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OFFICE OF THE GOVER
RELEASE: Immed te
Sacramento, Califor. a
contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-1-71
#333
The State Air Resources Board today joined Governor Ronald Reagan
in requesting the federal Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider
denial of the state's application for a waiver to conduct assembly line
emission tests of every vehicle to be sold in California in 1973.
The board's action followed a letter from the governor to EPA
Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus pointing out that assembly line
inspection is "an essential step in controlling vehicular pollution in
California."
The State Air Resources Board also pointed out that because
California law requires that every car sold here meet standards, only
100 percent testing can assure such compliance.
Recent data obtained on a sample of vehicles show that some of
the vehicles tested at assembly plants exceed California standards. In
most cases, adjustments to the engine reduced emissions and brought
the vehicle within the standards.
California law further requires that every new car be labeled
to show California standards and the emissions of each vehicle to
encourage buyers to purchase low emission vehicles. Random sampling
would not produce data on the emissions of every vehicle, the board
said.
With the state now studying programs for emission inspection of
privately owned cars, it would not be equitable to expect owners of
cars presently in use to comply with inspection standards without
imposing the same requirements on new cars.
Beginning in 1973, California law provides for a fine of $5,000
for each vehicle sold in the state which does not meet the standards.
Assembly line testing of all cars would assure compliance with this
requirement.
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WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVER
R
MEMO TO THE PRF
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-1-71
Governor Ronald Reagan will sign AB 146 which will provide time
and one-half overtime pay for state employees during brief ceremonies
at 4:00 p.m. today in his office. Funding for the raise is included in
the governor's proposed budget.
Photo coverage is invited.
####
WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-1-71
#334
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Alan C. Nelson, assistant
director for legal affairs in the Department of Human Resources Developmen
as interim director of HRD.
Nelson, 37, who played a key role in developing the governor's
welfare reform program, has served as the department's assistant
director for legal affairs since 1969.
He succeeds Gilbert Sheffield, who has resigned to resume his
career in private business.
Prior to his state appointment, Nelson served for five years as
an Alameda County deputy district attorney and was instrumental in
strengthening the office's Family Support Division.
He is a past president of the District Attorneys' California
Family Support Council, the Alameda County Bar Association, the
Lawyers' Club of Alameda County, the San Francisco Barristers Club and
Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Nelson earned his law degree from the University of California's
Boalt Hall.
He and his wife JoAnn have two daughters. The family lives in
Davis.
Nelson receives a salary of $22,584.
####
WAS
OFFICE OF TH GOVERNOR
RELEA
Immediate
Sacramento, lifornia
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-1-71
#335
Governor Reagan transmitted the attached to the Cali-
fornia Legislature today:
June 1, 1971
To the Honorable Members of the Senate and Assembly:
Pursuant to Chapter 1534, Statutes of 1970, I hereby trans-
mit the attached Progress Report on the Development of
State Environmental Goals and Policy.
In keeping with the provisions of the new statute and the
strong emphasis this Administration has placed on protecting,
preserving and enhancing California's environment, I have
directed the new Office of Planning and Research to give
immediate and high priority to the development of a
comprehensive statewide land use policy.
The result of this effort not only will provide positive
guidance to those charged with carrying out the orderly
future growth and development of our state, but also will
complement the tremendous strides California already is
making to control air and water pollution.
Just as the new Department of Consumer Affairs is helping to
provide overall coordination for the state's wide-ranging consumer
protection activities, the new Office of Planning and
Research will continue to coordinate all departmental land
use planning activities as a part of its effort to develop
a comprehensive land use policy.
The attached report describes studies currently under way as
well as those steps which will be taken in the months ahead
to develop the types of statewide environmental goals and
policies outlined in the legislation.
Respectfully submitted,
Enclosure
RONALD REAGAN, Governor
TO:
Honorable Ronald Reagan
FROM: Office of Planning and Research
FOR: Transmission to the California Legislature
(pursuant to Chapter 1534, Statutes of 1970).
June 1, 1971
PROGRESS REPORT
ON DEVELOPMENT OF STATE
ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS AND POLICY
California's continuing population growth has introduced increasing
pressures and competing demands on California's natural, social and
economic resources. Over the decades there has been a tendency to
court such growth without calculating the costs, or preparing for
the effects. Today, the cumulative impact of those many years of
growth is bearing seriously on many aspects of California life--
especially upon our environment.
Because California, like other states, has never had a clear and
cogent range of options against which to evaluate its growth and
development patterns or its environmental goals and policies, the
1970 Legislature determined that the recommendation, continuous
evaluation and execution of statewide goals and policies--with
special attention to environmental policies and objectives--should
rest within the scope of the executive functions of the Governor's
Office. To facilitate these functions, the law established within
the Governor's Office the Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and
designated it as the comprehensive state planning agency.
OFFICE OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH
In keeping with the provisions of Chapter 1534, Statutes of 1970,
an Office of Planning and Research has been established within the
Governor's Office. OPR reports directly to the Assistant to the
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Governor and Director of Programs and Policy, providing a direct
line of communications and influence with the Governor, his Cabinet
and staff.
The principal objectives of the Office of Planning and Research are:
--to provide a primary vehicle for the development of policy
alternatives for the Governor;
--to stimulate greater public involvement in the processes of
state government;
--to coordinate various federally funded state planning grants;
--to coordinate all statewide planning activities of units of
state government; and
--to develop and transmit information and plans on policies of
the Executive Branch, particularly in the field of environ-
ment, to the Legislature.
The operational mission of OPR is to build an effective team approach
to problem solving rather than relying on a static bureaucracy.
Such a coordinated, interdisciplinary approach is imperative if we
are to make optimum use of the talents, skills and other resources
available within the executive branch of State government.
The effectiveness and the scope of the work already undertaken by
OPR has been greatly enhanced through close cooperation with plan-
ning personnel in the Agencies and departments. This cooperation
can increase cost-benefit ratios by preventing duplication of effort
as well as contradictions in planning between the various departments.
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In general, then, OPR will serve as the focal point within the
executive branch for generating policy alternatives and long-range
planning as they pertain to the development and protection of human,
natural and economic resources.
THE PROPER BALANCE
While the state's resources must be shepherded more effectively in
the future if we are to improve the quality of life for all
Californians, we must take care to guard against government's inherent
tendency to intrude more and more on the individual's life and legi-
timate pursuits. A completely controlled economy, a totally planned
and regimented environment, is as much of an anathema to our citizens
as a completely unregulated and chaotic society.
Our purpose is to achieve a proper balance within the constitutional
structure of government in a free society.
By developing appropriate statewide environmental goals and policies,
local governments will have a definite framework within which they
may develop more specific goals and policies to meet their immediate
concerns and responsibilities.
MAJOR THRUST
Many of today's environmental problems are tied directly to the
question of land use. Whether discussing issues involving the safe-
guarding of San Francisco Bay, the merits of the State Water Project,
air pollution within our major urban centers, or recreational sub-
divisions, we are confronted with the need for emphasis on the envi-
ronmental impact of land use decisions.
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The Legislature has directed that the Office of Planning and Research
give immediate and high priority attention to the development of a
land use policy for California. This office will become the focal
point for a coordinated interdisciplinary land use study designed
to formulate a series of land use and environmental policy alterna-
tives, as well as alternative implementation procedures.
Such a multi-phased land use policy study will provide input and
guidance for the preparation of the first Environmental Goals and
Policy Report. The study will encompass the following subject areas:
-basic studies of land use, and population growth and
distribution;
--governmental management and associated costs;
environmental enhancement and protection;
human resources;
natural resources; and
-housing (urbanization).
All state departments with budgeted planning functions affecting
land use will be coordinating their programs with OPR. The Chief
Planner or assistant in those departments will be assigned to work
closely with OPR to help develop a coordinated land use review,
evaluation and planning program. This approach will allow us to
achieve the goals we have set without increasing costs. It also
will enable us to make the most effective use of the environmental
planning expertise which is available in various state agencies.
A review and evaluation by OPR of ongoing and proposed planning
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efforts in the departments also will enable us to make realistic
priority recommendations to the Budget Division of the Department
of Finance. (See Appendix I for various state departments involved
in land use activities.)
Phase One of that multi-phased land use policy development program
is currently in progress and will continue through December 31, 1971.
Its major program elements include:
--identification of current problems, conflicts and needs;
--development of criteria and identification of areas of
statewide, critical and hazardous concern (due to fire,
flood and earthquake, for example);
--identification and evaluation of existing policies, programs
and projects at all levels of government;
--identification of alternative planning goals and policies
and their implications;
--development of recommended alternative land use objectives,
criteria and guidelines; and
--preparation of a draft version of environmental goals and
policy reports, recognizing interrelated problems, needs
and objectives.
A more detailed and specific outline of this project and its subse-
quent phases is included as Appendix II, together with a graphic
presentation thereof.
The progress and findings of these studies will be reported to the
Governor and his Cabinet periodically. Phase One will be completed
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and a report on alternative land use goals, policies, criteria and
objectives will be presented to the Legislature as part of our
overall Environmental Goals and Policy Report in March 1972.
During Phase One, the Office of Planning and Research will coordinate
several pertinent departmental studies on land use policies and
needs, including:
the Department of Water Resources will conduct a statewide
land use inventory, including the identification of land use
data needs and gaps;
the Division of Forestry will provide OPR with criteria for
identifying hazardous fire areas and identify these fire
areas on a statewide basis; and
the Department of Housing and Community Development will set
forth a State Housing Element and Policy.
Other ongoing, grant-assisted studies also will be coordinated with
OPR work:
the Master Plan of Aviation conducted by the Department of
Aeronautics;
the Statewide Transportation System Evaluation Project,
being conducted by the Business and Transportation Agency;
the Master Plan of Geology, being conducted by the Division
of Mines and Geology; and
the Comprehensive Ocean Area Plan underway at the Department
of Navigation and Ocean Development.
(See Appendix III for Fiscal 71-72 Estimated State Land Use
Planning Activities.)
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As work is completed on the Comprehensive Ocean Area Plan, the
material will be incorporated into the overall land use policy
program.
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEM
The Office of Planning and Research recently coordinated the dev-
elopment of Proposed Interim Guidelines for the preparation and
review of Environmental Impact Statements (EIS), as required by
both the federal and state Environmental Quality Acts. The EIS
which will be prepared on federally or state funded projects will
enable us to monitor those changes in land use which result from
these projects. The Office of Intergovernmental Management in the
Lieutenant Governor's Office is developing an electronic data pro-
cessing system to accommodate the data generated through the EIS.
The experience gained from this initial effort will be used to develop
a more sophisticated land use monitoring system in the years to come.
OPR will explore potential input from various other state and local
agencies to develop monitoring systems for changes in land use not
covered through the EIS program.
Another important contribution to an overall environmental monitor-
ing system would involve the National Aeronautics and Space Agency.
Recently we requested that California be permitted access to special
data obtained through NASA's Earth Resources Technology Satellite
program (ERTS-A), as well as the SKYLAB project and supporting air-
craft operations.
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ERTS-A is scheduled for launch in March of 1972, and the data from
this remote sensing device can be an invaluable tool to OPR and
resource managers in the administration. This will aid the Air
Resources Board in studying the movement of pollution clouds and
help evaluate the locations for ground level air monitoring stations.
Legislation enacted at the 1970 regular session of the State Legis-
lature directs the State Air Resources Board to establish a state
air monitoring network for obtaining data on air quality in each
air basin, within California. The ARB is currently implementing
this legislation. A table showing the Board's current (1970) net-
work and the proposed new networks is attached as Appendix IV. The
State Water Resources Control Board has prepared a comprehensive
report for the Legislature that documents the need for a coordinated
comprehensive statewide water quality monitoring program and the
preliminary steps to be taken as a forerunner to the design of the
statewide program. They too will benefit from the data obtained in
the Satellite program.
These activities will contribute to the development of a coordinated
water, air and land use monitoring system which ultimately will
enable the appropriate state, regional or local officials to take
whatever immediate action may be necessary to abate pollution prob-
lems at the earliest possible point in time. The NASA data will also
assist such state agencies as the Department of Agriculture, the
Division of Forestry, the Department of Public Health and the
Department of Public Works to more adequately determine and evaluate
overall needs and problems in environmental areas and to monitor
activities in these areas.
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All data we obtain, including that secured from the Satellite's
California overflights, will form the base from which we can better
evolve land use policies and guidelines in the various Environ-
mental Goals and Policy reports of the future.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM NETWORKS
Effective environmental planning requires a clear overview of the
cause-effect relationship of activities which could have a signifi-
cant impact on the environment. The material developed for Environ-
mental Impact Statements will increase our knowledge of the cause-
effect relationship of projects funded by state or federal agencies,
and will greatly assist our decision-making process by bringing
potential environmental concerns to our attention prior to the
actual construction phase of a project.
The environmental cause-effect relationship network is a complex
area that will attract the efforts of the various environmental
planning staffs participating in the development of our environmental
goals and policies, as well as the land use study.
An example of a cause-effect relationship matrix is included as
Appendix V. While only preliminary, it still serves to illustrate
the numerous potential impacts resulting from land use decisions.
A number of matrix charts will be developed and will be useful in
the following areas of environmental planning:
--an overview necessary for a balanced effective approach to
planning;
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to identify federal, state, regional or local program over-
laps and gaps, and situations where existing programs are
not adequate to cover the problem;
--immediate needs can be readily identified as newly emerging
environmental problems arise; and
--they will assist in establishing priorities for funding of
state programs in undermanaged environmental areas.
Another important contribution to the solution of some of the envi-
ronmental problems we face is the work of newly created environmental
or conservation units within various state agencies. Of particular
significance are the new environmental units in the Department of
Public Works and the Department of Water Resources. These are two
departments which carry on major construction projects and which
have been restructured to ensure that environmental concerns are
incorporated into the overall planning process for any project under
their jurisdiction.
INFORMATION CHANNEL
One of the important service functions of the Office of Planning and
Research will be the establishment of an information channel to
enable all interested parties to be aware of, and also to contribute
to, cooperative and effective planning and management of the environment.
Such information exchange must include liaison with federal agencies,
and the identification of federal legislative activities and pro-
grams in the field of environmental control. Federal grants and
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other matching-fund projects involving land use must be effectively
geared into the total planning structure. OPR has already worked
to coordinate federal research and planning grants involving, in the
coming fiscal year, six state departments. This coordination has
allowed us to direct available federal funds to those areas of
immediate statewide need. The management and monitoring of those
federal funds as they are utilized in the state's planning efforts
is an OPR responsibility.
APPENDIX 1.
DEPARTMENTS INVOLVED IN LAND USE ACTIVITIES
BUSINESS AND TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
RESOURCES AGENCY
Department of Public Works
Department of Water Resources
Department of Housing and
Department of Fish and Game
Community Development
Department of Parks and Recreation
Department of Real Estate
Department of Conservation
Department of Aeronautics
Department of Navigation and
Ocean Development
San Francisco Bay Conservation
and Development Commission
Water Resources Control Board
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
HUMAN RELATIONS AGENCY
AGRICULTURE AND SERVICES AGENCY
Department of Public Health
Department of Agriculture
Department of Corrections
Department of General Services
OTHER
University of California
Public Utilities Commission
State Lands Commission
Office of Planning and Research
California Disaster Office
Department of Education
Office of Attorney General
Department of Commerce
Coordinating Council for Higher Education
APPENDIX
PHASE I LAND USE POLICY PROGRAM
OFFICE OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH
(4-71 to 12-71)
A. PREPARE STUDY DESIGN
1, Prepare Revised Study Design reflecting new Legislative
mandates and incorporating Phases II and III
B. DEFINITION OF CURRENT DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS AND NEEDS
1. Human and Social Problems and Needs
2. Environmental Problems and Needs
3. Economic Problems and Needs
4. Physical Problems and Needs
5. Related Time Constraints
C. IDENTIFICATION OF CALIFORNIA's PHYSICAL STATUS TODAY
1. Lands Which are of a Statewide Significance
2. Lands Which are of a Critical Concern Because of Unique
Qualities
3. Lands Which are Hazardous for Development
4. Lands Which are Suitable for Development
5. Federal Lands of Significant Size Which if Developed
Could Affect Development Patterns.
D. IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF CALIFORNIA's POLICIES,
PROGRAM AND PROJECTS
1. Identify and Evaluate Existing Programs and Projects
a. State
b. Local
C. Public and Private Utilities
2. Identify and Evaluate Existing Legislative Mandates
3. Investigate the Role and Relationship of Local Planning
Efforts as Related to State Government.
4. Identify Problems Outside Scope of This Project for
Additional Study--i.e. Local Tax and Property Assessment
Problems.
E. IDENTIFY ALTERNATIVE PLANNING GOALS AND POLICIES AND THEIR
GENERAL IMPLICATIONS
1. Continued Trends
2. Concentration Within Existing Metropolitan Areas
3. New Communities- - - (Satelite)
4. New Towns - - (Self Contained)
5. Encouraged Growth of Smaller Currently Non-metropolitan
Areas
F. DEVELOP RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVE OBJECTIVES, CRITERIA AND
GUIDELINES
G. PREPARE DRAFT VERSION ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS AND POLICY REPORT
1. Summary of Current Development Needs and Problems
2. Summary of California's Physical Status Today
3. Summary of California's Policies, Programs and Projects
4. Recommended Alternative Development Goals and Policies
5. Submission of Draft Environmental Goals and Policy Report
to Administration Review and Comment
PHASE II LAND USE POLICY PROGRAM
OFFICE OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH
(1-72 to 6-72)
A. DEVELOP FIRST ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS AND POLICY REPORT
1. Prepare Base Period Report from Phase I Draft and Review
a. Existing Problems
b. Lands Inventory
C. Existing Policies
d. Existing Programs
2. Identification of Alternative Development Goals and
Policies and General Implications
3. Outline of Phases II and III
4. Recommendations Regarding Problems Outside Scope of this
Project
5. Submit Report to Governor for Transmittal to Legislature
B. PROJECT CURRENT DEVELOPMENT TRENDS
1. Project Population Increase to Year 2000
2. Project Land Utilization by Gross Acreage Categories
3. Project Water Requirements
4. Project Transportation Requirements
5. Project Other Public Facility Requirements
6. Project Employment Requirements
7. Project School Enrollment Levels and Facilities Requirements
8. Project Unemployment Estimates
9. Project Housing Needs for all Segments of the Population
10. Project Recreation Requirements.
11. Estimate Potential Uses of Federal Lands Identified
in Phase I
C. EVALUATE IMPACT OF CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT TRENDS UPON CALIFOR-
NIA's UNDEVELOPED LANDS (Partial)
1.
Lands Statewide Significance
2. Lands Critical Concern
3.
Lands Hazardous for Development
4.
Lands Suitable for Development
5.
Federal Lands of Significant Size
D. EVALUATE COST TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF CONTINUED
DEVELOPMENT TRENDS (Partial)
1.
Duplication of Services
2.
Conflicting Requirements of Governments
3.
Services Lacking
4.
Services Requiring Replacement
E. EVALUATE IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT UPON ALTERNATIVE LAND USE AND
ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS AND POLICIES (Partial)
1.
Evaluate the Impact Upon Land Resources
2.
Evaluate the Impact on Governmental Costs
3.
Evaluate the Impact on Environmental Enhancement
4.
Evaluate the Impact on Human and Social Qualities
F.
IDENTIFY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN STATEWIDE
PLANNING PROCESS ON CONTINUING AND INFORMED BASIS
1. Identify. Data Needs, Format and Retrievability
2. Identify Monitoring System Needs
3. Identify Required Actions to Implement Systems
PHASE III LAND USE POLICY PROGRAM
OFFICE OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH
(7-72 to 6-73)
A. COMPLETION OF EVALUATION OF IMPACT OF CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT
TRENDS UPON CALIFORNIA's UNDEVELOPED LANDS
1: Lands Statewide Significance
2. Lands Critical Concern
3. Lands Hazardous for Development
4. Lands Suitable for Development
5. Federal Lands of Significant Size
B. COMPLETION OF EVALUATION OF COST TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERN-
MENT OF CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT TRENDS
1. Duplication of Services
2. Conflicting Requirements of Governments
3. Services Lacking
4. Services Requiring Replacement
C. COMPLETION OF EVALUATION OF IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT UPON
ALTERNATIVE LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS AND POLICIES
1. Evaluate the Impact Upon Land Resources
2. Evaluate the Impact on Governmental Costs
3. Evaluate the Impact on Environmental Enhancement
4. Evaluate the Impact on Human and Social Qualities
D. COMPLETION OF IDENTIFYING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS NECESSARY TO
MAINTAIN STATEWIDE PLANNING PROCESS ON CONTINUING AND INFORMED
BASIS
1. Identify Data Needs, Format and Retrievability
2. Identify Monitoring Svsten Needs
3. Identify Required Actions to Implement Systems
E. EXECUTIVE REVIEW AND COMMENT
1. Review by Administration
2. Public Exposure Through the Commission on the 70s--Public
Hearings
3. Development of Administration Position
4. Preparation of Report Identifying Desirable Goals, Policies,
Objectives, Criteria and Guidelines
F. IDENTIFY ALTERNATIVE IMPLEMENTATION PROCEDURES
G. IDENTIFY ALTERNATIVE REORGANIZATIONS IF NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH
IMPLEMENTATION
1. State Level Planning Activities
2. Relationship of State to Local Planning Activities
H. EXECUTIVE REVIEW AND REPORT
1. Administration Review of Implementation and Reorganization
Alternatives
2. Public Exposure Through Commission on the 70s
3. Finalization of Administration's Position
4. Submission of Report Stating Administration's Policy
Position
APPENDIX III
ESTIMATED LAND USE PLANNING ACTIVITIES
(Includes Both State and Federal Monies)
Fiscal Year 1971-72
BUSINESS AND TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
(Evaluation of Transportation Systems)
$ 100,000
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION, Div. of Forestry
(High Hazard Forest Areas)
66,000
(Watershed and Fire Protection-Local Development
Assistance)
235,000
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION, Div. of Mines and Geology
(Master Plan of Urban Geology
44,000
(Geologic Hazards amd Mineral Resources Conservation-
Environmental and Economic Geology Element)
1,120,000
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
(Housing Element)
55,000
DEPARTMENT OF NAVIGATION AND OCEAN DEVELOPMENT
(Comprehensive Ocean Area Plan)
270,000
OFFICE OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH
(Government Management Improvement)
50,000
(Land Use Policy Program)
75,000
RESOURCES AGENCY
(California Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the
Bi-State Tahoe Regional Planning Agency)
50,000
(Initial Element-Power Plant Siting 20-Year Plan)
50,000
STATE LANDS DIVISION
(Non-Extractive Development Program-Land Use
Planning Element)
15,000
SAN FRANCISCO BAY CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
(Land Use Planning Element)
14,000
DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES
(Land Use Inventory and Analysis)
111,000
(Projected Water Demand Program)
106,000
WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD
(Water Quality Control Planning-Land Use Planning
Element)
207,000
TOTAL
$2,568,000
APPENDIX IV (a)
AIR RESOURCES BOARD
AIR MONITORING STATIONS
EQUIPPED AS OF OCT. 27, 1970
CONTAMINANTS MEASURED
SUSPENDED
PARTICULATES
LOCATION
COUNTY
CITY
OX
NO
NO₂
NOX
CO
HC
SO₂
AISI
HI VOL
WIND
FULL STATIONS
1. Alameda
Oakland (2)
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
2. Fresno
Fresno
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
3. Kern
Bakersfield
X
%
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
4.
Sacramento
Sacramento
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
A
5. San Joacuin
Stockton
A
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
6. San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
7. Shasta
Redding
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
8. Solano
Valleio
X
X
X
X
X
X
X (3)
X
X
INC
9. Sonoma
Santa Rosa
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
10.
Stanislaus
Modesto
X
X
X
X
A
X
X
X
TX
11. Tulare
Visalia
/
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
TX
12. Butte
Chico
X
%
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
PARTIAL STATIONS
1. Alameda
Berkeley
X
X
Fresno
Fresno
X
X
X
3. Mendocino
Ukian
X
X
4.
Canella
X
5.
Willits
X
6. Napa
Naba
X
X
X
7. San Joaquin
Stockton
X
TI
8. Santa barbara
Santa Maria
X(3)
All
X
9. Solano
Fairfield
X
X
INSTRUMENTS ON LOAN
Humboldt
Eurcka
X
Orange
Anaheim
X
Plumas
Quincy
X
Riverside
Riverside
X
X
San Bernardino
San bernardino
X
San Dieco
San biego
X
San Francisco
San Francisco
X
(1) NO is calculated as the difference between NOx and NO₂
(2) CO₂ 15 measured at Oakland
(3) To ha
APPENDIX IV (b)
PROPOSED CALIFORNIA AIR MONITORING NETWORK STATIONS
BASIN
COUNTY
CITY
OPERATED BY
TYPE STATION
San Francisco
Bay Area
San Mateo
Redwood City
Bay Area APCD
Permanent
Santa Clara
San Jose
"
11
"
11
Solano
Vallejo
Air Resources Board
"
Alameda
Oakland
11
"
"
Supplementary
Napa
Napa
"
"
"
"
Sonoma
Santa Rosa
"
11
"
11
Sacramento
Valley
Sacramento
Sacramento
Air Resources Board
Permanent
Butte
Chico
11
"
"
Supplementary
Shasta
Redding
"
If
If
"
Sutter
Yuba City
"
"
It
11
North Coast
Mobile
Air Resources Board
Supplementary
San Joaquin
Valley
Fresno
Fresno
Air Resources Board
Permanent
Kern
Bakersfield
"
11
"
"
San Joaquin
Stockton
"
"
"
11
Stanislaus
Modesto
"
11
"
Supplementary
Tulare
Visalia
"
"
"
"
Mobile
"
"
"
"
North Central
Coast
Monterey
Salinas
Monterey-Santa Cruz
Permanent
APCD
South Central
Coast
San Luis Obispo
San Luis
Obispo
Air Resources Board
Supplementary
South Coast
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Los Angeles APCD
Permanent
"
"
Azusa
"
"
11
Supplementary
11
If
Lennox
11
"
"
If
"
"
Pasadena
It
"
"
11
#
South Coast
Orange
Anaheim
Orange County APCD
Permanent
San Bernardino
San Bernardino
San Bernardino Co. APCD
11
Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara
Air Resources Board
"
Ventura
Camarillo
Ventura County APCD
"
Orange
La Habra
Orange County APCD
Supplementary
Riverside
Riverside
Riverside County APCD
11
Southeast Desert Riverside
Indio
Riverside County APCD
Supplementary
Mobile
Air Resources Board
"
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ENVIRONMENTAL
EFFECT
Erosion
Sedimentation
Water Quality
Air Quality # #1
Air Quality #2
(man-made pollutants)
POTENTIAL
Thermal
Aesthetic
Acoustical
Fish & Wildlife
Native Vegetation
Health & Safety
Air Quality #1
Ekistical
Air Quality #2
(natural pollutants)
Odor
LAND USE ACTIVITY
Agricultural Crop
Crop
>
Livestock
<
<
Muni. & Residential
Housing
>
V
Waste Disposal
liouid
>
solid
Transportation
Highways
Rail
-
Aircraft
A APPRENDIX
V
-
Industrial
Manufacturing
4
1
\
Petroleum Refining
>
V
/
Food Processing
Construction
V.
Resource Utilization
Mining
X
>
Petroleum
Timber
>
)
Water
of
V
<
Power Generation
Hydroelectric
Thermal
<
Recreation
Water Oriented
Land Oriented
>
>
OFFICE OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH
WORK PROGRAM FOR FORMULATION OF LAND USE POLICY
and Input
st
THERE
Envil Studies ronmental Ecgional from and Local Reports Goals Organizal Cover and ions
ALTERNATIVE LAND POLICIES USE
PHASE III
JULY 72 JUNE 73
PHASE II
Continued dev. of
JAN JUNE 72
=>
mgmt. system
Policy
PHASE I
Continued dev. of
MAY DEC 71
alternative land
inputs
use goals &
Ident. of prob-
Projection of cur-
policies
lems & needs
rent dev. trends
Inventory of pre-
Ident. of alt. mgmt.
Continued dev. of
of State Task Programs Force
Bf-monthly from Meeting State of Planning Departments
sent situation
systems
implementation
procedures
Analysis of exist-
Eval. of govt'l,
Continued dev. of
Che
ing Fed, State &
econ, & environ.
alt. land use
APPENDIX II (b)
local policies,
impact of projects
goals So policies
FIS Management System
programs &
projects
Ident. of possible
implementation
Ident. of existing
procedures
V
land use goals &
policies
Periodic review by
Initial ident. of
Governor and Cabinet
alternative land
use goals &
policies
Periodic review by
Governor and Cabinet
Periodic review by
Governor and Cabinet
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-2-71
Governor Reagan will attend the funeral
of Roy Priest at 10 a.m., Thursday.
The governor's regular weekly press
conference therefore has been rescheduled and
will be held at 11 a.r., Friday, at the Greater
Los Angeles Press Club, Los Angeles.
# # #
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Bec
445-4571
6-2-71
#336
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he will submit a
reorganization plan to the legislature which calls for abolition of
the State Board of Dry Cleaners.
Under the plan, the state fire marshal will continue to handle
health and fire protection duties with funds that will be transferred
from the board's budget.
The governor said the plan will result in annual savings of
approximately $300,000 in addition to eliminating unnecessary overlapping
and duplication of efforts by the two groups.
Abolition of the board was recommended by the Little Hoover
Commission.
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WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-2-71
#337
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of
Karl W. Holton of Newport Beach to a four-year-term on the Board of
Corrections, subject to Senate confirmation.
Holton, vice chairman of the board, and a member since 1953,
served as the first director of the State Youth Authority from 1943
to 1952 and was chief probation officer for Los Angeles from that date
until his retirement in 1963.
He lives at 306 Avenida Cunbre, Newport Beach. He is a
Republican.
Board members are paid $25 per diem.
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WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-4-71
#338
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement
at his press conference in Los Angeles:
"I had a meeting several weeks ago with the legislative
leadership of both parties to again see if we could not approach
some of the real problems confronting California in a bi-partisan
way.
"At that meeting, there were two agreements: one, that we
would consider welfare reform prior to considering the budget, which
seemed logical to me because it is the biggest, single expense item
in the budget. (I don't see how we could determine a budget until
we have determined what welfare is going to cost.)
"And the second agreement, that the Democratic leadership would
come back and give us some idea of where they stood with regard to
our welfare reform proposals how far apart we were, how much of the
reform we could perhaps count on
at least a bi-partisan approach.
"I got alarmed when three weeks went by when no word of such
a meeting came about. So yesterday I invited them down again. We
had a meeting and at that time Senator Beilenson told us that he had
a memorandum concerning his own proposal which included some of our
provisions, and some other provisions that have been introduced by
other senators, and that that memorandum had been given to my office.
"The Democratic leadership in the Assembly had not seen the
memorandum so they didn't know whether they could be in agreement
with what he was proposing, but without taking the time to specify,
they did tell us that they would be prepared to say what they could or
could not agree with regarding our program.
"Our people, after burning the midnight oil, have had time to
analyze the memorandum which was submitted by Senator Beilenson.
Apparently his proposals would contain no work requirements for people
on
welfare there would be no control over the growing caseload as
we had proposed; there would be no cost savings; and so-called reform
would wind up with welfare costing $140 to $200 million more than the
program we had proposed. This would add to the county property tax
and the counties' share of this would fall on the homeowners.
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"This isn't to an that we are unwilling
compromise or to
listen to any suggestions that were wedded, as some people have
indicated, to our own proposal and will hear nothing else.
"As a matter of fact, I said when it was submitted, that it
was up to the legislative process, that we would welcome any proposals,
any changes, any suggestions that could improve it.
"We so far have introduced three sets of amendments to correct,
mainly, the complaints that have come to us from county supervisors.
"And the third of those amendments was introduced Wednesday
afternoon. All of these, I think, would wind up being protections to
the county property taxpayer.
"It just seems apparent to me that our opponents have made it
very clear in the legislature that they have been, as they indicated
as long ago as last January, totally dedicated to the concept that
the only solution to the problems in California is a gigantic tax
increase.
"I do not believe, that until we have exhausted every oppor-
tunity to reduce the budget, to reform welfare down to the absolute
level at which the state government can function should a tax increase
be considered."
# # #
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WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califor
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-4-71
#339
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 37 - Lanterman
Requires a graduate of a medical school located in
(Chapter 113)
Mexico, who at the time of his enrollment therein
is a citizen of the United States, to take the same
examination given to graduates of California medical
schools, to serve one-year of postgraduate training
in family practice, and to take the clinical and
oral examination given by the Board of Medical
Examiners.
AB 63 - Brown
Revises the experience qualifications for issuance
(Chapter 110)
of a certified public accountant certificate in
designated instances.
AB 109 - Greene, L.
Makes $30 million available from the proceeds of
(Chapter 118)
the 1966 State School Building Aid Bond Law and
$250 million from the State School Building Aid
Bond Law of 1972 for rehabilitation or replacement
of school facilities which do not meet the
structural safety requirements of the Field Act.
AB 146 - Z'Berg
Authorizes the State Personnel Board to set the
(Chapter 111)
maximum overtime rate for State employees for both
cash payment and compensating time off at not
more than one and one-half times the regular rate
for those employees whose counterparts in private
industry and other governments receive premium pay
for overtime.
AB 234 - MacDonald
Establishes a procedure by which the Controller
(Chapter 119)
may make a determination of inheritance tax where
no court proceeding is pending or likely to be
filed. The bill also allows refund of inheritance
tax where there is no court order fixing tax if
application is made within two years of decedent's
death or within one year of the Controller's
determination whichever is later.
AB 251 - Chappie
Amends the Placer County Water Agency Act to
(Chapter 120)
authorize the agency to levy water standby charges,
form improvement districts, and to utilize the
Improvement Act of 1911 and the Municipal
Improvement Act of 1913.
AB 394 - Beverly
Makes permanent the provisions allowing judges in
(Chapter 121)
criminal cases to permit jurors to return home at
the end of the day following submission of the case
to them for deliberation.
AB 441 - Hayes
Authorizes the Director of Consumer Affairs to
(Chapter 114)
delegate the powers and duties vested in him by the
Consumer Affairs Act to the Chief of the Division
of Consumer Services.
AB 470 - Vasconcellos Amends the Civil Code to provide that no increase
(Chapter 117)
in the monthly rate of payment of a mortgagor,
trustor or vendee on a real property sales contract
for impound or trust accounts shall be effective
unitl after the mortgagee, beneficiary or vendor
has furnished the mortgagor, trustor or vendee
with an itemized accounting of the money presently
held by it in the accounts and the statement of the
new monthly rate of payment and an explanation of
the factors necessitating the increase.
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#339
AB 558 - Z'berg
Provides for giving a special notice of filing
(Chapter 115)
of inventory and appraisal in a probate proceeding.
AB 805 - Seeley
Requires vehicle dealers to send their notices of
(Chapter 116)
sale of a vehicle to the headquarters of the
Department of Motor Vehicles rather than to a
departmental field office.
AB 848 - Burton
Excludes consideration of the lump sum retroactive
(Chapter 122)
social security payments received under the
provisions of Public Law 92-5 in determining the
amount payable to any person under aid to families
with dependent children, aid to the blind, aid to
the aged, aid to the potentially self-supporting
blind, aid to the needy disabled, Medi-Cal, or
county aid and relief to indigents.
SB 89 - Rodda
Enlarges the categories of agencies with which a
(Chapter 109)
school district may contract to test the sight and
hearing of its pupils to include an agency
authorized to perform such services by the local
county superintendent of schools under guidelines
established by the State Board of Education.
SB 128 - Walsh
Requires the Department of Public Works to screen
(Chapter 112)
all state freeway overpasses at appropriate
locations, as determined by the department, on which
pedestrians are allowed, in order to prevent
objects from being dropped or thrown upon vehicles
passing underneath.
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WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Bec
445-4571
6-4-71
#340
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
June 7, 1971
through
June 13, 1971
Monday, June 7
Office appointments.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, June 8
Office appointments.
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, June 9
Office appointments.
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, June 10
10:30 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - San Francisco
Friday, June 11
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight Los Angeles
Saturday, June 12
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, June 13
No appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Los Angeles
#####
WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-7-71
#341
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of Morris
Weisberger, Secretary Treasurer of the Sailors Union of the Pacific and
J. Warnock Walsh, San Francisco stockbroker, to the Board of Pilot
Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun.
Weisberger, 64, and Walsh, 71, both Republicans, will succeed Robert
E. Mayer of San Mateo and Captain Joseph W. Dickover of San Rafael,
whose terms have expired.
Active in numerous civic and labor groups, Weisberger has served as
a Commissioner of the San Francisco Port Authority and a member of the
San Francisco World Trade Center Authority. He lives at 22 Beachmont
Drive, San Francisco.
Walsh has served as a member of the State Harbor Commission, the
San Francisco Police Commission and as a chairman and director of the
Hanna Boys Club. He lives at 130 Pacheco Street, San Francisco.
Both appointments are subject to Senate confirmation. Board
members serve at the pleasure of the governor and receive necessary
expenses and compensation not to exceed $300 per month.
####
WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immedia
Sacramento, Californ.
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-8-71
#342
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of
four members to the Intergovernmental Board on Electronic Data
Processing.
The board, which operates out of the office of Lieutenant
Governor Ed Reinecke, establishes policies and procedures for
intergovernmental information systems.
The new members, who will serve at the pleasure of the governor,
are Orville J. Hawkins, deputy director of the Department of Justice;
Grant Bennett, a certified public accountant and member of the
Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Education; Dr. James
L. Merrihew, Superintendent of the Mt. Diablo Unified School District,
and Leo A. Palmiter, Superintendent of Sacramento County Schools.
Hawkins, 55, a veteran law enforcement officer, will represent
the Department of Justice on the board. He lives at 6213 Everest Way,
Sacramento. He is a Republican.
Bennett, 41, a partner in the Sacramento firm of Blucher,
Bennett and Company, will serve as alternate representative of school
boards. He lives at 1101 41st Street, Sacramento, He is a Republican.
Dr. Merrihew, 54, will represent school districts. He lives
at 2407 Lomond Lane, Walnut Creek. He is a Republican, and replaces
Dr. James H. Corson, of Millbrae, who has resigned.
Palmiter, 51, will serve as a representative of school districts.
He lives at 602 Garden Street, Sacramento. He is a Democrat.
Members of the board receive no compensation.
#####
WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Bec
445-4571
6-8-71
#343
Governor Ronald Reagan today hailed as "a major first step toward
accomplishing meaningful welfare reform" the signing of an agreement
with Ventura County in which 'employable' welfare recipients will be
placed under the overall jurisdiction of the State Department of Human
Resources Development (HRD) whose services will be aimed at getting the
able-bodied off the rolls and into jobs.
The concept of separating employable welfare recipients from the
unemployable, and then concentrating on job preparation and placement for
the "employables," is a key element of Governor Reagan's welfare reform
program.
"I'm delighted that Ventura County has become the first county to
join with us in this important effort to redirect the basic approach of
welfare from serving only as a financial end in itself, to helping the
employable or potentially employable get off the rolls and into jobs,"
the governor said.
"Putting the 'employables' concept into effect represents a major
first step toward accomplishing meaningful welfare reform. Moreover,
it holds the promise of paving the way for implementation of public
assistance work force programs which will enable welfare recipients to
participate in work projects of real value to their community while
awaiting the opportunity to get off welfare completely," he added.
Under the agreement between Ventura County and the state, HRD will
become responsible for providing all social and employment services to
employable welfare recipients.
State Human Relations Secretary James M. Hall said the key to the
project is the transformation of existing broad and sometimes disconnected
social services to employment services, These employment services will
have one consistent goal---a self-sustaining job for the welfare recipient
He said that up to a dozen social workers, employed by the Ventura
County Welfare Department, will be moved under the overall supervision
and direction of HRD employment personnel at the time the project gets
officially under way, Monday, June 21.
"This will be done at no additional cost to the taxpayers, and
because of the program's emphasis on employment, we expect that long term
savings will result," he added.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ:
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-8-71
#344
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the establishment of a
new Division of Consumer Services to provide greater protection for
insurance policy holders.
The new division, created through a reorganization in the
Department of Insurance, will handle inquiries and complaints from
the public concerning insurance policy problems; will investigate
the practices of insurance agents and brokers and institute legal
action if needed.
These functions were formerly handled by the Legal and
Compliance Division which now becomes the Legal Division under the
reorganization.
The new organization structure places responsibility for
management of the Legal Division, License Division and the new
Consumer Services Division with the Chief Assistant Insurance
Commissioner.
The Chief Deputy Insurance Commissioner will assume
responsibility for field examination, rate regulation and the company
and analysis division through the new program.
In addition to providing more protection for insurance policy
holders, the reorganization will enable the Department of Insurance
to handle a growing workload without an increase in personnel, the
governor said.
####
WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
RELEASE: Imn
iate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-9-71
#345
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"Yesterday, Senator Beilenson called a press conference to
announce that this afternoon he would kill my welfare reform and
substitute what he called a compromise measure a composite of several
proposals. I am compelled to call attention to the fact that his bill
is not a compromise but is a totally meaningless bill which will neither
halt the spiralling growth and greater cost of welfare but will instead
add to the already heavy tax burden borne by our citizens.
"He predicted I would not approve of his bill because I do not
understand politics. And he said he would make me like his substitute
for reform because it would be the only one around after he killed true
reform once and for all.
"He is half right. I do not understand politics which trifles
with the lives of the recipients and guarantees an added tax burden on
state and county taxpayers.
"If his brand of politics, as he boasted, actually kills welfare
reform this afternoon, the people undoubtedly will be forced to pay
millions of dollars in new taxes this year."
######
PE
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
RELEASE: Imr liate
Sacramento, Californi.
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-9-71
#346
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Alton M. Clem, San Francisco labor leader, to the State Transportation
Board, subject to Senate confirmation.
Clem, 66, a Democrat, will succeed E. Hornsby Wasson of
Hillsborough, who has resigned.
A veteran of 36 years in the California labor movement, Clem
is business manager of Operating Engineers Local 3 and a seventh
vice president of the International Union of Operating Engineers,
AFL-CIO.
Credited with the co-authorship of the California State Plan
for the employment of minorities in the Building and Construction
Trades, he also helped to pioneer training, safety, education,
credit union savings and scholarship programs that have become a
part of union organization.
He is a member and a past vice president of the State Building
Trades Council and has served as president of the Contra Costa
Building Trades Council and the Alameda County Building Trades
Council.
Clem has been commended twice by the State Senate for his
contributions to labor and the state, most recently for his efforts
in establishing the union-management Rancho Murieta Training Center
at Sloughhouse for upgrading the skills of operating engineers.
He and his wife Helene live at 351 Marcella Way, Millbrae.
Clem will serve at the pleasure of the governor. Members of
the board receive no compensation.
# # #
WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-9-71
#347
Governor Ronald Reagan today praised State Division of
Forestry firefighters for their "excellent record of dedicated
service" as he signed legislation reducing their weekly duty
requirements.
The new law, which goes into effect immediately, provides
for an 84-hour duty week for forestry fire suppression personnel.
They formerly were required to be on duty for 96 hours.
"Year after year, Californians witness the results of the
tremendous efforts put forth by the Division of Forestry," the
governor said. "It is a tribute to this effort that we are able
to reduce the duty time requirements for these exceptional
firefighters."
(AB 114)
The legislation authored by Assemblyman Frank P. Belotti
(R-Eureka) at the governor's request, was passed unanimously by the
Assembly and the Senate.
# # #
WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: : ediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-9-71
#348
(NOTE: For the benefit of radio and television, the governor will
read the following statement at 4:15 in the governor's office. Those
who desire audio or video of the statement should be there at that time).
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"Just a short time ago, the Senate Health and Welfare Committee
killed this administration's welfare reform program and we understand
they are now considering an omnibus package somehow described by
Senator Anthony Beilenson, its author, as 'welfare reform.'
"This is hardly a proper description for a welfare program which
could cost the hard working men and women of this state nearly $1 billion
more in federal, state and local taxes for welfare during the coming
year alone.
"Those who worried lest my own welfare reform proposal would add to
the county property tax should note the Beilenson bill will push on to
the counties some $83 million in new welfare costs which, for the most
part, will end up coming out of the pockets of our already beleaguered
homeowners.
"The Beilenson package would require the state to pay more for the
AFDC program alone during the coming year than we have spent for the
/this year
entire welfare program including assistance to the aged, blind and
disabled.
"If his program should pass, it not only will deny federal, state
and county savings in welfare expenditures from our program amounting to
$335 million next year, but even worse, could actually increase welfare
costs at the federal, state and county levels by $658 million. In other
words the total difference in cost between our proposal and his amounts
to $993 million.
"This is not welfare reform. It is a blatant attempt to force a
gigantic tax increase on the people. What they have forgotten
or
somehow ignored is that the people are demanding true welfare reform
and are absolutely opposed, as I am, to a tax increase.
Here are some other facts about the Beilenson package.
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#348
"It virtually wipes out any significant restraints or meaningful
controls on the present welfare system. It takes our existing open-
ended welfare system and opens it even further increasing by 60 percent
the average basic grant per person in the AFDC program. We too want an
increase to the basic grant but one the people can afford.
"He leaves out a major requirement of our program which requires
welfare employees to prove applicants truly need assistance before
welfare is granted. Indeed it ties the hands of those welfare employees
who try to exercise prudent discretion in determining eligibility and
the size of welfare grants.
"But this is not all. Unlike the public assistance work force plan
outlined in our welfare reform program which does not increase costs
the Beilenson 'work program' will increase the burden on the people by
another $78 million annually.
"The Democratic leadership has apparently seized on the welfare
reform issue as a means of raising taxes a goal they have announced
repeatedly.
"True welfare reform can be the means of eliminating the need for a
tax increase not the cause for one. I intend to continue to push for
responsible welfare reform which serves the interests of all the people---
including the taxpayers whose patience has been stretched to the
breaking point.
######
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO*
MEMO TO THE PF
S
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-9-71
Governor Reagan's press conference has
been rescheduled from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.,
Thursday, June 10.
# # #
PB
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Bec
445-4571
6-10-71
#349
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 14 - Thomas
Modifies the 10-minute limit on occupation of a
(Chapter 127)
voting booth to permit longer occupation where
inconvenience to other voters will not result.
AB 366 Quimby
Provides for ex officio membership on Democratic
(Chapter 128)
Party county central committees of enumerated state
and federal officers. All state constitutional
officers and U. S. Senators and congressmen (or
nominees to such offices) are made ex-officio members
of county central committees in the county in which
they reside. Such officers are presently ex-officio
members of the Republican County Central Committee.
AB 530 Quimby
Provides that where Department of Aeronautics makes
(Chapter 134)
a specified grant from Aeronautics Fund of $25,000
or more to a public entity operating a specific
airport or to the University of California for a
specific airport operated by it, no annual grant
of $5,000 from such fund shall be payable to the
entity or university only for the same airport.
AB 535 Cline
Requires the Department of General Services rather
(Chapter 135)
than the Department of Finance to allow county
central committees to meet in state buildings.
AB 646 Priolo
Provides that a notice of election be first
(Chapter 129)
published or posted not later than 14 days before
the close of registration for an election.
SB 1 - Dymally
Makes permanent a pilot program established to
(Chapter 123)
assist families in adoption of hard-to-place children
by continuing foster care payments.
SB 86 Cologne
Specifically excludes the violation of any vehicle
(Chapter 124)
parking regulation as a cause for the suspension or
expulsion of a student from any community college.
SB 148 - Schrade
Authorizes state college police officers, on or
(Chapter 130)
about a campus or in or about other grounds or
properties owned or operated by the Trustees of the
California State Colleges, to remove vehicles from
specified areas under specified circumstances. The
bill also authorizes University of California police
officers, on or about a campus, rather than only on
a campus to remove vehicles from specified areas
under specified circumstances.
SB 206 Mills
Provides that every railroad corporation, passenger
(Chapter 125)
stage corporation, passenger air carrier, and street
railway corporation providing departures originating
in this state shall provide designated space for
their nonsmoking passengers.
SB 236 Grunsky
Revises provisions of the Health and Safety Code
(Chapter 126)
relating to compensation paid members of the board
of garbage and refuse districts.
SB 442 Collier
Permits police and traffic officers to use sirens and
(Chapter 131)
exceed speed limits when an escort is furnished for
expediting personnel and supplies for any federal,
state, or local governmental agency during a national
emergency or state of war emergency or state of
emergency or local emergency.
SB 571 Grunsky
Reduces the state's rate of contribution to the
(Chapter 132)
Retirement fund effective July 1, 1971 for the several
state safety member categories.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immedia
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-10-71
#350
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Carl A. Britschgi, a
veteran legislator, to the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, subject
to Senate confirmation.
Britschgi, 59, who represented the 26th Assembly District in
San Mateo County for more than 14 years, will receive an annual salary
of $27,500. He succeeds Lowell Nelson of Vallejo, who has resigned.
Britschgi, who was first elected to the Assembly in 1956,
after serving as a park and recreation commissioner and a city councilman
and mayor of Redwood City.
In the legislature, he served as Republican whip, and as member
of the Legislative Budget Committee and the Rules Committee.
Hₑ and his wife June live at 11 Cove Court, Sacramento.
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Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-10-71
For your information, Governor Reagan will be
interviewed at KGO-TV, San Francisco, at 11 a.m.,
Friday, June 11 and will tape "NEWSMAKERS" at KPIX-TV
at 2 p.m.
At 9:00 p.m., he will tape "NEWSMAKERS" at
KNXT, Los Angeles.
The governor is also scheduled to attend the
Motion Picture Relief Fund dinner at the Los Angeles
Music Center Sunday evening (June 13).
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OF VEOR
Immedate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Be
445-4571
6-10-71
#351
Governor Ronald Reagan today sent the following letter to the
chairman of each county board of supervisors in California:
"Yesterday, shortly after the Senate Health and Welfare Committee
killed this administration's welfare reform legislation, a CSAC.
representative testified in favor of a so-called substitute 'welfare
reform' program authored by Senator Anthony Beilenson.
"It is extremely difficult for us to understand why the CSAC staff
took this position when, in fact, one of the provisions of the Beilenson
bill would push on to the counties an additional $83 million in increased
costs. As you know, this new burden would end up coming out of the
pockets of our already overtaxed homeowners.
"I must assume the CSAC representative was not aware of this critical
information when he testified. Surely, had he known it, he would not
have made the statement he did to the committee.
"The increased cost to Los Angeles County alone would amount to
about $30 million next year. Again, the burden would fall squarely on
the shoulders of California's beleaguered property taxpayers.
"From the time we introduced our welfare reform program in March
we have said repeatedly that we would not permit welfare reform to push
any additional costs on to the counties, And---to back up our
commitment- we amended our program accordingly.
"The difference between the $83 million in added costs to the
counties from his bill and the $71 million in savings the counties would
realize under our program amount to a total of $154 million.
"In fact the total difference between his overall program and ours
could mean as much as $1 billion in new costs to the people next year.
"I urge you to request the CSAC staff to reevaluate the position it
has taken on the Beilenson package. We believe a careful analysis of the
implications of the Senator's bill will lead you to the same conclusion
we have reached---that it is not true welfare reform. but amounts to
nothing more than a gigantic tax increase,"
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-10-71
Social Welfare Director Robert Carleson
will conduct a background briefing tomorrow
(June 11) from 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. in the
Governor's Council Room detailing the differ-
ences between the governor's welfare reform
program and Senator Beilenson's so-called
welfare reform.
Members of the press are invited.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVEP
R
RELEASE:
mediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-11-71
# 352
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Richard E. Mudd, 43,
a Willows rancher, to a four-year-term on the Board of Directors of
the 42nd District Agricultural Association (Glenn County Fair). .
Mudd, a Republican, whose address is Star Route, Willows,
succeeds Wilfred L. Fox of Willows, who has resigned.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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R
RELEASE:
mediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-11-71
#353
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Robert B. Jansen, a
career engineer in the Department of Water Resources as Deputy Director
of Water Resources.
Jansen, 48, will receive an annual salary of $28,308. He
succeeds Alfred R. Golze of Sacramento, who has resigned to accept an
engineering position in private industry.
As Division Engineer in the Division of Operation and Maintenanc
since 1968, Jansen has directed operations of the California Water
Project.
He also has served as Division Engineer in the Division of Safet
of Dams, as a Deputy Division Engineer in the Division of Design and
Construction and as District Engineer of the Department's San Joaquin
Division.
An authority on hydraulics and dams, Jansen is the author of
numerous technical papers on the subject.
He holds degrees in engineering from the University of Denver
and the University of Southern California and is a Registered Civil
Engineer and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and
the U. S. Committee on Large Dams.
Jansen and his wife, Barbara, live at 15 Reef Court, Sacramento.
He is a Republican.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
MEMO TO THE
RESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-11-71
#354
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
June 14, 1971
through
June 20, 1971
Monday, June 14 -
Tuesday, June 15
Boston - Manchester Trip
Overnight - Boston
Wednesday, June 16
Return to California
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, June 17
10:00 a.m.
Greetings to Disabled American Veterans Convention,
Sacramento Inn.
8:00 p.m.
California Livestock Symposium, Fresno Convention
Center. Speech.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Friday, June 18
10:00 a.m.
Regents' Meeting - Los Angeles
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, June 19
No appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, June 20
FATHER'S DAY
Overnight - Sacramento
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immed ate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-11-71
#355
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement
on subdivision proposals that lead to environmental degradation:
"Development of large acreages in rural areas of the state
call to public attention a multitude of problems inherent in such
projects. While zoning matters surrounding such developments and
control of their construction are, properly, the responsibility of
local authorities, I urge those authorities to give full consideration
to all environmental and sociological ramifications of their decisions.
"It has become apparent in recent years that we can no longer
exploit land resources in the name of progress alone, disregarding
the detrimental effects upon the environment and overall quality of
life. Long range environmental needs must not be sacrificed for short
term economic gain. Such matters as proper sewage disposal, water
treatment facilities and adequate water supplies must be guaranteed
and existing rights protected before any subdivision is undertaken.
"Man's housing needs must, and will, be met. But the concept
that environmental deterioration is an unavoidable adjunct to develop-
ment is outmoded, is unacceptable to the state, and should not be
accepted by local jurisdictions."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE:
!
ediate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-15-71
#356
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointment of Mrs. Sally
Ann Rakow of Ross and the reappointment of Mrs. Virginia C. Murphy of
Oroville to four-year terms on the State Scholarship and Loan Commission.
Mrs. Rakow, a Ross civic leader and member of the Ross Elementary
School board, succeeds Gerald D. Murphy of Los Angeles, whose term has
expired.
She is a former school teacher and is active in numerous civic and
service organizations in Marin County, including the Marin County
Committee on School District Organization.
Mrs. Rakow and her husband, John, have two children. The family
lives at 59 Winship Avenue, Ross.
Mrs. Murphy, a member of the Oroville School District Board, has
served as a school board representative on the commission since 1967.
She and her husband, Dr. Frank Murphy, live at 35 Skyline Boulevard,
Oroville.
Both women are Republicans. Their appointments are subject to
Senate confirmation.
Commissioners are paid necessary expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-15-71
#357
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointment of Arthur E.
Madrid of La Mesa to the Job Training and Development Services Advisory
Board in the Department of Human Resources Development.
Madrid, 36, an urban affairs representative for Pacific Telephone
Company, succeeds the Rev. Victor M. Marquez of Los Angeles, who has
resigned.
Active in civic affairs, Madrid is a member of the University of
California at San Diego Urban Affairs Committee, the University of San
Diego Mexican-American Advisory Council and the Chicano Federation of
San Diego County.
He and his wife, Sally, have three children. They live at
5308 Tufts Street, La Mesa.
Madrid is a Republican.
As a member of the board he will receive $25 per day while on
official duty.
The appointment is subject to Senate confirmation.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: Ir diate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-15-71
#358
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointment of Lieut.
Archie P. Wood, Jr., of the Alpine County Sheriff's office, and the
reappointment of Lloyd C. Ayers, Lone Pine businessman, to four-year
terms on the 18th District Agricultural Association (Eastern Sierra
Tri-County Fair at Bishop).
Wood, whose address is P.O. Box 27, Markleeville, succeeds William
Chris Mann of Markleeville, whose term has expired.
Ayers, who lives at 135 North Main Street, Lone Pine, has served
on the board since 1967.
Both men are Republicans.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-15-71
#359
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointment
of Assistant Police Chief Jack G. Collins of Los Angeles
to the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.
Collins, a veteran law enforcement officer who worked
his way up through the ranks in the Los Angeles Police
Department, will represent chiefs of police on the
commission.
He succeeds Robert A. Houghton of North Hollywood
who has resigned.
Collins is a Republican. His appointment is subject
to Senate confirmation.
Commissioners receive necessary expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-16-71
#360
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointments of Charles
E. Edwards, Los Angeles labor leader, and John F. Weidert, Fresno
television and radio farm editor, to the California Advisory Council on
Vocational Education and Technical Training.
Edwards, a Democrat, is business manager of District Lodge 94 of
the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. He
will represent labor on the council, filling the unexpired term of
Russell R. Crowell of Pleasant Hill, who has resigned. The term ends
in November, 1973.
Weidert, a Republican, is farm editor of KMJ and KMJ-TV and a
trustee of the McKinley Roosevelt Union School District in Fresno. He
will represent elementary school boards on the council and will fill the
unexpired term of Manuel Correa of Compton, who has resigned. The term
ends in November, 1975.
Edwards lives at 11704 First Avenue, Lynwood.
Weidert lives at 4262 West Belmont Avenue, Fresno.
Council members are paid necessary expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-16-71
#361
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that the first bi-state
inspection station in the nation's history will be officially dedicated
at 11 a.m. Friday at Winterhaven in Imperial County near the Arizona-
California border.
The new facility, to be known as the Arizona-California Friendship
Inspection Station, is a joint venture designed as multi-use agricultural
quarantine and inspection station to be manned by personnel from both
states.
The new facility, located eight miles west of the Colorado River,
on U.S. Interstate Highway 8 (the "Friendship" highway) was constructed
at a cost of $240,000. Arizona appropriated $215,000 for the project.
California's contribution included the station site, a well to provide
water, and $25,000.
Realignment of Interstate Highway 8 into a multi-lane freeway
eliminated California's former outbound inspection station at Winterhaven,
requiring construction of a new facility.
It will serve as a border quarantine station for Arizona, and as a
site for inspecting fresh produce shipments leaving California to make
certain that they meet California quality standards. One-third of all
produce leaving the state by truck leaves at Winterhaven.
The new structure is just across Interstate 8 freeway from
California's Winterhaven quarantine station and is similar to it in
appearance. It was built under an agreement between the California and
Arizona agricultural departments.
"This is a significant example of how interstate cooperation can
help both states operate more efficiently and still save the taxpayers
money,' Governor Reagan said.
"By paying to have this station built, Arizona is saving itself
the cost of setting up inspection facilities at various points along
Interstate 8 as it enters Arizona at Yuma.
"At the same time, the California taxpayer is being saved at least
$50,000 because our fruit and vegetable standardization inspectors have
full use of the facility which has been financed by Arizona, Otherwise,
we would have had to build a station ourselves to monitor outbound
shipments of produce for compliance with California quality and marketing
standards.
The dedication and opening ceremonies will be hosted by California
Director of Agriculture Jerry W. Fielder, Arizona Director of Agriculture
and State Entomologist L. D. McCorkindale, and California Assemblyman
Ray Seeley of Palm Springs.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-16-71
#362
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Major Robert C. Thrasher of the California National Guard as his
military aide.
Major Thrasher, 34, who has served as Procurement Officer
for the Installations Branch of the California Military Department
since 1969, began his career as an enlisted man in the Guard in 1955.
After earning his commission in 1958, he served in a variety of
assignments, including administrative assistant of the California
Military Academy, budget officer in the Office of the Comptroller
and operations and training assistant in the Office of Emergency Plans
and Operations.
A native of Sacramento, Major Thrasher has attended American
River College, Sacramento City College and the University of the
Pacific.
He is a member of the National Guard Association of California,
the National Guard Association of the United States and the Association
of the United States Army.
Major Thrasher and his wife and family live in Sacramento.
As military aide to the governor, he will receive an annual
salary of $16,679.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE:
nediate
Sacramento, Californ_
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-16-71
#363
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Roy J. Bell as
administrative director of the Division of Industrial Accidents,
subject to Senate confirmation.
Bell, 59, a Republican, has served in the post since 1967. He
receives an annual salary of $33,396.
Bell, whose headquarters is in San Francisco, lives at 625 Pilgrim
Drive, Foster City.
He will serve at the pleasure of the governor.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-16-71
#364
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"For the past three months, the Director of Social Welfare has been
presenting his welfare cost and savings figures to various committees
and staffs of the legislature.
"During the past three days there have been repeated attempts to
discredit or disprove his figures. Those attempts have failed utterly.
His figures are based on accurate calculations.
"Thus, the issues are now perfectly clear to all: if we get
meaningful welfare reform the budget can be balanced and no tax increase
will be necessary. If the Democratic leadership of the legislature
deprives the people of California of meaningful welfare reform, the door
to massive tax increases will be wide open.
"No amount of name-calling or cost-versus-savings arguments should
be permitted to obscure that issue.
"Several legislators have criticized those citizens who have written
to tell them of their support for welfare reform; they complain about
the public demand that they enact welfare reform.
"Well, you sent your legislators to Sacramento to enact your
desires, not ignore them. So if you want welfare reform you keep right
on demanding it."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-17-71
#365
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed
Assembly Bill 152 which defers construction
of a Southern Crossing on San Francisco Bay
until voters in six Bay Area counties decide
by referendum whether the span will be built.
The issue will appear on the June, 1972 ballot.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-17-71
#366
Governo:: Reagan will make a major address to a luncheon meeting
of Town Hall at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 23.
The governor's remarks will center on critical issues facing
the people of California, including welfare reform, tax reform and the
state budget.
The half-hour speech will be carried on radio and television
throughout the state, on a delayed basis, later that evening.
Here is the June 23 broadcast lineup:
TELEVISION
Los Angeles
KCOP-TV
Channel 13
9:30 P.M.
KHJ-TV
Channel 9
10:00 P.M.
--San Francisco
KQED-TV
Channel 9
8:30 P.M.
-Sacramento
KOVR-TV
Channel 13
8:30 P.M.
--San Diego
KFMB-TV
Channel 10
8:00 P.M.
-Fresno
KJEO-TV
Channel 47
9:00 P.M. .
San Jose
KNTV
Channel 11
9:00 P.M.
RADIO
Los Angeles
KFI
640 K.C.
7:00 P.M.
San Francisco
KSFO
560 K.C.
7:30 P.M.
Sacramento
KFBK
1530 K.C.
5:30 P.M.
San Diego
KFMB
760 K.C.
7:30 P.M.
Fresno
KMJ
580 K.C.
7:00 P.M.
Television Station KTVU (Channel 2), Oakland, will carry the
speech the following evening (June 24) at 9:30 P.M.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-17-71
The following statement was conveyed by telephone to
members of the press on inquiry:
Any comment on that would indicate that we had given up in
our efforts to achieve passage of true welfare reform in the
Legislature.
In fact any discussion of the social workers union statement
would severely hamper the governor in his efforts to get a meaningful
welfare program through the Legislature. The fact that only yesterday
he urged citizens to contact their legislators to demand welfare
reform should leave no doubt in anyone's mind as to the importance
he places on legislative passage.
# # #
(Statement issued by spokesmen in Governor's Office in response to
press release issued by @lifornia State Council of Service Employees
AFL-CIO)
PRESS RELEASE
FOR RELEASE June 17, 1971
Office of Emergency Services
Sacramento, California
Contact: Everett Blizzard
445-6231
Sacramento - Governor Ronald Reagan announced today the first
Emergency Operations and Disaster Recovery Administration Training
Program will be conducted by the Office of Emergency Services
beginning Monday, June 21, 1971.
Governor Reagan said the five-day sessions will bring together
state and federal officials so they are better able to serve local
governments when a disaster strikes.
Herbert R. Temple, Jr., director of the Office of Emergency
Services said, "We want to make sure all our people have the tools,
and are acquainted with the most recent laws concerning recovery
operations that affect local governments and the private sector." He
added, "We have gained much experience in last year's fires and the
Los Angeles area earthquake."
OES staff members, including the four regional managers and
local government representatives, will attend and participate in the
training sessions. The meetings will be held at the California
Highway Patrol Academy.
All aspects of disaster relief including housing, food, water
and sanitation, unemployment compensation, schools, home, farm and
business loans, highways and streets and fire suppression will be
discussed during the conference by representatives of federal and
state agencies.
# # #
MEMO TO THE PRESS
June 17, 1971
Office of Emergency Services
Sacramento, California
Contact: Everett Blizzard
445-6231
Attached is a news release concerning the first meeting of
its kind held in California by the Office of Emergency Services.
I hope you are able to make use of it.
If you would like to cover any or all of the sessions, please
feel free to do SO. If for TV you would like any film coverage the
opening day, this could be arranged beginning at 9:30 a.m. Similar
audio and photographic coverage can also be arranged at other times.
Telephone beeper reports could be made available to radio on
a planned basis, daily, if you desire. Please let me know by Monday
morning if you wish this service.
I would suggest that the Wednesday morning sessions with
state and federal agencies would be of major importance to you.
A daily press release will be issued each afternoon of the
sessions.
The news contact during the sessions will be Verne Paule,
telephone 445-6231.
# # # #
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-18-71
#367
Governor Ronald Reagan today extended thanks on behalf of
Utah Governor Calvin L. Rampton to all those who participated in
the recovery effort that followed a June 6 mid-air collision between
an Air West airline and an Air Force jet in Southern California.
Governor Rampton, in a letter to Governor Reagan, said that
many of the passengers aboard the airliner were personal friends from
the Salt Lake City area.
"Many of the families of the deceased have asked me how they
could convey their deep gratitude to the citizens of your state,
both professional public safety people and volunteers, who worked
hundreds of hours in difficult and dangerous terrain to recover the
bodies," Governor Rampton wrote.
"These people certainly did more than duty called them to do,
and our whole community, as well as the family and friends of the
people killed feel a deep gratitude and warmth toward those who
helped out in this most difficult effort of recovery," his letter
said.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRES,
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-18-71
#368
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
June 21, 1971
through
June 27, 1971
Monday, June 21
Office Appointments
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, June 22
Commonwealth Club, St. Francis Hotel,
Noon
San Francisco. Speech.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Wednesday, June 23
Noon
Town Hall, Biltmore Bowl, Los Angeles. Speech.
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, June 24
10:30 a.m.
Boys' State Inauguration, Cal Expo. Speech.
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, June 25
11:30 a.m.
Greetings to the American Legion Auxiliary,
Los Angeles Hilton
Noon
American Legion Convention, Biltmore. Speech.
KNBC-TV, Burbank, taping of NEWS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, June 26
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, June 27
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-18-71
#369
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 206 - Badham
Revises provisions of the Highway Carriers'
(Chapter 145)
Uniform Business License Tax Act relating to
the prohibition against city and county taxes
on intercity highway transportation of property
for hire and credits against fee imposed by that
act. The bill eliminates the general three-
year limitation on effectiveness of the Act.
AB 333 Moorhead
Specifies that various state and local public
(Chapter 140)
agencies may insure against tort or inverse
condemnation liability, rather than against
liability for any injury.
AB 406 Chappie
Authorizes the Board of Directors of the El
(Chapter 155)
Dorado County Water Agency to establish benefit
zones within the agency and to apportion benefits
to such zones. It authorizes the board to
institute projects for the benefit to single
zones or two or more zones. The bill further
authorizes incurrence of bonded indebtedness to
pay the cost of any work in any zone or
participating zone.
AB 492 Townsend
Authorizes any hospital operated by, or
(Chapter 156)
contracting with, any county rather than just a
county with a population of over 6,000,000 to
conduct specified pilot program utilizing mobile
intensive care paramedics.
AB 512 Keysor
Permits a board of supervisors or legislative
(Chapter 157)
body to divide a highway lighting district or
territory annexed thereto into tax assessment
zones.
AB 591 Campbell
Provides that if the Los Angeles County Board of
(Chapter 141)
Supervisors consolidates two or more offices
pursuant to statute or charter, the occupant of
the consolidated office need not possess any of
the qualifications required of the occupant of
any of the separate offices which are consolidated
provided specified conditions are met.
AB 663 Duffy
Amends the Pharmacy Act to require that the book
(Chapter 158)
in which the pharmacy board maintains its record
of registered pharmacists shall be kept in
Sacramento rather than San Francisco. The bill
also eliminates the requirement that the rules
of professional conduct adopted by the Board be
printed as a part of the application for renewal
of licenses, certificates, or permits issued by
the board.
AB 768 Knox
Corrects a statutory reference to provisions of
(Chapter 149)
law relative to open-space lands in open-space
element of city and county general plans.
AB 769 Dent
Provides that the board of supervisors of a county
(Chapter 159)
may contract with and employ any person to
furnish education and training, as well as
special services and advice, in therapeutic
matters, as well as financial, economic, accountin
engineering, legal, medical, and administrative
matters.
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AB 829 Arnett
Repeals an obsolete provision of the Education
(Chapter 160)
Code relating to the rights of classified
school employees when one school district
annexes another.
AB 851 Badham
Widens the prescribed purposes for which the
(Chapter 161)
Orange County Water District ground water
replenishment assessments may be used including
purchase, lease or acquisition of lands, works,
machinery and facilities needed to protect the
ground water supplies of the district.
AB 853 Mobley
Makes a county sanitation district created before
(Chapter 162)
the effective date of the bill effective for
assessment and taxation purposes for the 1971-72
fiscal year if the required map was filed prior
to February 28, 1971.
AB 933 Gonsalves
Makes various clarifying and technical changes
(Chapter 142)
in local property tax administration.
AB 995 Beverly
Makes various technical, nonsubstantive
(Chapter 163)
amendments to the Insurance Code.
AB 996 Beverly
Provides that the maximum insurable limit of
(Chapter 164)
group life insurance obtained by a borrower or
purchaser on agricultural or horticultural loan
commitment is lesser of the amount of such loan
commitment or $40,000, rather than lesser of the
amount of the loan commitment or $10,000.
AB 1115 Chappie
Extends the time for filing statements and maps
(Chapter 165)
or plats for certain hospital districts and
reorganized water districts, in order to permit
them to levy property taxes for the 1971-72
fiscal year. The bill also extends the time for
filing various documents by county water
districts which have detached land from such
districts.
AB 1402 Karabian
Allows a person between the ages of 18 and 21
(Chapter 166)
years who is registered to vote at federal
elections to be appointed to the Democratic
State Central Committee or elected or appointed
to a Democratic county central committee.
AB 1944 Townsend
Changes the date prior to which certain
(Chapter 167)
separating property must have become part of
other city in order to come within definition
of contiguous territory for city annexation
purposes.
AB 2603 Campbell
Changes the operative date of provisions
(Chapter 168)
regulating and controlling of restricted
dangerous drugs from July 1, 1971, to January 1,
1972.
SB 212 Marler
Authorizes the Director of Agriculture to
(Chapter 136)
establish by regulation quality standards for
head lettuce to be used for chopping or shredding.
The bill also eliminates provisions relating to
exemptions to marking and packing requirements
for pears and provisions regulating marking of
containers holding a prescribed weight of
potatoes.
SB 238 Zenovich
Deletes the requirement that an amended date
(Chapter 137)
of birth record appear on a new birth certificate
issued after adoption.
SB 244 Cusanovich
Deletes the section of Route 170 between Route 2
(Chapter 146)
and Route 101 from the California freeway and
expressway system.
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SB 260 Stiern
Provides that an assessor may grant an
(Chapter 147)
extension of time to file for the homeowners'
property tax exemption if a claim lacks any of
the required information rather than when claim
lacks all the required information.
SB 297 Marks
Establishes the Farallon Islands Game Refuge.
(Chapter 143)
The bill prohibits any person from taking birds
or mammals from or on navigable water in this
game refuge.
SB 304 Gregorio
Specifies that a county may pay jury fees in
(Chapter 144)
civil cases from general funds of the county
available therefor.
SB 315 Burgener
Requires the notice of recording of assessment
(Chapter 148)
under the Street Opening Act of 1903 to be
published in a newspaper of general circulation
once a week for two successive weeks, rather
than for 10 days in a daily newspaper, or by
three successive insertions in a weekly newspaper
published or circulated in the city.
SB 351 Alquist
Requires city and county governments to have a
(Chapter 150)
seismic safety element in their general plans.
SB 438 Beilenson
Makes it unlawful for any person to employ upon
(Chapter 151)
an on-sale licensed premises a person, rather
than a hostess or entertainer, for the purpose
of procuring or encouraging the purchase or sale
of alcoholic beverages or to pay such a person
a percentage or commission for procuring or
encouraging the purchase or sale of alcoholic
beverages.
SB 439 Beilenson
Repeals the Business and Professions Codes which
(Chapter 152)
prohibit the use of the services of a female
bartender for the mixing or dispensing of wine
or distilled spirits from behind a permanently
affixed bar fixture.
SB 441 Cusanovich
Provides that for purposes of street lighting
(Chapter 153)
under the Improvement Act of 1911, front footage
of property benefitting from existing
installations may be included regardless of
the side of the street on which the installation
has been constructed in determining how much of
the front footage of a block has been improved.
SB 605 Stiern
Modifies the repayment schedule for a state loan
(Chapter 138)
made to the Lakeside Elementary School District
in 1970.
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#370
Governor Ronald Reagan today ordered the flags at the State
Capitol to be lowered to half staff Monday, June 21, in observance
of the death of State Narcotics Agent Richard F. Morello.
Morello, a Department of Justice employee stationed in Santa
Ana, was killed in the line of duty June 14.
Governor Reagan had previously directed that the flag at the
Capitol be lowered to half staff on the day of the funeral of all
law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in California.
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Governor Reagan will sign SB 249 (Grunsky),
which will increase retirement benefits for more
than 400,000 state employees by 20 percent, at
11 a.m. today in the Governor's Office.
Press coverage is invited.
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#371
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Jack F. Hatton as
Chief of the Division of Industrial Safety of the Department of
Industrial Relations.
Hatton, 64, who has served in the post since 1967, formerly was
chief safety engineer for Lockheed-California Company.
Hatton, whose headquarters are in San Francisco, lives at 2720
Wemberly Street, Belmont.
He is a Republican.
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#372
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Lawrence R. Robinson, Jr.
Modesto business executive and civic leader, as Director of General
Services, subject to Senate confirmation.
Robinson, 50, Director of International Development for the
Niagara Chemical Division of the FMC Corporation, will succeed Charles
Dixon in the $30,000 per year post. Dixon resigned to accept a position
with the Federal National Mortgage Association in Washington, D. C.
A former vice mayor and city councilman of Modesto, Robinson
has served as director of the Modesto Chamber of Commerce, chairman of
the Forward Modesto Committee, and as president of the California Seed
Association, a member of the United States Department of Commerce
Regional Export Expansion Council and a director of the California
Council for International Trade.
As Director of International Development for FMC Corporation,
a post he has held since 1969, he managed the marketing of vegetable
seeds throughout the world.
Previously Robinson served as manager of the Niagara Chemical
Division's Seed Section and from 1958 to 1965 was president of Seed
Research Specialists, which was purchased by FMC Corporation.
Robinson, a Republican, is a graduate of Modesto Junior College
and attended the Graduate School of Business at the University of
California in Berkeley.
He and his wife Marjorie live at 425 Buena Vista Avenue,
Modesto. They have three children.
Robinson will serve at the pleasure of the governor.
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#373
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Henry T. Gunderson of
San Jose, a member of the State Board of Education, to the Educational
Commission of the States.
Gunderson, 63, a Democrat, succeeds Dr. Max Rafferty on the
commission, which fosters and encourages working relationships among
state governors, legislators and educators for the improvement of
education.
Gunderson, who is administrator of the Electrical Industry Trust
Fund for Santa Clara and San Benito Counties, is a veteran Santa Clara
County labor official who is president of the San Jose Unified School
District Board of Trustees.
He also has served as president of the San Jose City College
Board, has served as chairman of the State Advisory Committee on
Apprentice Instructional Materials and organized and served as the
first chairman of the Professional and Coordinators Association for
the Building Trades Apprenticeship Programs in California.
He lives at 2077 Ellen Avenue, San Jose.
Commissioners serve at the pleasure of the governor and receive
necessary expenses.
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#374
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Richard M. Moore, a
Los Angeles attorney, to a newly-created Los Angeles Judicial District
Municipal Court.
Mocre, 38, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of
$30,724.
A partner in the firm of Cooper, Nelsen and Moore, he has
practiced law in Los Angeles since 1960.
Moore is a graduate of the University of Southern California
and earned his law degree at USC's School of Law.
He is a member of the State Bar of California, the American
Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Legion Lex
and the National Association of Defense Lawyers. He is active in the
Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce and other service groups.
Moore and his wife Margaret have three children. The family
lives in Pacific Palisades.
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#375
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the
following statement:
"I was extremely gratified to learn today
that the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare has determined that our statewide welfare
plan is now back into their interpretation of
"conformity," and that the federal quarterly
allocation will be made to us on July 1."
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#376
Governor Ronald Reagan today proposed a four-point program to enable
California's public institutions of higher education to regain the
confidence and respect they once enjoyed by reaffirming their former
commitment to classroom teaching as a prime measure of academic excellence
"The public expects, the students need, and our financial condition
requires that teaching be restored to equal status with research," the
governor said in remarks prepared for delivery before the Commonwealth
Club in San Francisco.
In one of his four points, the governor proposed that the University
of California Board of Regents adopt a "Student Bill of Rights" which
would give students:
"The right to be taught by a faculty which includes teaching as one
of its highest priorities.
- "The right to continue their education without interruptions,
without threats of violence or disorder.
"The right to hear and digest all sides of all major issues; to
weigh alternatives which include the whole spectrum of America's values
and political opinions from the middle out to and including the extremes.
--"An opportunity, regardless of economic status, to continue their
education to the maximum of their ability and interest.
--"Enough information about higher education to make them able to
choose, within reason, their own specific goals."
He proposed, and said he will offer to the Board of Regents, regular
independent audits to help the regents in making policy decisions.
He also called for new alternatives to costly new physical facilitie
particularly in the vital areas as health sciences, to meet the need
for additional physicians.
Finally, he proposed that the legislature spell out, by legislative
mandate, "the traditional and reasonable amount of teaching" that faculty
members must fulfill:
--Nine hours in the University of California
-Twelve hours in the state colleges
-Fifteen hours in the community colleges.
The governor said that although the state colleges now show an
average teaching time of 10.3 hours, "state college administrators assure
us they are restoring the 12-hour teaching load."
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On the other hand, he said "a recently completed audit of classroom
contact hours by the University of California in 36 sample departments
picked at random on all nine campuses---reveals an average of only 4.3
hours in the classroom each week."
He said his budget for the University this year assumes that faculty
members will teach nine hours a week in the classroom.
Noting the picture the University has painted of "impending
educational disaster if its demands for increased funding are not met,"
he said no student would have to be turned away if the faculty spent in
the classroom "the number of hours they are expected to devote to teaching
He pointed out that according to one of the University's own
publications, "classroom teaching hours in the mid-1950s ranged from
17.3 hours weekly for undergraduates to 15.2 hours at the post-graduate
level.
"During that time,' he said, "the University of California achieved
its enviable reputation for educational excellence. During the inter-
vening years, unfortunately, teaching has been neglected or downgraded."
The governor took strong exception to the repeated allegations of
"a parade of University (of California) spokesmen" that the "only solution
to its financial problems is greater funding by taxpayers of this state."
He warned that "to accept the University's financial demands means
a tax increase on our people."
Governor Reagan strongly defended the record of his administration
in support of education which he called "our Number One priority." He
said state support for the University of California has increased by 40
percent since 1967. "The state colleges have received an increase of
88 percent and state aid to the community colleges has gone up 151 percent
while student aid---grants and scholarships have quadrupled.
"All told, our proposed budget for the support of higher education
is more than two-thirds of a billion dollars, highest in the state's
history, he pointed out.
"It is hard to reconcile the cry of economic starvation, by some
in the academic community," the governor said, when 57 of the top 66
salaries paid in state government those above $42,000 a year---go to
personnel in our higher education system.
"Salaries in our system of higher education are in the upper five
percent of all the universities in the nation. Yet, we are told, he
said, "that our University has fallen drastically in comparison with
other universities in faculty pay level.
"Professors cannot unilaterally decide on shorter hours and higher
pay for a bigger slice of the pie---without reducing the slice for
others: either the taxpayer through higher taxes or other government
agencies with vital services to perform."
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#377
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB
504 - Greene, L. Increases the maximum amount of dependents group
(Chapter 172)
life insurance coverage from $1,000 to $1,500.
AB 516 - Knox
Changes the basis for the election of directors in
(Chapter 173)
county water districts utilizing the division
procedure to provide an alternative procedure
whereby directors may be elected by the voters of
a division established on the basis of equal
population (defined as election "by division"); or
directors may be elected by the voters of the entire
district from divisions established on the basis of
equal acreage (defined as election "from division").
The bill authorizes the board of directors of
districts presently utilizing the division procedure
to determine, by ordinance, whether directors shall
be elected "by division" or "from division.'
AB 606 - Ketchum
Permits municipal utility districts to levy water
(Chapter 174)
standby or immediate availability charges for
serving irrigation water.
AB 706 - Cory
Defines "length of service", for service commencing
(Chapter 175)
or continuing after July 1, 1971, for purposes of
provision prescribing order of layoff and
re-employment of school district classified
employees.
AB 880 - Meade
Extends from July 1, 1971, to July 1, 1973 the
(Chapter 177)
effect of provisions authorizing an increase of not
to exceed 10 cents in the maximum rate of school
district taxes to permit districts to undertake
corrective measures relating to fire and panic
safety and the installation of protective and
warning devices and alarms in school buildings.
SB 113 - Carrell
Exempts garbage and refuse trucks from vehicular
(Chapter 169)
weight requirements to an excess of 2,000 pounds on
the rear axle only under prescribed conditions.
SB 249 - Grunsky
Increases the combined current and prior service
(Chapter 170)
pension for approximately 400,000 state miscellaneous
members, school members and local miscellaneous
members of the Public Employees' Retirement
System by changing the benefit formula from one-
sixtieth to one-fiftieth.
SB 1079 Burgener
Authorizes each county treasurer to make a temporary
(Chapter 171)
transfer from funds in his custody, in prescribed
amounts, based on entitlement for the 1969-70 fiscal
year under Public Law 874 of the 81st Congress
(federal impact aid), to specified school districts
as assistance in meeting their financial obligations
for remaining portion of 1970-71 fiscal year.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the state has purchased 38
acres of prime coastal land in Orange County for public beach and
recreational use.
The governor said the $3,800,000 acquisition will do much toward
satisfying the state's ever increasing need for public beach
recreational facilities in Southern California.
The property is a three-mile long strip 100 feet wide that will
nearly double the depth of Bolsa Chica State Beach in the City of
Huntington Beach. It will be used for parking and recreation.
This portion of the old "Tin Can Beach" was formerly the Pacific
Electric Railroad right-of-way until the tracks were removed three
years ago. The State acquired the property from the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company and Bolsa Pacific Company who had planned to develop
it for residential use.
Source of funds for the multimillion dollar acquisition was the
State Beach, Park and Recreational Bond Act of 1964.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today urged California boaters to observe
National Safe Boating Week by taking advantage of numerous courses
offered in boating safety.
"Boating is and should be an enjoyable sport, but it can remain
that way only through continuing efforts of all who participate to
acquire the special knowledge and skills needed for safe boating," he
said.
The week beginning July 4 has been designated as National Safe
Boating Week by President Nixon with a theme of "Safe Boating is No
Accident. "
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#380
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"It gives me great pleasure to be able to report that, since
California's Personalized License Plate Program was launched last
August, more than 31,000 sets of personalized plates have been sold,
producing more than $500,000 in net revenues for special projects
designed to protect our environment through the Environmental
Protection Program Fund.
"The time has come to start channeling these funds into the
priority projects they were designed to support.
"During the current fiscal year we had hoped to be able to
raise approximately $440,000 to finance the first phase of the
program. We have now exceeded that amount and I understand that
the Department of Motor Vehicles continues to sell personalized
plates at the rate of 150 sets per week.
The success of this program to date, and the promise of
continuing success is most heartening.
"Californians are telling us in very clear terms that the
current environmental crusade is not just a passing fad, that they
are willing to make a special effort to preserve the beauty and
livability of their state.
"I wish to thank those who have helped make the Personalized
License Plate Program an ongoing success especially the people of
California who have given us a valuable weapon in the battle against
pollution in all forms."
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#381
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"Again we are almost at the end of a fiscal year and the
legislature still has not completed its deliberations on the budget
needed to operate state government during the next year beginning
Thursday.
"Today, the Republicans in the State Senate, as an act of
great statesmanship and despite their personal dislike for massive
increases in spending, voted for a budget bill which outrageously
spends $700,000,000 more than the document which I submitted.
"However, I must remain confident the legislature will act
responsibly to insure that--in a period of austerity--such a reckless
spending program will be rejected. I also must continue to believe
that the people of our state will not have to suffer under heavier
tax burdens in order to support new and unnecessary spending programs
advanced by the Democrats.
"The Republican Senators, by their statesman-like votes today,
enabled the budget to reach a conference committee where the
responsible goal of spending within income can be pursued.
"I commend them for their action, which is a pleasant contrast
to that by Democrats during the two previous years when stalling
tactics were employed to attempt to delay enactment of a budget for
state operation."
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#382
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Gordon R. Elliott, director of
the U.S. Veterans Administration regional office in Los Angeles, to
head the California State Jobs for Veterans Task Force.
The governor said the task force "will work with businessmen,
industrial leaders and governmental agencies to actively promote
additional job opportunities for our young veterans, particularly those
in the 20 to 29 age group who served in Vietnam."
Announcement of Elliott's appointment was made by the governor
during a speech before the American Legion State Convention in Los Angeles
He said he will also appoint businessmen, veterans and state
leaders to the statewide task force which will work with the Department
of Human Resources Development, other governmental agencies and the
private sector to advise employers of available talents, assist in the
organization of local committees and coordinate the efforts of all groups
involved in the campaign.
Elliott, who has served as director of the Southern California
Regional VA office since last year, formerly directed the San Francisco
Regional Office, and has managed other regional offices in Philadelphia
and in Europe.
He was named to the San Francisco post in 1967 after serving as
manager of the Regional Office of the Veterans Administration in the
Phillippines and as an attache for veterans affairs at the American
Embassy in Manila.
He attended the University of Southern California, Southwestern
University, the Pacific Coast School of Law and is a graduate of the
American Institute of Banking.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 7 - Davis
Extends until the 61st day after adjournment of the
(Chapter 188)
1975 Regular Session of the Legislature the provision
exempting applications for the appropriation of water
made by the Department of Water Resources from the
diligence provision generally applicable to
appropriations of water.
AB 96 - Chappie
Deletes the conflict of interest provision from the
(Chapter 189)
Yuba County Water Agency Act. The bill conforms
the Yuba County Water Agency Act to 1970 statutes
bringing all water districts under the Government
Code's conflict of interest provisions.
AB 176 - MacDonald
Provides that property otherwise eligible for
(Chapter 190)
assessment as open space lands shall be so assessed
for the 1971-72 fiscal year if the instrument
reflecting the fact that the property is enforceably
restricted to open space uses is signed and recorded
on or before May 15, 1971.
AB 245 - Meade
Provides an alternate method of indexing documents
(Chapter 191)
presented to the county recorder for recording
where the recorder may combine the general index
of grantors and the general index of grantees into
a single index.
AB 252 - MacDonald
Provides that for three years following discharge of
(Chapter 192)
a person from a state mental hospital, the county of
residence at time of admission shall pay all nonstate
costs for treatment and services under the Lanterman-
Petris-Short Act in the county where the hospital
is located.
AB 305 - Brathwaite Permits county probation officers to authorize the
(Chapter 193)
sale of articles of handiwork constructed or
manufactured by wards of the juvenile court to the
public at specified places and to deposit the
proceeds from the sale into the ward's trust account.
The cost of county materials or other property
consumed in the manufacturing or construction of the
article would be deducted from the proceeds of the
sale.
AB 347 - Campbell
Permits warrants to be sent by telegraph, teletype, or
(Chapter 194)
other electronic device. The bill deletes the require-
ment that the warrant be authorized by a specified
agency, or specify whether the offense is a felony
or misdemeanor.
AB 348 - Campbell
Requires that an officer of a sheriff's department
(Chapter 195)
or city police department acting under an agreement
with another agency which keeps the jail wherein the
defendant is confined, be in charge of a jail, or
be employed at a fixed police or sheriff's facility
with respect to his authorization to approve and
accept bail.
\B 380 - Dunlap
Authorizes cities to annex up to 400 acres of non-
(Chapter 196)
contiguous territory for park purposes under
specified conditions.
AB 404 - Chappie
Revises references in the Education Code provisions
(Chapter 197)
defining jurisdiction of municipal and justice
courts regarding compulsory full-time education.
AB 407 - Chappie
Extends the misdemeanor sanctions applicable to
(Chapter 198)
persons who defraud innkeepers to those persons
who defraud proprietors of public and private
campgrounds.
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AB 427 Dunlap
tends the authority of the Department of General
Chapter 199
Services, with consent of the Department of Mental
Hygiene, to let 10 acres instead of 5 acres of
specified Napa State Hospital property for 50 years
instead of 20 to a nonprofit corporation for the
purpose of conducting an educational and work program
for mentally retarded persons. The bill provides
for the lease to be nonassignable, periodically
reviewed, and requires specified capital outlay by
the lessee.
AB 444 Belotti
Extends the crab season in Northern California from
Chapter 200
July 15 to August 31, effective for the next two
crab seasons.
AB 463 Ryan
Provides for the apportionment of federal-aid urban
Chapter 201
system funds for fringe parking programs.
AB 494 McAlister
Requires the county counsel or district attorney to
Chapter 202
prepare an impartial analysis of all school measures
which are qualified to appear on the ballot. The
bill also deletes the provision respecting the
correction of erroneous statistical facts in ballot
arguments for school measures and provides for
rebuttal arguments to be placed on the ballot.
AB 496 Priolo
Deletes Route 1 from Dewey Street in Santa Monica
Chapter 179
to the Los Angeles-Ventura County line from the
California freeway and expressway system.
AB 526 MacGillivray Makes provisions relating to canning of fish taken
Chapter 203
under a sport fishing license applicable to all fish
rather than only salmon and requires any cannery or
packing plant to emboss or imprint the words "not to
be sold" on cans of fish rather than only requiring
such words to be stamped upon cans of salmon.
AB 536 Schabarum
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Flood Control
Chapter 204
District to expend district funds provided by local
agencies for the covering or crossing over of any
portion of existing flood control channels or storm
drains of the district.
AB 555 Lanterman
Permits buses to exceed the 40-feet maximum length
Chapter 205
limitation provided the excess length does not exceed
one foot on the front and one foot on the rear and
such excess length is caused by an energy-absorption
safety bumper.
AB 577 Ryan
Provides that the County of San Mateo need not
Chapter 206
demolish the temporary housing project known as
"Midway Village" until the 91st day after final
adjournment of the 1974 regular session of the
legislature.
AB 583 'berg
Prohibits handlebars on motorcycles from being at or
Chapter 207
above shoulder height of rider, rather than being
more than 15 inches above the seat.
AB 668 Johnson, H.
Authorizes the governing body of a county waterworks
Chapter 208
district to sell or lease property needed for the
uses of another waterworks district governed by the
same governing body at reasonable market value
without notice.
AB 669 Johnson, H.
Raises the ceiling for interest on bonded indebtedress
Chapter 209
of the Los Angeles County Flood Control District
from 6 to 7 percent.
AB 770 Dent
Provides for a procedure whereby extended services
Chapter 210
provided by county service areas can be eliminated.
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AB 771 Dent
Permits board of supervisors to create an office
Chapter 211
entitled Public Works Director, combining the duties
of road commissioner and surveyor and other duties
not legally required to be performed by other county
officers.
AB 812 Biddle
Requires that certificates and licenses of automobile
Chapter 212
dismantlers, licensed dealers and vehicle salesmen
be posted in a place conspicuous to the public
rather than in a conspicuous place.
AB 815 Knox
Provides that a detachment from a city or an
Chapter 176
incorporation of a new city which is proposed as part
of a plan of reorganization may be conducted in
accordance with the procedures of the District
Reorganization Act of 1965 unless the affected city
objects.
AB 852 Mobley
Excludes from the definition of "driver" under the
Chapter 213
Vehicle Code the tillerman or other person who in an
auxiliary capacity assists the driver in the steering
or operation of any articulated firefighting
apparatus. This will clarify the driver's license
status of tillermen.
AB 947 Russell
Codifies provisions of a 1969 statute regarding the
Chapter 214
abolishment of the California Districts Securities
Commission and assumption of its powers, duties, and
responsibilities by the State Treasurer.
AB 948 Russell
Provides that a person licensed as an insurance agent,
Chapter 215
life and disability agent, or a disability only agent,
may be authorized to transact disability insurance
on behalf of any insurer which is authorised to
transact disability insurance by the filing of a
notice of appointment for that purpose.
AB 994 Beverly
Provides that where a holder of certificate of
Chapter 216
convenience, pending examination as insurance agent
or solicitor or life licensee, has been appointed
by more than one insurer OF other employer, the
initial appointing entity shall be responsible for
making certain the holder is enrolled in and pursues
a specified training course.
AB 1082 Gonsalves
Excludes motor vehicles from certain provisions
Chapter 180
relating to deposits of personal property for repair,
alteration or sale.
AB 1099 MacDonald
Extends from July 1, 1971, to July 1, 1973, the
Chapter 217
date when the maximum ad valorem tax rate for Zone 1
of Ventura County Flood Control District will revert
from $0.43 per $100 of assessed value of property
within the zone to $0.20 per $100.
AB 1129 MacGillivray Provides that the insurance commissioner shall not
Chapter 218
approve any policy of disability insurance for
issuance or delivery inthe state unless it provides
for grace period of at least 31 days, rather than at
least 10 days, for policies providing for quarterly
payment of premium.
AB 1287 Belotti
Prohibits the taking of anchovies in Humboldt Bay
Chapter 219
for any commercial purposes.
AB 1385 Lanterman
Revises requirements regarding advertisements,
Chapter 181
brochures, and manuals for specified model year
gasoline-powered motor vehicles of a type subject
to registration which contain any reference to the
vehicle's horsepower. The bill reflects a new S.A.E.
standard for horsepower rating of engines, as
installed. The bill also makes the horsepower
advertising law applicable to vehicles weighing
6000 pounds and under.
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SB 68 Collier
thorizes legislative bodi of cities and community
Chapter 182
services districts to contract for ambulance
services.
SB 300 Schrade
Deletes the penalty for violation of provision
Chapter 183
relating to publication of proceedings of
supervisorial meetings.
SB 346 Marler
Specifies that the power of the legislative body of
Chapter 178
a city, with respect to construction of pedestrian
malls shall include power to construct any
improvements necessary or convenient for a covered
air-conditioned mall.
SB 450 Bradley
Changes numbers and salaries of various municipal
Chapter 184
court personnel in Santa Clara County.
SB 467 Bradley
Revises the procedure relating to the alteration of
Chapter 185
county boundaries and provides that 35 percent,
instead of 50 percent, of the owners of land proposed
to be transferred from one county to another must
sign statement consenting to the proposed change.
SB 505 Deukmejia
Authorizes local agencies to offer and pay rewards
Chapter 186
for information on persons damaging or destroying
property of other local, state, or federal agencies
located within boundaries of a local agency as well
as for damage to its own property.
SB 521 Deukmejian
Extends from 90 days to four months the period for
Chapter 187
which the urgency interim ordinance prohibiting uses
in conflict with contemplated zoning proposal is
effective. The bill also provides for two extensions
of an urgency ordinance, one for eight months and one
for a year, instead of two one-year extensions.
SB 673 Burgener
Authorizes school districts with approval of the
Chapter 139
Superintendent of Public Instruction to maintain year
round classes with four sessions of approximately
45 days and intervening vacations of approximately
15 days.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, Californ
MEMO TO TH
PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-25-71
#384
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
June 28, 1971
through
July 6, 1971
Monday, June 28
No appointments scheduled pending development of
the Legislative Agenda.
Tuesday, June 29
10:00 a.m.
Joint Session of Legislature to hear Dr. Billy
Grabam.
Wednesday, June 30 -
Tuesday, July 6
No appointments scheduled pending development of the
Legislative agenda.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVER
R
MEMO TO THE RESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-28-71
Governor Reagan will sign SB 734 (Grunsky), which
authorizes
tax anticipation notes, today at
2:30 p.m. in the Governor's Office.
Press coverage is invited.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-29-71
#385
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced approval of a pilor
project to train paramedic teams which will move quickly during an
emergency to provide intensive medical care to the injured.
The project, which will be financed through a $408,677 Federal
Highway Safety Act grant, will be directed by Gaylord E. Ailshie of
Harbor General Hospital in Los Angeles in cooperation with fire
departments and five other Los Angeles County hospitals.
"Too often people who are injured in traffic accidents die
because they are treated at the scene of accidents by persons with
inadequate medical training," the governor pointed out. "I am
convinced that when this program is operational we will see a substantial
reduction of traffic fatalities in the Los Angeles area."
Under the plan, highly trained paramedics, selected from fire
department rescue squads, will respond to emergency calls and provide
medical care to victims at the scene and en route to the hospital until
the regular hospital staff can take over.
The program, first of its type in the state, is being initiated
through a traffic safety agreement with Los Angeles County made
possible through the Wedworth-Townsend Paramedic Act of 1970.
In giving his approval to the project application, State Director
of Traffic Safety William F. Scheuermann, Jr., paid tribute to Senator
James Q. Wedworth of Hawthorne, Assemblyman Larry Townsend of Gardena
and Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn for their cooperation in
developing the program.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVE
OR
RELEASE:
mediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-29-71
#386
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed three
members of the State Park and Recreation Commission
to four-year terms, subject to Senate confirmation.
They are Leonard S. Thomson, a stockbroker of
111 East Lucard Street, Taft; Harry E. Sokolov, an
attorney of 9543 Charleville, Beverly Hills, and
Mrs. Leah F. McConnell, a ski lodge operator, of
885 Sierra Vista Drive, Redding.
All have served since 1968. They are Republicans.
Park commissioners receive necessary expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-29-71
#387
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
William G. Connell of Arcadia and the reappointment of Leo J. Simon
of San Francisco to four-year-terms on the California Advisory Board
of Furniture and Bedding in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Connell, who is manager of furniture buying for Sears, Roebuck
and Co.'s Pacific Coast Territory with headquarters in Los Angeles,
will represent retailers on the board. He succeeds Herbert L. Jacobson
of Colusa, whose term has expired.
Connell lives at 1102 Fairview Avenue, Arcadia.
Simon, chief executive officer of Simon Mattress Manufacturing
Company, has served on the board since 1967, representing bedding
manufacturers, He lives at 2790 Green Street, San Francisco.
Both men are Republicans.
Members of the board receive $25 per day while on official duty.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
6-29-71
#388
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that the Department of
Housing and Urban Development has approved a $2,341,900 housing
project for the elderly in Redwood City.
The project a 134 unit, seven story development sponsored by
the Casa de Redwood Foundation of the First Congregational Church of
Redwood City---also will receive an interest subsidy of $115,000 from
the federal agency, he said.
Casa de Redwood is being constructed under HUD's 236 Program
which provides housing for lower and middle income groups and the
elderly.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
MEMO TO THE 1 LSS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-30-71
Edwin Meese III, executive assistant to
Governor Reagan, will hold a background brief-
ing at 11 a.m. today in the Press Lounge
(Room 1178) with respect to last night's
announcement by Federal OEO Director Frank
Carlucci. The briefing remarks may be
attributed to a spokesman for the governor.
Members of the press are invited.
(Because it is a background session,
cameras and recorders will not be allowed.)
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STATEMENT BY OEO DIRECTOR FRANK CARLUCCI, JUNE 29. 1971
I have carefully reviewed the report submitted to me
on June 25 by the Commission on California Rural Legal
Assistance, Inc. and wish to convey my appreciation as
Director of OEO to the members and staff of the Commission
for the public service they have rendered. The information
developed in their review and the fundings they have offered,
have been useful, not only in formulating a decision about
the delivery of legal services to the rural poor in California,
but also in offering guidance on the future direction and
administration of legal services programs nationally.
The creation of this Commission was an unusual step.
In establishing it, I recognized that limitations on time
and resources made unwise the thought of making the procedure
a precedent for other legal services grant reviews. Nonethe-
less, in view of the widespread attention focused on legal
services in California, and because of the widely relevant
philosophical and policy issues which were specifically
related to concerns expressed about CRLA, there seems to be
considerable merit in using the California situation as a
laboratory test for dealing with broad legal services issues
which go beyond the simple question of whether a particular
program receiving Federal funds has technically functioned
within the laws and regulations governing its operation.
Rahher than viewing this controversey merely as a
problem to be resolved, I have come to regard it as an
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opportunity to deal effectively with larger questions. This
is particularly true because legislation now being considered
in the Congress would, 1f approved, define the Federal role
in legal services for many years to come. I refer, of course,
to the proposals for an independent legal services corporation
which are pending before Congress. The members of Congress
who deliberate on these bills and, those citizens who participate
in the leadership of any newly created corporation, stand to
benefit greatly by the resolution of issues arising out of the
California case.
The Commission on CRLA has found, that, despite various
instances in which particular attaneys have exercised poor
judgment, or engaged in imporper conduct, on the whole
California Rural Legal Assistance has provided a useful
service to hhe rural poor in making available legal
assistance to those in need and is operating within existing
statutory and administrative regulations.
In reading hhe full Commission report, however, I am
forced to the conclusion that many significant questions of
policy have been raised by Governor Reagan which, heretofore,
have been insufficiently met by this agency in a manner
necessary to further our goal of equal access to law by
low-income citizens.
A simple refunding of CRLA which ignores these proper
concerns would constitute a disservice to the poor and to
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the public generally. By the same token, by dealing with
these concerns constructively, we can fulfill our hope of
making this case an opportunity for expanding the impact
of our Legal Services Program. The Legal Services Program
nationally has been good--but it can be better. The program
has been successful because it attracts dedicated, committed
attorneys willing to surrender the benefits of private
practice because of their belief in the rights of the poor.
This complete commitment without a clear definition of roles
has on occasion led to needless conflict within the community.
Such instances of questionable judgment and lack of restraint
cause two evils:
-First, it wastes the energy and dissipates the
resources of a program designed to help the poor; and
Second, it invites attack on the entire program
because of the in discretions of a handful,
Central to the policy issues which have been raised is the
question of the restrictions, ethical considerations and
standards of accountability that should be observed by
Federally-funded legal services attorneys. Many have argued
that, operating as they do with tax dollars, attorneys who
serve on the staffs of legal services grantees owe an extra
duty of care to the public in the performance of their legal
assignments and in their off duty conduct.
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These questions relate to all legal services programs
funded by OEO, and are not unique to CRLA.
It is clear from studying the facts found in the
Commission Report that some CRLA attorneys engaged in
many activities on their "own" time which would have been
obviously irregular and improper if subsidized at taxpayer
expense.
The Commission recognizes that while the poor should
be guaranteed their rights in court, "there is a danger
that frivolous complaints may be urged by poor clients
that would not be urged by a man of means who would him-
self have to bear the legal expenses involved." The
Justices, therefore, state that "the legal services attorney
thus has a special duty to be sure that when he sues the
government, the matter is not trivial and the legal theory
has merit. If The legal services attorney also has a responsi-
bility to so conduct himself as to preserve the distinction
in the public eye which makes him an advocate for his client,
rather than a simple participant in or instigator of his
client's cause. It 1s one thing for a lawyer to pursue a
particular course in furtherance of the rights of an individual
client, and quite another for him to seek out clients who serve
merely as instruments to advance the attorney's own philosophical
or political objectives.
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It is imperative that in our efforts to construct and
perfect a program to vindicate the rights of the poor we
maintain a perspective on the overall goals of society and
attempt to build into the program measures to achieve
judgment which will insure attainment of those goals. It
little services the interests of the poor to establish an
elaborate program that cannot last because of its conflict
with such goals.
Since the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act in
1954 the problems of poverty have become more obvious and
we are now more aware that the health and stability of
society as a whole depends greatly upon how well this nation
responds to needs of the poor.
The OEO Legal Services program has played a major role
in assuring that equal access to the law becomes a reality
for poor people. President Nixon in his message to Congress
(May 5, 1971) concerning the establishing of an independent
Legal Services Corporation stated that legal Services for the
poor must become "a permanent part of our system of justice."
He praised OEO's Legal Services programs and the organized bar
for their efforts in assisting the poor. He made clear,
however, that we have only traveleed part of the way in seeing
that all the legal needs of poor people are being met. The
President asked Congress to approve new legislation which
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would institutionalize the programs developed in the last
six years and continue the search for new possibilities for
even greater legal assistance to the poor.
Our goal is clear. Yet, which means are most appro-
priate and effective in achieving it is not yet fully
established. The staff attorney concept embodied OEO
sponsored Legal Service program has been one highly effective
means. The private bar and individual attorneys throughout
the country have made their contributions through means and
techniques they deem appropriate. These efforts have
ranged from individual pro bono efforts, to the restructuring.
of corporate law firms' priorities, to voluntary contributions
by lawyers assisting Legal Services programs and finally the
establishment of a dozen or so experimental Judicare efforts
by the organized bar. One point is clear -- no one approach
has all the virtues and all can be improved.
On legal services, as with so many other social issues,
California, our nation's most populas state, is the place
where the questions at issue are most clearly recognized.
Much of the current controversey over CRLA can be seen as
reflecting a broad concern over the question of which means
or which way Legal Services to the poor can be delivered
most effectively. It relates also to fundamental issues
which have herefofore been insufficiently addressed by OEO
and by the Congress.
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It is not surprising that the state of California should
be leading the way in attempting to find innovative ways of
developing legal institutions and programs which will serve
the needs of the boor. The Governor is determined that his
administration shall play a major role in finding new ways
to improve the legal services program and expand its impact
Present discussions about the delivery of legal services
in California provide an excellent opportunity to push forward
and to accept the President's challenge to make equal justice
for the poor "a permanent part of our system" of government.
Governor Reagan's support of the President's Legal Services
Corporation concept, the desire of the State OEO to experiment
with alternative models and means for providing legal aid. as
well as the State Bar's growing interest in experimentation
and study have all been made much more visible and real as a
result of the CRLA controversy. Controversy need not always
be destructive and we are convinced that in California
controversy over the best means for delivering legal services
can have a constructive conclusion.
In spite of California's outstanding record, large sections
of the state are still without organized means to assist the
poor in the many legal problems which deeply affect their lives.
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I wish to propose. in cooperation with the Governor,
the State Bar, OEO's Legal Services programs and private
attorneys, a collective effort in planning for a broad and
comprehensive experimental procram designed to test a variety
of models for the delivery of legal services to the poor in
California.
In committing the resources of OEO to a partnership
with California and its citizens in developing a model effort
in legal services, I believe other states will ultimately
turn to the California experiment for insight in meeting the
legal needs of their own low-income citizens.
We are seeking to develop in California a universal
legal services program designed eventually to serve the
needs of all the poor. Our efforts obviously cannot be
expected to succeed overnight. Nor can they initially be
expected to affect all the poor throughout the State. I shall
propose we begin where the need is the greatest. CRLA has
provided many services to the rural poor but large portions
of California are uncovered by any organized effort designed
to meet the legal needs of the poor.
For these reasons and others previously noted, I propose
making a grant of $2.5 million for planning a comprehensive
experimental program for the delivery of legal services to
low-income citizens in California. The President in his
message to Congress in establishing an independent Legal
Services Corporation noted that we should not be satisfied
with our previous efforts and progress in the Legal Services
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field during the last six years. We must continue to push
forward. I believe it is not unrealistic to plan for
universal legal services for poor people. I. therefore. am
pleased that the Governor as the Chief Executive of the State
has encouraged this approach and is eacer to participate
fully in this planning effort. I wish to encourage the
participation of the organized Bar, as well as CRLA and
other OEO Legal Services programs in this effort. The
participation of private attorneys, law firms and the poor
will also be crucial to this vital attempt to plan for the
future.
Pursuant to these general conclusions we will develop
a comprehensive plan for delivering legal services to the
poor in California.
Under this plan a new corporation established under
the auspices of the State OEO interested attorneys and
local bar associations and known as the California Legal
Services Foundation, will in cooperation with the State Bar
begin to design and implement a program to test various
alternatives and supplementary methods of delivering legal
services. Assuming the success of this experiment, a new
combined program to provide comprehensive legal services
within California would be instituted.
CRLA has applied for a grant for 17 months. This
application is approved subject to 22 special conditions
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and subject to the following funding arrangements:
The initial release of funds will be
through the end of 1971 at which time there
will be an evaluation by a joint OEO-State-
State Bar Association-ABA-NLADA-team to measure adherence
to grant conditions. If grant conditions are
adhered to, funds for 1972 will be released,
the decision to authorize such release residing
in the Director of OEO.
EXPERIMENT TO TEST ALTERNATIVE METHODS
OF DELIVERING LEGAL SERVICES
Designing and implementing an experiment to test
alternative methods of delivering legal services in order
to develop the optimum means of establishing a compre-
hensive system of legal services involves extremely
complex problems. There have been several tests of
alternative methods of delivering legal services
(especially Judicare) but all of them have been unsatis-
factory. They have not been properly designed to test
their own efficiency and effectiveness in delivering
legal services nor their ability in comparison with present
legal services programs. If this California experiment is
to achieve meaningful results, hypotheses to be tested
must be agreed upon, variables must be isolated and tested,
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and adequate systems for data collection, comparison and
evaluation must be devised and implemented. Every group
that has experimented with or studied Judicare and other
non-staff attorney projects serving the poor must be
consulted in order to devise the experiment. In short,
careful and comprehensive planning is essential prior to
the implementation of the experiment. And once implemented,
the experiment must rundfor a sufficient length of time to
demonstrate meaningful results. More specific details of
such a project and its proposed timing are as follows:
FIVE MONTH PLANNING PHASE
1. The California Legal Services Foundation in
conjunction with the SEOO, the A erican Bar Association,
the American Bar Foundation, the California State Bar
Association, legal services programs, including
other interested and knowledgeable groups, will design
and prepare for the implementation of all phases of the
experiment.
2. Among other variations, the experiment should
include projects using a variety of intake and referral
procedures; it should be established in new areas besides
supplementing in areas presently served by CRLA; and it
should be designed to test different mixes of the full
range of present legal services activities on behalf
of clients.
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3.
Commencement of the operational phase of the
experiment will occur following OEO's approval of the
prepared plan.
TWELVE-MONTH OPERATIONAL PHASE
1. Following approval by OEO, the experimental plan
will be put into effect by the Foundation and administered
for a full twelve months.
2. During this time, CRLA will continue to provide
legal services under the conditions set forth in its grant.
3. A broad-based evaluation system will be established
to ensure that existing and experimental programs are
properly administered to provide meaningful results. This
evaluation system will also ensure that statistical data and
narrative reports are compiled and all evidence thoroughly
evaluated.
POST-EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM
On the basis of the results of the experiment a
determination will be made of the optimum method of providing
legal services to the poor in California. Assuming that the
experiment proves that a program combining different deliverv
mechanisms will be the most efficient and effective method
of providing legal services to the boor, such a combined
program would be instituted in California.
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CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE
Legal services to the rural poor in California
must be continued. CRLA will continue to aid in delivering
those legal services but in doing so it must continue its
operations in a manner that reflects the concerns previously
stated.
In order to accomplish this, CRLA must adopt new
methods of self-control which will insure that:
Its separation from partiean and union activities
is both apparent and real;
It does not engage in prohibited criminal
representation;
Its attorneys' use of "free time" is not allowed
to interfere wibh or discredit the activities of
the program;
Innreased cooperation with State and local bar
associations is promoted.
I have set out below comments regarding specific areas
of CRLA's activities which have caused concern and proposed
solutions to those problems.
UNION ACTIVITIES
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CRLA's work with the California farmworkers is a very
sensitive area. The CRLA Commission indicated that as a
matter of policy CRLA, a federally funded agency, should
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not intervene in labor-management disputes. " It is
imperative that CRLA's role in this delicate area be carefully
designed and monitored.
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The function of CRLA is to serve the rural poor, not
as union organizers, advisors, or negotiators but as a law
firm concerned with legal matters. CRLA must not be
involved in the formation of any agricultural worker's
nnion or any agricultural collective bargaining association
nor may CRLA negotiate or attempt to negotiate any agreement
concerning wages, hours, or working conditions.
In addition, CRLA must not provide legal assistance in
the following areas:
Representation of a collective bargaining union
in litigation regardless of whether the union is
a plaintiff or defendant in a court session;
Representation of a labor union in negotiations
with employers or with other labor unions;
Providing legal assistance to a labor union in
the incorporation or organizations affiliated with
a union which are devoted exclusively to serving
union members;
Representation of union officials in matters
relating to union business;
Representation of a union member if the union
itself is in fact and in law the real party in
interest and the union member himself only a nominal
plaintiff without a legal interest in the outcome of
the controversey.
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Also, CRLA must not display union posters or signs
in any of its offices or use its client interviewing process
to recruit union members.
CRIMINAL REPRESENTATION
As the Commission report noted, Section 222(a)(3) of
the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended, prohibits
legal services attorneys from representing a criminal
defendant proceeded against by indictment or information
except where the Director (of OEO) determines, after con-
sultation with the court having jurisdiction, that adequate
legal assistance will not otherwise be available.
Although interim guidelines interpreting this provision
were promulgated in Community Action Memo No. 79, in
January, 1968 they do not resolve all the questions in
this area. The Commission, on page 55, suggested that
CRLA "adopt more definitive guidelines to avoid future
confusion within CRLA, as well as in the minds of the public
generally." As the Commission recognized, the problem is
not only one of determining the precise nature of the
statutory prohibition but also one of focusing the program's
limited resources. Without restrictions, the "demand for
criminal representation would quickly deplete the agency's
limited budget."
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By statute and court decision, California has
provided extensively for the criminal defense of persons
in financial need. Therefore, the use of limited OEO
resources for criminal defense is unnecessary and undesirable.
In order to properly carry out the above-mentioned
restriction in the Economic Opportunity Act and to avoid
dissipating the program's resources, it is proposed that
the following guidel ines be adhered to in the area of
criminal representation:
(1) The statutory prohbilition must be stricily
adhered to in the case of persons proceeded against by
indictment or information. Waivers under the exception
shall be given by the Director of OEO or his designated
representative only in extraordinary circumstances and
only when it has been determined, after such individual
has consulted with the court having jurisdiction, bhat
otherwise
adequate legal assistance will not be available.
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(2) Legal assistance shall not be given in any other
type of criminal proceeding (including misdemeanors, viola-
tions of municipal ordinances and post-conviction remedies
where the underlying confinement was the result of a case
in which representation would have been prohibited under
these guidelines) unless legal representation 1s necessary
bo protect the client's rights and adequate legal assistance
will not otherwise be available.
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(3) Representation provided to an indigent through any
organized system such as the public defender system or court-
appointed attorneys will be deemed to be adequate representation.
SPARE TIME ACTIVITIES
In its recommendations, the Commission stated that
foremost of those problems which have contributed to the
misunderstanding and controversy surrounding the program
"is that caused by activities of CRLA attorneys on their
spare or 'own time' If The Commission went on to say (p. 85):
"As was testified by numerous witnesses, CRLA
attorneys are permitted to engage in activities
on their own time which either by virtue of
statutory prohibition or special restrictions
in the CRIA grant are not a permissible use of
CRLA resources,
The Commission concluded that CRLA's existing policies
and procedures to handle this problem may be inadequate.
This is a problem which the Administration specifically
in
focused on/its bill to create an independent Legal Services
Corporation. In tihe bill the Corporation is required to
insure that legal services attorneys "represents only eligible
clients and refrain from any outside practice of law.
In order to take care of this most important problem now,
a limitation on outside professional activities must be
instituted immediately. Certain other specific "spare time"
activities such as participation in demonstrations are dealt
with elsewhere herein. However, as a general rule of conduct
we propose that all Legal Services attorneys in their spare
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time activities be guided by the following paraphrase of
a statement in the Commission's report:
Each Legal Services attorney has a professional
responsibility to its project and to clients
to act so as to preclude not only the actuality
but also the appearance of impropriety in this
area. The improper conduct of one attorney,
acting as a private citizen, can give the
appearance of improper conduct by the program.
Such misguided conduct no matter how well
intentioned can only damage hhe program's public
image and thus handicap its legitimate efforts
in behalf of its clients.
PARTICIPATION IN DEMONSTRATIONS
Problems have developed pertaining to the manner in
which attorneys and community workers relate to organiza-
tions which they represent. A distinction must be made
between participating in an organization as a member of
the organization and undertaking to represent that
organization as an attorney. The problem is compounded
by active participation in demonstrations and picketing.
The CRLA Commission recommended strict limitations on such
actibities.
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It should be understood that representation of
organizations is authorized only when such groups are
composed primarily of individuals eligible to receive
legal assistance.
A simple guideline for CRLA personnel to follow in
dealing with organizations is that hhey should not act as
both client and attorney. If such personnel engage actively
in the affairs of an organization, they should not under-
take to represent it or to give it legal advice to any
extent. Conversely, if an attorney undertakes to represent
an organization in any capacity, whether through a lawsuit,
negotiations, preparation of legal documents or simple
counseling, an attorney should avoid active participation
in the organization and its political decisions.
The attorney's function under these circumstances should
be to represent the organization as a lawyer and to provide
legal counsel. Public statements pertaining to the
activities of the organization should be made by the
leadership of the organization. Statements made by its counsel
should be limited to appropriate statements pertaining to
legal problems, such as law suits. An attorney's function
with regard to picketing, sit-ins, or other forms of
demonstration, should be strictly limited to carrying out
legal duties in accordance with the highest standards of
professional conduct and responsibility.
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To the extent possible, appearances before public
bodies should be undertaken by organizational members and
hheir elected leaders. Such appearances should not be
structured so that an attorney has a dominant role.
With reference to situations which might develop into
mass arrests or wholesale patterns of government recrimina-
tion, attorneys should counsel the organization that CRLA
can provide no assurance that it will afford representation
with reference to criminal charges which might be brought.
In counseling organizations, it is not the attorney's
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responsibility or prerogative to make political decisions
for an organization, but rather to advise them as to the
legal consequences of various alternatives.
Therefore, the following are guidelines for all CRIA
attorneys and community workers:
---Actively represent and cuunsel groups, but,
do not picket or demonstrate on behalf of
the group.
---Regarding activities of the group, except as to
legal matters, leadership should come from group
members and officers, not CRLA attorneys, There-
fore, non-legal public statements, press conferences,
etc. should be issued by group members.
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It must be made unmistakably clear to groups
advised by CRLA that CRLA attorneys are prohibited
from representing them in criminal matters. Although
there may be rare instances in which both CRLA and
OEO will concur that criminal representation is
appropriate, they will be rare. It is, therefore,
inaccurate and unfair to allow a group any prior
expectations.
UTILIZATION OF PROGRAM FACILITIES
PROBLEM
In several instances the Commission found that CRLA
facilities were being utilized by non-CRLA personnel for
non-CRLA activities. As the Commission stated on page 6
of Appendix F to its report, "it would be advisable for
CRLA to use care in allowing others the use of tts
facilities, so that possibilities for misunderstanding will
be minimized."
SOLUTION
In order to deal with this problem, the following
guidelines on the use of CRLA facilities are proposed:
(1) Unique assets of a CRLA office such as its library
or xerox machine may be made available to other attorneys
as a professional courtesy provided that it does not cost
the project any money.
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(2) Other ordinary facilities such as typewriters, telephones
and stationery shall not routinely be made available to or
utilized by non-CRLA personnel
(3) No legal or secretarial assistance shall be pro-
vided to non-CRLA personnel utilizing CRLA activities for
non-CRLA purposes.
(4) CRLA facilities shall not be made available to
any individual or grunp working on a non-CRLA activity
where to do so would identify CRLA with such activity.
MEMBERSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY
Aggressive attempts to vindicate the right of hhe
poor invite controversy and often threaten to divide the
community. Challenges to the establishment brought by
attorneys perceived to be "outsiders" exacerbate the
division. It should be clear that such ad hominem disputes
necessarily detract from the Legal Services attorney's
ability to give help to the poor.
There are two ways that attempts can be made to bridge
the decision between members of the community and CRLA
attorneys.
-First, by observing the solutions advanced else-
where in this paper unwarranted controversy with
respect to criminal representation, union activities,
demonstrations, impact litigation. and free time
activities will becessarily be reduced.
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Second, CRLA attorneys should be encouraged to
participate in the activities of the state and
local bar associations. This participation which
should lead to increased cooperation and under-
standing by CRLA and other attorneys alike could
be promoted by CRLA's paying membership fees in
the appropriate organizations.
This decision to provide expanded legal services programs
for California and the imposition of stringent control on the
future operations of CRLA has been discussed with Governor
Reagan, who has advised me of his concurrence.
Governor Reagan issued the following statement in response
to Mr. Carlucci's statement (previous).
"I am delighted that Mr. Carlucci has chosen California
to develop a model legal services program for the poor that
may set a nationwide pattern.
"I also am hopeful his imposition of stricter controls on
the future operation of CRLA will improve its service.
"All of us who are committed to the concept of providing
adequate legal services to those who cannot afford them consider
this a major step forward. II
June 29 1971
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Statement given to wire services
I am delighted that Mr. Carlucci has chosen California
to develop a model legal services program for the poor that
may set a nationwide pattern.
I also am hopeful his imposition of stricter controls on
the future operation of CRLA will improve its service.
All of us who are committed to the concept of providing
adequate legal services to those who cannot afford them consider
this a major step forward.
OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: mediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
6-30-71
#389
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"It now appears the state will enter the new fiscal year
without a budget. However, the legislative conference committee
is continuing to work to produce a budget to present to the Senate
and Assembly for a vote. I sincerely hope this will result in
quick action so that we will have a budget enabling the state to
continue operating.
"Meanwhile, I have asked for the cooperation of all state
employees and all those doing business with the state to assist us
in continuing to serve the public during this interim period."
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