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<br />9A <br />Page 12 <br /> <br />'Budget' Continued from Page 1... <br /> <br />The Budget Conference Committee is comprised of five legislators from the Assembly and <br />Senate: Assembly Member Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) is chair. Other appointed members <br />include: Assembly Member Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), Assembly Member Bob Blumenfield <br />(O-Woodland Hills), Assembly Member Roger Niello (R-Sacramento), Assembly Member Jim <br />Nielsen (R-Biggs), Sen. Denise Ducheny (D-San Diego), Sen. Bob Dutton (R-Rancho <br />Cucamonga), Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) and Sen. <br />Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Hills). <br /> <br />Budget Conference Committee Schedule <br />May 21, 1 :30 p.m.: Overview from the Department of Finance and LAO <br />May 22, 9 a.m.: Cash management <br />May 26, 1 :30 p.m.: Education/higher education/child care and development, and public comment <br />May 27, 9 a.m.: Health and human services, and public comment <br />9-10:30 a.m.: Medi-Cal and Healthy Families program issues <br />10:30 -11 :30 a.m.: Public health, drug Medi-Cal, Proposition 36, and Emergency Medical <br />Services Authority <br />12 - 1 :30 p.m.: Developmental services <br />1 :30 - 3 p.m.: In-home supportive services <br />3 - 4 p.m.: CalWORKs, SSI/SSP, CFAP/CAPI <br />4 - 5 p.m.: Child welfare services, foster care <br />May 23, 9:30 a.m.: Public safety/local government and other and public comment <br />June 1: Conference Committee hearings to review Administration proposals and LAO's critique <br />as well as review suggestions from the previous week's public testimony. <br /> <br />Opposition to Borrowing Grows <br /> <br />So far, two Republican candidates for governor, Steve Poizner and Tom Campbell have <br />announced that they are against borrowing to balance the state bUdget. Senate Republican <br />Leader Dennis Hollingsworth, State Controller John Chiang and a number of individual legislators <br />have also come out against borrowing local government revenues for the state's budget. <br /> <br />The Sacramento Bee reported on Thursday, May 21 that the Governor is "abandoning" his plan to <br />borrow from investment markets to help close the state's deficit. The League has not received <br />clarity if the repositioning on the borrowing issue also includes the notion of borrowing from local <br />government. To read the full story, please visit the Sacramento Bee Web site <br />htto://www.sacbee.com/toDstories/storv/1881810.html. <br /> <br />Take Action <br /> <br />The League is launching Save Your City, an extremely aggressive campaign to protect local <br />revenue in this chaotic budget environment. Cities are passing resolutions. sending letters, <br />forming coalitions and making phone calls. It is imperative that city officials work with their League <br />regional public affairs managers and take action to protect their revenues and attend the <br />League's Budget Action Day scheduled for June 3 in Sacramento. <br /> <br />'Election' Continued from Page 1... <br /> <br />Tuesday's election results indicate the high level of frustration Californians have with state <br />government and its Inability to make prudent fiscal decisions. The League had supported the <br />budget propositions because the package contained elements that helped the current budget <br />shortfall and provided some longer term reform measures to give the state a healthier reserve. <br /> <br />2 <br />