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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7953_185719392-scr-e1387918479608.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-121939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7953_185719392-scr-640x422.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a move that probably surprises no one, Gov. Jerry Brown announced Thursday that he'll seek re-election this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"http://www.jerrybrown.org/announcement\" target=\"_blank\">his campaign website\u003c/a> he touted bringing California back from a financial abyss -- turning around a $27 billion deficit in just four years, with the state now boasting a surplus. He cited other achievements such as passage of the state's DREAM Act, $10 billion in additional funding for schools and moves to reform the prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown also said the state faces underfunded pension and health care plans, long-deferred maintenance to infrastructure and a severe drought. From Brown's website:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At this stage of my life, I can say — without any hesitation — that I am prepared and excited to tackle these challenges and the many others that lay before us. In fact, there is nothing I would rather do. So today, I have taken out the papers to run for re-election.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Brown's two principal opponents in the fall are Republicans Neel Kashkari, a former Treasury Department official who oversaw the launch of the federal government's financial sector rescue in 2008-09, and Tim Donnelly, a Southern California Assembly member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown will turn 76 in April. He was the youngest governor in California history when elected to the first of two consecutive terms in 1974. He became the oldest when elected in 2010 after a long hiatus during which he ran for president and served as mayor of Oakland and state attorney general. If he wins re-election to a fourth term this year, he'll extend his record as California's longest-serving governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full statement from his website below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To my fellow citizens of California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years ago, I asked that you support my candidacy for governor based on my bringing an “insider’s knowledge but an outsider’s mind” to fix the budget breakdown and overcome Sacramento’s poisonous partisanship. Now, four years later, a $27 billion deficit has become a surplus and our credit rating and public confidence are rising. State budgets are not only balanced but they are on time and free of the rancor of past years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I said that I would work with both Democrats and Republicans, oil companies and environmentalists, unions and business, and I have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I pledged that there would be no smoke and mirrors in the budget, and there aren’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I promised that there would be no new taxes unless you the people voted for them, and you did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also said that we would return decisions and authority to local government and schools, and we have -- through Prison Realignment and the Local Control Spending Formula for schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal was to get California working again -- both its government and its overall economy, and that is happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For our schools, where once there were thousands of layoffs and widespread elimination of arts and science programs, there is now local control, new hiring and restoration of programs -- $10 billion in additional funds this year alone. As for health care, millions of Californians will now either be covered for the first time or enjoy more affordable and better plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Congress failing to reform immigration laws, California acted on its own, passing the Dream Act, making drivers’ licenses available and protecting immigrants from employer retaliation or being deported for minor offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the recession, California created a million new jobs, raised the minimum wage, and reformed workers compensation to increase benefits and cut costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a fivefold increase in the prison population, California has now embraced a series of major reforms that place responsibility and funding for lower level offenders with local governments. As a result, the prison population is down dramatically and significant funding is going to treatment and rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, of course, there is much more to do. The many laws that have been passed need oversight and wise administration. Despite the passage of solid pension reform, our pension and retiree health care plans remain underfunded. And California still faces huge liabilities in the form of long deferred maintenance of our roads and public buildings. In short, the current budget surplus, if it is to endure, requires vigilance and a resolute will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this stage of my life, I can say -- without any hesitation -- that I am prepared and excited to tackle these challenges and the many others that lay before us. In fact, there is nothing I would rather do. So today, I have taken out the papers to run for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you had asked me 40 years ago -- when I first ran for governor--what I would be doing in 2014, I could never have guessed. Nor could anyone else. Yet, by the grace of God and habits of perseverance instilled in me by my family, the Dominican nuns and the Jesuits, I am here and ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We live in unprecedented times. The tasks ahead are not simple or mundane. The climate itself is changing, threatening catastrophic and irreversible damage to the oceans and natural systems on which human beings and other forms of life depend. In many respects, California is leading the way and we will continue to do so by encouraging many kinds of innovation and by joining with other states and nations. But this is a global problem and only by acting both locally and globally do we have any chance of reducing the unrelenting increase of heat-trapping gasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is now formally committed to obtaining at least one third of its electricity from renewable sources. We are also building the nation’s only high speed rail system and linking it closely with improved local and regional rails systems. Finally, California is strongly encouraging electric and other low emission vehicles, along with better land use to get people and jobs closer together. In all these endeavors, my goal is to decrease the use of fossil fuels while fostering vibrant communities and a sustainable environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current drought is a portent of weather to come. It should awaken us to the actions we need to take this year and in the years to follow. Water is more than a resource. It is a vital and fundamental element of our wellbeing. In the next few years, we need to make solid progress in managing our water both above and below the ground. I pledge my full commitment to bringing all the disparate parties together and working to achieve sensible, scientific and sustainable water policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is known for its brilliant innovation and Nobel Prizes. Yet, millions of our families are struggling and too many men and women cannot find work or the living wages they deserve. My policy is to encourage both new jobs and to protect workers’ rights and environmental values. Balance here is key but what constitutes balance is contested on all sides. I won’t make everyone happy every time but I will listen and I will seek to find the best and fairest way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve lived here my whole life. I love this state and will do my utmost to enable California to keep faith with its past and pave the way for a future as bold as our forebears would expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Respectfully,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Brown\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Katharine Mieszkowski, The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/daycare07.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-124905\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/daycare07-640x361.jpg\" alt=\"Denise Davis, shown in her daughter’s bedroom in her San Jose, Calif., home, used to send her children to a day care in Stephanie Newbrough’s home in Milpitas. The day care was shut down last year after a long history of breaking state rules,including a lack of supervision of children. Davis says she would not have sent her children there if she had known about its record. (Noah Berger/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Davis, shown in her daughter’s bedroom in her San Jose home, used to send her children to day care in Stephanie Newbrough’s home in Milpitas. The day care was shut down last year after a long history of breaking state rules, including a lack of supervision of children. Davis says she would not have sent her children there if she had known about its record. (Noah Berger/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The infant boy had been left alone in a closet. He was strapped into a car seat, facing a wall on the second floor of a Milpitas day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state inspector discovered the isolated boy when she visited in April and shut down the day care that Stephanie Newbrough had run out of her home for more than 18 years. Newbrough had been a respected member of the local community. Many parents who left children in her care lived nearby or learned about her day care through word of mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But behind that neighborly image, the day care had a long history of breaking state rules, including a lack of supervision of children in its care. Parents like Denise Davis knew nothing of the problems. “It’s your worst nightmare,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violations were so severe that Newbrough ultimately lost her license and was banned for life from operating a day care in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California doesn’t make it easy for parents to find out what’s going on at the places that care for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state keeps a vast archive of inspection and complaint reports against nearly 48,000 state-licensed day care, preschool and after-school programs. But for the most part, these records remain stored away in obscure government offices, making access difficult for busy parents of the 1.1 million children who attend these programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of states already make public reports available online. California has no plans to do so, despite years of pressure from state and now federal officials who want to give parents a complete picture of what the state knows about the care of their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis, who’d known Newbrough since she was a teen, said she would not have sent her three children to the day care if she had known about its record. She did not know the records existed, much less what they said about Newbrough’s day care when she sent her children there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center of Investigative Reporting is trying to get electronic copies from the state under the California Public Records Act with the hopes of putting them online. The state Department of Social Services says it will\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>cost more than $20,000 and take more than two years for CIR to get the public data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the request should take minimal time and money because databases are designed to be able to export information easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The majority of states already make public reports available online.\n\u003cp>California has no plans to do so.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“That’s just embarrassing. Do they really want to be known as the dumbest, most backward government agency in California?” said \u003ca href=\"http://journalism.arizona.edu/david-cuillier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Cuillier\u003c/a>, an expert on public records who directs the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism. “Because if they cannot export data quickly, then they’ve got problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrast California with other large states, like Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google “Texas child care,” and the first search result that comes up is the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services’ \u003ca href=\"http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Child_Care/Search_Texas_Child_Care/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">site\u003c/a> for day care records. “Don’t be in the dark about child care!” the website warns. “Before entrusting your child to a day care, check its state record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a top official at the Department of Social Services admitted the problem and called its technology “old and outdated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all expect that any information that we want to know, we just Google it, and we should be able to pull up everything,” said Pat Leary, chief deputy director. “And it’s frustrating for parents, I know, when they can’t just get easy access to information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that putting the reports online improves the quality of child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one reason that the federal government is finalizing regulations that will require states to put records online in order to receive subsidies for low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the nation’s largest recipient from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Child Care and Development Fund, pulling in more than half a billion dollars a year. It’s the only one of the four largest states that doesn’t already make investigation and inspection information available on the Web.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Health and Human Services Department considers the records an essential tool for parents choosing child care. “Limiting access to this information creates a burden for parents,” its \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/05/20/2013-11673/child-care-and-development-fund-ccdf-program#/h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed new rule\u003c/a> says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Dryden Witte, an economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w10227.pdf\">found\u003c/a> in 2004 that providers’ quality of care for children of low-income families\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>went up when the reports went online in Broward County, Fla. The mean assessment score of local providers went from 89 to 91, on par with education efforts to improve classroom environment or curriculum. Inspectors also were more productive, completing an average of 14 more inspections a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result, they cleaned up their act,” Witte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, parents can contact \u003ca href=\"http://www.rrnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">child care resource and referral agencies\u003c/a> to find out which child care providers are licensed. But these agencies don’t have access to the state’s inspection and complaint records. The agencies tell the parents they must get in touch with one of the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccld.ca.gov/res/pdf/cclistingMaster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regional licensing offices\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling or visiting such a little-known office is too high a barrier for busy parents of young children, the state auditor concluded in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2005-129.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2006 report\u003c/a>. The offices are open only during typical work hours, and most parents who send their children to child care do so because they’re at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/132396178&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than seven years, the Department of Social Services has been pledging to get the records online. In 2006, the department assured the state auditor that it was working on it but warned that it needed money to do so. More than five years later, it told the auditor that it planned to use stimulus money to get the job done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the state auditor gave up on the department, saying it had no confidence the state would put the records online. The Department of Social Services ended up getting $1 million in education stimulus money, but it’s being spent on other things. Leary said that money didn’t cover the costs for the project. The department still doesn’t have a plan to get the records online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For CIR’s request, the department estimates that extracting the data from its database would require more than 500 hours of staff time at a cost of $41 an hour, totaling at least $20,500. The agency also says it can devote only four hours per week to this project, so it would take more than two years to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say that estimate strains credulity. “If it takes someone working full time for 12½ weeks to export data, that is probably one of the worst government computer systems I’ve ever heard of,” Cuillier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Milpitas, Davis and her husband abruptly pulled their children out of the Newbrough’s day care in 2010 when they learned from a worker at the day care that their infant daughter was put down for naps in her car seat, which may \u003ca href=\"http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/GeneralPediatrics/15652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inhibit the child’s breathing\u003c/a>. Newbrough subsequently sued the parents for breach of contract in small claims court and won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspector who found the infant in the closet and shut down the facility also discovered that there weren’t enough caregivers\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>providing supervision, a violation that Newbrough had received before. In years prior, inspectors cited the day care seven times for threatening the health, safety or rights of children, its most serious violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newbrough, who didn’t respond to requests for comment, is no longer operating a day care. But that doesn’t mean she’s entirely out of the child care business in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newbrough still is listed as the president and founder of \u003ca href=\"http://pandpsitters.com\">Prince and Princess Sitters\u003c/a> on the company’s website. It is a baby-sitting and nanny placement agency in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Andrew Donohue and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This story was produced by the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, the country’s largest investigative reporting team. For more, visit cironline.org. Mieszkowski can be reached at \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"mailto:kmieszkowski@cironline.org\">\u003cstrong>kmieszkowski@cironline.org\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She did not know the records existed, much less what they said about Newbrough’s day care when she sent her children there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center of Investigative Reporting is trying to get electronic copies from the state under the California Public Records Act with the hopes of putting them online. The state Department of Social Services says it will\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>cost more than $20,000 and take more than two years for CIR to get the public data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the request should take minimal time and money because databases are designed to be able to export information easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The majority of states already make public reports available online.\n\u003cp>California has no plans to do so.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“That’s just embarrassing. Do they really want to be known as the dumbest, most backward government agency in California?” said \u003ca href=\"http://journalism.arizona.edu/david-cuillier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Cuillier\u003c/a>, an expert on public records who directs the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism. “Because if they cannot export data quickly, then they’ve got problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrast California with other large states, like Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google “Texas child care,” and the first search result that comes up is the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services’ \u003ca href=\"http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Child_Care/Search_Texas_Child_Care/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">site\u003c/a> for day care records. “Don’t be in the dark about child care!” the website warns. “Before entrusting your child to a day care, check its state record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a top official at the Department of Social Services admitted the problem and called its technology “old and outdated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all expect that any information that we want to know, we just Google it, and we should be able to pull up everything,” said Pat Leary, chief deputy director. “And it’s frustrating for parents, I know, when they can’t just get easy access to information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that putting the reports online improves the quality of child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one reason that the federal government is finalizing regulations that will require states to put records online in order to receive subsidies for low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the nation’s largest recipient from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Child Care and Development Fund, pulling in more than half a billion dollars a year. It’s the only one of the four largest states that doesn’t already make investigation and inspection information available on the Web.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Health and Human Services Department considers the records an essential tool for parents choosing child care. “Limiting access to this information creates a burden for parents,” its \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/05/20/2013-11673/child-care-and-development-fund-ccdf-program#/h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed new rule\u003c/a> says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Dryden Witte, an economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w10227.pdf\">found\u003c/a> in 2004 that providers’ quality of care for children of low-income families\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>went up when the reports went online in Broward County, Fla. The mean assessment score of local providers went from 89 to 91, on par with education efforts to improve classroom environment or curriculum. Inspectors also were more productive, completing an average of 14 more inspections a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result, they cleaned up their act,” Witte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, parents can contact \u003ca href=\"http://www.rrnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">child care resource and referral agencies\u003c/a> to find out which child care providers are licensed. But these agencies don’t have access to the state’s inspection and complaint records. The agencies tell the parents they must get in touch with one of the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccld.ca.gov/res/pdf/cclistingMaster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regional licensing offices\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling or visiting such a little-known office is too high a barrier for busy parents of young children, the state auditor concluded in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2005-129.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2006 report\u003c/a>. The offices are open only during typical work hours, and most parents who send their children to child care do so because they’re at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/132396178&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than seven years, the Department of Social Services has been pledging to get the records online. In 2006, the department assured the state auditor that it was working on it but warned that it needed money to do so. More than five years later, it told the auditor that it planned to use stimulus money to get the job done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the state auditor gave up on the department, saying it had no confidence the state would put the records online. The Department of Social Services ended up getting $1 million in education stimulus money, but it’s being spent on other things. Leary said that money didn’t cover the costs for the project. The department still doesn’t have a plan to get the records online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For CIR’s request, the department estimates that extracting the data from its database would require more than 500 hours of staff time at a cost of $41 an hour, totaling at least $20,500. The agency also says it can devote only four hours per week to this project, so it would take more than two years to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say that estimate strains credulity. “If it takes someone working full time for 12½ weeks to export data, that is probably one of the worst government computer systems I’ve ever heard of,” Cuillier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Milpitas, Davis and her husband abruptly pulled their children out of the Newbrough’s day care in 2010 when they learned from a worker at the day care that their infant daughter was put down for naps in her car seat, which may \u003ca href=\"http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/GeneralPediatrics/15652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inhibit the child’s breathing\u003c/a>. 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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A report commissioned by a state Senate committee contains a litany of criticisms of Caltrans for its handling of construction problems on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was put together in preparation for \u003ca href=\"http://stran.senate.ca.gov/agenda\" target=\"_blank\">an investigatory hearing Friday\u003c/a> by the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing. The panel, chaired by Concord Democrat Mark DeSaulnier, is in the midst of a review of infrastructure \"megaprojects.\" That inquiry was prompted by delays and cost overruns in building the new Bay Bridge span, a project that had an original price tag of about $1.4 billion but which ultimately took nearly $6.5 billion to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://stran.senate.ca.gov/sites/stran.senate.ca.gov/files/DeWolkreportfinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: Basic Reforms for the Future\u003c/a>,\" blasts Caltrans for lack of accountability for problems with the project and \"chronic attempts to keep many of the serious safety allegations quiet.\" (The complete 39-page report is embedded at the end of this post.)\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'This inquiry has come to the inevitable conclusion that there are legitimate concerns that this appears to be part of an institutionalized ... lack of transparency in the project.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This inquiry has come to the inevitable conclusion that there are legitimate concerns that this appears to be part of an institutionalized, if not malicious, lack of transparency in the project,\" the report says. The document was prepared by veteran Bay Area journalist Roland De Wolk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans, which by now has been dealing with years of bad press over the bridge project, says it's studying the report and will respond during the Senate committee hearing Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report has gotten widespread media attention. A couple sample leads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Vorderbrueggen\u003c/strong>, Contra Costa Times: \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24970599/bay-bridge-construction-managers-systematically-shut-down-safety\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Bridge construction managers systematically shut down safety critics, investigation concludes\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Caltrans systematically squelched serious allegations about the structural safety of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, concluded an investigation commissioned by the state Senate Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans managers marginalized dissenters, fired critics, reassigned outspoken engineers and urged those involved to avoid putting details of problems or issues in writing that would have to be disclosed under the state's Public Records Act, the report concluded.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jaxon Van Derbeken\u003c/strong>, San Francisco Chronicle: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Caltrans-accused-of-trying-to-hide-Bay-Bridge-5166927.php\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans accused of trying to hide Bay Bridge problems\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Caltrans engineer and an outside expert working on the Bay Bridge eastern span accused agency officials of discounting warnings about cracked welds on the bridge, and telling them not to put their concerns in writing to keep them from becoming public, according to a report commissioned for a state Senate committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official overseeing the long-delayed, $6.4 billion project told a Caltrans engineer who had examined the Chinese-made welds \"not to record his concerns in writing, either on paper or e-mail, but rather to communicate orally,\" said the report for the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, which was released Wednesday. A quality-control consultant said Caltrans supervisors \"did not want a record that would be legally available through the California Public Records Act,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And \u003cstrong>Charles Piller\u003c/strong> of the Sacramento Bee \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/22/6093564/senate-report-caltrans-ignored.html\" target=\"_blank\">runs down the report's key disclosures\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quality control managers found thousands of cracks in welds produced by a Chinese contractor for the span’s signature tower and roadway. Rather than ordering all needed fixes, top California Department of Transportation managers replaced those who discovered the problems.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Millions of dollars were paid to the same Chinese contractor to speed up work after it fell behind schedule and bridge officials urgently wanted faster results.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bridge officials rejected warnings in 2008 that suspect anchor rods for the suspension span were not adequately tested; some of those rods snapped last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials frequently told contractors and employees not to put concerns about quality into writing – ostensibly to avoid disclosure under the state Public Records Act\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the latest from the Associated Press on the Bay Bridge report, followed by the report itself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JHDearen\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Dearen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Senate report released Wednesday on the construction of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge raises questions about the quality of workmanship used to build the $6.3 billion span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report by the state Senate's Transportation and Housing Committee contains testimony from engineers that question the durability of welds on bridge pieces produced in China and the integrity of large bolts used to hold earthquake-safety equipment in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, both engineers say that despite the defects, they don't believe the bridge to be unsafe, but that parts of it will need expensive retrofitting sooner than they should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report's investigators found that California Department of Transportation managers dismissed concerns from quality-assurance experts that the Chinese firm Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co. Ltd, or ZPMC, hired to do key bridge welds, lacked the experience to meet standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Merrill, an engineer who oversaw weld inspections in China, told investigators that his staff found hundreds of weld cracks. He told Caltrans officials they were taking a \"great risk\" in allowing ZPMC to do the work, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the contract with ZPMC called for no cracks at all, so Merrill's firm MacTec Engineering rejected the pieces, leading to severe delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merrill said Caltrans was concerned about the delays, and that he was told he was being \"too rigorous\" in his inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans failed to renew MacTec's contract after the disagreement over ZPMC's work and hired another firm, Alta Vista Solutions, that turned out not to be qualified for the job, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said officials would address the report's findings at a meeting on Friday before the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also found that Caltrans forced another of its supervising bridge engineers off the job after supervising work on the welds being made in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chinese were not catching stuff,\" former Caltrans bridge engineer Douglas Coe, a 25-year department veteran, told the report's authors. \"Why are we finding all these cracks?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coe said he felt pressure from bridge managers Tony Anziano and Peter Siegenthaler not to stop work, and that eventually he argued that Caltrans should change the language in the contract — which permitted no cracks in the welds — if managers were going to order them through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans eventually changed that language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the first time in my career the engineering wasn't allowed to be done right,\" Coe told investigators. \"I'm mad as hell that the Department (Caltrans) put me in a position to have to say this. ... But if that bridge starts to crack in five years it's all going come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans' Anziano and Siegenthaler told the investigators that the weld cracks in question were repairable and have been mostly fixed. They maintain that the bridge is safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one was discouraged in reporting quality assurance,\" Anziano said in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also faulted Caltrans with allowing a number of giant steel bolts to be installed despite a lack of quality-assurance testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of rejecting the bolts, Caltrans managers \"resolved the situation by changing the specifications on the bolt fabrication contract and then accepted them 'as is,' \" the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of the bolts ended up snapping after being tightened in March, leading to a $25 million repair job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacTec's Merrill told investigators that he suggested the bolts undergo more testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got told we weren't doing any testing and to stop mentioning it,\" Merrill told the panel's investigators. \"I was basically told to stop bringing it up. 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A couple sample leads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lisa Vorderbrueggen\u003c/strong>, Contra Costa Times: \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24970599/bay-bridge-construction-managers-systematically-shut-down-safety\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Bridge construction managers systematically shut down safety critics, investigation concludes\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Caltrans systematically squelched serious allegations about the structural safety of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, concluded an investigation commissioned by the state Senate Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans managers marginalized dissenters, fired critics, reassigned outspoken engineers and urged those involved to avoid putting details of problems or issues in writing that would have to be disclosed under the state's Public Records Act, the report concluded.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jaxon Van Derbeken\u003c/strong>, San Francisco Chronicle: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Caltrans-accused-of-trying-to-hide-Bay-Bridge-5166927.php\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans accused of trying to hide Bay Bridge problems\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Caltrans engineer and an outside expert working on the Bay Bridge eastern span accused agency officials of discounting warnings about cracked welds on the bridge, and telling them not to put their concerns in writing to keep them from becoming public, according to a report commissioned for a state Senate committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official overseeing the long-delayed, $6.4 billion project told a Caltrans engineer who had examined the Chinese-made welds \"not to record his concerns in writing, either on paper or e-mail, but rather to communicate orally,\" said the report for the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, which was released Wednesday. A quality-control consultant said Caltrans supervisors \"did not want a record that would be legally available through the California Public Records Act,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And \u003cstrong>Charles Piller\u003c/strong> of the Sacramento Bee \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/22/6093564/senate-report-caltrans-ignored.html\" target=\"_blank\">runs down the report's key disclosures\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quality control managers found thousands of cracks in welds produced by a Chinese contractor for the span’s signature tower and roadway. Rather than ordering all needed fixes, top California Department of Transportation managers replaced those who discovered the problems.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Millions of dollars were paid to the same Chinese contractor to speed up work after it fell behind schedule and bridge officials urgently wanted faster results.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bridge officials rejected warnings in 2008 that suspect anchor rods for the suspension span were not adequately tested; some of those rods snapped last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials frequently told contractors and employees not to put concerns about quality into writing – ostensibly to avoid disclosure under the state Public Records Act\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the latest from the Associated Press on the Bay Bridge report, followed by the report itself:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JHDearen\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Dearen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Senate report released Wednesday on the construction of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge raises questions about the quality of workmanship used to build the $6.3 billion span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report by the state Senate's Transportation and Housing Committee contains testimony from engineers that question the durability of welds on bridge pieces produced in China and the integrity of large bolts used to hold earthquake-safety equipment in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, both engineers say that despite the defects, they don't believe the bridge to be unsafe, but that parts of it will need expensive retrofitting sooner than they should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report's investigators found that California Department of Transportation managers dismissed concerns from quality-assurance experts that the Chinese firm Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co. 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He told Caltrans officials they were taking a \"great risk\" in allowing ZPMC to do the work, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the contract with ZPMC called for no cracks at all, so Merrill's firm MacTec Engineering rejected the pieces, leading to severe delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merrill said Caltrans was concerned about the delays, and that he was told he was being \"too rigorous\" in his inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans failed to renew MacTec's contract after the disagreement over ZPMC's work and hired another firm, Alta Vista Solutions, that turned out not to be qualified for the job, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon said officials would address the report's findings at a meeting on Friday before the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also found that Caltrans forced another of its supervising bridge engineers off the job after supervising work on the welds being made in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chinese were not catching stuff,\" former Caltrans bridge engineer Douglas Coe, a 25-year department veteran, told the report's authors. \"Why are we finding all these cracks?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coe said he felt pressure from bridge managers Tony Anziano and Peter Siegenthaler not to stop work, and that eventually he argued that Caltrans should change the language in the contract — which permitted no cracks in the welds — if managers were going to order them through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans eventually changed that language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the first time in my career the engineering wasn't allowed to be done right,\" Coe told investigators. \"I'm mad as hell that the Department (Caltrans) put me in a position to have to say this. ... But if that bridge starts to crack in five years it's all going come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans' Anziano and Siegenthaler told the investigators that the weld cracks in question were repairable and have been mostly fixed. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS1395_brown20130110-scr-e1386206893922.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-119965\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS1395_brown20130110-scr-640x457.jpg\" alt=\"California Gov. Jerry Brown (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Jerry Brown (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:45 a.m.:\u003c/strong>The speech is over, and we're removing the video embed until we find an archived version somewhere. In the meantime, below are our notes on the beginning of the State of the State event followed by the text of Gov. Brown's address. Note that we'll also have an annotated version of the speech later this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> During intros, Assembly Speaker John Perez notes a little history is attached to today's address: The governor is making his 11th State of the State Address, more than any other California governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg got a big laugh when he intoduced Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom as the former mayor of Sacramento. When he was corrected, he laughed and said, \"That would be a step up.\" More laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom then took the stage. He closed his seemingly interminable introductory speech by quoting Winston Churchill on the importance of private enterprise and called on state official to \"recommit ourselves to making California the tentpole for job creation in the American economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom then gave way to Brown. He started out in a joking vein, noting that \"everyone seems excited.\" He noted that his first attended a State of the State not in 1975, during his first term as governor, but 1959, during his father's first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Governor Brown's full speech:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/130856568&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18373\" target=\"_blank\">text of Brown's speech\u003c/a>, as released by the governor's office:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am here today to report on the state of our state, choosing to ignore those who say that Article 5 of our Constitution, which requires the governor to report to the Legislature, is outdated; that you can’t report on the condition of our state from Sacramento because California is too spread out and too diverse. It occurred to me that these critics – who have long recited our state’s decline – perhaps have nothing to say in the face of California’s comeback – except, “please, don’t report it.” Well, I’m going to report it, and what a comeback it is: A million new jobs since 2010, a budgetary surplus in the billions and a minimum wage rising to $10 an hour!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Californians have a lot to be proud of. For a decade, budget instability was the order of the day. A lethal combination of national recessions, improvident tax cuts and too much spending created a financial sink hole that defied every effort to climb out. But three years later, here we are – with state spending and revenues solidly balanced, and more to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that, I thank all of you – for your courageous and dedicated legislative work. It is truly impressive. I also want to thank the members of my administration who have worked so hard to help make all this happen. But above all else, I think we should thank the voters of California. In 2010, through Proposition 25, they established a majority vote for passage of the state budget. That ended the gridlock. Then, in 2012, they approved the temporary tax increases of Proposition 30. These two initiatives, together with the recovering economy and the tough decisions you took, made all the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we are not out of the woods and we certainly are not out of the drought. Life is uncertainty, the climate is changing – not for the better – and the business cycle and the stock market are historically volatile, with good years followed by bad, with painful regularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while we know our revenues will fluctuate up and down, our long-term liabilities are enormous and ever growing. Let me list some of them: Over $100 billion for pensions owed to state workers, teachers and judges; tens of billions needed to cover retiree health care; and $65 billion needed to maintain and keep our roads, buildings and other infrastructure in sound repair. We also must account for future risks that could negatively affect our budgets like congressional decisions, natural disasters and the uncertain costs of the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we can’t go back to “business as usual.” Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice, recounted in the Book of Genesis, that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most governors and legislatures – in modern times – have forgotten this advice. This time we won’t do that. We will pay down our debts and remember the lessons of history. The American philosopher, George Santayana, famously said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” To help us keep our fiscal realities in mind, I have some playing cards with a chart from this year’s budget summary that shows our last 15 budgets. It’s not pretty. So I decided to put a picture of Sutter on the other side to keep our spirits up. It will make you smile but also help us not forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiscal discipline is not the enemy of our democracy but its fundamental predicate. To avoid the mistakes of the past we must spend with great prudence and we must establish a solid rainy day fund, locked into the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, the people voted for a rainy day fund which was found to be unworkable. In 2010, you created another rainy day fund, now scheduled for the November Election. But this latest effort doesn’t give the state the option to pay off debt, doesn’t deal with the ups and downs of Proposition 98 and doesn’t account for spikes in capital gains. So let’s fix these flaws before going to the voters. This is work that must be accomplished in the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, I spoke of the principle of subsidiarity, a rather clunky word that nevertheless points to a profoundly important principle, namely that in our federal system there are separate layers of government, each with its own distinct responsibilities. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a “central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No better example of this can be found than in your enactment last year of the Local Control Funding Formula. This was a major breakthrough in the way funds are allocated to California’s schools so that our laws explicitly recognize the difficult problems faced by low-income families and those whose first language is other than English. As a result, those with less are going to receive more and that is good for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But something else is at work in this Local Control Funding Formula. Instead of prescriptive commands issued from headquarters here in Sacramento, more general goals have been established for each local school to attain, each in its own way. This puts the responsibility where it has to be: In the classroom and at the local district. With six million students, there is no way the state can micromanage teaching and learning in all the schools from El Centro to Eureka – and we should not even try!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, 324 people from across the state traveled to Sacramento to speak to the State Board of Education about the merits of this new law and the regulations which should be adopted under it. Principals, teachers, students, parents, religious groups and lawyers, all came forward to express their views. Now that shows interest and real commitment! But their work is just beginning. Each local district now has to put into practice what the Local Control Funding Formula has made possible. That, together with new Common Core standards for math and English, will be a major challenge for teachers and local administrators. But they are the ones who can make it work and I have every confidence they will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar vein, in the field of public safety, we have changed historic practices in our prison system and transferred significant responsibilities to local authorities. The Federal courts, backed up by the United States Supreme Court, have ordered major reductions in our prison population and dramatic improvements in the medical and mental health programs that the state makes available. In response, we have transferred the supervision of tens of thousands of lower level offenders from the state to our 58 counties. This realignment is bold and far reaching, but necessary under the circumstances. And local law enforcement has risen to the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our prisons are pioneering new programs and treatments – and so are the counties. Last week, I visited the Lerdo Jail just north of Bakersfield and sat in on some classes. It was moving to hear the men’s stories and the struggles they encounter. It was also inspiring to see the enthusiasm of Sheriff Donny Youngblood and his efforts under realignment to work with probation, the district attorney, local judges and the police to try new ways to deter crime and help offenders straighten out their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course there are issues with realignment, but together – with our local partners – we are facing them. We have plenty of work ahead of us, including building more capacity at the state and county level and becoming more effective with those who suffer mental illness or who are drug addicted. But we are on the right track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all this, your legislative work – particularly funding – is crucial but we should never lose sight of the reality that life is local and that so many things we try to do here in the State Capitol can only be handled by local representatives and leaders. They deal not with the abstractions of law but with the flesh and blood reality of everyday life. That’s a lesson I learned firsthand as mayor of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among all our uncertainties, weather is one of the most basic. We can’t control it. We can only live with it, and now we have to live with a very serious drought of uncertain duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, it is imperative that we do everything possible to mitigate the effects of the drought. I have convened an Interagency Drought Task Force and declared a State of Emergency. We need everyone in every part of the state to conserve water. We need regulators to rebalance water rules and enable voluntary transfers of water and we must prepare for forest fires. As the State Water Action Plan lays out, water recycling, expanded storage and serious groundwater management must all be part of the mix. So too must be investments in safe drinking water, particularly in disadvantaged communities. We also need wetlands and watershed restoration and further progress on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a tall order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is what we must do to get through this drought and prepare for the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do not know how much our current problem derives from the build-up of heat-trapping gasses, but we can take this drought as a stark warning of things to come. The United Nations Panel on Climate Change says – with 95 percent confidence – that human beings are changing our climate. This means more droughts and more extreme weather events, and, in California, more forest fires and less snow pack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you know, of all the states, and even of most of the countries of the world, California is the leader in dealing with climate change. From AB 32, to our building and appliance efficiency standards, our renewable portfolio standard and our support of electric vehicles, California is leading the way. Nevertheless, in terms of greenhouse gases, our biggest challenge remains the amount of gasoline Californians use. Each year, our motor vehicles use more than 14 billion gallons of gasoline to travel over 330 billion miles. To put those numbers in perspective, the sun is 93 million miles away. Reducing our oil consumption, two thirds of which is imported by ships and tank cars, will take time, breakthrough technologies and steadfast commitment. It will also require that the countries which burn the most fossil fuel join with us. We’ve started building those partnerships with other states and countries like China. We will go to Mexico next. California can’t do this alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In so many other ways, California is a pioneer. We have 25 percent of the nation’s foreign born and we are the first state in modern times to have a plurality of families of Latino origin. So it’s not surprising that California is the state where immigrants can not only dream – they can drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are also the state of innovation, of Silicon Valley and more venture capital investment than any other state – by far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re on our way to a million electric vehicles and we’re building the nation’s only high-speed rail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re expanding health care coverage to millions more. And, California is the nation’s leader in developing medical and scientific advances that will cure diseases and lower costs. We have six of America’s twelve top-performing metropolitan areas in biotechnology: San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Orange County. Last year, we created a tax credit to help innovators, in these regions and beyond, hire and expand in California. Four out of the world’s twenty leading academic bioscience institutions are located here in California: UCSF and Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford and UC San Diego. Just as California has led the way with stem cell research, so too can we pioneer the new field of precision medicine which uses genomics, medical devices, computer sciences and other fields to treat individual patients, instead of broad populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, California is a leader in so many ways. But, the dangers and difficulties we face can never be taken lightly. We still have too many struggling families, too much debt, and too many unknowns when it comes to our climate. Overcoming these challenges will test our vision, our discipline and our ability to persevere. But overcome them we will and as we do, we will build for the future, not steal from it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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For a decade, budget instability was the order of the day. A lethal combination of national recessions, improvident tax cuts and too much spending created a financial sink hole that defied every effort to climb out. But three years later, here we are – with state spending and revenues solidly balanced, and more to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that, I thank all of you – for your courageous and dedicated legislative work. It is truly impressive. I also want to thank the members of my administration who have worked so hard to help make all this happen. But above all else, I think we should thank the voters of California. In 2010, through Proposition 25, they established a majority vote for passage of the state budget. That ended the gridlock. Then, in 2012, they approved the temporary tax increases of Proposition 30. These two initiatives, together with the recovering economy and the tough decisions you took, made all the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we are not out of the woods and we certainly are not out of the drought. Life is uncertainty, the climate is changing – not for the better – and the business cycle and the stock market are historically volatile, with good years followed by bad, with painful regularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while we know our revenues will fluctuate up and down, our long-term liabilities are enormous and ever growing. Let me list some of them: Over $100 billion for pensions owed to state workers, teachers and judges; tens of billions needed to cover retiree health care; and $65 billion needed to maintain and keep our roads, buildings and other infrastructure in sound repair. We also must account for future risks that could negatively affect our budgets like congressional decisions, natural disasters and the uncertain costs of the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we can’t go back to “business as usual.” Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice, recounted in the Book of Genesis, that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most governors and legislatures – in modern times – have forgotten this advice. This time we won’t do that. We will pay down our debts and remember the lessons of history. The American philosopher, George Santayana, famously said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” To help us keep our fiscal realities in mind, I have some playing cards with a chart from this year’s budget summary that shows our last 15 budgets. It’s not pretty. So I decided to put a picture of Sutter on the other side to keep our spirits up. It will make you smile but also help us not forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fiscal discipline is not the enemy of our democracy but its fundamental predicate. To avoid the mistakes of the past we must spend with great prudence and we must establish a solid rainy day fund, locked into the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, the people voted for a rainy day fund which was found to be unworkable. In 2010, you created another rainy day fund, now scheduled for the November Election. But this latest effort doesn’t give the state the option to pay off debt, doesn’t deal with the ups and downs of Proposition 98 and doesn’t account for spikes in capital gains. So let’s fix these flaws before going to the voters. This is work that must be accomplished in the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, I spoke of the principle of subsidiarity, a rather clunky word that nevertheless points to a profoundly important principle, namely that in our federal system there are separate layers of government, each with its own distinct responsibilities. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a “central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No better example of this can be found than in your enactment last year of the Local Control Funding Formula. This was a major breakthrough in the way funds are allocated to California’s schools so that our laws explicitly recognize the difficult problems faced by low-income families and those whose first language is other than English. As a result, those with less are going to receive more and that is good for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But something else is at work in this Local Control Funding Formula. Instead of prescriptive commands issued from headquarters here in Sacramento, more general goals have been established for each local school to attain, each in its own way. This puts the responsibility where it has to be: In the classroom and at the local district. With six million students, there is no way the state can micromanage teaching and learning in all the schools from El Centro to Eureka – and we should not even try!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, 324 people from across the state traveled to Sacramento to speak to the State Board of Education about the merits of this new law and the regulations which should be adopted under it. Principals, teachers, students, parents, religious groups and lawyers, all came forward to express their views. Now that shows interest and real commitment! But their work is just beginning. Each local district now has to put into practice what the Local Control Funding Formula has made possible. That, together with new Common Core standards for math and English, will be a major challenge for teachers and local administrators. But they are the ones who can make it work and I have every confidence they will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar vein, in the field of public safety, we have changed historic practices in our prison system and transferred significant responsibilities to local authorities. The Federal courts, backed up by the United States Supreme Court, have ordered major reductions in our prison population and dramatic improvements in the medical and mental health programs that the state makes available. In response, we have transferred the supervision of tens of thousands of lower level offenders from the state to our 58 counties. This realignment is bold and far reaching, but necessary under the circumstances. And local law enforcement has risen to the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our prisons are pioneering new programs and treatments – and so are the counties. Last week, I visited the Lerdo Jail just north of Bakersfield and sat in on some classes. It was moving to hear the men’s stories and the struggles they encounter. It was also inspiring to see the enthusiasm of Sheriff Donny Youngblood and his efforts under realignment to work with probation, the district attorney, local judges and the police to try new ways to deter crime and help offenders straighten out their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course there are issues with realignment, but together – with our local partners – we are facing them. We have plenty of work ahead of us, including building more capacity at the state and county level and becoming more effective with those who suffer mental illness or who are drug addicted. But we are on the right track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all this, your legislative work – particularly funding – is crucial but we should never lose sight of the reality that life is local and that so many things we try to do here in the State Capitol can only be handled by local representatives and leaders. They deal not with the abstractions of law but with the flesh and blood reality of everyday life. That’s a lesson I learned firsthand as mayor of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among all our uncertainties, weather is one of the most basic. We can’t control it. We can only live with it, and now we have to live with a very serious drought of uncertain duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, it is imperative that we do everything possible to mitigate the effects of the drought. I have convened an Interagency Drought Task Force and declared a State of Emergency. We need everyone in every part of the state to conserve water. We need regulators to rebalance water rules and enable voluntary transfers of water and we must prepare for forest fires. As the State Water Action Plan lays out, water recycling, expanded storage and serious groundwater management must all be part of the mix. So too must be investments in safe drinking water, particularly in disadvantaged communities. We also need wetlands and watershed restoration and further progress on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a tall order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is what we must do to get through this drought and prepare for the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do not know how much our current problem derives from the build-up of heat-trapping gasses, but we can take this drought as a stark warning of things to come. The United Nations Panel on Climate Change says – with 95 percent confidence – that human beings are changing our climate. This means more droughts and more extreme weather events, and, in California, more forest fires and less snow pack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you know, of all the states, and even of most of the countries of the world, California is the leader in dealing with climate change. From AB 32, to our building and appliance efficiency standards, our renewable portfolio standard and our support of electric vehicles, California is leading the way. Nevertheless, in terms of greenhouse gases, our biggest challenge remains the amount of gasoline Californians use. Each year, our motor vehicles use more than 14 billion gallons of gasoline to travel over 330 billion miles. To put those numbers in perspective, the sun is 93 million miles away. Reducing our oil consumption, two thirds of which is imported by ships and tank cars, will take time, breakthrough technologies and steadfast commitment. It will also require that the countries which burn the most fossil fuel join with us. We’ve started building those partnerships with other states and countries like China. We will go to Mexico next. California can’t do this alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In so many other ways, California is a pioneer. We have 25 percent of the nation’s foreign born and we are the first state in modern times to have a plurality of families of Latino origin. So it’s not surprising that California is the state where immigrants can not only dream – they can drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are also the state of innovation, of Silicon Valley and more venture capital investment than any other state – by far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re on our way to a million electric vehicles and we’re building the nation’s only high-speed rail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re expanding health care coverage to millions more. And, California is the nation’s leader in developing medical and scientific advances that will cure diseases and lower costs. We have six of America’s twelve top-performing metropolitan areas in biotechnology: San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Orange County. Last year, we created a tax credit to help innovators, in these regions and beyond, hire and expand in California. Four out of the world’s twenty leading academic bioscience institutions are located here in California: UCSF and Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford and UC San Diego. Just as California has led the way with stem cell research, so too can we pioneer the new field of precision medicine which uses genomics, medical devices, computer sciences and other fields to treat individual patients, instead of broad populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, California is a leader in so many ways. But, the dangers and difficulties we face can never be taken lightly. We still have too many struggling families, too much debt, and too many unknowns when it comes to our climate. Overcoming these challenges will test our vision, our discipline and our ability to persevere. But overcome them we will and as we do, we will build for the future, not steal from it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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