HomeMy WebLinkAbout15. Adoption of the 2020 Legislative Platform• • • •l F• i
FROM: OFFICE OF ,
BY: VANIAH DE ROJAS, ASSISTANTTO THE CITY MANAGER
CouncilThat the City adopt the 2020 legislative platform and authorize - Mayor (or
Mayor Pro Tern in the Mayor's absence) to sign policy and position letters within the
guidelines of - platform.
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The City routinely participates in the state and federal legislative process, advocating for
local control, fiscal stability and regional funding opportunities, as well as in the rule-
making and policy -setting process at the County and regional level. This active
participation protects and promotes the City's interests on priority issues, legislation,
and regulatory matters.
The attached 2020 Legislative Platform contains some updates to the 2019 Platform,
and memorializes the Council's agreement on priority issues, facilitating timely and
direct responses during the legislative session. It does not preclude City Council
consideration of additional legislative matters arising throughout the year. The proposed
platform is based upon existing City Council established goals and policies as outlined
in the Annual Goal Setting Workshop; the City's General Plan; and the League of
California Cities legislative priorities.
The guiding principles informing the 2020 Legislative Platform are as follows:
1) Preservation of Local Control
2) Promotion of Fiscal Stability
3) Support for Funding Opportunities
4) Non-interference in matters outside the City's purview
During the legislative session, City staff and legislative advocates will continue to
monitor and provide updates on important legislative matters upon which the City has
an established interest or stated position. When a legislative issue requires action, the
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City Manager's designee is authorized to prepare a position letter, in accordance with
the legislate platform, for the Mayor's signature on behalf of the City. If there is an item
not addressed in the adopted Legislative Platform, or additional discussion is
necessary, the matter would go before the full City Council for direction. Legislative
priorities may only address issues directly relevant to or impacting the provision of
municipal services.
Also, during the legislative process, staff will work with the City's Federal and State
Lobbyist to advocate the City's legislative interests at the Federal, State and County
levels.
Efficiency & Adaptability
There is no fiscal impact to the adoption of the 2020 Legislative Platform
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment A: 2020 Legislative Platform
Attachment B: 2020 Legislative Session Timeline
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Funding2) Promotion of Fiscal Stability
3) Support of Local Opportunities
4) Non-interference with responsibilities outside local government purview
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Administrative and Employer Services
- Support measures that create or maintain local governmental authority and local
control
Support legislation that limits the exposure of local governments to lawsuits
related to liability
Support funding for regional projects in which the City is a participant or
beneficiary, or from which the Gateway Cities region is a beneficiary
Support legislation that increases local control and limits financial burdens
related to employee relations and collective bargaining items that are more
appropriately negotiated at the bargaining table
Oppose legislation impeding local administration of labor relations or employee
disputes
- Oppose measures that create or grant powers to federal, state or regional
agencies which infringe on local authorities without local government consent
- Oppose measures that mandate burdensome procedures or processes without
achieving substantial improvement for the public good
Community, Recreation and Cultural
- Support federal and state funding opportunities for cultural arts programs,
libraries, museums, parks, recreation and human services, open space
preservation and facility development/renewal
- Support legislation and funding for youth -related education, prevention and
intervention programs
- Support legislation, partnerships and initiatives that further the development of
additional park and open space in the City, particularly the South Rancho Sports
Complex
Housing, Community and Economic Development
- Support legislation that provides additional funding and preserves local mitigation
fee authority to ensure cities have sufficient resources to update local plans that
reflect community input, improve and expand local infrastructure, address
environmental impacts and deliver services to support new housing development
- Support legislation and funding programs that are balanced, realistic, and
organizationally -appropriate responses to the homeless crisis in California
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Support legislation that promotes the ability of cities to maintain and manage the
public right-of-way and receive compensation for its use
- Support legislation initiatives that provide for alternative economic development
tools, including tax increment financing
- Support financial tools to increase construction of housing, particularly for
veterans and vulnerable populations, reform state regulatory barriers, and ensure
cities retain flexibility based on the size, geography, demographics, impact
mitigation and land use needs of each community.
- Support legislation that preserves, increases, and/or expands the use of the
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program as provided by the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Support legislation that increase the number of jobs in key industry clusters
- Support legislation that enhances the City's efforts to retain existing businesses
and attract new businesses
- Oppose legislation and regulatory efforts that would restrict or eliminate the
authority of cities to zone and plan for the development of telecommunications
infrastructure, including the siting of cellular communications towers or
transmission sites and telecommunications infrastructure
- Oppose legislation that would remove local control over permit and development
procedures and standards, or legislation that is contrary to the City of Downey
General Plan or local land -use policy
Finance, Revenue and Taxation;
- Support legislation requiring State and Federal Government to provide full cost
reimbursement to cities for mandated programs that impact revenues
- Support legislation that protects current local government revenue sources from
being taken, confiscated, diverted or otherwise used to fund state or federal
government operations and responsibilities
- Support efforts to reduce the fiscal impacts of Proposition 218 on cities
- Support legislation and funding for the preservation and enhancement of the
City's ability to generate and retain sales and use tax, local point-of-sale
allocations, and internet sales
- Support legislation to protect and preserve local control over locally -imposed
taxes (such as transient occupancy tax, franchise fees and utility user taxes)
- Support legislation and funding that preserves and enhances a positive business
climate and grows the business tax base
- Support legislation that stabilizes local government financing, increases funding
to local agencies, and permits the most cost-efficient management of state -
mandated programs
- Support legislation that ensures the sustainability of public pension and
retirement health benefits, consistent with League of California Cities' adopted
sustainability principles in its Retirement System Sustainability Study and
Findings Report - January 2018 (see Exhibit A, Pension Sustainability Principles)
- Oppose legislation that places the financial burden on cities to directly pay
retirees and/or their beneficiaries disallowed retirement benefits using general
fund dollars
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- Oppose legislation to reduce or remove the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds
- Oppose legislation that imposes mandated costs for which there is no guarantee
of local reimbursement or offsetting benefits
- Oppose any measure that mandates procedures that would make local
governments more dependent upon the state for financial stability or that reduces
local discretion in the use of local government revenues
- Oppose legislation that would shift revenue from local government to the state for
any purpose
- Oppose legislation that financially penalizes cities for not building housing
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- Support legislation that improves community preparedness and resiliency to
respond to climate -related, natural and man-made disasters
- Support legislation that provides for more drone regulation
Transportation, Water, Environment and Public Works
- Support legislation to provide funding for local roads and for traffic congestion
relief projects in the 1-5, 1-605, 1-710 and 1-105 Corridors
- Support legislation that reduces traffic congestion and supports local and
regional transportation programs that benefit the City, provides equitable
amounts of state and federal funding for local and regional roads and highways,
and facilitates timely construction of transportation projects
- Support legislation that protects existing transportation funding for local priorities
- Support legislation that preserves the voices of riparian cities in the planning of
any potential restoration of lower the Los Angeles or San Gabriel rivers
- Support legislation to provide funding for mitigation measures and projects that
divert, filter or treat urban runoff, or projects that otherwise help achieve
requirements of Watershed Management Plans to which the City is subject
- Support legislation that preserves local authority and flexibility in regulating solid
waste and recycling; requires manufacturer or retailer responsibility for
responsible recycling or disposal; and develops markets for recycled goods
- Oppose legislation that eliminates or restricts the use of transportation funding for
local transportation projects
- Oppose legislation that imposes unreasonable or unfunded wastewater
discharge and stormwater runoff requirements, water testing and treatment
requirements
- Oppose legislation that interferes with a charter city's right to contract according
to its adopted procedures, including mandates regarding contractor and
subcontractor uniforms and signage; reductions in contract retention payment;
and changes to the resolution of claims process.
- Oppose measures that provide minimal improvements in air or water quality
while incurring excessive public costs for implementation
- Support programs that increase local control over the purchase and development
of renewable energy resources, as an effective means of increasing consumer
access to renewable energy at stable, competitive rates, and decreasing
statewide greenhouse gas emissions.
- Support cities' exercise of the right to form or join existing Community Choice
Aggregation (CCA) entities, as an effective method increasing local control over
power supply.
2020 TENTATIVE LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR
COMPILED BY THE OFFICE OF THE ASSEMBLY CHIEF CLERK AND THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE
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2020 TENTATIVE LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR
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June 15 Budget Bill must be passed by midnight (Art IV. See 12(c))
June 25 Last day for a legislative measure to qualify for the Nov 3 General
Election ballot (Elections Code Sec 9040)
June 26 Last day for policy committees to hear and report fiscal bills to fiscal
committees (J R 6I(b)(13)
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passed (J R 51(b)(2))
July 3 Independence Day observed
Aug. 3 Legislature reconvenes from Summer Recess (J R 51(b)(2))
Aug. 14 Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills (J R 61(b)(15))
Aug. 17 — 31 Floor session only No committee may meet for any purpose except
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Conference Committees (J R 61(b)(16))
Aug. 21 Last day to amend bills on the floor (J R 61(b)(17)).
Aug. 31 Last day for each house to pass bills (Art IV, Sec I0(c), J R 61(b)(18)),
Final Recess begins upon adjournment 0 R 51(b)(3))
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Sept. 30 Last day for Governor to sign or veto biI Is passed by the Legislature before Sept. 1
and in the Governor's possession on or after Sept. 1 (Art. IV, Sec. I0(b)(2)).
Oct. 1 Bills enacted on or before this date take effect January 1, 2021. (Art. IV, Sec. 8(c)).
Dec. 7 2021-22 Regular Session convenes for Organizational Session at 12 noon.
(Art. IV, Sec. 3(a)).
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June 15 Budget Bill must be passed by midnight (Art IV. See 12(c))
June 25 Last day for a legislative measure to qualify for the Nov 3 General
Election ballot (Elections Code Sec 9040)
June 26 Last day for policy committees to hear and report fiscal bills to fiscal
committees (J R 6I(b)(13)
July 2 Last day for policy committees to meet and report bills (J.R 61(b)(14))
Summer Recess begins upon adjournment, provided Budget Bili has been
passed (J R 51(b)(2))
July 3 Independence Day observed
Aug. 3 Legislature reconvenes from Summer Recess (J R 51(b)(2))
Aug. 14 Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills (J R 61(b)(15))
Aug. 17 — 31 Floor session only No committee may meet for any purpose except
Rules Committee, bilis referred pursuant to Assembly Rule 77 2, and
Conference Committees (J R 61(b)(16))
Aug. 21 Last day to amend bills on the floor (J R 61(b)(17)).
Aug. 31 Last day for each house to pass bills (Art IV, Sec I0(c), J R 61(b)(18)),
Final Recess begins upon adjournment 0 R 51(b)(3))
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Sept. 30 Last day for Governor to sign or veto biI Is passed by the Legislature before Sept. 1
and in the Governor's possession on or after Sept. 1 (Art. IV, Sec. I0(b)(2)).
Oct. 1 Bills enacted on or before this date take effect January 1, 2021. (Art. IV, Sec. 8(c)).
Dec. 7 2021-22 Regular Session convenes for Organizational Session at 12 noon.
(Art. IV, Sec. 3(a)).
2021
Jan. 1 Statutes take effect (Art. IV, Sec. 8(c)).
*Holiday schedule subject to final approval by Rules Committee I Page 2 of 2