Appropriates $400 million to transit operators to help fund operations for the remainder of 2009-10 and for 2010-11.
This is a significant help for transit funding. It has passed the State Assembly 2-22-2010.
Thursday March 4, 2010 this bill was PASSED today by the State Senate.
AB 9 X8 (Budget Committee) As Amended March 3, 2010 AB 6 X8 (Budget Committee) As Amended March 3, 2010 It will now be sent to the Governor to be signed.
Fritz Elienberg, who was a contract worker for RCN, sued the company after he was injured.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRANSIT FORUM
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The Transit Funding Crisis: Getting From Here to There: WATCH Session 1
The Transit Funding Crisis: Getting From Here to There: Lunch Keynote: WATCH Session 2
Perspectives on the Transit Funding Crisis, Impacts and Potential Solutions: WATCH Session 3Fast Forward to 5:31 ****************************************
The Governor has proposed to eliminate all transit funding and do it in a way that will reverse the court decision in our favor and the proposed ballot initiative. We have just learned that they plan to take up the proposal on Tuesday,February 16.
Please contact your State Senator and State Assembly member. Ask to speak to the district director. If no one is available, then leave a message.
*Tell them the following:The current senate and assembly proposals for gas tax swap will severly harm public transit.
*There will be significant cuts in service, layoffs and fare increases if this is passed. Vote 'No' on the gas tax swap.
We are already facing hundreds of layoffs and hundreds of thousands of hours in service cuts! Contact your state legislators TODAY. Thank you.
Compelling and eloquent testimony of veterans and the challenges they face in finding good jobs after they leave the service. The veterans testify at a Veterans Town Hall meeting with Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis recently held in Los Angeles. Veterans call on Senator Dianne Feinstein of CA to support The Employee Free Choice Act, which would give them the right to join a union in the same way they joined the military - with their signature. To learn more please visit , www.launionaflcio.org
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