Government Relations

As the Legislature begins its month long summer recess today (July 17) several Bay Area Council-supported bills were passed by legislative policy c...

Against the backdrop of historic drought, the Brown Administration and Federal Officials on Thursday (July 9) released the revised environmental im...

As California faces a $59 billion backlog in state highway and road repairs, the Governor has called for a special “extraordinary” legislative ...

As the region's housing crisis worsens, the Bay Area Council is advocating for changes in the way regional planners dole out incentives that focus ...

Assemblymember Catharine Baker (R-Dublin) this week (July 9) engaged members of the Government Relations Committee in a robust discussion focused o...

The San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority took a major step last week (June 29) toward placing a regional parcel tax measure on the June 2016 bal...

The Bay Area Council this week (June 23) released results of our region-wide 2015 Bay Area Council Poll, the only survey of its kind that provides ...

This week (June 22) the Bay Area Council took a crucial step forward on its initiative to bring widespread commute relief to the most economically ...

In 1945 shortly after the Bay Area Council was first convened by then Gov. Earl Warren, one of the organization’s first acts was to attract and w...

Bay Area residents think the region’s super-heated economy may be reaching a plateau, according to results of the 2015 Bay Area Council Poll rele...