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R.A -3 LOCALLPDAH The following are a few of the activities carried out by city officials and others under the "LOCAL" banner ( "Leave Our Community Assets Locar — the coalition jointly sponsored by the League, the Califor- nia State Association of Counties, and the California Special Districts Association. The coalition now includes more 533 members from throughout the state, including 27 companies, 151 individuals and 355 organizations. different audience members to provide similar presentations at other community meetings, including retired Hawthorne City Manager Bud Cormler's public administration class he teaches at C.S.U. Dominguez Hills. Cormier told Wallace he wants to stay involved with the League and Wallace will follow up with an invitation to join the new LeagueA/umnl Asso- clarion. Grassroots Activities League President and Oakland CltyAttorney John Russo joined Mendocino County Super - visor Richard Shoemaker this week in taping a radio talk show discussion on the state budget, on Mendocino radio station KUKI -AMIFM (Uldahl Mendocino County). The program is "Issues and Answers"; it will air Sunday morning, April 13, at 7 a.m. The San Diego and Imperial County Divisions have joined forces with the Inland Empire, Desert Mountain and Riverside Divisions to host Southern California area legislators at a Five Division Dinner May 14 during the LOCAL Leg Action Days. This gathering constitutes 79 cities, seven counties and numerous partners from public safety, health, labor, business and senior organizations. The five division presidents are all extremely enthusiastic about this collabo- ration and look forward to a wonderful event and a great opportunity to work with other divisions and community partners on spreading the message of local government. At the request of Lawndale City Council Member Neil Roth, Regional Rep Ann Marie Wallace spoke at the monthly meeting of the Lawndale and Hawthorne Rotary Clubs. Roth serves as the current president of the Lawndale club and invited the League to come to the meeting to provide an overview of the activi- ties and priorities of League and the LOCAL Coalition. As part of the presentation, Wallace showed the new League video, "Cloudy Skies Over California," and the video was well received. In fact, the League was invited by three Santa Clarits City Manager Ken Pulskamp and League Executive Director Chris McKenzie joined with several LOCAL coalition partners in an editorial briefing this week with the Los Angeles Daily News in Woodland Hills. The briefing offered a good opportunity to explain to the Daily News editors the important role that vehicle license fees play in funding public safety and other essential local services, and why the police chiefs and other local officials would feel betrayed by the state if VLF was not provided. LOCAL coalition partners emphasized the importance to local officials of predictable rev- enues, and explained how local government routinely must prioritize in order to operate with limited resources -just as the state must do. The editors expressed frustration with the lack of a firth plan at the state level to solve the budget crisis. Other LOCAL partners participating in the briefing were: Steve Sza/ay, Executive Direc- tor, California State Association of Counties, David Janssen, Los Angeles CountyAdmin- istradve Officer, Jerry G/adbach representing the California Special Districts Association and Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca. Press Coverage This Week Editorials, Columns, Opeds, Letters to the Editor Los Angles Daily News, "Budgeting for failure; The prognosis in Sacramento just keeps getting Condnued on Page 7 Visit the League's Official Web Site-- www.cacities.org PRIORITY FOCUS /PAGE 3