Last week, the California Economic Summit published its 2019 Roadmap to Shared Prosperity, highlighting the importance of building more resilient, sustainable communities and calling for strong public-private partnerships to address the challenges of climate change and increasingly frequent and devastating natural disasters. Ygrene, the nation’s leading PACE provider, sponsored the California Economic Summit and participated in the Resiliency in Every Community Working Group Session that helped shape the 2019 Roadmap.  

Each year, Governing Magazine hosts a Public Officials of the Year awards dinner in Washington D.C. to honor individual state and local government officials for their outstanding accomplishments in the public sector. The honorees are extraordinary public servants who provide distinguished leadership, strong management expertise and good governance. This year, Governing Magazine selected Chris Castro, Sustainability Director for Orlando, Florida as one of the “2018 Public Officials of the Year for State and Local Governments in America.”