Brown sets budget meeting

Gov.-elect Jerry Brown has invited state lawmakers and local government officials to a budget forum to get "everyone working from the same set of facts" surrounding the state's projected $25.4 billion shortfall.

Brown invited Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's finance director, Ana Matosantos, and Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor to deliver presentations at the forum Wednesday, spokesman Sterling Clifford said.

The meeting at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium will come just two days after Schwarzenegger calls lawmakers back to deal with the $6 billion deficit in the current fiscal year, which ends June 30.