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Ron Cedillos has long been recognized as a leader of a number of important public policy issues for
the past twenty years. The following are just a few of the more publicized statewide and national programs
he has shepherded on behalf of California.
California Council
on Competitiveness
With the state’s economy
quickly deteriorating during the last major recession, the newly
elected governor called upon Ron Cedillos to join Peter Ueberroth
and a handful of other business and labor leaders to develop an
emergency economic revitalization plan for California. The
resulting California Council on Competitiveness quickly brought
together Cedillos and other top business and labor leaders under a
mandate to analyze the prime components of the state’s diverse
economy -- and to formulate a detailed plan which would provide
California with a sound and effective approach to the challenges
of an ongoing recession and a quickly changing global economy.
With just four months in which to work, and a myriad of often
conflicting interests demanding input in the process, Cedillos and
the other members of the Council were able to present the Governor
and State with a landmark appraisal of the economic situation and
a detailed blueprint for dramatic changes to the state’s economic
platform. The blueprint included needed capital and economic
incentives, regulatory streamlining, legal system reform and
support for critical industries. The report's innovative
initiatives helped make possible what the Governor later called
the “California comeback,” and he characterized the report itself
as the cornerstone for “the most productive session of the
legislature in more than two decades.”
Ron Cedillos is proud not only of his service on the Council --
but more importantly of the many positive effects the Council's
work has had in streamlining regulatory disincentives to growth
while removing barriers to job creation for California.
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