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What: Dialogue about California, hosted by Saving California Communities and California Forward

When: 7 to 9 p.m. Monday

Where: Woodland Senior and Community Center, 2001 East St., Woodland

Speak up, Yolo County.

Civic leaders, business groups, nonprofit advocates, elected officials and other interested Californians are invited to participate in a community dialogue in Yolo County to discuss how to change the state’s direction.

The event Monday at the Woodland Senior and Community Center, 2001 East St., is organized by Saving California Communities and California Forward. The latter group plans to collect input at this conversation and incorporate it into a set of reform proposals.

Participants will be asked to provide feedback on California Forward’s Framework for Restructuring the State-Local Relationship (http://www.cafwd.org/ideas/entry/framework-home). California Forward also will collect reform ideas from attendees for future proposals.

Fred Silva, California Forward’s fiscal policy adviser, will moderate the discussion. Before joining California Forward, Silva was a fiscal policy adviser to New California Network and previously senior adviser on governmental relations for the Public Policy Institute of California.

From 1994 to 1996, he was executive secretary to the California Constitution Revision Commission.

The League of Women Voters of Davis will co-host the event. For more information or to RSVP, contact Susan Lovenburg at [email protected] or (530)304-6360.

Yolo County community members joined forces as Saving California Communities to advocate for permanent structural reform at the state level. This group brings together county, city and school elected representatives, educators, parents, students, health professionals, university and community college representatives, senior citizens, government employees and business owners.

For more information, visit http://www.SavingCA.org.

California Forward, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, is working to bring government closer to the people. “We believe empowered local communities are best equipped to solve their own problems,” the group states in a news release. “We are committed to partnering with others across the state to develop our fiscal reform, operational reform and democracy reform efforts.

“We are also engaging in a statewide conversation on reform, Speak Up CA, in which citizens across the state will be given an opportunity to learn more and help shape our reform proposals.”

California Forward is supported or endorsed by more than 200 business, labor, faith and community organizations from all over the state. For more information, visit http://www.CAForward.org.

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