In this Issue

More than 40 county supervisors and senior staff from eight Southern California Counties participated in CSAC’s regional Meeting in Orange County today where the focus was on the global economy and its impact on local governments, the pervasiveness of homelessness, and how state and local governments are working together to manage this complex issue.

“Our regional meetings are a critical component of bringing people together to learn more about the most important issues we are all dealing with at the County level,” said CSAC Executive Director Matt Cate. “Today we had great discussions about the economy, how it impacts counties, and about homelessness, which affects every county from Alpine to Los Angeles. It’s in settings like this that people really connect and begin working collaboratively.” 
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Recognizing that homelessness is a complex problem that will require collaborative solutions, CSAC and the League of California Cities have formed a Homelessness Task Force that is meeting for the first time on Friday.

The goal is to bring together city and county expertise and perspective, and also to use the Task Force as a venue to bring in state, federal and non-profit organizations that all have a stake in addressing homelessness.
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What’s going on in your county?

That’s the question at the heart of the “California County Roundtable,” a workshop at this year’s Annual Meeting featuring county supervisors talking about what’s important right now in their counties – whether those are thorny problems, clever solutions, or something else they think other counties should be thinking about.
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