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8A Page 1 0 . Promote the long-term economic prosperity of the state and its citizens; . Improve California's ability to successfully compete with other states and nations for jobs and investments; . Reflect principles of sound tax policy including simplicity, competitiveness, efficiency, predictability, stability and ease of compliance and administration; and . Ensure that the tax structure is fair and equitable. The members of the commission come from diverse backgrounds and will all serve without compensation and at the pleasure of the official who appointed them. The Governor's appointees are: . Gerald Parsky, chair of the commission. Parsky is currently the chairman of a private investment firm and was assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department from 1974 to 1977 in charge of intemational affairs and capital markets. . Ruben Barrales, the president and chief executive officer for the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce since 2006. In 2001 he was appointed as Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush and served as White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. . Michael Baskin, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and T.M. Friedman professor of Economics at Stanford University. . John Cogan, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and has also been a professor in the public policy program at Stanford University since 1980. . Becky Morgan, founder ofthe Morgan Family Foundation in 1993, and also served as a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors from 1978 to 1980. . Curt Pringle, mayor of the city of Anaheim since 2002, and the president of Curt Pringle and Associates. Pringle was a California State Assembly member from 1988 to 1990 and 1992 to 1998 and served as Speaker of the Assembly in 1996. Speaker of the Assembly Bass and Senate President pro Tem Steinberg's appointees are: . Christopher Edley, Jr" Dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, has served as an advisor to former President Clinton's One America Initiative. He was a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and chaired President Clinton's 1998 Affirmative Action Review. He was an advisor to President Elect Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic primaries. . George Halvorson, chairman and chief executive officer of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals since 2002. . Jennifer Ito, the research, training and policy education director of SCOPE (Santa Clarita Organization for Planning the Environment) a community-based organization dedicated to reducing and eliminating structural barriers to social and economic opportunities for poor and working class communities. . Fred Keeley, a political science professor at San Jose State University, and the treasurer of Santa Cruz County since 2005. From 1996 to 2002, he served as a California State Assembly member where he also served as Speaker pro Tempore of the Assembly. . Monica Lozano, publisher and chief executive officer of La Opini6n, and also served as senior vice president of its parent company, ImpreMedia. Lozano is a member of the University of California Board of Regents and serves as a trustee of the University of Southern California and SunAmerica Asset Management Corporation. She is also the director of the California Health Care Foundation. . Richard Pomp, professor of law at the University of Connecticut. Pomp also works as a consultant to cities, states, the Multistate Tax Commission, the Navajo Nation, the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Treasury, the U.S. Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous foreign countries. Please visit the Web site for the Commission on the 21st Century Economy (htto:/lwww.cotce.ca.aov/) for more information on meetings schedules, agendas and minutes. League Staff will be monitoring the commission's activities, and report to cities as their work develops. 4