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(2004 -2006) Redevelopment Agencies, and as General Counsel of the Big Bear City Community Services District (1994- 2001). As perhaps the foremost expert on Proposition 218, Michael assisted the Legislative Analyst's Office in the impartial analysis of the measure and co- chaired the committee which drafted what became the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act of 1997. He also chaired the committees which drafted the League of California Cities' Prop. 218 and 26 Implementation Guides. Michael was elected by his peers to serve as President of the City Attorneys' Department of the League of California Cities in 2003 -2004. Michael was appointed by the Rules Committee of the California State Assembly to the Commission on Local Governance in the 21st Century, The Commission was formed under 1997's A.B. 1484 to study the Cortese -Knox, Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act and the bulk of its recommendations became law as Chapter 761 of the Statutes of 2000. Michael graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University (BA 1983) and received his law degree from University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law (JD 1988), graduating first in his class. While in law school, he was an Articles Editor of the California Law Review and became a member of the Order of the Coif upon graduation. Michael was law clerk to the Honorable James R. Browning, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in 1988 - -1989. He taught Administrative Law as an adjunct Professor of Law at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley in 1995 and is a frequent speaker an (I trainer on a wide range of public law topics. Michael comments on local government and municipal finance topics on Twitter ( @MColanwono) and LinkedIn ( Michael Colantuono ). Practice Areas: Appellate Advocacy Complex Litigation I ME P11170 25H -6