State Senator Hancock to Host Budget Forum in Dublin
Senator Loni Hancock is hosting an interactive budget forum for Dublin residents on June 17th at the Dublin
Library’s Community Room. The purpose of this forum is to provide participants with an opportunity to
learn about California’s budget process and attempt to solve the state budget crisis. Using the California
Budget Challenge simulation, developed by Next 10 (a non-partisan voter education group), participants
will be presented with different scenarios about the state budget and experienced the tough choices and
tradeoffs faced by legislators today. The forum will guide participants through a series of issues such as
education, health services, transportation, etc. and ask the audience to make policy choices with handheld
instant response “clickers” with the results aggregated immediately. Once decisions are made, a graph
displayed how those decisions will impact the budget deficit five years into the future, as well as arguments
for and against each option. Staff will be providing additional information regarding the start time for this
forum in future correspondence.
