California Forward: How to Move Government Closer to the People - Sign our Petition

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California Forward, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, is working to bring government closer to the people. We believe empowered local communities are best equipped to solve local problems with local solutions.

We believe there is a critical link between many of the problems that threaten our future and our state government, which has become ineffective, unresponsive, and unable (and unwilling) to fix itself.

We are committed to partnering with others across the state to develop our Fiscal Reform, Operational Reform, and Democracy Reform efforts. We are also engaging in a statewide conversation on reform, Speak Up CA, in which citizens across the state will be given an opportunity to learn more and help shape our reform proposals.

California Forward is supported or endorsed by an unprecedented diversity of more than 200 business, labor, faith, and community organizations from all over the state.

http://www.cafwd.org/closervid

The key to saving our state and the California Dream is to repair our broken government, so it is transparent, accountable, and focuses on results. We need our state government to be innovative in how it produces results; and we need our state government to find cost-effective solutions to improving our schools, transportation, and public safety.

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[jaybee1973jaybee]

@ :37 - "Let's tie funding to outcomes" is key, but there needs to be strict enforcement. Too often the state provides "funding" to local government, but imposes no "outcomes" or performance goals or fails to enforce the "outcomes" or performance goals. I don't trust many local governments to make effective use of tax revenues or grants. The current intergovernmental system of accountability presently is non-existent or regarded as a "joke." Too many are lining their pockets with public funds.