Draft resolution, not yet in good form: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Draft budget resolution: WHEAREAS the federal budget impasse in Washington D.C. has added to the budget woes of the California State Government in Sacramento, WHEAREAS the budget woes in Sacramento have had a harmful effect on the budgets of counties, cities, and districts throughout the state of California, WHEAREAS solutions exist to these problems which have been ignored, WHEAREAS one such solution is the attached draft U.S. Budget which contributes more than $16,000,000,000 per year in cost savings to California's state government, WHEAREAS this same draft U.S. budget offers California counties, cities, and districts the opportunity to offload portions of their healthcare burden and healthcare portions of their workers' compensation burden while improving healthcare for their staffs, WHEREAS this same draft U.S. budget contains provisions that some might consider onerous and unacceptable but also produces a federal surplus of more than a third of a trillion dollars this year leaving ample room for negotiation and phasing, NOW, THEREFORE, the [entity] does hereby request Governor Jerry Brown to consider this draft U.S. budget, to add his support to it, to solicit support from his fellow governors, and to present a unified demand from all the states to Congress to adopt this U.S. budget. ADOPTED this ___ day of 2011, by [entity] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -