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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SMITH\u003c/strong>: The city basically overextended itself in debt back prior to the Great Recession, which began in 2008. It built a lot of capital projects. There’s a downtown waterfront ballpark sports complex, an arena. They built a marina. The city also negotiated generous benefits and employee packages with city employees, and also created back in the 90’s a retirement healthcare package for its employees which it never really funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RACHAEL MYROW\u003c/strong>: So I know the mediation talks are supposed to be secret, but do we have any idea how they’re going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SMITH\u003c/strong>: It’s an informal process now for the last three months, and so there’s no real hammer to make people make any deals. The sense is that if the bond holders were to take a haircut, to take a cut on their investment, that’s going to set a bad precedent. Other cities in California in similar, dire situations are going to follow suit. So the sense is that no one’s going to budge, it looks very likely that bankruptcy is going to be in Stockton’s near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RACHAEL MYROW\u003c/strong>: Talk a bit more about that bankruptcy contingency plan. The Stockton officials have \u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktongov.com/government/departments/adminServices/budget.html.\">posted it online\u003c/a> for people to see What are the key elements of it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SMITH\u003c/strong>: The city is facing a $26 million deficit to its general funds, come July 1st. Basically they chip away at that. They say, “Okay, we’re going to spend about $12 million in bond payments on some of those projects, and some of those obligations.” To some of the litigants that have filed lawsuits against the city, they say, “Okay, we’re not going to pay that.” And they’re also making some reductions to what the city pays to retirees and their healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Christina Jewett, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/health/story/governor-calls-state-agency-get-out/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown announced Monday that he directed a state agency to change a decades-old legal provision that, in essence, forces furniture makers to pump pounds of hazardous chemicals into couches and other furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/BayCitizenLogo.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-68299\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>Mounting research \u003ca href=\"http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and news reports\u003c/a> have shown that fire-retardant chemicals are linked to health risks and that the industry that sells them has gone to great lengths to see that they are infused in furniture foam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s \u003ca href=\"http://dl5.activatedirect.com/fs/distribution:wl/ze7pzanwmhlzgt/10nggl68nst5q4c/daid/10ngmaugp28kagv?_c=d%7Cze7pzanwmhlzgt%7C10ngmaugp28kagv&_ce=1340045392.ea99e7f4a2fb765628a93f206d6c6eb7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">order is a nod\u003c/a> to evolving furniture-safety science that shows that fire prevention can be achieved without the use of chemicals that are connected to cancer and reproductive harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Toxic flame retardants are found in everything from high chairs to couches and a growing body of evidence suggests that these chemicals harm human health and the environment,” Brown said in a statement. “We must find better ways to meet fire safety standards by reducing and eliminating – wherever possible – dangerous chemicals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s order calls on the state’s consumer safety bureau to reduce chemicals used to ensure product safety. Fire safety authorities say there are ways to regulate the weave of fabrics and construction of products to reduce fire risk while limiting chemical use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newfound resolve to limit the chemicals will \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/97475785/tb-117-docs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mark a reversal\u003c/a> for several state agencies. State consumer product and environmental agencies have opposed several of state Sen. Mark Leno’s, D-San Francisco,\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/advocates-continue-battle-against-flame-retardant-chemicals-16355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">efforts to limit\u003c/a> flame-retardant chemicals in couches in 2007 through 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/97475785/tb-117-docs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legislative review documents\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/97475785/tb-117-docs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show that\u003c/a> in 2007, both the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment opposed proposed bills that would have limited chemical use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008 and 2009, the Department of Consumer Affairs \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/97475785/tb-117-docs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposed two\u003c/a> bills that would have changed the state’s fire safety standard or called for removal of flame retardants from juvenile products, such as strollers and nursing pillows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/money-to-burn/Content?oid=3042155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News reports and\u003c/a> lobbying records show that the chemical industry spent tens of millions of dollars fighting such proposed bills and have lobbied the Department of Consumer Affairs and environmental agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Chemistry Council, which represents makers of flame retardants, has said that the chemicals are safe as used and they play a key role in reducing fires in homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the Department of Consumer Affairs, said officials are now committed to revising Technical Bulletin 117, the provision of law that leads to the heavy use of chemicals in furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been looking at TB 117 for a while, so now that we have direction from the governor, we’re in a position to execute that direction quickly,” Heimerich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the agency is planning to meet with environmental and industry leaders in coming weeks and aims to draft a new regulation by late August. He said they can take up to a year to take effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Jannsen, senior scientist for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/\">Natural Resources Defense Council\u003c/a>, applauded the governor’s announcement. She said a mounting body of research has shown high levels of flame-fighting chemicals in Californians’ blood and linked them to reproductive and learning challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the signal is that we’ll be able to have couches that meet modern manufacturing and flammability standards without contaminating our homes and our bodies with toxic chemicals,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jannsen said a couch she bought in 2007 was infused with chlorinated Tris, a chemical that last year was\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/flame-retardant-added-states-list-cancer-causing-chemicals-13065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added to the state’s\u003c/a> list of cancer-causing substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Tris was outlawed, PBDEs, chemicals that have been linked to lower IQs in children, were banned from couches by 2003 state legislation. “We’ve replaced one bad chemical with another, again and again and again,” Jannsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew McGuire, policy director of Green Science Policy Institute, said Brown’s announcement is a major victory in what’s been a lengthy battle for environmentalists. He said the next phase of work needs to examine getting the chemicals, which have been found in the bodies of whales near Alaska, out of the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said couches are dumped in landfills, and rain carries the flame-retardant chemicals into groundwater and the ocean. “I think generations are going to deal with this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers will begin a discussion of the chemicals during an informational \u003ca href=\"http://aesm.assembly.ca.gov/hearings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hearing\u003c/a> June 26 called by Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, chairman of the Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: KQED’s Amy Standen has \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/06/18/98102/governor_orders_change_in_state_policy_on_flame_retardants_in?category=bay+area\">reported\u003c/a> on this issue as well.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by William Harless, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/taxes/story/beverage-lobbyist-funds-community-soda/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/BayCitizenLogo1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/BayCitizenLogo1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66899\">\u003c/a>RICHMOND – A powerful Washington, D.C., trade organization that represents PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and other major beverage companies is helping fund a Richmond group that is fighting a November ballot measure to raise taxes on soda and other sweetened beverages, interviews and records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Richmond resident, Rosa Lara, is going door to door identifying herself as an organizer with the Community Coalition Against Beverage Taxes and collecting signatures on a petition. Although Lara doesn’t mention it unless specifically asked, her group is supported by the American Beverage Association, the industry’s main trade organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Lara presented the Richmond City Council with a petition that she said included 900 signatures against the sweetened-beverage tax. Holding up a pile of papers, she also told the council that 100 businesses had signed up to oppose the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We only have one grocery store. What’s going to happen to us? We’re going to have to walk,” Lara told the council. “We don’t have the resources to go out of the city. I’ve lived here my whole life – I haven’t seen changes. We need to make a change for the community. 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The measure would raise an estimated $2 million to $8 million, which advocates want to fund obesity programs, school fruit and vegetable gardens, and playing fields. The tax would apply to soft drinks and other beverages with added sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Lara said she does not mention the American Beverage Association funding when she is collecting signatures. But if asked, Lara said she will acknowledge that she’s a paid community organizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I tell them is I live in the community,” she said. “I’ve lived here my whole life. I tell them I’m with the Community Coalition Against Beverage Taxes, and I’m a community organizer. 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Finnie declined to say which organization initially retained the firm but said public campaign finance disclosures due this month will indicate who is funding the coalition and where its money is going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Richmond City Council meeting, Lara also did not mention her association with the beverage lobbying group, though the petition listed it as a funder and member of the Community Coalition Against Beverage Taxes. Last week, the coalition filed documents with the Richmond city clerk indicating it is sponsored by the American Beverage Association, though as of Monday, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.norichmondbeveragetax.com/news/\">coalition’s website\u003c/a> did not mention the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website’s domain is registered under Goddard Claussen Public Affairs in Washington. The beverage association hired the same public relations company, now known as Goddard Gunster, when former New York Gov. 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Boozé has appeared on Fox News and PBS and was \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/us/richmond-calif-seeks-to-tax-sweetened-beverages.html\">quoted in The New York Times\u003c/a> this month speaking against the tax. The office was vacant when Lara approached Boozé to ask who its landlord was, according to Boozé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The councilman said he was unaware that either the American Beverage Association or Barnes Mosher had any involvement in the anti-tax effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Ritterman, the cardiologist-turned-council member spearheading the fight for the sweetened-beverage tax, said he, too, was unaware that the American Beverage Association had entered the local fray, but he said he is not surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it says that there’s intense interest from people outside of Richmond, primarily the beverage industry, to defeat the measure and that they’re willing to commit significant resources to do that,” said Ritterman, who hopes the tax will encourage children to reduce their consumption of sugary drinks and cut rates of obesity, diabetes and other illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Richmond, 52 percent of schoolchildren are overweight or obese, according to Contra Costa County Health Services statistics. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/jerrybrownlatest.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/jerrybrownlatest.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jerrybrownlatest\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-65281\">\u003c/a>Fans of disaster movies may enjoy Gov. Brown's press conference on the May budget revise today. (\u003ca href=\"http://calchannel.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=7&clip_id=352\">Watch it here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deficit is now officially $15.7 billion, not the roughly $9 billion originally projected. The proposed budget cuts assume passage of Brown's tax initiative in November, which accounts for $8.5 billion of the plan's increased revenue. An April PPIC poll found just 54 percent would vote yes on the measure, which needs a two-thirds majority to pass. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dof.ca.gov/documents/2012-13_May_Revision.pdf\">\u003cstrong>Read the Governor's Budget: May Revision\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://calchannel.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=7&clip_id=352\">\u003cstrong>Watch today's press conference\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/kqednews/california-governor-revises-budget-for-dollar-16-b\">\u003cstrong>Capital reporters Tweet\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If the tax plan doesn't pass, the cuts would be more severe, including a $5.5-billion cut to public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown blamed the substantially larger deficit, which he first announced in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/12/video-jerry-brown-says-budget-deficit-is-16-billion-7-billion-more-than-projected/\">YouTube video\u003c/a> on Saturday, on a too-optimistic forecast of revenue coming in from tax receipts; on a mandated increase in school funding due to Prop 98; and on the prevention of some cuts in state health services by the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony York of the LA Times \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/05/jerry-brown-california-budget-16-billion-deficit.html\">reports on the cuts\u003c/a> being proposed should the tax initiative pass:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To close the wider gap, Brown has heightened the cuts he wants to make to Medi-Cal, to $1.2 billion, and maintained another $1.2 billion in welfare and child-care savings he proposed in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also wants to slash payments to people who care for the disabled by 7%...He proposed $500 million in cuts to the state's struggling court system, including a one-year freeze on all new construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kevin Yamamura of the Bee \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/05/gov-jerry-brown-cut-state-workers-health-and-welfare-to-solve-budget.html\">reports on other aspects of the plan\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Democratic governor relies on a patchwork of solutions to bridge the gap in a $91.4 billion general fund spending plan, including deeper cuts, his November tax initiative and taking money from a multi-state mortgage abuse settlement with banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the most unusual ideas: asking state employees to work four days a week for a total of 38 hours instead of 40, or 9.5-hour shifts. Brown suggested in the budget that the proposal would save operational costs by shutting down offices once a week in addition to 5 percent of salary. The proposal would likely have to be bargained with labor unions since Democratic lawmakers will not impose the cuts unilaterally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also proposed giving UC $38 million less than he did earlier this year. Both proposals make it more likely that UC will raise tuition in 2012-13 after UC officials said last week they needed an additional $125 million to avoid a 6 percent hike on students.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The plan also takes into account a projected $1.2 billion from the Facebook IPO. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the next steps, News10 Sacramento's political editor, John Myers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/capitol/article/193119/525/Analysis-the-politics-of-Californias-new-16-billion-deficit\">weighed in with this last week\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The conventional wisdom under the Capitol dome has been that even though the governor submits a revised plan on Monday, substantive budget action won't come until after June 5 -- the statewide primary election where 100 of the 120 seats in the Legislature are on the ballot. But that would also mean only 10 days until legislators begin forfeiting their salaries without sending a budget to Brown, the wildly popular provision contained in 2010's Proposition 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And keep in mind that last year -- the first time Prop 25 was in effect for a budget debate -- the deficit lawmakers were asked to erase between mid-May and mid-June was less than $10 billion. This is a far larger task to pull off... and in an election year, to boot.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Let the unhappy games begin...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous posts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:12 a.m.\u003c/strong> Someone asks why should we trust these numbers any more than the other numbers, which, obviously, did not hold up by a longshot. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: Brown uses word \"austerity\" in his intro. Urges \"modicum of stoicism\" and less \"indulging your propensity to immediate gratification.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capital reporters are already tweeting about the numbers...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp>Deficit officially $15.7B on $91.4B spending plan in 12-13. 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Last month, as Harris was scheduled to testify before the California Assembly’s Senate Banking and Finance Committee, two of the bills were pulled by committee chairman Mike Eng of Monterey Park — a Democrat. Since then, in hopes of rescuing the plan, the leadership shuffled the package to a joint conference committee, which held hearings this afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, to find out just what the hell happened, I turned to John Myers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/capitol/\">Political Editor at News10 in Sacramento\u003c/a> and our former colleague here at KQED. Here’s his take: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So here you had a Democratic Attorney General, a big Democratic majority in both houses, and an issue that would seem to be can’t-miss with the public — holding the banks more accountable during the foreclosure process. 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A number of moderate, business-friendly Democrats in both houses seemed sympathetic to the banking industry’s position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Any indications by Harris on a willingness to compromise? And how bad does it look for her that she announced the thing with such fanfare and then couldn’t get it done? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOHN MYERS\u003c/strong>: Today’s hearing will be the first test since last month’s abrupt switch by Democratic leaders to a plan B strategy. I think the last few weeks have been eye-opening for Harris, whose experience is the courtroom and the settlement table…not the Capitol. I saw her before last month’s hearing, camped out in the hallway with staff trying to count votes. The roadblock seemed to surprise her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> What’s the outlook now? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOHN MYERS\u003c/strong>:The bills were rescued by Perez and Steinberg by placing them in a joint conference committee. That way, there’s only one step (one committee) before floor votes, versus multiple committee votes where they could be picked off, one by one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: And how bad would this look for Democrats that they can’t get this passed? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOHN MYERS\u003c/strong> There’s still a lot of time left before the Legislature adjourns in August, so never say never. The real question is whether the package of bills — bans on robosigning, forcing more transparency during foreclosure, etc — will be amended as a concession to the financial industry, and whether amended bills are better than no bills.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Below is an \u003ca href=\"http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/what-legalized-bribery-looks-like\">ad by the Courage Campaign\u003c/a> that attempts to put pressure on Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, a Sylmar Democrat, to vote for the bills. Fuentes told the Sacramento Bee, for an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/07/4470589/mortgage-legislation-splits-california.html\">article about how the issue has split Democrats\u003c/a>, that he was “disappointed that they misconstrued and outright lied” in the video. The Bee writes…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Rick Jacobs, founder and chairman of the Courage Campaign, said his organization took down the video, but posted it again after Fuentes didn’t say whether he’ll vote for the regulatory changes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/41474387\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s what the California Bankers Association has to say about the whole thing: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The CBA wishes to reconfirm its willingness to participate in the debate regarding four legislative measures promoted by California Attorney General Kamala Harris, dealing with dual-tracking (AB 1602/SB 1470), single point of contact and “robo-signing” (AB 2425/SB 1471). We are, however, concerned with the avoidance of the typical legislative process that would involve policy and fiscal committee hearings, as well as floor debates throughout the legislative year, which ends in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite public declaration of the desire to produce a legislative product within a ‘few weeks’, we encourage the committee to give full and complete consideration to the importance of these issues and deliberate methodically. These issues and the people of California deserve thoughtful discourse given the consequences if done incorrectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly believe that in promoting these measures in advance of national servicing standards the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) intends to release this summer with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2013, California risks setting itself apart from the rest of the nation to the detriment of future borrowers. We intend to be an active participant in the conference committee process, but we strongly feel that the most problematic areas of the legislation, outlined below, must be addressed and resolved before the committee refers any bill to a full vote of the Legislature. We believe the elements of a reasonable solution include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Non-approval notice provided to borrower detailing reason for non-approval of loan modification or foreclosure avoidance post-notice of default, but prior to the notice of sale (NOS). Consideration of a loan modification is contingent upon the receipt of a complete loan modification application from the borrower prior to the NOS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Language that there is no right to a loan modification and no corresponding California legal requirement to offer a modification or have a modification program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>-Eligibility qualifiers. The current measures fail to narrowly target at-risk borrowers. 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"content": "\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/money-and-politics/campaign-donations-bond-underwriters-also-secure-contracts-16032\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading financial firms over the past five years donated $1.8 million to successful school bond measures in California, and in almost every instance, school district officials hired those same underwriters to sell the bonds for a profit, a California Watch review has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/bondgraphic.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-64534\" title=\"underwriters\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/underwriters-300x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>The practice is especially pronounced in California, where underwriters gave \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArIIIOjhjIvddHN5N0JsUHZlbjNhVEItMy1BMFdmWWc\" target=\"_blank\">155 political contributions\u003c/a> since 2007 to successful bond campaigns for school construction and repairs. One major underwriter, Piper Jaffray, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352478-piper-letter.html\" target=\"_blank\">said\u003c/a> it gets more requests for campaign contributions in California than in any other state where they do business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success rate of these underwriters is extremely high. In only five cases since 2007 has a campaign donor failed to receive a bond-selling contract from the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts say they choose bond underwriters for their expertise and competitive rates and because they’ve served them well in the past. And underwriting firms say they contribute only after they’ve been hired to sell the bonds, avoiding any undue influence. \u003c!--more-->But critics say that no matter when the agreement is made, the campaign donations influence school districts’ business decisions. They argue that pre-arranged underwriting contracts bypass a truly competitive sale, leaving in doubt whether districts got the best possible deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this isn’t clear proof of pay to play, then pay to play doesn’t exist,” said Glenn Byers, Los Angeles County’s assistant treasurer, who oversees some school bond sales but doesn’t control the hiring of underwriters. “The timing of the payment is irrelevant. You paid and you got the job. That’s pay to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states have banned the practice. Missouri, for one, outlaws donations to bond campaigns from companies with a financial interest in the bond sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past five years in California, five major underwriters donated $1.8 million to help pass 111 ballot measures, authorizing $15.5 billion in debt. A couple dozen other measures received underwriter contributions but failed at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmingly, bond underwriters who donated to these campaigns were granted contracts by school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly all cases, the only underwriters that donated to a successful school bond campaign ended up working on the bond sale. Bond Buyer, a trade publication, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bondbuyer.com/issues/121_10/california-broker-dealer-contributions-school-bond-issue-1035266-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">found the same pattern\u003c/a> in an earlier review of 2010 campaign contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, multiple underwriting firms will donate to a single bond campaign. But even there, the success rate is high. In almost all cases in which multiple bond underwriters donated to the same campaign, they all were given contracts by the school district to market those bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For donors, failure is rare. In only five cases out of 111 did an underwriter make a donation and fail to receive a contract to sell the bonds. In four of those, however, more than one underwriter made donations and the contract went to the firm that had contributed a larger amount to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assemblyman Joe Canciamilla, a Democrat from Pittsburg, tried and failed to pass a law in 2005 requiring competitive bidding of bond sales. In a competitive sale, which takes place after the election, the underwriter with the lowest bid wins the bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If this isn’t clear proof of pay to play, then pay to play doesn’t exist.\u003cbr>\n--Glenn Byers, Los Angeles County assistant treasurer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Canciamilla said school districts instead negotiate underwriting deals before bond elections specifically to draw in campaign money. Districts are “in effect negotiating much more attractive deals for the underwriters in order to generate the money necessary to run the campaign,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, school districts can’t use their own funds for bond campaigns. That leaves other interested parties – underwriters, builders and organized labor – to pony up the necessary cash. For their part, underwriters have \u003ca href=\"http://msrb.org/Rules-and-Interpretations/Regulatory-Notices/2009/2009-35.aspx?c=1\" target=\"_blank\">justified\u003c/a> the practice to federal regulators by noting that bond campaigns simply need these contributions in order to convince voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November’s $63 million bond measure for the Newark Unified School District in Alameda County, for example, raised money from architecture and construction firms, the financial adviser and the law firm working on the bond issue, and local construction unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only underwriter to donate, Los Angeles-based De La Rosa & Co., gave $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the money was donated by outside companies,” said Gary Stadler, a parent volunteer who was the campaign’s treasurer. “We said, ‘Hey, we’re going to pass this bond to improve the schools, we need some contributions, are you going to contribute?’ And of course they’re going to, because they’re going to work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s financial adviser, Oakland-based KNN Public Finance, had earlier considered proposals by four underwriters and ultimately recommended De La Rosa, said Newark Unified’s chief business official, Elaine Neilsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district granted De La Rosa up to 1 percent of the bonds – potentially $630,000 in compensation – subject to negotiation before the bond sales. The company donated after signing the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“De La Rosa & Co. respects and abides by the selection process of California’s school districts,” Chief Financial Officer Arthur Raitano wrote in an e-mail. “Accordingly, we neither discuss or consider contributions to bond ballot campaigns until such districts have selected their professional financing teams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Top 5 underwriting firms analyzed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underwriters typically sign agreements with school districts before the election, and then give money for the political campaign that promotes the bond measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underwriters act as middlemen, buying bonds from districts and selling them to investors. The underwriters buy the bonds at a discount from the district and then sell them at a higher price to their investors. Investors are essentially loaning money to the school district in exchange for regular interest payments and eventual principal repayment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In only five cases out of 111 did an underwriter make a donation and fail to receive a contract to sell the bonds. In four of those, however, more than one underwriter made donations and the contract went to the firm that had contributed a larger amount to the campaign.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In February 2011, for example, the Glendale Unified School District picked two underwriters to handle a $270 million bond that would go before voters in April as Measure S. The money will be used to upgrade classrooms, science labs and libraries, and purchase computers, among other promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of offering the underwriting contract to other companies, the district selected De La Rosa and RBC Capital Markets because it had worked with them previously, said Eva Lueck, the district’s chief business and financial officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RBC gave $25,000 to the “Yes on S” campaign two days after Lueck signed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352481-glendale-rbc-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">agreement\u003c/a>, according to filings. De La Rosa donated $25,000 a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lueck noted the donations came after the contract was signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were very conscious of not crossing any lines,” said Lueck, who also volunteered on the campaign. “We always look to, well, who would this benefit, and maybe they would be willing to contribute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the election, the district issued its first batch of Measure S bonds – $54 million worth. The underwriters bought them at a .5 percent discount in order to collect $270,000 in compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch reviewed contribution data for the five underwriting firms most active in California bond campaigns: De La Rosa, George K. Baum & Co., Piper Jaffray, RBC Capital Markets and Stone & Youngberg. (A Stone & Youngberg managing director for public finance, Tom Lockard, serves on the board of directors for the Center for Investigative Reporting.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the firms profited from bond sales they had supported with political donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of school districts benefiting from underwriter donations ranges from the tiny Blue Lake School in Humboldt County to one of the state’s largest districts, Long Beach Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a twist on the usual practice, Piper Jaffray last year contributed to three bond campaigns after the elections were over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, the Centinela Valley Union High School District in Los Angeles County \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352486-centinela-piper-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">hired\u003c/a> Piper Jaffray in November 2010, the month voters approved a $98 million bond measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well after the election, Piper Jaffray made a donation that may have indirectly benefited two school board candidates instead of the bond campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2011, Piper Jaffray gave $25,000 to \u003ca href=\"http://citizensforbetterschoolscv.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Citizens for Better Schools\u003c/a>, the committee that had \u003ca href=\"http://liveweb.archive.org/http://citizensforbetterschoolscv.com/why.html\" target=\"_blank\">championed\u003c/a> the $98 million bond measure. The committee had cash reserves and no debt, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352492-citizens-for-better-schools-jan-june.html\" target=\"_blank\">campaign filings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that year, the committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352493-citizens-for-better-schools-july-dec.html\" target=\"_blank\">spent $53,000\u003c/a> campaigning for two school board candidates, one of whom unseated an incumbent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bond underwriters rarely give campaign donations to individual candidates or local elected officials. Federal regulations bar underwriters from doing business with a public agency within two years of giving campaign donations to an official of that agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A donation to a committee “that the contributor knows or reasonably should know” is backing an official is the same as giving directly to the official, according to an e-mail from Ernesto Lanza, deputy executive director and chief legal officer of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. The self-regulatory agency’s rules carry the force of federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s those kinds of things, whether they’re innocent or not, that create a certain appearance of impropriety that creates part of the problem here,” said Canciamilla, the former assemblyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the Citizens for Better Schools nor Piper Jaffray responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Jaffray’s official policy reads, “We will not make, or indicate a willingness to make, any financial contribution as a condition to being retained as an underwriter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centinela Valley Superintendent Jose Fernandez said the district chose Piper Jaffray because of the firm’s extensive experience, and the board unanimously approved the decision. He said he was unaware of the contribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anything about that,” he said. “We stay out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s contract with Piper Jaffray specifies, “The Underwriter is not obligated as a result of this agreement to make a campaign contribution in connection with the bond election, nor has it otherwise committed to make a campaign contribution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reporting campaign donations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, in response to pay-to-play concerns, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board began requiring underwriters to report bond measure donations to the self-regulatory agency. The board is analyzing the data reported so far, before determining whether additional regulations are necessary, Lanza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The correlation between contributions and school district contracts “adds to the evidence that there’s certainly something to be looked at,” he said. “It sounds like there’s a little bit of smoke there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some firms decline to make donations, such as O’Connor & Co. Securities, which is underwriting a bond passed last year in Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a firm policy, we avoid participation in campaign contributions solely to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, even though at times this could put us at a competitive disadvantage,” said company President Will O’Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one case in which an underwriter made a contribution but the contract went to firms that didn’t give money occurred in the San Mateo-Foster City School District in 2008. Piper Jaffray gave $25,000 to support a $175 million bond measure there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the election, the district instead selected Stone & Youngberg and RBC Capital Markets to sell the bonds. Those companies, neither of which made donations, simply offered a better deal, said Micaela Ochoa, the district’s chief business official at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa said she solicited donations as a campaign volunteer on her own time, but made it clear that contributions wouldn’t guarantee a contract. Some firms didn’t want to give without any promises, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would ask me, ‘Why are you even calling them?’ ” Ochoa said. “It is harder, but it’s also cleaner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will Evans is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch</a\u003c/a>\u003c/em>>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this isn’t clear proof of pay to play, then pay to play doesn’t exist,” said Glenn Byers, Los Angeles County’s assistant treasurer, who oversees some school bond sales but doesn’t control the hiring of underwriters. “The timing of the payment is irrelevant. You paid and you got the job. That’s pay to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some states have banned the practice. Missouri, for one, outlaws donations to bond campaigns from companies with a financial interest in the bond sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past five years in California, five major underwriters donated $1.8 million to help pass 111 ballot measures, authorizing $15.5 billion in debt. A couple dozen other measures received underwriter contributions but failed at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmingly, bond underwriters who donated to these campaigns were granted contracts by school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly all cases, the only underwriters that donated to a successful school bond campaign ended up working on the bond sale. Bond Buyer, a trade publication, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bondbuyer.com/issues/121_10/california-broker-dealer-contributions-school-bond-issue-1035266-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">found the same pattern\u003c/a> in an earlier review of 2010 campaign contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, multiple underwriting firms will donate to a single bond campaign. But even there, the success rate is high. In almost all cases in which multiple bond underwriters donated to the same campaign, they all were given contracts by the school district to market those bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For donors, failure is rare. In only five cases out of 111 did an underwriter make a donation and fail to receive a contract to sell the bonds. In four of those, however, more than one underwriter made donations and the contract went to the firm that had contributed a larger amount to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Assemblyman Joe Canciamilla, a Democrat from Pittsburg, tried and failed to pass a law in 2005 requiring competitive bidding of bond sales. In a competitive sale, which takes place after the election, the underwriter with the lowest bid wins the bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If this isn’t clear proof of pay to play, then pay to play doesn’t exist.\u003cbr>\n--Glenn Byers, Los Angeles County assistant treasurer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Canciamilla said school districts instead negotiate underwriting deals before bond elections specifically to draw in campaign money. Districts are “in effect negotiating much more attractive deals for the underwriters in order to generate the money necessary to run the campaign,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, school districts can’t use their own funds for bond campaigns. That leaves other interested parties – underwriters, builders and organized labor – to pony up the necessary cash. For their part, underwriters have \u003ca href=\"http://msrb.org/Rules-and-Interpretations/Regulatory-Notices/2009/2009-35.aspx?c=1\" target=\"_blank\">justified\u003c/a> the practice to federal regulators by noting that bond campaigns simply need these contributions in order to convince voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last November’s $63 million bond measure for the Newark Unified School District in Alameda County, for example, raised money from architecture and construction firms, the financial adviser and the law firm working on the bond issue, and local construction unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only underwriter to donate, Los Angeles-based De La Rosa & Co., gave $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the money was donated by outside companies,” said Gary Stadler, a parent volunteer who was the campaign’s treasurer. “We said, ‘Hey, we’re going to pass this bond to improve the schools, we need some contributions, are you going to contribute?’ And of course they’re going to, because they’re going to work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s financial adviser, Oakland-based KNN Public Finance, had earlier considered proposals by four underwriters and ultimately recommended De La Rosa, said Newark Unified’s chief business official, Elaine Neilsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district granted De La Rosa up to 1 percent of the bonds – potentially $630,000 in compensation – subject to negotiation before the bond sales. The company donated after signing the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“De La Rosa & Co. respects and abides by the selection process of California’s school districts,” Chief Financial Officer Arthur Raitano wrote in an e-mail. “Accordingly, we neither discuss or consider contributions to bond ballot campaigns until such districts have selected their professional financing teams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Top 5 underwriting firms analyzed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underwriters typically sign agreements with school districts before the election, and then give money for the political campaign that promotes the bond measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underwriters act as middlemen, buying bonds from districts and selling them to investors. The underwriters buy the bonds at a discount from the district and then sell them at a higher price to their investors. Investors are essentially loaning money to the school district in exchange for regular interest payments and eventual principal repayment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In only five cases out of 111 did an underwriter make a donation and fail to receive a contract to sell the bonds. In four of those, however, more than one underwriter made donations and the contract went to the firm that had contributed a larger amount to the campaign.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In February 2011, for example, the Glendale Unified School District picked two underwriters to handle a $270 million bond that would go before voters in April as Measure S. The money will be used to upgrade classrooms, science labs and libraries, and purchase computers, among other promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of offering the underwriting contract to other companies, the district selected De La Rosa and RBC Capital Markets because it had worked with them previously, said Eva Lueck, the district’s chief business and financial officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RBC gave $25,000 to the “Yes on S” campaign two days after Lueck signed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352481-glendale-rbc-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">agreement\u003c/a>, according to filings. De La Rosa donated $25,000 a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lueck noted the donations came after the contract was signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were very conscious of not crossing any lines,” said Lueck, who also volunteered on the campaign. “We always look to, well, who would this benefit, and maybe they would be willing to contribute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the election, the district issued its first batch of Measure S bonds – $54 million worth. The underwriters bought them at a .5 percent discount in order to collect $270,000 in compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch reviewed contribution data for the five underwriting firms most active in California bond campaigns: De La Rosa, George K. Baum & Co., Piper Jaffray, RBC Capital Markets and Stone & Youngberg. (A Stone & Youngberg managing director for public finance, Tom Lockard, serves on the board of directors for the Center for Investigative Reporting.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the firms profited from bond sales they had supported with political donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of school districts benefiting from underwriter donations ranges from the tiny Blue Lake School in Humboldt County to one of the state’s largest districts, Long Beach Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a twist on the usual practice, Piper Jaffray last year contributed to three bond campaigns after the elections were over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, the Centinela Valley Union High School District in Los Angeles County \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352486-centinela-piper-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">hired\u003c/a> Piper Jaffray in November 2010, the month voters approved a $98 million bond measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well after the election, Piper Jaffray made a donation that may have indirectly benefited two school board candidates instead of the bond campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2011, Piper Jaffray gave $25,000 to \u003ca href=\"http://citizensforbetterschoolscv.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Citizens for Better Schools\u003c/a>, the committee that had \u003ca href=\"http://liveweb.archive.org/http://citizensforbetterschoolscv.com/why.html\" target=\"_blank\">championed\u003c/a> the $98 million bond measure. The committee had cash reserves and no debt, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352492-citizens-for-better-schools-jan-june.html\" target=\"_blank\">campaign filings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that year, the committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/352493-citizens-for-better-schools-july-dec.html\" target=\"_blank\">spent $53,000\u003c/a> campaigning for two school board candidates, one of whom unseated an incumbent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bond underwriters rarely give campaign donations to individual candidates or local elected officials. Federal regulations bar underwriters from doing business with a public agency within two years of giving campaign donations to an official of that agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A donation to a committee “that the contributor knows or reasonably should know” is backing an official is the same as giving directly to the official, according to an e-mail from Ernesto Lanza, deputy executive director and chief legal officer of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. The self-regulatory agency’s rules carry the force of federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s those kinds of things, whether they’re innocent or not, that create a certain appearance of impropriety that creates part of the problem here,” said Canciamilla, the former assemblyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the Citizens for Better Schools nor Piper Jaffray responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piper Jaffray’s official policy reads, “We will not make, or indicate a willingness to make, any financial contribution as a condition to being retained as an underwriter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centinela Valley Superintendent Jose Fernandez said the district chose Piper Jaffray because of the firm’s extensive experience, and the board unanimously approved the decision. He said he was unaware of the contribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anything about that,” he said. “We stay out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s contract with Piper Jaffray specifies, “The Underwriter is not obligated as a result of this agreement to make a campaign contribution in connection with the bond election, nor has it otherwise committed to make a campaign contribution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reporting campaign donations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, in response to pay-to-play concerns, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board began requiring underwriters to report bond measure donations to the self-regulatory agency. The board is analyzing the data reported so far, before determining whether additional regulations are necessary, Lanza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The correlation between contributions and school district contracts “adds to the evidence that there’s certainly something to be looked at,” he said. “It sounds like there’s a little bit of smoke there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some firms decline to make donations, such as O’Connor & Co. Securities, which is underwriting a bond passed last year in Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a firm policy, we avoid participation in campaign contributions solely to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, even though at times this could put us at a competitive disadvantage,” said company President Will O’Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one case in which an underwriter made a contribution but the contract went to firms that didn’t give money occurred in the San Mateo-Foster City School District in 2008. Piper Jaffray gave $25,000 to support a $175 million bond measure there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the election, the district instead selected Stone & Youngberg and RBC Capital Markets to sell the bonds. Those companies, neither of which made donations, simply offered a better deal, said Micaela Ochoa, the district’s chief business official at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa said she solicited donations as a campaign volunteer on her own time, but made it clear that contributions wouldn’t guarantee a contract. Some firms didn’t want to give without any promises, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would ask me, ‘Why are you even calling them?’ ” Ochoa said. “It is harder, but it’s also cleaner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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