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<br />8A <br />Page 1 <br /> <br />~f.:;jitl:h" {v.uHlt~'eit~'tf .hH~ ~~.~;.),;jf:~, ;;.rt {;.;?~i,Ji~h'il: ~.~Xi hfkt !!:.~wi11 (~~i lli!.l~,t (4!~fi.lHi:!.i! tmti':o <br /> <br />PRI-ORITY <br />FOCUS <br /> <br />~~" . LEAGUE <br />, , " '-., "-~."" <br />. '. ....'.', ""1' ':1"'[:"5" <br />l., I : , <br /> <br />IN THIS ISSUE: <br /> <br />Nov. 16,2007 <br />Issue #44-2007 <br /> <br />Page 3: <br />Page 4: <br /> <br />CalGRIP Grant Proposal Deadline Extended to Dec. 10 <br />Keeping our Heads Above Water <br />Have a Housing Success Story? Tell Us About It I <br />New Tool for Promoting Informed Involvement in the Land Use Process Available <br />League Legislative Briefings Scheduled for November <br />Find a Bill. Legislators. Leg Committee. or Ask League Leg Staff <br /> <br />Page 5: <br /> <br />Editor's Note: Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Priority Focus will not publish on Friday, <br />Nov. 23, as regularly scheduled. Publication will resume on Friday, Nov. 30. <br /> <br />STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS PROTEST ANTI-RENT CONTROL MEASURE <br /> <br />On Wednesday, Nov. 14, elected officials joined with senior citizen groups, tenant rights <br />advocates and mobile home residents in at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco to protest the <br />so-called "Califomia Property Owner and Farmland Protection Act" (CPOFPA) - a measure that <br />would abolish rent control. For more, see Page 2. <br /> <br />.................................... <br /> <br />FORECAST OF FY 2008-09 STATE BUDGET LOOKS GRIM <br />Legislative Analyst's Office Predicts $9.8 Billion Shortfall <br /> <br />The Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) issued a dour FY 2008-09 state budget forecast earlier this <br />week, warning that the state must prepare for a $9.8 billion budget deficit. The report follows a <br />statement from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week, calling for state agency department <br />heads to reduce spending plans by 10 percent. For more, see Page 3. <br /> <br />.................................... <br /> <br />LEAGUE ISSUES INFRASTRUCTURE BOND IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE <br /> <br />Thanks to the passage of the infrastructure bonds on the Nov. 2006 ballot, various pots of money <br />are available to local governments for projects relating to transportation, housing, environmental <br />quality, levee repair and construction and educational facility construction. <br /> <br />The difficulty, however, is figuring out how much - and when - the funding is available. To that <br />end, the League of California Cities has published an update on the status of the infrastructure <br />bond implementation. To download a copy, see "Infrastructure Bond Implementation Update- <br />Nov. 2007" at ~w.cacities.or9f.Lnfr?structure. <br />