Matt Mahan

And because of a quirk of history, we were built as a bedroom community for the job centers just north of us.

We actually have significantly lower revenue per capita than many other cities.

We're not a job center.

And so with Prop 13, our tax revenue goes up more slowly and it is smaller.

Our revenue is about a third less than some of our neighboring cities, and we're delivering

huge increases in sheltering people, getting housing built, reducing crime by thinking differently.

But it all starts with being willing to set a goal publicly and allow the public to hold you accountable for spending dollars in a way that actually achieves outcomes.

And that sounds so simple.

Most of your audience I've been listening for years are in the private sector, and it almost seems so obvious that why would you even need to say it?

But the truth is, as elected officials, we almost never set public goals where we can actually be held accountable.

Heaven forbid, in your next election, you might get called out for not actually reducing homelessness or reducing crime or getting housing built.

And instead, to your point, we pass bill after bill showing that we're doing something, and half the time, with the law of unintended consequences, we make it slower and more expensive to do the very thing

that we want.

Yeah.

Let me start by saying I am not afraid to take on any organized interest.

And it is not just labor, though.

Let's talk about the role of public sector unions.

It's not just labor that is highly organized.

You have trade associations.

You have the doctors and the dentists.