By Larry Mankin On March 23-24, 2009 I got to once again see just how important it is to have a community plan, and to have a dedicated group of community leaders willing to go the extra mile to share a community’s vision leaders in Sacramento.   I was fortunate enough to travel to Sacramento with seventy other SCV delegates ...

Community advocacy in action: The Signal road-trips to Sacramento The following article was published in The Signal newspaper. On Monday morning, March 23, I anxiously awoke at 5:30 a.m. realizing I had to wait two more hours until I could board a chartered bus to take part in an annual road trip to our state Capitol. Thanks to sponsors KHTS, ...

The following article was published in The Signal newspaper. Local leaders take budget concerns to Sacramento Right Here, Right Now Carl and Jeri Seratti Goldman’s fourth annual KHTS-AM 1220 Sacramento Road Trip March 23-24 was indeed a huge success. I don’t know which I enjoyed more, California Assemblyman Cameron Smyth’s well-planned program of legislative speakers or the bonding necessitated by ...

The following article was published in The Signal newspaper. Right Here, Right Now! By Bill Kennedy Last month in this space, I presented my views that our legislature in Sacramento is dysfunctional on fiscal matters. One problem, among other reasons, is that our elected officials tend to vote on party lines rather than on the individual merits of any given ...

By Ann Unger This article originally appeared in the Magazine of Santa Clarita.   It was a clear, sunny day when over 50 people got on a bus to take a 5-hour ride to Sacramento hosted by KHTS, AT&T and Assemblyman Cameron Smyth. The purpose of the trip was to show our concern and interest in the affairs of the ...

A list of who participated in the 2009 Sacramento Road Trip Arnold, Fred  – California Association Of Mortgage Brokers, President Atkins, BJ  –  Newhall Water, Board of Trustees Ball, Chris  –  Santa Clarita Builder’s Exchange, President Braly, Hunt & Pamela –  Law Firm of Hacker-Braly, Partner Bronson, Sharon –  KHTS AM-1220 Radio Clingen, Bill  –  Macro Wealth Integration, President Clingen, ...

Schedule for Sacramento Road Trip – March 23rd- 24th  March 23, 2009  2:30 – Arrive in Sacramento 2:50-3:05pm – Assemblyman Smyth – Opening Remarks 3:05-3:20pm – Bill Cooper, Castaic Lake Water Agency – Remarks on Water issues. 3:20 – 3:50pm – Group meets w/ Assembly Member Jared Huffman, Chair, Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife 3:50pm – Gary Kurutz, Principal State ...

March 23rd and 24th KHTS AM-1220 joined a group of over 70 community leaders on a road trip to Sacramento to talk to state policy makers about important Santa Clarita issues. These podcast contains interviews from Road Trip participants: Podcast 1 {enclose sac09_podcast1.mp3} Bruce Fortine – COC Trustee Ed Colley – Castaic Lake Water Agency Board Drew Mercy – Senator ...

Project Description & Funding Request: Interstate 5 Gateway Improvement Project in North L.A. County, March, 2009 The Golden State Gateway Coalition advocates funding the design and construction of The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) proposal to add northbound and southbound truck lanes and carpool lanes to Interstate 5 in northern Los Angeles County. We ask that California legislators ...

William S. Hart Union High School District ISSUE #1 – Equalization Funding Background Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, revenue limit equalization compared each school district’s base revenue limit to the statewide average for districts of the same type (elementary, high school, or unified) and size (large or small, as measured by ADA), and used equalization aid to bring low-funded ...