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2 family businesses join FBA
Two businesses recently joined the Family Business Association of California, the only organization in the state that focuses exclusively on issues affecting California's 1.4 million family businesses. Ming's Recycling Corporation recycles 230,000 tons of aluminum...
FBA Names Petrie-Norris Outstanding Legislator for 2021
The Family Business Association of California has named Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris as its Outstanding Legislator for 2021 for her strong support of family businesses and efforts to improve California’s business climate. Petrie-Norris, a Democrat, represents...
Repealing Death Tax will help family businesses stay afloat
Ballot measure would help parents pass their family business along to their childre The COVID-19 pandemic hit many family-owned businesses hard. Now as California emerges from the crisis, those businesses are still struggling to stay afloat. There are 1.4 million...
FBA offers recommendations on moving economy forward
FBA Executive Director Robert Rivinius was invited by Assembly Member Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach, to be on a panel at today's Select Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship hearing. Following is a letter sent to committee members afterwards summing...
If lawmakers are looking for solutions to help business, start with repealing PAGA
Shortly after Dee Dee Myers became director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-BIZ) late last year, she said she understood the challenges the state’s high costs and strict regulations impose on businesses. “Continuing to dig into those...
Family businesses can’t be left holding the bag
In recent months, there’s been a lot of attention paid to some high-profile California businesses who have decided to move some or all of their operations to lower-cost states. Oracle, the second-largest software maker in the world, is moving its corporate...
California lawmakers must protect family businesses in 2021
This op-ed appeared on the California Globe website These days, it is hard to avoid headlines about the latest businesses going under and more lost jobs due to COVID-19 in California. But not only are California’s businesses suffering like most across the country, we...
State Officials and Unions Will Never Have All the Money They Want
By Ken Monroe, FBA Chairman and president of Holt of California The following commentary was posted on Fox & Hounds on October 21, 2020 Proposition 15, the split-roll property tax measure on the November ballot, would seriously affect family businesses throughout...
FBA takes positions on four November ballot measures
FBA has taken positions on four ballot initiatives that will have an impact on family businesses. No on Prop 15 -- an $11-12 billion tax increase at the worst possible time. Public employee unions always want more money. The property tax on property owned 10 years or...
FBA ‘Disappointed’ Newsom Backs Proposition 15
Contact: Robert Rivinius, Executive Director robert@myfba.org, 916-847-2700 The Family Business Association of California today issued the following statement expressing disappointment in Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to support Proposition 15, the measure on the...
FBA Adopts Oppose Positions on Three Ballot Measures
At the July 29 FBA Board of Directors meeting, “no” positions on three ballot propositions were adopted: No on Proposition 15 – the infamous “split roll” initiative backed by public employee unions would remove Proposition 13 protections for commercial properties and...
Business friend or foe? Lawmakers have a choice for recovery
By Ken Monroe, FBA Chairman California’s 1.4 million family-owned businesses are in the fight of their lives. Some have been shuttered since March, still waiting nervously for an all-clear from state officials. While their revenue stopped, the bills kept coming. And...