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DUBLIN
STAFF REPORT
CITY COUNCIL
Agenda Item 8.1
DATE: February 7, 2023
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Linda Smith, City Manager
SU B.ECT: 2023 Draft City of Dublin Legislative Platform
Prepared by: John Stefanski, Assistant to the City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The City Council will receive a report on the draft 2023 Legislative Platform, which guides the
City's response to potential and pending legislation, policies, programs, ballot measures,
mandates, and budgets at all levels of government, and provide direction to Staff.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Receive the report and provide direction.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
None.
DESCRIPTION:
Each year the City Council approves a Legislative Platform that includes the goals, strategies, and
priorities for organizing the City's legislative advocacy efforts. The draft 2023 Platform
(Attachment 1) is provided with this Staff Report to initiate the discussion with the City Council on
the fundamental legislative issues important to the City over the next year. This attachment
includes tracked changes to identify proposed revisions to the Platform.
The draft 2023 Platform is substantially similar to the 2022 Platform aside from modifications to
account for changes in state law, anticipated issues for the current legislative session, and non -
substantive grammatical and wording changes.
The guiding principles for the City's legislative advocacy efforts continue to include the following:
• Preserving and/or increasing local government discretion
• Promoting or enhancing revenue sources
• Advancing existing City Mission, Vision, Values, and policies
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The Draft Legislative Platform identifies specific Public Policy Priorities for the following
categories:
1. General Administration
2. Fiscal Sustainability
3. Community and Economic Development
4. Transportation and Public Works
5. Public Safety
6. Parks and Community Services
7. Climate and Environment
8. Technology and Cyber Security
These priorities will further guide the positions and advocacy efforts the City will take regarding
all relevant legislation, policies, programs, ballot measures, mandates, and budgets. The draft
2023 Platform removes the reference to "Grant Funding Opportunities" which was included in the
2022 Platform, because those are specific funding sources pursued at the City staff level.
The draft Platform removes the following 2022 Public Policy Priorities supporting legislation that:
• Addresses the functional impracticalities of AB 361 while providing a permanent
teleconference option available for Brown Act legislative bodies to hold public meetings.
o This priority will be recrafted as 2023 Priority 1.4 to account for any proposed AB
2449 cleanup legislation or a permanent codification of AB 361 (without the 30-day
renewal requirement).
• Grants the City additional flexibility in the use of America Rescue Plan Act Funding
o The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 included provisions that expanded the
use of ARPA funds, up to 30% or $10M of total allocations, on transportation
projects, natural disaster emergency relief, and CDBG eligible expenditures.
• Requires cities to use district -based elections.
o The City completed the transition to district -based elections in 2022, therefore this
priority is no longer relevant.
• Supports Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Connected, and Automated Vehicles.
o This priority was consolidated with 2023 Priority 3.5.
The draft Platform adds the following 2023 Public Policy Priorities supporting legislation that:
• Provides the ability to conduct public meetings using a hybrid approach that allow for
equitable access and participation of elected officials and the public while considering
privacy, health, and safety of all stakeholders.
• Provides alternative methods of meeting public noticing requirements through cost-
effective, innovative, and technological methods of communication, and changes the
definition of "newspaper of general circulation" due to realities of consolidated newspaper
publications and the increase in on-line publications.
• Lowers the necessary voter threshold from a two-thirds supermajority to 55-percent to
approved local general obligation bonds and special taxes for affordable housing and public
infrastructure projects.
o ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry) proposes submit this to voters to consider this change.
• Provides incentives or new funding mechanisms for affordable housing and transit -
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oriented development.
o Priority 6.4 includes the added language of "or new funding mechanisms" to address
SB 20 (Caballero) would allow for cities to form a Housing Finance Trust Joint -
Powers Authority to jointly fund affordable housing.
• Provides funding for the rehabilitation, development, and capital improvements for park
improvements in order to enhance the active and passive recreational infrastructure.
• Reduces or eliminates the City's ability to levy park impact fees.
• Imposes regulations that create cost prohibitive administrative burdens which likely result
in the reduction of parks programming.
• Streamlines development of an provide funding for electric vehicle (EV) charging and
hydrogen fueling infrastructure locally and regionally.
It should be noted that the list of Public Policy Priorities is not exhaustive. In those instances
where potential legislation, policies, programs, ballot measures, mandates, and budgets do not fit
with the specific Public Policy Priorities, the General Legislative Principles will guide City action.
The draft 2023 Legislative Platform also includes language around Regional Collaboration,
specifically the Tri-Valley Cities, whose 2023 Legislative Framework will be attached as an
addendum to the Legislative Platform for reference.
STRATEGIC PLAN INITIATIVE:
None.
NOTICING REQUIREMENTS/PUBLIC OUTREACH:
The City Council Agenda was posted.
ATTACHMENTS:
1) Draft 2023 City of Dublin Legislative Platform (Redlined)
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Attachment I
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2023 LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM
FEDERAL AND STATE POLICY PRIORITIES
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Introduction
Many public policies intersect with City priorities, programs, and services. This 2023 Legislative
Platform (Platform) outlines the City of Dublin's legislative priorities and positions on these policies
to inform residents, representatives, and policymakers. These priorities are applicable to all relevant
legislation, policies, programs, grant funding opportunities, ballot measures, mandates, and budgets.
The Mission of the City of Dublin is to promote and support a high quality of life, ensure a safe and
secure environment, foster new opportunities, provide equity across all programs, and champion a
culture of diversity and inclusion. This Mission shall guide the City's Legislative Platform.
This Platform provides Staff with direction and authorizes them, on the City Council's behalf, to
quickly respond in support of or opposition to bills and other legislative or gubernatorial actions in
time -sensitive situations. Additionally, the Platform enables staff to communicate Dublin -specific
issues and impacts with state legislators. Staff may draft letters, direct our legislative advocates, or
speak on behalf of the City regarding the legislative priorities this document outlines.
Any correspondence signifying the City's support or opposition of a given bill must be signed by the
Mayor and/or City Manager with notification to the City Council.
Any questions regarding this Legislative Platform can be directed to John Stefanski, Assistant to the
City Manager at John.Stefanski(a,,dublin.ca.gov.
Platform Overview and Coordination
This Legislative Platform serves as the foundation for City legislative advocacy at all levels of
government. It informs the City's legislative representatives of the key issues and legislation that
could have a potential impact on the City and the process in which the City will participate in the
legislative process. The City will employ several strategies to advocate or advance the City's public
policy interests, which include:
• Position Development
o Reviewing analyses and positions by the CalCities, legislative advocates, and other
local government / professional associations in formulating the City's position.
o Working with City departments, legislative advocate(s) to develop this platform and
identify positions on proposed legislative measures.
• Status Tracking
o Tracking key bills through the legislative process.
• Communication and Advocacy
o Communicating the City's position, in accordance with this Platform, through
correspondence, testimony, and meetings.
o Working cooperatively with other cities (including the Tri-Valley Cities), associations,
and CalCities on advocating the City's legislative position.
o Meeting with legislators and their representatives, as well as other federal, state and
county government officials on a regular basis, to discuss local government issues,
proposed legislation, requests for funding assistance, and City programs and services.
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The City Manager's Office will exercise day-to-day oversight of legislative matters. In addition to
coordinating formal action through the City Council, the City Manager and their designee will
manage the City's Legislative Platform.
Staff will follow the process below when responding to all proposed and relevant legislation,
policies, programs, grant funding opportunitics, ballot measures, mandates, and budgets.
1. Review and determine whether a proposal will impact the City.
2. Prepare a letter outlining the City's position for the Mayor's or City Manager's signature.
3. Distribute the letter to the legislation's author(s), the City Council, and other relevant parties.
In scenarios where a proposal or regulation arises that may impact the City and is not covered by
this Legislative Platform, Staff will prepare a draft position letter for the City Council to review prior
to distribution.
General Legislative Principles
The guiding principles for the City's legislative advocacy efforts include:
Advancing Existing City Mission, Vision, Values, and Policies
Preserving and/or Increasing Local Government Discretion
Promoting or Enhancing Revenue Sources
Public Policy Priorities
This legislative platform identifies specific public policy priorities by topic area. Informed by the
General Legislative Principles, these priorities will guide the positions the City will take on all
relevant legislation, policies, programs, grant funding opportunities, ballot measures, mandates, and
budgets.
The public policy priorities are categorized as follows:
1. General Administration
2. Fiscal Sustainability
3. Community and Economic Development
4. Transportation and Public Works
5. Public Safety
6. Parks and Community Services
7. Climate and Environment
8. Technology and Cybersecurity
I. General Administration
Staff recommends that the City Council support legislation that:
1. Enhances or streamlines local control and allows cities to address the needs of local
constituents within a framework of regional cooperation.
2. Streamlines the process to apply for, to receive approval of, and to receive state or
federal funding.
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3. Assures every person the right to equal treatment in and access to all government -
sponsored benefits or funded programs.
4. Provides the ability to conduct public meetings using a hybrid approach that allow for
equitable access and participation of elected officials and the public while considering
privacy, health, and safety of all stakeholders.
3:5. Supper-tsProvides alternative methods of meeting public noticing requirements
ther-tieithrough cost-effective, innovativcinnovative} and technological methods of
communication, and changes the definition of "newspaper of general circulation" due to
realities of consolidated newspaper publications and the increase in on-line publications.
1. Addresses thc functional impracticalities of AB361 while providing a permanent
teleconference option available for Brown Act legislative bodies to hold public meetings.
5. Grants thc City additional flexibility in thc usc of American Rcscuc Plan Act funding.
Staff recommends that the City Council oppose legislation that:
6. Attempts to restrict local authority or decision -making whether by state or federal
legislation or ballot propositions.
7. Diminishes or eliminates local governments' ability to contract out for the provision of
services.
8. Requires cities to usc district bascd elections.
2. Fiscal Sustainability
Staff recommends that the City Council support legislation that:
1. Maintains or enhances ongoing revenues to the City.
2. Updates the tax structure to enhance local government revenues that have declined due
to the expansion of e-commerce, increased consumption of services rather than durable
goods, and innovations in technology.
3. Ensures timely distribution of mandated reimbursements owed to the City.
4. Removes unnecessary state -imposed mandates.
5. Provides for the use of incentives for local government action rather than mandates
(funded or unfunded).
6. Establishes new and innovative revenue options and resources to finance public
infrastructure construction and maintenance.
7. Streamlines the establishment and utilization of infrastructure financing districts or other
funding mechanisms for infrastructure improvements.
8. Changes the Communications Act of 1934 that removes the distinction between
"capital" and "operating" funds to provide more local control for community television
stations in the use of their public, educational, and government (PEG) channel fees.
9. Supports measures to increase transparency of all public employee salaries and benefits.
10. Supports measures to provide sustainable public pensions and other post -retirement
benefits.
4411. Lowers the necessary voter threshold from a two-thirds supermajority to 55-percent
to approved local general obligation bonds and special taxes for affordable housing and
public infrastructure projects.
Staff recommends that the City Council oppose legislation that:
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44,12._Undermines and preempts local authority over local taxes and fees.
12.13. Shifts funds from local governments to the state or federal government.
13.14. Imposes unfunded or inadequately funded federal and state mandates on local
governments.
4415._Eliminates development fees or limits the ability of cities to levy such fees to provide
for infrastructure or services.
4-5,16. Requires or expands state involvement in City financial audits, fiscal monitoring,
general oversight, or assistance by the State Treasurer, State Controller, or other state
agencies.
16.17. Defers reimbursements for state mandated programs.
3. Public Works and Transportation
Staff recommends that the City Council support legislation that:
1. Ensures the City receive its fair share of transportation funding and that keeps the
funding decisions at the local level.
2. Provides for more stable and equitable long-term funding sources for transportation.
3. Leverages local funds to the maximum extent possible to implement transportation
improvements through grants and partnerships with regional, state, and federal agencies.
4 Supports a constitutional amendment to lower the two thirds approval threshold for
salts and use tax mcasurcs for transportation purposcs.
5,4. Supports rcducingReduces Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) and supports encourages
developing and implementing Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plans and
strategies.
6,5. Supports cxpandcdExpands opportunities and funding for connected and shared
autonomous vehicles. high occupancy vehicles (HOV), managed lane policies, improved
enforcement, new technology deployment, and reducing traffic congestion and delay
along frccways.
7,6. Supports Improves multimodal freight movement between the San Francisco Bay Area
and the Central Valley and projects that reduce freight traffic on I-580.
7. EncouragesSupports active transportation, enhances the safety of all modes of
transportation, particularly bicycles and pedestrians, and reduces vehicle speeds and
traffic congestion.
9. Supports Intclligent Transportation Systcms (ITS), Conncctcd, and Automatcd Vehicles.
10.8. Increases and funds Supports local control and local regulation of shared mobility,
transportation network companies (TNCs), and other emerging industries that use city
infrastructure to offer private services.
44,9. Enables the sale of traffic data to recover the cost of data collection.
12.10. Supports Enables innovative rail connectivity projects which aim to address the
jobs/housing/transit imbalance (i.e., Valley Link).
Staff recommends that the City Council oppose legislation that:
13.11. Infringes upon the ability of local governments to effectively administer and modify
state and local construction provisions and standards.
4-412.Takes away local control of managing and operating local streets.
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4-5:13. Reduces the City's condemnation authority regarding acquisition of properties
required for public projects.
4. Community and Economic Development
Staff recommends that the City Council support legislation that:
1. Maintains the City's authority over land use decisions.
2. Strengthens local regulatory authority and control over the siting of medical or
recreational marijuana dispensaries.
3. Creates a more equitable Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) process.
4. Creates more flexibility for local jurisdictions to work together to provide housing that
counts toward RHNA requirements.
5. Eliminates redundant, costly, and cumbersome mandates and restrictions required by
CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act).
6. Provides incentives or new funding mechanisms for affordable housing and transit -
oriented development.
7. Increases financial assistance to provide affordable, transitional, special needs and
emergency housing to the homeless, seniors, veterans, and people with special needs.
8. Encourages the expansion of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics) programs in K-12, higher education, and libraries.
9. Enhances the City's efforts to retain existing businesses and attract new businesses.
10. Provides tangible and productive tools and incentives to support job creation, business
attraction, and business retention.
11. Advances or encourages innovation, entrepreneurship, start-ups, small business
opportunities, and/or workforce development.
Staff recommends that the City Council oppose legislation that:
12. Interferes with or reduces local land use control and decision making.
13. Diminishes or eliminates the authority of cities to zone and plan for the development of
telecommunications infrastructure, including the siting of cellular communications
towers or transmission sites.
14. Diminishes or eliminates cities' authority to regulate condominium conversions.
15. Interferes with the ability to provide productive incentives to support job creation,
business attraction, and business retention.
5. Public Safety
Staff recommends that the City Council support legislation that:
1. Increase funding for local law enforcement, fire suppression and prevention, hazardous
materials mitigation, and emergency medical services.
2. Provides funding to local agencies for training, disaster preparedness, crime prevention,
public outreach, and emergency planning.
3. Ensures cities have control of regulating local medical marijuana facilities instead of the
state, protects public safety with standardized security requirements, protects public
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health with uniform health and safety standards, and ensures patient safety with a quality
assurance protocol.
4. Improves data and information dissemination, preparedness funding, and first -responder
training for oil -by -rail shipments.
5. Maintains or increases grant funding for the Community Oriented Police Services
(COPS) program.
6. Provides a greater share of asset forfeiture funds for cities and increases latitude for
spending local funds.
7. Supports funding to prepare, mitigate, adapt, and respond to extreme weather or
emergency events.
8. Supports alternative crisis response programs for mental health, substance abuse, or
homelessness related calls for emergency service.
6. Parks and Community Services
Staff recommends that the City Council support legislation that:
1. Creates new funding opportunities for parks and community facilities.
2. Provides funding for ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) facility and park upgrades.
33.Increases available financial assistance to local non-profit and community -based
organizations who provide social services and mental health services to residents in need.
4. SuivertBolster efforts to provide funding for the rehabilitation, development, and
capital improvements for park improvements in order to enhance the active and passive
recreational infrastructure.
Staff recommends that the City Council oppose legislation that:
5. Reduces or eliminates the City ability to levy park impact fees.
6. Imposes regulations that create cost prohibitive administrative burdens which likely
result in the reduction of parks programming.
7. Climate and Environment
Staff recommends that the City Council support legislation that:
1. Assists local governments in meeting or exceeding local or state goals to reduce global
warming pollution levels, to develop alternate energy resources and fuel efficiency
programs, and to reduce fossil fuel dependence.
2. Streamlines development of and provides funding for electric vehicle (EV) charging and
hydrogen fueling infrastructure locally and regionally.
273. Supports current waste diversion goals, local compliance efforts, and associated
measurement and reporting requirements.
3:4. Assist Assists the City in meeting or exceeding established goals of reducing water
consumption and increasing water supply without preempting local planning decisions.
45. Requires manufacturers be responsible for the end of useful life cost of collecting,
processing, recycling, and disposing of products they manufacture.
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56. Protects the interest of California's Community Choice clean electricity providers and
their customers.
6;7. Supports Incentivizes regional and local government efforts to develop and implement
programs to reduce air pollution.
778. Supports the funding,Provides funding for compliance; and full life cycle costs of current
and new mandatory storm water quality permit requirements.
89.Addresses litter control and abatement problems in California.
9 10. Reduces the financial impact of state and federal funded and unfunded mandates
related to compliance with environmental programs and regulations.
Staff recommends that the City Council oppose legislation that:
10.11. Preempts local planning decisions regarding solid waste facility sites.
4-1712._Preempts local solid waste and AB 939 fee setting authority or imposes taxes or fees
on local solid waste programs to fund state programs not directly related to solid waste
management.
8. Technology and Cybersecurity
Staff recommends that the City Council support legislation that:
1. Promotes the use of data and technologies to create efficiencies, promote economic
development, enhance public safety, improve transportation and mobility, improve
sustainability, increase transparency to public information, enhance municipal quality of
life factors and help solve other civic challenges.
2. Maintains local control over municipal assets in the deployment of next generation
technological infrastructure.
3. Increases the City's capacity to protect against cyber security attacks.
4. Provides funding for programs that seek to expand digital access for residents and
businesses.
Staff recommends that the City Council oppose legislation that:
5. Limits or removes local review and permitting of emerging telecommunications
technologies, such as Small Cell technology.
Regional Collaboration
The City of Dublin is a member of the Tri-Valley Cities (TVC), a coalition of the five Tri-Valley
municipalities who work together to advocate for issues and funding at the regional, state, and
federal levels. The TVC is governed by the five Mayors of each municipality who develop and adopt
a TVC Legislative Framework which guides the advocacy efforts of the TVC. A copy of the 2023
Framework, once adopted, will be attached to as Addendum A to this Legislative Platform.
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Addendum A: 2023 Tri-Valley Cities Legislative Framework
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TRI-VALLEY CITIES
Legislative Framework
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TRI-VALLEY CITIES VALUES STATEMENT
The Tri-Valley Cities of Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, San Ramon, and the Town of
Danville value regional leadership, innovation, collaboration, and problem solving to
maintain and improve the quality of life for Tri-Valley residents, provide a vibrant climate for
businesses, and enable continued opportunities for public and private investment within the
region.
Each City and Town provides a unique perspective on how to meet the needs of their
residents and businesses. The Cities and Town agree to respect the individuality of each
community and are committed to open and honest communication with a goal of building
consensus and a united approach to advocacy for solutions that will serve the residents and
businesses of the Tri-Valley.
TRI-VALLEY CITIES LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK
The Tri-Valley Cities Legislative Framework seeks to inform all levels of governmental
interaction (e.g., federal, state, regional, local) regarding legislation, policies, and programs
that have a direct impact on the region. The TVC has defined Legislative Focus Areas
which have an overarching objective to retain and promote local control and decision -
making as it relates to the implementation of laws and regulations and to have the ability to
integrate them in a manner that meets the unique needs of each community. The TVC will
advocate together to achieve outcomes benefiting the region in each of these Focus Areas.
Transportation and Infrastructure
Residents of the Tri-Valley region are subject to some of the heaviest commutes in the Bay
Area and are impacted by the heavy flow of traffic along the region's freeways, which often
spills over onto the local surface streets as commuters pursue alternatives to their commute
through the Tri-Valley. A key objective of the region is to reduce congestion on the region's
freeways, and to increase mobility of goods and people through the Tri-Valley with
continued financial investment in transportation infrastructure: developing alternative modes
of transportation, modernization of transportation corridors, and creation, modernization,
and expansion of rail systems. The TVC also seeks to partner on other significant non -
transportation infrastructure projects, especially those with regional and multi -regional
benefits.
Climate, Environment, Health, and Safety
The TVC seeks to work collaboratively with federal, state, and regional partners to address
the new landscape of year-round wildfires, air quality, public safety power shutoffs, water
quality (including PFAS/PFOS contaminants) and supply issues, as well as waste and
recycling mandates. The TVC will advocate for increasing financial and technical support in
these areas, as well as for investment in key infrastructure at all levels of government.
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Economic Development
The Tri-Valley region is an innovation hub that spurs job growth, sustains a healthy
economy, and provides a high quality of life for residents and business. Key objectives are
developing a healthy workforce; and supporting innovation, capacity building, economic
stimulus, and growth in the region.
Affordable Housing and Homelessness
The TVC supports balanced solutions which consider housing, jobs, and transportation
together and seeks to support, promote, protect, and increase affordability in the region's
housing stock. Key objectives are to work with federal, state, and regional partners to
provide funding for affordable housing through a variety of programs and options and to
work to address barriers to building housing at Very Low, Low, and Moderate income
levels. TVC also remains committed to mitigating and eliminating homelessness, including
working with partners at all levels of government to address the root causes of housing
insecurity and homelessness.
Mental Health
The TVC recognizes that social services are vital to supporting residents and providing
crucial safety net services in our region. While the TVC cities do not provide direct delivery
of social services, the Cities seek to work together to support local non -profits and
organizations that do provide these services, and advocate together for these vital
resources and services from all levels of government. Mental health support is a growing
need in our region, and the TVC seeks to advocate for the resources to meet the needs of
all our residents.
Fiscal Sustainability
Fiscal Sustainability is an important role for all levels of government. The TVC seeks to
advocate against the imposition of unfunded mandates and the removal of funding streams
from local governments.
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Draft 2023 Legislative
Platform
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Background
• Each year the City Council adopts a Legislative
Platform to guide legislative advocacy efforts for
the upcoming year.
• Structured in two tiers:
— Guiding Principles, which set the broad goals for
advocacy efforts.
— Public Policy Priorities, which provide more
specific positions in certain policy areas.
• \ot an exhaustive list.
Background, 2
• The draft 2023 Platform is substantially similar
to the 2022 Platform.
• The 2023 Platform makes modifications to
account for:
— Changes in state law
— Anticipated issues for the upcoming legislative
session
— Non -substantive grammatical and wording changes
2022 Public Policy Priority Removals
• The 2023 Platform removes 2022 priorities that
are no longer relevant:
— ARPA funding flexibility
— District -based election requirements
• The platform also recrafts or consolidates 2022
priorities:
— Reference to AB 361 and hybrid public meetings
— Reference to Intelligent Transportation Systems
Public Policy Updates,
• New additions to the Platform include supporting
legislation that:
— Cleans up AB 2449 or permanently codifies AB 361
— Provides alternative methods of meeting public noticing
requirements
— Lowers the approval threshold to 55-percent for
affordable housing and public infrastructure bonds.
• ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry) proposes submit this to voters to consider
this change.
— Provides incentives or new funding mechanisms for
affordable housing and transit -oriented development.
• SB 20 (Caballero) would allow cities to form Housing Finance
Trust Joint Powers Authorities to fund affordable housing.
Public Policy Updates, 2
• New additions to the Platform include supporting
legislation that:
— Provides funding for the rehabilitation, development, and
capital improvements for park improvements.
— Streamlines development of and provides funding for electric
vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen fueling infrastructure
locally and regionally.
• New additions to the Platform include opposing
legislation that:
— Reduces or eliminates the City's ability to levy park impact
fees.
— Imposes regulations that create cost prohibitive
administrative burdens which likely result in the reduction of
parks programming.
Staff Recommendation
• Receive the report and provide direction.
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Questions?
John Stefanski
Assistant to the City Manager
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SB 343
Senate Bill 343 mandates supplemental materials
that have been received by the City Clerk's office that
relate to an agenda item after the agenda packets
have been distributed to the City Council be available
to the public.
The attached documents were received in the City
Clerk's office after distribution of the February 7,
2023, Regular City Council meeting agenda packet.
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THE NEW
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CITY MANAGER'S DEPARTMENT
MEMORANDUM
DATE: February 7, 2023
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
CC: Marsha Moore, City Clerk
FROM: Linda Smith, City Manager
SUBJECT: Item 8.1-2023 Draft City of Dublin Legislative Program Staff Report Correction
The Staff Report for Item 8.1 incorrectly characterizes two new changes to the draft 2023 Legislative
Program.
Under the Draft Legislative Program, the City will oppose legislation that (1) reduces or eliminates the
City's ability to levy park impact fees and (2) imposes regulations that create cost prohibitive
administrative burdens which likely result in the reduction of parks programming.
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