Government Relations

Proposed Statewide Wealth Tax Could Have Ruinous Consequences image

Proposed Statewide Wealth Tax Could Have Ruinous Consequences

There’s an old (and true) adage about taxes: the more you tax something, the less of it you get. And there’s another, equally true, that when y...
Council Shares Insights with Latino Caucus of County Government Group on California’s Affordability Challenge image

Council Shares Insights with Latino Caucus of County Government Group on California’s Affordability Challenge

Affordability—or lack thereof–was the hot topic for the Latino Caucus of the California State Association of Counties, which held its annua...
Bay Area Council Statement on the November 2024 Election image

Bay Area Council Statement on the November 2024 Election

The Bay Area Council today (Nov. 6) issued the following statement on the results of the 2024 General Election. “Voters across California and...
Council Names Assemblymember Buffy Wicks Regionalist of the Year image

Council Names Assemblymember Buffy Wicks Regionalist of the Year

The Bay Area Council this week (March 19) announced Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) the recipient of our Regionalist of the Year award. Each...
Prop. F Offers New Tool to Address San Francisco Drug Overdose Crisis image

Prop. F Offers New Tool to Address San Francisco Drug Overdose Crisis

Drug overdose deaths in San Francisco this year are on track to exceed last year’s record total of 813, which was up from the previous record of ...
Bay Area Council Voter Guide image

Bay Area Council Voter Guide

The Bay Area Council this week (Feb. 21) announced its positions on key state and local measures appearing on the March 5 primary ballot. The Counc...
Bay Area Council Endorses Prop. 1 on March Ballot; Announces Positions on Other Key Local Measures image

Bay Area Council Endorses Prop. 1 on March Ballot; Announces Positions on Other Key Local Measures

The Bay Area Council this week announced our endorsement of Proposition 1, the Behavioral Health Services Act on the March 5 primary election ballo...
Assembly Leadership Changes Could Bode Well for Bay Area image

Assembly Leadership Changes Could Bode Well for Bay Area

If you believe that whoever controls the levers of power conveys any political advantage, then the leadership and legislative committee changes ann...
Council Welcomes Speaker Rivas for Discussion on Key Issues image

Council Welcomes Speaker Rivas for Discussion on Key Issues

New Speaker of the California State Assembly, Robert Rivas, today met with members of the Bay Area Council Executive Committee and Board of Directo...
Banner Year in Sacramento for Bay Area Council Legislative, Budget Priorities image

Banner Year in Sacramento for Bay Area Council Legislative, Budget Priorities

With just one day left before the Oct. 14 deadline for Gov. Newsom to sign or veto legislation, the Bay Area Council is celebrating what appears to...
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