The Restructuring of Orange County Government
Author : Roger Stanton
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Administrative agencies
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Author : Roger Stanton
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Administrative agencies
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Author : Mark Baldassare
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 1998-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520214862
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Author : Orange County (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
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Page : 91 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 1952
Category : County government
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Author : California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Local Government
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
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Author : Local Government Study Commission of Orange County
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Page : 19 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 1966
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Metropolitan government
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Author : Mark Baldassare
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520921368
When Orange County, California, filed for Chapter 9 protection on December 6, 1994, it became the largest municipality in United States history to declare bankruptcy. In the first comprehensive analysis of this momentous fiscal crisis, Mark Baldassare uncovers the many twists and turns from the dark days in December 1994 to the financial recovery of June 1996. Utilizing a wealth of primary materials from the county government and Merrill Lynch, as well as interviews with key officials and players in this drama, Mark Baldassare untangles the causes of this $1.64 billion fiasco. He finds three factors critical to understanding the bankruptcy: one, the political fragmentation of the numerous local governments in the area; two, the fiscal conservatism underlying voters' feelings about their tax dollars; three, the financial austerity in state government and in meeting rising state expenditures. Baldassare finds that these forces help to explain how a county known for its affluence and conservative politics could have allowed its cities' school, water, transportation, and sanitation agencies to be held hostage to this failed investment pool. Meticulously examining the events that led up to the bankruptcy, the local officials' response to the fiscal emergency, and the road to fiscal recovery—as well as the governmental reforms engendered by the crisis—When Government Fails is a dramatic and instructive economic morality tale. Eminently readable, it underlines the dangers inherent in a freewheeling bull economy and the imperatives of local and state governments to protect fiscal assets. As Baldassare shows, Orange County need not—and should not—happen again.
Author : League of Women Voters. Winter Park, Orlando
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Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Orange County (Fla.)
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Author : Steven Charles Clarke
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Page : 164 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : League of Women Voters of Winter Park-Orlando, Florida
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 1961*
Category : Orange County (Fla.)
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