{"id":11509,"date":"2011-09-30T19:56:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T23:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11509"},"modified":"2011-09-30T19:56:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T23:56:21","slug":"california-tries-local-control-to-ease-budget-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11509\/california-tries-local-control-to-ease-budget-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"California Tries Local Control to Ease Budget Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For every crisis, there is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/09\/29\/EDN41LBE6H.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">opportunity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of the June budget agreement, the state will transfer to the 58 counties responsibilities for managing low-level offenders, as well as providing mental health, substance abuse and child protective services. It&#8217;s a Reaganesque approach &#8211; the idea that we can deliver better service at less cost by moving government decision-making closer to the people. Or, as Gov. Jerry Brown described Thursday, &#8220;It&#8217;s a bold vision of a new relationship between the state and local governments.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s also a bow to fiscal reality.\u00a0 Here\u2019s to more (forced) bold thinking that gives local officials the power to best serve their neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For every crisis, there is an opportunity: As part of the June budget agreement, the state will transfer to the 58 counties responsibilities for managing low-level offenders, as well as providing mental health, substance abuse and child protective services. It&#8217;s a Reaganesque approach &#8211; the idea that we can deliver better service at less cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,299,56,2035,3082,1447],"class_list":["post-11509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-california","tag-government","tag-jerry-brown","tag-local","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11512,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions\/11512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}