The CSAC Executive Committee today approved more than 30 appointments as Chair and Vice Chair of CSAC’s Policy Committees, the CSAC Treasurer, the National Association of Counties (NACo) Board of Directors, the NACo Western Interstate Region Board of Directors, the CSAC Finance Corporation, and numerous other boards and working groups. The action fills CSAC’s leadership roles for 2019 and paves the way to continue providing guidance to CSAC staff throughout the year.
The Executive Committee approved the following appointments:
A federal judge recently ruled against the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, declaring the Commerce Secretary violated federal law when he ordered the inclusion of a citizenship question nearly a year ago. The judge’s ruling is a victory for counties and complete count efforts, but not cause for celebration quite yet as the issue could be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming months.
The Employee Relations policy area falls under the jurisdiction of the Government Finance and Operations (GFO) Policy Committee and is responsible for all issues related to public employment and retirement. Specific issues areas are pension benefits and pension system administration; labor relations; issues regarding county negotiations with employees; workers’ compensation; and other risk management issues facing public employers.
In a twelfth floor conference room overlooking the serpentine shoreline of Lake Merritt in Oakland, Sarah Church sits down and takes a drink from her reusable, stainless-steel water bottle. Church works for Alameda County in the Office of Sustainability where she and colleague Karen Cook collaborate with the County’s Procurement Department to advance the county’s Sustainable Purchasing Program – an impressive initiative that has grown over two decades to become one of the leading green procurement efforts in California local government.
“Our County has been committed to sustainability in our operations for a long time. And we noticed early on that our purchasing dollars also have an impact in our local economy and in the world. We wanted to make sure that was a sustainable impact,” explains Church.
