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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR R ALD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-1-74
#269
Barg tiveing
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"There is an obvious need for a comprehensive overhaul of the
state law governing local public service employee relations. Strikes
and strike threats by public employees, continuing disputes between
public employees and public agencies, and the fact that the public
interest can be shunted to the side underscore the need for a new law.
"Today, I am happy to announce that Senator Collier will
introduce legislation that will provide a reasonable and fair process
for solving disputes between local public employees and their public
employers. And I emphasize the word 'fair' because it not only
protects the rights of public employees and their employers, but the
general public as well.
"The bill will create the Public Employee Relations Board
which will have the responsibility of protecting the rights of all
under the law.
"At the present time there is no agency in California to
insure the rights of public employee organizations and public agencies
concerning the terms and conditions of employment. The board will
have this function.
"The bill prohibits strikes by public employees. But it
will put an end to unreasonable actions taken by local public agencies
in denying public servants the right to organize and to be recognized
in employee relations.
"I think the time has come when it is necessary for everyone
to recognize the inherent difference between public and private
employment. The status of public employees is not comparable to
private employees, either in fact or in law. Basic differences between
the two groups arise from the fact that the public employer was
established for the benefit of all the people. Its authority derives
not from the profit motive in private enterprise, but from the people
themselves.
"The Collier bill makes these distinctions and, at the same
time, will bring stability to employee-employer relations in our cities
and counties. "
# # #
Walthall
CALIFORNIA TAXPAYERS' ASSOCIATION
Mel Morris - Phone 441-0490
900 Eleventh and L Bt Iding
May 1, 1974
Sacramento, California 95814
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The California Taxpayers' Association has joined the League
of California Cities and the County Supervisors Association of
California in support of legislation which will provide guidelines,
procedures and supervising authority for resolving disputes between
public agencies and their employees.
"In most cases public employees must decide whether they want
civil service with all of its protections or whether they want to
enter into collective bargaining with employers for contracts,"
Robert C. Brown, executive vice president of Cal-Tax said. "There
are differences between civil service and the private industrial
system, not only in how public holidays are determined and wages and
benefits paid, but in job protection.
"For the most part local government agencies are not capable
of conducting the same bargaining with employees that business and
industry can. When a dispute arises in public employment, the
elected officials go to the bargaining table subject to political
pressures very different from those of private industry negotiators."
The measure which carries the proposal is SB 2133, by Senator
Randolph Collier, as it will be amended.
The measure will establish a statewide five-member Public
Employment Relations Board to hear disputes, supervise employee elec-
tions and conduct negotiations. The law would permit formation of a
local commission or board to perform the duties of the state board.
The measure establishes state policy that the concepts of
public employment are different from those in private employment.
Public employees are working for the good of all of the public where
the authority arises out of the concept of public good and not out
of the motives of profit of the free enterprise system.
# # #
STATEMENT OF THE COU. Y SUPERVISORS ASSOCIATION
CALIFORNIA
A. G. MAHAN, PRESIDENT
MAY 1, 1974
The County Supervisors Association of Cal ifornia is pleased
to join in the sponsorship of the "Local Public Service Employee
Relations Act," authored by Senator Collier.
The need for this legislation has been readily apparent.
The strike threats by public employees, the unfair practices charges
against both employee organizations and local public agencies, the
confusion of the public when their vital services are interrupted by
employee actions -- all these are testimony to the very real need for
a rational and comprehensive overhaul of the state laws governing
relationships between local public employees and public employers.
Counties have recognized this need in our past sponsorship
of employee relations legislation and in our policies. We believe
this new measure balances the rights and needs of local public
employees with those of the taxpaying public. Further, it acknowledges
the inherent differences between private sector employment and public
employment: that the public employer is established by and run for
the benefit of all the people and its authority derives not from the
profit motive but from the constitution, statutes, municipal charters,
and civil service rules and regulations.
Therefore, we are proud today to join the Governor and the
League of California Cities in announcing our endorsement of this
major new legislation.
# # #
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES
PRESS RELEASE
May 1, 1974
LEGISLATION TO END STRIKES AND RESOLVE CONFLICTS IN PUBLIC
EMPLOYMENT IS PROPOSED
New public sector labor relations legislation which is strongly
endorsed by Governor Reagan and authored by Randolph Collier, Dean of
the State Senate, will be unveiled this week.
The proposal, jointly sponsored by the League of California
Cities and the County Supervisors' Association of California and
supported by the California Taxpayers Association, is the product of
two years of effort by a special joint labor relations task force
formed by the two local government organizations.
The Reagan-Collier proposal would replace the Meyers-Milias-
Brown Act (current legislation in this field) with a comprehensive
new structure to govern the employment relationships of city, county
and special district employees. The bill recognizes the inherent
distinctions between public and private employers and builds a
structure which protects the interests of the general public while
also assuring public employees of a fair and equitable wage and benefit
package.
The bill proposes formal collective negotiations, a ban on
strikes, a state board, and a process for resolving disputes while
also protecting the local taxpayer by requiring the elected local
official to make the final determination on these matters which so
seriously affect the local government budget.
The new legislation calls for a state Public Employment
Relations Board composed of five full-time members who are required
to possess qualifications and background in both labor relations and
governmental operations. The PERB would be appointed by the Governor,
with the advice and consent of the Senate, and the members would serve
overlapping terms of five years duration.
The proposal would also give local areas or regions the right
to form local or area boards to serve in place of the State PERB if
the need exists and if the local board operates in a manner consistent
with the activities of the state board.
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League of California Cities
Page 2
A process for resolving disputes during negotiations is spelled
out in the legislation. The process includes mediation, and fact-
finding at the request of either party, and would also require public
disclosure of the fact-finder's recommendations if either side refuses
to accept such recommendations. This procedure is designed to bring
substantial public criticism to bear upon either the elected
representatives or the employee representatives should either party
act unreasonably in their labor relations relationship.
As a further step in this effort to solve problems which can
arise in connection with the representation of public employees, the
proposal spells out in clear language the rights of both the public
employee and the general public through their local government.
It also provides that in cases of dispute over these rights,
the PERB, will make binding determinations relative to their applica-
tion.
Unfair practices for both the public agency and the employee
organization are identified and prohibited under the new law. It
gives the PERB the duty of enforcing these prohibited practices and
would allow the PERB to issue cease and desist orders to either public
employers or public employees where they are engaging in an unfair
practice.
The legislation being proposed will do much to stabilize labor
relations in California local government. It is a positive program
to clarify the issues and solve many of the problems in local govern-
ment labor relations.
While the legislation does provide an alternative to the strike
in the public sector, it would not take responsibility or authority
away from the elected officials who are selected by the citizens of
local government to represent them. The proposed legislation
specifically prohibits public employees from striking or recognizing
the picket lines of employee organizations while in the performance
of their duties as public employees of local government.
In summary, the legislation recognizes the fundamental dis-
tinctions between public and private employment, and proposes a
framework within which fair, equitable and stable local government
labor relations will take place. It prohibits strikes by local
government employees, it provides a mechanism to assure a fair wage,
and it retains authority and responsibility for control of public
expenditures in the hands of locally elected public officials chosen
by the citizens to set public policy in the interests of the
community.
# # #
5-1-74 PRESS CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS:
League of California Cities
Don Wyle, Mayor, Woodland
Helen Putnam, Mayor, Petaluma
Mary Henderson, Vice Mayor, Redwood City
Don Benninghoven, Executive Director
County Supervisors Association of California
Gerald Day, Supervisor, San Mateo County
(and 1st Vice President of CSAC
Donald Peterson, Supervisor, Humboldt County
(Member, CSAC Executive Committee and Chairman,
Modernization Committee
Joash Paul, Supervisor, Stanislaus County
(and Chairman, CSAC Employee Relations Committee
Ralph Diedrich, Supervisor, Orange County
Richard Watson, Executive Director
California Taxpayers' Association
Bob Brown, Executive Director
California State Chamber of Commerce
Jim Wroten, Employer/Employee Relations Specialist
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-1-74
#270
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 319 - Knox
Provides that forms adopted by the State Department
Chapter 196
of Health authorizing the release of an infant from
a health facility to persons other than those
entitled to custody of the child and authorizing
such person to obtain medical care for the child
shall contain designated statements with regard to
adoption. The bill also prohibits the release of a
minor under 16 from a health facility unless
authorized by a parent or person having legal custody.
AB 1383 - Keysor
Adds two members to the Board of Administration of
Chapter 197
the Public Employees' Retirement System, one to be
elected by and from the retired members of the system
and an elected official of local government to be
appointed by the governor.
AB 2823 - Craven
Permits retired employees of a public agency, other
Chapter 198
than a school district, on approval of the governing
board of such agency, to authorize deductions from
retirement allowances for dues in an association of
retired employees.
SB 371 - Alquist
This bill requires the Public Utilities Commission to
Chapter 194
disallow, for ratesetting purposes, advertising
expenses by any electrical, gas, or heat corporation,
every utility owned by a municipal corporation,
municipal utility district, and public utility
district furnishing light, heat, or power when such
advertising encourages increased consumption of the
services or commodities furnished by such corporation.
SB 371 revises the provisions requiring designated
public utilities to furnish notice of pending rate
increases to provide that the notice may, rather than
shall, be included with the regular bill for charges,
and that the customer be informed where he may request
notice of the date, time, and place of the hearing,
rather than requiring the notice to so state.
SB 1566 - Grunsky
Would permit individual contracting agencies under
Chapter 195
the Public Employees' Retirement System to elect the
highest single year of compensation rather than the
highest three year average as the basis for payment
of retirement benefits for local safety and local
miscellaneous members.
# # #
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR PONALD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, Califor. a 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-1-74
#271
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Senator Fred W. Marler, Jr.
to the Superior Court bench in Sacramento County, replacing Judge
Robert K. Puglia, who last week was nominated by the governor for a
seat on the 3rd District Court of Appeal.
Marler, 42, has been a state senator since winning a special
election in 1965. He was reelected the following year and again in
1970. His district (2nd) is changed under reapportionment and he chose
not to run again this year.
Since 1971, Marler has been the Republican floor leader in the
Senate. He currently is a member of the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee, Joint Committee on Fairs Allocation and Classification and
Senate committees on finance, education, judiciary and water resources
and agriculture.
His background includes law practice in Redding and as a part-time
faculty member at Shasta Junior College.
He is a graduate of Chico High School, the University of California
at Berkeley and Boalt Hall School of Law.
Superior Court judge: are paid $37,615 annually.
######
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEA E: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-1-74
#272
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Alan H. Jacobs of
Big Pine, Baldo Giorgi of Topaz, and Philip C. Stockwell, of Mammoth
Lakes, to the 18th District Agricultural Association board of directors.
The association operates the Eastern Sierra Tri-County Fair.
Jacobs, 66, a cattle rancher in Inyo and Mono Counties, has served
on the board since March 5, 1954. A graduate of the University of
Arizona, he is a member of the California Farm Bureau Association, the
Inyo County Cattlemen's Association and the California County Supervisors
Association. He is a Republican.
Giorgi, a 43-year-old Republican, is a cattle rancher in Topaz.
He has served on the board since May 21, 1969. He is a director and
past chairman of the Mono County Soil Conservation District. He attended
Fresno State College.
Stockwell, 46, a Democrat, has been a member of the board since
March 31, 1970. He is a third generation Californian. He was born in
Compton, attended primary and secondary schools in that area and was
graduated from Long Beach City College. He is the owner of Stockwell's
Meat Block, a restaurant in Mammoth Lakes.
Board members serve four-year terms and receive necessary expenses.
######
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR
NALD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-1-74
#273
Linden Rancher Garrett W. Beckley was appointed today by Governor
Ronald Reagan to the 2nd District Agricultural Association board which
operates the San Joaquin County Fair.
Beckley, 61, replaces Thomas F. Matthews of Tracy whose term
expired.
One of America's outstanding civic leaders in 1968, Beckley had
moved to Stockton in 1928 and graduated from Stockton High School four
years later.
He was president of Beckley Commercial Feedyard and Beckley Feed
Company prior to selling both firms in 1962. He purchased what is now
known as Beckley Ranch in 1947 and is engaged in the production and
feeding of beef cattle.
Beckley's community activities have included presidencies of the
Linden Peters Chamber of Commerce, for two terms; Linden Lions Club,
Linden Lions Club Hall Association and of the San Josquin-Stanislaus
branch of the California Cattlemen's Association.
He served on the San Joaquin County Grand Jury in 1964.
A Republican, he will serve a term ending January 15, 1978 and
will be paid his necessary expenses.
######
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califor a 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-1-74
#274
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed three members of the
Mount San Jacinto Winter Park Authority to new terms expiring
January 26, 1978.
Included are G. David Ackley, 62, retired senior vice president of
the San Bernardino Sun-Telegram newspaper; Robert E. Leonard, 54, a
former outdoor advertising company executive who now lives in Palm
Springs; and George S. Ripley, 65, a former Seattle businessman and
retired president of Desert Hand Laundry in Palm Springs. All three
are Republicans.
Ackley has been on the park authority since July 1965. While a
student at the University of Redlands, Ackley joined the Sun-Telegram as
a sports writer. Most of his career on the newspaper was on the
editorial side.
Leonard, a member since March 1967, was employed by Foster & Kleiser
for 16 years before purchasing Southern California Outdoor Advertising
Company. He subsequently sold the business to Ryan Advertising Company.
Ripley was first appointed to the park authority by the governor in
September 1972. He had sold the laundry in 1967 after owning it for
18 years. In Seattle he was president and owner of Union Paper Box
Manufacturing Company.
Since moving to Palm Springs in 1949, he has served on numerous
boards contributing to the desert area's development, including the
Palm Springs Unified School District, Riverside Board of Trade, Desert
Water Agency, Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce, Personnel Board, Traffic
Commission and Economic Commission.
Members of the Authority receive their necessary expenses.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-2-74
#275
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 1320 - Ralph
Requires the Labor Commissioner to hold hearings
Chapter 201
to determine the validity of claims against cash
deposits of defaulting contractors for the payment
of wages and fringe benefits. The bill requires the
Registrar of Contractors to pay the amounts as
verified by the Labor Commissioner from the
contractor's cash deposit.
AB 2364 - Vasconcellos Requires a court finding, that a defendant has
Chapter 202
failed to appear, or violated conditions of
release, or that new facts are known, or that
circumstances have changed revealing increased risk
of nonappearance, before an own recognizance release
can be revoked and bail required.
AB 2584 Gonsalves
Requires sanitization of wiping rags and specifies
Chapter 203
that any local governing body may adopt ordinances
containing requirements more restrictive than those
contained in the Department of Health regulations
adopted pursuant to this act. The bill provides for
regulation and a method of recovery of costs by the
local health departments through a permit system.
AB 2623 Bannai
Requires a coroner to take urine, as well as blood
Chapter 204
samples from all persons 15 years of age and older,
killed while driving, riding, or being struck by a
motor vehicle in order to make the proper tests to
determine the presence or absence of alcohol and
barbituric acid in the samples. The bill also
permits the test for the presence of amphetamine
derivatives.
AB 2767 Mobley
Makes a special exception to the 95 percent of bonded
Chapter 205
capacity requirements for a school building aid
apportionment where the deficiency was $85,000 or
less, and the school district has no unsold bond
authorization and has called an election for March 5,
1974, to authorize the issuance of $9,500,000 in
school bonds.
AB 2781 Lancaster
Authorizes the governing board of a school district
Chapter 206
to use prescribed revenue after July 1, 1975, to
complete corrective structural repair, reconstruction
or replacement of specified school buildings if the
buildings were under repair, reconstruction, or
replacement prior to July 1, 1975.
AB 2785 - Chappie
Specifies that any public agency which leases land
Chapter 207
for waste disposal purposes to another public agency,
or to a public utility regulated by the Public
Utilities Commission shall not be required to file
any waste discharge report for the subject waste
disposal, and that a regional water quality control
board and the State Water Resources Control Board
shall not prescribe waste discharge requirements for
the lessor public agency as to such land. The bill
provides that the lease shall not contain restric-
tions which would unreasonably limit the ability of
the lessee to comply with the waste discharge
requirements pertinent to the leased property.
AB 2792 - Knox
Requires the board of directors of various special
Chapter 208
districts to furnish, no later than August 1 of each
year, certain tax information to the board of
supervisors and the county auditor.
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#275
AB 2793 - Knox
Permits a county to pay city taxes collected by
Chapter 209
the county to the city, rather than to the city
treasurer, and deletes the requirement that such
taxes be paid by warrant of the county auditor.
AB 2826 Knox
Permits a county board of supervisors, by ordinance,
Chapter 210
to provide for the filing of vacancies on assessment
appeals boards by its own appointment, rather than
by nominating persons who are selected by lot by
the presiding judge of the superior court.
AB 2829 - McAlister
Revises the law relating to enforcement of sister
Chapter 211
state money judgments.
AB 2834 - Davis
Authorizes the Trinity County Board of Supervisors,
Chapter 212
if it determines that all or any part of the county
has ceased to be devoted chiefly to grazing, to
provide, by ordinance, that estray animals may
thereafter be taken up on unenclosed property in
the county or part of the county.
SB 1492 - Grunsky
Permits notice of the proposed letting of a contract
Chapter 199
for harbor district work exceeding $3,500 in cost
to be published once a week for two successive
weeks, as an alternative to advertisement for a
period of two weeks.
SB 1549 - Collier
Prescribes a maximum outside width of 100 inches for
Chapter 200
that portion of a vehicle load consisting of plywood
particle board. hardboard, gypsum board, similar
types of wallboard, or any combination thereof,
rather than prescribing such maximum outside width
for a vehicle load composed solely of such items.
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McKelvey
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-3-74
#276
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
May 6, 1974
through
May 12, 1974
Monday, May 6
Noon
Rancheros Visitadores Luncheon, Santa Ynez.
Remarks.
Tuesday, May 7
10:00 a.m.
NEWS CONFERENCE
Wednesday, May 8
Noon
State Women's and Men's Club Luncheon, Elk's
Club, Sacramento. Brief remarks, 0 & A.
Thursday, May 9
10:00 a.m.
Convention of the California Association for
the Retarded, International Hotel, Los Angeles.
Remarks.
Friday, May 10
No public appointments scheduled
Saturday, May 11
No appointments scheduled
Sunday, May 12
No appointments scheduled
# # #
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-3-74
#277
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Marina del Rey realtor
John H. Holoman to fill an unexpired term on the state Board of
Registration for Professional Engineers.
Holoman, a 35-year-old Republican, will receive $25 per diem in
replacing Charles R. McGrath of Oxnard, who was appointed to the Ventura
County Municipal Court bench last February 5. Holoman's term will expire
June 1, 1976.
A native of Arkansas, Holoman, prior to entering the real estate
field, was outreach supervisor for the Avalon Carver Community Center in
Los Angeles, vice president and general manage of RISE Inc. of Los Angeles
and was employed by Reynolds Metals Company, Allstate Insurance Company
and sold real estate for Centerview Estates in Gardena.
He received a bachelor's degree in business economics from Lincoln
University in Jefferson City, Missouri.
He has been involved in the Urban League, Baldwin Hills Youth
Football Association, Urban Venture Corporation (as board chairman),
Total Community Development Corporation (as secretary-treasurer) and
Apogee Enterprises Inc.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-3-74
#278
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that John C. Vukasin, Jr.,
has requested that his name be withdrawn from consideration for
appointment to the First Court of Appeal in San Francisco. The governor
said he is abiding by Vukasin's request and, with a great deal of
reluctance, is withdrawing the nomination.
In his letter to Governor Reagan, Vukasin pointed out that in the
nine weeks since his nomination the Commission on Judicial Appointments
had taken no confirming action. "I sincerely believe, 11 he said, that
additional delay would be damaging to the orderly administration of
justice. In order not to subject you to criticism for even further delay
in filling this important position, I respectfully request that my name
be withdrawn from consideration."
Governor Reagan stated:
"Unfortunately certain people, for their own purposes, have
generated unwarranted controversy over the nomination of John Vukasin to
the First Court of Appeal. It is extremely regrettable that such a fine
and able man has been subjected to this unjustified treatment.
"He was nominated because of his reputation for unimpeachable
integrity, professional ability, his outstanding record of public service,
and my belief that he would make an important contribution to California's
system of justice.
"I can understand his feelings in this matter and feel obligated to
honor his request by reluctantly withdrawing his name from consideration." "
Governor Reagan said he will place another name in nomination in the
next several weeks.
Vukasin was nominated March 1, 1974.
A member of the Public Utilities Commission since 1969, Vukasin, 45,
was the president of the Commission in 1970-72. He is a native of Oakland
a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and received his
law degree in 1956 from the University's Boalt Hall.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-3-74
#279
Governor Ronald Reagan today nominated two Los Angeles men, a USC
professor and the vice president of an architectural firm, as members
of the state Transportation Board.
The nominations of Dr. Ross D. Eckert and James D. Reiter require
the advice and consent of the Senate prior to appointment.
Dr. Eckert, 32, is assistant professor of economics at USC.
Reiter, 47, is vice president of Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall,
consulting architects and engineers.
Both Republicans, they would replace Fred C. Jennings of Riverside,
who resigned at the end of his term, and Aubrey E. Austin, Jr., of
Santa Monica, who resigned.
Terms on the board for Dr. Eckert and Reiter would expire March 16,
1978.
Dr. Eckert was educated at UCLA, the rival institution across Los
Angeles from where he is now employed. He received a bachelor's degree
with highest honors in 1963, a master's in 1964 and his doctorate in 1968.
He was a research economist for General Electric for three years prior to
becoming a USC professor teaching graduate and upper division courses in
Price Theory and Industrial Organization.
He also was a consultant to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation on
formulating policies for federally funded transportation research.
Reiter is a native of Los Angeles who has been with the architectural
firm since 1952, including nine years in its San Francisco office. He is
experienced in water supply and conservation, land development methods
and economics, environmental engineering, construction managements,
contracts and legal relationships and municipal finance. He was the
project manager for many large projects including the development of
Century City, redevelopment of Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles,
Redwood Shores, a submarine pipeline in Venezuela, Tehachapi Pump Station
for the California Aqueduct and California Water Basin planning in Los
Angeles and Ventura counties and the San Joaquin Valley.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-3-74
#280
A sacramento publisher was reappointed and the owner of Vandenberg
Motors in the Capitol city was named today by Governor Ronald Reagan to
the New Car Dealers Policy and Appeals Board.
Melecio H. Jacaban, 68-year-old publisher of Bataan News, has been
a board member representing the public since January 1968.
John B. Vandenberg, 47, replaces Gilbert D. Ashcom of Piedmont,
whose term expired.
The terms, calling for $25 per diem, expire January 15, 1978.
Jacaban founded Bataan News in 1942 and has served as its business
manager, editor and publisher. He graduated from high school in the
Philippines, attended junior college in Chicago and the Northwestern
University School of Commerce on its McKlintock campus for one year.
Vandenberg is a Sacramento native who has been a Chrysler dealer in
that city since 1953. His firm has been awarded the distinguished dealer
award by Chrysler Corporation for seven years in a row. He is a former
president of the Chrysler-Plymouth Dealers Association of Northern
California and has been a director of the association for 10 years.
In civic matters, he currently serves on the Sacramento County
Economic Job Formation Commission and the permanent finance committee of
Jesuit High School. In the past, he served on the selection committee
for the county executive.
Both appointees are Republicans.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-6-74
#281
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed four members of the Marine
Research Committee and named a fifth to terms expiring October 1, 1977
Those reappointed, all of whom are Republicans, include:
Bernard J. Ridder, Jr., 36, business manager of the Long Beach
Independent-Press Telegram newspapers and a member since 1970. He is
active in the Sierra Club and has reflected his newspapers' strong
position and leadership in anti-water pollution programs.
Charles R. Carry, 62, executive director of the Tuna Research
Foundation, Terminal Island. He was chairman of the committee for 18
months and has been a member since 1963.
William J. Gillis, 58, vice president of Van Camp Sea Food Company,
a division of Ralston-Purina, Terminal Island. He is experienced in all
phases of the fish canning industry and has evidenced strong interest in
the conservation of marine resources. He has been a committee member
since 1970.
Nicholas F. Trutanic, 59, general manager of fisheries development
for Star-Kist Foods, Terminal Island, since 1970. He is a former vice
president and manager of all domestic and international operations for
Star-Kist, a former vice president of international operations for Van
Camp Sea Food Company, and a former president and partner of Universal
Packers Corporation in Oxnard and vice president and partner of Pesquera
San Blas in Lima, Peru. He has been on the committee since 1970.
The new appointee is Kenneth K. Williams, 41-year-old deputy city
attorney of Long Beach. A Democrat, he replaces Albert V. Schiavon of
Fresno, whose term expired. Holder of bachelor's and law degrees from
UCLA, he is chairman of the Southern California Tuna Club's conservation
and ecology committee and delegate from the club to the Ocean Fish
Protective Association. He is a member of the Long Beach Casting Club
and a former director of the Westwood Izaak Walton League.
Marine Research Committee members receive their necessary expenses.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROI ,D REAGAN
MEMO TO HE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-7-74
At 4:30 p.m. today, Tuesday, May 7, Governor
Reagan will present a letter to Lewis Horne, Jr.,
officially designating him as the California rep-
resentative to the National Boy Scout retreat for
Eagle Scouts at the Philmont Ranch, Cimmaron,
New Mexico, August 5-27. Governors from the 50
states are making similar designations. The
ceremony is scheduled in the Cabinet Room.
Lewis Horne is the 16-year old son of Col.
and Mrs. Lewis C. Horne of Sacramento. An Eagle
Scout, he is a sophomore at Rio Americano High
School in Sacramento.
Press coverage is invited.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press ecretary
916-445-4571
5-7-74
#282
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed James M. Hicks, Jr., of
Sacramento as chief of the Department of Housing and Community
Development's division of research and assistance.
The 57-year-old Republican replaces Gorden S. Hill, who has accepted
an appointment as deputy director of Housing and Community Development.
Hicks, who will serve at the governor's pleasure and be paid
$25,908 annually in the new post, has been the chief of the Division
of Codes and Standards in Housing and Community Development since
April 1972.
Prior to joining state government, he was director of the building
inspection department for Kern County and served as president of the
International Conference of Building Officials.
Hicks is a graduate of Glendale College and the University of
Southern California, receiving a bachelor's degree in architecture.
He lived in Bakersfield before coming to Sacramento.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC
LD REAGAN
RELEAS.
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-7-74
#283
Two members of the California Aeronautics Board were reappointed
today by Governor Ronald Reagan, who also named a Costa Mesa medical
administrator to fill a vacancy on the same board.
Reappointed was Robert C. Arnold, 60, manager and owner of Arnold
Agency, a real estate firm in Madera since 1911. He has served on the
board since May 1970 and has been a licensed pilot since 1960.
Also returned to the board was Leroy E. McChesney, 60, president
of the San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau, a member since 1970. He is
a charter member of the San Luis Obispo County Pilots Association, which
was formed in 1955. He was a director of the association for the first
15 years of its existence.
The new appointee is Jack R. Hammett, 54, administrator of Bristol
Park Medical Group, Inc., an eight-doctor group in Costa Mesa. He has
been mayor of the city and a councilman for four years. He retired
after 22 years as a hospital corps officer in the U.S. Navy.
Hammett replaces Ronald T. Golan of Los Angeles, who resigned at
the end of his term.
Hammett's term will end December 31, 1976, while those of Arnold
and McChesney will run one year longer. Members are paid $25 per day.
All three are Republicans.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR I
ALD REAGAN
RELEAS.
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-7-74
#284
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"I learned, with much regret, this afternoon of the passing of
LeRoy Pemberton as the result of a heart attack last night.
"In his capacity as immediate past president of the California
State Employees Association (CSEA), we had many occasions to meet and
discuss the improvement of public employee benefits. His guidance to
the CSEA will be missed. My deepest sympathies go to his family in
San Diego. It
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-8-74
#285
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 1283 - Montoya
Requires vehicle dealers to return to the purchaser
Chapter 222
any amount collected in excess of the actual fees
due for licensing or transfer of title.
AB 1948 - Wilson
Makes the provisions which pertain to the status,
Chapter 223
retention, disposition, and destruction of
reporters' notes in the superior court also applicable
to reporters' notes in the municipal court. The bill
also provides that juvenile court records may be
destroyed at any time within the years after court
jurisdiction over the minor is terminated if such
records are reproduced.
AB 2613 - Montoya
Modifies the procedures to be followed in transfers
Chapter 224
of territory from one school district to another.
AB 2665 - Chappie
Requires the Department of the California Highway
Chapter 225
Patrol to regulate the safe operation of oversized
mobilehomes on state highways.
AB 2725 - Fenton
Makes technical correction to legislation enacted
Chapter 226
in 1973, relating to minimum weekly workmen's
compensation rates. The bill also extends the life
of the Workmen S Compensation Advisory Committee for
one year.
AB 2828-McAlister
Provides that the disclosure of privileged
Chapter 227
information is coerced where the privilege is
properly claimed but the disclosure is erroneously
ordered by the trial judge or other presiding officer.
AB 2918 - Seeley
Provides that negotiable promissory notes issued by
Chapter 228
the Desert Water Agency shall be payable from
revenues and taxes legally derived pursuant to any
maximum property tax rate procedure, rather than
general obligations of the agency payable from
revenues and taxes in the same manner as bonds of the
agency. The bill also specifies the maximum
compensation to be received by members of sanitary
district boards and by directors of the Desert
Water Agency.
SB 222 - Grunsky
Chapter 213
Adds registered process servers to the list of
persons who may serve a judgment debtor with an
order to appear and answer concerning his property.
It specifies that an order to appear and answer must
contain a statement that failure to appear may subject
the party served to arrest and punishment for
contempt of court. The bill also provides that any
person who willfully makes an improper service of
an order directed to a judgment debtor to appear and
answer concerning his property which subsequently
results in his arrest is guilty of a misdemeanor.
SB 223 - Grunsky
Adds registered process servers to the list of persons
Chapter 214
who may serve a person or corporation holding
property of, or owing more than $50 to, a judgment
debtor with an order to appear and answer concerning
such property. The bill specifies that an order to
appear and answer must contain a statement that
failure to appear may subject the party served to
arrest and punishment for contempt of court. It
further provides that any person who makes an
improper service of an order to appear and answer
which results in the arrest of the person to whom the
order is directed is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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SB 1119 Eusanovich P mits school districts to i rd contracts for
Chapter 215
school construction under the State School Building
Aid Law for replacement of structurally inadequate
school buildings, if the cost exceeds the State
Allocations Board's cost standard by not more than
two percent.
SB 1487 - Collier
Authorizes rural unified school districts, under
Chapter 216
specified conditions to rent permanent buildings for
temporary periods for continuation education program.
The bill also authorizes the State Allocation Board
to make an apportionment to any school district for
the cost of leasing portable classrooms during period
of construction of previsouly approved construction
project, provided the district meets specified
requirements.
SB 1559 - Way
Exempts a farm trailer having a gross weight of
Chapter 217
6,000 pounds or less from equipment and device
requirements as if registered.
SB 1569 - Collier
Establishes a procedure for establishment of
Chapter 218
separate governing boards of elementary and high
school districts, or reorganization of such districts,
which are presently governed by a single city board
of education. This procedure is only to be under-
taken in the event that a presently pending court
decision is adverse to the continuation of such
single city boards.
SB 1570 - Mills
Requires the clerk of the municipal court to enter
Chapter 219
in the judgment book all judgments, instead of
requiring him to enter only civil judgments. The
bill eliminates the requirement that the clerk
certify and file a copy of each civil judgment in the
files of the action and subscribe a condensed
statement of the judgment in the register of actions.
SB 1629 - Bradley
Provides for a $6.00 filing fee for recording release
Chapter 220
of lian by the state or local government if the
original lien was filed without fee.
SB 1647 - Way
Clarifies the expiration date for the Fish and Game
Chapter 221
Code provision making Soda Springs Lake a fish
refuge.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR R ALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
mediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-9-74
#286
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 269 - Chappie
Amends and supplements the Budget Act of 1973 to
Chapter 232
appropriate $220, 000, payable from the Recreation and
Fish and Wildlife Enhancement Fund, to the Department
of Parks and Recreation for the development of
Antelope Reservoir.
AB 483 - Keene
Repeals existing Elections Code provisions relating
Chapter 233
to the required contents of petitions to recall state
officers and the required period of circulation of
such petitions. The bill establishes a procedure for
the recall of state officers including requirements
for the circulation of recall petitions, the contents
and form of petitions, the certification of petitions,
the contents of the recall ballot, and the nomination
of persons seeking the office of the officer sought
to be recalled. The bill also permits cities and
counties to reimburse an officer not recalled for his
recall election expenses. The bill will take effect
if Assembly Constitutional Amendment 29 is approved
by the voters in November.
AB 2379 - Keysor
Extends existing fee and parking exemptions to include
Chapter 234
vehicles not registered to a disabled person, but used
primarily for the transportation of such person.
AB 2667 - Berman
Prohibits the use Of electronic listening or recording
Chapter 235
device by any person in any elementary or secondary
school classroom without the prior consent of the
teacher and principal. The bill makes willful
violation of the prohibition by any person, other
than a pupil, a misdemeanor. It makes a pupil's
violation a cause for appropriate disciplinary action.
The bill further specifies that it shall not affect
powers, rights, and liabilities otherwise provided for
by law.
AB 2933 - Russell
Reorders preferences for Cal-Vet loans. The bill
Chapter 236
gives former prisoners of war, unremarried spouses of
eligible veterans killed in action and unremarried
spouses of those missing in action second priority.
AB 3004 - Chappie
Appropriates $9,680 from General Fund to the Board
Chapter 237
of Control for payment of the claim of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Wolsey against the State of California upon
verification by the board of the losses sustained.
SB 1429 - Holmdahl
Makes any standard of the Public Utilities Commission
Chapter 229
relating to water quality inapplicable to any water
corporation which is required to comply with specified
regulations and standards of the State Department of
Health. The bill also defines "to properly and
adequately serve with water" for the purposes of
requiring any person, firm, or private corporation
having a franchise to use the streets of a ctiy to
adequately serve with water the inhabitants of the
territory covered by its franchise, as including
furnishing water of a quality meeting or exceeding
specified standards of the State Department of Health.
SB 1610 - Kennick
Provides that the last two full weeks in April and
Chapter 230
the last two full weeks in September shall be known
as "high school voter weeks," during which time
deputy registrars of voters shall be allowed to
register students and school personnel in any high
school campus in areas as designated by the school
administration, which are accessible to all students.
SB 1611 - Kennick
Revises the definition of "dangerous fireworks" in
Chapter 231
the State Fireworks Law.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-9-74
#287
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Edmund C. Sajor, a
Pacific Gas & Electric Company executive, to the American Revolution
Bicentennial Commission of California.
Sajor, a 43-year-old Republican, replaces Sally B. Altick of
Menlo Park, who resigned.
The new appointee, who will serve at the governor's pleasure,
is employed by the utility in its executive offices in San Francisco.
He joined PG&E in 1970 after nearly eight years on the staff of Bay
Area Rapid Transit District (BART). Past employers have included the
Oakland-Alameda County Chamber of Commerce and the Speaker of the state
legislature.
Sajor attended New York University, the University of Florida
and UCLA.
He will be paid $25 per diem as a commissioner.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Sacramento, Califor ia 95814
Clyde Walthall, Pre 5 Secretary
916-445-4571
5-9-74
#288
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed a chairman and 15 members
of the new State Advisory Commission on Youth he established by
Executive Order. The oldest member is 24, the youngest 13.
All will be sworn in on Wednesday, May 15, at 2:30 p.m. in the
Governor's Cabinet Room. (Press Coverage is invited).
Designated as chairman is Craig L. Fuller, 23, of Los Angeles,
who will receive a master's degree in urban affairs from Occidental
College next month. He is a political science graduate of UCLA and
is currently a Coro Foundation fellow. Fulle r was a consultant to the
Governor's Task Force on Local Government Reform.
Other appointees include:
David C. Carlat, 22-year-old Cal State University at Northridge
student and resident of Woodland Hills. He has been a counselor for
California Youth Homes, which handles wards of Juvenile Court.
Genaro P. Castillo, 22, administrative intern to the City Manager
of Orange since last July and a political science major at the
University of California at Irvine.
Peggy J. Chater, 20, a senior at the University of California at
Davis and member of the Academic Senate's Committee on Educational
Policies. She coordinates the Chancellor's Sunday evening radio program.
Neil A. Christie, 23, a San Jose city employee coordinating
programs of that city's youth commission. He was a vice chairman of the
Youth Steering Committee which organized the San Jose Youth Commission,
an advisory body on youth affairs to the city council. He has attended
San Jose State University.
Keith D. Curry, 19, of Long Beach, a member of the Los Angeles
County Commission on Youth and student at Long Beach State. He is a
representative to Los Angeles County Bicentennial Committee.
Deborah Drehmel, 16, a student at Aragon High School in San Mateo
and state Speaker of the California Junior State. She planned and
coordinated a three-day conference on political issues for more than
500 students and teachers from throughout the state and presided over
the Forum Debate, where resolutions on the conference issues were
debated.
Roland M. Katz, 18, of Concord, a freshman at the University of
California at Berkeley and former board of education representative from
Mt. Diablo High School. He has been involved with the Concord Youth
Council and the California Youth Coalition.
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#288
Mark M. Ozawa, 16, sophmore class president at Torrance High
School and chairman of the Torrance Youth Council. He is a junior
assistant Scoutmaster, member of the Torrance Community Health Services
Council and youth corrdinator of Friends of Madrona Marsh.
Gina C. Gutru, 20, a graduate of John Burroughs High School in
Burbank now attending the University of California at Berkeley, where
she is an "Oskie Doll," one of the official campus hostesses. She
currently is rush chairman for her sorority, Alpha Delti Pi, and a member
of the UC Berkeley Honor Society.
Carol J. Sidhu, 17, student body president at Bishop Manogue High
School in Sacramento. She has served with the League of California
Cities, Sutter Hospital Youth Service Organization, and Catholic Youth
Organization.
Federal D. Glover, 17, the 1973 Pittsburg Boys Club "Boy of the
Year." He is student body treasurer, a member of the Black Student
Union and is involved in the Pittsburg Model Cities Youth Commission
and Contra Costa County Youth Involvement Project.
John T. Smith, 22, a senior at the University of the Pacific
who attended Foothill High School and American River College and still
lives in Sacramento. He was senior class president at Foothill,
lettered in swimming at ARC and has been active in Phi Kappa Tau
fraternity at UOP.
William Morgan, 24, news director of Radio News West in Los
Angeles, the nation's third largest audio network. He was educated
at Fullerton Junior College and California State University-Fullerton
and worked in news and public affairs reporting for radio stations KJLH
and KKDJ in Los Angeles before joining RNW in 1972. His program on
KJLH, called "Young Side," received an award from the Urban League in
Los Angeles for best continuing youth-oriented program.
Kathryn L. Jones, 18, a theatre arts major and journalism minor
at Fresno State University. Her current activities include being editor
of a newspaper called "Ideology," chairman of Education Today, assistant
editor of Fresno State's minority newspaper and memberships in the
student government and Pan African Union.
Jeremy W. Hobbs, 13, an eighth grader at Joaquin Miller Junior
High School in Sacramento where he participates in the Mentally Gifted
Minors program. He was awarded a sixth level Certificate of Merit by
the Music Teachers of America this year for his skill at the piano
keyboard. He is in the performing choir at his school and the folk mass
performing group at St. Robert's Catholic Church.
#288
Responsibility for the Commission was assigned by the Governor
to the Lieutenant Governor, while necessary staffing will be provided
by the State Office of Planning and Research. Members will receive
their necessary expenses.
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POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATIONS AND TERMS
David C. Carlat
Republican
3-28-76
Genaro P. Castillo
Democrat
3-28-76
Peggy J. Chater
Republican
3-28-77
Neil A. Christie
Democrat
3-28-76
Keith D. Curry
Republican
3-28-77
Deborah Drehmel
Too young
3-28-77
Craig L. Fuller
Republican
3-28-75
Roland M. Katz
Democrat
3-28-76
Mark M. Ozawa
Too young
3-28-76
Gina Christine Gutru
Republican
3-28-77
John T. Smith
Republican
3-28-77
Carol J. Sidhu
Too young
3-28-77
Federal D. Glover
Too young
3-28-76
Kathryn L. Jones
Democrat
3-28-76
William Morgan
Republican
3-28-77
Jeremy W. Hobbs
Too young
3-28-77
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McKelvey
REAGAN
RELEASE:
immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Pre 3 Secretary
916-445-4571
5-9-74
#289
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that bills implementing his
campaign reform proposals have been introduced in the legislature,
including a Senate Constitutional Amendment (SCA 50) by Senator John
Stull (Republican-Encinitas) that would make the office of Secretary of
State nonpartisan.
Assemblyman Newton R. Russell (Republican-Tujunga) has introduced
AB 4291 that would require the legislative counsel, in preparing an
impartial analysis of a ballot measure, to confer with reading experts
appointed by the state Superintendent of Public Instruction. A similar
measure was introduced in the other house by Senator Stull (SB 2181).
A bill (SB 2415) by Senator Dennis E. Carpenter (Republican-Newport
Beach) would:
--Repeal present provisions on the regulation of legislative
representation before the state legislature and add comprehensive new
provisions on the subject, define terms and declare legislative intent.
--Require registration with the Secretary of State by persons employed
or retained as legislative advocates before doing anything to influence
administrative or legislative action, respectively, within 30 days after
the beginning of each regular session.
--Require publication by the Secretary of State each year of a
directory of registered legislative advocates.
--Require filing of monthly statements by certain persons in
reporting specified contribution and payment information.
--Require keeping of complete, detailed and accurate records for a
four-year period by persons required to report.
--Authorize the Secretary of State to conduct audits and
investigations and the Auditor General to make investigations and audits
concerning materials required to be filed under this act.
--Provide misdemeanor and felony penalties for violations. Authorize
the Attorney General or a district attorney to bring civil action to
enforce compliance with the act.
--Provide that neither an appropriation is made nor an obligation
created for reimbursement to any local agency for any costs incurred
pursuant to the act.
Carpenter's bill also provides that it would become operative only in
the event of voter passage of Senate Constitutional Amendment 50.
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#289
AB 3962, authored by Assemblyman Dixon Arnett (Republican-Redwood
City), would change the date of the direct primary and Presidential
primary elections in California from the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in June to the first Tuesday in September.
Another provision of Assemblyman Arnett's bill makes various changes
in the deadlines for duties to be performed by candidates, county clerks
and the Secretary of State due to the changes in date of direct primary
and Presidential primary elections.
Assemblyman Mike D. Antonovich (Republican-Glendale) has introduced
AB 4258, which makes it a misdemeanor for any judge to make directly or
indirectly, or arrange, a contribution for the purpose of influencing the
nomination or election of any candidate. Such prohibition also would
apply to a judge's contribution to help qualify, pass or defeat any
measure, unless used for the purposes of his own candidacy.
AB 4262, by Assemblyman Bob McLennan (Republican-Downey) would:
--Prohibit corporations, labor organizations, public employee
organizations, associations, or committees established or maintained
thereby, from directly or indirectly receiving or making any contribution
or any expenditure for the purpose of influencing or attempting to
influence voter action for or against candidates or measures.
--Define the terms "labor organization" and "public employee
organization" for the purposes of this act.
--Make a related change in the definition of "person" for the
purposes of the Waxman-Dymally Campaign Disclosures Act.
--Exclude specified activities of corporations, labor organizations
or public employee organizations from the prohibition.
Assemblyman McLennan's bill will be amended shortly to restrict to
individuals the right to make campaign contributions.
Assemblyman Paul Priolo (Republican-Los Angeles) has introduced
AB 4266 to establish an Advisory Commission on Fair Campaign Practices
and provide for its duties and membership.
Assemblyman Robert E. Badham (Republican-Newport Beach) has
introduced AB 4301, which would provide that non-elected officers and
employees of the state, the legislature, local agencies and school
districts will not participate in political activities of any kind during
working hours. The bill also would prohibit public officers and employees
from utilizing, or making available for others to use, in support of
specified political activities any equipment, supplies or resources owned
or maintained by any public agency.
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McKelvev
REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press ecretary
916-445-4571
5-10-74
#290
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Richard Ray, a native of
Sacramento, as chief deputy director of the Department of Consumer
Affairs.
Ray, 45, succeeds Frank Reynolds of Sacramento in the $30,276 post.
Since last July he has been the department's deputy director.
A veteran of 17 years in state government, Ray spent 16 years in
the Department of Finance, rising to the position of principal program
budget analyst.
He is a graduate of McClatchy High School and California State
University at Sacramento, having earned a bachelor's degree in business
administration from the university in 1951.
Nationally recognized for his comellia-growing activities, Ray now
has 250 of the plants at his Sacramento home. He has been on the
Camellia Festival Board and is a past president of the Camellia Society.
A winter recreation enthusiast, Ray supports the U.S. Ski
Association and the Olympic ski team.
A Republican, he is married, has three children and will serve at
the pleasure of the department director, Patricia Gayman.
Miss Gayman has appointed Tim Comstock as the department's new
deputy director, replacing Ray.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR R ALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
mediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-10-74
#291
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed the following bill:
AB 475 - Brown
Disallows certain personal income tax or bank and
Chapter 238
corporation tax deductions to owners of substandard
rental housing. The bill requires local regulatory
agencies to notify the taxpayers, provide for appeal,
and notify the Franchise Tax Board of the taxpayer's
noncompliance. It is operative for income and
taxable years 1975 through 1978. The bill also
appropriates $53,200 for local mandated costs.
Governor Reagan also vetoed the following bill today:
AB 819 - Kapiloff Provides that cities and counties shall not require
or request a safety employee to work overtime, other
than emergency overtime, at a rate of pay less than
1½ the normal pay scale or paid time off at the rate
of 1½ hours for every hour of overtime unless there
exists an overtime policy negotiated between and
agreed upon by the local agency and the employees
through their official employees' association.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am sponsoring SB 2133 by Senator Collier which
will strengthen present local government employer-
employee relations. It would be improper to
statutorily impose additional employee benefits at
this time. Employee organizations now have the
opportunity to meet and confer with their public
employers, and this process will be strengthened
under the Collier bill.
"AB 819 would mandate a substantial additional
financial burden on local government which they could
not recover from the State because of the SB 90
disclaimer contained in the bill. As such, many
local agencies would be required to seek higher
local taxes or they would have to reduce the level
of services which their safety employees now provide.
Neither of these alternatives is in the taxpayers'
best interests.
"Accordingly, I am returning this bill unsigned."
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-10-74
#292
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
May 13, 1974
through
May 19, 1974
Monday, May 13
No public appointments scheduled
Tuesday, May 14
10:00 a.m.
NEWS CONFERENCE
2:00 p.m.
YPTV at Loretto Catholic All-Girl High
School, 2360 El Camino, Sacramento.
5:30 p.m.
Oakland Raiders Reception, Senator Hotel,
Empire Room, Sacramento.
Wednesday, May 15
2:30 p.m.
Swearing-in of Youth Commission,
Governor's Cabinet Room.
6:00 p.m.
San Luis Obispo BBQ, Cosmopolitan Hotel,
Sacramento.
Thursday, May 16
No public appointments scheduled
Friday, May 17
No public appointments scheduled
Saturday, May 18
No appointments scheduled
Sunday, May 19
4:00 p.m.
Boys Republic BBQ, Highway 71 and Edison
Avenue, San Bernardino County (Governor and
Mrs. Reagan to participate).
Note: Boys Republic will present its award of the Order
of Della Robbia to Mrs. Reagan during 5:30 to 6:30
p.m. presentations. Los Angeles Police Chief Ed
Davis was the last recipient of the award several
years ago. Boys Republic isa 67-year-old community
for disadvantaged boys. which makes and sells Della
Robbia Christmas wreaths.)
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
Sacramento, Califor a 95814
MEM TO THE PRESS
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-13-74
CORRECTION
RELEASE #292
The last recipient of the Order of Della Robbia award by Boys
Republic was the late Los Angeles police chief William Parker, not the
present Los Angeles police chief Ed Davis.
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McKelvey
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Pr 3 Secretary
916-445-4571
5-13-74
#293
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed executives of a San Francisco
architectural firm and a Los Angeles manufacturer to the California
Council on Product Design and Marketing.
The two men will receive their necessary expenses and serve at the
governor's pleasure.
Appointed were John Fisher-Smith, associate partner of Skidmore,
Owings and Merrill of San Francisco, and Arnold Wolf, president of
James B. Lansing Sound, Inc., Los Angeles.
They replace Wayne S. Hertzka of Kentfield, who died, and
Sylvan Heumann of Hillsborough, whose term expired.
Fisher-Smith, a 47-year-old Democrat, has written several position
papers on San Francisco and Bay area conservation and development, as
well as papers on planning and urban design. He joined Skidmore, Owings
and Merrill in 1956, became a participating associate six years later
and was elected an associate partner in 1971.
A graduate in architecture from the University of California,
Fisher-Smith has been involved in numerous projects including the United
Air Lines Jet Facilities at San Francisco International Airport and the
John Hancock and Crown Zellerbach buildings in San Francisco.
Wolf, also 47 and also a Democrat, is a former co-chairman of the
council's advisory committee. He has since 1970 been president of
Lansing Sound, which manufactures loudspeaker systems, enclosures and
commercial electronics. For 13 years previously he owned his own
industrial design consulting firm.
A UC Berkeley graduate, he has been vice president/western region
of the Industrial Designers Society of America.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Pre Secretary
916-445-4571
5-14-74
#294
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed six members and appointed
a seventh member to the California Apprenticeship Council.
The six reappointees received terms expiring January 15, 1976. The
seventh appointee, Mrs. Ruth F. Drossel of San Francisco, will fill the
unexpired term ending next January 15 of resigned member John G. Lozano
of Pico Rivera. Members are paid $25 a day.
Reappointed by the governor were:
Richard F. Martin, 46, staff negotiator for the California Metal
Trades Association, South San Francisco. He formerly was engaged in
industrial relations activities with overseas affiliates of the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey. His undergraduate years were spent at Seton
Hall University and he did graduate study at Cornell University.
S. R. (Jack) McCann, 47, business manager of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 302, Pleasant Hill. He also has
served as manager of the Local's Joint Apprenticeship and Training
Committee. He was educated in electrical engineering and electronics and
is a graduate of his local's inside vireman apprenticeship program.
Bernard S. Miles, 56, business representative of the International
Association of Machinists Lodge 68, Burlingame. He was chairman of the
council during the 1966-67 term following his 1964 appointment.
Gordon R, Morrison, 63, a Long Beach labor consultant currently
involved in negotiations with the Southern California building trades for
a new contract for Harbor Precast Company. He also presently is
representing the Southern California Associated General Contractors both
as chairman of the Southern California Cement Mason Joint Apprenticeship
Trust and as trustee of the Laborers Joint Training and Retraining Trust.
He attended Dague Business College in Wichita, Kansas.
Lowell "Wayne" Turner, 48, administrator of the apprenticeship
program for the Convair Aerospace Division of General Dynamics, San Diego.
He also is director of the affirmative action program and education
counseling at Convair. He joined the firm after U.S. Navy service in
World War II and proceeded to work his way up from apprentice aircraft
electrician. He holds a bachelor of technology degree in safety
engineering from Texas State Technical Institute.
Peter Verkerke, Jr., 43, business manager of the Glaziers and
Glassworkers Local 636, Los Angeles. He was instrumental in helping
obtain the first textbooks made up for statewide distribution to glaziers
and glassworkers. He was a business representative for the local for six
years prior to becoming its business manager in 1971.
Mrs. Drossel has been coordinator of the San Francisco Hotel-
Restaurant Labor Management Education Fund for the past two years. The
previous two years she was responsible for training projects for Teamsters
Local 856, Hotel Employees Association. She holds a bachelor's degree in
liberal arts from the University of California at Berkeley and has earned
supervisor's and adult credentials from San Francisco Community College
District.
Martin and Morrison are Republicans. The others, including
Mrs. Drossel, are Democrats.
Martin, McCann, Morrison and Verkerke have served on the council
since August 1972. Miles has been on the council since 1964 and Turner
was appointed last October to fill an unexpired term.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-15-74
#295
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 286 - Garcia
Requires that a notary public when advertising that
Chapter 245
he is a notario publico post a specified notice in
English and Spanish relating to legal advice and the
fees he may charge. The bill also requires the
Secretary of State to suspend the commission of a
notary public who fails to post such notice and
provides that he shall revoke the commission on the
third offense.
AB 1211 - Boatwright Revises the circumstances when a child can be
Chapter 246
adopted without parental consent. It revises
provisions with respect to proceedings relating to
declaration of freedom from parental custody and
control as to appointment of counsel to represent
parents or minor when they are unable to afford counsel,
The bill also provides that the citation directing a
person having custody or control of a minor, to appear
with the minor in a proceeding for declaration of
freedom from parental custody and control shall be
issued only on order of court, after necessity is
shown, if the minor is under the age of 12.
AB 2498 - Montoya
Makes a clarifying amendment to a Civil Code provision
Chapter 247
relating to the filing of small claims actions.
AB 2863 - Knox
Requires the California Highway Commission to program
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for the improvement to freeway standards of Route 17
from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge to Route 80. The
Department of Transportation is required to proceed
with all necessary steps so that initial phases of the
project may be advertised for bids during the 1977-78
fiscal year.
AB
2870 -Boatwright Amends the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
Chapter 249
to provide for the recalculation of retirement and
death allowance granted in any county prior to the
effective date of the provisions authorizing the use
of a single year's highest salary for determining
final retirement compensation. The change made by
the bill is not operative until adopted by the
affected board of supervisors.
AB 2908 - z'berg
Adds the guardian or conservator of the person or
Chapter 250
estate of an adult person to the class of persons who
may authorize release of medical records by certain
medical professionals or hospital to an attorney.
AB 2971 - Duffy
Revises requirements for obtaining a physician and
Chapter 251
surgeon certificate for a United States Citizen who
completes specified requirements in a medical school
in a foreign country. The bill also authorizes the
State Scholarship and Loan Commission, from funds
appropriated by the legislature, to make grants of up
to $10,000 to medical schools for each United States
citizen enrolled in a program of supervised clinical
training.
AB 3029 - Kapiloff
Requires an acknowledgment of satisfaction of judgment
Chapter 252
to show the full name of the judgment debtor being
released and to identify the judgment debtor as such.
AB 3157 - Thurman
Requires the Office of Aging to provide appropriate
Chapter 239
flu vaccines, at minimal cost, at accessible locations,
to all persons 65 years or older through local
governmental or private nonprofit agencies. It
appropriates $420,000 to the Office on Aging for
expenditure without regard to fiscal year for purchase
of flu vaccine for carrying out the act.
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SB 1408 - Holmdahl
rovides that members of the Committee on Executive
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Salaries shall be appointed for one-year period,
rather than be appointed biennially beginning
January 30, 1970, for a period of one year.
SB 1583 - Berryhill Establishes alternative criteria for qualification as
Chapter 241
a "newspaper of general circulation" for purposes of
the law relating to publication of official advertising
SB 1607 - Biddle
Revises the amounts of compensation which may be
Chapter 242
received by directors of the Crestline-Lake Arrowhead
Water Agency.
SB 1608 - Biddle
Provides that promissory notes issued by Crestline-
Chapter 243
Lake Arrowhead Water Agency shall be payable from
revenues and taxes derived pursuant to any maximum
property tax rate procedure. The bill raises the
maximum interest rate on such notes from 6 percent to
7 percent and extends the maximum maturity period
from three to five years.
SB 1903 - Alquist
Redefines the term "hospital building" for purposes
Chapter 244
of statutory provisions requiring seismic structural
safety of hospitals. Such definition permits the
exclusion of facilities for mentally impaired or
incompetent persons which are to be licensed as
community care facilities, and buildings which are
not physically ttached to a health facility and in
which only outpakient services are provided.
Governor Reagan also announced that he has vetoed the following
bill:
AB 570 - Alatorre
Prohibits a notary public from publicizing himself
as a "notario publico" or any other term thich might
suggest to a person speaking a foreign language that
the notary is an attorney.
REASON FOR VETO:
"AB 570 is in direct conflict with AB 286, which is
also before me. AB 286 requires that a notary public
when advertising in Spanish that he is a notario
publico post a notice in both English and Spanish
that a notary public who is not an active member of
the State Bar of California cannot give legal advice,
and the fees set by statute which a notary may charge.
"I have no objections to AB 570. However, I believe
that AB 286 may provide a more effective means of
eliminating the deceptive and fraudulent practices
of some notaries who serve the Spanish-speaking
residents of this state.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califorr
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-15-74
#296
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that California has the
potential to increase its hydroelectric energy output by nearly 30
percent within the next 15 years if prompt action is taken by private
and public utilities and governmental agencies.
The governor cited an inventory of existing and potential water-
driver power projects throughout the state which was released today by
the California Department of Water Resources, (Report attached)
The report concludes that if potential projects identified are
built, they could produce over nine billion kilowatthours of smog-free
electricity. This would result in an annual equivalent saving of
15 million barrels of oil.
He emphasized the increase is possible without including any
projects in areas where development is restricted by existing statutes
providing protection to state and federal wild and scenic rivers
and national parks.
The governor pointed out that any specific proposal for
development would require further detailed study by the utilities or
governmental agencies involved, including a full evaluation of
environmental factors, cost, and financing.
"As part of the 30-point program outlined in my State-of-the-
State Address last January, I discussed many ways to meet the energy
problems facing us today, including hydroelectric power," the governor
said.
"At that time, I indicated that the Department of Water Resources
was exploring ways to expand this source of smog-free electricity. This
report is a result of DWR's investigation. Water Resources Director
John R. Teerink and his staff are to be congratulated for this fine
effort.
"It represents a physical inventory of proposals for
hydroelectric development which have been studied before, at varying
levels of intensity, by federal, state or local government agencies. or
by private and public utilities.
"While the projects identified are not proposals for immediate
development, they do appear to have potential that warrants reevaluation
because of the energy shortage.
"One of the chief values of this report is the potential for
early benefits," the governor concluded.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEM TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-15-74
#297
Governor Reagan will visit a section of the coast near Newport
Beach Monday, May 20, on behalf of the Committee for Proposition 1, the
Recreational Lands Bond Act. The governor will arrive at the site at
9:30 a.m. The site is located on the coastal bluffs approximately
one mile southeast of the intersection of Jamboree Road and Pacific Coast
Highway. Section of the coast to be visited is included in the 1,600
acres that will be purchased by the state if Proposition 1 is approved
by the voters at the June 4 primary election. Press coverage, of
course, is invited.
Following his visit to the beach, the governor will tour the
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station from 11 a.m. to 12 noon.
Newsmen wishing to accompany the governor on the tour of San Onofre
must have security clearance under regulations of the Atomic Energy
Commission. Security clearances can be obtained by calling Ron
Ketchum (213-572-1984) or Stan Cann (213-572-2241) no later than
Thursday, May 16. Ketchum and Cann are plant officials. Press
coverage is invited, but security clearances are required before
newsmen--or anyone else--may enter the plant.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californi 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-16-74
#298
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 1350 - Powers
Changes the number, positions, and salary ranges of
Chapter 256
various court attaches of the Sacramento Municipal
Court District.
AB 2769 - Dixon
Permits an attendance supervisor, peace officer, or
Chapter 257
school administrator to arrest or assume temporary
custody of a truant minor student and report the
matter to school authorities and the minor's parents
or guardian.
AB 2846 - Lanterman
Validates organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings,
Chapter 258
and bonds of counties, cities, and specified districts
agencies and entities. First validating Act of 1974.
SB 1488 - Collier
Provides that property, except land subject to a
Chapter 253
wildlife habitat contract, shall be assessed as open-
space lands for the 1974-75 fiscal year if such
property satisfies the requirements therefor by May
15, 1974, rather than March 1, 1974. The bill also
provides that commencing with assessments for the
1975-76 fiscal year, no land shall be valued as open-
space land unless an instrument is recorded on or
before the lien date for the fiscal year to which the
valuation would apply, and the land was included in
a submitted proposal to establish an agricultural
preserve or the matter of accepting an open-space
easement or scenic restriction was referred to the
planning commission or department on or before
December 15 preceding such lien date.
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SB 1580 - Berryhill
Provides that county superintendents of schools
Chapter 254
operate under the direction of county boards of
education relative to the requirement that county
superintendents of schools establish and maintain
special programs for certain physically handicapped
pupils and mentally retarded pupils.
SB 1658 - Collier
Authorizes an emergency vehicle used by the California
Chapter 255
Highway Patrol or any sheriff's or municipal police
department used in the performance of its duties to
display a blue warning light, as approved by the
Department of California Highway Patrol.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE. Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-16-74
#299
Governor Ronald Reagan today sent the following message to
President Nixon pertaining to federal legislation, HR 7824, authored
by Rep. Albert Quie, R-Minn., the legal services corporation bill:
"Dear Mr. President:
"I know that you are pledged to veto any legal services bill
that goes beyond the original house proposal. I strongly believe the
bill now out of conference and about to be voted on should be vetoed.
This bill would perpetuate and extend drastic changes in the manner by
which legal services have traditionally been provided in this country,
providing federal aid to selected special interest groups which favor
such things as unrestricted abortion, forced busing and increased
welfare demands.
"America is not well served by authorizing government-paid
lawyers to insert themselves between parents and children, school
administrators and students, and prison officials and inmates.
Providing hard-earned and scarce tax dollars to lawyers so that,
despite apparent safeguards, they can lobby the Congress and state
legislatures basically without limitation and with the prestigious
indicia of your formal approval is impossible to understand; that goes
against all current attempts at political reform.
"Signing this bill will mean that states will be subject to
virtually unlimited harassment by tax-subsidized groups allied with or
controlled by groups such as the ACLU, the National Lawyers Guild and
the National Welfare Rights Organization. This corporation, despite
being subject to review of authorizations and appropriations, would
nonetheless be established as a permanent object for subsidy by the
American people, yet essentially unaccountable to them.
"I would hope that the house would refuse passage of HR 7824;
if the bill gets to your desk, I would hope that you will veto it.
I and many others are prepared to pledge our support for a realistic
plan which has the necessary safeguards written into it. The current
Legal Services Authority does not expire until June 30, 1975, which
leaves plenty of time for the development of an acceptable alternative.
"Sincerely, Ronald Reagan, Governor of California."
Copies of the telegram were also sent to California's
congressional delegation and a number of key congressmen.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR
NALD REAGAN
MEM
TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-17-74
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has taken the
following positions on the statewide ballot measures to be
decided by the voters June 4, 1974:
Proposition 1
Support
Proposition 2
Support
Proposition 3
Support
Proposition 4
Support
Proposition 5
Support
Proposition 6
Support
Proposition 7
Support
Proposition 8
Support
Proposition 9
Oppose
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON
D
REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-20-74
#300
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement
in support of Proposition 1, the $250 million Parks and Recreation
Bond Issue, during an appearance in Orange County near Newport Beach.
The governor toured beach and coastal property that would be
purchased by the state for park and recreational development if the
June 4 ballot issue is approved by the voters:
"The quality of life in California is the envy of people the
world over, and one of the prime reasons for this is the state's
great system of parks and beaches.
"We are here today to lend our support to Proposition One, the
$250 million Beaches and Parks bond issue to be decided by the voters
June 4. The bond issue deserves the support of every Californian and
some of the reasons are right here before us.
"Proposition One, if it is approved by the voters, will permit
the State of California to acquire new park sites and beaches for the
enjoyment of everyone. Two of the park sites and 3½ miles of the
beautiful beaches that would be purchased are right here. They are
Los Trancos and Moro Canyons and this magnificent beach.
"The two park sites are natural canyons containing a great
variety of flora and fauna. They will be valuable additions to the
state park system and will provide a wonderful playground for the
people of California. Moro Canyon opens directly onto the beach which
I think will become one of the state's prime swimming areas.
"The beach stretches from Corona del Mar to Laguna Beach, and
includes 43 acres of sand and two acres of rock and tide pools.
"The canyons and beaches are part of the 10,000 acre undeveloped
coastal zone owned by the Irvine Company here in Orange County. If
Proposition One is approved, the state proposes to purchase the two
park sites and the beach for one-half of the appraised value. At last
appraisal, the cost to the state would be $7.6 million. That, my
friends, would be a great bargain for the people of California now and
for future generations to come.
"I urge all Californians to support Proposition One. The
reasons are obvious."
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-17-74
#301
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed the nine members of a new
California State Fair Advisory Commission established by the legislature
(SB 324) last year.
The commission is within the Department of Parks and Recreation's
Division of Exposition and State Fair. In the same legislation, the
California State Exposition and Fair Executive Committee was abolished.
Members' terms are chosen by lot, three receiving two-year terms,
three for three years and three for four years. They receive their
necessary expenses.
Appointees include:
Conrad J. Ferreira, 52, a Cottonwood veterinarian and member of the
Anderson Fair Board. He also is a lecturer and member of the Chico State
Agricultural Advisory Board. He formerly served on the executive
committee of the California State Exposition and Fair and was a chairman
of the Horse Racing Committee. Ferreira is a member of the advisory board
of the California Agriculture Teachers Association and is in the
California Racing Hall of Fame.
Wing K. Fat, 47, vice president of Frank Fat's Inc., of Sacramento.
He is involved in the American Legion, VFW and California Veterans Board.
He is a graduate of Sacramento City College and California State University
at Sacramento. He served in the U.S. Air Force for three years.
Samuel S. Sewall, 50, executive secretary of the Redlands Chamber of
Commerce and a former city councilman. For 17 years he was a securities
investment broker with Payne Webber Jackson and Curtis. He has been a
school district trustee and president of United Crusade and the Boys Club
of Redlands.
Harry T. Kubo, 51, president of the Nisei Farmers League for three
terms and a farmer in Parlier for the past 27 years. A native of
Sacramento, his parents farmed in the Loomis area for 19 years. He was
educated at Placer Union High School and Placer Junior College in Auburn.
He is a director of the Parlier Buddhist Church, has been a Parlier
Unified School District board member for three years and belongs to the
Fresno County Farm Bureau and Valley Coordinating Committee.
Joseph Russ IV, 37, a Ferndale sheep and cattle rancher with Bunker
Hill Ranch. Like Ferreira, he is a former state Exposition and Fair
Executive Committee member and chairman of the Horse Racing Committee. He
is on the board of the California State Chamber of Commerce, a director of
the California Farm Bureau Federation and a past president of California
Future Farms Association. He is a graduate of the University of
California at Berkeley.
#301
John H. Skinner, 59, vice president and manager of a Bank of America
branch in Sacramento. He began his banking career in 1934 as a messenger
and has been an officer since 1942. He has been head of Sacramento's
main Bank of America office since 1964. Born in Alameda, he graduated
from high school there, then attended Washington State University and the
graduate school of banking at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New
Jersey. He is on the California State Chamber's regional executive
committee and is chairman of the host committee, among his many civic
activities.
Alex J. Luscutoff, 59, secretary-treasurer of Cannery Workers and
Warehousemen Local 857 in Woodland. Members of the local, a Teamsters
affiliate, are food-processing workers employed by a number of firms in
Sacramento, Yolo and Solano counties. Besides his local union leadership,
he is recording secretary of Teamster California State Council of Cannery
and Food Processing Unions and vice president of the Joint Council of
Teamsters No. 38, covering the Sacramento and San Josquin valleys. He
raises beef on a 20-acre ranch in Davis.
Gerald J. Nordland, 46, director of the Frederick S. Wight Art
Galleries at UCLA and a former director of the San Francisco Museum of
Art. A graduate of the University of Southern California law school, he
has had a diversified career in the arts including directorship of the
Washington (D.C.) Gallery of Modern Art, associate editor of Artforum
Magazine, art critic of the old Los Angeles Mirror and Frontier Magazine,
and dean of the Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles. He also is a former
personnel officer for the Los Angeles County Public Library.
Morgan Evans, 63, director of landscape architecture at WED
Enterprises, the Walt Disney Studios design headquarters, in Glendale.
He and his brother, Jack, were commissioned in 1954 to provide complete
landscape services for the planned Disneyland Park in Anaheim. They were
then in partnership, specializing in rare plants and custom landscaping.
Fifteen years ago he and Joseph Linesch and Arnold Dutton formed a
landscape architectural firm, but he closed his office in 1967 to join the
Disney staff and devote full time to landscape development of Walt Disney
World in Florida. He served as a landscape consultant to the California
Division of Highways and was on the board of governors of the State
Arboretum in Los Angeles. He currently is president of the American
Institute of Landscape Architects.
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Political Party Affiliations
Ferreira
Republican
Skinner
Republican
Fat
Republican
Luscutoff
Democrat
Sewall
Republican
Nordland
Democrat
Kubo
Democrat
Evans
Not registered
Russ
Republican
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN
MEMO T
THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-17-74
#302
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
May 20, 1974
through
May 27, 1974
Monday, May 20
9:30 a.m.
Irvine Property visit, near Newport Beach.
NOTE:
Governor Reagan will appear at site of beach
and other property that will be purchased by
the state if Proposition 1 is approved by the
voters. The beach and property would become
part of the state's park system.
11:00 a.m.
Tour and visit of the San Onofre Nuclear
Generating Station.
Tuesday, May 21
No public appointments
Wednesday, May 22
11:15 a.m.
International Trade Conference, Sacramento
Inn, RR remarks.
Noon
Northern California Republican Women's Clubs
Luncheon, El Rancho. RR remarks and Q & A.
4:00 p.m.
Visit Martime Academy, Vallejo
8:45 p.m.
KBHK-TV-
"Live from the City", San Francisco.
NOTE:
Mrs. Reagan will appear with the governor.
Thursday, May 23
11:00 a.m.
Depart San Francisco Pier 63½ for Angel
Island Tour, San Francisco Bay.
NOTE: Governor Reagan's appearance at Angel Island
is in support of Proposition 1, the Parks and
Recreation Bond Issue.
Evening
Tom May Awards Dinner, Beverly Hilton, Los
Angeles
NOTE: Governor Reagan will receive the Tom May Award
given annually by the National Jewish Hospital
and Research Center for his distinguished service
to the State of California and his dedicated
service in behalf of the National Jewish Hospital,
Friday, May 24
No public appointments
Saturday, May 25
10:30 a.m.
Mule Day Parade, Bishop, California
NOTE: Governor Reagan will be the parade Marshal
Sunday, May 26
No public appointments
Monday, May 27
MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY
No public appointments scheduled
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
Sacramento, California 95814
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-21-74
Governor Ronald Reagan will sign two bills this afternoon for
which press coverage is invited.
The first signing, at 3:30 p.m., will be SB 420, which provides
$2 million for the establishment of bike and riding trails in California
and youth hostels for overnight accommodations. Senator Randolph
Collier (Democrat - Yreka), the bill's author, and Frank Walton,
California Business and Transportation Agency Secretary, will be in
attendance.
The second signing, at 4 p.m., will be AB 1575, which establishes a
commission of five with responsibilities for siting thermal power
plants, recommending energy conservation measures, forecasting energy
supply and demand and establishing standards for energy efficiency for
appliances. Assemblyman Charles Warren (Democrat - Los Angeles),
Senator Alfred Alquist (Democrat - San Jose) and other interested
persons will be present.
Both signingswill be in the Cabinet room.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR
NALD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, Californa 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-21-74
#303
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has accepted with regret
the resignation of Herbert R. Temple, Jr., director of the state Office
of Emergency Services, effective June 15.
"Herb is recognized as an aggressive and innovative leader in
emergency preparedness not only in California, but throughout the nation, "
the governor said. "He has distinguished himself as a trend setter in
his field and will be missed in California."
Holder of the rank of colonel in the California National Guard and
commander of the 3rd Brigade, 40th Infantry Division, headquartered in
San Jose, Temple is leaving state government to attend the U.S. Army War
College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He was selected by the
Secretary of the Army and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau for
attendance at the prestigious institution.
Temple first joined the Reagan administration in 1968 as military
assistant to the governor. In 1971 he was appointed to his present
position.
He is on leave as vice president and part owner of the V.B. Morgan
Trucking Company of Long Beach.
As director of OES, he has been responsible for emergency planning
and coordination of state and federal resources to assist California
during emergency and disaster situations.
Currently, he is vice chairman of the governor's Earthquake Council
and a member of the governor's Emergency Planning Council, the Public
Safety Planning Council and the Energy Planning Council.
No successor has been named.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR
NALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-21-74
#304
A statewide, toll-free, around-the-clock telephone alert system
has been placed in operation to speed notification of state agencies in
event of oil spills, Governor Ronald Reagan announced today.
Using the toll-free number-- (800) 852-7550--anyone observing an
oil spill anywhere in California can notify the State Office of
Emergency Services in Sacramento.
Announcement of the new emergency notification system was coupled
with the governor's approval of a revised State Oil Spill Contingency
Plan which assigns responsibilities and outlines measures state agencies
will take to protect public health, wildlife and the environment in
event of an oil spill.
The plan also dictates state response to environmental contamina-
tion from substances other than oil.
"The new telephone alert system will enable the state to respond
promptly to oil spills, and spills cf other hazardous materials," the
governor said. "The contingency plan will coordinate the response of
state agencies to ensure the most efficient use of their capabilities."
After receiving notice of a spill, the Office of Emergency
Services will notify the Department of Fish and Game, which has the
principal responsibility under the contingency plan for initial
response and evaluation of oil spill situations.
Other state agencies on the state's Interagency Oil Spill
Committee which will be notified include the Attorney General's
Office, Division of Forestry, Highway Patrol, Department of Public
Health, Department of Transportation, Department of Parks and
Recreation, Department of Water Resources, Division of Oil and Gas,
Regional Water Quality Control Boards and the State Lands Commission.
The toll-free oil spill notification number should not be used
to report other kinds of emergencies. Other emergencies should be
reported directly to appropriate state agencies or local authorities.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-21-74
#305
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 2766 - Mobley
Updates and revises the Bee Registration Law. It
Chapter 261
eliminates the requirement for movement notice for
bees except in connection with notification for
pesticide use or bee diseases. The bill requires
complete inspection if American Foulbrood Disease is
found. It also eliminates registered brand number
for identification number and eliminates requirement
for the issuance of apiary identification number.
The bill also increases the fee for the issuance of
a serial number brand for apiary equipment from $2
to $25.
AB 2963 - Badham
Revises the provisions of the Orange County Transit
Chapter 262
District Act of 1965 relating to composition and
appointment of the board of directors.
AB 2996 - Mobley
Extends the deadline for filing required property
Chapter 263
tax reports to the State Controller by local agencies
from October 15 to May 15 for the 1973-74 fiscal year
AB 3555 - Knox
Makes the Tax Preparers Act operative immediately
Chapter 264
rather than or ine 1, 1974. The bill makes it
unlawful as of anuary 1, 1975, rather than July 1,
1974, for any person not registered under the Tax
Preparers Act to be a tax preparer.
SB 437 - Coombs
Makes clarifying amendments to legislation enacted
Chapter 259
in 1973 relating to an exemption from the one percent
increase in the state sales and use tax rate for
receipts from the sale, use or other consumption of
materials, fixtures and supplies obligated under a
fixed price engineering or building construction
contract entered into prior to the effective date
of such legislation.
SB 1661 - Gregorio
Provides that governing boards of any school district
Chapter 260
having jurisdiction over any elementary, intermediate
or junior high school may provide time and facilities
to any local law enforcement agency having
jurisdiction over the schools of the district for
bicycle safety instruction.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR F ALD REAGAN
RELEAS.
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-21-74
#306
A Fullerton chiropractor today was named by Governor Ronald Reagan
to the state Board of Chiropractic Examiners in the Department of
Consumer Affairs.
The term of Robert C. Reed, D.C., 43, will expire February 10, 1978
and he will receive per diem for service on the board. He replaces
Rudy A. Fahlbusch, D.C., of Pacific Beach, whose term expired.
A native of Los Angeles, Reed graduated from Washington High School
and attended the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic in Glendale before
graduating from the Hollywood College School of Chriopractic in 1957.
He was an instructor in the latter school's department of clinical and
laboratory diagnosis for one year.
Reed served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean Conflict,
including two years overseas.
He is a director of the Pomona Valley board of the Los Angeles
Catholic Archdiocese Welfare Bureau, belongs to the United Community
Clubs of the Walnut Valley School District and is the team doctor for
Walnut High School football teams. He is active in the American
Chiropractic Association and is on its council on sports injuries.
Reed is a Republican. He is married and has five children.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO. .LD REAGAN
RELEASE. Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-21-74
#307
Governor Ronald Reagan today made the following statement at the
signing of AB 1575:
"In signing the Warren-Alquist State Energy Conservation and
Development Act we are accomplishing several objectives. We are
finally providing the publicly and privately owned utilities the long
needed certainty in planning, by assuring the availability of feasible
and environmentally acceptable sites for power plants. At the same
time, the immediate future of power plant siting is assured by the
'grandfathering' of those facilities for which planning has gone
substantially forward.
"Additionally, the new organization will coordinate and encourage
research and development in the energy field, so that new and more
bountiful sources can be explored to benefit California. I expect
this new endeavor will proceed under the watchful eye of both the
legislative and executive branches of government.
"Many who have initiated some of the legislative activity in
this area have felt a unique funding source was necessary and have
provided one in the bill. I personally feel the price tag on this
bill is too high. The utility surcharge is a tax increase pure and
simple, and is not necessary for our primary objectives with the bill.
However, others differ at this point, and we have reached a compromise
on this and the other points of difference in the bill.
"All things considered, the legislature has finally provided the
power plant siting mechanism I have sought for several years. The
process on such major issues is not perfect, and we have in this bill
a product of compromise which meets objectives of both the legislature
and my own administration."
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-22-74
#308
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 892 - Seeley
Generally requires recordation of discharge of
Chapter 267
mortgage by a mortgagee upon his execution of a
certificate of discharge. The bill makes similar
provision for recordation of full conveyance by a
trustee with respect to deed of trust upon his
execution of full reconveyance. The bill provides
for a $300 penalty for the mortgagee's or trustee's
failure to comply with such requirements. The
changes made by the bill become effective on January
1, 1975.
AB 900 - Duffy
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to
Chapter 268
accept a gift of title to the Chinese Taoist Temple
in Hanford, Kings County, for the state park system
in the event such gift of title is offered to the
department. The bill requires the department,
before such title is offered and accepted, to enter
into an agreement with either a local governmental
entity or with a nonprofit organization for the
operation of the temple. The agreement is to provide
that all operating and maintenance costs associated
with the temple shall be at no cost to the state.
The bill also appropriates $75,000 from the Bagley
Conservation Fund for the reconstruction of the Old
Eagel Theater in Old Sacramento State Historic Park.
AB 1575 - Warren
Enacts the Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources
Chapter 276
Conservation and Development Act.
AB 2038 - Knox
Provides that any person who obliterates or alters
Chapter 261
any identification mark on any firearm is subject to
imprisonment from one to five years. Current law
makes it a crime for any person to alter identifying
marks on pistols and revolvers, and makes such
activity a misdemeanor.
AB 2534 - Ralph
Delineates circumstances in which a licensee
Chapter 270
authorized to sell beer to a retailer may accept
return of the beer from the retailer. The changes
made by the bill are effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2715 - MacGillivray
Includes towing service operators in the Vehicle
Chapter 271
Code provisions relating to reports of stored
vehicles. The bill requires a written record of every
vehicle stored for more than 12 hours. It requires
that such records be kept for one year from the
commencement of storage. The changes made by the
bill become effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2720 - Lancaster Revises the amount which school districts operating
Chapter 272
a joint powers regional occupational center or program
must contribute per unit of average daily attendance.
The changes made by the bill take effect immediately.
AB 2909 - z'berg
Allows a court in its discretion to award attorneys
Chapter 273
fees to an attorney who interpleads in an action on
his own behalf and performs his own legal services.
AB 2943-MacGillivray Includes, as additional grounds for automatic
Chapter 274
cancellation of a vehicle dealer's license and
special plates, his failure to maintain an adequate
bond and the suspension or cancellation of his
corporate charter. The changes made by the bill
become effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2974 - Foran
Permits a vehicle to be driven in a designated two-
Chapter 275
way left-turn lane when preparing for or making a
U-turn when otherwise permitted by law. The changes
made by the bill become effective on January 1, 1975.
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#308
SB 420 - Collier
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to
Chapter 265
provide hostel facilities in state park system units,
and to acquire lands for, develop, and maintain
recreational trails to and between units. The bill
requires the department to prepare and submit to the
legislature not later than February 1, 1975, a
preliminary plan for the development of hostel
facilities and the establishment of recreational
trails. The bill also appropriates $2,150,000 from
the Abandoned Vehicle Trust Fund to the Department of
Parks and Recreation for such purposes. It requires
that an amount equal to that expended for hostel
facilities be repaid to the Abandoned Vehicle Trust
Fund from hostel facilities use fees.
SB 1683 - Deukmejian Augments the Budget Act of 1973 by appropriating
Chapter 266
$4,884,507 for support of the Department of
Corrections and $2,910,520 for support of the
Department of Youth Authority.
Governor Reagan also vetoed the following bill:
AB 2558 - Bee
Permits school districts to set aside two days of the
school year for parent-teacher conferences. These
days are counted for purposes of average daily
attendance if a student was in attendance on the day
before and the day after his conference. The bill
further requires school districts to schedule
conferences on evenings or weekends for parents who
cannot attend conferences during regular school hours.
The act becomes inoperative after July 1, 1978.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I am vetoing this bill upon the recommendation of the
Department of Education. While I agree that parent-
teacher conferences are an important part of the
educational process, I share the department's
concern that the loss of up to two days from the
school year authorized by this bill may not be in
the best interest of the needs of the affected
students. I do not believe that the school year
should be reduced except for the most compelling
reasons.
"The legislature should explore feasible alternatiges
to AB 2558 that would equitably serve the interests
of both parents and students without reducing the
school year.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-22-74
#309
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Fresno attorney Robert Z. Mardikian as a Municipal Court Judge of
the Fresno County Judicial District.
Mardikian, 41, fills the vacancy created by the retirement of
Judge George W. Huffman.
In private practice since 1958, Mardikian is a 1954 graduate of
Fresno State College where he was president of the Interfraternity
Council and vice president of the student body.
He received his law degree in 1957 from the University of
California's Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He was
president of his graduating class.
In addition to his affiliation with numerous professional
associations, Mardikian is a member of the Board of Directors of the
Fresno State College Alumni Association, the East Fresno Lions Club,
Armenian Professional Men's Association, and the Board of Trustees of
the Pilgrim Armenian Congregational Church.
Mardikian and his wife Janis have three children. He will
receive an annual salary of $34,605.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE. Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-22-74
#310
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of James E.
Stratten of San Francisco and the reappointment of John Edward Bowe of
Sacramento to four-year terms as members of the California Youth
Authority Board.
The appointments require confirmation by the state Senate.
Stratten, 62, who is chief of the Division of Apprenticeship
Standards in the Department of Industrial Relations, succeeds Rudolph A.
Castro of Yorba Linda. Castro's term has expired. Stratten will
resign his present position.
A Republican, Stratten is a former member of the Youth Authority
Board. He served on the Board two years prior to his appointment in
1971 as chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards.
Stratten is a former president of the San Francisco Board of
Education, and was the first Negro to be appointed to the San Francisco
Grand Jury. Named by Governor Reagan to the Education Commission of the
States in 1967, he twice represented California at White House conferences
on education.
He holds an A.B. degree from Talladega College in Alabama, and a
Master's Degree from Columbia University in New York City.
Bowe, a 51-year-old Republican, has been a member of the Board
since March, 1971. Prior to his appointment on the Board, he served four
years as chief of the Division of Housing and Community Development. He
is a former captain in the United States Air Force.
Youth Authority Board members receive an annual salary of $28,296.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
Sacramento, California 95814
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-23-74
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement in
support of Proposition 1, the $250 million Beaches and Parks Bond issue
on the June 4 ballot, during a visit to Angel Island in San Francisco
Bay:
"California's great system of parks and beaches is one of the prime
reasons people the world over envy the quality of life we can offer in
this state.
"William Penn Mott, Bill Lane and I are here today to lend our
support to Proposition One on the June 4 ballot, the $250 million Beaches
and Parks bond issue to be decided by the voters. The bond issue
deserves the support of every Californian and some of the reasons are
right here before us.
"Proposition One will permit the state of California to acquire new
park sites and beaches for the enj syment of everyone.
Included would be funding for 37 major State Park System projects in
nine Bay area counties. Acquisition of land by the state here on Angel
Island began in the 1950s and has continued. In December of 1962 the
entire island was turned over to the state for park purposes, except for
a seven-acre Coast Guard Station on Point Blunt.
"The West Garrison we are going to visit today is an important part
of this nation's military history. The West Garrison dates back to the
Civil War and was the first area of this island developed for military
purposes. Other military facilities were built around this island until
the 1960s.
"More recreational development is needed on Angel Island. The area
called Alcatraz Gardens is the site proposed for a picnic area. Included
would be tables, utilities and possibly improving some of the trails.
The local citizens group would work closely with the state in planning
these facilities. There is $1 million of 1974 Park Bonds funds earmarked
for Angel Island State Park improvements.
"I urge all Californians to support Proposition One on the June 4
ballot to preserve 1 percent of California's land for these important
uses."
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR NALD REAGAN
RELE. E: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-23-74
#311
Governor Ronald Reagan today visited Angel Island in San Francisco
Bay in support of Proposition 1, the $250 million Beaches and Parks bond
issue on the June 4 ballot. In prepared remarks, the governor said:
"California's great system of parks and beaches is one of the prime
reasons people the world over envy the quality of life we can offer in
this state.
"William Penn Mott, Bill Lane and I are here today to lend our
support to Proposition One on the June 4 ballot, the $250 million Beaches
and Parks bond issue to be decided by the voters. The bond issue
deserves the support of every Californian and some of the reasons are
right here before us.
"Proposition One will permit the State of California to acquire new
park sites and beaches for the enjoyment of everyone.
Included would be funding for 37 major State Park System projects
in nine Bay area counties. Acquisition of land by the state here on
Angel Island began in the 1950s and has continued. In December of 1962
the entire island was turned over to the state for park purposes, except
for a seven-acre Coast Guard Station on Point Blunt.
"The West Garrison we are going to visit today is an important part
of this nation's military history. The West Garrison dates back to the
Civil War and was the first area of this island developed for military
purposes. Other military facilities were built around this island until
the 1960s.
"More recreational development is needed on Angel Island. The area
called Alcatraz Gardens is the site proposed for a picnic area. Included
would be tables, utilities and possibly improving some of the trails.
The local citizens group would work closely with the state in planning
these facilities. There is $1 million of 1974 Park Bonds funds earmarked
for Angel Island State Park improvements.
"I urge all Californians to support Proposition One on the June 4
ballot to preserve 1 percent of California's land for these important
uses. "
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-23-74
#312
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Donald G. Procida, audit supervisor of the Franchise Tax Board, as
administrator of the Tax Preparer Program in the Department of Consumer
Affairs.
The position was created by the legislature (AB 320, Knox) in
1973 to become effective June 1, 1974. However, the legislature
approved an urgency bill (AB 3555, Knox) this year making the statute
effective immediately. The latter bill makes it unlawful as of
January 1, 1975 for any person not registered under the Tax Preparers
Act to prepare a tax return for a fee. Violations are a misdemeanor and
by
punishable/a fine of up to $500 and up to 60 days in jail.
Procida, 46, who lives in Sacramento, has been an audit
supervisor with the Franchise Tax Board since 1955. He holds a B.A.
Degree from Sacramento State College (1951) in business administration
and a B.S. Degree (1954) in accounting from Golden Gate College in
San Francisco.
A Democrat, Procida and his wife have four children. He will
receive an annual salary of $19,332.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO. D REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-23-74
#313
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
William E. Steinmetz, DVM, as a member of the Board of Examiners in
Veterinary Medicine in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Steinmetz, 58, who lives in Sacramento, fills the vacancy
created by the resignation of John H. Woolsey, Jr., DVM, who has
resigned. His term will expire June 1, 1975.
A Republican, Steinmetz is a native of San Francisco. He is
a 1939 graduate of Washington State University with a B.S. Degree and
a doctorate in Veterinary Medicine.
Steinmetz, who is an instructor in animal technology at
Cosumnes River College, is in private practice in Citrus Heights.
He is a member and former president of the California Veterinary
Medical Association and was the organization's "California Veterinarian
of the Year" in 1966. He is also a past president of the Sacramento
Valley Veterinary Medical Association.
Steinmetz and his wife have two adult children.
Board members receive $25 per diem while on official business.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-23-74
#314
A delegation of the Supreme Soviet, the Russian ruling body, will
pay a brief visit to the State Capitol Saturday afternoon, May 25, 1974.
Governor Ronald Reagan will meet the delegation on the west steps
of the Capitol. After brief remarks, he will escort the group on a
tour of the historic building. Special stops on the tour will be made
in the rotunda, both chambers of the legislature and the governor's
cabinet room.
Governor Reagan will present a copy of the pictorial book
"California," by Ray Atkeson and David Muench to Boris N. Ponomarev,
chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Soviet of
Nationalities of the USSR Supreme Soviet.
Each member of the delegation will be presented the book "Visit
the World in California," published by the Division of Tourism
Development, California Department of Commerce, in addition to
California commemorative medals struck for the U.S. bicentennial
celebration in 1976.
Following the events at the Capitol, Governor and Mrs. Reagan
will host the delegation at a reception in their home. The group is
scheduled to return to San Francisco following the reception.
Delegation members are listed on the attached.
MEMO TO THE PRESS:
Members of the press are invited to be present at the west steps
of the Capitol at 3 p.m., Saturday, May 25, when Governor Reagan meets
the Soviet delegation and escorts them to the rotunda and the legisla-
tive chambers. The meeting in the cabinet room and the 4 p.m. reception
at the governor's residence are closed to the press.
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Walthall
The USSR Supreme Soviet Delegation
BORIS N PONOMAREV
Chairman 01 the foreign affairs
commission of the Soviet of Nationalities
of the USSR Supreme Soviet, Secretary
of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, Alternate
Member of the Political Bureau of the
Central Committee of CFSU
GEORGY .ZHUKOV
member of the foreign affairs commission
of the Soviet of Nationalities of the
USSR Supreme Soviet, political observer
of the newspaper "Pravda"
LEONID M-ZAMYATIN
member of the commission for legislative
proposals of the Soviet of Nationalities
of the USSR Supreme Soviet, General
Director of the Telegraph Agency of the
Soviet Union under the Council of
Ministers of the USSR
VASILY M.KAVUN
member of the Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet of the USSR, Chairman of the
executive committee of the Soviet of
Working People's Deputies of Vinniza
region of the Ukranian Soviet Socialist
Republic
ZOYA .PUKHOVA
member of the Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet of the USSR, director of the
"8th March" textile factory in the city
of Ivanovo, the Russian Soviet Federative
Socialist Republic
BORIS I STUKALIN
member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR,
Chairman of the State Committee for the
Affairs of Publishing Houses, Printing
Establishments and the Book Trade under
the USSR Council of Ministers
LEV N .TOLKUNOV
member of the foreign affairs commission
of the Soviet of Nationalities of the
USSR Supreme Soviet, Editor-in-Chief of
the newspaper "Izvestia"
ALEXANDER B CHAKOVSKY
member of the foreign affairs commission
of the Soviet of Nationalities of the
USSR Supreme Soviet, a writer, Editor-in
Chief of the newspaper "Literary Gazette",
Secretary of the Board of the USSR
Writers' Union
Accompanying persons
BORIS A.BORISOV
President of the All-Union Chamber C.
Commerce and Industry of U.S.S.R.
YURY A.ZHILIN
Counsellor of the delegation
ALEXANDER K.GURIANOV
Seniour aide, the foreign relations
division of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of the USSR
(secretary of the delegation)
VADIM SOBAKIN
Member of the USSR Commission for
UNESCO affairs
CLEG M.SOKOLOV
Chief of a section of the USA
Division of the USSR Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
VITALY V.ZHURKIN
Deputy director of the US Studies
Institute of the USSR Academy of
Sciences
DMITRY D .MURAVIEV
Researcher of the Institute of
World Economy and International
Relations of the USSR Academy of
Sciences
NIKOLAI Y GERASKIN
Assistant to the head of the
delegation
OLEG A .KROKHALEV
Interpreter
VICTOR A.KOLYVAGIN
Liaison officer
NIKOLAI A.ARKHIPOV
Physician
VICTOR M.MARKOV
Aide, The Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet of the USSR
SERGEI N VISHNEVSKY
Correspondent of the newspaper
"Pravda"
Accompanying officials of the USSR Embassy
ANATOLY A. GROMYKO
Minister Counsellor of the Embassy
ANATOLY G.MYSHKOV
Counsellor of the Embassy
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON D REAGAN
MEMO TO
E PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-24-74
#315
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
May 27, 1974
through
June 2, 1974
Monday, May 27
HOLIDAY
No appointments scheduled
Tuesday, May 28
No public appointments scheduled
Wednesday, May 29
No public appointments scheduled
Thursday, May 30
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Tour Stanford Home, 800 N Street,
Sacramento
(Note: Governor Reagan will visit the
Stanford Home to promote Proposition 1,
the $250 million parks and recreation
bond issue. Press coverage is invited.)
Noon
CSEA Institute on Government Luncheon,
Woodlake Inn. Remarks.
7:30 p.m.
Completion Ceremonies, Regional Occupa-
tional Program, Memorial Auditorium.
Remarks.
(Note: The Regional Occupational Program
is for on-the-job training of high school
students in Sacramento County and the
districts of Placer Joint Union High,
Roseville Joint Union High and Western
Unified, in Placer County, and the River
Delta Unified School District, which is a
part of Yolo, Solano and Sacramento
counties. Press coverage is invited.
Friday, May 31
p.m.
Boise, Idaho Fundraiser for Congressman
Steve Symms. Speech.
Saturday, June 1
No appointments scheduled
Sunday, June 2
No appointments scheduled
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO1
D
REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-28-74
#316
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of
John B. Weiss of Los Gatos and Harry K. Grafe of Sacramento to the
State Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.
The positions, requiring Senate confirmation, are effective July
1 and pay $31,128 annually.
Weiss, 53, has served on the board since December 1, 1967. His
current term expires July 1. His appointment is to the unexpired term
of Robert W. Sigg of Carmichael ending July 1, 1975. Sigg was appointed
by Governor Reagan to the State Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board
last March 18, but has yet to receive Senate confirmation.
Weiss was educated in his native Pennsylvania and received a
bachelor's degree from New York University in 1943. He received a
law degree from Santa Clara University in 1967. Before joining the
Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board he was labor relations manager of
Lenkurt Electric Company in San Carlos.
Grafe, 46, has been assistant secretary for legal matters for the
State Health and Welfare Agency since July 1, 1972. He has acted as
liaison with the legal staffs of the various departments included in
the agency and with the Attorney General. He was a field referee for
the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board for two months prior to joining
Health and Welfare and was for nearly three years legal advisor to the
director of the then Department of Health Care Services.
Oroville-born, Grafe attended Yuba College and received his law
degree from McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento. His appointment is for
four years beginning July 1 and is for the slot now occupied by Weiss.
Both appointees are Republicans.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROL D REAGAN
RELEASE:
I
ediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-29-74
#317
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 610 - Kapiloff
Makes technical amendments to provisions of the
Chapter 284
Revenue and Taxation Code relating to property
taxation. The changes made by this bill become
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2815 - Berman
Permits revenues from specified taxes levied by
Chapter 285
school districts maintaining children's centers to
be used to purchase or lease-purchase real property
and fixtures, furniture, apparatus, or equipment,
and to make alterations or additions to, children's
center facilities maintained by the district. The
changes made by the bill take effect immediately.
AB 3048 - Thomas
Allows the City of Avalon to establish noise limits
Chapter 286
and speed limits which are different from those
prescribed by law. The changes made by the bill
become effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3169 - Badham
Appropriates $10,026,000 from the General Fund to the
Chapter 287
State Controller for reimbursement of local taxing
authorities in augmentation of Item 84 (homeowners'
property tax relief) of the Budget Act of 1973. The
bill takes effect immediately.
SB
1219
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Carpenter Clarifies existing law by expressly specifying that
Chapter 277
a claimant for unemployment insurance benefits on his
second successive claim cannot use twice the amount
of certain statutory benefits such as workmen's
compensation or disability benefits to increase the
maximum total amount of unemployment insurance
benefits he can draw. The changes made by the bill
become effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1544 - Biddle
Requires the Attorney General to be a party to any
Chapter 278
action brought pursuant to the Uniform Management
of Institutional Funds Act by the governing board
if the institution which seeks release of a
restriction imposed on a gift by a donor who cannot
consent to such release because of death, disability,
unavailability, or impossibility of identification,
rather than merely requiring him to be given notice
and an opportunity to be heard. It eliminates the
provision giving the institution conclusive power to
determine "historic dollar value,' as defined, for
purposes of the Act. The changes made by the bill
become effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1638 - Zenovich
Authorizes the governing board of a necessary small
Chapter 279
community college district to elect to be exempted
from the general nonresident tuition fee requirements
until January 1, 1980, if the district has constructed
and is operating student dormitories financed with
district funds as well as under provisions of the
Community College Revenue Bond Act of 1961. The
bill permits school districts to charge non-residents
a fee equal to the statewide average of the current
cost of education. The changes made by the bill
take effect immediately.
SB 1665 - Stiern
Modifies capital construction plans to be submitted
Chapter 280
to the chancellor by the community college district
governing boards to reflect five-year periods after
January 1, 1975 instead of ten-year periods, starting
with the next proposed year of funding. The changes
made by this bill become effective on Janury 1, 1975.
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SB 1680 . Grunsky
Revises the law with respect to the time within
Chapter 281
which an adverse party may exercise a right or
perform an act where service of notice or other
paper is made by mail,
SB 1694 - Grunsky
Modifies provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure
Chapter 282
relating to mailed notices or other papers.
SB 1736 - Whetmore
Allows formation of county service areas on January
Chapter 283
30, 1974, and consolidation of resources convervation
districts prior to February 26, 1974, to be effective
for the 1974-75 fiscal year if properly filed on or
before March 1, 1974. The bill allows reorganization
of county service areas completed on May 15, 1974
to be effective for assessment and taxation purposes
for the 1974-75 fiscal year if filing requirements
are completed on or before June 15, 1974. The bill
becomes effective immediately.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC
LD REAGAN
MEMO
THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-29-74
Governor Ronald Reagan will tour the Stanford
mansion at 9-9:30 a.m., Thursday, May 30, 1974 in
behalf of Proposition 1, the $250 million parks and
recreation bond issue. The mansion is located at 8th
and N Streets in Sacramento.
The mansion will be open to the press at 8:30 a.m.
for those wishing to check lighting, set up equipment
or whatever. Newsmen driving may park in the N Street
parking lot adjacent to the Stanford home.
Governor Reagan will be met by Sister Mary Anne
Bonpane who will conduct him and the press on a brief
tour of the first floor and the master bedroom on the
second floor. Following the tour the governor will
make brief remarks in Governor Stanford's office on
the first floor.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-30-74
#318
Governor Ronald Reagan today made the following statement in
support of Proposition 1, the $250 million bond issue on the June 4,
1974 ballot, during a visit to the Stanford mansion in Sacramento:
"The approval of Proposition 1, the $250 million parks and
recreation bond issue to be voted on next Tuesday, will make it
possible for California to purchase this historical mansion --- the
home of Governor Leland Stanford -- and open it to the public. This
is just another reason why Proposition 1 deserves the support of all
Californians.
"The mansion was built back in 1857. It is an excellent
example of Victorian architecture and it served as the official
governor's residence for both Leland Stanford and Governor Frederick
Low. A lot of California history was made within these walls, in
fact, right here in this room which was Governor Stanford's office.
"Last year the California legislature approved the purchase and
restoration of the Stanford home and its grounds. The money would be
provided by Proposition 1, and the site would become a state park open
to the public. I am sure it will become a major attraction along
with the magnificent old Capitol, Sutter's Fort, the State Indian
Museum, Old Sacramento, and the Governor's Mansion at 16th and H Streets
here in Sacramento.
"The voters can make this all possible by voting YES on
Proposition 1."
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-30-74
#319
Governor Ronald Reagan today commended the California Hospital
Commission for reducing the special hospital assessment rate, which
provides operating revenues for the commission.
Hospitals throughout the state will be assessed at a reduced rate
to support activities of the commission for the 1974-75 fiscal year,
Phyllis R. Smith, of Encino, commission chairman, has announced.
By law, the commission is funded by an assessment of not more
than .02 of one percent of a hospital's gross operating cost for the
previous fiscal year. The assessment rate is being reduced to .01 of
one percent for the coming year because expenditure controls have
resulted in a surplus in the commission's special fund.
"This is an outstanding example of how an agency of government
can exist well within its means without becoming a burden on the
taxpayers," the governor said. "The commission's ability to meet its
obligations under the law and still reduce its special fund assessment
rate is a worthy accomplishment and a true measure of responsible
government. I congratulate members of the commission and its staff."
The commission is mandated by the Hospital Disclosure Act of 1971
to implement a uniform accounting and reporting system for more than
600 California hospitals (federal facilities are excepted). The
approved system of accounting and data reporting to establish the basis
for public disclosure by hospitals goes into effect on July 1.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-30-74
#320
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 723 - Dunlap
Provides that "final compensation" in the State
Chapter 298
Teachers' Retirement System means the highest average
annual salary earned during any three years of
membership by a member whose salary is reduced after
age 58 because of reduction in school funds if the
member so elects. Effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2658 - Deddeh
Requires the governing body of any city or county,
Chapter 299
including charter city, changing the zoning, variance
or conditional use permit respecting any property to
notify the county assessor of such change within 30
days. The bill requires the assessor receiving such
notice during the assessment year to reassess the
property as of the next succeeding lien date.
Becomes effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2716 -MacGillivray Authorizes the Arroyo Grande Cemetery District to
Chapter 300
construct, and maintain a private mausoleum.
Prohibits the use of any district funds to construct,
or maintain the private mausoleum. Becomes effective
January 1, 1975.
AB 2891 - Chappie
Extends the life of the California-Nevada Interstate
Chapter 301
Compact Commission. Becomes effective January 1, 1975
AB 2939 - Papan
Increases certain filing fees in the municipal and
Chapter 302
superior courts of San Mateo County from $9.50 to
$11.50. Becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 2995 - Z'berg
Specifies that no vote shall be required to establish
Chapter 303
a maximum property tax rate upon the formation of the
North Delta Water Agency, the South Delta Water Agency
and the Central Delta Water Agency and that the
maximum rate shall be the statutory rate allowed by
law. The bill becomes effective immediately.
AB 3137 - Chappie
Requires that when territory of high school or
Chapter 304
unified school district is made part of community
college district, the reorganized community college
district is liable for taxation for any outstanding
bonded indebtedness of the community college district.
Becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3234 - Mobley
Raises the monetary limit for construction projects
Chapter 305
which may be constructed, with approval of the
Department of Finance, without complying with all
the provisions of the State University and College
Contract Law from $65,000 to $100,000. Becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3238 - Bee
Provides for the use of veterans' memorial buildings
Chapter 306
by persons or organizations other than veterans when
such use will not unduly interfere with the reasonable
use of such facilities by veterans' associations.
Becomes effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3315 - Craven
Permits a county board of supervisors to designate
Chapter 307
a county officer to be in charge of naming county
highways, rather than the board itself. Becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
AB 3509 - Bannai
Modifies the form of the notice concerning the right
Chapter 308
to cure a default and reinstate a mortgage or deed
of trust. Becomes effective immediately.
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SB 2023 - Grunsky
Specifies that repayment of funds for a regional
Chapter 297
occupational center or program facility in Santa
Cruz County shall be reimbursed by the Santa Cruz
County Superintendent of Schools from proceeds of
a specified tax, and excludes such tax from
computation of certain tax limitations. The bill
also makes the results of an election regarding
repayment of specified funds explicitly contingent
upon the results in the affected territory, rather
than individual school districts. Effective
immediately.
AB 870 -Gonsalves
Brings related statutory provisions into conformity
Chapter 311
with changes in Article XIII of the California
Constitution proposed by Assembly Constitutional
Amendment 32. The bill becomes operative only if
ACA 32 is approved by the voters.
AB 1470 - Dunlap
Gives county employees a right to inspect and review
Chapter 315
any county personnel record relating to his perform-
ance as an employee or a grievance concerning him
which is kept by his county employer. This right
does not extend to records concerning an investiga-
tion of a possible criminal offense. Becomes
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2085 - Kapiloff Requires the State Board of Equalization to assess
Chapter 312
all state-assessed property on August 7th of each
year instead of the first Monday in August, and
revises requirements for notification of assessees
of such property of allocation of assessed values
of such property. The bill makes several other
related changes. Becomes effective January 1, 1975.
AB 2784 - Chappie
Increases from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 the maximum
Chapter 318
amount that may be allocated annually to counties for
their reimbursable snow removal costs. Becomes
effective January 1, 1975.
AB 3129 - Lancaster Authorizes the establishment of crossing guard
Chapter 317
maintenance districts. Becomes effective immediately.
AB 3256 -McAlister Excludes certain school districts which have entered
Chapter 313
into cooperative adult education interdistrict
attendance agreements from being subject to
provisions requiring that the interdistrict tuition
charged pursuant to such agreements be limited to
the actual cost for the program or grade level.
Becomes effective immediately.
AB 3.459 - Brown
Eliminates as a qualification for admission to
Chapter 316
practice law the requirement that a person, who has
not completed two years of college before beginning
the study of law, be at least 23 years of age before
beginning the study of law. Effective immediately.
SB 354 - Dymally
Establishes the Office of Child Abuse Prevention in
Chapter 309
the State Department of Health. It provides for the
establishment of pilot projects with regard to child
abuse in conjunction with designated agencies. The
bill also establishes the State Advisory Committee on
Child Abuse to advise the Office of Child Abuse
Prevention and the State Child Health Board conceming
child abuse. The bill becomes operative during such
times as federal funds are made available for such
purposes. It remains in effect until December 31, 1979
SB 1632 - Alquist
Permits the Office of Emergency Services, under
Chapter 314
certain circumstances, to waive the requirement for
an inundation map required of specified dam owners.
The bill also provides that in designating areas
within which death or personal injury would result
from dam failure, the Office of Emergency Services
may, under certain circumstances, base such designa-
tion on a specified onsite inspection. Becomes
effective immediately.
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SB 1314 - Dymally
Includes institutions which are candidates for
Chapter 292
accreditation, as well as those which are accredited
by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges,
among the institutions, attendance at which, may
qualify a recipient for a scholarship or loan
guarantee awarded by State Scholarship and Loan
Commission. The bill also includes representatives
from institutions which are candidates for accredita-
tion among those who may serve on the advisory commit-
tee to the State Scholarship and Loan Commission.
Becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1366 - Robbins
Requires insurers, under certain circumstances, to
Chapter 288
pay insurance proceeds directly to the contractor
for repairs made to real property. Becomes effective
on January 1, 1975.
SB 1448 - Holmdahl Reduces from 90 to 60 days the period which the State
Chapter 289
Department of Health must wait after notification
that the quality of domestic water fails to comply
with standards or requirements of the department
before bringing an action to establish whether such
standards or requirements have been violated or
whether the supplier of such water has a reasonable
plan for achieving compliance. The bill requires,
rather than authorizes, the department to bring such
action after providing such notification if the
person who supplies or furnishes the water fails to
bring the system and water into compliance or to have
a reasonable plan for compliance. Effective 1-1-75.
SB 1614 - Way
Places administration of the Natural Disaster Assis-
Chapter 290
tance Act with the Director of the Office of Emergency
Services and permits the Director to make allocations
from available funds to various state agencies for
investigations, estimates and reports required by the
Act. The bill provides that the Department of Finance
shall allocate funds to local agencies for repair or
restoration of real public property damaged by
natural disasters. The bill also appropriates
$13, from the General Fund to the Office of
Emergency Services for the purpose of administering
the Act during the last half of fiscal year 1974-75.
Becomes effective immediately.
SB 1631 - Alquist
Authorizes the Santa Clara Valley Water District to
Chapter 291
borrow money to provide funds to pay the cost of any
work or improvement in the district or in any zone
or zones thereof by the issuance of revenue bonds
pursuant to the Revenue Bond Law of 1941. Becomes
effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1669 - Biddle
Amends the Uniform District Election Law to provide
Chapter 293
that a candidate who files for an office may withdraw
his petition for that office prior to the deadline
for filing, rather than no later than 10 days after
such deadline. Becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1708 Berryhill
Chapter 294
Changes from 30 to 40 days the time within which the
board of directors of a municipal utility district is
required to hold a public hearing on a report of the
general manager recommending fixing or changing the
rates and changes for commodities or service
furnished by the district. Becomes effective on
January 1, 1975.
SB 1774 - Stull
Permits governing boards of school districts, under
Chapter 295
specified conditions, to terminate or interrupt a
vacation leave for permanent classified school
employees so that another type of paid leave might
begin without an actual return to active service.
Becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
SB 1794 - Way
Amends the Agricultural Code to make a permanent
Chapter 296
change in the procedure for determining maturity
and quality for canning tomatoes as reflected by
color. Effective immediately.
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SB 1874 - Stull
Pei its governing boards of school districts in which
Chapter 310
a continuous school program is in operation and in
which the salary schedule becomes effective on a date
other than July 1st to adjust salaries of certificated
employees participating in the continuous school
program SO that salaries payable to such employees do
not differ from salaries which would have been payable
over a school year if they were not participating in
the program. Becomes effective on January 1, 1975.
Governor Reagan also vetoed the following bill::
AB 2645 - Gonzales Reclassifies Red Rock Canyon State Recreation Area as
a state park with designated routes of travel.
REASON FOR VETO:
"I seriously question the approach taken by this bill.
The State Park and Recreation Commission is charged
with the responsibility of classifying units of the
State Park System into one of several categories.
AB 2645 would place into law recommendations prepared
by a nonstatutory advisory committee and thus
unnecessarily supersede the authority placed in the
State Park and Land Commission.
"The Commission, after an all day hearing last year,
established Red Rock Canyon as a State Recreation
Area and instructed the Department of Parks and
Recreation to prepare a report recommending natural
preserves for the purpose of protecting the ecological
geological, and scenic values oontained in Red Rock
Canyon.
"The natural preserve report will be presented to the
Commission at its July meeting in Los Angeles. I am
confident that the Commission will act promptly to
insure that the natural beauty of Red Rock Canyon
will be preserved for all time.
"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned."
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-31-74
#321
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
June 3, 1974
through
June 9, 1974
Monday, June 3
National Governors Conference, Olympic
Hotel, Seattle, Washington
Tuesday, June 4
National Governors Conference
Wednesday, June 5
7:30 p.m.
Republican Fundraiser, Akron, Ohio.
Speech.
Thursday, June 6
3:00 p.m.
Marlborough School Commencement,
Los Angeles. Speech.
Friday, June 7
No public appointments scheduled
Saturday, June 8
No public appointments scheduled
Sunday, June 9
No public appointments scheduled
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROI
D REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
5-31-74
#322
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Mrs. Ollie M. Marie-Victorie
of San Francisco to the municipal court bench in the City and County of
San Francisco.
She replaces Judge Claude Perasso, who was elevated to the superior
court bench. Mrs. Marie-Victorie will be paid $34,605 annually.
A former research attorney for California Supreme Court Justice
Marshall McComb for eight years, she entered into an association with
other attorneys in 1963 and specialized in probate, domestic relations,
criminal and personal injury trial work in addition to general business
law.
Mrs. Marie-Victorie attended Loretto Heights College in Denver,
was graduated from the University of Denver and obtained her law degree
from Hastings College of Law in 1956. She is vice president of the
Queen's Bench, an organization of women attorneys and is a member of
the state and San Francisco bar associations, California Trial Lawyers,
Criminal Trial Lawyers of San Francisco, St. Thomas More Society and
the National Association of Women Lawyers. Her other involvements
include being vice president of the National Organization for Women,
legal branch, in San Francisco, and the Business and Professional
Women.
Her husband owns an import firm. She is a Republican,
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