The California League of Cities has launched a new website, called “Save Your City,” in order to better communicate to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and State Legislators that “city governments are in no place to bail out the state. Cities have already made drastic cuts including employee layoffs and furloughs and cuts to critical services including those for public safety, seniors and youth.”
This innovative website features testimonials from city officials and concerned coalition partners and members of the public, telling state lawmakers about current fiscal conditions and potential devastation to cities should the state take local property taxes as has been done in the past. Each video uploaded is sent directly to the governor and appropriate legislator. Visitors to the site can conduct city, regional or legislative district-specific searches to find what’s being said about specific communities.
You can do a search to find your local elected on the site. The site is constantly being updated with new videos – if your elected isn’t up now they may be very soon.
Kudos to California League of Cities public affairs director Mike Madrid for coming up with such an innovative communications strategy!
I wrote about Save Your City a couple of days ago…please visit
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/05/save-your-city/
Art,
youre wrong on this one. zthe cities shoud give it up and send the money to Sacramento. That way when my Girl janet runs for Lou Correas seat and beats him, she will have money to hire me and my buddy Fraudio and we can get off of unemplyment and move out of our mothers houses.
You can follow my line of thought on this at the following twitter feed formore up to date information as it breaks.
http://www.twitter.com/countchoculabot
I logged on to Save Your City and there are not postings for any Santa Ana City Councilmembers. Jose Solorio is listed as “JOE” Solorio. Why am I not surprised??????
Poor Pathetic Downtrodden City.
The guy’s very impassioned.
RoadRunner, to be fair, I could not find anything for Huntington Beach, Irvine, Newport Beach ./…… etc.
I guess Supervisor Chris Norby and Larry Gilbert should be held responsible for planting ideas in the Gov. Arnold admin. when we suggested they take the unspent money from our local city redevelopment agencies. Think about it. The multi millions of dollars accumulated via TIF financing takes funds away from police, fire and special districts. They also steal money from our local schools which are to be backfilled by prop 98. One problem. When the state is out of money, and credit, there is no prop 98 backfill dollars available.
Greetings from Orlando where I hope to see the Magic knock off the Cavaliers tonight.
PS: As Shaq refused to give up his tickets we will sit in front of a 52 inch big screen with a cold one as we root for the home team that the LA media has completely ignored as they promoted a Laker-Cleveland finals.