BILL NUMBER:  AB 823
  VETOED	DATE: 09/17/2012




To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 823 without my signature.

This bill establishes a "Children's Coordinating Council," consisting
of members of government, to advise itself on how it can improve
collaboration amongst itself when it comes to delivering services to
the children of this state.

For almost two years now, my administration has worked to eliminate
unnecessary boards, commissions, advisory bodies, and reports, so
that government is not so overloaded with the work of form over the
work of function.

I commend the author's heartfelt desire to improve the lot of all
children in the state, but the creation of another Council is not the
solution. If anything, it lulls us into the fallacy that forms can
solve our problems. Instead, let's try to be honest and thoughtful
about the good we can do, and then do the good ? without the
statutory decree, not because of it.


Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.