Posted on 09/06/2004 9:25:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Just barely into its latest diet, the state is already backsliding.
A month after a task force appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended that 118 state boards and commissions be abolished, the state Legislature has approved the creation of a half-dozen panels and extended the life of 10 others by up to five years.
Assemblymen John Campbell (R-Irvine) and Ray Haynes (R-Murrieta) are keeping a tally.
"We are headed in exactly the opposite direction that the California Performance Review wants us to go," said Haynes, referring to the governor's reform group. "It is just creating new bureaucracy."
There are already 339 state boards and commissions.
Bills recently approved by the state Legislature would create:
• An Ocean Protection Council to "carry out various programs relating to protection of the coastal waters and ocean ecosystems."
• A 16-member state panel to study the deportation of some 2 million persons of Mexican descent between 1929 and 1944 and recommend a response.
• A State Water Quality Control Board task force to review proposals under a new coastal water quality grant program.
• A Commission on Latino/Latina Affairs, conceived by state Sen. Richard Alarcon (D-Sylmar) to advise state government on ways to give Latinos more access to "educational, economic, political and ownership opportunities."
Alarcon said the panel members would not be paid, and the commission's work would be funded by private contributions.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Hmmmm? I thought Arnold was going to get rid of these panels in order to trim the budget ..??
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