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Ethics in a Post RDA California

Public Sector Roundtable meeting on the end of redevelopment agencies

California Without Redevelopment Monies: The Ethical Issues

Successes and missteps of redevelopment agencies and what their demise will mean
Miriam Schulman

San Jose Moving Ahead Without Redevelopment Money

Richard Keit, managing director of the San Jose Redevelopment Successor Agency, talks with Judy Nadler, senior fellow in government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, about the end of Redevelopment Agencies. Keit argues that California has lost its single best tool for redevelopment. He describes working with the oversight boards. which are in charge of dissolving the agencies. Keit also discusses how cities must make difficult choices between good projects now that redevelopment monies are exhausted.
Richard Keit

Impact of Redevelopment on Downtown San Jose

Bert Robinson, managing director for content of the Bay Area News Group, talks with Markkula Center Senior Fellow in Government Ethics Judy Nadler about the role of redevelopment in bringing San Jose "back from the dead." They discuss the fall-out from the dissolution of redevelopment agencies in California and whether the state discontinued the agencies solely to save money.
Bert Robinson

State Auditor's Report: Waste and Fraud or Checks and Balances?

Audit intended to identify and correct problems.
Judy Nadler

Budgeting in Tough Economic Times

The August 2011 meeting of the Public Sector Roundtable focused on ethics and budgeting for city officials

Budgeting in a Time of Fiscal Crisis

San Jose City Councilmember Sam Liccardo lays out the ethical issues for public officials when they must make difficult budget decisions.
Miriam Schulman

Budgeting Is About Values

John Ellwood, professor of public policy at UC-Berkeley, discusses the difficulty in reaching consensus about values
Miriam Schulman

'Fair' is in the eye of the beholder

The public pension reform debate hinges of different definitions of the concept of fairness.
Judy Nadler

August 6, 2010 Roundtable: Government Pensions

Summary of a Public Sector Roundtable Meeting on Government Pensions

Thinking Ethically About Government Pensions

Various ethical approaches are used to raise pertinent questions about the best way to accomplish public pension reform
Miriam Schulman

Two Views of a Budget

A case study for state officials on resolving a budget crisis
Judy Nadler

Our debt to the future: Will our children pay for the negative consequences of our current choices

When is it appropriate to ask the next generation to pay bills we incur today?
Judy Nadler

Budget Crunch Ethics

A California State Assembly member discusses the ethical choices legislators face during a budget crisis.
Joe Simitian

State's accounting tricks cheat future taxpayers

The responsibility of one generation is shifted to the next by accounting gimmicks.
William K. Black