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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-2-71
#458
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today the following bills have
been signed:
AB 772 - Dent
Extends provisions of the Franchise Act of 1937
Chapter 422
relating to gas, oil, electric and water franchises
by municipalities to counties. The bill specifies
that counties shall not grant franchises under the
1937 Act in any incorporated area.
AB 1104 - Chappie
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Chapter 423
to withhold apportionment money plus interest over
the next five years from the Marysville School
District in order to compensate for an overpayment
made to the district in 1968-69.
AB 2862 - MacDonald Repeals a temporary statute apportioning a single
Chapter 424
truck tax among certain carriers performing
transportation operations on certain single shipments,
and repeals the requirement that the State Board of
Equalization report to the legislature on the effect
of such apportionment.
AB 3088 - Keysor
Allows property tax refund on disaster-damaged
Chapter 425
property to be paid on order of the board of
supervisors without requiring the taxpayer to file
a claim.
SB 363 - Cologne
Removes the termination date on the existence of the
Chapter 416
New Car Dealers Policy and Appeals Board to conform
to a 1970 statute providing for a continuing
existence for the board.
SB 366 - Cologne
Exempts from the documentary transfer taxes imposed
Chapter 417
by cities and counties those conveyances of real
property to a beneficiary or mortgagee which are in
lieu of a foreclosure.
SB 666 - Bradley
Provides that costs and expenses of examinations of
Chapter 418
admitted insurers and other investigations conducted
by the Insurance Commissionery shall be paid from
current support appropriation for Department of
Insurance, rather than from the Insurance Fund.
SB 935 - Burgener
Provides that specified health policies and plans
Chapter 419
delivered or issued for delivery more than 120 days
after this bill becomes effective which contain
provisions for termination of coverage of a dependent
child at a certain age shall not operate to terminate
such coverage where the child is incapable of self-
sustaining employment because of mental retardation
or physical handicap and remains dependent on the
insured for support.
SB 1152 - Dymally
Requires at least one public member of the California
Chapter 420
Heritage Preservation Commission be an American
Indian.
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediat
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-2-71
# 459
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of 17
members to the newly-created Governor's Advisory Coordinating Council
on Public Personnel Management.
The council will recommend action to be taken on the state level
to strengthen state and local governments through improved personnel
administration and more efficient recruiting and training of personnel
in administrative and technical fields.
The program was initiated through a $12.5 million grant by the
federal government. California's share of the grant is in excess of
$1 million.
Randy Hamilton, executive secretary of the Institute for Local
Self Government, Berkeley, will serve as chairman. He lives at 6101
Arcadia Avenue, Oakland. He is a Republican.
Others on the Council are:
REPRESENTING THE COUNTIES
William Hart, Personnel Director, 2612 N. Baker Street, Santa Ana.
He is a Republican.
Raymond D. Johnson, County Administrator, 202 E. Pedragosa Street,
Santa Barbara. He is a Republican.
Loren E. Smith, Supervisor, Monterey County; 1215 Sylvan Road,
Monterey. He is a Republican.
REPRESENTING THE CITIES
Lyman H. Cozad, City Manager, Arcadia; 1220 Oakwood Drive, Arcadia.
He is a Republican.
William F. Danielson, personnel officer, City of Sacramento; 6635
Swanson Way, Sacramento. He is not registered with a political party
Leonard Grote, City Councilman, Pleasant Hill; 610 Aleta Place,
Pleasant Hill. He is a Democrat.
REPRESENTING THE PUBLIC
Herbert Spurgin, Personnel Manager for Henshey's Department Store.
He lives at 216 21st Place, Santa Monica. He is a Republican.
Henry Talbert, Western Regional Director, Urban League, Los
Angeles; 4535 Don Milagro Drive. Los Angeles. He is a Democrat.
John McKay, former division chief, California State Personnel
Board, Retired. He is not registered with a political party.
His address is 5007 Sky Parkway, Sacramento.
REPRESENTING THE PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES:
Morgan O'Dell, Executive Secretary, Association of Independent
California Colleges and Universities. His address is 2045 Ridgeview
Avenue, Los Angeles. He is a Democrat.
REPRESENTING UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Ernest A. Engelbert, Department of Political Science, U.C.L.A. His
address is 1 Foothill Park Terrace, Lafayette.
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# 459
REPRESENTING STATE COLLEGES
William J. Sheppard, Professor, Graduate Program in Public
Administration, California State College at Hayward. His address
is 2707 Oakes Drive, Hayward.
REPRESENTING THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Sidney Brossman, Chancellor, Community Colleges, The California Board
of Governors. His address is 1508 Del Dayo Drive, Carmichael.
REPRESENTING THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Ron Frankum, Assistant to the Lieutenant Governor. His address is
4225 Los Coches Way, Sacramento. He is a Republican.
Richard Camilli, Executive Officer, State Personnel Board. His
address is 6740 Lakeview Drive, Carmichael. He is a Republican.
Allen J. Manzano, Assistant Director, Department of Health Care
Services. His address is 1112 Bucknell Drive, Davis. He is a
Republican.
Appointees receive no compensation.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO.
RELEASE: Imn. Liate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-2-71
#460
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Brian R. Van Camp, assistant secretary of the Business and Transportation
Agency as Commissioner of Corporations.
He succeeds Anthony R. Pierno in the $30,000 a year post. Pierno
has resigned to accept a position in the private sector.
In announcing Van Camp's appointment, Governor Reagan said, "Brian
has demonstrated his dedication to the cause of good government through
his service in the Business and Transportation Agency and I know he
will prove to be a worthy successor to Tony Pierno."
Van Camp, 30, joined the administration in April, 1970 as Assistant
Secretary of Business and Transportation and in February of this year
was named acting secretary to succeed James Hall, who was appointed
Secretary of Human Relations.
As acting secretary, Van Camp served on the Governor's Cabinet and
was in charge of seven business regulatory departments and four
transportation operating departments of state government.
In 1970, he declined a White House Fellowship in Washington, D. C.
to serve with the Reagan Administration. Formerly, he served as agency
attorney for the Sacramento Redevelopment Agency and as a deputy State
Attorney General.
In 1969, he was named "Outstanding Young Man of the Year" by the
Sacramento Jaycees for his community service.
A native of Kansas, Van Camp attended schools in Sacramento and
served as student body president of both his junior and senior high
schools and the University of California at Berkeley.
He was graduated from UC-Berkeley in 1962 with a degree in Political
Science and won the Sumner Mering Award as the outstanding graduate from
the Sacramento area. In 1965, he earned his law degree from Boalt Hall.
He and his wife Moni have two daughters. They live in Sacramento.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-2-71
#461
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Sacramento
attorney Robert K. Puglia to the Sacramento County Superior Court bench.
Puglia, 41, a Democrat, will receive an annual salary of $33,396.
He succeeds Judge Albert H. Mundt who has retired.
A partner in the firm of McDonough, Holland, Schwartz, Allen and
Wahrhaftig since 1969, Puglia formerly was chief deputy district attorney
and
of Sacramento County/from 1961 to 1969, was a professor of law at
McGeorge College of the Law. He also has served as instructor at
Sacramento State College's School of Police Science and Administration.
Prior to joining the Sacramento County District Attorney's office
in 1959, Puglia served as a deputy state attorney general in San Francisco
and Sacramento.
He is a graduate of Ohio State University and earned his law degree
at the University of California's Boalt Hall.
Puglia and his wife Ingrid have four children. The family home
is in Carmichael.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immedia'
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-3-71
#462
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 678 - Townsend
Adds associations of contractors to the classes of
(Chapter 442)
persons who may seek an injunction against unlicensed
persons continuously violating the Contractors' State
License Law.
AB 685 - Hayes
Specifies that the State Personnel Board may adopt
(Chapter 443)
rules and regulations providing for methods separating
intermittent employees from state service; revises
provisions on reinstatements to reflect the repeal and
addition of Article XXIV of the State Constitution
and eliminates reporting to the State Personnel Board
on probationary employees.
AB 710 - Deddeh
Requires equipment and structures for rapid transit
(Chapter 444)
of local public entities to be accessible to the
handicapped. The bill excepts equipment and
structures of an urban transit system until such
equipment is available from two manufacturers.
AB 811 - Chappie
Revises provisions for firefighting tools and spark
(Chapter 445)
arrester requirements on engines.
AB 875 - Hayes
Incorporates all of the existing military leave and
(Chapter 446)
related provisions affecting State civil service
employees into a single new Government Code chapter.
AB 1168 - Seeley
Requires that the State Lands Commission review and
(Chapter 447)
approve or disapprove an engineering survey to
determine boundaries along a segment of the Colorado
River. This survey will locate boundary lines between
private and State lands as they relate to the present
location of the river.
AB 1533 - Hayden
Provides that parking is permitted on either side
(Chapter 448)
of any one-way roadway under specified conditions,
rather than requiring right-hand parking and only
permitting left-hand parking on such roadways when
authorized by local authorities.
AB 1534 - Hayden
AB 1534 authorizes cities and counties to use
(Chapter 449)
specified funds allocated to them from the Highway
Users Tax Fund for highway-oriented transportation
studies requested by a state or federal agency, as
well as for acquisition of rights-of-way for and
construction of routes on their select systems of
county roads and city streets for maintenanace
purposes thereon.
AB 1876 - Hayden
Makes laws affecting the Vehicle Code which are
(Chapter 450)
adopted at either a regular or special session of the
legislature, operative on the 121st day after
adjournment.
AB 2373 - McCarthy
Provides for recodification of city or city and
(Chapter 452)
county charters. The bill makes provision for
publication of the charter and an election on
the recodified charter.
AB 2395 - Hayden
Permits the Board of Supervisors of the County of
(Chapter 451)
Santa Clara, without advertising for bids, to lease
real property owned by the county to any nonprofit
corporation or nonprofit association for a term not
to exceed 55 years for the purpose of constructing,
operating and maintaining buildings, structures and
facilities for medical research and education and
allied health care.
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SB 132 - Teale
APPROVED WITH REDUCTION:
(Chapter 426)
"I am reducing the appropriation contained in
Senate Bill No. 132 from $10,896, 024 to $9,971,274
by deleting paragraph (1) (i) Residential care
review by the Department of Health Care Services and
(1) (ii) Review of nursing homes and intermediate
care facilities.
"The appropriation contained in paragraph (1) has
been deleted because it would jeopardize the operation
of the medical social team function currently being
conducted in the Department of Health Care Services.
"With the above reduction, I have approved Senate
Bill 132," the governor stated.
SB 473 - Rodda
Codifies the University of California Dormitory
(Chapter 427)
Revenue Bond Act of 1947. The bill makes no
substantive changes in the law.
SB 524 - Stiern
Prohibits the capture for sale, transport for sale
(Chapter 428)
or sale of wild rodents except muskrats and beavers.
The bill is intended to prevent public exposure to
plague infection.
SB 577 - Gregorio
Provides that acceleration clauses relating to
(Chapter 429)
obligations secured by trust deeds or mortgages on
specified residential property are invalid if
not contained in both the trust deed or mortgage
and the instrument evidencing the secured obligation.
The bill applies to transactions entered into on or
after July 1, 1972.
SB 589 - Carrell
Changes the name of the State Soil Conservation
(Chapter 430)
Commission to the State Resources Conservation
Commission. The name of the Department of
Conservation's Division of Soil Conservation is
changed to the Division of Resource Conservation.
The bill also changes the name of soil conservation
districts to resource conservation districts.
SB 716 - Lagomarsino
Permits two or more lessees to pool their acreage
(Chapter 431)
and pursue a cooperative plan for geothermal
energy development. This bill will allow individuals
or corporations to unitize their holdings and
cooperate in the exploration for and development of
geothermal resources.
SB 732 - Carrell
Conforms the registration renewal deadline for
(Chapter 432)
miscellaneous types of vehicles to that for regular
motor vehicles. The bill also authorizes the
Department of Motor Vehicles to apportion taxes on
interstate fleets of commercial vehicles on some
basis other than miles traveled in California.
SB 733 - Schrade
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to waive
(Chapter 433)
penalties due for late payment of renewal fees on
repossessed vehicleswhen all other fees are paid
within 30 days of the taking of possession by the
repossessor OF his agent.
SB 816 - Bradley
Adds as securities which are eligible to secure
(Chapter 434)
deposits of moneys of local agencies those securities
for which faith and credit of the United States are
pledged for payment of principal and interest. The
bill provides specific sanctions for noncompliance
with law relating to deposits of moneys of local
agencies rather than authorizing the Administrator
of Local Agency Security to impose appropriate
sanctions. It further authorizes the administrator
to take legal action to prevent or stop violation of
law relating to deposit of money of local agency.
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#462
SB 925 - Schrade
Authorizes specified safety members in San Diego
(Chapter 435)
County who failed to elect to pay contributions
in order to receive safety membership credit for
time prior to achieving such category of membership
to now elect to pay such contributions.
SB 1109 - Bradley
Specifies that for purposes of the law relating to
(Chapter 436)
the California Insurance Guarantee Association, that
the phrase "admitted to transact insurance in this
state" refers to an insurer possessing a certificate
of authority issued by the California Department of
Insurance. The bill provides that a default
judgement against an insolvent insurer or
insured of an insolvent insurer shall not be binding
on the Association. The bill also limits the amount
of assessment in any one year by the Guarantee
Association to 2 percent of premiums collected by
an insurance company in that category of insurance
against a member company.
SB 1124 - Lagomarsino
Permits the continued employment of undersheriffs
(Chapter 437)
in Ventura County past the age of 70.
SB 1159 - Dymally
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to several codes.
(Chapter 438)
SB 1309 - Carrell
Provides that any person who does certain specified
(Chapter 439)
acts with respect to county highways without a
permit from the road commissioner is liable for all
expenses and damage. caused thereby. The bill also
authorizes road commissioners to immediately remove
or by notice to require removal of specified
encroachments.
SB 1336 - Wedworth
Requires each county conducting a pilot program
(Chapter 440)
pursuant to the Wedworth-Townsend Paramedic Act to
submit a report to the legislature and to the State
Department of Public Health not later than 30 days
from the first calendar day of the 1974 Regular
Session evaluating paramedic programs conducted at
county hospitals or hospitals under contract with
the county.
SB 1417 - Walsh
Reduces from 24 months to 23 months the period of
(Chapter 441)
service in the medical corps of the armed forces
that qualifies designated persons to take the
licensed vocational nurse examination.
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NEWS RELEASE
(Immediate)
Human Relations Agency 445-6951
August 3, 1971
More than 6,000 of California's welfare and Medi-Cal recipients
are living outside the state and some of them also are listed on the
welfare rolls of the states they apparently are visiting, the Reagan
administration announced today.
State Human Relations Secretary James M. Hall said 201 of the
recipients are living outside the country while receiving their welfare
checks. "In a preliminary examination of the data it would appear that a
part
good/of the free world is represented in addition to 49 states and the
District of Columbia," he said.
Hall said 16 of California's 58 counties have not been included
in the survey because they are not yet participating in the new Medi-
Cal/Welfare Information System. He indicated that when information is
available from the 16 counties, even more names will be added to the
total.
Hall explained that welfare recipients can now live outside
the state for one year and still be eligible for welfare. This is one
of the abuses that would be eliminated in the governor's welfare
reform program.
In a spot check of 95 names with welfare officials in Nevada
today it was found that six California recipients living there are
receiving welfare benefits from both states.
Another six recipients, who are now on California welfare
rolls, were removed from welfare by Nevada officials earlier this year
because they were found to be ineligible. "The names of these
individuals are being turned over to the California Attorney General
and local law enforcement authorities for further action," Hall said.
"The same action will be taken where duplications are found in other
states," he added.
He said the investigation will continue, "until we are
satisfied that only those recipients who are in fact California
residents and are eligible remain on our welfare rolls."
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The information on California's "welfare gad-abouts" was
revealed during the development of a new management information system
now under way by the State Departments of Social Welfare and Health
Care Services. Prior to the new information system, the data was
separately maintained by the counties. The new system is being
developed as part of the governor's welfare reform program.
A total of 6,224 recipients, who are drawing welfare or Medi-Cal
benefits from California, are out of the state. A partial list of the
counties and the number of their recipients outside the state include:
Alameda 189, Butte 48, Colusa 1, Contra Costa 197, El Dorado 73,
Fresno 154, Humboldt 31, Inyo 11, Kern 63, Kings 70, Lake 8,
Lassen 7, Los Angeles 1,289, Marin 66, Mendocino 23, Merced 34,
Monterey 109, Napa 12, Orange 240, Placer 53, Riverside 193,
Sacramento 327, San Bernardino 421, San Diego 389, San
Francisco 491, San Joaquin 114, San Luis Obispo 23, San Mateo 110,
Santa Barbara 111, Santa Clara 740, Santa Cruz 114, Shasta 65,
Siskiyou 8, Solano 82, Sonoma 88, Stanislaus 114, Sutter 4,
Tulare 65, Ventura 44, and Yolo 43.
The number of recipients and the states they are living in are:
Alabama 91, Alaska 20, Arizona 506, Arkansas 235, Colorado 196,
Connecticut 30, Delaware 1, Dist. of Columbia 55, Florida 152,
Georgia 57, Hawaii 64, Idaho 135, Illinois 141, Indiana 77,
Iowa 57, Kansas 94, Kentucky 63, Louisiana 292, Maine 14,
Maryland 39, Massachusetts 85, Michigan 193, Minnesota 46,
Mississippi 70, Missouri 241, Montana 51, Nebraska 93, Nevada 229,
New Hampshire 10, New Jersey 38, New Mexico 167, New York 178,
N. Carolina 40, N. Dakota 8, Ohio 165, Oklahoma 326, Oregon 399,
Pennsylvania 56, Rhode Island 9, S. Carolina 15, S. Dakota 24,
Tennessee 105, Texas 810, Utah 62, Vermont 2, Virginia 39,
Washington 223, West Virginia 23, Wisconsin 90, Wyoming 35.
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Foreign countries and the number of California welfare recipients
are:
Argentina 2, British Honduras 7, Canada 33, El Salvador 2,
England 6, Germany 8, Greece 3, Guatemala 7, Ireland 1,
Italy 5, Mexico 46, Netherlands 2, Nicaragua 4, Panama 1,
Republic of the Phillipines 7. Puerto Rico 46, San Salvador 4,
Sweden 1, Switzerland 1, Venezuela 2; and the islands of Guam 2,
Malta 1, and Samoa 3.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVEP OR
RELEASE: Imme liate
Sacramento, Califor 1a
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
8-4-71
#463
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of
Whittier attorney Earl F. Riley and Santa Monica Municipal Judge
Edward Rafeedie to the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Riley, 50, will succeed the late Judge Bayard Rhone and
Judge Rafeedie, 42, will succeed Judge Ellsworth Meyer, who has retired.
Both appointees will receive $33,396 annually. Both are Republicans.
A partner in the Whittier law firm of Frank and Riley since
1951, Riley is a graduate of Hanover College in Indiana and earned
his law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
He is active in civic and service affairs in Whittier and is
a former president of the Whittier Junior Chamber of Commerce and
Whittier Bar Association and served as a member of the Whittier
Planning Commission from 1952 to 1960.
Riley also is a member of the Southeast District Bar Associatic
Los Angeles County Bar Association, State Bar of California and the
American Trial Lawyers Association.
He and his wife Barbara have four daughters. The family
home is in Whittier.
Judge Rafeedie, who was appointed to the Santa Monica
Municipal Court in 1969 by Governor Reagan, is a past president of
the Santa Monica Bar Association and is active in numerous civic and
service organizations including the Santa Monica and Malibu Chambers
of Commerce, the Ocean Park Association of Commerce, the Salvation
Army, YMCA and Community Chest.
He is a member of the Conference of California Judges, the
Los Angeles County Municipal Court Judges Association and other legal
associations.
Judge Rafeedie attended Los Angeles City and Santa Monica
City Colleges and earned his law degree from the University of
Southern California.
He and his wife, Ruth, have two children. The family lives
in Santa Monica.
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OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Califorr a
Contact:
Paul B k
445-4571
8-5-71
#464
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 119 - Belotti
Requires that specified evidence, which under
(Chapter 453)
existing law would permit a person to be licensed
as a psychiatric technician without examination,
be submitted prior to January 1, 1972. The bill
also revises the provision permitting certain
described persons employed by the State of California
as psychiatric technicians to be licensed as
psychiatric technicians without examination by
permitting persons employed by the state as
psychiatric technicians in the five years prior to
January 1, 1970, who entered the armed services of
the United States on military leave during such period
to be granted a psychiatric technician's license
without examination under specified terms and
conditions.
AB 411 - Murphy
Extends the nonprotected status of the yellow-billed
(Chapter 473)
magpie for two years.
AB 651 - Arnett
Deletes obsolete provisions authorizing loans for
(Chapter 466)
construction of California Highway Patrol and
Department of Motor Vehicle office buildings in
Sacramento. The bill also reduces the amount
authorized for construction of buildings and other
facilities for the Office of Civil Defense from
$925,000 to $300,000.
AB 855 - Keysor
Prohibits buses from stopping on freeways unless
(Chapter 467)
there are sidewalks of sufficient width to permit
such stopping without interfering with the normal
movement of traffic and without the possibility of
crossing over fast lanes to reach the bus stop.
AB 892 - Stacey
Permits the board of directors of a water storage
(Chapter 454)
district to segregate and divide the plans,
specifications, and estimates of cost into one or
more units of construction for a district project.
AB 903 - Karabian
Authorizes issuance by the State Board of Medical
(Chapter 455)
Examiners of a physician and surgeon reciprocity
certificate under designated circumstances.
AB 906 - Brathwaite Provides that examination for certificate of
(Chapter 456)
registration as a registered barber shall include
standard methods for dressing all textures of hair,
including hair relaxing.
AB 951 - Belotti
Revises provisions of the Business and Professions
(Chapter 468)
Code relating to gasoline fuel advertising and
petroleum product containers.
AB 1064 - Townsend
Allows women employees, except commissary employees,
(Chapter 457)
of airplanes certificated by the federal or state
government to make certain temporary changes in
their regular work schedules for the convenience of
such employees resulting in more than 40 hours,
but not more than 60 hours, of work in any one week
without the requirement of overtime pay for such time
worked over 40 hours. The bill specifies that such
employees may work a 4-day week of not more than
40 hours.
AB 1289 - Russell
Expands the Educational Innovation Advisory Commission
(Chapter 469)
from 11 to 13 members in order to conform to federal
regulations requiring two representatives from the
counseling and guidance fields. The bill deletes
the provision regarding reservation and allocation of
certain federal funds to the Educational Research
Commission and substitutes a similar provision
regarding such funds for three fiscal years
commencing with the 1971-72 fiscal year.
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AB 1612 - Chacon
Authorizes a city board of education whose
(Chapter 470)
mbers are elected in accor nce with a city charter
for terms of office commencing in December, to hold
its annual organizational meeting between December 15
and January 14, inclusive, The bill requires the
election of the president and vice president at such
annual meeting.
AB 1674 - Badham
Excepts the costs of forest, range, and watershed
(Chapter 471)
fire protection within specified state responsibility
areas for which the county is not reimbursed by the
state from the law providing that a city or district
providing its own fire protection service shall not
be assessed for any portion of the costs of county
fire protection services. The bill states that it
is declaratory of existing law.
AB 1751 - Cline
Provides that a board of supervisors may establish
(Chapter 458)
a uniform procedure for the payment of rewards,
payable from county funds, for ideas or suggestions
made by members of the public which the board
determines would reasonably result in financial
savings to the county.
AB 1871 - Deddeh
Specifies the procedures to be followed for election
(Chapter 472)
of members of a separate community college governing
board, rather than a common unified community college
governing board, when elections are held in December
pursuant to a city charter provision.
AB 2420 - Stull
Provides that proceedings for detachment of an area
(Chapter 459)
of a city from a municipal water district which were
completed not later than February 8, 1971, shall be
effective for assessment and taxation purposes for
the 1971-72 fiscal year if the required statement and
plat were filed on or before February 28, 1971. The
bill also provides that reorganization of recreation
and park districts shall be effective for assessment
and taxation purposes in 1971 provided specified
requirements are satisfied.
SB 628 - Cologne
Increases the additional license fee for public
(Chapter 460)
weighmaster for each additional location where service
are rendered from $5 to $10. The bill also increases
the fee paid by a public weighmaster, private
weighmaster and public weighmaster at large for each
deputy from $2 to $5.
SB 720 - Carpenter
Permits physically handicapped minors to be enrolled
(Chapter 461)
in work study or work experience programs for a total
of two hours each day. This two-hour period, combined
with two hours of attendance in a special or regular
day class, would constitute one day of attendance
for such minors.
SB 767 - Cologne
Provides that a county board of supervisors may
(Chapter 462)
provide that an area planning commission perform
planning and zoning functions within a prescribed
area of the county.
SB 1000 - Petris
Authorizes a reasonable and nondiscriminatory
(Chapter 463)
inspection fee established by city or county ordinanc
to defray the cost of inspecting building construction
work of another public agency in such city or county.
The bill also authorizes such fee for cost of plan-
checking services. The bill does not authorize fee
for a permit to do such work or assessment of a fee
against the state or its agencies under specified
circumstances.
SB 1056 - Marks
Defines "local agency" for purpose of the Revenue
(Chapter 464)
Bond Law of 1941 to include joint exercise of powers
agency created to acquire, construct, or operate an
enterprise for collection, treatment, or disposal
of sewage, waste or storm-water. It provides for
approval of bonds by majority of all voters voting.
The bill further provides if an emergency exists as
result of determination that improvements must be
undertaken to comply with Porter-Cologne Act, certain
election procedures are inapplicable, but undertaking the improvement shall
be subject to referendum on the issuance of bonds by ordinance of the
agency governing board.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Miss
Virginia L. Carlson of Pomona as Superintendent of the California
Institution for Women at Frontera.
Miss Carlson, a Democrat, will succeed Mrs. Iverne R. Carter
of Frontera, who has retired from the $20,496 post.
A veteran of 20 years in the corrections field, Miss Carlson
is in charge of the unit for women narcotics addicts at Patton State
Hospital.
She began her career with the corrections department as a
juvenile probation officer in Los Angeles and has served as a Youth
Authority parole agent, a counselor and a supervising social worker in
the psychiatric treatment unit at Los Guilucos School for Girls.
Miss Carlson is a graduate of the University of California at
Berkeley and holds a master's degree in social work.
She lives at 1057 Loma Vista, Pomona.
Her appointment is subject to Senate confirmation.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Dr. Rudolph J. Brandt, a Los Angeles psychologist, and the reappointment
of Dr. Elta S. Pfister, psychologist for the Burbank Unified School
District, to four year terms on the Psychology Examining Committee in
the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Dr. Brandt, a Democrat, succeeds Dr. Kenneth B. Holden of
Granada Hills, who did not seek reappointment.
In private practice as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst
since 1956, Dr. Brandt has served as a professor of psychology at the
University of Ottawa, as a psychologist with the U. S. Veterans
and
Administration/as clinical director of the Psychiatric Institute of
Beverly Hills.
Educated in Switzerland, he is a member of the International
Psycho-Analytical Association and numerous international, national and
local professional organizations.
His home is at 2310 Guthrie Drive, Los Angeles.
Dr. Pfister, who also serves as director of the Department of
Guidance for the Burbank Unified School District, has been a member
of the committee since 1968. She is a Republican. She lives at
520 North Sunset Canyon Drive, Burbank.
Committee members receive $25 per diem while on official duty.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 699 - Beverly
Permits a board of supervisors to enter into an
(Chapter 479)
agreement with a lessee or concessionnaire to amend
leases and contracts relating to improved property
to permit the improvement or alteration of the
property under specified circumstances.
AB 1290 - Briggs
Makes a technical amendment to the legislative
(Chapter 480)
standards for the establishment of minimum producer
prices in the Milk Stabilization Act.
AB 1463 - Knox
Provides that a portion of the assessments and bonds
(Chapter 481)
of an improvement district may be readjusted and re-
funded pursuant to a Special Assessment and Bond
Refunding Law of 1939. The bill also provides
a procedure by which the proceeds of the sale of
surplus property on which certain improvements or
repairs have been made pursuant to the Improvement
Act of 1911 may be applied to aid the project.
AB 1781 - Knox
Clarifies the authority of banks and trust companies
(Chapter 482)
to consolidate certificates for stock and other
securities which they hold in fiduciary capacity,
rather than keeping separate certificates for each
fiduciary account.
AB 2072 - Porter
Provides that a resolution of transfer of territory
(Chapter 483)
from one city to a contiguous city shall not be
required in specified circumstances. The bill
authorizes approval of such transfers without
notice, hearing or election and provides that the
provisions for such transfer shall become inoperative
on January 1, 1974.
AB 2245 - Russell
Provides that in assessing the cost of construction
(Chapter 484)
under the Improvement Act of 1911, an adjustment
may be made for certain prescribed contributions
made to the improvement by a past or present owner.
SB 20 - Dymally
Includes the 29th Senatorial District within the
(Chapter 474)
boundaries of the 6th District Agricultural
Association.
SB 253 - Grunsky
Permits an injured employee to settle and release
(Chapter 485)
a claim against a third party tortfeasor without
consent of the employer, subject to the employer's
right to bring an action against the third party
for compensation paid the employee rather than
requiring the employer's consent to such settlement
and release.
SB 756 - Harmer
Excludes from the classified service of a school
(Chapter 475)
district which has adopted a merit system persons
employed in positions established for employment of
community representatives in advisory or consulting
capacities. The bill also includes in the
classified service, under specified conditions,
employees with mental handicaps.
SB 924 - Gregorio
Makes technical amendments to Education Code
(Chapter 476)
provisions relating to school district organization.
SB 1018 - Stiern
Reduces from 21 to 14 the number of days in which
(Chapter 477)
an animal is to be picked up by owner from
veterinarian, kennel, pet grooming parlor, animal
hospital or any other animal care facility after
the day the animal was due to be picked up before
the animal is deemed to be abandoned for specified
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Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"The welfare reform measures contain most of the tools we
will need to control growth, reduce abuse and prosecute fraud.
"It achieves what we sought from the beginning.
"We are particularly pleased that the bill contains these
major reforms which will help us achieve the goals expressed in my
welfare message to the legislature last March 3:
"--It increases grants to those with no other income, and
reduces the amount of assistance received by those with outside
income.
"--It tightens up the eligibility requirements.
"--It will require recipients to take a job or training if
offered, or serve in a public work force.
"--It will strengthen family responsibility as a basic element
of our society.
"As it usually happens in tough negotiations, there was give
and take on both sides. In the process of getting the tools to
achieve our goals, we gave up on some points-which reduced by about
half the money we had hoped to save this year.
"In addition, the delay in implementation has already cost many
millions of dollars which cannot be retrieved.
"Therefore, whatever tax reform action is taken by the legis-
lature will have to include additional revenues to cover these
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Following is a list of the provisions contained in the welfare
reform agreement reached by legislative leaders and the administration:
(The descriptions of the provisions included here do not necessarily
follow the actual language of the bill, but are intended to explain
the provisions in as non-technical terms as possible. )
DUTY TO SUPPORT AGED PARENTS (Sec. 3)
Requires the children of a person receiving aid to the aged (OAS) to
support such person to the extent of their ability.
AWARD OF ATTORNEY FEES TO COUNTY (Sec. 3.3)
Provides that attorney fees may be awarded by the court to a county in
actions to enforce a support obligation.
STEPFATHER SUPPORT (Sec. 8.6)
Provides that the wife's interest in the community property, including
earnings of her husband, is liable for support of her children, with
certain deductions. This would provide for a limited obligation on the
part of stepfathers to support their stepchildren.
ATTACHMENT OF EARNINGS (Sec. 8.8)
Provides for the enforcement of the support obligation of the absent
parent of an AFDC child by attachment of earnings after judgment.
DUPLICATE WARRANT (Sec. 9.5)
Provides that where a welfare check is lost or destroyed, and only a
portion of the original amount is still due, the county auditor shall,
upon the filing of an affidavit, issue and deliver to the legal owner
or custodian a duplicate welfare check for the amount still due.
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS (Secs. 10, 25, and 27)
Requires the social security numbers of the parents on birth certificates,
on the redetermination of eligibility and absent parent statements, as
well as certain other information all designed to assist in locating
absent parents.
CONFIDENTIALITY (Secs. 11.5, 12, 13, 14, and 19)
Permits inspection of state income tax records, unemployment insurance
records, and county records by the SDSW for purposes directly related to
the administration of welfare.
JOB DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (Sec. 15)
Provides that the State Personnel Board shall develop jobs leading to
permanent employment for welfare recipients, to be contracted for by the
State Department of Human Resources Development under WIN (Work Incentive
Program). All jobs developed shall pay the prevailing wage.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES DEVELOPMENT (Sec. 15.1)
Provides that State Personnel Board shall carry out a career
opportunities development program in state employment and provide
technical assistance and direct grants to cities and counties and other
units of state and local government.
FAMILY PLANNING (Secs, 16 and 17)
Requires counties to contract with the State Department of Public Health
to provide family planning services for recipients of childbearing age
desiring such services.
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MAXIMIZING GRANTS (Sec. 17.5)
Existing law directs those administering aid to secure the "maximum
amount of aid" for the recipient. This amendment deletes "maximum"
so that the direction would be to secure the aid to which the recipient
is actually entitled.
GRAND JURY REVIEW OF SUPPORT ACTIVITIES (Sec. 18)
Revises the provision requiring review of county child support activities
and would require annual review by an auditor appointed by the county
grand jury. A report would be made to the County Board of Supervisors
and to the State Department of Social Welfare annually.
SIMPLIFIED ADMINISTRATION (Secs. 18.1, 18.2 and 23)
Provides for contracts between the State Department of Social Welfare
and the counties to enable the Department to simplify and tighten
eligibility and grant determinations.
CHILD CARE (Secs. 18.3 and 18.4)
Requires counties to provide child care services for former, current,
and potential recipients of public assistance who certify that they
would otherwise be unable to accept or maintain employment or training
and that they would, therefore, remain eligible for aid. The counties
would be authorized to charge a fee for these services based on the
ability of a person to pay.
A child care training program would be initiated giving priority to
the training and employment of public assistance recipients.
SOCIAL SERVICES (Sec. 18.5)
Enables counties, if they wish, to provide any public social services
permitted by federal law and for which federal participation is available.
RESTITUTION FOR UNDERPAYMENTS (Sec. 20.3)
OVERPAYMENTS, FRAUD
This amendment would reduce the period for a recipient to claim under-
payment from 4 years to one year; would extend from two to six months
the period of time a county has to seek an adjustment for an overpayment;
and would allow a county one year following discovery of fraud to adjust
grants, instead of the present two months.
TREATMENT OF INCOME (Sec. 20,5)
Will eliminate the requirement that a recipient's income shall be
disregarded to the maximum extent permitted by federal law, and instead
provide that earned income shall be disregarded do the extent required
by federal law; provided that any exemption permitted by federal law on
August 1, 1971 and applied in California shall continue until federal
law is changed.
SCHOLARSHIPS (Sec. 21)
Provides that certain loans or grants to undergraduates from the State
Scholarship and Loan Commission or accredited colleges shall no longer
be considered in determining eligibility or the amount of the grant.
INTEREST ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (Sec. 21.5)
Repeals the provision excluding interest on savings accounts from income
in determining eligibility.
CASUAL INCOME (Sec. 22)
Provides that casual income shall be excluded in determining aid to the
extent of $60 per quarter, but that any such casual income in excess of
$30 per quarter be reported.
REPAYMENT OF AID BY INELIGIBLE RECIPIENT (Sec. 22.5)
Requires the repayment of aid received by a recipient in good faith but
when he was in fact ineligible because he owned excess property.
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VERIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY (Sec. 23.2)
Provides that eligibility must be verified by the County Welfare
Department before an applicant receives assistance. Currently, aid is
granted on the basis of an applicant's simple declaration or affirmation
of need.
OUT-OF-STATE RECIPIENTS (Sec. 23.5)
Provides that the continued absence from the state of a recipient of
public assistance will constitute prima facie evidence of his intent to
establish residence elsewhere after a period of 60 days as opposed to
the present period of one year. Requires the counties to make the
necessary inquiries of such recipients.
DURATIONAL RESIDENCE REQUIREMENTS (Sec. 23.6, 24.01, 24.5, 32.5,
38, and 39.3)
Eliminates all existing (durational) residence requirements and requires
that aid may be granted only to state residents.
ILLEGAL ALIENS (Sec. 24)
Permits an alien to receive welfare if he certifies under penalty of
perjury that he is in the country legally and entitled to remain
indefinitely, or that he is not under order for deportation, or that
his spouse is not under order for deportation. Upon such certification
aid shall be paid pending verification by the U.S. Immigration Service.
EXEMPT PERSONAL PROPERTY (Sec. 24.2, 24.4, 24.12 and 24.13)
Permits an applicant or recipient to retain items of personal property
up to a market value of $1,000, plus the entire value of wedding and
engagement rings, heirlooms, and clothing, the reasonable value of
household furnishings, other household equipment up to a market value
of $300 for each item, reasonable value of equipment and material needed
for employment, and certain other property rights.
LUMP SUM INCOME (Sec. 24.1, 24.2, 24.14, and 32.9)
Provides that all lump sum income received by applicants and recipients
shall be regarded as income in the month received except for certain
social insurance such as social security income and workmen's
compensation benefits, provided they are non-recurring.
ANNUAL INCOME AVERAGING (Sec. 24.3)
Provides that the income of any person who has a contract of employment
on an annual basis, but who works and receives income in fewer than 12
but more than 8 months shall be averaged over a 12-month basis for the
purpose of determining eligibility.
EMERGENCY RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT (Sec. 24.4)
Establishes a one-year residence requirement for needy relatives under
the AFDC program when the unemployment rate in the county of residence
exceeds 6 percent.
ELIGIBILITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS (Sec. 24.7)
Limits the eligibility of bonafide college students for AFDC aid who are
ver 16 years of age to those achieving passing grades.
REDETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY
TO BE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY (Sec. 25)
Requires that the certificate of eligibility in connection with an annual
redetetermination of eligibility shall contain a written declaration by
the recipient that it is executed under penalty of perjury.
IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE (Sec. 26)
Authorizes the counties to pay an applicant up to $100 for immediate
assistance, and that verification of the applicant's eligibility within
five days must be made or the county bears the cost of such payment.
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GROSS INCOME - 150 PERCENT OF NEED (Sec. 26.01)
Places a limitation on gross income tied to a standard of 150 percent of
the basic standard of need.
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE WORK FORCE (Sec, 25.8)
Requires HRD, when federal law permits, to develop and implement a
plan for community work experience programs so that welfare applicants
and recipients may receive work experience that will assist them to move
into regular employment. If the adult recipient refuses to accept work,
training or participate in a public assistance work force, his portion
of the family's welfare grant will be terminated.
ABSENT PARENT OBLIGATION (Sec. 26.5,26.6)
A parent whose absence from the family results in the family's eligibility
for aid shall be obligated to repay the amount of aid so paid. The
district attorney of the county administering such aid is required to
enforce this obligation.
WORK-RELATED EXPENSES (Sec. 28.1)
Restricts work-related expenses to $50 per month, plus reasonable and
necessary costs of child care. Currently state law places no dollar
limitation on work-related expenses.
FOOD STAMP BONUS (Sec. 29.2)
Provides essentially that, in the event the federal food stamp program is
discontinued for welfare recipients, the bonus value of food stamps
received by recipients shall be added to the aid payable to recipients,
provided that there is no additional cost to the state.
MISMANAGEMENT (Sec. 29.5)
Requires, rather than permits, counties to pay aid in the form of goods
or services (in kind) to recipients where there is mismanagement of aid
payments by recipients themselves.
ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT (Sec. 30)
Shortens the time for referral to the District Attorney of absent parent
cases; provides for use of liens where appropriate, and would give the
District Attorney the authority to request immediate referral to his
office of any absent parent case for prosecution.
SUPPORT RECOVERIES (Sec. 31)
Provides counties with a greater share of repaid or recovered monies as
an inducement for county recovery efforts in the area of parental support
liability.
ATTACHMENT OF EARNINGS (Sec. 31.5)
Allows attachment of absent parent earnings in court actions to enforce
support obligations to children receiving welfare aid.
OAS RELATIVES' RESPONSIBILITY (Sec. 33)
Increases the amount of support an adult child must contribute toward
the support of a parent receiving OAS, depending on the adult child's
ability to pay.
FLAT GRANTS (Sec. 28)
A standard AFDC payment level is provided which will allow maximum
administrative efficiency.
GRANT LEVEL (Sec. 28)
The AFDC grant payment level has been increased to a level 30 percent
higher than that paid prior to June of this year.
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ANNUAL COST OF LIVING INCREASES (Sec. 29 and 29.1)
AFDC recipients will receive an automatic annual cost of living increase
in grants, based on federal indices, beginning in 1973.
SPECIAL NEEDS (Sec. 28.5)
In addition to the basic grant, recipients will be provided a special
needs allowance.
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS (Sec. 42.5)
The state will assume 50 percent of the non-federal share of county
administrative costs, beginning in 1972, in eligibility and grant
determination.
CONTRIBUTIONS PAID TO COUNTY (Sec. 34)
Requires adult children's contribution toward the support of parents
receiving OAS to be paid directly to the county.
SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT INCENTIVE FUND (Sec. 39.01)
Appropriates state funds to the counties to offset county welfare costs
to the extent of 75 percent of the amounts received or collected from
absent parents. This is an incentive to the counties to retrieve absent
parent payments. (The 75 percent applies to non-federal share).
HEALTH CARE FOR MINORS (Sec. 39.02)
Parents of emancipated minors cannot be held financially responsible for
health care services.
STATE FUNDING OF THE AGED, BLIND, AND DISABLED PROGRAMS (Sec. 39.1,
39.2, 39.3 and 39.4)
Provides for the state to pay 100 percent of grant payments in the aged
and 1972. blind programs and 50 percent in the disabled program, beginning in
APPROPRIATIONS (Sec. 39.7)
Provides:
(a) $1,000,000 to institute and administer a family planning program
(b) $2,000,000 to develop child care services and a child care
training program,
(c) $5,000,000 for the work incentive program, to provide
education and training in those occupations with the best
immediate employment opportunities to those recipients of aid
best qualified by experience, potential, and interest to
benefit from such a program.
(d) $5,000,000 for a career opportunities development program.
(e) An amount necessary to protect local property taxpayers from
unanticipated caseload increases or welfare payments.
(f) $600,000 to conduct administrative hearings under the provisions
of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
URGENCY (Secs. 42 and 43)
Provides the act shall go into immediate effect and become operative
on October 1, 1971 or earlier within the discretion of the Director of
Social Welfare.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the
appointment of Bakersfield Municipal Judge John M. Nairn to the Kern
County Superior Court.
Judge Nairn, 56, a Republican, will receive an
annual salary of $33,396. He succeeds Judge George A. Brown who has
been elevated to the District Court of Appeals.
Named to the Bakersfield Judicial District Municipal
Court in 1968, Judge Nairn began the practice of law in Kern County in
1949.
He is a past president of the Kern County Bar
Association and is active in numerous civic, service and professional
groups.
He is a graduate of Duquesne University and earned
his law degree from Loyola University Law School.
Judge Nairn and his wife Frances have two daughters
and a son.
The family home is in Bakersfield.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Dr. Glenn Dumke, chancellor of the California State Colleges, to
the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
He will fill the unexpired term of Dr. William J. Teague of
Huntington Beach, who has resigned. The term ends in October, 1971.
Dr. Dumke, who has served as chancellor since 1962, is an
authority on Western American History and the author of numerous works
on historical subjects and higher education.
He began his teaching career in 1940 as a history instructor
at Occidental College and in 1950 was appointed dean of the faculty,
a position he held until 1957 when he was named president of San
Francisco State College.
In November of 1961, Dr. Dumke was named vice chancellor for
academic affairs of the state college system and served in this
post until he was appointed chancellor.
In addition to his A.B., M. A. and Ph.D., he holds six honorary
doctoral degrees and is a member of numerous professional organization
Dr. Dumke and his wife, Dorothy, live at 285 West California
Boulevard, Pasadena.
His appointment is subject to Senate confirmation.
Members of the commission receive necessary travel expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Archibald Rackerby to the Board of Directors, 17th District Agricultural
Association. (Nevada County Fair).
Rackerby, 51, will fill the unexpired term of Earll Shine of
Grass Valley who has resigned. The term ends January, 1974.
A rancher active in numerous agricultural organizations,
Rackerby also holds the rank of Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve.
His address is P. O. Box 83, Rough and Ready. He is a
Republican.
Board members serve for four-year-terms and receive necessary
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 290 - Keysor
Authorizes local agencies proceeding under the
Chapter 500
Improvement Act of 1911, with the owners consent,
to do work on private property to eliminate
disparities in level or size between the public
improvement and the private property, rather than
between the public improvement and driveways,
housewalks and sewers.
AB 443 - Belotti
Provides, to the extent additional federal funds
Chapter 501
become available, for the establishment and
maintenance by the State Department of Public Health
of four additional regional centers for the mentally
retarded.
AB 736 - Meade
Permits governing boards of school districts with
Chapter 502
average daily attendance of 20,000 or more, rather
than 75,000 or more, to establish specified
revolving cash funds for use by school principals
and other administrative officers.
AB 1003 - Russell
Prohibits operation of a motor vehicle with an
Chapter 503
exhaust system modified in a manner which will amplif
or increase the noise emitted by the motor above a
prescribed limit.
AB 1276 - Bee
Provides that provisions of the County Employees
Chapter 504
Retirement Law of 1937 authorizing members who are
entitled to receive a pension or allowance for
service to receive refund of deposits if they were
granted public service credit for such service, shall
be limited to those members who would receive certair
deferred retirement benefits. It also permits
members under specified circumstances to receive all
benefits granted as member entering a reciprocal
retirement system.
AB 1669 - Badham
Amends the Collection Agency Act by authorizing a
Chapter 505
conservator, as an alternative to the present
requirement of winding up and liquidating the
collection agency for which he is the conservator,
to permit the sale, transfer, or continuation of the
agency.
AB 1689 - Mobley
Extends for two years the vehicle code provision,
Chapter 506
which authorizes combinations of vehicles consisting
of two specified cotton trailers which exceed a total
length of 60 feet.
AB 1789 - Knox
Amends the Municipal Utility District Act to permit
Chapter 507
the levying of taxes and the fixing of special rates
and charges within an area which is annexed to a
district.
AB 1907 - Foran
Provides that when the governing board or officer of
Chapter 508
specified public agencies permits public traffic upon
driveways, paths, or grounds under their control ther
all provisions of Vehicle Code regarding traffic on
highways shall apply to such traffic except for those
conditions or regulations imposed or enacted by such
board or officer.
AB 1926 - Thomas
Deletes provisions specifying that the Department of
Chapter 509
Motor Vehicles is divided into at least four divisior
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AB 1977 - Gonsalves Exempts persons who install a spare tire on a vehicle
Chapter 510
as part of an emergency service rendered to a disable
vehicle upon a highway from provisions prohibiting
installation of certain worn tires on a vehicle for
use on a highway. The bill also provides that low-
valued vehicles are vehicles appraised at a value not
exceeding $200, rather than $100, for purposes of
provisions re removal and disposition of abandoned
vehicles.
AB 2081 - Chappie
Provides that the annexation of territory to County
Chapter 511
Service Area No. 3, County of El Dorado, shall be
effective for assessment and taxation purposes if
specified filings are completed by March 1, 1971.
AB 2679 Crown
Permits municipal utility districts, upon a four-
Chapter 512
fifths vote of their boards of directors, to issue
bonds or promissory notes to repair or replace public
works damaged or destroyed by an earthquake or other
disaster.
AB 2815 - Karabian
Deletes the Fish and Game Code provision allowing the
Chapter 513
use of dogs to pursue bears during the course of
breaking, training or practicing dogs. Dog training
activities are permitted during the open season on
bears.
AB 2840 Powers
Provides that orders or decisions of the Public
Chapter 514
Utilities Commission may be modified after notice to
the parties rather than solely to the public utility
affected.
AB
2888 Lanterman Liberalizes highway relocation assistance to conform
Chapter 515
with the Federal Uniform Relocations Assistance and
Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970.
AB 2940 - Beverly
Amends the Public Weighmaster Law to specify that the
Chapter 516
term "weighmaster" includes "deputy weighmaster."
The bill also authorizes gross and tare weights of
vehicles carrying asphalt or paving materials to be
certified either with the driver on or off the
vehicle. This provision is now applicable to vehicle:
carrying earth, stone, sand and gravel.
AB 3077 - Wilson
Provides that "low-income area" for purposes of the
Chapter 517
Small Business Assistance Program Law includes areas
in which a job development corporation may be
established. The bill further provides that "small
business" for purposes of such law also includes any
business dealing in alcoholic beverages.
AB 3090 - Johnson, R. Requires the State Board of Education to notify
Chapter 518
county superintendent of schools and county
committee on school district organization of
disapproval of plans and recommendations for
dissolution of a unified school district, with a
written statement of reasons therefor. The bill
authorizes the county committee on school district
organization to continue to have jurisdiction for 18
months to revise such disapproved plans and
recommendations for resubmission to the State Board
of Education.
SB 477 - Zenovich
Permits a disability retirant from the state teachers
Chapter 493
retirement system to be employed in a position
requiring certification qualifications. The bill
further provides that such a retirant will have his
allowance reduced by fifty cents for each dollar
earned.
SB 603 - Gregorio
Provides that there is no incompatibility of office
Chapter 494
between being a member of a city council and the
board of directors of the Estero Municipal Improvemen
District.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement on
Mayor John Lindsay's switch to the Democrat Party.
AT THE REQUEST OF SOME RADIO AND TELEVISION NEWSMEN, AND FOR THEIR
SPECIFIC CONVENIENCE, THE GOVERNOR WILL READ THE STATEMENT IN THE
GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL ROOM AT 11:50 THIS MORNING.
THOSE NEWSMEN MHO WISH TO FILM OR RECORD THE STATEMENT AT THAT TIME
ARE INVITED TO DO so.
THE GOVERNOR WILL LEAVE THE COUNCIL ROOM IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE
READING OF THE STATEMENT.
The statement:
"Our two-party system provides great freedom for voters and
political figures alike to select the party of their choice, the party
which best reflects their own point of view.
"The New York Mayor's decision to change parties certainly should
come as no surprise to anyone in either party. It has been obvious for
some time that in political practice and philosophy he has been more
Democrat than Republican, advocating more power and centralization of
government at the national level in contrast to the Republican philosophy
of local autonomy and emphasis on the sovereignty of the states.
"The mayor has set an example which might be followed by others of
both parties. Millions of Democrate who have found themselves
increasingly out of step with their party leadership in recent years
would be more at home in the Republican party and they would be most
welcome. The two-party system would be strengthened with such a
realignment because these people would thus be able to participate in
selecting candidates in tune with their own philosophy."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 559 - Gonsalves Allocates approximately $15.6 million from the
(Chapter 520)
Property Tax Relief Fund to 37 counties which were
underpaid in reimbursement of loss due to the 30
percent business inventory exemption. The bill
requires the State Board of Equalization to determine
actual losses to local government caused by partial
exemption of business inventories for the 1970-71
fiscal year and report any difference between actual
loss and state reimbursement to the Controller for
adjustment in the 1971-72 or 1972-73 fiscal year
reimbursement.
AB 761 - Deddeh
Broadens the authority of the Department of Public
(Chapter 534)
Works, in conformance with federal law, with respect
to the construction of fringe and transportation
corridor parking facilities along the state highway
system.
AB 1470 - Chacon
Provides that positions established by school
(Chapter 535)
districts in specified categories and restricted to
persons in low-income groups or residency in
specifically designated areas of the community, are
to be classified as restricted. The bill further
provides that persons holding such positions shall
be classified employees and shall not be eligible
for promotion into the regular classified service unti
they have complied with specified provisions.
AB 1561 - Davis
States specific statutory standards and requirements
(Chapter 536)
regarding the marketing of potatoes.
AB 1922 - Keysor
Prohibits on and after September 1, 1975, employment
(Chapter 537)
of noncredentialed persons to teach specified
handicapped minors in a home, hospital, or licensed
children's institution. The bill authorizes
employment of substitute teachers under certain
circumstances.
AB 2139 - Campbell Authorizes the Department of Public Works to modify
(Chapter 538)
railroad alignment in vicinity of City of El Monte
in order to eliminate railroad grade crossings and
to facilitate construction and operation of the San
Bernardino Freeway Busway Project. The bill makes
such construction project eligible for allocation
of specified state funds for grade separations, under
specified conditions.
AB 2157 - Knox
Requires the governing body of a city or county
(Chapter 539)
to pay the amount of charges of the engineer or
surveyor who sets the final monuments of a subdivision
up to and including the amount of bond or cash deposit
if the subdivider has not paid the amount. The bill
also authorizes the governing body to direct the
county surveyor or city engineer to set such monuments
in the event that the civil engineer or land surveyor
charged with the responsibility for setting monuments
refuses to set such monuments.
AB 2827 - Maddy
Permits the governing board of a community college
(Chapter 521)
district to charge nonresidents enrolled during
the 1971-72 fiscal year the same tuition fee set
for nonresident students for the 1970-71 fiscal
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SB 58 - Lagomarsino Requires the Resources Agency to contract for a
(Chapter 522)
study of oil leaks in the Santa Barbara Channel.
The bill appropriates $50,000 from the California
Environmental Protection Program Fund for purposes
of the act, but provides that prior appropriations
from the fund have priority with respect to payment.
SB 188 - Dymally
Changes specified references to the State Board of
(Chapter 523)
Education and the Department of Education in the
Licensing of Certificated Personnel Law of 1968 to
the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing.
The bill also states that the Teacher Preparation and
Licensing Law of 1970 shall also be know and may also
be cited as the "Ryan Act."
SB 498 - Short
Authorizes the governing board of each community
(Chapter 524)
college district to offer a course of study leading
to an associate in arts degree in bilingual,
bicultural teacher assisting.
SB 560 - Lagomarsino Deletes oil and gas district boundary descriptions
(Chapter 525)
and authorizes the Director of Conservation to
fix such boundaries.
SB 590 - Collier
Eliminates provisions designating commercial fishing
(Chapter 526)
seasons for king and silver salmon which are
dependent upon Oregon and Washington States laws or
regulations prohibiting commercial taking of silver
salmon. The bill also eliminates provisions making
it unlawful, with prescribed exceptions, to take
salmon with any type of net or long line or to
transport or possess any salmon taken by any type
of net or long line in designated waters.
SB 618 - Cologne
Permits a court to raise or lower the size of bonds
(Chapter 527)
which are required of the executor or administrator ir
those limited instances where the bond is not
required in the will and where the representative is
the sole heir or beneficiary of the estate and a
reduction in the otherwise required bond is
requested. Under the terms of the bill, the court
will review the situation and, if good cause appears,
may enlarge or reduce the bond for the best interests
of the estate, the creditors, and other interested
parties.
SB 621 - Carrell
Provides that $40,000 appropriated from California
(Chapter 528)
Environmental Protection Program Fund to the
Department of Aeronautics shall be for expenditure
during 1970-71 and 1971-72 fiscal years, rather
than without regard to fiscal years. The bill
states that amounts for subsequent years shall be
as determined in the Budget Act.
SB 627 - Grunsky
Provides for an attachment bond or deposit to include,
(Chapter 529)
in addition to the amount of the plaintiff's demand,
an amount for those costs actually incurred to the
time of the giving of the undertaking or the deposit
of money with the sheriff, constable, or marshal,
a sum of money not to exceed 25 percent of the amount
of plaintiff's demand, and in no event to be more
than $1,000.
SB 672 - Carrell
Modifies the method by which food vending vehicles
(Chapter 495)
are to be identified.
SB 719 - Bradley
Broadens the reporting requirements of the Santa
(Chapter 530)
Clara County Flood Control and Water Conservation
District to require the district to annually prepare
a complete report on the district's activities in
protecting and augmenting the district's water
supplies.
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SB 793 - Lagomarsino Increases the maximum permissible interest rate
(Chapter 531)
on bonds of the Ventura County Flood Control
District from 6 percent to 7 percent. The
bill also reduces the present requirement in the
Ventura County Flood Control Act for a unanimous
vote of the Board of Supervisors to adopt a
resolution calling a bond election to a four-fifths
majority of the board.
SB 1144 - Moscone
Changes the compensation of court reporters in various
(Chapter 496)
counties.
SB 1160 - Rodda
Authorizes river port districts to issue short-term
(Chapter 497)
promissory notes up to $500,000 to meet short-term
cash flow problems.
SB 1182 - Burgener
Makes technical changes relating to accounting
(Chapter 498)
and budgeting practices in county educational units.
SB
1192
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Deukmejian Allows a juvenile court traffic hearing officer to
(Chapter 532)
hear and dispose of cases involving a person under
the age of 18 who is charged with driving a motor
vehicle on the property of another without the
permission of the property owner. It would also
permit such cases to be heard on the basis of the
citation issued, rather than by petition.
SB 1297 - Rodda
Amends the Public Utilities Code to allow municipal
(Chapter 533)
utility districts to enter into contracts for
materials and supplies under situations of emergency
without observing the requirements of public bidding.
SB 1507 - Moscone
Makes technical amendments to the Education Code.
(Chapter 519)
SB 1616 - Beilenson Requires the Department of Aeronautics to give
(Chapter 499)
notice of public hearing in connection with
issuance of airport permit or approval of airport
site to any affected or interested person making
written request for such notice.
Governor Reagan has vetoed the following bill:
SB 697 - Rodda
Revises the procedure relating to the dismissal of
tenured teachers.
REASON FOR VETO:
"Senator Rodda, the author of SB 697, has requested
that I veto his measure because it is identical to
AB 293, which I approved on July 20.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan said today that he intends to nominate
attorney Frank K. Richardson to succeed Justice Fred R. Pierce as
presiding justice of the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District.
Justice Pierce has announced his intention to retire on September 17.
Richardson, 57, a Republican, who has served as judge pro tem
of the Sacramento County Superior Court since October, 1970, has
practiced law in the community for the past quarter century.
His nomination will be submitted to the Commission on Judicial
Appointments for confirmation.
In addition to his law practice, Richardson has served as a
professor of law at the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School
of the Law and as counsel to the California Commission on Uniform State
Laws.
Richardson is a past president of the Sacramento County Bar
Association and is active in the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, KVIE
Educational Television, the United Crusade, the Boy Scouts, Goodwill
Industries, Sacramento State College Associates, the YMCA, the Community
Welfare Council, the World Affairs Council of Sacramento, the Methodist
Hospital and the Sacramento County Probation Committee.
He also is a member of the American Bar Association, the
Sacramento County Bar Association, the American Judicature Society and
is a Fellow in the American College of Probate Counsel.
He attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned his law
degree from the Stanford University School of Law in 1938.
Richardson and his wife, Betty, have four sons. The family
home is in Sacramento.
The presiding justice earns an annual salary of $40,076.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of
Escondido attorney Fiorenzo V. Lopardo and San Diego Municipal
Judge Ross G. Tharp to the San Diego Superior Court. Both will receive
annual salaries of $33,396.
Lopardo, 50, succeeds Judge Leland C. Nielson who has been
appointed to a Federal Court and Judge Tharp, 42, succeeds Judge William
A. Glen, who has retired.
Lopardo, who has practiced law in San Diego since 1961, is a
partner in the firm of Lopardo and Hefner. He is the author of
several legal works and has served as president of the Escondido
Union High School District board and is a director of the Escondido
Chamber of Commerce.
He is a charter member of the American Board of Trial Advocates,
the State Bar of California, the San Diego County Bar Association and
the American Bar Association.
He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and earned
his law degree from the Harvard Law School.
Lopardo and his wife have two children. The family lives in
Escondido.
Judge Tharp, who was named to the San Diego Judicial District
Municipal Court by Governor Reagan in October, 1969, is a former
vice-mayor and city councilman of San Diego.
He also has served as a member of the San Diego County Board
of Health, the Clairemont Town Council and numerous other civic, service
and professional groups.
A former Marine Corps legal officer, Judge Tharp practiced
law in San Diego prior to his appointment to the bench. He earned
his law degree from the Loyola University School of Law.
He and his wife Charlotte have five children. The family
home is in San Diego.
Both appointees are Republicans.
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/less taxes
Governor Ronald Reagan will present checks of $10,680 to two
Division of Highways Employees who have developed a method of preparing
technical documents that saved the state more than $400,000 in the
first year it was used. The presentation will be made at 11:45 a.m.
today in the governor's office.
Press coverage is invited.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today presented checks to two California
Division of Highways employees whose suggestions have saved the state
more than $400,000.
The checks for $10,680 (less taxes) were presented to Miss Ena E.
Charlton, a senior clerk typist, and John W. Devinney, an assistant
highway engineer, for developing a new method of preparing contract
proposals and other technical documents used by the Department of Public
Works in its highway construction program.
Their suggestion will result in the largest first year savings
a
total of $430,207 in the history of the California State Merit Award
Program. The bulk of the savings will be realized from changes in
printing procedures.
In addition to the checks Miss Charlton and Devinney received today,
they will be eligible for an additional $11,000 in awards next year if a
request by the Merit Award Board is approved by the 1972 legislature.
The $22,000 total represents the difference between 10 percent of
the first year's savings accrued from their suggestion and the monies
received today.
Devinney has been employed by the Division of Highways for the past
25 years and Miss Charlton has served for 16 years.
Both are Sacramento residents.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Los Angeles County Court Commissioner Rex H. Minter to the Santa Monica
Judicial District Municipal Court.
Minter, 43, a Democrat, will receive an annual salary of
$30,724. He succeeds Judge Edward Rafeedie who has been elevated to
the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
A former mayor and city councilman of Santa Monica, Minter has
served as a court commissioner since 1968. During his term as a
city council member from 1955 to 1967, he was active in numerous Los
Angeles County civic groups.
He also is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association,
the American Bar Association and the Santa Monica Bay District Bar
Association.
Minter earned his law degree at Loyola University Law School.
He and his wife Doris have three children. The family home
is in Santa Monica.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Pasadena Municipal Judge
Daniel L. Fletcher and Los Angeles Municipal Judge William A. Drake to
the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Judge Fletcher, a Republican, will succeed the late Judge
John Rice, while Judge Drake, a Democrat, will succeed Judge Malcolm
Lucas, who has been appointed to federal court.
Judge Fletcher, 52, who has served on the Pasadena Judicial
District Municipal Court bench since 1967, is a former Los Angeles
County deputy district attorney.
He is a director of the Pasadena Legal Aid Society, the
Conference of California Judges, the Los Angeles County Municipal
Courts Judges' Association, the Criminal Courts Bar Association and
the Pasadena Bar Association.
Judge Fletcher attended the University of California at
Berkeley, was graduated from the University of Southern California and
earned his law degree from Southwestern University. He also holds a
certificate from the California College of Trial Judges.
He and his wife Patricia have three children. The family home
is in Pasadena.
Judge Drake, 53, has served on the Los Angeles Judicial District
Municipal Court bench since 1968. He previously practiced law in the
Los Angeles area for 11 years and from 1948 to 1957 was a member of the
Los Angeles Police Department.
Judge Drake has been active in the State Bar of California, the
Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Lawyer's Club of Los Angeles, the
American Bar Association, the Criminal Courts Bar Association of Los
Angeles County and the National Association of Defense Lawyers in
Criminal Cases.
He earned his law degree from Southwestern University.
Judge Drake and his wife Judy have one son. They live in
Sepulveda.
The two judges will receive $33,396 annually.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Roads Veale, a Santa Rosa automobile dealer, and the reappointment of
Warren R. Sprinkel, a Fontana paving contractor, to four-year-terms on
the Contractors' State License Board.
Veale, a Republican, succeeds Alfred P. Smith of San Francisco,
whose term has expired.
Active in Sonoma County civic and service organizations, Veale
lives at 4343 Wallace Road, Santa Rosa, with his wife Gayle and their
three children.
Sprinkel, a San Bernardino County civic leader, has served on
the board since 1967. He lives at 7706 Calle Casino, Cucamonga. He
is a Republican.
Both appointments are subject to Senate confirmation.
Board members are paid $25 per diem.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Alpine County District Attorney John H. Cook to the Alpine County
Superior Court.
He will succeed Judge Edmund Moor, who has retired.
Cook, 42, a Republican, has served as District Attorney of
Alpine County since 1963, in addition to maintaining a practice in
Turlock. He also is attorney for the Gustine Drainage District and the
Turlock Irrigation District and from 1967 to 1969 served as city
attorney of Turlock.
A native of Turlock, he is a graduate of the University of
California at Berkeley and earned his law degree from Hastings College
of the Law.
He is a member of the State Bar of California and the Stanislaus
County Bar Association.
Cook and his wife Virginia have three children.
Their Alpine County address is Star Route, Gardnerville, Nevada.
As Superior Court judge, he will receive an annual salary of
$33,396.
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Governor Reagan will sign the welfare and Medi-Cal reform
bills tomorrow at a special ceremony in the Governor's Office at
10:00 a.m.
Press coverage is invited.
Legislative leaders and appropriate committee chairman, along
with the sponsors of the bills, have been invited to attend the ceremony.
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Taxpayers will save over $105,000 annually as the first-month result
of a pilot project in Ventura County to place employable welfare
recipients in jobs, Governor Ronald Reagan said today.
The program is a joint effort of the State Department of Human
Resources Development (HRD) and the Ventura County Welfare Department.
It involves male heads of household welfare recipients.
During the initial month of actual operation, Reagan said, 35 welfare
recipients were placed in jobs with private employers. The average
welfare payment of these men was $251 per month. This amounts to annual
savings of $105,420.
The transfer of employable welfare recipients to HRD from the Ventura
Welfare Department started on June 21. During the first four weeks the
project staff was engaged in interviewing recipients, preparing case
folders, and training.
Actual job placement for welfare recipients began on July 16. Since
then, 90 job referrals have been made. An additional 198 job development
contacts with private employers have been effected.
Since June 21, the Ventura Welfare Department has transferred 241
employable welfare recipients to HRD, Reagan said. In addition, HRD has
received 115 new applicants for welfare who are employable.
The project does not now serve all of Ventura County, but as soon as
office space is leased welfare recipients in the Simi Valley area will
receive the same employment services.
At present, the project is serving only male welfare recipients living
in Ventura, Oxnard, Ojai, Port Hueneme, Camarillo, Saticoy, and Santa Paul
Nine social workers from the Ventura County Welfare Department are
working on the project in the Oxnard HRD office.
"The success of the employables project shows what state-county
cooperation can accomplish," the governor added. "We hope to launch
similar projects in additional counties in the near future."
The administrator for the project is Allen J. Boe, whose office is
in the HRD center at 1960 North C Street. Oxnard, California.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
William R. Mayes, an Azusa attorney, to the Citrus Judicial District
Municipal Court.
Mayes, 46, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of $30,724
He succeeds Judge Thomas Newell who has been elevated to the Los Angeles
County Superior Court.
A practicing attorney in Azusa since 1955, Mayes previously
served for 10 years in the Los Angeles County Marshal's Office.
He is active in community affairs including the Community Chest,
Cancer and City of Hope Funds, the Salvation Army Advisory Board, the
Azusa Chamber of Commerce and other civic, service and fraternal groups.
He is a past president and charter member of the Citrus Bar
Association and the American, Los Angeles County and Pomona Bar
Associations.
Mayes is a graduate of Pasadena City College and earned his
law degree from Southwestern University.
He and his wife Charlene have three daughters. The family lives
in Covina.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today the following bills have
been signed:
AB 94 - Lanterman
Validates organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings
Chapter 564
and bonds of counties, cities and specified districts
agencies and entities. The Second Validating Act
of 1971.
AB 341 - Russell
Requires law enforcement agencies to notify private
Chapter 565
school authorities when a teacher of such school is
arrested for certain narcotic offenses.
AB 342 - Quimby
Requires persons registering as legislative advocates
Chapter 566
to submit in addition to existing requirements, a
recent black-and-white photograph.
AB 633 - Foran
Establishes four-year staggered terms for the seven
Chapter 567
members of the California State Transportation Board.
AB 692 - Briggs
Provides, with specified exceptions, that when a
Chapter 568
financed insurance policy is cancelled or the insured
stops payments to the lender, the insurer shall
calculate the return premium on a pro rata basis.
AB 978 - Brown
Specifies that where disability payments under
Chapter 569
workmen's compensation are made by negotiable
instrument, the instrument must be immediately
negotiable.
AB 1120 - Briggs
Requires the parallel extension of dependent coverage
Chapter 570
under a group disability insurance plan, a hospital
service contract, or a health care service plan which
now may provide for an extension of coverage to just
the employee for a limited period of time following
termination of his employment.
AB 1125 - Dent
Authorizes the governing board of any school district
Chapter 571
to establish a fund for losses to school district
property to cover the deductible amount under insuran
policies or losses due to noninsured perils.
AB 1142 - Brathwaite
Increases the jurisdiction of the small claims cour
Chapter 572
from $300 to $500.
AB
1155 - Lanterman Authorizes governing boards of school districts to
Chapter 573
temporarily transfer funds in special or restricted
funds or accounts to the district general fund, under
specified conditions, for payment of district general
fund obligations.
AB 1271 - Dent
Authorizes the governing board of any school district
Chapter 574
with an average daily attendance in excess of 50,000
to delegate to the district superintendent authority
to exercise certain powers of the board relating to
payment of travel expenses of district employees when
performing services for the district.
AB 1305 - Karabian
Specifically authorizes investment by banks in bonds
Chapter 575
and other evidences of indebtedness of the State of
Israel or certain public corporations thereof under
specified conditions.
AB 2527 - Porter
Revises salaries and makes changes in positions of
Chapter 576
employees of the Los Angeles County municipal courts.
SB 512 - Marks
Provides that that portion of a county ordinance which
Chapter 556
changes supervisorial salaries becomes effective 60
days after its adoption.
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SB 915 - Grunsky
Deletes the limitation upon distance which pupils
Chapter 557
may be transported in connection with a program for
mentally gifted.
SB 970 - Coombs
Provides that whenever any city or county renders
Chapter 558
construction services or constructs public works for
any governmental agency below the level of the state
government, the price charged shall constitute the
full cost, as specified.
SB 982 - Marler
Revises procedures for application for separate
Chapter 559
valuation by the tax collector of property sought to
be taken in eminent domain to permit application to
be made at any time after property taxes are subject
to cancellation rather than after the lis pendens is
filed.
SB 1033 - Behr
Deletes the requirement that certain small school
Chapter 560
districts pay the county school service fund a
prescribed portion of the cost of educating mentally
retarded minors who reside in the district and who
are educated in special schools maintained by county
superintendents of schools.
SB 1242 - Harmer
Revises the procedures for the election of, and
Chapter 561
qualifications for, the board of directors of the
Castaic Lake Water Agency.
SB 1411 - Nejedly
Includes district attorney inspectors and investigator
Chapter 562
within specified disputable presumptions under
workmen's compensation law with regard to hernia,
heart trouble, pneumonia, and tuberculosis.
SB 1519 - Grunsky
Removes the limitation of $1,000 per occurrence on
Chapter 563
the deductible coverage which may be included in a
school fire insurance policy obtained by school
districts with less than 50,000 average daily
attendance.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 178 - MacDonald Provides for a pilot project to be selected by the
(Chapter 540)
Office of the Community College Chancellor, for a
community college district in California to contract
for data processing and related management services
for a period of not to exceed five years. The
legislative analyst is required to submit a report
on the project at the beginning of the 1973 Session
of the Legislature.
AB 882 - Chacon
Deletes the provision for deduction of a $25 fee in
(Chapter 595)
calculation of the refund of unearned finance charge
when the purchaser of an automobile pays off his
loan ahead of time. It provides that where the
finance charge amounts to less than $25, the seller
or assignees may, after computing the refund, retain
an amount equal to $25.
AB 949 - Campbell
Medi-Cal Reform.
(Chapter 577)
AB 1006 - Deddeh
Changes the name of the Advisory Commission on the
(Chapter 541)
Status of Women to the Commission on the Status of
Women. It deletes the provision terminating the
commission's existence on June 30, 1971. The bill
also directs the commission to study women's
educational and employment problems, needs, and
opportunities, to act as an information center with
respect to educational, employment, and other
related needs of women.
AB 1133 1 Fong
Excepts community colleges from the requirement that
(Chapter 542)
a fire alarm signal to be sounded each calendar
month in public, private, or parochial school building
AB 1202 - Schabarum
Makes it a misdemeanor to violate specified
(Chapter 543)
provisions of the Pure Air Act of 1968, relating
to motor vehicle pollution control devices.
AB 1352 - Fenton
Revises loan and investment limitations of state-
(Chapter 544)
chartered savings and loan associations.
AB 1449 - Keysor
Specifies that a school district's continuing
(Chapter 545)
contract for the lease of electronic data-processing
system may be made with an acceptable lessor who is
one of the three lowest responsible bidders.
AB 1451 - Chacon
Makes applicable to any permanent or probationary
(Chapter 546)
employee of the California State Colleges, rather
than to academic and nonacademic employees, the
provisions relating to the grounds and procedures
for dismissal, demotion, or suspension.
AB 1454 - Belotti
Prescribes a maximum width limit of 100 inches for
(Chapter 547)
a truckload composed solely of particle board, hard-
board, gypsum board, similar types of wallboard, or
any combination thereof, stacked side by side.
AB 1466 - Burke
Authorizes school district governing boards to
(Chapter 548)
authorize student organizations composed entirely
of pupils attending the schools of the district to
maintain approved activities, including fund-raising
activities, and to conduct fund-raising activities on
school property during school hours, under specified
conditions.
AB 1500 - Dent
Provides that once the election date for members of
(Chapter 549)
a county board of education is established, no
subsequent change in circumstances shall require a
change in the election date.
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AB 1569 - Johnson, H. Authorizes and prescribes a procedure for a
(Chapter 550)
public agency upon authorization by a municipal
water district within whose boundaries such public
agency is wholly or partially situated, to utilize
funds derived from the sale of water or other funds
not appropriated to some other use to pay such
district such amounts in avoidance of taxes as may
be determined annually by the governing body of
such public agency.
AB 1858 - Seeley
Includes appointed, as well as elected, members of
(Chapter 551)
the governing committee of the California FAIR Plan
as members of the governing committee of the
California Riot and Civil Disorders Insurance
Association. The bill specifies that allocation of
state-paid premium to the association shall be
allocated to member insurers thereof on basis of
premiums on, rather than gross direct premium
writings of, reinsured lines in state during the
preceding year.
AB 2022 - Monagan
Authorizes deductible amount on fire insurance of
(Chapter 552)
community college districts to exceed $1,000.
AB 2247 - Russell
Requires the State Board of Education to approve
(Chapter 553)
reorganization of specified territory into two
or more unified school districts if prescribed
conditions are met.
AB 2338 - Russell
Permits formation of an improvement district in the
(Chapter 554)
Palmdale Irrigation District by action of the
district board and approval of a majority of the
voters of the proposed improvement district.
AB 2586 - Vasconcellos Appropriates $475,000 from the funds
(Chapter 555)
appropriated by the Budget Act of 1971 for
special elementary school reading instruction programs
to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the
establishment of three pilot SHARE projects for the
tutoring of elementary and secondary students by
college volunteers.
SB 42 - Harmer
Prohibits the sale or registration of 1974 model
(Chapter 598)
passenger vehicles unless such vehicles have a
manufacturer's warranty that they are equipped with
appropriate energy-absorption system so that they
can be driven directly into a specified test barrier
at five miles per hour without sustaining any property
damage to the front of such vehicles, and can be
driven at 5 miles per hour into such barrier without
sustaining any property damage to the rear of the
vehicles.
SB 360 - Cologne
Includes within the definition of "employee" for
(Chapter 579)
purposes of coverage under the workmen's
compensation law, persons who perform voluntary
service without pay for a county, as designated and
authorized by county board of supervisors, while
performing such service.
SB 588 - Rodda
Provides with respect to bond liability of school
(Chapter 580)
districts upon reorganization, that when a high
school district or a unified school district, or a
portion of either, which is not in any community
college district, is made a part of a community
college district, the combined outstanding bonded
indebtedness of the community college district and
the bonded indebtedness of the included territory
will be an obligation of the reorganized community
college district.
SB 601 - Bradley
Revises provisions of the Health and Safety Code
(Chapter 581)
relating to safety glazing material.
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SB 607 - Deukmejian Provides that a person who, through a state prison
(Chapter 582)
program of vocational education, learns a skill,
occupation or profession requiring a state license,
certificate, or other evidence of proficiency shall
not be denied (when released) the right to take the
next regularly scheduled licensing examination or
any other examination thereafter.
SB 717 - Holmdahl
Permits school districts with 50,000 or more average
(Chapter 583)
daily attendance, rather than those situated wholly
or partly within cities having more than 500,000
people, to provide, from the district's own funds,
protection against liability of the district, its
officers, agents, and employees, in lieu of insurance
coverage generally required to be carried by school
districts.
SB 775 - Coombs
Changes the name of the Desert Division of the
(Chapter 584)
San Bernardino County Municipal Court District
to the Victorville Division of such district.
SB 796 - Beilenson Welfare Reform.
(Chapter 578)
SB 805 - Grunsky
Provides that a person other than a public officer
(Chapter 585)
or employee who serves a subpoena shall receive
such sum as the court deems proper for such service
but not to exceed the amount allowed to a public
officer or employee in this state for such service.
SB 828 - Marler
Requires voters in the Provident Irrigation District
(Chapter 586)
to be owners of real property in the district and
specifies that voters need not be district residents.
SB 833 - Holmdahl
Provides that provisions of the Ralph M. Brown Act
(Chapter 587)
shall not be construed to prevent legislative
bodies of local agencies from holding executive
sessions with the Attorney General, district attorney
sheriff, or chief of police, or their respective
deputies on matters posing a threat to the security
of public buildings or a threat to the public's
right of access to public services or public
facilities.
SB 850 - Coombs
Authorizes salary increases for various court
(Chapter 588)
attaches of the San Bernardino County Municipal
Courts.
SB 876 - Kennick
Prohibits, with prescribed exceptions, any person
(Chapter 589)
from installing or maintaining any stationary
gasoline tanks with a capacity of 250 gallons or
more without evaporative controls, rather than
prohibiting any person from loading or permitting
the loading of any such tank, or installing any such
tank.
SB 893 - Carrell
Revises provisions concerning the notification which
(Chapter 590)
a school district must give to a parent, guardian,
or custodian of a pupil engaged in automobile driver
training courses to require such notification to
advise a parent, guardian, or custodian of the civil
liability imposed on the minor and such person by
reason of the minor's operating a motor vehicle,
and the extent of the insurance coverage carried by
the school district, including the limitations of
such coverage.
SB 909 - Grunsky
Amends the Santa Cruz County Flood Control and
(Chapter 591)
Water Conservation Act to prevent inclusion of
a city or district with power to produce, store,
or distribute water within a zone of the district
established to perform a similar purpose without
the consent of the electors of the district.
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SB 923 - Gregorio
Specifies that the Bay Area Air Pollution Control
(Chapter 592)
District shall have a lien on a vessel used or
operated in violation of specified provision to secure
a civil penalty as well as to secure a forfeiture.
The bill also deems the Northeast Solano Air Pollution
Control District effective for assessment and taxation
purposes for the 1971-72 fiscal year, if its statement
and map or plat are filed with the assessor and the
State Board of Equalization on or before August 16,
1971.
SB 1392 - Harmer
revises certain procedures for election of members
(Chapter 593)
of the board of directors of the Antelope Valley-
East Kern Water Agency.
SB 1634 - Way
Authorizes the board of directors of a local hospital
(Chapter 594)
district, if it determines that the $.20 tax limit
is insufficient to raise enough revenue to maintain
the district, to call an election to determine
whether a higher maximum tax rate shall be established
for a period not to exceed five years.
AB 1701 - Sieroty
Extends the length of time certain bilingual
(Chapter 596)
teachers, designated as "sojourn certificated
employees", may be employed.
AB 1930 - Powers
Extends the period during which the Board of
(Chapter 597)
Architectural Examiners may act upon recommendations
of the Designers' Qualifications Advisory Committee
and appeals from the committee's decisions.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Lewis K.
Uhler, director of the State Office of Economic Opportunity since July,
1970, as assistant secretary of the State Human Relations Agency.
Uhler, 37, will serve under and assist James M. Hall, Governor
Reagan's secretary for Human Relations who also is a member of the
governor's cabinet,
Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., who has served as deputy director of OEO,
was named
in charge of operations, since last September, acting OEO director.
In elevating Uhler to the $27, 500-a-year post, Governor Reagan called
attention to his "many months of hard work in a very tough job" and
thanked Uhler for his "dedicated and effective efforts to make sure that
poverty program funds are used wisely and for the purposes that the
taxpayers and the Congress intended."
Hall said that as his assistant secretary, Uhler's responsibilities
will be much broader than before, encompassing the entire Human Relations
Agency which includes the Departments of Corrections, Health Care Services
Public Health, Social Welfare, Youth Authority, Human Resources
Development, Mental Hygiene and Rehabilitation.
Uhler, a third-generation Californian, was born in Alhambra where he
graduated from Alhambra High School in 1951. He won a scholarship to Yale
University, where he received his B.A. degree in 1955, majoring in
political science and economics.
He graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California,
Berkeley, in 1958, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal
Fraternity. From 1958 to 1960, he was commissioned in the U.S. Army.
In 1968, Governor Reagan appointed Uhler as member of the California
Law Revision Commission.
A Republican, he is a former vice president of the Southern Californi.
Council of Agencies for Family Service, is a past president of the
Edgewood Family Counselling Agency in the San Gabriel Valley, is a past
director of the Pioneer Foundation, Pomona, an alcoholic rehabilitation
center, and a past president of the Yale Club of Southern California.
Hawkins, 30, earned his doctor and master's degrees in political
science at the University of Washington. He received his undergraduate
degree at San Francisco State College.
While working on his doctorate, Hawkins was awarded a Woodrow Wilson
National Dissertation Scholarship in 1969 to study the problems of low
income citizens. Previously, he helped establish a Community Action
Agency in Everett, Washington. The agency provides assistance to
disadvantaged individuals.
Hawkins was an administrative assistant in 1963-64 to former
Assemblyman and now Chief of the Division of Labor Law Enforcement,
George W. Milias of Gilroy. He is a Republican.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Sigurd (Sig) Hansen as Director of the State Department of Human
Resources Development.
Hansen, 51, for the past two years deputy director of the
department, succeeds Gilbert L. Sheffield who resigned June 1 to return
to private industry.
Alan C. Nelson, who served as interim director of HRD for the
past 2½ months will assume his former duties as HRD's assistant director
in charge of legal affairs.
In announcing his promotion of Hansen, Governor Reagan noted the
key role Hansen played in both the planning and implementation phases of
HRD when it was formed in 1969.
"Sig has literally helped build the department from the ground up,"
the governor said. "He commands great respect throughout the
administration for both his leadership qualities and his intimate
knowledge of the department's administration and purpose.
"I also want to express my deep appreciation to Al Nelson for the
excellent job he has done as acting director of HRD during the past
several weeks."
The governor and James M. Hall, secretary of the Human Relations
Agency, which has jurisdiction over HRD, lauded both Hansen and Nelson
for their efforts in helping to develop the administration's welfare
reform program.
"I am extremely pleased to have a man of Sig's dedication and
experience as director of one of the most complex departments in the
Human Relations Agency," Hall said. "I am confident his contribution to
the department's continued success will be evident as HRD implements the
work requirements of the governor's recently approved welfare reform
program."
The legislation, signed into law today by the governor, requires
employable welfare recipients to seek jobs or be available for community
service employment. HRD will cooperate with local governments in
administering the program.
As deputy director of HRD, Hansen has headed the department's
unemployment insurance and disability insurance programs, as well as its
accounts and tax collections and its medical and investigations sections.
He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration
at the University of California at Berkeley in 1948.
Hansen was a naval aviator during World War II and served in the
South Pacific. He remained active in the Naval Air Reserve and Air Force
Reserve, where he was commander of the Naval Air Reserve Transport
Squadron V.R. 872 in Oakland from 1946-54, and inspector general of the
349th Troop Carrier Wing at Hamilton Air Force Base until transferring
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Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"The bold and decisive steps the President has taken to curb
inflation, reduce unemployment and protect the purchasing power of
the dollar are exactly what the economy needs as we go through this
difficult transition from a wartime to peacetime economy.
"I strongly support the actions and goals he has outlined.
They are fiscally responsible and are fully within the framework of
our Republican philosophy.
"In sharp contrast with the traditional approaches of the
Democrat Party--to institute huge spending programs and create vast
new bureaucracies to run them--the President wants to cut federal
spending by billions of dollars. And, instead of imposing absolute
controls over wages and prices on an on-going, permanent basis, he has
asked the people themselves--those from every segment of our economy--
to help make the plan work, on a voluntary basis. It is the people,
after all, who have the greatest stake in the continued health and
ell-being of the economy.
"In addition, the investment tax incentives he has offered to
business to improve and modernize their facilities will attack the
unemployment problem by helping to provide thousands and thousands of
new jobs across the country.
"While it is too early to assess the specific impact of the
President's decision on California's economy, I am convinced it will
turn out to be the strong shot in the arm we have needed."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has named Visalia
attorney Nathaniel O. Bradley to the Tulare County Superior Court bench.
Bradley, 53, succeeds Judge John Locke who is retiring. The
judicial post pays $33,396 annually.
A 1947 graduate of the University of San Francisco Law School,
Bradley has been engaged in private legal practice in Visalia ever
since. He has served as Visalia's city attorney and as attorney for
the Tulare County Housing Authority. He formed and now represents
the Kaweah Delta Hospital District and also serves as legal counsel
to the Visalia City Urban Renewal District.
Bradley, a Republican, is a former president of the Tulare
County Bar Association. He was an intelligence officer for the U. S.
Army Air Corps during World War II in Europe.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Samuel L. Laidig of Pasadena,
for the past nine years court commissioner of the Los Angeles County
Superior Court, to the Pasadena Municipal court bench.
Laidig, a 53-year-old Democrat, succeeds Judge Daniel Fletcher
who was elevated to the superior court.
A 1942 graduate of the University of California's Boalt Hall
School of Law in Berkeley, Laidig was engaged in private legal practice
in Los Angeles before his appointment as court commissioner in 1962.
He served in the U. S. Army in Europe during World War II, as
a cryptographic security officer.
The judicial post pays $30,724 per year.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of George
A. Jouganatos to the Board of Directors of the 52nd District
Agricultural Association, (Sacramento County Fair).
Jouganatos, a 45-year-old Republican, will fill the unexpired
term of Stephen Williams of Sacramento, who has resigned. The term
ends January 1973.
A Sacramento attorney, Jouganatos has been active in numerous
civic and professional organizations.
He lives at 5721 Carlson Drive, Sacramento.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed the following Executive
Order:
"WHEREAS, On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon issued an
Executive Order Providing For Stabilization of Prices,
Rents, Wages and Salaries, and
"WHEREAS, This order and its implementation will affect many aspects
of American economic life in its design to increase employment,
control inflation and improve this country's balance of
trade, and
"WHEREAS, The President urged all Americans to comply and expressed
faith that voluntary compliance would make unnecessary a
huge bureaucracy to ensure the success of his measures, and
"WHEREAS, The need for compliance by state and local governments is
unquestioned and the President's sincere request for
cooperation of all Americans is unmistakable;
"NOW, THEREFORE, By virtue of the powers and authority vested in me
by the Constitution and laws of this State,
"IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Executive Branch of this government
follow as closely as possible the guidelines established
by the President's Executive Order and all subsequent
attempts by his administration to implement it.
"IT IS HEREBY REQUESTED that local governments in California comply
in full cooperation with the President's desires; local
governments should keep foremost inmind the welfare of
all our citizens and, therefore, adopt policies and
regulations which are in full conformity with the action
taken by the President and the State of California.
"IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great
Seal of the State of California to be affixed hereto this 18th day of
August, 1971."
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Governor Ronald Reagan has signed the following bills:
AB 3014 - Dunlap
Permits guide dogs on schoolbuses when trained in
(Chapter 630)
schools licensed or approved by the State Board of
Guide Dogs for the Blind accompanied by a blind
student or teacher of a public high school or communi-
ty college or by a trainer from a licensed or
approved school to train such dogs. The bill permits
the driver of a school bus to determine whether a
guide dog should be muzzled.
SB 14 - Song
Permits the City of Monterey Park to form its own
(Chapter 599)
unified school district if the proposed district is
approved by the voters and the State Board of
Education.
SB 170 - Grunsky
Gives the Department of Veterans Affairs subrogation
(Chapter 600)
rights against third parties responsible for damages
to Cal-Vet home loan property.
SB 203 - Harmer
Makes changes regarding financial operations of
(Chapter 601)
state college auxiliary organizations.
SB 243 - Lagomarsino
Empowers the Conservation Education Service in the
(Chapter 602)
Department of Education to review and evaluate
applications for grants under the federal
Environmental Education Act. The bill includes
teaching of wise use of natural resources within
prescribed content of social sciences study area in
course of study grades 1 through 6 and in grades 7
through 12.
SB 261 - Cologne
Extends to any other certificated employee of a
(Chapter 603)
school district the scope of the immunity afforded to
a teacher, vice principal or principal from
criminal prosecution or penalties for the exercise of
physical control over a pupil reasonably necessary
to the maintenance of order.
SB 380 - Petris
Raises the maximum fees which may be received by
(Chapter 604)
interpreters and translators at coroner's inquest,
grand jury and court proceedings from $35 a day
to $50 a day or $35 for one-half day.
SB 435 - Nejedly
Makes it a felony for any person with fraudulent
(Chapter 605)
intent to display or to have in his possession any
blank or incomplete ownership or registration
certificate.
SB 459 - Kennick
Provides that the juvenile court to which a case
(Chapter 606)
is transferred shall take jurisdiction of the case
upon receipt and filing, rather than only upon filing,
of specified finding and order. The bill also
requires the county treasury of the court ordering
transfer to pay designated expenses until receipt
and filing of the finding and order of transfer,
rather than until acceptance of the transfer, in the
juvenile court of the transferee county.
SB 461 - Kennick
Authorizes a judge of the juvenile court in which
(Chapter 607)
the petition was filed, at any time before a minor
reaches age of 21 years, to dismiss the petition
or to set aside findings and dismiss the petition
if the court finds that the interests of justice and
the welfare of the minor require such dismissal, or
if it finds that the minor is not in need of
treatment or rehabilitation.
SB 626 - Grunsky
Declares the name "California Community Colleges"
(Chapter 608)
to be the property of the state, and its use restrict-
ed. The bill provides that a person using the name
without authority is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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SB 651 - Dymally
Allows substitute certificated employees to be
(Chapter 609)
probationary employees, under stated conditions
in the Los Angeles Unified School District as well
as in smaller school districts.
SB 675 - Marler
Authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to issue a
(Chapter 610)
special permit for the taking of prescribed fish
and game to school districts who wish to offer
survival courses to their students. The bill
expressly prohibits the taking of rare and endangered
species of fish and game.
SB 684 - Carrell
Excludes principals from the Education Code
(Chapter 611)
provision providing that, unless notice of release is
sent by March 15, certain certificated employees
holding administrative or supervisorial positions
shall continue in their positions. The bill provides
that principals and certain other certificated
employees have to be notified by March 1 if it is
determined on an individual basis that they may be
released for the following school year.
SB 712 - Rodda
Provides that no qualified person can be denied a
(Chapter 612)
teaching credential, teacher training, student
teaching experience, or a teaching position because
he is physically handicapped, rather than totally or
partially blind.
SB 731 - Carrell
Makes technical amendments to the State highway
(Chapter 613)
district minimum expenditure formula and the studies
upon which it is based.
SB 765 - Alquist
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(Chapter 614)
and the office of the Chancellor of the California
Community Colleges to jointly review adult classes
and programs offered, to mutually agree upon the
delineation of their respective functions, and to
submit a joint report to the legislature on or
before April 1, 1972.
SB 766 - Alquist
Requires employers to pay the cost of any physical
(Chapter 615)
examination for a driver's license if such license
is required as a condition of employment.
SB 778 - Walsh
Requires a city or county building department to
(Chapter 616)
maintain an official copy, which may be on micro-
film or other photographic copy, of plans of certain
buildings for which such department has issued a
building permit. The bill authorizes the governing
body of such city or county to prescribe fees to
cover expenses its building department incurs for
maintaining such copies.
SB 804 - Grunsky
Authorizes superior courts of seven or more judges
(Chapter 617)
to appoint an executive officer.
SB 841 - Cologne
Permits municipal water district to condemn property
(Chapter 618)
outside the boundaries of the district for rights-
of-way without the consent of the board of
supervisors of the county in which the property is
located.
SB 875 - Nejedly
Changes the authority of municipal and justice
(Chapter 619)
courts to destroy dockets and minutes with respect
to particular traffic cases.
SB 882 - Grunsky
Provides that the Director of General Services may
(Chapter 620)
authorize the insuring of state property against
the risk of damage or destruction by fire.
SB 910 - Grunsky
Revises the formula for computation of tuition
(Chapter 621)
payments paid by elementary school districts to
high school districts for attendance of seventh and
eighth grade pupils.
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SB 912 - Grunsky
Revises the Vehicle Code provisions regarding
(Chapter 622)
service of summons on resident motorists in
connection with causes of action arising in this
state out of ownership or operation of a motor
vehicle.
SB 916 - Grunsky
Specifies that only those businesses operated at the
(Chapter 623)
same address may be listed on one fictitious business
name statement. The bill also specifies that
fictitious name certificates filed under previously
existing law expire on July 1, 1971.
SB 1075 - Burgener
Requires continuation education classes to be held
(Chapter 624)
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., but permits classes to be
held, upon determination by a school district
governing board that special needs require it, until
6:30 p.m.
SB 1090 - Holmdahl
Specifies the procedure to be followed in claiming
(Chapter 625)
credit union share or certificate exemption from
execution.
SB 1142 - Moscone
Enlarges the authority of school district personnel
(Chapter 626)
commissions when ordering a classified school district
employee be reinstated subsequent to a disciplinary
hearing. This bill provides that the personnel
commission may modify the disciplinary action and may
order reinstatement upon appropriate terms and
conditions.
SB 1361 - Marks
Makes it mandatory, rather than permissive, for
(Chapter 627)
boards of supervisors to create by resolution
enterprise funds designated as mandatory under
provisions of law relating to county accounting
procedures as specified by the State Controller.
SB 1433 - Zenovich
Requires those persons eligible for appointment
(Chapter 628)
to areawide mental retardation program boards to
have a demonstrated and direct interest in
developmental disabilities.
SB 1607 - Bradley
Provides that the tuition fees for nonresident
(Chapter 629)
students in public community colleges shall
represent the current cost of educating all students
enrolled in grades 13 and 14 in state rather than
the average current cost of educating such student.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has intentionally allowed
a -authorizing a vote on the issuance of $294 million in state
general obligation bonds for health science facilities at the University
of California- to become law without his signature.
He said he decided last week not to sign the bill because he believes
the $294 million figure is excessive and that adequate medical training
facilities to meet the University's needs can be constructed for sub-
stantially less money. "However," he said, "to veto the measure would
be to deny the citizens of California the right to express themselves at
the ballot box on the issue, even though I am convinced that the amount
of money authorized under the bill to provide for essential health science
facilities at the University is much greater than actually necessary."
Article 4, Section 10 (a) of the California Constitution provides
that a bill presented to the governor that is not returned after 12 days
becomes a statute. Yesterday was the twelfth day.
The governor stressed that he is in complete sympathy with the
basic objectives of the measure. "I do not question the urgent need for
increased facilities to train more doctors," he said. "On the other
hand, I do not believe the sum authorized by the bill represents the
lowest possible cost at which this need can be met."
He said there is ample time between now and next year's election
on the issue for University officials to carefully reevaluate their
needs, and to consider the substitution of less expensive--yet thoroughly
adequate--facilities.
"If the cost figures can be trimmed and the amount of the bond issue
substantially reduced, I will support it."
He said his administration will work with University officials in
the months ahead "to see if we, together, can agree on a much lower
amount."
The governor noted that Californians last year declined to approve
a bond issue amounting to $246 million for similar purposes.
Governor Reagan also announced he has vetoed the following bills:
SB 202 - Moscone
Permits one additional grand jury to be impaneled in
San Francisco, to be selected at random from the
lists of trial jurors. This grand jury would have
exclusive jurisdiction to return indictments.
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REASON FOR VETO:
"The Attorney General is undertaking an extensive
study of the grand jury system in California.
Consideration of legislative proposals like SB 202,
which make substantive changes affecting grand
juries, should be deferred pending the outcome of
the Attorney General's study.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
SB 1228 - Behr
Increases the maximum tax rate for certain school
districts by the amount required to compensate for
loss of revenue resulting from land assessment under
the provisions of the California Land Conservation
Act of 1965.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I recognize that SB 1228 is narrowly drawn and is
limited in its application to the 1971-72 school
year. However, it permits the affected school dis-
tricts to raise the maximum school tax rate without
a vote of the people. I do not believe that the
approach taken by this bill is the only meaningful
solution to the problem facing the school districts
in question. There is still time during the current
legislative session to consider other alternatives.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,"
the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan has signed the following bills:
AB 243 - Knox
Clarifies and strengthens the peace officer status
(Chapter 631)
and jurisdiction of University of California police.
It also increases penalties for assault and battery
upon University policemen.
AB 410 - Dent
Requires the crediting of average daily attendance
(Chapter 661)
in summer schools during June 1971 to both the 1970-71
and 1971-72 fiscal years.
AB 1058 - Deddeh
Authorizes county boards of education to grant to
(Chapter 662)
employees whose salaries are paid from county school
service fund any employee benefit which the county
boards of supervisors provide for county employees.
AB
1555
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McAlister Eliminates requirement that the Superintendent of
(Chapter 663)
Public Instruction report to the Governor on or
before the 15th day of September a statement of the
condition of the public schools. The bill eliminates
a conflict in the law with respect to the
Superintendent's reporting responsibilities.
AB 2600 - Chappie
Authorizes county water districts to use any land
(Chapter 664)
as well as water, under its control for recreational
purposes.
SB 123 - Cologne
Provides that state college police officers are
(Chapter 632)
within the category of peace officer with respect to
increased criminal penalties imposed on persons who
commit assaults, batteries, or aggravated assaults on
peace officers.
SB 220 - Cologne
Prohibits incompatible employment for compensation
(Chapter 633)
by officers and employees of local agencies.
SB 347 - Deukmejian Makes it a crime to maliciously and falsely inform
(Chapter 634)
any other person that a bomb is in a public or
private place.
SB 361 - Cologne
Adds any supervisor of child welfare and attendance
(Chapter 635)
and any certificated pupil personnel employee of a
school to the list of persons required to report
intentional injuries to children.
SB 369 - Collier
Requires deposition of testimony of a peace officer
(Chapter 636)
witness to be authenticated, among other things, by
his business address in lieu of place of his
residence. The bill also provides that where peace
officer is a witness in any criminal action where
his testimony would be come a matter of public
record, and where he is required to state the place of
his residence, the witness may state only his
business address.
SB 415 - Richardson Makes Los Angeles County security guards peace
(Chapter 637)
officers while engaged in their regular duties.
SB 434 - Gregorio
Prohibits the California Toll Bridge Authority, the
(Chapter 638)
Department of Public Works, or the Golden Gate Bridge
Highway and Transportation District from constructing
any bridge or highway crossing, except for the
Southern Crossing, across San Francisco Bay, after the
effective date of the bill, except to replace on a
one-for-one basis existing bridges or highway
crossings.
SB 456 - Kennick
Provides that every referee appointed to the juvenile
(Chapter 640)
court shall, after the effective date of this act,
be an attorney who has been admitted to practice
law in this state for at least five years. If the
attorney does not have at least five years' practice
in this state, he may substitute a combination of
practice in this state and another state of at least
ten years.
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bill further provides tha if a minor is
represented by defense counsel, the district
attorney shall, with the consent or at the request
of the Juvenile court judge, appear and participate
in the juvenile court hearing to assist in the
ascertaining and presenting of evidence.
SB 463 - Kennick
Authorizes any judge of juvenile court in counties
(Chapter 641)
having more than one juvenile court judge, rather
than only the presiding judge of juvenile court in
such counties, to make specified annual inspection
of designated facilities. The bill includes, as
probation officer, social workers in county welfare
departments when supervising dependent children of
juvenile court pursuant to specified provisions.
Provides for authority of social workers with respect
to temporary custody of such dependent children. The
bill also includes, as an additional basis for
supplemental petition, facts showing that previous
disposition has not been effective in protection
of a minor.
SB 471 - Moscone
Provides that if a minor is represented by defense
(Chapter 639)
counsel in juvenile court proceedings, the district
attorney shall, with the consent or at the request
of the juvenile court judge, appear and participate
in juvenile court hearings to assist in the
ascertaining and presenting of evidence.
SB 475 - Grunsky
Permits a retired judge of any court of this State
(Chapter 642)
to solemnize a marriage, providing he receives no
money or other thing of value for performing the
marriage ceremony.
SB 494 - Carpenter
Changes the deadline for filing nomination papers
(Chapter 643)
for school board elections from 54 to 59 days before
the election and requires such filing be with county
clerk rather than the county superintendent of
schools.
SB 509 - Moscone
Revises the basis for allocation of funds under the
(Chapter 644)
Duffy-Moscone Family Nutrition Educational Services
Act of 1970 to conform to current federal law
respecting prescribed allocation for certain federal
funds.
SB 562 - Lagomarsino Increases timber operations fees and authorizes
(Chapter 645)
the issuance of a three-month nonrenewable temporary
timber operato's permit to harvest only minor forest
products.
SB
703 - Cusanovich Makes clarifying and corrective changes with
(Chapter 646)
respect to the Sherman Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law.
SB 773 - Coombs
Makes several clarifying amendments to the Retirement
(Chapter 647)
Systems Disclosure Law.
SB 788 - Carpenter
Makes revisions in assignment and number of court
(Chapter 648)
attaches and employees in the Orange County Municipal
courts and substitutes a pay schedule adopted by
ordinance by the Orange County Board of Supervisors
for a statutory schedule.
SB 807 - Moscone
Sets forth exclusive reasons for termination of a
Chapter 649)
tenancy in a mobilehome park. The bill requires the
management of a mobilehome park to specify reason
for termination of a tenancy. The bill declares
that tenant meetings, in specified areas, relating
to mobilehome living and affairs may not be
prohibited by management, except in specified cases.
SB 809 - Schrade
Provides that a general district election held
(Chapter 650)
pursuant to the Uniform District Election Law shall
be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday
in November of each odd-numbered year unless
otherwise provided in the principal act of a district.
The bill authorizes consolidation of such election
with any other election held the same day under the
general provisions for consolidated elections.
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SB 809 (Continued)
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bill also provides that V. ancies on a board of
a park and recreation district shall be filled by
the remaining members rather than by the supervising
authority. It further allows park and recreation
districts to hold elections on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November of each even-
numbered year, rather than each odd-numbered year.
SB 881 - Grunsky
Eliminates the Secretary of the Judicial Council
(Chapter 651)
as the person who, when there is a dispute, selects
the neutral member of an arbitration board in a
labor dispute involving certain transit districts
and instead requires selection by agreement of other
members of the board.
SB 1030 - Behr
Deletes the Business and Professions Code prohibition
(Chapter 652)
against advertisements for the prevention of
conception.
SB 1111 - Bradley
Amends the Administrative Procedure Act to permit
(Chapter 653)
an agency which is dissatisfied with a proposed
decision of a hearing officer to refer the case
back to the same hearing officer for further
proceedings rather than permitting the agency to
refer the case back to the same or another hearing
officer.
SB
1126
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Lagomarsino Authorizes the district board of a recreation and
(Chapter 654)
park district to provide for call and redemption
of bonds prior to maturity.
SB 1169 - Rodda
Extends until the 45th day of employment, the
(Chapter 655)
prescribed date for giving a probationary certificated
employee notice of termination of services in those
cases where, on March 15, such employee had been
employed by the employing school district for less
than 45 days.
B 1191 - Rodda
Changes the requirements for determining under what
(Chapter 656)
circumstances a school district governing board
election shall not be held. Where there is no more
than one nomination for each position on the board
there will be no election, except if a petition
signed by 25 voters of the district indicating that
a write-in campaign will be conducted, as opposed
to a previous requirement of 5 percent of the voters
voting at the last school district election, has
been presented to the county superintendent within
a specified time.
SB 1198 - Zenovich
Authorizes the parent or guardian of a minor being
(Chapter 657)
evaluated for placement in, or for continuance in,
a program for the educationally handicapped to select
a physician, optometrist, psychologist, social worker,
or teacher, to represent the minor and to present
additional material, if any, to assist the admission
committee in its determination regarding the minor.
SB 1276 - Petris
Requires persons initially employed by a school
(Chapter 658)
district to have had an examination for tuberculosis
within the past 60 days rather than within the past
two years. The bill also requires employees of a
school district to undergo an examination for tubercu-
losis at least once in four years, or oftener if the
governing board so decides.
B 1316 - Grunsky
Provides that when a probationary certificated
(Chapter 659)
employee is given notice that his services will be
terminated, such notice and the reasons therefor shall
be confidential and not divulged by any person until
such time as the employee has requested a hearing
on the matter or has waived his right to such hearing.
SB 1577 - Rodda
Permits the Sacramento Municipal Utility District to
(Chapter 660)
issue bonds, notes, or other securities as general
obligations of the district for the purpose of raising
an amount of money not to exceed $50 million for the
purpose of purchasing nuclear fuel for its Rancho Seco
nuclear power plant. SMUD would be able to issue
these bonds after a vote of 4/5 of its board of
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that for the fourth month
in a row the total number of persons on welfare in California has
declined.
He said statistics provided to him today by State Social Welfare
Director Robert Carleson show that 2,188,404 persons were receiving
welfare in California during the month of July---down 12,500 from
June and 105,173 fewer than were on the rolls only four months ago,
in March.
The governor attributed the steady decline in California's welfare
population to the strong emphasis his administration has placed on
overhauling the state's welfare system, including a series of adminis-
trative and regulatory changes which the Department of Social Welfare
has been putting into effect since the beginning of 1971 when Carleson
took over as director. The reforms were spelled out in detail in a
lengthy Welfare Reform package which the governor sent to the
legislature March 3.
"These latest figures constitute dramatic proof that the actions
we have taken are grabbing hold and really work. They bear out the
effectiveness of the overall approach we have taken to bring welfare
back under control in California."
The governor pointed out that the four-month decline in the number
of persons on welfare "reflects the effects of only a portion of our
total welfare reform program, considering the fact that the legislative
reforms I signed into law only a week ago will not become effective
until after October 1."
He noted that "the steady drop in the number of persons on the
rolls in California during these last four months contrasts sharply
with the national trend and strongly confirms our belief that the pro-
gram we have developed here clearly points the direction for true
welfare reform."
Carleson said, "Even if the declining trend we have been experienc-
ing in California should begin to level out in the months ahead, it
will have been demonstrated for all to see that welfare can, indeed,
be brought under control. At the same time we intend to continue to
press forward to make every administrative effort possible so that
the welfare system will help those persons who need it most, in the
most efficient and effective way we can."
Carleson said that up until March, when the governor's welfare
reform program was presented, California's welfare rolls had been
Human Relations Agency
Management Information Systems
August 18, 1971
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE CASELOADS AND EXPENDITURES
July 1971
Aid Recipients
Payments
Program
Julyp/
Junep/
July
Julyp/
Junep/
July
1971
1971
1970
1971
1971
1970
Grand total
2,188,404
2,200,939
1,977,305
$159,396,069
$160,328,869
$139,906,418
Cash grant recipients
2,106,324
2,114,515
1,879,916
155,247,560
155,948,051
135,974,079
General home relief
82,080
86,424
97,389
4,148,509
4,380,818
3,932,339
Averagea/
AGED PERSONS
Cash grant recipients
318,320
319,518
316,564
107.55
107.52
107.35
BLIND PERSONS (AB/APSB)
Cash grant recipients
14,020
14,063
13,653
151.08
151.83
155.53
DISABLED PERSONS
Cash grant recipients
190,044
189,492
175,948
127.16
129.79
125.01
FAMILIES WITH
DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Cash grant recipients:
Family groups:2/
children
918,466
906,711
805,202
81.77
81.83
76.59
cases
387,144
380,751
325,158
193.99
194.88
189.66
total persons
1,277,328
1,263,103
1,125,886
58.79
58.74
54.77
Unemployed cases:
children
165,327
177,711
131,719
79.73
79.78
74.11
cases
57,875
61,724
44,245
227.77
229.71
220.63
total persons
272,917
293,699
215,078
48.30
48.28
45.39
Boarding Homes and
Institutions:
children
33,695
34,640
32,787
156.38
146.16
139.93
GENERAL HOME RELIEF
Total persons
82,080
86,424
97,389
50.54
50.69
40.38
Family cases
10,817
11,458
14,863
58.24
58.93
63.76
Persons in family cases
33,406
35,448
55,642
18.86
19.05
17.03
One-person cases
48,674
50,976
41,747
72.29
72.69
71.49
Unemployed in labor force (%)
7.3
7.6
6.4
XXX
XXX
xxx
(Seasonally adjusted)
(7.0)
(7.3)
(6.2)
XXX
XXX
xxx
Civilian population (excluding
military)
19,956,600
19,937,000
19,721,600
XXX
XXX
XXX
a/ Cash grant averages for adult aids computed from "net" person counts.
b/ Excludes U cases.
p/ Preliminary.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today set
October 19 as the date for a special election
in the 48th Assembly District to fill the seat
vacated recently by David Roberti who was
elected to the Senate.
The 48th Assembly District is located in
Los Angeles County.
If a runoff election is required, it
will be held November 16.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today called the "savage and senseless
killings" of three San Quentin Prison officers Saturday "the result of
efforts by revolutionary elements in our society intent on extending
their religion of violence, hate and murder to within the walls of
our prisons."
He said he has asked State Human Relations Secretary James M.
Hall and Raymond Procunier, director of California's correctional
system, to take "whatever steps are necessary to halt the violence
and protect the lives of both correctional officers and inmates.
"It is tragic," he said, "that the commitment of some to spread
violence and murder into our prisons has resulted in the deaths of
these fine men. Such efforts--to incite violence behind prison walls--
cannot and will not be tolerated."
The governor, on behalf of all law-abiding Californians, also
expressed "deep and heartfelt sympathy" for the wives and children of
the correctional officers murdered in the unsuccessful escape attempt.
He sent personal condolences to the families and ordered the flag
which flies over the State Capitol to be lowered to half-staff in
tribute to the murdered officers.
Governor Reagan said he fully supports the measures Procunier
announced today to strengthen prison security in correctional
institutions across the state.
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#501
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Charles
R. Barnum, Jr., of Eureka to a four-year term on the State Board of
Forestry.
Barnum, 43, replaces Kelly McGuire of Fort Bragg whose term has
expired. He will serve until January 15, 1975.
A member of an early pioneering family of Humboldt County, Barnum
is president of the Humboldt County Economic Development Commission,
a past director of the Redwood Region Conservation Council, and a
member of the Save-the-Redwoods League. He is a past director of the
Eureka Chamber of Commerce.
Barnum is a product of the Eureka city school system and attended
Humboldt State College and the University of California in Berkeley.
He was also a cadet midshipman at the United States Merchant Marine
Academy, Kings Point, N.Y.
A Republican, Barnum and his wife Patricia have five children.
State Board of Forestry members receive necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Ray
Koyama of Guadalupe to the Board of Directors of the 37th District
Agricultural Association (Santa Barbara County Fair).
Koyama will fill the unexpired term of the late Everett Brickey
of Orcutt. His term will expire January 15, 1974.
A farmer for more than 40 years in the Santa Maria-Guadalupe
area, Koyama is a member of the Grower-Shipper Vegetable Association
of Guadalupe, a 20-year member of the Dry Pack Lettuce Advisory
Board, and a former president, vice president and director of the
Santa Maria Valley Produce Group.
Koyama is a Republican.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 49 - Warren
Requires the display upon any gasoline advertising
(Chapter 711)
medium and any gasoline-dispensing apparatus of the
minimum octane number thereof. The bill prohibits
the sale of any new motor vehicle unless the seller
provides a statement of the minimum octane number of
the fuel for such vehicle. The bill is operative
January 1, 1972, except that provisions relating to
posting of octane numbers are to be operative only
if Federal Trade Commission adopts regulations relatin
to the posting of such numbers.
AB 95 - Lanterman Validates organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings,
(Chapter 712)
and bonds of counties, cities and specified districts,
agencies, and entities. Third Validating Act of
1971.
AB 102 - Mobley
States that it is the policy of the people of the
(Chapter 713)
State of California to provide educational opportunity
for all persons in order to prepare them for employmen
AB 519 - Chappie
Prohibits the sale of snowmobiles manufactured
(Chapter 714)
after January 1, 1973 which produce noise in excess
of a prescribed noise limit. The bill requires
passenger vehicles operated off the highways, with
prescribed exceptions, to be equipped with adequate
muffler to prevent excessive or unusual noise, and
prohibits muffler or exhaust system from being
equipped with cutout, bypass, or similar device.
AB 680 - Belotti
Increases the amount which may be charged by the
(Chapter 715)
Department of Agriculture to certify the accuracy
of certain laboratory glassware. The bill eliminates
the bakery and restaurant use license for oleomargaring
imitations or substitutes for cheese, imitation ice
cream, and imitation ice milk. It also increases
the initial fee for personal licenses required by
the Milk and Milk Products Act, and permits the
licenses to be renewed on alternate years for a
renewal fee.
AB 786 - Schabarum Makes changes necessary to conform the statutes to
(Chapter 716)
the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1970.
AB 862 - Bagley
Requires and authorizes conformance by specified
(Chapter 717)
private foundations and split-interest trusts to
specified provisions of the 1969 Federal Tax Reform
Act.
AB 990 - Fong
Allows the governing board of school district, or
(Chapter 718)
county superintendent of schools, and the board of
governors of the State Nautical School to participate
in programs authorized by the "Demonstration Cities
and Metropolitan Act of 1966" and the "Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968" by, among other
things, entering into agreements with any public or
private nonprofit agency, or combination thereof.
AB 1221 - Mobley
Establishes additional criteria for determining
(Chapter 719)
whether contracts entered into under the California
Land Conservation Act of 1965 shall constitute
"enforceable restrictions" for purposes of qualifying
property covered by such contracts for assessment as
open space land.
AB 1244 - Badham
Provides that a certificate to practice as a
(Chapter 720)
physician and surgeon shall be issued to designated
persons under specified circumstances.
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AB 1261 - Knox
Establishes a procedure by which revenue bonds
(Chapter 721)
issued by a joint powers agency are subject to
voter referendum.
AB 1273 - Dent
Provides that a retirant from the State Teachers'
(Chapter 722)
Retirement System may return to full-time service one
year after retirement. Present law has a two-year
requirement.
AB 1372 - Dunlap
Specifies that the Insurance Code provision relating
(Chapter 723)
to placing of life or disability insurance with a
particular agent, broker, or company by a state
department or agency shall also apply to all local
governmental agencies.
AB 1422 - LaCoste
Defines "elector" as any person qualified to vote
(Chapter 724)
at either a state or federal election held in the
state. The bill specifies that any elector may
circulate initiative, referendum and recall
petitions and qualifies for appointment as a deputy
registrar of voters.
AB 1657 - Brathwaite
Includes members of the District Retirement
(Chapter 725)
Salary Plan certain persons employed in federally
funded program.
AB 1658 - Brathwaite
Increases the lump sum death benefit payable under
(Chapter 726)
the District Retirement Plan from $400 to $500.
AB1659 - Brathwaite
Amends the District Retirement Salary Plan to
(Chapter 727)
provide that when a benefit of not to exceed
$2,000 is payable to a minor who has no guardian,
the benefit may be paid to the person having
custody of the minor.
AB 1660 - Brathwaite Permits returning members of the District Retirement
(Chapter 728)
Salary Plan to redeposit refunded contributions
after one, rather than two, years' service after
re-entry into the system.
AB 1959 - Z'berg
Authorizes transfer of certain lands which are
(Chapter 729)
located near the Old Sacramento State Historic Park
to be transferred to the Department of Parks and
Recreation at fair market value.
AB 2000 - Priolo
Provides that any member of the Public Employees'
(Chapter 730)
Retirement System, employed in the Department of Menta
Hygiene at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric
Institute, San Francisco, or at the Neuropsychiatric
Institute, Los Angeles, who is transferred to
University of Californie employment pursuant to an
agreement between the department and the university
respecting operation of such institutes, shall have
the right to elect to continue his membership in
the system, if an election is made in writing and
filed with the board prior to the date of his transfer
of employment.
AB 2229 - Belotti
Provides that orders and appeals in disciplinary
(Chapter 731)
proceedings under a county civil service system shall
be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors
or, if there is a county personnel officer, with the
county personnel officer.
AB 2325 - McAlister Makes specified Civil Code provisions relating to
(Chapter 732)
leases, inapplicable to specified leases involving
public entities or nonprofit corporations, unless
the lease provides otherwise, instead of making
them inapplicable only if they would invalidate the
lease.
AB 2350 - Fong
Provides for wastewater and sewage control in
(Chapter 733)
special districts within municipal utility districts.
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AB 2364 - Foran
Provides that it is unlawful to sell, lease, install,
(Chapter 734)
or replace specified vehicle equipment that is not
in conformance with the Vehicle Code and regulations
made thereunder, with the knowledge that it is
intended for eventual use in a vehicle.
AB 2365 - Foran
Requires passenger vehicles operated off the highways,
(Chapter 735)
with prescribed exceptions, to be equipped with
adequate muffler to prevent excessive or unusual
noise, and prohibits a muffler or exhaust system
from being equipped with a cutout, bypass, or
similar device.
AB 2498 - Briggs
Requires a mortgage guaranty insurer writing
(Chapter 736)
certain classes of insurance which elects not to pay
entire indebtedness to insured and acquire title to
real estate security to limit coverage for such
classes of insurance to maximum of a net of 20 per-
cent at risk of entire indebtedness of insured,
rather than 20 percent of such indebtedness. The
bill permits such insurers to exceed such limit on
coverage if such excess is insured by a contract
of reinsurance.
AB 2609 - Dunlap
Provides that noncompliance with Elections Code
(Chapter 737)
provisions relating to submission of charter
amendments to Legislature shall not invalidate or
cause refusal of acceptance for ratification of such
charter amendments, The bill applies only to charter
amendments submitted at the 1971 Regular Session of the
Legislature,
AB 2616 - Mobley
Deletes the requirement that public transportation
(Chapter 738)
works be designed to operate on fixed tracks, rails,
belts or cables where constructed by a local governing
body to provide transportation pursuant to the
Improvement Act of 1911 or the Municipal Improvement
Act of 1913. The bill authorizes operation, as well
as construction of such public transportation works,
and specifically authorizes terminal and intermediate
stations, structures, or platforms, and other
necessary auxiliary facilities.
AB 3021 - Wood
Includes in the definition of "person" for purposes
(Chapter 739)
of the Mulford-Carrell Air Resources Act, the United
States or its agencies to the extent authorized
by federal law.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills
have been signed:
SB 269 - Stevens
Makes January 1, 1974, rather than January 1, 1972,
(Chapter 695)
the termination date for application of the provision
relating to approval by the Director of Human
Resources Development of amendments to voluntary
plans for payment of unemployment compensation
disability benefits to employees electing to be so
covered.
SB 327 - Wedworth
Provides that in the case of state college
(Chapter 696)
construction, specified work, including work on
state-owned buildings and property necessitated by
specified emergencies, may be awarded by contract
upon informal bids in addition to the use of day
labor.
SB 349 - Lagomarsino
Declares that a search warrant may be made
(Chapter 697)
returnable before the issuing magistrate or his
court.
SB 457 - Kennick
Requires that an application for rehearing by the
(Chapter 698)
juvenile court of a hearing conducted by a referee
to contain a statement of reasons such rehearing is
requested. The bill provides that upon the request
of counsel for a minor the juvenile court may
continue any hearing under the Juvenile Court Law
beyond the time limit within which the hearing is
otherwise required to be held. In any case in which
a minor is represented by counsel and no objection
is made to an order continuing any such hearing beyond
such time limit, absence of such objection shall be
deemed a consent to the continuance. The bill
authorizes the court to continue any hearing on
petition under the Juvenile Court Law, except where
a minor is in custody, for not more than 10 days in
addition to any other continuance authorized by such
law, whenever the court is satisfied that an
unavailable and necessary witness will be available
within any such time.
SB 484 - Lagomarsino
Requires service of civil process in actions against
(Chapter 699)
the Department of Motor Vehicles and subpoenas
for departmental records be made upon the Director
of Motor Vehicles or his appointed representatives at
the Department's headquarters in Sacramento.
SB 576 - Gregorio
Allows person 18 through 20 to hold civil offices.
(Chapter 700)
The bill also provides that persons 18 through 20
shall have full rights and liabilities, both civil and
criminal, with regard to their activities as
candidates as well as when in office, should they be
so elected.
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SB 680 - Short
Makes designated investigators of the Division of
(Chapter 701)
Labor Law Enforcement peace officers.
SB 745 - Lagomarsino Provides that the conviction, as such term is used
(Chapter 702)
in the law relating to vacancy of a public office due
to an officer's felony conviction, shall be deemed
to have occurred at the time trial court judgement
is entered. The bill provides that certain public
officers may be removed for willful or corrupt
misconduct in office occurring within 6 years
immediately preceding the presentation of an accusation
by the grand jury.
SB 768 - Collier
Provides that the court commissioner of the Riverside
(Chapter 703)
County Superior Court shall receive a salary equal
to 75 percent of the salary of a superior court judge.
SB 1078 - Burgener
Provides, with respect to alternate methods of
(Chapter 704)
payment of salaries for full time noncredentialed
school employees that such payment may be made twice
a month, as well as once every two weeks or once
every four weeks, and that such provisions shall
apply to unified school districts with 100,000 or
more average daily attendance, rather than to school
districts in cities of over 1,900,000 population.
SB 1080 - Burgener
Revises provisions on immunization against polio and
(Chapter 705)
measles (rubeola) to require only persons age 16
and under to be immunized against polio and only perso
age 16 and under to be immunized against measles
(rubeola) before admission to a public or private
school for the first time.
SB 1087 - Song
Makes nonsubstantive amendments to the adult probation
(Chapter 706)
law.
SB 1156 - Dymally
Provides that if the members of the governing body
(Chapter 707)
of a chartered city are elected by district, such
districts shall be of equal population according to
the latest federal census.
SB 1466 - Stevens
Makes fraud or deceit in the purchase or sale of
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vehicles, parts, or accessories grounds to take
administrative action against the license of a vehicle
dealer, manufacturer or transporter.
SB 1583 - Gregorio
Provides that it is unlawful to notify any person
(Chapter 709)
by any means, as a part of an advertising plan or
scheme, that he has won a prize and that as a
condition of receiving such prize he must purchase
or rent any goods or services, rather than any other
item.
SB 1622 - Marks
Authorizes the use of personal checks to pay
(Chapter 710)
obligations owed to public agencies on specified
terms and conditions. The bill authorizes public
agencies, if a personal check offered in payment is
not paid on demand, to prescribe a reasonable charge
for such check and an alternative method of payment
for such payment and for future payments.
Governor Reagan has vetoed the following bills:
748
B 784 - Marks
Appropriates $290,000 for the Frederick Burk Labora-
tory School.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The question of state funding for the Frederic Burk
School received careful consideration in my review of
the 1971 Budget Act. At that time I deleted State
funding and no facts have been produced which justify
a change in that position.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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SB 1064 - Alquist
Provides that academic and nonacademic employees
of a state college must be allowed to inspect
material, with specified exceptions, in the employees'
personnel file which may serve as a basis for
affecting the employee's employment status. The
bill also provides that notice and an opportunity
to review and comment must be given to employee when
material of a derogatory nature, with specified
exceptions, is to be placed in his personnel file.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am vetoing this bill at the request of the State
College Trustees and the Chancellor. The Chancellor's
Council of State College Presidents is presently
studying the matter of content of personnel files
for academic personnel, as well as the degree of
access to such files. This matter is of extreme
concern since the degree of confidentiality of the
files has been found to directly affect the
willingness to render objective and meaningful
evaluations. It is expected that specific policy
recommendations will be made by the Council to the
Chancellor and to the Trustees.
"Further legislative proposals in this subject area
should be deferred pending evaluation of the Council's
recommendations to the Chancellor.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
AB 162 - Cullen
Requires each state agency to submit copies of
budget requests submitted to the Department of
Finance, to the Legislative Analyst.
REASON FOR VETO:
"The present system has worked satisfactorily for
some years. The Department of Finance maintains close
cooperation with the Legislative Analyst during the
budget preparation period. Whenever possible,
preliminary information concerning budget requests
is given to the Analyst to facilitate preparation of
his annual budget analysis. However, a governor's
final budget must always reflect considerations of the
entire state, not just a single department. The
original budget requests from each department, un-
weighed by the needs of the entire state, would not
materially assist the legislature in considering
the total state budget. The lengthy budget hearing
process conducted by the fiscal committees appears
adequate to develop full and complete information
concerning the state budget.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned," the
governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan has signed the following bills:
AB 675 - Chappie
Permits a county committee on school district
(Chapter 678)
organization or a county board of education in
counties with a population of less than 25,000,
except with respect to a community college district,
to amend the provision relating to whether or not
trustees are to be elected by the voters of the
entire district or only by the voters of the trustee
area in which they reside.
AB 872 - Sieroty
Provides that anyone who has not reached the age of
(Chapter 679)
30, rather than 24, shall be eligible for a state
competitive scholarship.
Powers
AB
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Wakefield Authorizes rather than mandates the State College
(Chapter 680)
Trustees to waive the tuition fees of certain foreign
students. The bill also authorizes the Trustees to
defer, under specified conditions, collection of
tuition charged to nonresident foreign students.
AB 1071 - Z'berg
Makes changes relating to the investments of
(Chapter 681)
insurance company funds.
AB 1150 - McAlister
Delineates the conditions under which an advertising
(Chapter 682)
claim or representation pertaining to more than
one article of merchandise or type of service within
same class of merchandise or service is deceptive.
AB 1351 - Fenton
Provides that the Insurance Commissioner shall have
(Chapter 683)
authority to determine whether premiums for credit
insurance are reasonable with respect to benefits
provided and approve or disapprove rates based on
that determination. Previously such credit insurance
rates had to be approved if they produced a 50 percent
loss ratio.
AB 1468 - Burke
Allows a school district governing board to set the
(Chapter 684)
date when an in-year salary increase for certificated
employees is to be effective.
AB 1545 - Barnes
Provides that authorization for limited employment of
(Chapter 685)
a person retired under a county retirement system
established by the County Employees' Retirement Law
of 1937 is prohibited if a person has attained
mandatory retirement age for the employment from
which he retired. The bill does not apply to Los
Angeles County.
AB 1614 - Pierson
Provides that an unlicensed person employed by,
(Chapter 686)
rather than in, a licensed clinical laboratory may
perform venipuncture or skin puncture under designated
circumstances.
AB 1676 - Badham
Permits elected or appointed public officers to be
(Chapter 687)
appointed and serve as members of airport land use
commissions during their terms of office.
AB 2008 - Barnes
Increases from $500 to $750 the lump sum death
(Chapter 688)
benefit for a retired member of a county employees'
retirement system which is financed from surplus
earnings.
AB 2156 - Knox
Provides that an insurance policy upon a motor vehicle
(Chapter 689)
may be included in the security agreement permitted
by the Rees-Levering Act.
AB 2322 - Beverly
Provides that a reasonable escrow fee incurred with
(Chapter 690)
respect to real property secured loans made by an
industrial loan company shall not be included in
determining the maximum charges which such a company
may make.
AB 2369 - LaCoste
Revises the notice on the sample ballot envelope of
(Chapter 691)
t'
right to vote by absent \ er's ballot.
AB 2828 - Maddy
Revises the method by which the salary owed to the
(Chapter 692)
estate of a deceased teacher is computed. The bill
becomes operative on July 1, 1972,
AB 2938 - Badham
Provides that, notwithstanding certain provisions
(Chapter 693)
of law relating to the granting of variances, certain
variances may be extended under certain circumstances
for up to five years. The bill provides that its
provisions shall remain in effect until January 1,
1972.
SB 63 - Harmer
Prohibits solicitation of employment from any injured
(Chapter 694)
person or from any other person to obtain authoriza-
tion on behalf of the injured person to act as an
investigator in investigating matters resulting in
injury or death to such person or damage to his
property. It exempts solicitation of employment from
the injured person's attorney and exempts solicitation.
by business agents or attorneys employed by labor
unions. The bill makes the prohibited solicitation
a misdemeanor when engaged in by any person and a
ground for disciplinary action under the Private
Investigator and Adjuster Act. The bill also makes
it a misdemeanor to knowingly and directly solicit
any injured person or any person acting in his behalf
for the sale or use of photographs relating to the
accident which resulted in the injury or death of
such injured person.
SB 225 - Behr
Broadens the coverage of the civil penalty provisions
(Chapter 668)
(of up to $6,000 a day) of the Porter-Cologne Water
Quality Control Act, which now apply only to persons
who violate cease and desist orders, to include
persons who intentionally or negligently discharge
waste in violation of waste discharge requirements,
and create conditions of pollution or nuisance; and
persons who cause or permit oil or any residuary
product of petroleum to be deposited in waters of the
state, except in accordance with waste discharge
requirements.
SB 285 - Song
Increases from $1,000 to $2,500 the amount of the
(Chapter 669)
bond or in lieu cash deposit required for issuance,
reinstatement, reactivation, or renewal of a
contractor's license. The bill adds a provision that
whoever denies a bond solely on the grounds of race,
religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry,
or sex is liable to the applicant or licensee for
his actual damages plus $250 on each offense.
SB 420 - Coombs
Includes within the definition of "secondhand dealer"
(Chapter 670)
for purposes of certain provisions requiring specified
reports concerning identifiable property, a person
who owns or operates an auction or other organized
event consisting of two or more sellers and where a
fee is charged either to sellers or prospective
buyers, except for persons acting as such dealers
exclusively for charitable purposes, and persons
who own the land, who know nothing of the details of
the transactions handled. Existing law requires
that dealers in identifiable second hand personal
property report the acquisition of any such property
to the local police. This bill would make substantial-
ly the same rules applicable to community auctions
and the so-called "swap meets" or the "flea markets."
SB 462 - Kennick
Requires, upon court order, that the public defender
(Chapter 667)
will represent any person who is entitled to be
represented by counsel who is not financially able to
employ counsel in proceedings of the juvenile court.
The bill further provides that the juvenile court
shall rather than may appoint separate counsel where
there is a conflict of interest between a minor and
his parent or guardian. In a county where there is no
public defender, the court may fix the compensation
to be paid by the county for services of such
appointed counsel.
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SB 470 - Moscone
rmits court commissioners
d assistant commission-
(Chapter 671)
ers to solemnize marriages.
SB 657 - Marler
Provides that grand jurors in Shasta County shall
(Chapter 672)
receive $6.00 for each day's active and necessary
services as a member of any committee appointed by
the foreman of the grand jury.
SB 715 - Lagomarsino Permits the Attorney General to designate any of
(Chapter 673)
the eight exempt deputies allotted to hin under the
Constitution, to sit in his place as a nember of
state boards and commissions when he carnot attend.
The bill prohibits any such deputy from acting as
a presiding officer of a board or commission when
he cannot attend.
SB
736
- Carpenter Specifies that where a county waterworks district
(Chapter 674)
becomes a subsidiary district of a city pursuant to
the District Reorganization Act of 1965 the governing
body of the district shall be the city council of
such city. The bill increases the compensation of
board members from not to exceed $10 per month to
$10 for each meeting attended, not exceeding two
meetings per month.
SB 741 - Moscone
Requires transfer at specified times, rather than
(Chapter 675)
the close of the fiscal year, of 10 percent of the
gross earnings of credit union into a guaranty fund,
rather than 20 percent of net earnings for the year,
until the fund equals or exceeds 20 percent of the
credit union's gross assets.
SB 799 - Petris
Requires the public defender in proceedings against
(Chapter 666)
a person under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act to
represent the person on request as well as on order
of court, where the person is financially unable to
employ counsel.
SB 878 - Marler
Permits rather than requires an election relating to
(Chapter 676)
district unification to be held on date of each
presidential primary election in nonunified school
district territory. The bill permits, rather than
requires, a county committee on school district
organization to propose the division of a high
school district into two or more unified districts
when the electors have three or more times rejected
a proposal to unify the high school district.
SB 1544 - Short
Permits governing board of school districts maintain-
(Chapter 677)
ing development centers for handicapped minors to ente
into agreements with nonprofit private entities for
the providing of specified services to the centers.
The bill also permits specified public agencies to
levy and collect the permissive tax for support of
development centers for handicapped minors.
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#506
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Paso Robles attorney and
community leader James A. Madden to the San Luis Obispo County superior
court bench.
Madden, 57, has served as Paso Robles city attorney for the
past two decades and as the city attorney of Morro Bay since May, 1968.
He will receive an annual salary of $33,396 in the new post.
A graduate of Loyola University Law School in Los Angeles, he
succeeds Judge William P. Clark who was elevated to the State District
Court of Appeal.
Madden has been engaged in the private practice of law since
1938, except during World War II when he was assigned to the U. S.
Army's Judge Advocate General Division.
He has practiced law in Paso Robles since 1947.
A Republican, Madden has been a leader in Paso Robles
community affairs, serving as a member of the Mission Central High
School Board of Trustees from 1965-70. He also has been chairman of
the St. Rose School Board for the past three years.
He is a former president of the San Luis Obispo City Bar
Association, the Paso Robles Rotary Club and the Paso Robles Trail
Riders. Since 1963, he has served as chairman of the local administrative
committee of the State Bar of California for San Luis Obispo County.
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#507
Edwin Meese III, executive assistant to Governor Ronald Reagan,
today announced that the governor has "enthusiastically" approved a
$1,307,332 federal OEO grant to the City of Oakland to fund a newly
created community action agency to serve the city during the coming
year.
In a telegram to H. Rodger Betts, regional director of the federal
Office of Economic Opportunity in San Francisco, Meese praised city
officials for "having taken the effective and decisive leadership
necessary to restore integrity to the anti-poverty program in
Oakland."
The new community action agency, created to replace the now
defunct Oakland Economic Development Council Inc. (OEDCI), will
function under the auspices of the Oakland City Council and be
administered by a board whose membership is equally drawn from the
public and private sectors, and low income residents, of Oakland.
Here's the text of Meese's wire to Betts:
"Based upon information presented this office concerning grant
#CG 9109 B/1 to the City of Oakland Community Action Agency in the
amount of $1,307,332, we hereby enthusiastically approve. Therefore,
you may proceed with funding. We appreciate the cooperation and
assistance which your office has provided to the City of Oakland in
the development of this program for the coming twelve months.
"I am sure you will agree that the Oakland City Council is
deserving of the highest commendation for having taken the effective
and decisive leadership necessary to restore integrity to the anti-
poverty program in Oakland.
"In assuming the responsibility for completely restructuring and
redirecting the program, Mayor Reading and the members of the council
have taken strong steps to insure that, from now on, all taxpayer funds
allocated to the program are spent wisely and efficiently so that the
disadvantaged citizens in the community who truly need the program's
services will benefit.
"We warmly congratulate Mayor Reading and the City Council for
bringing this effort to fruition. We are confident that under their
guidance, the program can and will work to the advantage of the entire
Oakland community."
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Contact:
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445-4571
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#508
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment
of Dr. Stafford Warren, Dean Emeritus of the UCLA Medical School and
retired vice chancellor of the university's Health Science Department
and the reappointment of Warren Schmid and Dr. A. J. Haagen-Smit to
the State Air Resources Board.
An internationally recognized scientist and biophysicist who
served as director of the Atomic Energy Project from 1947 to 1958,
Dr. Warren succeeds Dr. Joseph F. Boyle of South Pasadena, whose term
has expired.
Dr. Warren, a Republican, served as a special assistant to the
President from 1963 to 1965 to implement a nation-wide program for the
mentally retarded.
He has served as a consultant for medical research and education
for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, as a member of
the Education and Research Advisory Committee for the Veterans
Administration, the Medical Advisory Committee to the Federal Civil
Defense Director and was chairman of the California State Civil
Defense Planning Board, and chairman of the Governor's Advisory
Committee for California Civil Defense Radiological Services.
In addition he has served as a member of the Council on
Neurological Diseases and Blindness for the National Institute of
Health, the National Advisory Council of the U. S Public Health Service
and as an Army colonel was chief of the Manhattan Project's Medical
Section, and a civilian consultant to the Manhattan Engineering District
and Atomic Energy Commission.
He holds degrees from the University of California, Johns
Hopkins, Harvard, the University of Redlands and the University of
Rochester.
Dr. Warren lives at 1250 Monaco Drive, Pacific Palisades.
Schmid, chairman of the Highways Committee of the State
Chamber of Commerce, is a businessman and rancher who has served on the
board since 1967. He lives at 17402 Jacaranda, Tustin. He is a
Republican.
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Dr. Haagen-Smit
Professor Emeritus of the California
Institute of Technology and an authority on air pollution, has served
as chairman of the State Air Resources Board since 1968.
In addition, he is a member of the National Air Quality Criteria
Advisory Committee for the Environmental Protection Agency, a member
of the Committee on Motor Vehicle Emmissions of the National Academy
of Science and served as chairman of President Nixon's Task Force on
Air Pollution.
Dr. Haagen-Smit, a Democrat, lives at 416 South Berkeley Avenue
Pasadena.
The three appointments, for four-year-terms, are subject to
Senate confirmation.
Members of the board are paid necessary expenses.
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Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
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#509
Governor Ronald Reagan today named a 12-man task force to investigate
the nature, scope, and impact of the drug problem among California's
veterans.
The Task Force on Veterans' Drug Abuse Problems working in
coordination with the State Office of Narcotics and Drug Abuse will
determine as accurately as possible how many military personnel and
veterans are using dangerous drugs, the type of drug being used and the
treatment they are receiving before and after discharge.
The governor noted that in recent months drug abuse among military
personnel and veterans has received a great deal of publicity but many
of the conclusions on the seriousness of the problem have been based more
on speculation than on factual information.
The task force headed by Charles A. Bowers, Deputy Director of the
State Department of Veterans Affairs, will attempt to accurately determine
the plans of the military and veterans administration to provide
assistance and evaluate the adequacy of existing state and federal program
to handle the problem. The group will also explore procedures for closer
coordination of federal-state efforts.
Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke, Chairman of the Governor's Task Force on
Narcotics Enforcement, hailed the creation of the new task force as
another means of obtaining the kind of additional information needed to
combat the drug problem.
In announcing the task force, Governor Reagan lauded the Sacramento
Union for carrying a full page message recently about the dangers of drug
abuse.
The task force includes physicians, representatives from state and
federal agencies and personnel from self-help treatment and education
programs (list attached.)
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MEMBERS OF THE
TASK FORCE ON VETERANS' DRUG ABUSE PROBLEMS
Chairman - Charles A. Bowers, Deputy Director
Department of Veterans Affairs
Other State of California representatives:
William B. Skelton, Coordinator
State Office of Narcotics and Drug Abuse Coordination
William E. Wilder, Assistant Coordinator
State Office of Narcotics and Drug Abuse Coordination
James A. Walker, Deputy Director
Department of Mental Rehobititation Hygiene Sacramento
Donald Z. Miller, Chief, Bureau of Special Services
Department of Mental Hygiene, Sacramento
Matthew O'Connor, San Francisco Area Supervisor
State Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement
Mrs. Elfriede Fasal, M.D.,
Department of Public Health, Berkeley.
Other Members:
David Smith, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Toxicology
Department of Pharmacology, University of California - San Francisco
Medical Center
George Krieger, M.D., Chief of Psychiatric Services
Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto
James Estabrook, Executive Director
Aquarian Effort, Sacramento
Rev. Devore Walterman, San Francisco
Teen Challenge, a religious-oriented, anti-drug program.
Col. Neville I. Throckmorton, Sacramento
Office of Commanding General - State Military Forces.
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