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LOCAL from page 1 ................................................. Recent LOCAL activities include: Shasta, Orland, Oroville, Paradise, Redding, Susanville, Tehama, Willows, and Yuba City. Coalition Building and Outreach San Diego city representatives and coalition In the Central Coast area, League Regional Repre- partners have written letters and placed calls to the sentative Dave Mullinax participated last week in a 1 budget conference committee and the San Diego hour taped show on LOCAL activities on KTMS-990 am, legislative delegation regarding budget impacts. Nu- and on June 27 taped a local cable TV show on the merous organizations have written to the legislature budget and housing issues in Pismo Beach. On June 28 regarding potential cuts in health care services. Both Oakland City Attorney and League First Vice President the City and County of San Diego passed their budgets John Russo is expected to tape another cable TV show this past week and continue to closely monitor and on the state budget in the Channel Counties area. contact their legislators regarding state budget delibera- Additional outreach to print reporters who cover local tions. Local media reports on these budgets included government is occurriq§ throughout the region. the continued uncertainly of how the state budget could impact local services. Editorial Board Briefings Imperial County elected officials continue to In the Imperial County, an Editorial Board meeting contact their state representatives regarding potential with the Imperial Valley Press has been set for July impacts to local services. 10th. LOCAL coalition members are now being orga- nized to participate. The first meeting of the Bay Area-wide Regional Advisory Group occurred this week. Participants There were several LOCAL Coalition editorial board determined on a strategy that would focus on localized meetings in the Sacramento Valley Region over the press activities, possibly including smaller press past week, including the Redding Record-Searchlight, conferences; and targeting legislative leaders with the Sacramento Bee, and the Marysville Appeal- weekly meetings from different Coalition partners. Democrat. Each of these meetings involved a differ- ent set of coalition partners (elected city and county A vote by the City of Winters in the Sacramento officials, local police, fire, health, and business repre- ~z=~ ,,~to support the LOCAL Coalition was followed by sentatives) - reflecting the different cities and commu- commitments of support from the Winters Police nities that comprise this large region. League Regional Officers Association and the Winters Miscellaneous Representative Cody Tubbs has played a key role in Employees Association. Both groups agreed to contact lining up the Coalition partners who can best deliver a their legislators to urge them to protect local funding. "localized" version of the LOCAL budget message in The Winters Express newspaper is working on a each location. feature article detailing the threat to local services posed by the state's budget mess. Outreach by Winters In San Benito County, representatives of both City Manager John Donlevy has helped to build this cities (Hollister and San Juan Bautista).ioined with a community support for the LOCAL budget principles, county supervisor and local fire chiefs in briefing the editors of the Hollister Freelance on the impacts to Forty city officials heard a presentation by LOCAL local services if the budget cuts local funding. political consultant Brandon Castillo on the Coalition's budget activities at the League's Sacramento Valley The Central Valley Region LOCAL coalition has Division meeting last week in the Town of Paradise. held three editorial board briefings (Stockton Record, The following cities were represented: Auburn, Chico, Colusa, Live Oak, Loomis, Marysville, Montague, Mt. Continued on page 4 Visit the League's Official Web Site..www.cacities.org PRIORITY FOCUS/PAGE ;~