Rose Review Fall 2019

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The Rose Review Director’s Report Andrew E. Busch, PhD

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he Rose Institute is off to a good start as the new academic year begins. One of our first tasks, as always, was to select this year’s batch of new hires. From more than 70 applicants, we ultimately selected seven students, including four freshmen and three sophomores. Their new hire training is already well underway. The Redistricting Committee, including Board members, senior staff members, and an enthusiastic student team, is preparing for the next set of redistricting activities. These will include two more webinars, following the two webinars produced last spring, a redistricting conference at CMC in April, another potential conference in central California, and additional research and public educational efforts. A team of student researchers is hard at work on a contract project for the City of Paramount, California, in Los Angeles County. A RAND report in the early 1980s identified Paramount as a “disaster” suburb, and the City has contracted with our Institute to examine Paramount’s development since then. This is the second contract project this year. In June, we completed and delivered a resident satisfaction survey to the City of Ontario. Senior staff members and Prof. Andrew Sinclair, who contributed to the design and analysis of the survey, presented findings to key Ontario department heads.

Fall 2019 2 - Student Managers' Report 3 - Ontario Survey Project 4 - Governor Martinez Visit 6 - Project Updates 8 - 2019 New Hires 11 - Summer Updates 16 - In Memoriam

We released the 2018 Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey in September. It will be the last survey of its sort conducted by the Rose Institute. We are beginning work on a guide that will identify for policymakers and businesses the key variables to the cost of doing business, how to find that information, and how to weight those factors under a variety of circumstances. We will also be working with Larry Kosmont to consider other ways to assess the relative business environment in various locales. We published another edition of the Inland Empire Outlook in time for the Fall Board of Governors meeting. It includes articles on medical education and access to care in the Inland Empire, the effects of California’s sanctuary state law, and the impacts of SB 535 requiring that 25% of funds in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund go towards project benefitting disadvantaged communities. Rose students began work on the first edition of the Rose Playbook, which will identify and explain key pieces of legislation considered in the last session in Sacramento. Students are busy wrapping up a host of white papers: Fiscal Analysis, Competitive Districts, and True Timed Served. Work also continues on an additional three inDIRECTOR >> Page 3


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