Legislation Related Web Sites of Interest
Retired Public Employees Association (RPEA)
RPEA are retired California public employees working together to maintain and improve the quality of the lives of its members by protecting and improving retirement and medical benefits.
California Public Employees Association (CalPERS)
CalPERS administers health and retirement benefits on behalf of more than 3000 public schools, local agency and State employers.
From this web site you can subscribe to Email notifications for example:
On the opening page of CalPERS, you can see how CalPERS responds to various news regarding health and pensions.
Santa Cruz County Elections Department
California Secretary of State
One of the areas of interest to our members is the initiative and referendum status of ballot measures as they move through the process. You can subscribe to California Secretary of State Ballot measure update by email.
Office of the Governor (Edmund G Brown Jr.)
During the time the governor has the bills on his desk any action will be posted under the newsroom tab including memos on some legislation.
County of Santa Cruz
You can find contact information about contacting the county’s Board of Supervisor Office and receive board agendas. You can find various departments including the elections department (very useful).
Santa Cruz County Cities
The sites below can give you all the information you need for your city governments including contacts agendas and other items.
City of Capitola
City of Santa Cruz
City of Scotts Valley
City of Watsonville
https://cityofwatsonville.org/
Pension Tsunami
Pension Tsunami's primary focus is on California's public employee pension crisis, but they also monitor developments in all three pension spheres nationwide -- public employees, corporations and social security. They post each day headlines with links to the full articles.