Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed to eliminate the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Program, which provides cash assistance for eligible low-income families with children, while helping parents find jobs and overcome barriers to employment. Approximately four out of five CalWORKs recipients (78.5 percent) are children.
If CalWORKs were eliminated, more than 880 children [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Amador County’
June 3, 2009
Governor’s Proposal to Eliminate CalWORKs Would Affect 2,370 Low-Income Children and Parents in Amador/Calaveras Counties
May 28, 2009
More Than 400 Amador Co. Kids Could Lose Health Coverage
According to a recent report by the California Budget Project (CBP), 430 Amador County children would lose health coverage under Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposal to eliminate the state’s Healthy Families Program. The program provides health, dental, and vision services to children with family incomes too high to qualify for the Medi-Cal Program.
Statewide 942,000 California children who [...]
May 24, 2009
Wine Tax Won’t Solve Problem. Oil Severance Tax Would Do More.
By Randy Bayne
One of the problems with bridging the $24 billion state budget gap is too small thinking. Voters are tired of solutions that don’t go far enough and are aimed at too small a revenue pool. More than anything, that is probably the message sent in Tuesday’s special election.
One proposed tax that won’t help, [...]
May 5, 2009
Amador School District Continues Down Illegal Path
Dick Glock looks on as employees are told they are being laid-off.
© A.R.Bayne
Back in February, I wrote about Amador Schools Superintendent Dick Glock’s determination to lead the Amador District down an illegal path. Three months later, Glock continues to run the district outside the law, and what is even more disturbing, he has convinced six [...]
April 30, 2009
Amador County Opposed to Pardee Expansion
The Amador County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to oppose the proposed expansion of Pardee Reservoir. They said their opposition extended to “any other variation on a Pardee expansion if it had the same impacts as East Bay MUD’s current proposal,” according to Katherine Evatt writing at Katherine’s Somewhat Random Amador Thoughts.
I think it’s the [...]
February 20, 2009
Median home price off more than 50% since 2006 peak
From the Sacramento Bee, Feb. 19, 2009:
Amador County reported 13 sales in January and saw median prices dip to $190,000. That is down 24.5 percent from the same month in 2008. Prices peaked at $425,000 in the county in 2006.
February 15, 2009
School Superintendent Glock determined to lead district down illegal path
At their Jan. 28 meeting, trustees discussed creation of new positions that could bring some workers back at reduced pay rates. Wednesday night, Superintendent Dick Glock addressed that possibility. “Just because someone gets a layoff doesn’t mean that position is gone,” he said. [Ledger-Dispatch, 02/13/09]
According to the California Education Code, there are only two legal [...]
February 13, 2009
Maintaining schools not a priority for trustees
by Randy Bayne
Amador trustees are clearly not interested in the maintenance of the schools and other facilities under their care. They are also not interested in questioning their chief employee, Superintendent Dick Glock. Supporting the superintendent’s wishes, trustees voted 6-1 to layoff all eleven maintenance employees, leaving no one to maintain Amador’s schools. The lone [...]
February 13, 2009
Governor’s proposal makes deep cuts in schools
“As part of his proposal to close the 2008-09 and 2009-10 budget gaps, Governor Schwarzenegger would cut funding for California’s public schools, which serve 5.9 million students, by a total of $5.2 billion – a reduction of $875 per student’” says a new analysis by the California Budget Project. The analysis examines local impacts of [...]
