GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Senator Bill Morrow

Office (760) 434-7930

HOW GOVERNMENT SPENDS YOUR MONEY

For those interested in how state and local government’s spend your money, I highly recommend the Center for Government’s Web site at www.govanalyst.com. In light of this recent news about government pensions, I believe that these analyses will shed some much-needed light on how California’s counties spend your money on personnel.

In summary, the report found that the total payroll for county government employees grew by 48% between 1997 and 2002. In 1997, Californians paid $381.65 per capita for county government, but...