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The councils hold public meetings, survey community opinion and speak for the community to the board of supervisors. The most common subject of activity is land-use planning. The county often uses the group as a planning advisory council to draft or revise the community's portion of the county general plan. [4]
The Ralph M. Brown Act is a California law that guarantees the public's right to attend and participate in meetings of local legislative bodies. Located at California Government Code 54950 et seq., it is an act of the California State Legislature, authored by Assemblymember Ralph M. Brown and passed in 1953.
A special district is defined as "any agency of the state for the local performance of governmental or proprietary functions within limited boundaries" [27] and provides a limited range of services within a defined geographic area. Most of California's special districts are single-purpose districts, and provide one service.
California Proposition 14 was a November 1964 initiative ballot measure that amended the California state constitution to nullify the 1963 Rumford Fair Housing Act, thereby allowing property sellers, landlords and their agents to openly discriminate on ethnic grounds when selling or letting accommodations, as they had been permitted to before 1963.
A California lawmaker is leading the charge to make undocumented residents eligible for a popular state-backed home loan program, weeks before it gives out another $250 million in down payment ...
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California State Government Organization Archived 2010-10-06 at the Wayback Machine - Chart showing a hierarchy of the above departments and commissions California State Agency Databases Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine - Comprehensive list of state agencies and databases maintained by the American Library Association
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