Wendy Taylor
A Sacramento Overview of the May Revision
Dateline Sacramento — Significantly improved General Fund revenue trends since January and over $13 billion of budget actions already approved by the Legislature have reduced the size of the budget gap still to be addressed by California’s elected leaders.
Closeup Look at GOP’s No-Tax Budget Proposal — Plus Park Closures
[Editor’s Note: Mr. Rice is Culver City’s lobbyist in Sacramento, and his opening comments are directed at City Hall officials. Further down, he reports on state parks being shut down for budgetary reasons.]
District Wants 8 Furlough Days. Are That Many Truly Necessary?
Here is a negotiations update from the Assn. of Classified Employees-Culver City:
The ACE negotiations team met with School District’s representatives on Wednesday when we continued to discuss the following items:
The ACE negotiations team met with School District’s representatives on Wednesday when we continued to discuss the following items:
Giant Immersion Celebration Starts Tomorrow Afternoon
Culver City, home to the first language immersion program in a U.S. public school district, will commemorate its 40th anniversary of language immersion with a three-day celebration all weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Furlough Days Still Being Debated in Classified Bargaining Sessions
[Editor’s Note: Ms. Hamme is President of the Assn. of Classified Employees.]
The Downside for Classified Union Members
[Editor’s Note: Ms. Hamme is President of the Assn. of Classified Employees.]
SB 286, a Game-Saver for Beleaguered Redevelopment Agencies?
In the latest fight to preserve hometown redevelopment agencies, the California Redevelopment Assn. has been working with Sen. Rod Wright (D-Inglewood) on a package of reforms for several weeks.
Kobe Slammed for ‘Faggot’ Remark
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, this morning called out Kobe Bryant for the apparent use of a homophobic and derogatory slur after receiving a technical foul during the Lakers’ game last night against San Antonio at the Staples Center.
In Stout Defense of the Security Supervisor
[Editor’s Note: A member of the Classified Employees Union answers a membership-wide dispatch that went out from President Debbie Hamme.]
A Problem with the District’s Security Dept.?
[Editor’s Note: With negotiations between the School District and its two unions at a typically fragile spring stage, the newspaper has obtained a copy of correspondence Debbie Hamme, President of the Classified Employees Union, sent recently to her members. What will follow in a separate document is sharp disagreement by a member.]
