HomeMy WebLinkAbout8.1 Draft 2022 City of Dublin Legislative PlatformSTAFF REPORT
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Agenda Item 8.1
DATE:January 11, 2022
TO:Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM:Linda Smith, City Manager
SUBJECT:Draft 2022 City of Dublin Legislative PlatformPrepared by:John Stefanski, Assistant to the City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:The City Council will receive a report on the Draft 2022 Legislative Platform, which guides the City’s response to potential and pending legislation, policies, programs, grant funding opportunities, 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 2022 Legislative Platform (Attachment 2) 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.The Legislative Platform has remained substantially unchanged over the past six years. However, the Draft 2022 Legislative Platform includes several modifications, which are discussed below and identified in the redlined Legislative Platform found as Attachment 2.The guiding principles for the City’s legislative advocacy efforts have been updated to include revised language around local control as well as a reference to the City’s existing Mission, Vision, Values and policies. These principles now include:
Preserving and/or increasing local government discretion
Promoting or enhancing revenue sources
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Advancing existing City Mission, Vision, Values, and policiesThe Draft Legislative Platform identifies specific Public Policy Priorities for the following categories:1. General Administration2. Fiscal Sustainability3. Community and Economic Development4. Transportation and Public Works5. Public Safety6. Parks and Community Services7. Climate and Environment8. Technology and Cyber SecurityThese priorities will further guide the positions and advocacy efforts the City will take on all relevant legislation, policies, programs, grant funding opportunities, ballot measures, mandates, and budgets. The Draft 2022 Platform includes the following updated or new Public Policy Priority categories:
An updated Parks and Community Services category, which include new priorities revolving around social services and mental health services.
The Technology and Cyber Security Category which articulate priorities around the deployment of next generation technological infrastructure as well as legislation and funding to support efforts to increase capacity to protect against cyber security attacks. Other new Public Policy Priorities to the Platform include supporting legislation that:
Addresses the functional impracticalities of AB361 while providing a permanent teleconference option available for Brown Act legislative bodies to hold public meetings.
Grants the City additional flexibility in the use of ARPA funding.
Provides for more stable and equitable long-term funding sources for transportation.
Leverages local funds to the maximum extent possible to implement transportation improvements through grants and partnerships with regional, state, and federal agencies.
Supports expanded opportunities for high occupancy vehicles (HOV), managed lane policies, improved enforcement, new technology deployment, and reducing congestion and delay along freeways.
Supports innovative rail connectivity projects which aim to address the jobs/housing/transit imbalance (i.e., Valley Link).
Supports alternative crisis response programs for mental health, substance abuse, or homelessness-related calls for emergency service.
Increases available financial assistance to local non-profit and community-based organizations who provide social services and mental health services to residents in need.Other changes to the platform include the removal of the following priority:
Oppose legislation that seeks to repeal revenue collection or divert funds from the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (SB1). This priority is no longer relevant as there areno current attempts to repeal SB1.
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Additionally, Staff consolidated several of the priorities listed in the Climate and Environment section to reduce redundancy. It should be noted that the list of Public Policy Priorities is not exhaustive. In those instances where potential legislation, policies, programs, grant funding opportunities, ballot measures, mandates, and budgets do not fit with the specific Public Policy Priorities, the General Legislative Principles will guide City action.The Draft 2022 Legislative Platform also includes language around Regional Collaboration, specifically the Tri-Valley Cities, whose 2022 Legislative Framework will be attached as an addendum once it is adopted.
STRATEGIC PLAN INITIATIVE:None.
NOTICING REQUIREMENTS/PUBLIC OUTREACH:The City Council Agenda was posted.
ATTACHMENTS:1) Draft 2022 Legislative Platform2) Redlined 2022 Legislative Platform
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Attachment 1
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Introduction
Many public policies intersect with City priorities, programs, and services. This 2022 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@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 her 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 opportunities, 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, but are not limited to:
Preserving and/or Increasing Local Government Discretion
Promoting or Enhancing Revenue Sources
Advancing Existing City Mission, Vision, Values, and Policies
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
1. 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. Addresses the functional impracticalities of AB361 while providing a permanent
teleconference option available for Brown Act legislative bodies to hold public meetings.
5. Grants the City additional flexibility in the use of American Rescue 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 use district-based 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.
Staff recommends that the City Council oppose legislation that:
11. Undermines and preempts local authority over local taxes and fees.
12. Shifts funds from local governments to the state or federal government.
13. Imposes unfunded or inadequately funded federal and state mandates on local
governments.
14. Eliminates development fees or limits the ability of cities to levy such fees to provide for
infrastructure or services.
15. 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. Defers reimbursements for state mandated programs.
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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
sales and use tax measures for transportation purposes.
5. Supports reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) and supports developing and
implementing Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plans and strategies.
6. Supports expanded opportunities for high occupancy vehicles (HOV), managed lane
policies, improved enforcement, new technology deployment, and reducing congestion
and delay along freeways.
7. Supports multimodal freight movement between the San Francisco Bay Area and the
Central Valley and projects that reduce freight traffic on I-580.
8. Supports active transportation, enhances the safety of all modes of transportation,
particularly bicycles and pedestrians, and reduces vehicle speeds and traffic congestion.
9. Supports Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Connected, and Automated Vehicles.
10. 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.
11. Enables the sale of traffic data to recover the cost of data collection.
12. Supports 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. Infringes upon the ability of local governments to effectively administer and modify state
and local construction provisions and standards.
14. Takes away local control of managing and operating local streets.
15. 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.
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5. Eliminates redundant, costly, and cumbersome mandates and restrictions required by
CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act).
6. Provides incentives 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
health with uniform health and safety standards, and ensures patient safety with a quality
assurance protocol.
4. Legislation that 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.
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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.
3. Increases available financial assistance to local non-profit and community-based
organizations who provide social services and mental health services to residents in need.
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. Supports current waste diversion goals, local compliance efforts, and associated
measurement and reporting requirements.
3. Assists the City in meeting or exceeding established goals of reducing water
consumption and increasing water supply without preempting local planning decisions.
4. Requires manufacturers be responsible for the end of useful life cost of collecting,
processing, recycling, and disposing of products they manufacture.
5. Protects the interest of California’s Community Choice clean electricity providers and
their customers.
6. Supports regional and local government efforts to develop and implement programs to
reduce air pollution.
7. Supports the funding, compliance, and full life cycle costs of current and new mandatory
storm water quality permit requirements.
8. Addresses litter control and abatement problems in California.
9. Reduces the City’s 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. Preempts local planning decisions regarding solid waste facility sites.
11. 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, promotes economic
development, enhances public safety, improves transportation and mobility, improves
sustainability, increases transparency to public information, enhances municipal quality
of life factors and helps solve other civic challenges.
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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 2022
Framework, once adopted, will be attached to as Addendum A to this Legislative Platform.
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Attachment 2
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Introduction
Many public policies intersect with City priorities, programs, and services. This 2022 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@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 League of California CitiesCalCities,
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 the League of California Cities 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 her designee will manage
the City’s Legislative Platform.
Staff will follow the process below when responding to all proposed and relevant legislation, polices,
programs, grant funding opportunities, 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 City values its ability and authority to exercise local control and to protect and enhance the
quality of life for Dublin residents. To that end, the City has two general legislative principles:
The guiding principles for the City’s legislative advocacy efforts include, but are not limited to:
Protecting Preserving and/or Increasing Local Government Control and
AuthorityDiscretion
Support any legislation, policies, ballot measures, and budgets that maintain or improve local
regulatory control and authority.
Oppose any legislation, policies, ballot measures, and budgets that undermine or circumvent local
control or authority.
Promoting or Enhancing Revenue Sources
Support the protection or expansion of federal, state, and local funding sources that provide
revenue to the City.
Oppose any federal or state legislation, policies, programs, ballot measures, unfunded
mandates, and budgets that would have a negative impact on the City's ability to provide
adequate programs, projects, and services.
Advancing Existing City Mission, Vision, Values, and Policies
Public Policy Priorities
This legislative platform identifies specific public policy priorities by topic area. Informed by the
general General Llegislative Pprinciples, these priorities will guide the positions the City will take on
all relevant legislation, policies, programs, grant funding opportunities, ballot measures, mandates,
and budgetsspecific legislation, policies, ballot measures, and budgets.
The public policy priorities are categorized as follows:
1. General Administration
2. Fiscal Sustainability
3. Community and Economic Development
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4. Transportation and Public Works
5. Public Safety
6. Parks/Quality of Life and Community Services
7. Climate and Environment
8. Technology and Cybersecurity
1. 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 emergency funding.
Legislation that 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.
3. Assures every person the right to equal treatment in and access to all government-
sponsored benefits or funded programs.
4. Addresses the functional impracticalities of AB361 while providing a permanent
teleconference option available for Brown Act legislative bodies to hold public meetings.
5. Grants the City additional flexibility in the use of American Rescue Plan Act funding.
3.
Staff recommends that the City Council oppose legislation that:
4.6. Attempts to restrict local authority or decision-making whether by state or federal
legislation or ballot propositions.
5.7. Diminishes or eliminates local governments’ ability to contract out for the provision of
services.
6.8. Requires cities to use district-based elections.
7. Legislation that limits or removes local review and permitting of emerging
telecommunications technologies, such as Small Cell technology.
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. Remove unnecessary state-imposed mandates.
Commented [JS1]: Moved to Section 8.
Commented [JS2]: Moved to Section 8.
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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.
Staff recommends that the City Council oppose legislation that:
11. Undermines and preempts local authority over local taxes and fees.
12. Shifts funds from local governments to the state or federal government.
13. Imposes unfunded or inadequately funded federal and state mandates on local
governments.
14. Eliminates development fees or limits the ability of cities to levy such fees to provide for
infrastructure or services.
15. 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. 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.
2.3. Leverages local funds to the maximum extent possible to implement transportation
improvements through grants and partnerships with regional, state, and federal agencies.
3.4. Supports a constitutional amendment to lower the two-thirds approval threshold for
sales and use tax measures for transportation purposes.
4.5. Supports reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) and supports developing and
implementing Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plans and strategies.
5.6. Supports expanded opportunities for high occupancy vehicles (HOV), managed lane
policies, improved enforcement, new technology deployment, and reducing congestion
and delay along freeways in the Tri-Valley Area.
6.7. Supports multimodal freight movement between the San Francisco Bay Area and the
Central Valley and projects that reduce freight traffic on I-580.
7.8. Supports active transportation, enhances the safety of all modes of transportation,
particularly bicycles and pedestrians, and reduces vehicle speeds and traffic congestion,
and supports regional transportation improvements.
8.9. Supports Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Connected, and Automated Vehicles.
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9.10. Supports local control and local regulation of shared mobility, micro mobility,
transportation network companies (TNCs), and other emerging industries that use city
infrastructure to offer private services.
11. Enables the sale of traffic data to recover the cost of data collection.
10.12. Supports 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:
11.13. Infringes upon the ability of local governments to effectively administer and modify
state and local construction provisions and standards.
12.14. Takes away local control of managing and operating local streets.
13.15. Reduces the City’s condemnation authority regarding acquisition of properties
required for public projects.
14. Legislation that seeks to repeal revenue collection or divert funds from the Road Repair
and Accountability Act of 2017 (SB1).
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 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.
Commented [JS3]: No longer relevant.
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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. Increases 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
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 / Quality of Lifeand 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.
3. Increases available financial assistance to local non-profit and community-based
organizations who provide social services and mental health services to residents in need.
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.
1. Legislation that encourages manufacturers to include post-consumer recycled material in
their products and encourages state and local government agencies to use more recycled
content.
2. Legislation that supports minimizing single-use disposables as well as minimizes product
packaging. Commented [JS4]: Consolidated with #2.
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3.2. Legislation that supports the ability of the City to run efficient and effective waste
diversion programs. Supports current waste diversion goals, local compliance efforts,
and associated measurement and reporting requirements.
4.3. Assist the City in meeting or exceeding established goals of reducing water consumption
and increasing water supply without preempting local planning decisions.
5.4. Legislation that supports reducing greenhouse gas emissions related to extracting,
transporting, and manufacturing materials.Requires manufacturers be responsible for the
end of useful life cost of collecting, processing, recycling andrecycling and disposing of
products they manufacture.
6.5. Protects the interest of California’s Community Choice clean electricity providers and
their customers.
7.6. Supports regional and local government efforts to develop and implement programs to
reduce air pollution.
8. Legislation and grant opportunities for cities that provide funding for developing or
enhancing alternative vehicle fueling stations.
9.7. Supports the funding, compliance, and full life cycle costs of current and new mandatory
storm water quualityquality permit requirements.provides funding and creates flexibility
in the implementation of mandatory storm water and solid waste programs.
10.8. Addresses litter control and abatement problems in California.
11. Legislation that would make it easier for the City to fund and comply with new and
increasingly stringent storm water quality permit requirements.
12.9. Reduces the financial impact of state and federal funded and unfunded mandates
related to compliance with environmental programs and regulations.
13. Legislation that supports local solar generation, battery storage, microgrids, and the
electrification of California’s energy and fuel supply.
Staff recommends that the City Council oppose legislation that:
14.10. Preempts local planning decisions regarding solid waste facility sites.
11. 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.
Commented [JS5]: Consolidated with #1.
Commented [JS6]: Consolidated with #1.
Commented [JS7]: Consolidated with #8.
Commented [JS8]: Consolidated with #8.
Commented [JS9]: Consolidated with #1.
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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 2022
Framework, once adopted, will be attached to as Addendum A to this Legislative Platform.
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