When Gov. Jerry Brown released his proposed budget this month, one of the first people to criticize it for not doing enough to address poverty in California was a 49-year-old accountant from Ventura whose first job was crunching numbers for defense industry contractors. Barry Zimmerman, now a button-down county government administrator, seems an unlikely advocate for the poor. But the man who oversees Ventura County’s Human Services Agency, a government operation with 1,400 employees and a $225 million annual budget, is embracing that role. Subscribers can read County administrator takes lead role as state focuses on fighting poverty at bit.ly/1CQmS6y
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 04:00:03 +0000
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