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"content": "\u003cp>by Jennifer Gollan, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/budget-crisis/story/state-has-been-slow-issue-bonds/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/BayCitizenLogo2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79827\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/BayCitizenLogo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>Some California agencies and departments have been slow to distribute proceeds from bond sales for local projects, costing the state at least $49 million in interest each year even as it has struggled to address chronic budget shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of June, according to the most recent figures available, the state was holding on to about $7 billion from the sale of general obligation bonds, according to a report by the California State Auditor. 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All of the department’s projects were delayed – except for those addressing drought conditions or safety hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area projects temporarily delayed by the release of bond funds included a water supply study in eastern Alameda County and the Sonoma Land Trust’s 2009 acquisition of the Jenner Headlands, encompassing more than 5,600 acres east of Highway 101 in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons we have the most money is because we were one of the departments that received bond funding through one of the last bonds authorized by California voters,” Tufts said. “We are trying to manage this as well as possible. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Brown became governor, the state was holding on to $12.9 billion in bond funds, Dresslar said. Since then, the Brown administration has reduced the volume of funds by nearly half to about $7 billion, which in turn has allowed it to reduce the amount of new debt.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, some critics of government spending say the state could do more to reduce its interest payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this money sitting idle, it is not doing anyone any good,” said Kris Vosburgh, executive director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. “It is just draining our treasury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy Westen, chief executive officer of the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the private sector, you don’t order the raw materials and have them sit around the stockyard. You use them within hours,” Westen said. “It seems to me that practice ought to be used with these bonds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say it is difficult to determine how much interest the state is paying on all the bonds, largely because it is too difficult to track the bond cash back to each bond that has been sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest sum of unspent bond proceeds as of June was $2.1 billion, which is overseen by the California Department of Water Resources to provide safe drinking water and protect residents from floods and mudslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Tufts, the department’s bond accountability manager, said the department’s bond proceeds accumulated because Schwarzenegger imposed a freeze in December 2008 preventing state agencies from issuing any bonds. While Schwarzenegger lifted the ban six months later, the agency had to renegotiate contracts that had expired, delaying the launch of some projects even further. All of the department’s projects were delayed – except for those addressing drought conditions or safety hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area projects temporarily delayed by the release of bond funds included a water supply study in eastern Alameda County and the Sonoma Land Trust’s 2009 acquisition of the Jenner Headlands, encompassing more than 5,600 acres east of Highway 101 in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons we have the most money is because we were one of the departments that received bond funding through one of the last bonds authorized by California voters,” Tufts said. “We are trying to manage this as well as possible. We want to do the proper thing by reviewing all the projects thoroughly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agency with a large balance of unspent bonds is the state Department of Housing and Community Development, which has paid an average of $49 million annually in interest for its unused bond proceeds since the bonds were sold in 2010, according to a recent report by the state auditor’s office. The funds are from two bond measures approved by voters within the past decade to improve housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colin Parent, a spokesman for the California Department of Housing and Community Development, said his agency had not deferred any bond-funded projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a situation where projects were being delayed,” Parent said. “We issued more bonds then was necessary for the purposes of cash flow. The primary purpose was to encourage banks to give contractors construction loans to do the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, the state has made a push to spend down its bond funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been some real progress made in getting those funds out the door,” Dresslar said. “We are concentrating on getting the money that we already have in hand out to projects.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Joanna Lin, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/californians-commute-times-rank-10th-longest-us-18614\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians rank 10th in the country for having the longest commute times, taking an average of 26.9 minutes to travel to work, recently released census data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79551\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/BART.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-79551\" title=\"BART\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/BART.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commuters use public transportation in San Francisco more than in anyplace esle in California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Workers in the state spent 10.4 minutes more getting to work than did workers in North Dakota, which reported the quickest commutes in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/acs/www/\" target=\"_blank\">2009-11 American Community Survey\u003c/a>. Commuters in Maryland had the longest commute times to work at 31.8 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, Americans spent 23.7 minutes getting to work. More than three-quarters of them drove alone to their jobs, nearly 1 in 10 carpooled and 5 percent took public transportation. Californians were less likely to drive alone – about 73 percent did – and were more likely to carpool (11.4 percent) or ride public transit (5.2 percent).\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians' commuting habits have not changed much in recent years. They drive, carpool and ride public transit at about the same rates they reported in the 2006-8 American Community Survey, and their journeys to work are about the same duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One explanation for persistently high rates of solo drivers, said Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at UCLA, is free parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you can park free at work, it's an invitation to drive to work alone. And almost everybody who does drive to work has this invitation,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shoup's research led to a 1992 state law that requires employers to offer workers cash in lieu of a parking space. The idea behind the \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/planning/tsaq/cashout/cashout.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cash-out program\u003c/a> is that by allowing employees to cash out their subsidized parking spots and instead walk, bike, take public transit or carpool to work, there would be fewer cars on the road and less emissions in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/single-project.php?row_id=55468\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> Shoup conducted 15 years ago for the state Air Resources Board found that employers who offered cash-out programs saw solo driving to work drop by 17 percent, carpooling increase by 64 percent, walking and biking grow by 33 percent and transit ridership jump by 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cash-out program, however, is not well known and not widely used, Shoup said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California has missed an opportunity to take advantage of this law,\" he said. \"If you offer parking cash-out it would really turn things upside down. Parking, which used to be free, now has an opportunity cost. They could get cash, so now you think, well gee, maybe I should think about transit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women and minorities would be the biggest beneficiaries of cash-out programs because they're less likely to drive alone and more likely to take public transit to work, Shoup said. The 2009-11 American Community Survey showed that about 55 percent of solo drivers to work in California were men and about 45 percent were women. About 44 percent of public transit riders were Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians who refrained from driving to work alone typically had longer commutes. On average, solo drivers spent 25.5 minutes getting to work, the survey showed. Carpoolers took just over half an hour to get to their jobs, and public transit riders commuted nearly 47 minutes to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longest commute times in the state belonged to residents of Contra Costa County, who spent an average of 32.2 minutes traveling to work. In the county, 7 in 10 drove alone, 11.8 percent carpooled and 8.8 percent took public transit. Contra Costa County, along with Riverside County, had the highest proportion of its residents traveling an hour or more to work – 17 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Humboldt County, workers had the quickest commutes, an average of 17 minutes, and 3.3 percent traveled an hour or more. Statewide, fewer than 1 in 10 Californians commuted an hour or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of San Francisco were the least likely in the state to commute by driving alone – 37.5 percent did. One in five reported having no vehicles available to them – a much higher rate than the statewide average of 3.6 percent. San Franciscans were also the most likely to take public transit, with nearly one-third using buses, subways, trains or ferries to get to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For public transit riders in San Francisco, the average commute was 37.3 minutes – about 10 minutes longer than for carpoolers or solo drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, in Los Angeles County, the 7.2 percent of residents who rode public transit to work commuted an average of nearly 48 minutes. Driving alone to work took Los Angeles residents an average of 27.4 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Kendall Taggart, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/corporations-claim-do-good-need-more-oversight-experts-say-18363\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators need\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to have more oversight of new types of companies that claim to have a social or environmental mission, legal experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78265\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitol-dome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-78265\" title=\"capitol dome\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitol-dome-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 75 companies have registered as \"benefit\" or \"flexible purpose\" corporations since Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17276\" target=\"_blank\">signed\u003c/a> two bills into law a year ago that created the new entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law is intended to shield businesses from lawsuits as they pursue social objectives, such as preserving the environment, in addition to making a profit. Traditional for-profit companies, proponents argue, could face shareholder lawsuits if they prioritize social goals at the expense of profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies that have taken advantage of the new law range from large businesses like \u003ca href=\"http://www.patagonia.com/us/home\" target=\"_blank\">Patagonia\u003c/a>, which has a long-standing history of supporting environmental causes, to startups like \u003ca href=\"http://powerhive.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\">Powerhive\u003c/a> in Oakland, which is working to provide clean energy to households without electricity.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But private attorneys at a National Association of State Charity Officials conference recently told an audience of state nonprofit regulators that they had concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These new classifications of companies are not monitored by government agencies to ensure compliance with statutory requirements, said Robert Keatinge, an attorney with Holland & Hart, and Victoria Bjorklund, an attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett who specializes in tax-exempt organizations. Without independent monitoring, there’s greater risk of abuse and the potential for investors to be misled, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 75 companies that have registered since the law went into effect in January, 60 firms have opted to become benefit corporations, which are required to meet third-party social, environmental, accountability and transparency standards. The other 15 are flexible-purpose corporations. As the name suggests, those corporations have greater flexibility and fewer requirements that ensure they are dedicated to a social or environmental mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics have suggested that flexibility could enable bad actors to mislead the public into thinking they’re supporting a company oriented toward social and environmental goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are going to be bad actors in both camps,\" said Erik Trojian, director of policy at B Lab, a nonprofit that certifies benefit corporations and has advocated for legislation similar to California's across the country. \"I think there’s greater protection in the benefit corporation model.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keatinge thinks the benefit corporation model could give investors a false sense of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My concern is that it seems to have the stamp of approval of the state,\" he said in an interview. \"If somebody is going to make an investment based on state law, the state should do something to make sure they’re in conformity with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trojian thinks concerns about a lack of state regulation are misplaced. Just like traditional corporations, he said, these new kinds of companies are regulated by shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a private matter between the shareholders and the directors. This has nothing to do with the public. Not a dollar of public money goes into this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 17 states have passed laws that enable corporations to pursue social goals, but most do not have specific regulatory requirements. Illinois is the only state that requires these companies to register with the attorney general's office, according to Keatinge and Bjorklund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angie Needels registered her personal chef business as a benefit corporation in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her business, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mamakai.org/mission\" target=\"_blank\">MamaKai\u003c/a>, is based in Berkeley and provides meals and educational services for families who are preparing for or recently had a baby. 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"content": "\u003cp>Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/disabled-inmates-suffer-shift-county-jails-18298\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day in March, a blind man was booked into the San Bernardino County jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77734\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/jail-monica-lam-cir.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77734 \" title=\"jail monical lam cir\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/jail-monical-lam-cir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"185\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno's jail population has shot up by 30 percent, one of the highest increases in the state. (Monical Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A parole violator, he could see only four inches in front of his face. At the West Valley Detention Center, according to his account, deputies assigned him the upper bunk in a cell at the top of a tall staircase. “The deputy laughed at me and told me I could see just fine,” he recounted. Several days later, he missed a step and, flailing for a handrail, tumbled down the steel staircase. When he returned from the hospital in a wheelchair, deputies confiscated it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blind prisoner’s account, dictated to an attorney, is one of dozens of complaints cited in a federal lawsuit alleging that the state violated the rights of disabled prisoners by not ensuring they would receive adequate care in county jails. The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over the state’s responsibility for disabled prisoners has taken on increasing importance as the state shifts the burden of housing many thousands of inmates onto the counties in a policy euphemistically known as “realignment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blind prisoner’s account, dictated to an attorney, is one of dozens of complaints cited in a federal lawsuit alleging that the state violated the rights of disabled prisoners by not ensuring they would receive adequate care in county jails. The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over the state’s responsibility for disabled prisoners has taken on increasing importance as the state shifts the burden of housing many thousands of inmates onto the counties in a policy euphemistically known as “realignment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state, facing a federal court mandate to shrink its prison population, enacted the Public Safety Realignment Act last year, flooding county jails with felons, nonviolent offenders and parolees who have been rearrested. Among them are thousands of disabled prisoners with special medical needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For county governments already reeling from budget cutbacks, the cost of upgrading jails and caring for disabled prisoners could be huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m crossing my fingers that we can accommodate some of those needs here in our county,” said Undersheriff Dahl Cleek, of Tulare County, where advocates found disability rights violations earlier this year. “But it’s not like we have a built-in hospital inside these jails. Those could bankrupt a county pretty quick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than two decades, attorneys representing disabled prisoners have fought the state in federal court to improve their treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1994, lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation alleging that the department housed disabled prisoners in poor conditions and discriminated against them by failing to provide equal access to programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landmark suit, now known as the Armstrong case after lead plaintiff John Armstrong, ultimately compelled the prison system to improve its facilities and expand services for disabled prisoners. State prisons began keeping track of disabled inmates, giving them vests that identified their disability status and making sure they had access to showers, toilets, medical supplies and prison programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We underwent tremendous changes,” said Jeanne Woodford, the former corrections department director who helped implement the policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the surge of inmates in county jails, lawyers for the disabled gathered dozens of complaints from prisoners and presented them to U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken, who deemed them evidence of widespread rights violations in county facilities. The cases included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, an inmate with 80 percent hearing loss was denied a hearing aid and then disciplined for failing to listen to deputies’ directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Barbara County, a bipolar and suicidal parole violator said he was denied the medication he had received while in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento County, a blind parole violator was denied a tapping cane, forcing him to rely on inmates and deputies to escort him to the toilet, the showers and meals. He had been permitted a cane in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, a paralyzed parolee reported that deputies replaced her custom wheelchair with a broken one, tying her feet to the footrests to keep them from dragging, then gave her a cell with a door that was not wide enough for a wheelchair. Deputies later returned her personal wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tulare County, an inmate with swollen legs from chronic liver disease reported that deputies had confiscated his cane. In prison, he had been allowed to use a cane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in Tulare County, a parole violator scheduled for knee replacement surgery was given an upper bunk; he fell 11 times while trying to climb onto his bed, he said. In prison, he had been assigned a lower bunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, a deaf inmate said he could not communicate with medical staff about an ear infection because the jail did not provide a sign language interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodford was asked by the prisoners’ attorneys to review jail polices and the prisoners’ complaints. She said many county jails are now in the same position the state prisons were before the Armstrong case was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“County jails are providing accommodations only sporadically, resulting in significant harm to CDCR prisoners and parolees,” Woodford said in a declaration to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Wilken upheld her earlier order that the state is responsible for disabled parole violators and prisoners who are being held in county facilities. She ordered the state to begin emailing jails with information about disabled prisoners coming into their care and describing the past services they received. She also ordered the state to give prisoners grievance forms and investigate complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Sept. 10, the state has notified county jails that more than 1,300 of their newly arrived inmates are disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gay Grunfeld, the lead attorney for prisoners in the Armstrong case, said the judge’s order would improve conditions in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This idea that the state and the counties are totally separate is just inconsistent with reality,” she said. “I’m very confident that providing information about the particular parolees is going to help everybody improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state, however, has appealed Wilken’s decision. And in June, Gov. 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Among them are thousands of disabled prisoners with special medical needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For county governments already reeling from budget cutbacks, the cost of upgrading jails and caring for disabled prisoners could be huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m crossing my fingers that we can accommodate some of those needs here in our county,” said Undersheriff Dahl Cleek, of Tulare County, where advocates found disability rights violations earlier this year. “But it’s not like we have a built-in hospital inside these jails. 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State prisons began keeping track of disabled inmates, giving them vests that identified their disability status and making sure they had access to showers, toilets, medical supplies and prison programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We underwent tremendous changes,” said Jeanne Woodford, the former corrections department director who helped implement the policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the surge of inmates in county jails, lawyers for the disabled gathered dozens of complaints from prisoners and presented them to U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken, who deemed them evidence of widespread rights violations in county facilities. 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"content": "\u003cp>Katharine Mieszkowski, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/parks/story/park-donors-feel-betrayed-want-money/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-77275\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>Donors in the South Bay, angry over state mismanagement of park funds, are demanding the return of hundreds of thousands of dollars they gave to keep Northern California’s largest state park operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coe Park Preservation Fund, based in Scotts Valley, donated $279,000 earlier this year to prevent the closure of rugged, 87,000-acre Henry W. Coe State Park, located about 30 miles south of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Henry-Coe-State-Park.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77276\" title=\"Henry Coe State Park\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Henry-Coe-State-Park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Coe State Park (Creative Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to ask for the return of the $279,000 back to the Coe Park Preservation Fund,” said Dan McCranie, treasurer of the group’s board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the money is returned, the group plans to offer refunds to its donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state, however, says it has no obligation to refund the money. “As it stands, there is no legal mechanism to actually return the money,” said Richard Stapler, spokesman for the state Natural Resources Agency, which oversees the California Department of Parks and Recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an email, Stapler wrote that the agency does not rule out the possibility of a compromise. “We are very eager to speak with the Coe folks,” he said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 25, Gov. 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About $20 million was in the state Parks and Recreation Fund, which comes mainly from fees paid by park goers. Another $34 million was found in a fund for off-road vehicles and can only be spent on parks that allow them. The Sacramento Bee reported on the funds in July, and three of the department’s top officials resigned or were fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the surplus came to light, the Coe Park Preservation Fund had already given the department its $279,000. The May donation was the first installment under a three-year agreement [PDF] to help staff the park. In addition to obtaining a refund, the donors want to dissolve their agreement with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That money was given to the park for a specific purpose,” said board President Ann Briggs. “The law that has just been passed supersedes that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement between the state and the Coe donors says it can be terminated by either party with 30 days notice, except when money for the year has already been donated. “Once funds are transferred to State Parks, this Agreement may not be terminated by either Party for any reason through Fiscal Year 2012/2013,” the agreement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We negotiated with the DPR (Department of Parks and Recreation) under the assumption that the only chance we had to keep Henry Coe open was to provide private donations,” said McCranie, a longtime executive in the semiconductor industry and one of the major donors to the Coe Park Preservation Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the group gets its money back, he plans to keep his share in the fund to help maintain the park and pay for interpretive programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation signed by Brown last week appropriates $10 million from the surplus to keep at-risk parks open over the next two years. Another $10 million would be spent on the parks only to match donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That plan did not mollify the Coe Park Preservation Fund, which voted unanimously last month to rescind its deal with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This $20 million came from visitors to our state parks,” McCranie said. “Why then are they going to take that $10 million, hold it in reserve and say that they’ll only allocate it to the parks when they receive matching funds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stapler, the Natural Resources Agency spokesman, estimated that $3 million to $5 million that would be matched has already been raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators argue that despite the newly discovered surplus, parks still need the public’s donations. “The discovery of hidden funds does not change the fact that California still needs additional resources to prevent our beautiful parks from closing,” Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-San Fernando Valley, who sponsored AB 1478.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McCranie expressed skepticism that donors will want to continue funding state parks. “It was a nightmare getting people to invest, because everyone kept saying: ‘We don’t want to bail out the state,’ ” he said. “Now, with this scandal, I just cannot imagine anyone is going to want to be freely giving funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. 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It also lays the groundwork for city-owned renewable power production.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21575736/electronic-tolls-coming-golden-gate-bridge-february\">Electronic tolls coming to the Golden Gate Bridge in February\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Toll-takers at the Golden Gate Bridge have less than five months left on the job as span officials plan to go to all-electronic tolling by February. 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With more than 100 supporters nearly filling the chambers, Adam and Jeralynn Blueford demanded that they finally get to see the police report on the shooting death of their son Alan Blueford, an 18-year-old senior at Skyline High School.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/City-College-near-bankruptcy-audit-says-3875651.php\">City College near bankruptcy, audit says\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>City College of San Francisco is perilously close to bankruptcy, in part because it employs nearly twice as many faculty as similar colleges and pays them better – yet educates no more students on average, says a new financial analysis of the state’s largest public school. The college got into trouble because, unlike other colleges, it failed to make the budget cuts necessary to keep up with reductions in state funding, never set aside money for its growing retirement obligations, and “has provided salary increases and generous benefits with no discernible means to pay for them,” says the review by the state’s Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team, authorized by state law to help public schools in financial trouble.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Soda-bucks-flow-against-Richmond-measure-3875890.php\">Soda bucks flow against Richmond measure\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Big Soda is expecting to spend upward of a million bucks in the coming weeks to sour the residents of Richmond on the idea of putting a penny-an-ounce tax on high-sugar drinks. That comes to about $45.50 per voting household. And with good reason. 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"content": "\u003cp>By Michael Montgomery, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/advocacy-groups-wary-new-plan-prison-isolation-units-17966\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State corrections officials are moving forward with a plan for handling prison gangs and other violent groups, including changing rules that have kept some inmates locked in special isolation units for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_75990\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/unit-of-pbshu-prison-Michael-Montgomery.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-75990\" title=\"unit of pbshu prison Michael Montgomery\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/unit-of-pbshu-prison-Michael-Montgomery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A unit of cells in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State prison. 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The units routinely have been denounced as inhumane by civil rights groups and were the focus of widespread hunger strikes last year.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early next month, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will begin modifying operations in the special units under a plan that has been in development for more than a year. The department has asserted that nearly all 3,000 inmates being held in the facilities – at Pelican Bay State Prison, California State Prison Corcoran, the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi and California State Prison Sacramento – are active in prison gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've had years of violence in our facilities and in the community that have been driven by prison gangs,\" said Terri McDonald, the department's undersecretary of operations. \"We're going to implement this policy in a thoughtful, measured way to ensure institutional and community security.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formal changes to state regulations could take several years, she said. In the meantime, the department is implementing the policy on a pilot basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, inmates are eligible to work their way out of the special units in three to four years if they complete special programs alongside prisoners from rival groups and do not engage in gang “behavior or activities.” McDonald said inmates will not be required to divulge inside information about the gangs in order to earn transfers out of the units, a controversial practice known as “debriefing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other changes include new criteria to determine who can be sent to the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current rules, an inmate is automatically placed in a Security Housing Unit if he is identified as a member or associate of one of seven prison gangs. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/426284-stg-draft-policy-3-1-12.html\" target=\"_blank\">policy draft\u003c/a> released by the corrections department in March, prison gang associates would be sent to isolation units only if they were “engaged in serious criminal gang behavior or a pattern of violent behavior.” The department also would target dangerous members of any group considered a threat to prison security, including street gangs and extremist groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes will give prison staff more flexibility in dealing with a range of “security threat groups,” according to an Aug. 30 corrections department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/426259-security-threat-group-notice-from-cdcr.html\" target=\"_blank\">notice\u003c/a> sent to the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the powerful union representing prison guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policies will put California more closely in line with “recognized national standards and strategies,” staving off the “inevitable litigation and court mandated changes the State would face by remaining exclusively reliant on the current … system,” according to the document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But revisions in a June 29 corrections \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/426255-stg-policy-7-0.html\" target=\"_blank\">document\u003c/a> obtained by \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch\u003c/a>, The Bay Citizen's sister site, suggest that officials are moving away from the narrower focus on specific criminal or violent acts. Rather, they appear to be reviving controversial guidelines that have allowed authorities to send inmates to the special units for violations such as gang-related tattoos and drawings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The updated version of the policy relies on a number of factors to determine whether an inmate already identified as an associate of a security threat group would be placed in isolation – roughly two-thirds of the inmates currently in the special units are classified as associates. In addition to violent acts such as murder and assault, prison officials would consider an inmate’s disciplinary record, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Security threat group-related tattoos and/or body markings\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Clothing worn “with the intent to intimidate, promote membership or depict affiliation in a security threat group”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The leading or incitement of a disturbance, riot or strike\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Possession of artwork showing security threat group symbols\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Use of hand signs, gestures, handshakes and slogans that specifically relate to a security threat group\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups have long complained that the evidence used by the corrections department, like tattoos and drawings, often is vague and inaccurate. They also say the process does not always identify men involved in violent or illegal acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The department's approach continues to be guilt by association,\" said Don Specter, director of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McDonald said the guidelines are a useful tool in identifying high-risk inmates active in violent gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you put a gang tattoo on your body, you are saying to the inmate community, 'I'm a member of this gang; I represent the values of this gang.' It's a purposeful act,\" she said. \"You're propagating gang behavior in the prisons, and you're creating a risk to the institution and the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, McDonald said she expects some inmates now being held in the special units could qualify for transfer under the new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A special committee already has begun to review the case files of nearly every inmate at Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit using the department's new gang-related disciplinary criteria. The first reviews could be finished next month, after officials complete a visit to Pelican Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe there will be inmates who are reviewed in the case-by-case reviews … who, based on their willingness not to be engaged in gang behavior, will be released out to a general-population prison setting,” McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that initially, the reviews will focus on inmates who have been held in the special units the longest. According to department data released last year, some 500 prisoners have been locked in isolation for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Carbone, a prominent prisoner rights attorney, said the new policy lacks credibility, and it would be difficult for the department to persuade inmates to participate in the programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The promised reforms are a power grab,” he said. “They give the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation more authority and power to track more prisoners for gang activity and to place, ultimately, more in supermax prison settings. 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In the meantime, the department is implementing the policy on a pilot basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, inmates are eligible to work their way out of the special units in three to four years if they complete special programs alongside prisoners from rival groups and do not engage in gang “behavior or activities.” McDonald said inmates will not be required to divulge inside information about the gangs in order to earn transfers out of the units, a controversial practice known as “debriefing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other changes include new criteria to determine who can be sent to the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current rules, an inmate is automatically placed in a Security Housing Unit if he is identified as a member or associate of one of seven prison gangs. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/426284-stg-draft-policy-3-1-12.html\" target=\"_blank\">policy draft\u003c/a> released by the corrections department in March, prison gang associates would be sent to isolation units only if they were “engaged in serious criminal gang behavior or a pattern of violent behavior.” The department also would target dangerous members of any group considered a threat to prison security, including street gangs and extremist groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes will give prison staff more flexibility in dealing with a range of “security threat groups,” according to an Aug. 30 corrections department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/426259-security-threat-group-notice-from-cdcr.html\" target=\"_blank\">notice\u003c/a> sent to the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the powerful union representing prison guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policies will put California more closely in line with “recognized national standards and strategies,” staving off the “inevitable litigation and court mandated changes the State would face by remaining exclusively reliant on the current … system,” according to the document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But revisions in a June 29 corrections \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/426255-stg-policy-7-0.html\" target=\"_blank\">document\u003c/a> obtained by \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch\u003c/a>, The Bay Citizen's sister site, suggest that officials are moving away from the narrower focus on specific criminal or violent acts. Rather, they appear to be reviving controversial guidelines that have allowed authorities to send inmates to the special units for violations such as gang-related tattoos and drawings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The updated version of the policy relies on a number of factors to determine whether an inmate already identified as an associate of a security threat group would be placed in isolation – roughly two-thirds of the inmates currently in the special units are classified as associates. In addition to violent acts such as murder and assault, prison officials would consider an inmate’s disciplinary record, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Security threat group-related tattoos and/or body markings\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Clothing worn “with the intent to intimidate, promote membership or depict affiliation in a security threat group”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The leading or incitement of a disturbance, riot or strike\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Possession of artwork showing security threat group symbols\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Use of hand signs, gestures, handshakes and slogans that specifically relate to a security threat group\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups have long complained that the evidence used by the corrections department, like tattoos and drawings, often is vague and inaccurate. They also say the process does not always identify men involved in violent or illegal acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The department's approach continues to be guilt by association,\" said Don Specter, director of the Berkeley-based Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McDonald said the guidelines are a useful tool in identifying high-risk inmates active in violent gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you put a gang tattoo on your body, you are saying to the inmate community, 'I'm a member of this gang; I represent the values of this gang.' It's a purposeful act,\" she said. \"You're propagating gang behavior in the prisons, and you're creating a risk to the institution and the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, McDonald said she expects some inmates now being held in the special units could qualify for transfer under the new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A special committee already has begun to review the case files of nearly every inmate at Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit using the department's new gang-related disciplinary criteria. The first reviews could be finished next month, after officials complete a visit to Pelican Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe there will be inmates who are reviewed in the case-by-case reviews … who, based on their willingness not to be engaged in gang behavior, will be released out to a general-population prison setting,” McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that initially, the reviews will focus on inmates who have been held in the special units the longest. According to department data released last year, some 500 prisoners have been locked in isolation for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Carbone, a prominent prisoner rights attorney, said the new policy lacks credibility, and it would be difficult for the department to persuade inmates to participate in the programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The promised reforms are a power grab,” he said. “They give the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation more authority and power to track more prisoners for gang activity and to place, ultimately, more in supermax prison settings. This is not a scaling back of supermax prisons as is being done in other states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Erica Perez, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/trailer-bill-seeks-shorter-sanctions-cal-grants-eligibility-17744\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A controversial last-minute provision inserted last week into an education trailer bill could help the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and a handful of other sanctioned schools regain eligibility for Cal Grants next fall instead of having to wait until the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74627\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 436px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/capitol-dome.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74627\" title=\"capitol dome\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/capitol-dome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"246\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The academy’s students are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/Colleges-battle-Cal-Grant-ineligibility-3758785.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">losing access\u003c/a> to Cal Grants this fall because the institution’s 2010-11 graduation rate dipped below the minimum required by state law. Its newest graduation rate cleared the hurdle, however, meaning it could regain the grants in fall 2013 instead of fall 2014 if the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1451-1500/ab_1476_cfa_20120823_134301_sen_floor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trailer bill\u003c/a> passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is current language in the Education Code that says a sanctioned school “may regain its eligibility for the academic year following an academic year in which it satisfies the requirements.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Education Code, the California Student Aid Commission determines a school’s Cal Grant eligibility for the 2012-13 year based on October 2011 data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission and state Department of Finance interpreted that language to mean that the Academy of Art University and other schools would have to meet state requirements in October 2012 and October 2013 to get back into the Cal Grants program in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a hearing last week, state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, argued that lawmakers had never agreed to a two-year penalty and that such a punishment was unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Cohen, chief deputy director of the state Department of Finance, which opposes the change, said the sanction period had been established clearly as two years. In addition, he said, the change would reduce the amount of financial aid money the state would save.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California began limiting Cal Grants for colleges with high student loan default rates in 2011 in an effort to hold schools accountable for the state aid they receive. 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