Monday, August 11th, 2008

The truth is unless you are a member of the California state government, you and I are interested spectators.  We elect legislators and executives to make and enact the laws of the state, and the most effective recourse we have to address poor performance is to vote them out of office.  This is the essence and the weakness of a representative republic.

Your local paper can keep you up to date with all of the day to day comings and goings, whether or not state workers who haven't already been laid off will have the pay temporarily docked back to minimum wage, whether or not there will be tax increases, how the Democrats and Republicans are getting along, etc.  So here are a few non-partisan, entirely factual web pages that will help you track changes to the state budget and the Calif. Tech. Asst. Project funding portion of it, known as SB1637.

• http://www.dof.ca.gov/budget/historical/2008-09/
• Hard documentation of FY0809 state budget, currently on hold since the May revise
  
• http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/index.html
• A web site for tracking bills through the state legislature
  
• http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_1637&sess=CUR&house=B&author=torlakson
• The SB 1637 page
• http://www.legislature.ca.gov/the_state_legislature/budget_information/budget.html
• StateLegilsature's budget information page

Hope this helps keep you informed.

Daniel


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