Economy
California needs to get back to work. Unemployment and under-employment are hurting our state's economy. This is one of the major forces in the foreclosure crisis. This also hurts the number one driver in the economy, the consumer. We need to create an economy that rewards job creators, that encourages small business.
It is all about building, hiring, and producing. We must create an environment that encourages new business and established businesses to expand and grow. The economy will bloom through job growth. Make it easy for corporations to build new facilities, to hire the best and the brightest, and produce goods that will be sold worldwide.
Regulatory reform - We need to make regulatory boards work in a timely and efficient manner.
- Make regulatory and regional boards act in a timely manner and make them accountable for delays and costs.
- Create clear road maps for project approvals instead of the alphabet soup of approvals that new projects must struggle through.
- Combine board approval processes on projects. Work in concert with federal and regional approval boards, which often have overlapping and redundant functions and concerns.
- Allow a project to move forward with several agencies concurrently instead of the serial approach to regulatory hearings.
Reduce the time required to start a new business.
- Reduce or eliminate new corporation filing and other fees; corporations can file in any state of the union. By being one of the most expensive, we are losing more money than we are making with high fees.
- Simplify and automate business filing paperwork.
- Reduce the paperwork burden on small business and Disabled Veteran businesses.
Make it easier for small business to work with the state.
- Reduce the time it takes small businesses to be paid by the state.
- Reduce startup costs for new businesses.
- Make it easier for small businesses to compete for state contracts.
Redevelopment is a municipal issue. Redevelopment is one of the keys to reviving dying downtown areas, bringing business back to cities where there is infrastructure and a workforce. Redevelopment means jobs.
- Support redevelopment of cities.
- Promote strong cities and Main Street efforts.
- Develop new jobs by supporting redevelopment and economic revitalization.
