8:01am | Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster will be one of several speakers featured in a forum on the state’s pension system that will be streamed live on the Internet, with viewers able to submit questions via Twitter.
The Bay Area Council will host the forum, which will also feature San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility President Marcia Fritz, Californians for Heath Care and Retirement Security chair Dave Low, Stanford professor and former state Assembly member Joe Nation and Retired Public Employees Association of California President Harvey Robinson. Corey Cook, a professor of political science and director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco, will serve as moderator.
With public pensions making headlines recently throughout the nation, the Bay Area Council is bringing together this panel of California’s leading voices from both sides of the debate for a discussion on the current state of California’s public pension system
The event, entitled, “Is California Headed for a Super Storm of Unfunded Pension Liabilities?” will take place in San Francisco on Wednesday from 8:30 to 11 a.m.
The forum will be streamed live online at UStream.tv/bayareacouncil starting at 8:45 a.m. Viewers will have the opportunity to participate in the discussion by tweeting questions via Twitter during the forum, using the hashtag #BACpension.