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8A Page 8 The League encourages mayors, council members, city managers, city attorneys, and city planners to attend this event. (Police chiefs will also attend the summit, with the California Police Chiefs Association designating who ~~Jill represent their organization.) There is limited sea#ing for the summit, so please make sure to register as soon as possible. The registration cost for the summit is $75, which includes the receipt of an informational binder, breakfast, and lunch. If you have any questions regarding the California Summit for Safe Communi#ies, please contact League Legislative Analyst Leticia Farris at ifarris(r.~cacities.orq. OPEB Continued from Page 1... The Commission intends to reach out to a broad range of stakeholders and other experts to gather information about the financial condition of public post-employment benefits in California. The Commission wants to hear from employers, employees and employee organizations, actuaries, investment houses, rating agencies, taxpayer groups and ofhers to get a comprehensive look at the issue. The Commission plans to hold hearings throughout the state to help facilitate input. A schedule for the hearings is being currently being developed. As soon as the schedule is available, the League s will forward the information to cities who may want to have officials attend. The Commission's goal is two-fold -assess the current financial condition of state and local government retirement systems and other post-employment benefits as accurately as possible, and second, to make recommendations to address any problems that are identified in its research efforts. The League, the California State Association of Counties (CSAC}, the Regional Council of Rural Counties (RCRC), the State Association for County Retirement Systems (SACKS) and special districts are forming a technical working group to bo#h help our memberships follow this issue and to provide input to the Commission in its deliberations. The chair of the Commission is Gerald Parsky. ~"r . Parsky currently serves as :,hair of the Auror2 Capital Group, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Fie has been a senior partner with the Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn and Crotchet. He is also a member of the California Board of Regents. In a meeting with local government organizations earlier this week, Parsky explained his intent to work together on the issue of post- employment benefits. 'The Governor and legislative leaders have given us an important charge -determining how to address one of the most significant budget issues that California will face in the coming years," Parsky said. "I look forward to sitting down with my fellow commissioners next week to begin the important work of building a bipartisan consensus on this issue." The primary staff person to the Commission is Anne Sheehan, deputy director of the State Department of Finance. She will have other assistance from within the Department of Finance, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS) and the State Teachers Retirement System.