18 Reforms for City, County, and State Government

To increase citizen participation, make it more

responsive and fiscally efficient.
1. Eliminate the State Senate as an elected body and make it an appointed position by the
county supervisors in each respective county. Each county board of supervisors would
select 1 State Senator to a six-year term with a maximum of 3 terms. The top ten largest
counties by population would allowed to have 2 State Senators selected for that county.
Funding for the salaries for the State Senators and their staff would be from the general
budget of each respective County.

2. Eliminate the following as elected offices: County Sheriff, County Coroner, City
Attorney, District Attorney, State Superintendent of Schools, Secretary of State, State
Attorney General, State Controller, Lieutenant Governor, Superior Court Judges.

The mayor would appoint City offices with limited input by the city council

County board of supervisors or county chief executive would select county offices.

The Governor with consent of the State Senate would appoint state offices.

3 Pay all appointed members of city county and state boards on a per diem basis and
members must come from open application from the community at-large.

4 Create a board made up 5 or more teams of 4 volunteers from the academic and
business community to audit prior year budgetary expenditures and make public
recommendations to save money.

5 Create bonus system with all city, county, and state managers who have budgetary
spending authority so that they receive a bonus of 5% of non- spent allocation at the end
of the fiscal year. For example: a manager has a budget of 100,000 for office supplies but
they only spend 80,000. The manager receives 5% of 20,000 or $4,000 end of year
bonus. To qualify, they must agree to voluntarily drop any affiliation with an employee
union. Roll back salary increases for these managers back to 2004 salary level.

6 Request all city, county and state employees making in excess of $100,000 year to
provide 8-10 hours every month on either crime watch, or serving meals for the homeless
at a shelter.

7 City of Los Angeles: All city council must select a staff member to attend all
Neighborhood Council meetings and report back to city councilman the results of the
meeting.
8 Pass a city charter amendment prohibiting any non- elected city employee who is being
Terminated from receiving more than 3 months salary unless ordered by a court as a
result of a contested civil trial. The same principle should be applied to counties and the
state.

9. Add a provision in any contract between a private contractor and a city county or state
agency prohibiting the private contractor from raising the price of a project, as long the
government-contracting agency does not delay the start of the project. All contracts must
contain penalties for failing to meet deadlines as well bonuses for completing projects
early and under original bid.

10 Require ALL city, county and state employees and elected officials to provide their
own vehicle for official business and they would compensated be at 28 cents per mile.

11 Prohibit any government body or elected official from voting for their own salary
increase.
State legislature: The State Senate and their staff salaries would be determined and
funded by the County Board of Supervisors of each individual county.
Registered voters of the represented area would vote county supervisors, City
councilman, and mayors during non-voting year elections placed on the ballot.

12 All cities, county and state candidates for elected office should voluntarily refrain
from airing any television campaign advertisements as well as until one month before the
scheduled election.

13. All political contributions must be spent only for the election of a candidate or to
support or fight against a specific City, County or State proposed law, charter amendment
or proposition. Contributions can only be used for hiring and compensation of staff,
travel expenses within the state, production of written and recorded materials and their
distribution in the mail, radio, television, telephone and the internet.

14. Prohibit the use of any taxes or government fees to hire any private public relations or
marketing organization for the purpose of influencing a citizens voting or consumer
behavior.

15. Using existing computer technology, set up a computer program that will
automatically refer an existing state law or regulation for repeal if the meets the following
criterion for the previous 10 years:

Felony- Person, persons or organization charged with statute violation fewer than 20
times or convicted under statute fewer than 5 times

Misdemeanor - Person, persons or organization charged with statute violation fewer than
30 times or convicted under statute fewer than 10 times

Business Regulation- Person, persons or organization cited with statute violation fewer
than 50 times or successfully fined or penalized under statute fewer than 15 times.

Personal stakeholder regulation: Person, persons or organization cited with statute

violation fewer than 50 times or successfully fined or penalized under statute fewer than
15 times.

16. All City, County and State elections and primaries must be held on either 1st Tuesday
in June or 1st Tuesday in November: NO EXCEPTIONS.

17 All retired state employees who move out of state should have 10 percent of their
pension withheld from their pension check.

18 Limit the number of paid Holidays for City, County and State employees to 5:
Employees may choose any five days to take as paid Holidays.