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Institute for Local
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March 2009
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Check Out Our New
Facebook Page
The Institute is on Facebook,
and is pleased to have a growing list of supporters (”fans”
in Facebook parlance). Let us know if you have comments or suggestions
(info@ca-ilg.org).
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California
Climate Action Network (CCAN)
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CCAN will expand four of its best
practices areas (green building, civic engagement, efficient
transportation, and land use and community design) under a contract
with the Air Resources Board. We welcome success stories and lessons
learned from local agencies in this area. Contact Program Director Yvonne Hunter: yhunter@ca-ilg.org.
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A contract with the Waste Board will enable CCAN to expand its waste
reduction and recycling best practices and develop a sample mandatory
commercial recycling ordinance.
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With
funding from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, CCAN is
developing a pilot Web portal to provide cities, counties and others
with a state-of-the-art Web-based system to access and update climate
change information on a regional basis. The goal is that this pilot
effort will be adopted statewide.
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Collaborative
Governance Initiative (CGI)
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The National Civic League has
published an excerpt of A Local
Official’s Guide to Immigrant Civic Engagement. The full
publication is available online at www.ca-ilg.org/immigrant.
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View CGI’s series of
articles on civic participation at www.ca-ilg.org/civicparticipation.
They have been compiled in a new publication called Civic Engagement in California: How
Local Agencies are Involving the Public, Building Trust and Making Better
Decisions.
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Land
Use and Healthy Communities
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The Land Use program is
providing technical assistance on issues related to health and the
built environment to the Healthy Eating Active
Living (HEAL) campaign, a joint project of the California Center
for Public Health Advocacy, the League of California Cities and the
Cities, Counties, Schools Partnership.
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The Land Use program will
publish a new Local Officials’ Guide to Land Use series of
publications in 2009. The
initial volumes will include Guides on Local Planning, Public
Participation, Conservation and the Environment, and Housing. Anyone
interested in serving as a peer reviewer prior to publication can
e-mail Steve Sanders, Land
Use program manager, at ssanders@ca-ilg.org.
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The Healthy Communities
project has posted summaries of the Web dialogues it hosted last year
at www.ca-ilg.org/healthycommunities. The summaries include links to a
number of useful studies and resources on healthy eating, active
living, and planning healthy communities.
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Ethics
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The Institute’s
“Ethical Dilemmas” webpage features an article on legal and
ethical Issues associated with retirement recognitions. Read
More>>
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The Institute continues to offer
local officials a variety of options for AB 1234 (mandatory ethics
training) compliance. See www.ca-ilg.org/AB1234compliance.
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Local Government 101
The Institute’s
next publication explaining how decision-making occurs at the local
level and who plays what role is now in the design and layout stage.
Anticipated publication is March.
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Communities for
Healthy Kids (CHK)
In furtherance of its efforts
to develop new ways for local agencies to help enroll eligible children
in no- and low-cost health insurance, CHK has developed a series of
best practices. CHK currently has projects underway in ten communities,
with more under development (see www.ca-ilg.org/chk). CHK is
entering the third year of its three-year grant from the WellPoint
Foundation.
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Honoring Public
Service
Planning a retirement recognition
event? The Institute has launched a webpage designed to assist those
who are preparing to celebrate the service of local officials who are
retiring or otherwise leaving office (see www.ca-ilg.org/honoringpublicservice). Included on the site is a handy “leaving
office checklist.”
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Mission
The Institute is the
nonprofit research affiliate of the League of California Cities and the
California State Association of Counties. The Institute's mission is to
promote well-informed, ethical, inclusive, effective and responsive
local government in California
through innovative (state of the art) resources, tools and programs.
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