Sections

1. Illinois Report
2. Committee of Correspondence-Statement of David Horton, Legal Counsel, Committee to Restore the Constitution, before the Joint Committee on Regionalism, Illinois Legislature (4/11/1978)
3. Regionalism Control and Command Flow Chart
4. Standard Federal Regions
5. Intergovernmental Systems
6. Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders - The President
7. FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) - Don Bell Reports (11/03/1989)
8. Regional Government Usurping On The Move
• (a) Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) Conference on Federalism or The Tension of Interdependence - Don Bell Reports (3/14/1975)
• (b) Regionalism Revisited - Don Bell Reports (4/14/1978)
• (c) 1313 (Public Administrative Clearing House)
• (d) Metro-Government - Excerpts - Iris McBain (1959)
9. An Approach to State Regional Organization in Minnesota - 1313
10. Rebellion is Simmering in State Capitals - Rocky Mountain News (9/30/1980)
11. The Case of the Fifty Disappearing States - Don Bell Reports (8/15/1975)
12. State Planning: Its Function and Organization - Report of the Committee - American Institute of Planners (November, 1959)
13. Regional Governance Moves Forward
• (a) Concepts in Metropolitan Government
• (b) Regional Planning for the Bay Area
• (c) Local Agency Formation Commissions (LAFC)
• (d) Assembly Bill 2040 - Knox Bill (in part)
14. Bureaucratic Menace to Democratic Government - Assemblyman Sheridan Heglund (D. San Diego County) - Capital News Service (June 21, 1960)
15. Office of International Management est. 11/31/1969 via California Executive Order 17-69
16. California Council on Intergovernmental Relations: Allocation of Public Service Responsibilities (June 1970)
• (a) Framework for Analysis - Principles and Criteria
• (b) Recommended Shifts - State/Local Subvention Programs
• (c) Analysis of Selected Public Services
• (d) The Special District "Problem"
• (e) Allocation of Area-wide Responsibilities
• Appendices
• A: Criteria for Policy Choice, Providing Funds, and Administration
• of Public Services
• B: Planning Districts as Adopted by the CCIR
• C: Intergovernmental Program Structure
17. California Council on Intergovernmental Relations
• (a) Policy Statement on Regional Organization
• (b) Letter to Cities, Counties, Councils of Government: Comprehensive Planning Assistance (CPA) Proposals 1970-71 Federal Funds (701) - announces CPA Program
• (c) Preliminary Application Procedure
• (d) Preliminary Application for CPA
• (e) Letter to Elected Officials of Cities and Counties, and Regional Organizations Requesting Comments on Regional Planning Districts
• 1. Regional Planning Survey
• 2. Executive Order 12372 - Intergovernmental Review of Federal
• Programs (new intergovernmental review process introduced)
• 3. California Senator Dunlap letter to Mrs. O'Grady confirming
• CCIR phased out (3/10/77)
18. Vallejo Times-Herald Editorials
• (a) Home Rule in Name Only - Association of Bay Area Governments (05/23/69)
• (b) Local Rule Principle Under Severe Attack (11/06/76
19. Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)
• (a) The Emergence of a Regional Concept 1910-1970 (11/1970)
• (b) ABAG Project Review Policies and Procedures as Adopted by the Executive Committee January 15, 1970
• (c) ABAG Message: A-95 Review Program Sources:
• 1) Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• 2) A Proposed Land Use Policy Framework for the San Francisco Bay Area (July 1990)
• 3) Reaction to ABAG Plan - Benicia Herald
  5/27/1990 - ABAG Debate Turns into Shouting Match
  6/29/1990 - Revisions 'Crippling' ABAG Plan
  7/29/1990 - Reaction to ABAG Plan Vote Mixed
20. In The Bag With ABAG
• (a) Not a Plan, But A Trap - Vallejo Times-Herald (3/04/1969)
• (b) State Moves to Gain New Power Over Cities - Sacramento Examiner (1/28/1979)
21. California Office of Planning and Research (OPR) - Environmental Goals and Policy Report An Urban Strategy For California (1978)
• Introduction
• California's Urban Priorities (Chapter One)
• Urban Action Program (Chapter Two)
• Urban Study Program (Chapter Three)
• Appendix
22. Master Plan Hides Regional Government - Vallejo Times-Herald (6/22/75)
23. Governor Reagan's 1973 Task Force on Regional Government
• (a) The Task Force Report Reagan Didn't Buy (Robert Hawkins)
• (b) Task Force Report
• (c) Background Information on Local Government Reform
• (d) County Supervisors Association of California - County Modernization Commission
• (e) Home Rule for Counties - Vallejo Times Herald - Earl Waters (5/19/1981)
24. Anne Garni, Community and State Activist, Community Service, Santa Cruz, CA. (1973)
• a. The New Federalism
• b. Statement in Regard to the Governor's Local Government Reform Program - As Presented to San Jose, CA. City Council (5/11/1973)
25. Counties and Cities Questioning, Challenging, and Rejecting Regional Governance
• 10/16/1973 Board of Supervisors, El Dorado County, California - Resolution 487-73: Affirms County Jurisdiction, Questions and Opposes Division of State into Sub-State Regions
• 9/17/1974 Board of Supervisors, El Dorado County, California - Resolution 447-74: Exposes, Opposes, and Challenges Regional Government
• 10/22/1974 Board of Supervisors, Kern County, California - Resolution 74-576: Expression of Opposition to Erosion of Local Representative Government by Unwanted State and Federal Imposition of Regional Non-Elected Authorities
• 4/03/1979 City Council, Benicia, California - Resolution 79-70: Requesting Inquiry by State Government into the Constitutionality of Regional Government
• 6/07/1979 Board of Supervisors, Placer County, California - Letter to Governor Deukmejian Accompanying Resolution 79-263: Requesting Inquiry into the Constitutionality of Regional Government
• 6/12/1979 Board of Supervisors, Placer County, California - Resolution 79-277: Opposing and Resigning Placer County Membership in the California Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
• 6/15/1979 Board of Supervisors, Placer County, California - Letter to Senator Mills accompanying Resolution 79-263: Requesting Inquiry into the Constitutionality of Regional Government
• 11/06/1984 City Council, Benicia, California - Resolution 84-180: Requesting Inquiryby State Government into the Constitutionality of Regional Government
26. Hearing on AB 4242 - Creates Regional Development and Infrastructure Agencies - California Assembly Committee on Local Government, Sam Farr, Chair: 08/08/1990
27. AB4242 (Not available at this time.)
28. More City and County Opposition to Regional Governance
• a. City Council, Benicia, California - Letter to State and County Elected Officials Opposing AB4242 (05/03/1990)
• b. Board of Supervisors, Solano County, California - Resolution 90-184: Requesting Inquiry into the Constitutionality of State Regional Government (07/10/1990)
• c. Board of Supervisors, Del Norte County, California - Resolution 90-70: Requesting Inquiry Into the Constitutionality of State Regional Government (08/27/1990)
• d. Board of Supervisors, Lassen County, California - Resolution 90-90: Requesting Inquiry into the Constitutionality of State Regional Government (09/18/1990)
• e. Board of Supervisors, Kern County, California - Resolution 74-576: Opposition of Erosion of Local Representative Government by Unwanted State and Federal Imposition of Regional Non-Elected Authorities (10/22/1974)
• f. Regional Government Would Trample People's Freedom, Bill Baker, Commentary, The Times, March 11, 1990, at 17A
• g. Assembly Bill Would Create 'Superagency' (Regional board would govern state; Solano split in two), Kitty Griffin, Staff Writer, Benicia Herald, Benicia, California (03/23/90)
• h. Brown Gives Up AB 4242 For Now, Kitty Griffin, Staff Writer, Benicia Herald, Benicia, California (08/14/1990)
• i. Brown Tries Again For Regional Agency, David Hagerty, Staff Writer, Benicia Herald, Benicia, California (12/07/1990)
29. Regional Governance Overpowers California
• a. Bay Vision 2020 Convenors
• b. Bay Vision 2020 Review Draft Report
• c. Bay Vision To See How Solano Looks At Regional Plan - ABAG Committee To Review Regional Government Plan, Kitty Griffin, Staff Writer, Benicia Herald, Benicia, California (07/25/1990)
• d. Objections Overruled (Bay Vision Decides To Continue Its Push To Create a Regional Agency), David Hagerty, Staff Writer, Benicia Herald, Benicia, California (02/28/91)
30. California 2000 Getting Ahead of the Growth Curve; Bay Vision 2020; Emerging Struggle for State Sovereignty (Missing (for now).
31. Further Comments and Concerns Regarding the Question - When Did You First Learn or Discover the Problem?
• a. The Policy of the United World Federalist, Inc. (1949)
• b California Assembly Joint Resolution No. 26 - Relative to the participation
• of the United States in a world federal government. (4/08/1949)
• c. Call to Arms - Benicia, California (4/31/1950)
• d. Senate Joint Resolution No. 1 - Relative to withdrawing the application to
• Congress made by Assembly Joint Resolution No. 26 of the 1949 Regular
• Session, to propose a constitutional amendment for American participation
• in a World Federal Government. (4/04/1950)
• e. The Siren Song of Tyrants. Olivia Marie O'Grady. Opinions of the People, Vallejo
• Times-Herald. April 11, 1966. *In book as "EB Content/Section 31, p. 8."
• f. Vigilance is Needed (1/27/1969)
• g. One World; No 50 States. Vallejo Times-Herald. 8/07/1971)
• *In book (p. 137) as "EB Content/Section 31, p. 9."
• h. Push For One-World Flag. Vallejo Times-Herald. 3/21/1973)
• *In book as "EB Content/Section 31, p. 10."
• i. It's Your Freedom, Keep It. Vallejo Times-Herald. 7/04/1973)
• *In book as "EB Content/Section 32, p. 11."
• j. A Step Toward One World. Vallejo Times-Herald - Editorial Page. (8/3/1973)
• k. ONE-WORLD COULD WIPE OUT ADMISSION DAY - Member Nation Would
• Destroy 50 State Concept - Humanist Mold Manifesto No. 2 To Replace God.
• Vallejo Times-Herald Editorial and Feature Page. (9/09/1973)
• l. World Government Plan. Vallejo Times-Herald Editorial Page. 11/30/1973)
• *In book (p. 137) as "One World Government (EB Content/Section 31, p. 14)."
• m. The World Is Being Regionalized. Don Bell Reports. (11/22/1974)
• *In book as "EB Content/Section 31, pp. 15-16."
• n. Don't Stand Idly By. Flyer opposing City of Benicia joining the Regional Council
• of Government, the Association of Bay Area Governments. Olivia Marie O'Grady.
• (10/10/1986)