The Municipal Law Institute of the League of California Cities and Stanford Law School present:
CITIES ON THE CUTTING EDGE
The Once and Future City: Transformation in an Era of Financial Challenges
Friday, February 10, 2012
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Stanford Law School, Room 290
Stanford, California
8:00 a.m. Sign in and Registration
8:45 a.m. Introduction and Overview
Welcome: Molly Stump, Palo Alto City Attorney
David Hirsch, Carmel & Naccasha LLP
Richard Thompson Ford, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Introduction and Overview: Richard Thompson Ford, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Morning Moderator: Dan Sodergren, City Attorney, City of Tracy
9:15 a.m. Extreme Solutions: Reducing the Scope of Local Goverment
a. Shrinking Governance and Dissolving Cities
Michelle Anderson, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
b. Dramatic Multiservice Privatization: San Carlos and Costa Mesa
Joan Cassman, Partner, Hanson Bridgett
c. An Exploration of Privatization: Redding
Rick Duvernay, City Attorney, and Kurt Starman, City Manager, City of Redding
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Entrepreneurial Cities: Reinventing Government or Disenfranchising Citizens?
a. Recent Trends in Contracting out of Public Services
Richard Ford, Stanford Law School
b. Making Public Facilities and Services Self-sustaining: The Enterprising City Attorney
i. Code Enforcement and Cost Recovery
Lance Bayer, Assistant City Attorney, City of Mountain View, Special Counsel to several other cities
ii. Affirmative Litigation
Kathleen Morris, Deputy City Attorney, City and County of San Francisco
c. Demystifying Public-Private Partnerships
Seth Merewitz, Partner, Best Best & Krieger LLP
12:15 p.m. Lunch: California Forward initiative
Speaker: Jim Mayer, Executive Director, California Forward
Afternoon Moderator: Brad Fuller, Assistant City Attorney, City of Pasadena
1:30 p.m. Pensions and the Role of Employee Unions
a. Avoiding Public Pension Obligations through Bankruptcy
Mike McConnell, Richard and Francis Mallery Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
b. The Public Safety Perspective
John Tennant, General Counsel, San Francisco Police Officers Associations
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Stimulating the Local Economy: at what cost?
a. Local Hiring Preferences
Alicia Cabrera, Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco
b. Development incentives: Why should cities subsidize the private sector and compete for tax dollars?
Allan Kotin, Allan D. Kotin & Associates; Adjunct Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California
4:00 Reception