Posted on 08/16/2004 1:53:46 AM PDT by newzjunkey
NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE CALIFORNIA
PERFORMANCE REVIEW (CPR) COMMISSION
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES AND
EDUCATION, TRAINING AND
VOLUNTEERISM
AGENDA
FRIDAY, August 20, 2004
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Price Center, Ballroom AB
UC San Diego
UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California 92093-0076
This is the second of six public hearings on the recommendations in the report generated by the CPR. It will focus on CPR recommendations to improve the efficiency and management of the State Health & Human Services and Education, Training and Volunteerism programs.
I. Call to order - Welcome remarks by Co-Chairs
II. Introduction of Commission Members
III. CPR Overview by CPR Staff Member - The process of the development of the CPR recommendations and a brief summary of the recommendations.
IV. Testimony of invited witnesses (panel format) on chapters 2 and 3 of the CPR report; Health & Human Services and Education, Training and Volunteerism. Questions from Commissioners will follow each panel.
V. Lunch Break
VI. Public comment*
VII. Adjournment
The California Performance Review Commission is charged with facilitating the public input process of the California Performance Review (CPR). CPR is a comprehensive examination of the methods and practices of government with the goal of increasing efficiency while reducing costs to create the first 21st century government in the United States. The Commission will conduct hearings throughout the state to gather testimony on the findings of the CPR. The 21 member Commission is comprised of leaders from the business and labor communities, state and local government and public policy experts. Members do not receive a salary, and these positions do not require Senate confirmation.
* While each hearing will focus on a specific topic or topics within CPR, the Commission will take public testimony at the end of each day on any issues contained in the CPR report.
A Spanish interpreter will be at each meeting.
- Sign language interpreters are available upon request. Sign language interpreters are available upon request. Please call the CPR office at: (916) 322-8888 at least 3 days prior to the meeting to help ensure availability.
For further information call the CPR office at: (916) 322-8888 or visit the CPR website at http://www.cpr.ca.gov.
Ballroom AB (120' x 90') can accomidate from 1,200 to 2000 persons.
The Ballroom is on the second level (Level 2 Map (PDF).
Parking is rather *MINIMAL* and meters are enforced.
Please ping local freepers. I have made plans to attend.
If not, why not? Does anyone care to venture a guess??? One has to wonder how the Sierran Community would respond beings it's the most "Conservative" part of CA as much of the O.C. has moved up here in recent years!!!
I seriously doubt it SW...
Perhaps more phone calls to the Governor to oppose this monstrosity are in order. :-)
For More on Sierra Nevada Conservancy:Socialist agenda being pushed through the California Legislature.
I don't remember where I read this so I have nothing to back up my statement, they made specific provisions to insure that forums could be held in urban centers rather than in the effected counties.
33332. The conservancy shall hold meetings within the region or in a metropolitan area near the region.
I sifted the HHS section in the CPR. The HHS recommendations make up $4 Billion (or 12.5%) of the total $32 Billion of "Savings". One major recommendation alone makes up $4 Billion in "Savings": "HHS01 Transform Eligibility Processing"
"Medi-Cal, CalWORKs and Food Stamp eligibility processing performed by California counties is inefficient, costly, does not give good service and is inaccurate. Medi-Cal, CalWORKs, and Food Stamp eligibility processing should be centralized and consolidated at the state level to improve services and save a total of $4 billion, including $1.5 billion in State General Funds over the next five years."They give no rationale as to how these savings will be achieved (e.g. personnel reductions, fewer participants, etc.) After reading further, you find that half of the estimated savings are actually in Federal spending amounts, and $1.4 Billion to the State budget, (the remainder in county). So average Savings are less than $300 Million per year... peanuts IMO compared to total HHS spending.
Then I reached this part, which basically says that any savings achieved will just be spent on new cost pressures. IMO, this report is garbage, through and through. Spending valuable time all year debating this report is just deferring discussion on real reform and real reductions.
There is, however, considerable pressure to spend more than the federally required level on an ongoing basis, as the cost of assistance payments and services continues to increase, and as an increasing share of people in the program have multiple barriers to employment. In addition, while Congress and the President will consider several key policy changes, federal reauthorization legislation introduced to date would significantly increase the number of CalWORKs recipients engaged in job training, community service employment and other work-related activities. Substantial investments in child care and employment services would be needed in order to meet increased participation rate requirements. The savings may be used to absorb these cost pressures.In other words, no reduction in net spending at all. I stopped reading.
Plus, I don't agree with Walter's criticism as he tries to champion stuff that FDR championed, like more regional governments to dismiss county governments as obsolete, etc."
Thomas Jefferson stated: "States shall be further divided into Counties, each to govern what lies within it's bounds!" We already have a State Agency usurping local land-use control by people's elected county representatives through LAFCO, a "Regional" GovernMental Agency of the State as Counties already are!!!
Yep. Weintraub was also critical; he did a piece on the Education recommendations. Other papers had many less than enthusiastic comments.
Walters: Schwarzenegger's reforms fall far short
Weintraub: Education in state requires makeover - not manicure
Schrag Schwarzenegger's reform plan gets too much respect
Press-Enterprise: Fix-it report not a fix-all
For his top-to-bottom review of state government, Gov. Schwarzenegger said he wanted not just to think outside the box, but to "blow up the boxes."I think the California Performance Review analysts took him too literally.
They blew up the boxes, let the pieces fall back to earth, gathered them up and stuck them in different boxes.
Thank heaven one commissioner - state Sen. Jim Brulte, R-Rancho Cucamonga - asked for assurances that the alleged cost savings aren't just taking the costs out of one box and putting them in another.
If this keeps up, as I'm sure it will, we'll eventually be hit right between the eyes with some "harsh reality" and it won't be from some earthquake or cyclone, but rather a completely un-natural disaster from yet another Socialist experiment gone dreadfully wrong right here in River City!!!
The current situation and most of these "solutions" are neither "sustainable," nor sound, because no one will face the underlying problem that government is our biggest "growth industry!" And that's sick!!!
>>no one will face the underlying problem that government is our biggest "growth industry!" And that's sick!!!
An excellent summation!
Very perceptive for an old country boy.
In fact, they aren't sustainable. Even more interesting, from inside the beltway, is that they aren't sustainable within the current election cycle.
That's very curious don't you think? Why would Schwarzenegger develop a tactic that would harm his campaign for reelection just when the campaign begins (winter 2005)? Very curious indeed.
He saw what happened to Jesse the body, and will NOT let that EVER happen to him. It's not worth it to him, because, never forget... It's all about him at the end of the day!!! If he gets an opening in the constitution to run for President in time, that's his next step.
But he's not going to stick around CA to find out how fickle the electorate can be and how really thankless the job of Governor, made impossible by fanatical leftist can be. I'm not the only one who believes this scenario, by the way. Only a miracle would interest him in staying on in this mess that he's going to be unable to sustain!!!
He's a businessman! Businessmen don't knock themselves out at his level unless there's an anticipation of lots and lots of nothing but GLORY! I'm not smearing him, just observing and noticing what motivates the man. He's ambitious, but not stupid like most policy wonks!!!
If you would report back from the meeting, let us know.
Were any legislators there for an substantive portion of the discussion?
Did the meeting follow Roberts Rules of Order?
If you ask, will you get copies of files produced at the meeting, along with minutes or other records?
When taking public comments, will the commissioners only write down what they want to hear, and when someone proposes something they don't like, say its a good idea, but not record it?
Will there be people floating around the room during the break to identify any people who strongly oppose their proposals?
Will you be put into groups, with a member of the commision or their staff officiating, and asked to pick the top 3 most important things the governor should change?
It will be interesting to know.
Were you able to attend the hearing?
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