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11. A PG &E from page 1 .................. QUOTES from page 2 .............. This development means that PG &E will no longer ask cities to approve franchise agreements for new companies. The League task force and its consultant had just completed drafting the electric and gas franchise ordinances and had intended to mail them to all PG &E franchise cities this week. Though cities may no longer be under pressure to adopt franchise ordinances requested by PG &E, the sample ordinances will serve as a model for cities and other local government agencies that may need to negotiate other franchise agreements. Since most current agreements were modeled after work done in the early 1900s, they do not address contemporary issues. The task force and consult- ant spent long hours identifying concerns over the current franchise agreements and developing a sample that deals with these concerns. The franchise sample ordinances are available on the League website on the Revenue and Taxa- tion Issue page ( www.cacities.o m/revandtax ) under Policy Information and Development. Additional information on the settlement is located on the CPUC website www.couc.ca.o93L If you wish addi- tional information, contact Frances Medema at medemaf(a)cacities.ora or Alisa Fong at fonaacacities.ora. LOOKING FOR CALIFORNIA'S BEST TO FILL A POSITION IN YOUR CITY? Western City Magazine's job opportunity section is the source for job seekers looking for positions in local government. According to our reader survey, the job opportunity section is the best read section of our magazine! When you place an ad in Western City Magazine, it will be posted at no additional charge on our website, which receives over 60,000 hits per month. Call to place your recruitment ad today! 800 262 -1801 or visit our website www.westerncity.com. generation, it's clear that the measure's biggest California impact was not on the state's public services... It w_ as the seismic shift in California's governmental structure, accour,tability and power: from local to state government; from representative democracy to direct democracy through the initiative process; from a communitarian ethic in how we paid for public services to a fee ethic, in which more and more services and facilities – new schools, park maintenance, university tuition – were charged to their users." San Diego Union Tribune, 6/22/03, Prop 13, Twenty Five Years On — Taxpayers still like measure's protections. "Despite all the attacks against Proposition 13, it is still supported by the voters in polls by the same two -to -one margin it passed by in 1978. This is remarkable since many of those polled either did not live in Califor- nia 25 years ago or were too young to remember the dire consequences caused by an oppressive property tax system." The L.A. Daily News, 6/23/03, Damn the poli- tics. "Democrats and Republicans in Sacra- mento have spent the better part of the year screaming at each other, both sides refusing to move an inch on the state budget crisis. The strategy hasn't worked." The L.A. Daily News, 6/24/03, "Triggering" a Revolution. "Unable to muster the necessary two- thirds support to hike the regressive tax in the Legislature, Gov. Gray Davis and Controller Steve Westly came up with a sneaky — and arguably illegal — plan for letting bureaucrats do the deed." The Fresno Bee, 6/23/03, Looking for Real Leadership in California? Good Luck. "The budget mess in Sacramento underscores just how far California's political leadership has fallen since the glory days of the Golden State when ambitious leaders built freeways that tied this huge state together and created a world - class university system that gave everyone a chance to go to college." Continued on Page 7 PAGE 6 /PRIORITY FOCUS Visit the League's Official Web Site-- www.caci ties. org