A joint board meeting in Burlingame last week brought the leadership of CSBA, the League of California Cities and the California State Association of Counties together for “a historic two-day event” focused on the combined power and potential of the state’s local governments.
The three groups comprise the Cities, Counties and Schools Partnership, formed in 1997 and reportedly still the nation’s only state-level collaboration of the professional associations the serve municipal governments and school boards. The June 12-13 joint board meeting lived up to its historic billing, participants said, by laying the groundwork for a collaboration that promises to defend local interests beyond the current state budget crisis and to promote cooperative efforts on public policy affecting people’s daily lives.