Mayor Bob Foster will take part in a forum this morning on the state's employee pension system.
The forum takes place from 8:30 to 11 a.m. and will be streamed live online at www.ustream.tv/bayareacouncil starting at 8:45 a.m. Viewers can participate in the discussion by tweeting questions via Twitter during the forum, using the hashtag #BACpension.
The Bay Area Council is sponsoring the forum, in which six other experts on both sides of the issue will participate. Foster has made headlines here in Long Beach with his aggressive call for pension reform at the city level.
The other forum participants are:
- Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender
- Marcia Fritz, President of the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility
- Dave Low, Chair of Californians for Health Care and Retirement Security
- Joe Nation, Stanford Professor and former State Assemblymember
- Harvey Robinson, President of the Retired Public Employees Association of California
- Corey Cook (moderator), Professor of Political Science and Director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, University of San Francisco
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