October 14, 2011
New Legislative Update - October 2011
The New Legislative Update for October 2011 is now available in the Legislative Section of CCPOA.org.
You can read it HERE.
August 12, 2011
New Legislative Update - August 2011
The New Legislative Update for August 2011 is now available in the Legislative Section of CCPOA.org.
You can view it HERE.
July 15, 2011
New Legislative Update - July 2011
The New Legislative Update for July 2011 is now available in the Legislative Section of CCPOA.org.
You can view it HERE.
April 8, 2011
MOU Fiscal Analysis Bargaining Units 6 and 13
Fiscal Analysis Required by State Law. Section 19829.5 of the Government Code - approved by the Legislature in 2005 - requires the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) to issue a fiscal analysis of proposed MOUs...
January 25, 2011
Assembly bill to make CDCR’s use of out-of-state private prisons permanent
BILL NUMBER: AB 175 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Donnelly
JANUARY 24, 2011
An act to amend and repeal Section 11191 of the Penal Code, relating to inmates, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 175, as introduced, Donnelly. Inmates: transfers. Existing law, operative until July 1, 2011, or until the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has replaced temporary beds, as defined, authorizes any court, agency, or officer having power to commit or transfer an inmate, to any institution for confinement, to commit or transfer that inmate to any institution within or without this state if this state has contracted for the confinement of inmates in that institution pursuant to one of 2 specified compacts. Existing law provides that at any time more than 5 years after the transfer, the inmate shall be entitled to revoke consent and to transfer to an institution in this state. Existing law prohibits the transfer or commitment of an inmate with serious medical or mental health conditions, as determined by the Plata Receiver, or an inmate in the mental health delivery system, as specified, to an institution outside of this state unless he or she has executed a written consent to the transfer.
This bill would remove the inmate's right to revoke his or her consent and make other conforming changes. The bill would delete the sunset date on existing law and make the above provision operative indefinitely.
Existing law, operative on July 1, 2011, or at such time that the department has replaced temporary beds, in addition to the provisions operative until July 1, 2011, prohibits inmates to be committed or transferred to an institution outside this state unless he or she has executed a written consent to the transfer and omits the provision above regarding inmates with medical conditions.
This bill would repeal the provision that becomes operative on July 1, 2011.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
See this bill online at: www.legalinfo.ca.gov
September 13, 2010
Schwarzenegger Defends Asia Trip Amid Budget Deadlock
California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger defended his week-long business trip to Asia as needed to research high-speed rail options even as the state operates without a budget
“In each one of the countries that we go to, which is China, Japan and Korea, we are going to ride high speed rail and they all are going to be part of the bidding process in California,” Schwarzenegger said at the Netrepreneur Summit in Hangzhou, China, today. “It would be a mistake for California to think we can do high-speed rail ourselves.”
Hangzhou is Schwarzenegger’s first stop on a week-long trade mission to China, Japan and South Korea, even as he and state lawmakers fail to agree on how to eliminate a $19.1 billion deficit before the state runs out of cash. State lawmakers including Noreen Evans of Santa Rosa have called on Schwarzenegger to postpone the trip...
LINK - BusinessWeek.com
August 9, 2010
BREAKING NEWS: Judge says Schwarzenegger can’t impose new furloughs
An Alameda County Superior Court judge Monday temporarily barred Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from imposing new furloughs on state workers beginning Friday.
Judge Steven A. Brick ruled after hearing more than two hours of arguments over the governor's demand that about 144,000 state employees take unpaid time off.
The judge granted a temporary restraining order, saying that it appears that the governor's executive order is inconsistent with various provisions of state law...
LINK - SacBee.com
July 29, 2010
The State Worker: Schwarzenegger’s latest furloughs pick winners and losers
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Wednesday furlough order did something different: It picked winners and losers.True, his earlier furloughs and this one exempt the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the California Highway Patrol. Schwarzenegger considers them key public safety organizations and didn't want to dilute their resources.But his new order exempts six other departments. That's significant because the governor has always said that, to be fair, furloughs should be applied across the board...
LINK - SacBee.com
July 28, 2010
Furlough Alert - July 28, 2010
WEST SACRAMENTO — Along with the other bargaining units in the state, CCPOA was notified a short while ago that Governor Schwarzenegger will render an Executive Order imposing 3 furlough days per month beginning with the August pay period that will impact employees’ September 1 pay check. This Executive Order is in effect until a new budget is in place.
DPA made note of all groups that will be exempt from the furloughs, including special funded agencies and public safety employees. However, CDCR employees were NOT INCLUDED in this exemption as public safety employees. DPA stated the furlough impositions are a direct result of a worsening budget situation and a state that is running out of cash.
We will post the declaration on the CCPOA website as soon as we receive it. Please stay tuned to CCPOA website for updates.
For more information please contact JeVaughn Baker at (916) 372-6060 or jevaughn.baker@ccpoa.org
OFFICIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER: S-12-10 @ www.gov.ca.gov
OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION: #15693 @ www.gov.ca.gov
Note: Proclamation title says "State of Emergency - Kern County Wildfires" but the subject is the budget/furloughs.
July 26, 2010
Court adds more time to minimum wage clock
A Sacramento Superior Court hearing today wound up pushing back the date for when attorneys will again debate whether Controller John Chiang must issue minimum wage paychecks to state workers. The upshot: No minimum wage for state workers now at least through September, and quite possibly well beyond that.
Instead, "other issues" will be discussed and "the infeasibility argument will take place some time in the future," said Ryan Endean, spokesman for PECG and CAPS, two of the unions that have supported Chiang's position...
LINK - SacBee.com (The State Worker)
July 16, 2010
RULING ON TRO - Endsley v. Chiang
July 16, 2010
Ruling on Intervention - Endsley v. Chiang
DEBBIE L. ENDSLEY, et al., v. JOHN CHIANG, et al., Case No. 2010-80000591:
The following shall constitute the Court's ruling on the ex parte applications for leave to intervene in this action filed by four state employee organizations, which was heard in Department 19 on Friday, July 16, 2010.
Plaintiffs Debbie L. Endsley, the Director of the California Department of Personnel Administration, and the Department, have filed a petition for writ of mandate or prohibition, and a complaint for declaratory relief, against defendants Office of the State Controller and the Controller, John Chiang...
July 16, 2010
PRESS RELEASE: CCPOA Responds to minimum-wage ruling
WEST SACRAMENTO - Today in Sacramento County Superior Court, Judge Patrick Marlette rejected Gov. Schwarzenegger’s demand for a temporary restraining order seeking to force State Controller John Chiang to immediately pay state employees minimum wage until a state budget is adopted. As a result, state workers – including the 33,000 members of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) - will continue to receive their regular pay for their hours worked...
July 16, 2010
BREAKING NEWS: Judge denies Schwarzenegger’s minimum wage order
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette today denied Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's request to immediately compel State Controller John Chiang to pay state employees minimum wage.
The denial means there will be a full hearing on the issues on July 26, but Marlette's ruling is a boost for about 200,000 state workers, who were facing paychecks for $7.25 an hour for the July pay period. Chiang has said he would issue full pay unless the legal process went against him before July 22, the cutoff to send payroll to the check printer...
LINK - SacBee.com
July 14, 2010
Schwarzenegger fights union involvement in minimum wage case
Attorneys for the Schwarzenegger administration on Tuesday filed a brief in Sacramento Superior Court that argues state employee unions shouldn't be allowed to enter the minimum wage fight between the governor and State Controller John Chiang.
As reported here, California Association of Professional Scientists and Professional Engineers in California Government on Monday filed a motion to be a party in the minimum wage litigation flying back and forth the last week or so. SEIU Local 1000 and CCPOA have done the same. All the unions are siding with Chiang. A hearing is set for Friday at 11 a.m...
LINK - SacBee.com
July 14, 2010
Minimum Wage Case in Court on Friday
This Friday, the Sacramento Superior Court will hear a request by DPA to compel the State Controller to pay minimum wage to state employees. CCPOA has petitioned to intervene, as well have several other groups. The Controller has filed extensive documentation in defense of his position to NOT pay minimum wage...
Here are the documents referred to in the CCPOA memo from State Controller John Chiang's website:
Alternative Solutions Assessment Report - 7/10/2010
Independent Feasibility Assessment Report - 7/10/2010
Controller's Opposition Brief - 7/13/2010
Other Supporting Documents - 7/13/2010
For all the recent news on minimum wage, the California State Budget and other related information, CLICK HERE.
Please read the FULL memo from Chuck Alexander below...
July 9, 2010
Update: Gov. vs. Chiang Battle Over Minimum Wage
Chiang takes fight with Schwarzenegger to cable news airwaves
State Controller John Chiang and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have spent the week trading legal filings and pointed barbs in the media. At issue is Schwarzenegger's order to reduce state worker salaries to $7.25 per hour until the state has a budget in place. It is a plan that Chiang says he cannot, and will not, implement.
Friday morning, Chiang appeared on Fox Business to talk about the wage rollbacks and his battle with Schwarzenegger...
LINK - LATimes.com (click the link to continue reading AND view the video)
Chiang on Fox Business: 'I am not defying the governor'
State Controller John Chiang said in a television interview today that he will do "anything a court asks me to do if I physically can" to comply with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's order to reduce pay for roughly 200.000 state workers to minimum wage because of the budget impasse.
"I am not defying the governor... I'm saying we cannot do it physically," he told Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney. Chiang likened using the state's negative payroll system to issue minimum-wage checks to trying to ride a bicycle designed to pedal forward backwards...
LINK - SacBee.com (click the link to continue reading AND view the video)
July 7, 2010
Controller Files Cross-Complaint Charging DPA Pay Letter is Illegal
State Controller John Chiang today filed a cross-complaint in Sacramento Superior Court, alleging the Pay Letter issued by the Department ofPersonnel Administration (DPA) ordering him to reduce state employee pay to the federal minimum wage is unlawful.
In his cross-complaint, the Controller alleges DPA's Pay Letter forces him "to choose between violating the Pay Letter or violating various federal and state laws."
Controller Chiang notes the DPA has not made any serious effort to work with the Controller to reach a resolution ofthe issues or to provide clarification to the Controller regarding his rights, duties and responsibilities" in paying salaries of state employees during a budget impasse...
July 7, 2010
Schwarzenegger sues, demanding Chiang pay minimum wage
The Schwarzenegger administration filed a new legal action today asking the Sacramento Superior Court to force Controller John Chiang to pay state employees minimum wage for this month if no state budget is enacted.
Chiang has said he will not comply with the governor's order to pay minimum wage for the July pay period. Filed by the Department of Personnel Administration and DPA Director Debbie Endsley, the action seeks to force Chiang to comply. It noted that the cut-off date to begin processing the July payroll is July 22.
It says the order is "urgently needed" to stop Chiang from paying full salaries...
LINK - SacBee.com
July 7, 2010
California Banks Pitch `Budget-Impasse Loans’ to State Workers
Banks and credit unions will offer zero-interest loans and other assistance to the 200,000 California government employees who may see their pay reduced to the minimum wage as a result of the state’s budget stalemate.
The Golden 1 Credit Union, a lender that caters to state workers, will offer zero-interest loans to customers whose pay falls because of the stalled spending plan, according to a July 2 statement. About 1,100 legislative aides and gubernatorial appointees whose pay was stopped on July 1 already have access to so-called budget-impasse loans, said Donna A. Bland, the company’s chief financial officer.
“We’re trying to show our support for our state-employee members,” Bland said in a telephone interview. Golden 1, based in Sacramento, the state capital, describes itself as the sixth- largest credit union in the nation with about $7 billion in assets...
LINK - Bloomberg.com
July 2, 2010
Controller Issues Statement On Minimum Wage Ruling
The following statement was issued by the Controller in response to the Third District Court of Appeal’s ruling regarding the Governor’s authority to reduce state employee salaries to the minimum wage absent a budget...
July 2, 2010
Governor and Minimum Wage Issues in the News
A defiant Chiang accuses governor of 'political tricks' (7/1/2010)
In a strongly worded rebuke, state Controller John Chiang said Thursday that he would defy Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s order to slash the pay of state workers until "the courts hand down a final resolution."
Chiang, a Democrat, said the pay cuts will "do nothing to solve the budget deficit" because state employees are entitled to their back pay once a budget is in place. “In the absence of the leadership needed to bring the Legislature to an agreement on his budget, the governor again resorts to political tricks," Chiang said in a statement...
LINK - LATimes.com
Schwarzenegger orders minimum wage for state workers (7/1/2010)
The Schwarzenegger administration today ordered State Controller John Chiang to reduce state worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law -- $7.25 an hour for most state workers.
The instructions from the Department of Personnel Administration exclude roughly 37,000 state workers in six bargaining units that recently came to tentative labor agreements with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Some employees, such as doctors and lawyers, would get no pay because federal exempts them from any minimum wage requirement...
LINK - SacBee.com
The State Worker: Will minimum wage hit this month? Unlikely (7/1/2010)
The threat of minimum wage for state workers starting today, the beginning of the 2010-11 fiscal year, has been the Schwarzenegger administration's big stick in recent labor talks.
In 2003, the California Supreme Court said the state can withhold pay to the federal minimum until there's money appropriated for wages. No budget, no dough set aside for payroll...
...But it's unlikely that minimum wage will hit state workers, at least this month...
LINK - SacBee.com (The State Worker)
July 2, 2010
Controller Issues Statement Regarding DPA Letter
Controller Issues Statement Regarding DPA Letter (7/1/2010)
The following statement was issued by the Controller in response to a notice by the Department of Personnel Administration that they were planning on issuing a pay letter ordering the Controller to reduce state employee salaries to the minimum wage, with the exception of the six bargaining units the administration has reached an agreement with...
June 29, 2010
Rolling Back Pension Costs: How Far Will It Go?
The Highway Patrol union that negotiated the most generous pension formula a decade ago, a trendsetter for police and firefighters statewide, has tentatively agreed to reduce pensions for new hires.
The "three at 50" formula, providing 3 percent of final pay for each year served at age 50, became the best-known part of a sweeping state worker pension increase, SB 400 in 1999, often cited by critics who say public pension costs are "unsustainable."
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, applauding the Highway Patrol agreement last week, said once again in a news release that rolling back the benefit increase in SB 400 is one of the demands that must be met before he signs a new state budget...
LINK - PublicCEO.com
June 28, 2010
Pay reductions useless, costly
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Re "Governor's threat triggers concessions" (Editorial, June 24): Helping the governor leverage labor contracts is not the controller's job. My job is protecting the state's pocketbook. Reducing state salaries to the federal minimum wage will do nothing to solve the budget deficit. But it will cost California billions of dollars in penalties and damages for violating the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and the California Constitution.
Two examples: First, retirement contributions are constitutionally protected and must be paid in full and on time as if employees were receiving their full wages. Because employer and employee contributions are calculated as a percentage of the employee's gross pay for the month, those contributions will be underpaid...
LINK - Read the FULL letter @ SacBee.com
June 15, 2010
U.S. Supreme Court to take up California prison overcrowding case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether federal judges had the authority to order California to lower its prison population by 40,000 to ease overcrowding and improve health care, putting any reduction on hold for another year...
LINK - SFGate.com
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will take up the issue of whether the federal judiciary can force a reduction of California's prison population in order to improve inmate health care.
Briefing and oral argument will be in the court's 2010-11 term that begins Oct. 4...
LINK - SacBee.com
June 11, 2010
State Supreme Court to review worker furloughs
The state Supreme Court said Wednesday that it would review two of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's moves to slash state spending without legislative approval - cutting nearly $500 million from the budget and furloughing 200,000 state employees three days a month.
In separate orders, the court granted a hearing to Democratic leaders and social service agencies appealing Schwarzenegger's July 2009 line-item vetoes and broadened its review of the governor's furlough authority.
Schwarzenegger ordered most state employees to take two days a month off without pay in February 2009 and added a third furlough day in July, saying the state would save $1.4 billion a year...
LINK - SFGate.com
June 4, 2010
June state payroll won’t be withheld, administration says
State workers don't have to worry that their paychecks for June will be reduced to federal minimum wage, a Department of Finance spokesman said this week, ending speculation that an arcane state budget fix last year gave Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger the authority to order wages withheld for this month.
July payroll, however, could be reduced if budget talks drag on much past the June 30 end of the fiscal year, said Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer.
State workers have been wondering if their June pay would be withheld to the least allowed by federal law, $7.25 per hour for most employees. Legislation passed last year to plug a $20 billion hole in the 2009-10 general fund budget included pushing this month's payroll expenses to the July 1 start of the 2010-11 fiscal year...
LINK - SacBee.com "The State Worker" Blog
May 21, 2010
BSA Audit: Effect of CDCR Operations on the State Budget
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation:
Inmates Sentenced Under the Three Strikes Law and a Small Number of Inmates Receiving Specialty Health Care Represent Significant Costs
HIGHLIGHTS
Our review of California's increasing prison cost as a proportion of the state budget and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (Corrections) operations revealed the following:
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Inmates incarcerated under the three strikes law (striker inmates):
- Make up 25 percent of the inmate population as of April 2009.
- Receive sentences that are, on average, nine years longer-resulting in about $19.2 billion in additional costs over the duration of their incarceration.
- Include many individuals currently convicted for an offense that is not a strike, were convicted of committing multiple serious or violent offenses on the same day, and some that committed strikeable offenses as a juvenile.
May 18, 2010
Legislative Analyst’s Office: May Budget Revision
Large Budget Problem Little Changed Since January. In the May Revision, the administration estimates that California must address a $17.9 billion gap between current-law resources and expenditures in the 2010‑11 General Fund budget. In our view, the administration’s estimate is reasonable. While our tax revenue estimates are slightly higher than the Governor’s: $400 million in 2009‑10 and $1 billion in 2010‑11—overall, our view of the budget problem is similar...Read the entire Overview of the May Budget Revision below.
May 14, 2010
The Governor’s May Budget Revision
As you know, the Governor released his May Revision to the budget this afternoon. As in January, the proposal needs to solve an approximately $20 billion deficit. As expected the Governor proposes to solve most of the problem through cuts.
The major action in the corrections budget is to transfer certain “non-serious, nonviolent and non-sex offenders” to local government. Under his proposal, approximately 15,000 inmates would be kept in the counties (forcing a line number of jail inmates to the streets). He would provide the counties with half of the state savings resulting from the transfers. This proposal is a new version of his January proposal to make certain crimes misdemeanors only. The major difference is that under the new plan he is providing locals with money—an element that was not included in the January proposal. Nevertheless, the impact on public safety will be similar—15,000 jail inmates will be forced to be released to make room in the jails for the state inmates.
The Governor is also proposing to eliminate parole for DJJ offenders and transfer that function to the counties along with $15,000 per parolee per year. He also backs off his January proposal to reduce the DJJ population by limiting the age of jurisdiction to 21.
In the area of employee compensation, the Governor is now proposing to add a one-day-per-month PLP program to the cuts he proposed in January. As you may recall, he then proposed to cut pay by 5%, have employees pay 5% more for retirement and cut the number of employees by 5%. The bottom line is that employees would be 5% worse off than under his January proposal.
In a proposal with no direct implications for the next budget, the Governor has requested that the Legislature lift the June 30, 2011 on the out-of-state contract beds to allegedly allow for the management of anticipated population declines to "achieve maximum savings and effency". He has indicated he will explore closing entire housing units and yards as a part of this process. As you know, both the CDCR and the Legislative Analyst has testified that the expansion of contract beds is more expensive than continuing to house such inmates in-state. In addition, the out-of-state beds use California taxpayer dollars to increase employment in other states, primarily Arizona.
Craig Brown - CCPOA Legislative Affairs
May 1, 2010
California can’t ditch prison medical receiver, court says
A federal appellate court on Friday rejected the Schwarzenegger administration's attempt to rid itself of the court-appointed receiver charged with bringing prison medical care up to a constitutional standard.
The record of the protracted class action lawsuit supports the trial judge's ruling that, contrary to the administration's argument, appointment of a receiver goes "no further than necessary to correct the constitutional violations, and was the least intrusive means," a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared.
"The state to this day has not pointed to any evidence that it could remedy its constitutional violations in the absence of the receivership," the judges said...
LINK - SacBee.com
May 1, 2010
Schwarzenegger’s early release law modified by Senate, heads to Assembly
State lawmakers moved Thursday to repeal much of a new program that allows the early release of county jail inmates.
The state Senate voted unanimously to roll back the program after lawmakers expressed concerns about its possible effect on public safety. They cited news reports of a Sacramento man who was arrested on suspicion of attempted rape within hours of his early release.
The provision for county inmates was one of many sweeping changes that lawmakers approved last year to save money and address overcrowding. It was put in place as California, under pressure from federal courts to reduce its prison population, began sending to county jails and local reentry programs thousands of offenders who would normally go to state prisons...
LINK - LATimes.com
April 21, 2010
California public employee unions won’t face ballot fights
Public employee unions have dodged a bullet this election year.
Proponents have stopped pushing a measure to prohibit unions from deducting political money from public employee wages.
Supporters of the measure had trouble raising enough money to gather the 694,354 valid signatures they needed to qualify the constitutional amendment for the ballot, said Lew Uhler, president of the advocacy group the National Tax Limitation Committee, which worked with the initiative's proponents...
LINK - SacBee.com
March 25, 2010
More on Whitman support for private prisons
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown has accused GOP challenger Meg Whitman of offering "snake oil" to voters, saying her promises to fully fund education, build prisons and protect law enforcement pensions - while cutting taxes - is a "gross misrepresentation" of California's fiscal crisis.
In his toughest attack yet on the former eBay CEO, the state attorney general and former two-term governor told a gathering of law enforcement officials on Wednesday that with the state confronting its most critical budget problems in decades, "this is not time for glib, scripted, consultant-driven, empty programs."
"Now more than ever, we need to collaborate," he said of the need for all parties in the state to work together on its most-pressing problems. "It's time for straight talk..."
LINK - SFGate.com
March 25, 2010
Whitman supports private prisons, Poizner, Brown oppose
Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman called Wednesday for building new prisons to house some of the state's 150,000 inmates as she sparred with her rivals over the best way to fix the state's costly and overcrowded corrections system.
"(Overcrowding) is a sign that we have not invested in the infrastructure in California," Whitman said in remarks to a gathering of public safety officials in Sacramento. "We are going to have to create some capacity to invest to make sure that we have the infrastructure that we need in the next 50 years."
Whitman, who opposes raising taxes and wants to reduce the state work force, declined to identify a specific funding source for the costly new facilities, saying instead that cash could be freed up by cutting other areas of government...
LINK - SacBee.com
January 11, 2010
BUDGET RESPONSE
In a press release titled, "CCPOA Responds to the Governor's Proposed Budget," and dated January 8, 2010, CCPOA says: "Today the governor released his proposed state budget for fiscal year 2010-11, which fails to include any comprehensive and desperately needed prison reform ideas. Instead, what he has proposed is simply 'business as usual.' Among the many flaws in his new budget is his plan to place out-of-state, for-profit corporations in charge of California's prisons..."
January 3, 2010
Furlough Frustration?
Feeling frustrated regarding having to work for free? Want to let the Governor know how you feel? Well, here is the phone number to the Governors office (916) 445-2841. Please be sure to remain professional and whatever you do don't call from a state phone. Those who have called so far have not been treated with respect, so be prepared to be told that you are "lucky" to make the money that you do. If you feel like it, send an e-mail of your conversation with our loving Governors staff to nichol.gomez@ccpoa.org for possible publication. Also, you may want to take the time to contact your local legislators district office and let them know the hardships this decision by this Governor is causing you and your family. You can find your legislator by clicking on this link leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html and then entering your zip code.
Take Action! Call The Governors Office (916) 445-2841
October 1, 2009
Tax Acceleration Law Information
CCPOA is not in a position to give tax advice, and is providing this notice strictly for your information. As part of the budget "fix" California has enacted a tax acceleration law. Beginning November 1, 2009 the State will be withholding State taxes at a rate 10% higher than the current amount witheld. This is an increase of 10% to your tax withholding amount, but does not increase your annual tax liability, in effect, a loan to the State...
October 4, 2006
Governor Uses Executive Authority to Relieve Prison Overcrowding
Governor Schwarzenegger issued an emergency proclamation for California's prison system today, citing severe overcrowding as a threat to health and safety in 29 of the State's 33 prisons. The emergency proclamation will allow Corrections officials to immediately contract with out-of-state correctional facilities to temporarily house California inmates.
