(Chapter 314)
order the drawing of a new warrant to replace a
school warrant which has become void.
AB 460 - Knox
Includes school districts within the terms "state
(Chapter 315)
department or agency" for purposes of the Insurance
Code provision relating to placing of life or
disability insurance with a particular agent, broke
or company.
AB 531 - Barnes
Extends provision for allowance to survivors
(Chapter 316)
of a member who dies after attaining minimum
retirement age to all local members of the Public
Employees' Retirement System.
AB 568 - Keysor
Provides that classified school employees laid
(Chapter 317)
off because of lack of work or lack of funds have
the right to participate in promotional examination
with a school district during the 39-month period
after layoff. The bill also extends to classified
employees of a school district not under a merit
system, certain provisions relating to layoff
and reemployment of classified employees of a schoo
district which is under a merit system.
AB 582 - Dent
Excepts from the provision granting rights to
(Chapter 318)
leave of absence, sick leave and bereavement leave
to certificated employees employed by a county
superintendent of schools and whose salary is paid
from the county school service fund those persons
who are civil service employees, merit system
employees or were elected to office. The bill
also makes applicable to such employees provisions
concerning certain rights accorded probationary
employees of school districts regarding
termination of employment.
AB 684 - Bee
Revises the Education Code provisions regarding
(Chapter 330)
the authority of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to grant yearly exemption from class
size penalty provisions to a unified school
district, to cover a pilot program of team
instruction in mathematics, as well as reading,
or both, to be conducted in elementary schools
approved by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
AB 830 - Barnes
Makes technical amendments to the Public
(Chapter 319)
Employees' Retirement Law. The bill also
modifies the definition of "industrial" as
applied to law enforcement members.
AB 1317 - Powers
Requires registered electrical and mechanical
(Chapter 320)
engineers to sign and seal plans, specifications,
reports and documents prepared by them or under
their direction.
AB 1320 - Powers
Redefines the term "responsible charge of work"
(Chapter 321)
as used in the Professional Engineers Act to
describe the nature of the services performed by
a registered engineer. The term is presently
defined as including "supervision" of engineering
projects. The bill eliminates "supervision" and
substitutes "direct engineering control."
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AB 1321 - Powers
Amends the Professional Engineers Act by adding
(Chapter 322)
a definition of "supervision of the construction
of engineering structures." This phrase is
defined as meaning "the periodic observation of
materials and completed work to observe their
general compliance with plans, specifications,
and design and planning concepts" and as excluding
"responsibility for the superintendence of
construction programs, site conditions, operations,
equipment, personnel or the maintenance of a safe
place to work or any safety in, on or about the
site of any work."
AB 1322 - Powers
Amends the Professional Engineers Act by expanding
(Chapter 323)
the authority of the Board of Registration for
Professional Engineers to grant registration in
engineering disciplines other than the ones
specifically provided for in the Act.
AB 1323 - Powers
Allows the Board for Registration for Professional
(Chapter 324)
Engineers to give credit for certain postgraduate
work and teaching experience in the case of
applicants for registration as civil engineers
as is presently allowed with respect to all other
applicants for registration as professional
engineers, and permits rather than requires,
such credit for teaching experience.
AB 1511 - Conrad
Changes the date on which appointments to the
(Chapter 325)
Republican State Central Committee must be
delivered to Secretary of State from the Tuesday
immediately preceding the Sunday in which the
first meeting is held to the tenth day preceding
such Sunday.
AB 1690 - Belotti
Provides that for purposes of assessment and
(Chapter 326)
taxation, any annexation to a fire protection
district shall be effective for the 1971-72
fiscal year and thereafter if the required
statement, map or plat was filed with the county
assessor and the State Board of Equalization on
or before January 1, 1971, and the certificate of
completion was filed with the Secretary of State
prior to February 2, 1971.
AB 1920 - Stacey
Prohibits persons from managing dispensing
(Chapter 328)
optician operations at more than one address.
AB 1692 - Belotti
Extends the time in which the certificate of
(Chapter 327)
completion of proceedings for detachment of
territory from a community service district and
from a fire protection district in an annexation
by a city may be filed with the Secretary of State.
and the time in which statements, maps and plats
may be filed with the tax or assessment levying
authority, for assessment and tax purposes for the
1971-72 fiscal year.
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SB 27 - Grunsky
Authorizes investigators employed by a district
Chapter 298
attorney or the Attorney General to possess tear
gas and tear gas weapons.
SB 65 - Carrell
Adds parents who are licensed vocational nurses to
Chapter 299
the priority list for eligibility in determining the
need of a child for childrens centers' services.
The bill gives the same priority to licensed
vocational nurses that is presently given to
registered nurses.
SB 76 - Carpenter
Provides for the appointment, compensation, employment
Chapter 300
benefits, and administration of personnel of the
Orange County Superior Court.
SB 88 - Cologne
Prohibits resort improvement districts from engaging
Chapter 301
in any activity or providing any service not already
engaged in or provided, or budgeted for, as of
July 1, 1970. Provides that whenever any activity
or service of a district is terminated, 1t: shall
not be resetivated.
SB 246 - Bradley
Requires the reporting notes of official court
Chapter 302
reporters to be delivered to the county clerk when
the reporter dies, retires, resigns, is dismissed,
or upon any other absence for more than 30 days, and
requires the reporting notes of pro tempore court
reporters to be delivered to the county clerk upon
termination of the reporter's appointment. The bill
also permits destruction of court notes after five
years instead of 10 years.
SB 335 - Short
Deletes the existing Revenue and Tax Code provisions
Chapter 303
for refund and cancellation of tax on late filed
exemptions for college, cemetery, church, exhibition,
orphanage and welfare exemptions. The bill reenacts
such provisions as a comprehensive system and limits
to $250 the amount of tax any qualifying organization
must pay.
SB 440 - Cologne
Amends the Desert Water Agency Law to permit the
Chapter 304
adoption of code laws by reference, increases the pay
of directors from $30 to $50 per meeting, and permits
the agency to retain exclusive control over water it
makes available. The bill also permits water rates
to be fixed at a rate that will repay advances made
from the agency's general fund to an improvement
district, and provides for termination of bond
issuing authority whenever advances made from an
improvement bond issue are repaid from other funds.
SB 486 - Bradley
Provides that the prohibition against the Savings
Chapter 305
and Loan Commissioner, his employees, and specified
parties who participated in reorganization, merger,
or rehabilitation of a savings and loan association
from serving as officer or employee with the
reconstituted association for two years after the
reorganization, merger, or rehabilitation applies
only to a reorganization, merger or rehabilitation
in which the Commissioner takes possession of an
association's assets or business.
SB 489 - Coombs
Prohibits any local governmental body, or any agency
Chapter 306
thereof, from conditioning the issuance of any
building or use permit or zone variance in a specified
manner.
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SB 558 - Lagomarsino
Increases the daily rate for court reporters pro
Chapter 307
tempore when they are on duty in the Santa
Barbara Superior Court.
SB 641 - Coombs
Amends the Mojave Water Agency Act to require any
Chapter 308
person who intends to drill a water well or to
divert surface water within the Mojave Water Agency
to file a notice of intention with the agency at
least 15 days prior to the commencement of
construction. Persons failing to file the required
notice will be subject to a civil penalty.
SB 663 - Bradley
Requires reserve deposits or funds on credit life
Chapter 329
insurance and credit disability insurance ceded to a
nonadmitted reinsurer to be deposited in bank
located in California in order to receive credit
in accounting and financial statements on account
of such ceded reinsurance.
SB 772 - Coombs
Authorizes the Crestline-Lake Arrowhead Water Agency
Chapter 309
to supply and deliver water to any property not
subject to agency taxes, rather than to specified
public agencies and property, at such special rates,
terms, and conditions as the agency board may
determine.
SB 840 - Cologne
Revises the procedures and conditions for issuance
Chapter 310
of callable bonds by reclamation districts,
authorizes municipal water districts to disseminate
information concerning rights, properties and
activities of the district, increases permissable
standby charges on a parcel of less than one acre
from $5 to $10, authorizes municipal water districts
to enage in the garbage collection and disposal
business, and authorizes municipal water districts
to issue bond anticipation notes where the bonds
have been approved by the people.
SB 1134 - Moscone
Provides for transfer of the Palace of Fine Arts
Chapter 311
from the Department of Parks and Recreation to the
City and County of San Francisco.
SB 1263 - Gregorio
Allows the City of Millbrae to use lands previously
Chapter 312
owned by the state for park and open spaces purposes
rather than for street and highway purposes only.
SB 1636 - Kennick
Authorizes general law cities which did not impose
Chapter 313
a property tax for the 1970-71 fiscal year to pass
an ordinance prior to July 15, 1971, rather than on
or before March 1, 1971, which would provide for
the levy and collection of the city's property tax
by the county for the 1971-72 fiscal year.
Governor Reagan also announced the following bill has been vetoed:
SB 150 - Dymally
This bill deletes the Elections Code requirement
that all proceedings at the polls be conducted in
English, and the prohibition against election
officials speaking a language other than English.
REASON FOR VETO:
The repeal of Section 14217 only adds uncertainty
to the already confused state of California's
election law. It merely would remove the current
negative prohibition in the law requiring English
to be the language used by election officials at
polling places. By failing to create anything
positive in its place to fill the void, it would
create more uncertainty as to the duties and
obligations of election officials.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-14-71
#417
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 1310 - Foran
Exempts from certain reporting requirements of
(Chapter 342)
Retirement Systems Disclosure Law a retirement
system in which all contributions are paid to state
or federal savings and loan associations doing
business in this state. The bill also grants author-
ity under specified conditions to domestic savings
and loan associations to act as trustee of specified
stock bonus, pension or profit-sharing plan and
provide for the sale of checks, including travelers
checks and money orders.
AB 1704 - MacGillivray Permits employers to pay executive, administrative
(Chapter 343)
and professional personnel once a month at the
end of the month, or not later than seven days
following the close of the pay period.
AB 1746 - Chappie
Provides that no fee for the change of address of a
(Chapter 344)
real estate licensee shall be charged where there is
no physical change in location of his office.
AB 2242 - Russell
Requires an irrigation district collector upon an
(Chapter 345)
assessment becoming delinquent to collect, in addition
to the assessments due and specified penalties and
costs, the costs of publication of the list of
delinquencies and notices.
AB 3095 - Monagan
Provides that on or after June 30, 1971, no state
(Chapter 346)
officer or employee shall be deemed to have a break
in service or to have terminated his employment, for
any purpose, solely because of the failure to enact a
Budget Bill for the 1971-72 fiscal year prior to the
end of the preceding fiscal year. The bill also
provides that any officer or employee who entered
state service between June 30, 1971, and the effective
date of the Budget Bill for the 1971-72 fiscal year
shall be considered a state officer or employee from
the time he entered state service until that date,
notwithstanding the failure to enact a Budget Bill
for the 1971-72 fiscal year prior to his entry into
service.
SB 90 - Mills
Provides that the Department of Public Works and
(Chapter 332)
the California Toll Bridge Authority shall consider
the inclusion of bicycle and pedestrian access on all
future toll bridges except the Southern Crossing.
SB 248 - Coombs
Sets forth as an additional basis for setting aside
(Chapter 333)
a conviction that defendant has been discharged prior
to termination or probation or a court has determined
that such relief should be granted.
SB 454 - Kennick
Extends the scope of the California Highway Patrol's
(Chapter 334)
safety regulations to include any combination of a
two-axle truck and pole, pipe or logging dolly which
exceeds 40 feet.
SB 511 - Carrell
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to cancel
(Chapter 335)
driving school operators and driving instructor
licenses issued in error or voluntarily surrendered and
permits immediate reapplication at no fee.
SB 664 - Bradley
Amends, adds and repeals various sections of the
(Chapter 336)
Insurance Code, consolidating, without change in amount
fees for variable annuity agents' applications and
licenses into general fee provisions for production
agencies. The bill also provides that specified
provisions relative to inactivation and reactivation of
underlying life agent's license shall apply to a
variable annuity agent's license.
SB 116 - Deukmejian Makes state employees in the positions of "institution
(Chapter 331)
fire chief" or "institution fireman" safety members of
the System
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SB 665 - Bradley
Exempts all insurers, rather than only life insurers,
Chapter 337
from the prohibition against admitted insurer's
officers, directors, trustees, and any person having
authority in management of insurer's funds, from
certain insider financial dealings with the insurer
if such officers, directors, or trustees do not own
more than 5 percent of stock of any corporation with
which the insurer is entering into transaction.
SB 667 - Bradley
Requires surplus line brokers to file on or before
Chapter 338
May 1, rather than March 1, a sworn statement of all
business transacted during last preceding calendar
year. The bill also requires that each surplus line
broker, on or before May 1, rather than July 1 of
each year, to pay the gross premiums tax on business
done by him in the preceding calendar year.
SB 721 - Carpenter
Requires the Insurance Commissioner to mail, on or
Chapter 339
before March 15 of year of expiration of a permanent
license of an insurance production agency, a renewal
application for such license to the licensee or the
employer in the case of a solicitor. The bill also
deletes the requirement that the Insurance Commissione
notify insurance production agencies of impending
license expiration and eliminates the requirement to
maintain a list of such production agencies so
notified.
SB 1183 - Burgener
Eliminates provisions limiting authority of
Chapter 340
irrigation districts to provide for sewage disposal
to districts meeting specified qualification as to
size of district and purpose for which water is
supplied by district.
SB 1233 - Bradley
Makes reciprocals subject to all of the provisions
Chapter 341
of the Insurance Code, except for listed exemptions.
Governor Reagan also announced the following bill has been vetoed:
SB 469 - Alquist
Requires that the administration and maintenance
portions of the annual State Highway Budget be subject
to Department of Finance and legislative approval
and that the remaining portions of the budget be
subject to the approval of the California Highway
Commission. It also removes the monetary limitations
relating to the funds which may be spent for
administration, maintenance and landscape maintenance.
REASON VOR VETO:
"There appear to be several inherent defects in this
legislation. It would leave the California Highway
Commission responsible for preparing the capital
outlay portion of the State Highway Budget without
the authority to assure that such work is adequately
supervised. The bill would also create serious
timing problems in that the state highway capital
outlay program must be undertaken six months prior
to the time when the portion of the budget covered
by this bill would be established. My action,
however, is based primarily upon the belief that
enactment of SB 469 and bills like it at this time
would be premature. I recognize that the State Highway
Budget procedure should be substantially overhauled.
For more than a year now, a multidisciplinary task
force has been engaged in an intensive review of the
existing highway budget process. It appears that this
group will be in a position to make recommendations
for changes prior to January 1, 1972, at which time
it is anticipated that substantive changes will be
recommended to the legislature," the governor said.
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The following statement, attributable to a spokesman for
the governor, was given to AP, UPI and the L.A. TIMES at
approximately 6:30 p.m., July 13, 1971.
"Today's amendment to SB 796 purports to reduce state welfare
costs for this year by $23 million. Even if this claim is accurate
it would still leave the state at least $85 million short of the
amount needed to operate welfare with no reform at all. The so-called
job training provision still in the bill could add up to $50 million
to this deficit.
"Enactment of the Burgener bills would prevent the massive tax
increase which SB 796 in its present form will require."
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Imm
Late
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-14-71
#418
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that school board members
and school district superintendents across the state will soon be
receiving a summary report prepared by an education task force he
commissioned last year aimed at helping them make sure their school
dollars are being well spent.
The summary report (attached) is based on a lengthy study conducted
by the task force during the past year which will be available to the
public by August 1 at a nominal charge of $1.00 to cover printing and
mailing costs.
The governor said the California School Boards Association will
mail the summary report to its members and school district superintendents
The task force was headed by James S. Dwight, chief deputy director
of the State Department of Finance and Assistant to the Governor John
T. Kehoe.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-15-71
#419
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Redwood City attorney James B. O'Grady to the Palo Alto-Mountain View
Judicial District Municipal Court.
O'Grady, 46, a Democrat, will receive an annual salary of
$30,724. He succeeds Judge William Ingram who has been elevated
to the Santa Clara County Superior Court.
A practicing attorney in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties
since 1953, O'Grady is a partner in the Redwood City firm of Berlin,
O'Grady and Goodman. Previously he served as an Assistant United States
Attorney in San Francisco.
O'Grady is a graduate of the University of the Pacific and
earned his law degree at Northwestern University's School of the Law
in Chicago.
He and his wife have five children. The family home is in
Palo Alto.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Imme Late
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-15-71
#420
Governor Ronald Reagan of California and
Elliot L. Richardson, secretary of the Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare, met today in
Sacramento.
Governor Reagan and Secretary Richardson
both termed the meeting "a useful and informative
working session."
In the meeting, with members of their
respective staffs, discussion was focused both
on the provisions of the national Welfare Reform
Bill (H.R. 1) recently passed by the House of
Representatives and on the provisions of Governor
Reagan's proposals for California welfare reform.
and
The governor/the secretary stated that "this
was not a decision-making meeting, but rather a
frank and detailed briefing on the proposals for
welfare reform now pending both in Washington and
in Sacramento."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immedia
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-15-71
#421
Governor Ronald Reagan today named five members to the Consumer
Advisory Council in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
The council, created by 1970 legislation, will conduct studies
on consumer protection and will recommend laws to protect and promote
the interests of consumers.
Members will include John S. Lyons, a San Diego labor official;
Robert S. Bell, a Los Angeles business executive; Joseph Barish, a
San Francisco executive; James W. Carroll, an Oakland broadcaster and
civil rights leader, and Mrs. A. Jean Boyd, a Girl Scout official.
Lyons, 60, a San Diego civic leader who has a long career in
service and fraternal activities, is Secretary-Treasurer of the
Teamsters Union, Local 36. He will represent labor on the council. He
lives at 3756 Aliso Court, Bonita. He is not registered with a
political party.
Bell, 56, assistant to the president of Teledyne, Inc., is
active in numerous local, state and national civic, service and
professional organizations including the public affairs committee of
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the education and statewide welfare
committees of the California Chamber of Commerce. He will represent
business on the council. He lives at 10428 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.
He is a Republican.
Barish, 41, Director of Public Affairs for the Del Monte
Corporation, will also represent business. He also is active in numerous
civic, service and professional organizations including the Consumers
Committee of the California Chamber of Commerce and the Consumers
Issues Committee of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He lives at 156 Bay
View Avenue, Belvedere. He is a Republican.
Carroll, 56, vice president of Sonderling Broadcasting Corporation
a veteran newspaperman and broadcaster, will represent voluntary consumer
agencies on the council. He has been active in the San Francisco Sales
and Marketing Executives Association, the United Taxpayers and Voters
Union,, a West Oakland consumer group, and the Rental Housing Advisory
Committee of the City of Berkeley. He is a Democrat. He lives at
2315 Parker Street, Berkeley.
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Mrs. Boyd, 37, Director of Field Services for the San
Gorgonio Girl Scout Council in Colton, will also represent voluntary
consumer agencies. She is a member of the Consumer Panel of America, the
Urban League Guild, the Association of Girl Scout Professional Workers
and other civic and service groups. She lives at 2968 Lincoln Drive,
San Bernardino. She is a Republican.
Senator Alfred Alquist of San Jose will represent the State
Senate on the council. An Assembly representative on the council
will be announced.
Council members will receive necessary expenses.
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RR STATEMENT
GIVEN BY TELEPHONE TO PACIFIC SHIPPER - JULY 16, 1971 WAS
"I fully support the action of the Western Governors' Conference
in asking President Nixon to use every tool at his command to end the
longshoremen's strike. It is essential not only to economy of our state
but to the many thousands of people whose jobs are affected, including
t he longshoremen and their families, that à swift and honorable solution
be found for this prolonged dispute."
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO.
RELEASE: Immedi.
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-16-71
#422
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Westminster Municipal Judge James K. Turner to a newly-created Orange
County Superior Court and the appointment of Whittier attorney Jerrold
S. Oliver in the North Orange County Judicial District Municipal Court,
Judge Turner, 42, will receive an annual salary of $33,396. He
was named to the West Orange County Judicial District Municipal Court
in 1969 by Governor Reagan.
He is a former Deputy District Attorney of Orange County
a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles and has practiced law
in Beverly Hills and Corona Del Mar.
Judge Turner is active in numerous civic and professional
legal organizations. He and his wife Myra have four children. The family
home is in Laguna Beach.
Oliver, 45, will receive an annual salary of $30,724. He
succeeds Judge Kenneth E. Lae who has been elevated to the Orange County
Superior Court.
Oliver has practiced law in Southern California since 1957 and
since March 1963 has maintained his office in Whittier.
He is a graduate of Oregon State University at Corvallis and
earned his law degree from the University of Southern California.
Active in civic affairs, he has served as a member of the
Whittier Parks and Recreation Commission and as Honor Club President of
Sertoma International.
Oliver is a member of the State Bar of California, the Orange
County Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the
Whittier Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the American
Arbitration Association.
He is married and has two sons. His home is in La Habra.
Both appointees are Republicans.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-16-71
#423
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of
Robert W. Sigg, chairman, and Claude Minard to four-year-terms on the
Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, subject to Senate confirmation.
Swigg of 5412 Raimer Way, Carmichael, has served on the board
since 1967. As chairman he receives an annual salary of $28,875.
Minard of 1385 Dana Avenue, Palo Alto, has also served on the
board since 1967. He receives an annual salary of $27,500.
Both men are Republicans.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-16-71
#424
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
July 19, 1971
through
July 25, 1971
Monday, July 19
2:00 p.m.
Brief remarks to Consumer Fraud Task Force, Governor's
Council Room.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, July 20
Office appointments.
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, July 21
Office appointments.
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, July 22
Office appointments.
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, July 23
Evening
San Diego RSCC Fund Raiser, Town and Country
Convention Center, San Diego.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, July 24
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, July 25
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediat
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-16-71
#425
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Norman F. Aye, Santa Rosa civic leader, and the reappointments of Edgar
E. Carriger of Santa Cruz, Alfred H. Merrill of Arcata, and Conrad L.
Cox of Ukiah to four-year-terms on the District Forest Practice
Committee, Redwood Forest District.
The governor also announced the appointment of Floyd A.
Ross, Jr., vice president of the Savings Bank of Ukiah, as a public
member of the District Forest Practice Committee for the Coast Range
Pine and Forest District.
Ross, a Republican, will represent the public on the
committee. He lives at 2 Fairview Court, Ukiah.
Aye, 35, manager of the Pacific Telephone Company in Santa
Rosa, will represent the public on the committee. He is active in
numerous civic and service organizations, including the Sonoma County
Farm Bureau, the Redwood Empire Association and the Golden Empire Boy
Scouts of America Executive Committee.
Aye, his wife Patricia, and their two children live at
5111 Gold Lake Drive, Santa Rosa. He is a Republican.
Cox, of 3 Tan Oak Street, Ukiah, an attorney, will serve
as a public member on the committee. He is a Republican.
Carriger, who lives at 365 Gault Street, Santa Cruz, is manager
of the Santa Cruz Lumber Company. A member of the committee since
1948, he represents private timber owner-operators. He is a Republican.
Merrill, chief forester for Georgia Pacific Corporation's Big
Lagoon Operation, lives at 1635 Virginia Way, Arcata. He has served on
the committee since 1964 as a representative of the private timber
owner-operators. He is a Republican.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Imme ate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-19-71
#426
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of Antonio
Bueno, Los Angeles attorney and Mexican-American civic leader, Mrs. Susan
Schwab, a Piedmont housewife, and Mrs. Jacqueline Harker, an Encino civic
and social welfare leader, to the State Social Welfare Board.
Bueno, a founding member of the Mexican-American Political Associatic
and a 1962 Democratic assembly candidate, succeeds Arthur R. Tirado of
Fresno, whose term has expired.
Mrs. Schwab, who has been active in Alameda County civic affairs,
succeeds Dr. Walter W. Dolfini of Eureka, whose term has expired.
Mrs. Harker, who was named as San Fernando Valley's "Citizen of the
Year for 1970" for her work in social welfare and other civic activities,
succeeds Mrs. Mary R. Ripley of Los Angeles.
Bueno, who joined the Republican Party in 1969, is a director of the
Los Angeles County Epilepsy Society, a legal counsel to the Boyle Heights
Improvement Association, a member of the East Los Angeles Committee
Against Narcotics, a member of the Los Angeles County Human Relations
Committee and is active in the Mexican-American Lawyers Club, the Alianza
del Impulo Artistico, the East Los Angeles Cultural Society of the Blind
and numerous other civic and service groups.
Bueno and his wife Elizabeth have two children. The family lives at
337 North Dillon Street, Los Angeles.
Mrs. Schwab and her husband Charles have three children. The family
lives at 110 Waldo Avenue, Piedmont. She is a Republican.
Mrs. Harker, who has also received the Ann Manion Schlarb Award for
her service work with the United Way and a Certificate of Merit from the
San Fernando Valley Welfare Planning Council, is also a director of the
Los Angeles County Visiting Nurses Association and numerous other service
and civic groups.
She and her husband Richard have three sons. The family home is at
4500 Densmore Avenue, Encino. She is a Republican.
Members of the welfare board serve at the pleasure of the governor
and receive $25 per diem while on official duty.
The appointments are subject to Senate confirmation.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Imr liate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-19-71
#427
Governor Ronald Reagan today named William B. Skelton instructor
in Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs at the California Highway Patrol
Academy, to serve as Coordinator of the State Office of Narcotics and
Drug Abuse Coordination.
Skelton, 45, a veteran of 25 years in law enforcement, is a former
police chief of Weed and has served with the CHP for the past 16 years.
He succeeds Art Suddjian, who resigned to return to the educational
field.
As an instructor at the CHP Academy for the past eight years,
Skelton authored the narcotics guide used by the CHP and has conducted
classes for school officials on drug abuse.
He holds a degree from Sacramento City College, has attended the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs School and has worked
with several drug abuse programs in the Sacramento area.
Skelton and his wife Agnes live at 9020 New Dawn Drive, Sacramento.
He is a Republican.
The post has a salary range from $18,576 to $22,584.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO'
RELEASE: Imme ate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-19-71
#428
Governor Ronald Reagan today named three alternate members to the
Intergovernmental Board on Electronic Data Processing.
They are Terrence M. Eagan, a special assistant to Resources
Secretary Norman B. Livermore; Herman L. Pede, administrative
assistant (Business Services) Sacramento City Unified School District;
and R. L. Smith, manager of Automated Information Services, State
Department of Justice.
Eagan will represent the Resources Agency on the board succeeding
John Tooker, who resigned to accept a position as deputy director of
the State Office of Planning and Research.
Pede and Smith will serve in newly-created slots on the board.
Pede will represent the California Association of School Administrators
and Smith will represent the Department of Justice.
Eagan, who lives at 6000 Hoffman Lane, Fair Oaks, and Pede, who
lives at 63 Cavalcade Circle, Sacramento, are Republicans. Smith,
who lists no political affiliation, lives at 1733 63rd Avenue,
Sacramento.
Board members receive no compensation.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-19-71
#429
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Bertram S. Griggs a veteran
corrections officer, as warden of the California Institution for Men
at Chino, subject to Senate confirmation.
Griggs, 50, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of $22,584.
He succeeds Elmer J. Oberhauser, who has retired.
A member of the Department of Corrections since 1952, Griggs began
his career as a parole agent in Los Angeles and worked his way up through
the ranks to administrator of the Parole Division for the Los Angeles
Region, a post he has held since 1967.
He is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, has
completed post-graduate work in social work at the University of Southern
California and Harvard University and recently completed a year-long
fellowship at the Center for the Advancement of Criminal Justice at
Harvard.
Griggs and his wife Evelyn have two children. The family home is
at 704 West Howard Street, Pasadena.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the selection of four
career state government employees as winners of the Annual Governor's
Executive Development Scholarship Awards.
The four winners will attend an intensive four-week program
of executive development at the University of California Graduate School
of Business Administration, Berkeley.
Selected for the special advanced graduate courses because of
their demonstration of effective managerial and leadership potential are
Jack E. Peddy, assistant state highway engineer in the Department of
Public Works; Clifford L. Allenby, program budget manager for the
Department of Finance; Richard T. Soderberg, chief of the audits division
Department of Finance; and James W. Connor, assistant deputy director for
program services of the Department of Human Resources Development.
Soderberg and Connor will attend the Fall, 1971 session at
the Berkeley university, from October 10 to November 5, and Peddy and
Allenby will attend the Spring, 1972 session lasting from April 23 to
May 19.
Objectives of the four-week executive development program
are to analyze the fundamentals underlying the environmental forces of
change influencing business and government decisions; to recognize the
present and likely future trends and problems created by change; and to
evaluate the possible actions of business and government to manage the
forces of change.
Faculty for the various seminars is drawn from the several
campuses of the University of California. In addition, civic and
governmental leaders concerned with public and private sector policy
issues will be guest speakers at a number of the seminars.
Conner, who has served as assistant deputy director for the
program services in the Department of Human Resources Development for the
past year, is responsible for statewide program planning and evaluation
of manpower programs within the Job Training, Development and Placement
Division.
Conner was instrumental in the development of plans for the
implementation of the Department of Human Resources Development when it
was changed over from the Department of Employment. As an employee of
the Department of Water Resources in 1964, he was named to receive its
"Award for Management Excellence."
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He and his family reside in Carmichael at 5645 Fair Oaks
Boulevard.
Soderberg has served as chief of the Audits Division for the
Department of Finance for the past year. Prior to that appointment he
was assistant director of the Department of Public Works where he headed
a three-man task force responsible for the total reorganization of
the department.
In the Department of Finance, he directs the Audits Division
which is comprised of 85 professional auditors and perfoms management
audits for the director of finance, the governor's cabinet and agency
secretaries in major problem areas.
Soderberg and his family live at 1231 Fay Circle in Sacrament
Peddy, who has been serving as Assistant State Highway
Engineer for the past four years, is head of program management for
the Division of Highways. He is responsible for development of the long-
range capital outlay and support programs for the state highway system,
development of the annual state highway budget, scheduling of all
state highway capital outlay projects, and maintaining liaison with the
Federal Highway Administration and local agencies.
Peddy also served as a project director on the Governor's
Task Force on Transportation which resulted in the creation of the
State Transportation Board and the State Transportation Planning Office.
He and his family reside at 6 Meadowbrook Drive, Davis.
Allenby has served as Program Budget Manager for the
Department of Finance for the past two years. His primary duty is to
identify major policy and program issues, assist departments in
preparation of annual fiscal plans and advise and confer with the
director of finance, agency secretaries and the Governor's Office.
As a member of the State Retirement Safety Membership
Task Force, he suggested a number of successful program changes.
Allenby and his family reside at 4640 Cedarwood Way,
Sacramento.
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#433
Governor Ronald Reagan announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 271 - Z'berg
Provides unemployment insurance benefits to permanent
(Chapter 353)
and probationary state civil service employees who
are laid off after March 1, 1971 for reasons of
economy, reorganization or reduced work load.
AB 579 - Cline
Appropriates $1 million from the Veterans Farm and
(Chapter 362)
Home Building Fund of 1943 to indemnify Cal-Vet
purchasers for damages to their properties in excess
of $250 as a result of the earthquake of February 9,
1971, and its aftermath.
AB 924 - Knox
Provides that when a county proposes to establish
(Chapter 354)
an agricultural preserve under the California Land
Conservation Act of 1965, notice need only be given
to those cities within the county within one mile of
the preserve, rather than to any city within one mile
of the preserve.
AB 1444 - Ketchum
Increases the salaries of regular and pro tempore
(Chapter 355)
court reporters in Kern County.
AB
1589
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Schabarum Specifies that transportation services rendered as
(Chapter 356)
contract carriage and not as common carriage of
passengers is not exempt from fuel taxes, rather
than present reference to charter-party carriers of
passengers. The bill is intended to clarify the
definition of "charter party carriers of passengers"
for the purposes of the fuel tax exemption.
AB 1592 - Biddle
Provides that where the person who would consent to
(Chapter 357)
issuance of a student license to certain students
and accept liability for civil damages is a non-
resident, or the student is a foster child, then
prescribed school officials may certify that the
school has filed a specified certificate that an
insurance policy or surety bond is in effect to cover
such liability so that a student license may be
issued.
AB 2125 - Hayden
Provides that when required by local ordinance, a
(Chapter 358)
tentative subdivision map shall be submitted for
approval as to flood and water drainage control, as
well as area and lot design.
AB 2281 - Monagan
Makes several technical changes in the statutes
(Chapter 359)
relating to the sale of bonds by water conservation
districts, including an increase in the maximum
interest rate payable from 6 percent to 7 percent.
AB 2297 - Warren
Makes temporary teaching certificates and permits
(Chapter 360)
issued by county boards of education valid for not
more than one school year, rather than for not more
than 120 days, and only until the credential or
permit originally requested is either issued or denied
by the State Board of Education. The bill's provision
become inoperative on January 1, 1973, or at such
earlier date as the Commission for Teacher Preparation
and Licensing may determine.
SB 64 - Lagomarsino Revises the Fish and Game Code to provide regulations
(Chapter 347)
for oyster cultivation separate from regulations for
shellfish culture which would be termed "mariculture."
The bill also established procedures for the leasing
of state water bottoms for cultivating marine life
(mariculture).
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SB 620 - Gregorio
Provides that a board of supervisors may establish
(Chapter 348)
by resolution and fund a municipal advisory council
for any unincorporated area in the county, the
council to advise the board on specified matters
relating to the area.
SB 751 - Bradley
Provides for a procedure by which the California
(Chapter 352)
Highway Commission may make minor modifications
to the adopted location of a freeway within the
boundaries of a local agency upon request of the
local agency.
SB 883 - Dills
Provides that employees of a bookstore maintained by
(Chapter 349)
a community college are classified employees of the
school district and eligible for membership in the
district retirement system. The bill also provides
for entry without the examination into the
classified service of a school district of persons
who were employed in a community college bookstore
maintained by a student body organization immediately
preceding becoming an employee of a community college
bookstore maintained by a school district.
SB 1036 - Whetmore
Allows a general law city, upon voter approval, to
(Chapter 350)
impose a special charge on businesses and residences
in an amount not to exceed $3 annually for a period
not to exceed 5 years. The revenues derived from
any such charge are to be used for sidewalk
installation on the city's select street system.
SB 1552 - Short
Revises the compensation schedule of Sacramento
(Chapter 351)
Municipal Court attaches.
Governor Reagan has vetoed the following bill:
SB 235 - Alquist
Increases the number of public members on the
Coordinating Council for Higher Education from six
to eight. The bill authorizes the governor to
appoint four public members, the Senate Rules
Committee to appoint two public members and the
Speaker of the Assembly to appoint two public
members.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The Coordinating Council for Higher Education was
reconstituted only last year through the enactment
of AB 73. Furthermore, the composition and
qualifications of the Council are an integral part
of California's Master Plan for Higher Education.
Two distinguished and capable bodies are now
reviewing this plan: The Legislature's Joint
Committee on the Master Plan, and a select committee
appointed by the Coordinating Council. The recommend
tion of these bodies should be available and subject
to analysis before further substantive changes are
considered.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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#434
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Willard T. Jordan, a
Costa Mesa architect, to a four-year term on the Scenic Highway Advisory
Committee.
Jordan, who lives at 2269 Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, has served on
the committee since 1970. He is a Republican.
Committee members are paid necessary expenses.
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#435
Governor Ronald Reagan has signed what he calls "the most
advanced legislation in the area of tenure ever considered in California.'
The legislation (AB 293) by Assemblyman John Stull (R-Encinitas)
will help insure that "California elementary and secondary school
children will be taught by competent and responsible instructors and
at the same time provides increased job protection for qualified
teachers," the governor said.
The new law establishes a hearing procedure through which
dismissed instructors will be heard by a Commission on Professional
Competence. It neither abolishes tenure nor changes basic regulations
governing dismissal of teachers. Hearings will be conducted by an
officer from the state Office of Administrative Procedure before the
three-member commission.
The legislation also directs school districts to develop
guidelines for evaluating the competence and performance of teachers and
requires twice-a-year written evaluations on teachers which must be
presented to them.
Under the law, if a teacher's performance is unsatisfactory
his employer must confer with him, make recommendations for improvement
and provide assistance in achieving standards of professional competence.
"Assemblyman Stull's bill answers demands from school boards,
parents and from educators themselves and has gained support of the
major teacher organization. It will make it possible to weed out
incompetents from our educational system and, at the same time, protect
and encourage dedicated educators," " the governor said. "Those with the
most to gain are our school children," he added.
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#436
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed AB 1195 authored by
Assemblyman Vincent Thomas (D - San Pedro).
Upon signing the bill, the governor said, "I am aware there is
controversy over AB 1195 which has just reached my desk. It seems to me
this controversy should properly be resolved by the people of Los Angeles
County and their county representatives. The Los Angeles Board of
Supervisors voted 4 to 1 against requesting a veto of this measure and
the chairman of the board, Warren Dorn, personally requested that I
sign it as a matter properly coming within the jurisdiction of county
government. Apparently both houses of the state legislature shared
this view as indicated by their unanimous vote to permit county
disposition of the problem.
"I am therefore signing this bill which gives permission to
Los Angeles County to resolve this matter itself. 18
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#437
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following
statement:
"I am extremely pleased and gratified that Senate
Republicans were able to prevent SB 796 from being passed
off last night under the guise of welfare reform. It was
a sham before amending. It now is a shell.
"There is nothing they can do now to prevent the
new revised bill, held together only by a handful of
points from the Burgener bill, from passing on to the
Assembly.
"I am confident that more of the Burgener provisions
will be adopted by the Assembly---hopefully even enough
to make the bill true reform."
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#438
Governor Ronald Reagan has ordered the flag to be flown at
half-staff over the state capitol in tribute to Leo G. Davis, a
correctional officer at San Quentin prison, who was murdered Wednesday.
Services for Mr. Davis, a veteran of five years service with the
Department of Corrections, will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the
Civic Center Chapel in Richmond. Davis is survived by his wife and
four children.
The governor, on May 10, announced that the flag at the capitol
will be flown at half-staff as a gesture of respect whenever a
California peace officer is killed in line of duty.
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#439
Governor Ronald Reagan today hailed Assembly passage of his
Medi-Cal Reform Program as "a truly hopeful sign that other critical
issues now facing the state--including the urgent need for realistic
welfare reform--also can be resolved in a constructive spirit of
compromise.
"While it is not all that I asked for in my reform package
four months ago, this Medi-Cal reform bill goes a long way toward
answering the need for fiscal responsibility and stability in
California's health program," he said.
The governor reserved special praise for "Assemblyman Bill
Campbell's (R-Hacienda Heights) skillful and effective efforts to work
out major differences between legislators of both parties in the
Assembly so that the program accomplishes the principal goals set forth
in the administration's original reform package---at a savings to the
taxpayers of $130 million this year."
Campbell, in turn, lauded Governor Reagan for "the leadership
he has provided in the important area of Medi-Cal reform and the
governor's willingness to reach a realistic agreement in order to get
the legislation moving." Campbell said, "The close cooperation I have
received from the governor--at every step of the way--belies completely
the allegations of some that the governor is unwilling to make
reasonable compromises."
Governor Reagan also commended State Health Care Services
Director Dr. Earl Brian for his "invaluable assistance and counsel during
the course of the many discussions which have led to today's overwhelm-
ingly successful Assembly vote.
"I am very pleased," the governor said, "at the progress already
made on Medi-Cal reform. I sincerely hope that the spirit of coopera-
tion and reasonableness which has been displayed thus far on this
issue is contagious so that we can soon get on with solving an even
bigger administrative nightmare---welfare itself," he added.
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#440
Governor Ronald Reagan said today that he has "accepted with
regret" the resignation of Anthony R. Pierno as Commissioner of
Corporations.
Pierno, 39, who has served in the post since 1969, has announced
that he will resign effective August 1 to accept a position in the private
sector.
An attorney specializing in corporate law, Pierno joined the
administration in 1967 as Chief Deputy Corporations Commissioner.
He was instrumental in the enactment of the Corporate Securities
Law of 1968 and its implementation. He played a leading role in the
preparation and implementation of the Franchise Investment Law--the first
in the nation to regulate the sale of franchises--and in reforms that
provide protection for investors in industrial thrift and loan companies.
In announcing Pierno's resignation, Governor Reagan said, "All
Californians owe a debt of gratitude to Tony Pierno for his dedicated
service to them and his efficient reorganization of the department he
headed. Small investors are particularly in his debt for the reforms
he helped to initiate that protect their savings."
Pierno, his wife Beverly, and their four children live at
1263 Oakcrest Avenue, Brea.
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#441
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of
Mrs. Virginia S. Ellis, an Atherton housewife and civic leader, and
Dr. Orrin S. Cook, a Sacramento plastic surgeon, to the State Board of
Public Health.
Mrs. Ellis will fill the unexpired term of Kathleen E. Crow of
San Marino which ends in January, 1973.
Active in the American Cancer Society, the Heart Fund and the
Girl Scouts, Mrs. Ellis will represent the public on the board. She
and her husband, Roger, have three children. The family home is at
92 Mandarin Way, Atherton.
Dr. Cook will fill the unexpired term of Dr. William McColl of
West Covina, which ends in January, 1974.
Active in numerous civic, service and professional organizations,
Dr. Cook is a past president of the Sacramento Branch of the American
Cancer Society and is active in the California Society of Plastic
Surgery, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,
the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, the Sacramento County
and California Medical Associations and is an Associate Clinical
Professor of Surgery at the UC-Davis School of Medicine.
He and his wife, Shirley, have three children. The family home
is at 440 Hopkins Road, Sacramento.
Both appointees are Republicans.
Members of the board are paid travel expenses.
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#442
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Frank J. Walton,
Los Angeles business and civic leader, as Secretary of the Business
and Transportation Agency.
Walton, whose appointment is subject to Senate confirmation,
will succeed James M. Hall, who resigned in December of 1970 to
become Governor Reagan's Secretary of Human Relations. He will
receive an annual salary of $35,000.
Walton, 51, a Republican, is the owner and president of AIRKEM,
a Los Angeles firm which makes ecological and environmental control
products for industrial plants and institutions.
He is a founding director of the Commerce City Bank and has
served as chairman of the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission, as
chairman of the City of Arcadia's Personnel Commission, and as a
director of the Steel Service Center Institute.
Walton is also a founding director of the Industrial Council
of the City of Commerce and is active in other civic and service
groups.
He is a graduate of the Eton College of Finance in Baltimore,
Maryland and has completed post-graduate studies at Northwestern
University in Illinois.
Walton and his wife Helen have five children. The family
home is at 141 West Longden Avenue, Arcadia.
Since Hall resigned to assume his new duties, Assistant
Secretary Brian Van Camp has administered the Business and Transpor-
tation Agency.
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#443
Governor Ronald Reagan today said some Democrat members of Congress
have "a curious double standard" on government economic activity which is
aggravating California's aerospace unemployment and threatening America's
technical leadership.
In remarks prepared for delivery before a Republican fundraising
dinner in San Diego, the governor said, "This nation once had a slogan,
'millions for defense, not one cent for tribute, today it is billions
for welfare and take them from defense.
"The only time you can get a quorum in the Senate these days is when
the Democrats fly back to Washington to vote against an aerospace
appropriation.
"It's hard to understand how someone can cry bitter tears for the
unemployed and then vote to downgrade an industry that has achieved the
greatest scientific and engineering feats in all of man's history---the
industry that allowed an American to be the first man to walk on the moon.
"Most of our opponents," the governor said, "are against the anti-
ballistic missile defense program. They're against helping the nation's
largest defense contractor through a difficult economic period, even
though their attitude means more aerospace unemployment. They scuttled
the SST plane program.
"They are willing to see America become second best and they don't
even want us to try harder. How easily they repudiate the words of one
of their own young leaders who, only a decade ago, challenged America to
maintain its leadership in the newest frontiers of science and technology.
Governor Reagan noted that "in the same week that Senator Cranston
voted to scuttle the sentencing thousands of workers to the
unemployment lines---he proposed a special government loan program--to
lend jobless aerospace workers their monthly mortgage payments while they
are out of work."
He said opponents of the defense and space programs should consider
"how crucial this technical leadership has been to our country. Eighty-
five percent of the commercial planes in the world's skies are American-
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"This productive capacity has helped our balance of payments,
provided employment for hundreds of thousands of our most skilled
technical talent and provided America with the modern defense it must
have to protect our nation's security.
"But somehow, this seems inconsequential to some of our most vocal
opponents in Congress. If they had had to vote on that first flight at
Kitty Hawk, the Wright brothers would never have gotten out of the
bicycle business.
"If our opponents' attitude didn't mean more unemployment in
aerospace, their double-standard would be amusing for its inconsistency.
But it isn't amusing to Americans concerned with keeping this country
free and prosperous. And it is tragic for those whose jobs are
sacrificed because of this short-sighted attitude."
The governor praised the work of Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke's
California Space Shuttle Task Force and noted that California already
has been guaranteed "a prominent role in the $10 to $12 billion program
designed to create an American capacity for man to travel into space and
return with reusable rocket engines and space vehicles,
He said the selection of the Rocketdyne division of North American
Rockwell Corporation as the probable recipient of a $500 million contract
to build engines for the space shuttle program would mean about 2,000
direct aerospace jobs in Southern California and even more indirect
employment because about half of the subcontracting work also would be
done in this state.
"America must have a strong space program and California's aerospace
industry can help assure that America will lead man's exploration of this
newest frontier," the governor said. "We can't afford little men with
little dreams who would trade supremacy in sky and space for a subway."
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Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
7-23-71
Effective Tuesday, July 27, the governor's
press secretary will begin conducting press
briefings. They will be held daily--unless
otherwise noted--at 10 a.m. in the Press Lounge
on the first floor of the Capitol. The briefings
will continue for the next few weeks.
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MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
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The governor's schedule for the week of
July 26-30 consists of office appointments in
Sacramento.
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Sacramento, California
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-26-71
Just a reminder that the governor's press secretary will
conduct a briefing for the press at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the press
lounge on the first floor of the Capitol.
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#444
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 289 - Fenton
Permits a buyer to cancel door-to-door sales contracts
(Chapter 375)
for consumer goods or services within three days of
the contract date or until seller complies with a
requirement that the buyer be advised of his rights to
cancel the contract. The bill does not apply to sales
where the goods are affixed to real property or to
contracts covered by federal law. The seller is entitled
to the return of the goods involved in the sale where
the buyer cancels the contract. Emergency repair
services are also excluded from the provisions of the
act.
AB 291 - Ralph
Requires a prime contractor on public work or
(Chapter 376)
improvement contracts to list persons who will specially
fabricate a portion of the work or improvement, in an
amount in excess of one-half of the one percent of the
prime contractors total bid, off the jobsite, in
addition to subcontractors currently required to be
listed.
AB
315 - Townsend Provides that a recognizable dead human fetus of less
(Chapter 377)
than 20 weeks uterogestation, not disposed of by
interment, shall be disposed of by incineration. It
also provides that recognizable anatomical parts, human
tissues or anatomical human remains, following conclusion
of scientific use, shall be disposed of by interment
or incineration. The bill makes it a misdemeanor to
dispose of fetal remains in a public or private dump,
refuse or disposal site.
AB
497 - Vasconcellos Provides that under specified conditions, an
(Chapter 363)
applicant for a driver's license participating
in an approved methadone maintenance treatment program
may be issued a driver's license and that such
participation shall not be grounds for revoking or
suspending his license.
AB 1723 - Cullen Allows a local election board to provide that at local
(Chapter 364)
elections, in precincts of fewer than 500 registered
voters where ballots are to be counted by means of an
electronic or electromechanical device of a punch card
voting system, the precinct board may consist of one
inspector and two judges.
AB
1874 - Hayden Provides that a recall petition for a city councilman
(Chapter 365)
elected by district need be signed by 25 percent of
the voters of his district rather than 25 percent of
the voters of the city. The bill conforms the Elections
Code to existing Government Code provisions relating
to eligibility to sign recall petitions.
AB 1877 - Hayden Suspends the right of a city council to determine
(Chapter 366)
contested elections of city officers during the period
of time in which an elector who previously filed a
written statement to contest the election was entitled
to file that statement, The bill permits a city council
to determine the contest upon the expiration of the
suspension period if either no proceedings have been
instituted as a result of an elector's filing of a
statement of consent or such proceedings are terminated
without a judgement being rendered by the court. The
bill eliminates a conflict between provisions of the
Government Code and the Elections Code.
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AB 2246 - Russell Revises the format requirements for sample ballots.
(Chapter 367)
SB 267 - Nejedly Provides that the salary of a full-time certificated
(Chapter 369)
employee of a school district shall be pro rated over
a 12-month period for the purposes of determining
eligibility for aid to families with dependent children.
The bill was introduced to prevent teachers from
qualifying for welfare during the summer months.
SB 551 - Cologne Makes it unlawful for any person to compute at the time
(Chapter 370)
of sale of a commodity a value which is not a true
extension of a price per unit which at that time is
advertised, posted or quoted; to fail to deliver for tesi
devices ordinarily tested at central locations under
designated circumstances; or to alter by adding to
tare weight of a vehicle under designated circumstances.
SB
552 - Cologne Revises the amounts of certain approved expenditures for
(Chapter 371)
recreation land acquisition, and certain approved joint
cost allocations for recreation and fish and wildlife
enhancement associated with state water projects, made
by the Department of Water Resources.
SB 652 - Way
Exempts milk and milk products processed in California
(Chapter 372)
for sale outside of the state from the labeling
requirements of the Agricultural Code. The bill does
not exempt such products from standards of composition
and wholesomeness.
SB 653 - Way
Defines county responsibility for making aid payments
(Chapter 378)
for a patient in a voluntary, nonprofit, or proprietary
facility or other public or private institution, as
the county from which such patient was admitted.
SB 750 - Burgener Authorizes a community college district to enter into
(Chapter 373)
an option to purchase, or lease with an option to
purchase a proposed building site. The bill provides
that the existence of such an agreement shall not affect
the determination of the state's share of the cost of
the project under the Community College Construction
Act of 1967.
SB 1547 - Short
Amends the Barber Law with respect to the length of
(Chapter 374)
the course in barber college, the curriculum therein
and length of the apprenticeship periord.
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#445
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Deputy Public Defender
Claude D. Perasso to the San Francisco City and County Municipal Court.
Perasso, 45, a Democrat, will receive an annual salary of
$30,724. He succeeds Judge Frank Shaw who has been elevated to the
San Francisco City and County Superior Court.
A member of the Public Defender's staff since 1956, Perasso is
Head Trial Attorney.
He is a native of San Francisco, attended local elementary and
high schools and earned his law degree from the University of San
Francisco.
Perasso is active in the U. S. F. Law Society, the American
Bar Association, State Bar of California, San Francisco Bar Association,
the Public Defender and Legal Aid Association of California, and is a
past president of the Italian Federation of California, Columbus Civic
Club and is an officer of the Italian Welfare Agency of San Francisco.
He and his wife, Donna, have three children. The family lives
in San Francisco.
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Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-27-71
#446
Governor Ronald Reagan today sent the following letter to
the Honorable Warren G. Magnuson, Chairman of the Subcommittee on
Labor and Health, Education and Welfare, Committee on Appropriations,
United States Senate, with copies to Senators Tunney and Cranston,
plus Representatives Roybal, McFall, Talcott and Del Clawson:
"It has been brought to my attention that the Senate
Appropriation Subcommittee in its hearings on the Health, Education and
Welfare Appropriation, is considering a proposal to enact a new Section
208 which would place a 110 percent ceiling on federal matching funds for
the costs of administration, services and staff training.
"On behalf of California, I wish to register our most strenuous
objections to this proposal. Rising welfare costs are already
threatening this state and other states with bankruptcy. Existing
federal regulations prevent the reduction in scope, coverage, and
quality of social service programs that would be necessary if such a
limitation were placed upon federal participation in the funding of these
programs.
"The total cost to state and local government in California
could well amount to $100 million the first full year. No rational
person questions the need for economies in welfare spending, but it
makes no sense to seek federal savings at the expense of the states.
This is simply a proposal to artificially limit federal reimbursement
via a "back door" constraint in the President's budget, which would
bypass fiscal provisions in the law, and would give states no lead
time and no avenues for adjusting their programs accordingly.
"A proposal to place a 115 percent limit on federal matching
for these costs was killed on the floor of the Senate last year when
it was made clear that even that more generous ceiling would wreak
fiscal disaster upon state and local governments. California was
joined in opposition to the proposal by the Council of State Public
Welfare Administrators, the Association of Public Welfare Administrators,
The national Association of Counties, the National Governors' Conference,
the League of Cities, and other state governments. The fiscal situation
in welfare is worse now than it was at that time, and the present
proposal is clearly and totally unacceptable.
"The answer to the runaway costs of welfare lies in genuine
reform of the welfare system. California is currently attempting to
overhaul its own laws and regulations to bring about reform at the state
level. It is my belief that the federal government could accomplish
more by supporting reform efforts of this kind than by placing additional
financial burdens upon the states while not changing the federal laws
and regulations that have created the problem in the first place."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
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Sacramento, California
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445-4571
7-27-71
#447
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Captain William W. Meyer of Oakland and reappointment of Captain
Alfred H. Stephens of Alamo to four-year-terms on the Pilotage Rate
Committee for San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun Bays.
Captain Meyer, a Master for Isthmian Lines, succeeds Captain
Eugene N. Babb of San Francisco, whose term has expired. He will
represent bar pilots on the committee. His home is at 2615 Carisbrook
Drive, Oakland.
Captain Stevens, port operations officer for Chevron Shipping
Company, San Francisco, has served on the committee since 1967,
representing tankers. He lives at 129 Angela Avenue, Alamo.
Both men are Republicans.
Committee members receive no compensation.
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445-4571
7-27-71
#448
Governor Ronald Reagan today named two new members and
reappointed four members to the District Forest Practice Committee,
South Sierra Pine Forest District.
The new members, who will represent the public on the
committee, are David Rodriquez of 511 Vine Way, Roseville, a youth staff
assistant for the University of California's Agricultural Extension
Service, and Willis L. Kimbel of 939 West Bonnie Brae, Ontario, a
commercial and industrial sales representative of Southern California
Edison Company. Both are Republicans.
Reappointed were George H. Volz of 1000 Fruitridge Road,
Placerville, president of the Placerville Fruit Growers Association;
Cecil L. Wetsel of Omo Ranch, chairman of the board of Wetsel-Oviatt
Lumbering Company; William H. Kuphaldt, whose address is Box 836, Murphys
chief forester of the Amador-Calaveras Division, American Forest Products
Corp., and Byron W. Bacchi, a private timber owner, Lotus.
Volz, who represents farmer-timber owners, has served on the
committee since 1945. Wetsel, representative of private timber-owner-
operators, has served from 1953. Kuphaldt, who represents private
timber owner-operators, and Bacchi, representative of private timber
owners, have both served since 1967.
Wetsel is not affiliated with a political party. The others
are Republicans.
Committee members serve four-year-terms and receive necessary
expenses.
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#449
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"When it became apparent that California faced prolonged labor
disputes, particularly those involving the longshoremen and railroad
workers, I appointed an Emergency Economic Committee to determine the
impact upon the lives of thousands of Californians.
"This committee headed by Earl Coke, Secretary for Agriculture
and Services, included the Office of Emergency Services and representatives
of other state agencies concerned with the economy as well as public health
and safety.
"Today, I received a telegram from Transportation Secretary,
John Volpe asking for an assessment of the effects of the rail strike
on California.
"I am responding to Secretary Volpe by reporting that the rail
strike is endangering the physical as well as the economic health of
this state.
"Investigations by our Emergency Economic Committee show that
California's major industry agriculture is suffering losses of more
than $11 million daily.
"Our major crops are imperiled and the jobs of thousands who
depend upon agriculture are endangered.
Shortages of raw materials may force many of our principal
industries to close at a time when numbers of our citizens are
unemployed.
In several Southern California cities, the railroad strike has
resulted in a serious shortage of chlorine and other chemicals used in
the treatment of water supplies and waste disposal.
This can have a critical effect on the health of many of our
citizens in addition to creating pollution problems at a time when we
are making every effort to keep our environment clean.
"I am supplying Secretary Volpe with the information compiled
by our committee. And I pledge my full support to him and to President
Nixon in their efforts to find an immediate and equitable solution to
these labor disputes.
"At the same time, I urge both management and labor to move
quickly, honorably and responsibly to solve their differences. "
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7-28-71
#450
Governor Ronald Reagan praised the Fish and Game Wardens' Association
for its recent pledge not to participate in a strike or work slowdown.
In a letter to Association President Wallace J. Callan the governor said:
"I was gratified and very pleased to learn from Resources Secretary
Livermore of the no-strike pledge which the board of directors of the
Fish and Game Wardens' Protective Association adopted recently.
"The association deserves the highest commendation for having taken
this action to reaffirm the continuing commitment of the law enforcement
personnel of the Department of Fish and Game to protect California's
priceless fish and wildlife resources.
"The deep sense of duty and responsibility which prompted your
decision is fully in keeping with the high standards of professionalism
and service to which Fish and Game employees have always adhered.
"Putting the interests of the public first in the face of a
temporary financial setback is a hallmark of the enviable and exemplary
tradition you and your fellow wardens have established over the years.
Little wonder, then, that you have gained the abiding trust and respect
of your fellow citizens.
"Again, I want to extend sincere congratulations and best wishes to
you and the members of your association for having followed this
responsible course of action."
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445-4571
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#451
Governor Ronald Reagan today sent the following telegram to
The Honorable John A. Volpe, Secretary of Transportation, U. S.
Department of Transportation:
"As per your telegram of July 27, 1971, I am presenting the
impact on the State of California resulting from the present
and impending rail strike.
"AGRICULTURE
"Present estimates are that these work stoppages will result
in a loss of approximately $11.1 million each day it continues
to growers, farm labor and related industries. The following
are the daily projected losses to a portion of California's
agricultural communities.
Daily Rail Car
"Commodity
Shipments
Dollar Loss
Cantaloupes
125
$ 595,000
Pears
100
450,000
Grapes
45
393,750
Lettuce
100
250,000
Lemons
40
245,000
Tomatoes
40
200,000
Plums
30
198,450
Oranges
55
178,750
Honeydew melons
35
75,000
Nectarines
12
72,000
Potatoes
60
60,000
Grapefruit
15
40,000
Celery
15
31,500
TOTAL RAIL CARLOADS
672
COMMODITY LOSS
$2,789,450
LOSS TO RELATED AND
DEPENDENT INDUSTRIES
8,368,350
TOTAL LOSS
$11,157,800
"In addition due to the lack of transportation, many of our
growers with crops ready for harvest are plowing under their
present crops which will be a total loss in the hopes that a
crop planted now can be harvested and marketed at a later date.
"LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY
"Grain and feed--potentially critical situation in feed
grains; 4 to 6 days inventory at mills; lack of bailing wire
critical; there is no alternative supply.
"SUGAR
"California sugar beet now at harvest point. Without transportation
to refineries, sugar content loss will be enormous. Estimated
daily loss of $2 million.
"CANNERS AND GROWERS ASSOCIATION
"Reports approximately 50 percent of their plants now closed
as 80 percent of business is done by rail. Condition will
become more extreme each day.
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"EGG AND POUL" ASSOCIATION
"Ninety percent of grain used for poultry feeding is moved by
rail. Estimate is 250,000 carloads per year; reserve supply
is limited to 2-3 days. Approximately 90 percent of the total
poultry, eggs and turkeys are produced in the 11 western states;
52 percent of the feed grain is produced in California, Washington
Oregon and Utah. The Association reports that unless a means
of transportation can be found, the loss of livestock, particularly
poultry, will be disastrous.
"The economic impact resulting from approximately 75 percent of
California's agriculture being affected by this rail strike is
that it poses a very grave problem not only through the loss in
daily dollars but the fact that it will have such a chaotic
effect that many of our growers will be unstable for years to
come. Many small growers cannot even survive a few days loss of
market.
"PASSENGER RAIL TRAFFIC
"A continual rail strike will pose grave problems in the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay area. Southern Pacific carries in excess
of 12,000 commuters a day and the loss of this service will
have a heavy impact on that area of the state. It is believed
that long-haul passenger service can be absorbed by other modes
of transportation.
"AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
"Plants will close when present inventories are exhausted. Lack
of foreign imports are presently causing layoff of employees.
"CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
"Can truck intrastate. Most interstate shipments are by rail.
Will drastically curtail ability if rail strike continues.
"CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
"Not yet adversely affected.
"OIL AND GAS
"Move negligible by rail.
"NEWS PRINT
"Condition of availability already critical.
"UNEMPLOYMENT
"Direct effects of the strike on unemployed are heavy. It is
estimated that this week direct and indirect effects will add
close to 100,000 to the rolls. This number will increase daily
as industry is more and more affected by the strike.
"MANUFACTURING PROCESS
"Economic demand in this field requires minimum inventories
on the part of manufacturing industry. Rapid resupply necessary
and will be directly affected by the loss of rail transportation.
"POTENTIAL HEALTH PROBLEM
"Chlorine supply for water treatment and sewage treatment plants
is becoming a problem in Southern California. Santa Fe Railway
provides major portion of transportation and due to limited
available local storage, problem will become critical shortly
after this carrier is shut down. State is attempting at this
point to find alternate means of transportation.
"The continuation of the rail strike even at its present level
will have a devastating effect on California's economy and will
pose untold hardships on a great portion of California's population
"The real impact of this has not yet been felt. There will be
an accumulative effect on the present strike and if Santa Fe strike
this weekend this closes down all of the effective rail
transportation for California and much of the west."
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#452
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 314 - Townsend
Requires that asbestos-containing materials used in
(Chapter 382)
air duct systems in buildings after the effective
date of the bill be overcoated with a sealant adequate
to preclude erosion of asbestos fibers.
AB 611 - Lanterman
Appropriates $29,708 from the Motor Vehicle
(Chapter 383)
Transportation Tax Fund for transfer to the State
School Fund for severance aid allowances to school
districts during the 1970-71 fiscal year. This
bill implements 1970 legislation which authorized
severance aid allowances to school districts for
property acquired for state highway purposes.
AB 707 - Cory
Allows the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
(Chapter 384)
designate a representative from the Department of
Education to be on the Curriculum Commission and
serve as its chairman.
AB 816 - Knox
Authorizes sanitary district boards to increase
(Chapter 385)
membership from five to seven within two years after
a sanitary district consolidates with or annexes
territory of a district with substantially identical
powers.
AB 1100 - MacDonald Authorizes the Ventura County Flood Control District
(Chapter 386)
to make ordinances relating to specified flood
control, increases the limit above which bid contract
must be let for materials and supplies, and provides
that the district may purchase equipment and other
personal property as well as materials and supplies
subject to this new limit.
AB
1697 - MacGillivray Repeals provisions regarding transportation of
(Chapter 381)
abalone meat out of the state. It eliminates
provision prohibiting the taking of black abalone
for canning or drying purposes. The bill also includes
San Clemente Island within other specified islands
where abalones may be taken for commercial purposes
in less than 20 feet of water.
AB 1647 - Stacey
Expressly authorizes local authorities to delegate
(Chapter 380)
to the road commissioner or comparable officer in
the county or municipality any or all powers granted
local authorities in prescribed Vehicle Code provision
relating to vehicle permits and agreements.
AB 1332 - Barnes
Provides that a local public agency must request
(Chapter 379)
quotation of contribution required for change in
retirement benefits from the public Employees'
Retirement System if requested to do so by a
recognized employee organization of its employees and
the employee organization pays agency cost for this
quotation.
AB 1840 - Cory
Provides that the board of supervisors of one or more
(Chapter 387)
counties may loan up to $50,000 to a transit district
located wholly or partially within such county or
counties for transit planning and development during
the year following voter approval of the district's
organization.
AB 1883 - Wood
Authorizes the Monterey County Flood Control and
(Chapter 388)
Water Conservation District to construct and
operate recreational facilities and to license docks
or other structures on its reservoirs or property.
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AB 2115 - Cory
Provides for terms of the board of directors of the
(Chapter 389)
Orange County Transit District. It empowers the board
to appoint its own clerk and grants specified per
diem compensation to board members. The bill also
provides that taxes levied to meet bonded indebtedness
and interest of the district shall not be included in
five-cent maximum levy per $100 assessed valuation.
The bill further provides that formation of the Orange
County Transit District shall be effective for assess-
ment and taxation purposes for the 1971-72 fiscal year
if certain conditions are met.
AB 2290 - Burton
Exempts the Legislative Counsel and his employees
(Chapter 390)
from the Government Code provision requiring approval
of the governor and the director of Finance for travel
outside the state.
Governor Reagan has vetoed the following bill:
AB 440 - Cory
Provides that vacancies on boards of supervisors may
be filled by election if they occur more than one
year prior to the next general election, rather than
by appointment by the governor. The bill provides
that the governor shall fill the vacancy if the board
does not call an election within 60 days.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The bill does not apply to any county where the
charter provides for a different method of filling
vacancies on the board of supervisors. AB 440
unnecessarily complicates the process for filling
vacancies on boards of supervisors. There has been
no showing that the present method of filling such
vacancies has been other than acceptable to the
counties of this state.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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#453
A plan to test the effectiveness of private employment
agencies in finding jobs for welfare recipients begins Monday, August
2, 1971, Governor Ronald Reagan announced today.
The purpose of the test project, Governor Reagan said, is to
explore the resources outside of government to cut the staggering cost
of welfare.
"For a number of years we have made a concerted effort to help
the poor find permanent jobs through government financed programs,
but there has been almost no effort--certainly no carefully planned
effort--to use the private sector's profit incentive to solve this
problem," the governor said.
The test project will be paid for by research s/provided
Governor
by the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity, Reagan said. The
money will be used to pay the fees of 86 participating agencies in
four counties: Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and San Francisco.
"No state funds are involved and no fees will be paid by
job-seekers or employers," Governor Reagan added. "Cost of the project
will not exceed $300,000."
"There are two objectives: to see if private employment
agencies can find jobs for welfare recipients and to measure their
capability against government manpower services on a cost-effectiveness
basis."
The governor said the project will involve 2,400 employable
welfare recipients 1,200 will be referred to private employment
agencies and 1,200 will be referred to local offices of the State
Department of Human Resources Development (HRD).
"The private agencies will be measured against the HRD offices
in terms of jobs found, level of wages, placement in training, or
career-development programs and the amount of welfare dollars saved,"
the governor said.
"If the project shows that private employment agencies can be
an effective method of finding jobs for welfare recipients, then I
believe we ought to use this additional resource in our total effort
to solve this part of the welfare problem," he added.
The project administrator will be Peter C. Rank, executive
secretary of HRD's Job Training, Development and Placement Services
Advisory Board.
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MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
7-30-71
The governor's schedule for next week remains flexible---no
specific appointments scheduled.
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#454
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 168 - Barnes
Defines and standardizes retirement terms used in
(Chapter 407)
the Teachers' Retirement Law regarding credited and
charged interest, return on the investment portfolio
and tax-sheltered annuities and/or contributions.
AB 691 - Briggs
Amends the Insurance Code to provide that, with
(Chapter 409)
reference to insurance required in connection with
sales of real property or loans secured by real
property, the lender's disapproval of the insurer
selected by the purchaser or borrower must be based
upon reasonable cause. The bill requires the
Superintendent of Banks, the Savings and Loan
Commissioner in conjunction with the Insurance
Commissioner to jointly promulgate and issue
regulations defining "reasonable cause".
AB 820 - Porter
Increases the per diem of members of the Reclamation
(Chapter 408)
Board from $20 to $25 for each day attending meetings
of the board, not to exceed $2,000 in any one year.
The present per diem amount has not changed since
the Board's formation in 1913.
AB 821 - Porter
Requires compliance by all public agencies,
(Chapter 410)
including the State, with floodplain regulations
established pursuant to the Cobey-Alquist Floodplain
Management Act.
AB 983 - Arnett
Eliminates the first-time violation limitation on
(Chapter 411)
the authority of the Insurance Commissioner to
elect to impose an alternative monetary penalty
assessable against insurance licensees for violations
of the Insurance Code. The bill also increases
the maximum penalty assessable under such penalty
procedure.
AB 1334 - Meade
Directs that special bond elections under the
(Chapter 412)
Municipal Utility District Act held in even-numbered
years shall be consolidated with the direct primary
or general election, and that such elections held
in odd-numbered years shall be held on first Tuesday
after first Monday in November either separate from
or consolidated with any other election.
AB 1929 - Powers
Revises the district boundaries and the procedures
(Chapter 413)
for nomination and election of trustees of the
American River Flood Control District.
AB 2317 - Barnes
Authorizes the Board of Administration of the
(Chapter 414)
Public Employees' Retirement System to fix the
period of and minimum payments for members electing
to redeposit contributions and provides for the
computation of interest on such redeposit on the basis
of the annual interest rate in effect on the date of
election.
AB 2323 - Fenton
Enacts the California Crime Insurance Act of 1971.
(Chapter 415)
The bill requires all insurance carriers writing
crime insurance in multiperil insurance policies to
participate in the Crime Insurance Pool established
by the California FAIR Plan Association for equitable
apportionment among such insurers of crime insurance
for persons who, after diligent effort, are unable
to procure such insurance from an admitted insurer
or licensed surplus line broker.
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SB 348 - Nejedly
Authorizes the Director of Agriculture by regulation,
(Chapter 391)
to revise the time deadlines for fertilizer
registrants to file reports of sales with the Director
of Agriculture. The bill also clarifies the law
to provide that the last registrant of a fertilizer
handled by more than one registrant is the person
who pays the tonnage tax and files the report of
the amount sold.
SB 431 - Petris
Provides that the application formfor assessment
(Chapter 392)
change at local equalization hearings must provide
notice that the applicant must request written
finding of fact or waive the right to such request.
The bill also deletes the requirement that a
record of all proceedings be made.
SB 476 - Grunsky
Requires an applicant for adjudication of a claim'
(Chapter 393)
arising under the workmen's compensation laws to file
a declaration that he is ready to proceed in order
to obtain a hearing within 10 to 30 days after such
filing.
SB 575 - Stiern
Authorizes the Director of Agriculture to adopt
(Chapter 394)
regulations pertaining to temperature requirements
for market milk delivered to consumers.
SB 814 - Coombs
Repeals various obsolete provisions of the Barber
(Chapter 395)
Law relating to qualification for licenses.
SB 884 - Dills
Permits the Public Utilities Commission to assess
(Chapter 396)
interest on fines it imposes on carriers, in lieu
of suspension, revocation, alteration or amendment
of any such carrier's operating right or certificate,
when such fines become delinquent.
SB
941 - Cusanovich Provides that the minimum school day for special
(Chapter 397)
class for pretuberculosis, tuberculosis, convalescent,
or other physically handicapped minors held in
specified institutions shall be 180 minutes.
SB 964 - Coombs
Amends the Contractors License Law by providing for
(Chapter 398)
additional circumstances under which an application
for an original license as a contractor or an
application for a license in an additional
classification or to replace a responsible managing
operator or responsible managing employee becomes
void.
SB 987 - Deukmejian Revises the staffing and salaries of attaches of
(Chapter 399)
the Los Angeles Municipal Court.
SB 1027 - Carpenter Authorizes state chartered credit unions to obtain
(Chapter 400)
insurance of members' share accounts pursuant to the
Federal Credit Union Act.
SB 1067 - Nejedly
Provides that county boards of supervisors shall
(Chapter 401)
provide for and may contract for services for the
proper care and upkeep of county buildings and
grounds.
SB 1231 - Bradley
Requires every insurer admitted in this state to
(Chapter 402)
transact life or disability insurance, or both, to
maintain specified records of all life or disability
insurance transacted.
SB 1232 - Bradley
Authorizes Insurance Commissioner, in specified
(Chapter 403)
proceeding under the Insurance Code, to permit a
holder of a certificate of authority to elect in
writing to pay an alternative monetary penalty
in lieu of suspension of its certificate of authority
The bill limits the penalty to $10,000.
SB 1234 - Bradley
Amends the Dry Cleaners Licensing Law to permit
(Chapter 404)
a licensee to deposit cash or file a bearer bond
issued by the United States or the State of California
in lieu of the surety bond presently required.
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SB 1476 - Rodda
Permits municipal utility district to purchase or
(Chapter 405)
acquire insurance against loss or damage, including
loss of electrical power generating capacity, in
connection with the construction or operation of
plants and facilities for generation of electrical
power by nuclear energy.
SB 1556 - Alquist
Provides that ordinances of a sanitary district may
(Chapter 406)
be enacted in the same manner as general regulations
of the board. The bill also authorizes any
sanitary district to correct any violation of
district ordinances and to add costs of such
correction to sewer service charges.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that the Department of
Public Works will issue permits allowing trucks on state highways to
move vital cargo during the current labor disputes.
He said Frank J. Walton, Secretary of Business and Transportation,
has issued instructions that overweight loads will be permitted on
material classified as vital by the Governor's Emergency Economic
Committee.
Included on the list are chemicals for water and sewage treatment
plants, medical, dental and surgical supplies and equipment, feed for
animals and fowls and perishable and semi-perishable food items.
Weights for these commodities will not exceed 10 percent of the
legal limits specified by state law, the governor said.
Permits will be issued beginning Monday morning at 44 Division of
Highways facilities throughout the state.
The governor pointed out that the permits will be valid only during
this crisis period.
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#456
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment
of Jimmy D. Isbell, a post graduate student in agricultural education,
to the California Exposition and Fair Executive Committee.
Isbell, 21, who is attending California State
Polytechnic College at San Luis Obispo, is the eleventh student to
be named to a major state board by Goveroor Reagan. He will fill the
unexpired term of Nelson G. Dong of Stanford, who has resigned. The
term ends in February, 1975.
Active in numerous campus agricultural organizations,
Isbell, who received his degree in Agricultural Business Management this
year, holds several scholarships and academic awards.
He is unmarried and lives at 519 East Brizzolara
Street, San Luis Obispo. He is not registered with a political party.
Committee members receive necessary expenses.
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#457
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation
that will provide Cal-Vet loan benefits to wives of Californians who
are prisoners of war or listed as missing in action.
"The wives of these brave men by their own heroism
and suffering, have qualified beyond any doubt for these benefits,"
the governor said in signing the bill (AB-665) by Assemblyman Ernest
Mobley (R-Fresno).
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