California's 6,000 Public Agendas

"Nobody really knows how many elected entities run California's public business: 58 counties, some 475 cities, 986 school districts, 70 community college districts, plus several thousand independent districts -- park, fire, municipal utility, irrigation and community service districts... Is there any way even a diligent citizen can keep track of all that stuff? All those separate public agendas, combined with what David Abel of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Forum calls our separate silos of funding, make policy coordination and effective planning nearly impossible."