Agenda packet — Glendale City Council, July 19, 2022

A G E N D A

GLENDALE CITY COUNCIL

COUNCIL CHAMBERS
613 E. Broadway, 2nd Floor
Glendale, CA 91206
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JULY 19, 2022

ROLL CALL

1. CLOSED SESSION – 1:00 PM (To Commence a 3:00 PM )
a. Conference with Legal Counsel – Pending Litigation: Sadeghi v. City of Glendale, L.A.S.C. Case No. 20STCV34372
b. Conference with Legal Counsel – Pending Litigation: Suarez v City of Glendale, L.A.S.C. Case No. 21STCV10222
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c. Conference with Legal Counsel – Pending Litigation: Claim of Safeco Insurance (Galaian), Claim No. 22-0083
d. Public Employee Appointment – Chief Human Resources Officer

2. REGULAR BUSINESS AGENDA – 6:00 PM
Roll Call
a. Flag Salute: Mayor Kassakhian
b. Invocation: Suzie Abajian, City Clerk
c. Report of City Clerk, re: Posting of Agenda. The Agenda for the July 19, 2022 Regular Meeting of the Glendale City Council was Posted on July 13, 2022 on the Bulletin Board Outside City Hall.

3. PRESENTATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
a. Agenda Preview for the Meetings of Tuesday, July 26, 2022 b. Comfort Women Day Proclamation
c. Appointment of Board and Commission Member (Devine, 7/12/2022)

1. Andre Ordubegian, Transportation and Parking

4. CONSENT ITEMS (Including Minutes)
The following are Routine and May be Acted Upon by One Motion. Any Member of Council or the Audience Requesting Separate Consideration May do so by Making Such Request Before Motion is Proposed.
a. City Clerk, re: Minutes of the Regular City Council meeting of June 28, 2022 and July 12, 2022 and the Joint City Council and Housing Authority meetings of June 14, 2022 and June 28, 2022
b. Fire Department, re: Weed abatement charges 2021-2022

1. Resolution confirming weed abatement charges
c. Police Department, re: Amendment to Professional Services Agreement with Cit Com LLC.

1. Motion authorizing the City Manager, or a designee, to execute an amendment to the Professional Services Agreement with Cit Com, LLC to increase the maximum cost by $150,000 for a new not-to-exceed amount of $516,283 and extend the time for performance of services to May 31,2023

5. CITY COUNCIL/STAFF COMMENTS

6. COMMUNITY EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS (3-Minutes)

7. ADOPTION OF ORDINANCES

8. ACTION ITEMS
a. Glendale Water and Power, re: Resolution Dispensing with Competitive Bidding and Authorizing a Services Agreement with InfoSend, Inc.

1. Resolution dispensing with competitive bidding and authorizing the City Manager, or his designee, to execute a contract for bill print and mailing services for Glendale Water and Power (GWP) with InfoSend, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $3,619,900 for the four- year term, plus an annual ten percent (10%) contingency in the amount of $361,990 for a term of four years, plus an option to extend for two additional years in the amount of $1,835,900 plus a ten percent (10%) contingency in the amount of $183,590 b. Community Development, re: Vision Zero - Introduction and Update Report 2 TYPED 7/19/2022 4:25:51 PM
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1. Motion to note and file the report regarding Vision Zero and provide direction to staff regarding next steps
c. Management Services, re: Legislative Update

1. Motion to note and file report

2. Motion providing direction on bills as recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women

9. HEARINGS

10. REPORTS - INFORMATION

11. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS

12. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
Discussion is Limited to Items NOT a Part of this Agenda. Council May Question or Respond to The Speaker But There Will be no Debate or Decision. The City Manager May Refer the Matter to the Appropriate Department for Investigation and Report.

13. NEW BUSINESS

14. ADJOURNMENT
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GLENDALE CITY COUNCIL

COUNCIL CHAMBERS
613 E. Broadway, 2nd Floor Glendale, CA 91206
JULY 12, 2022
ROLL CALL – Absent: Agajanian

1. CLOSED SESSION – 3:10 p.m.
a. Conference with Legal Counsel – Pending Litigation: Claim of State Farm (Vardanyan), Claim No. 22-0011
b. Conference with Legal Counsel – Mercury Insurance (Voskanian) c. Public Employee Appointment – Chief Human Resources Officer d. Conference with Legal Counsel – Anticipated Litigation: Significant exposure litigation pursuant to paragraph subdivisions (d)(2) and (e)(5) of Section 54956.9:

One (1) potential case
e. Conference with real property negotiators: Property location – Real property generally located at the terminus of New York Avenue near Park Vista Drive, commonly referred to as “Mountain Oaks.” Negotiating parties: F.E. & M. Inc.

Employee’s Defined Contribution Plan Trust dated July 10, 1984. Agency negotiators attending the closed session are: Roubik Golanian, Michael J. Garcia, Gillian van Muyden, John Takhtalian, Silvio Lanzas, Jason Bradford, Christine Powers and Onnig Bulanikian. Instructions to the negotiator(s) will concern the price and terms for the acquisition of property
f. Conference with Legal Counsel - Pending Litigation: F.E. & M. Inc. Employee’s Defined Contribution Plan Trust dated July 10, 1984 v. City of Glendale et al., L.A.S.C. Case No. BS16989
City Attorney Mike Garcia indicated that action is anticipated on item 1b. Council recessed to Closed Session at 3:12 p.m.

2. REGULAR BUSINESS AGENDA – 7:09 p.m.

Roll Call – Absent: Agajanian
a. Flag Salute: Fire Chief Silvio Lanzas
b. Invocation: Aram Adjemian, City Clerk
c. Report of City Clerk, re: Posting of Agenda. The Agenda for the July 12, 2022 Regular Meeting of the Glendale City Council was Posted on July 7, 2022 on the Bulletin Board Outside City Hall.

3. PRESENTATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
a. Agenda Preview for the Meetings of Tuesday, July 19, 2022 b. Parks and Recreation Month Proclamation
Community Services Coordinator Patty Betancourt

Item 4g pulled for separation consideration.
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a. City Clerk, re: Minutes of the Regular City Council meetings of June 7, 2022 and June 14, 2022, and the Special City Council meetings of June 7, 2022 and June 14, 2022
Moved: Najarian Seconded: Devine
b. City Clerk, re: Award of Contract for FY 2022/2023 Legal Advertising for the City of Glendale

1. Motion Awarding a Contract to HLR Media, LLC DBA Glendale Independent, sole responsible bidder, Specification No. 3933
Moved: Najarian Seconded: Devine
c. Fire Department, re: Regarding Used Oil Recycling Grant and Payment Program (OPP) Fiscal Year 2022/2023 Grant Application

1. Resolution 22-101 Authorizing the Submittal of an Application to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) for the 2022/2023 Used Oil Payment Program (OPP)
Moved: Najarian Seconded: Devine
d. Fire Department, re: Amendment of Professional Services Agreement with Digital EMS Solutions Inc. to provide Electronic Patient Care Reporting System (ePCR) services to the Fire Department

1. Motion Authorizing the City Manager to amend the current agreement between Digital EMS Solutions Inc. and the Glendale Fire Department for the renewal of ePCR services for the fiscal year 22-23 and an optional two additional years Moved: Najarian Seconded: Devine
e. Fire Department, re: Acceptance of funding from the United States Department of Homeland Security, 2020 State Homeland Security Grant Program (SHSGP), in the amount of $49,000
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1. Motion to approve the Glendale Fire Department’s participation in the FY 2020 State Home Security Program (SHSP) Grant Subaward and to authorize the City Manager to accept grant funds in the amount of $49,000, and to execute the necessary agreements, certifications, and other documents required to accept the grant funds
Moved: Najarian Seconded: Devine

2. Approve Resolution 22-102 of Appropriation
Moved: Najarian Seconded: Devine
f. Fire Department, re: Adoption of a new Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)

1. Motion to adopt and promulgate the EOP
Moved: Najarian Seconded: Devine
g. Public Works, re: CalRecycle Beverage Container Recycling and Senate Bill 1383 Local Assistance Grants
Staff Comment:

Yazdan Emrani, Director of PW

1. Resolution 22-103 of Appropriation in the amount of $338,838 for the Senate Bill 1383 Local Assistance Grant Project and CalRecycle Grant FY 2021-22 Project Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian

5. CITY COUNCIL/STAFF COMMENTS
Council Members congratulated Council Member Najarian for being appointed as the new Chair for Metro’s Board of Directors. They expressed their condolences to the Japanese Community over the assassination of their former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Council Member Devine nominated Andre Ordubegian for the Transportation and Parking Ayes:

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Commission. She asked staff to provide a report on the possibility of developing the city’s own virtual power plant program. Kassakhian seconded.

Council Member Brotman asked Director of PW Yazdan Emrani to provide a synopsis on the funds received to electrify the beeline buses.

Council Member Najarian announced that the City of Glendale is sponsoring an LA Galaxy Night game for $25/ticket, for Saturday, August 13 at the Dignity Health Sports Park.

Mayor Kassakhian congratulated CV Fireworks on another excellent 4th of July Program. He asked staff to provide a report to create a Poet Laureate for the City of Glendale. Devine seconded. He asked staff to agendize a draft Resolution on environmentally-friendly, clean, and sustainable future for Glendale. Brotman seconded.

6. COMMUNITY EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS (3-Minutes)
Siranoush Rousian
Edik Sarkisyan
James Myers
Monica Campagna

7. ADOPTION OF ORDINANCES

8. ACTION ITEMS
Item 8a moved to July 19, 2022 Council Meeting.
a. Community Development, re: Vision Zero – Introduction and Update Report

1. Motion to note and file the report regarding Vision Zero and provide direction to staff regarding next steps
b. Human Resources, re: Memorandum of Understanding Between the City of Glendale and Glendale Management Association on Behalf of Fire Sworn Managers

1. Resolution 22-104 approving and adopting the Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Glendale and Glendale Management Association (GMA) - Fire Sworn Managers commencing July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025 Moved: Devine Seconded: Brotman

2. Resolution 22-105 approving and adopting Classification Titles and Compensation for Employees Covered by the Glendale Management Association Memorandum of Understanding and GMA-Exempt Classifications
Moved: Devine Seconded: Brotman
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Brotman, Devine, Najarian, Kassakhian
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Agajanian
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c. Human Resources, re: Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Between the City of Glendale and Glendale Police Officers’ Association (GPOA) and Resolutions Addressing the Terms and Conditions of Said MOU, and Classification and Compensation of Affected City Employees

1. Resolution 22-106 approving and adopting the Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Glendale and Glendale Police Officers’ Association (GPOA) commencing July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2024
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian

2. Resolution 22-107 providing for the establishment of classification titles and compensation for employees covered by the Glendale Police Officers’ Association (GPOA) MOU
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian

3. Resolution 22-108 of Appropriation in the sum of $1,405,456 to provide funding for the MOU agreement between the City and Glendale Police Officers’ Association (GPOA) for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian
d. City Attorney, re: Renewal of Excess Liability & Law Enforcement Liability Insurance for Fiscal Year 2022-23
Staff Comment:

Mike Garcia, City Attorney

1. Motion authorizing the annual renewal of excess liability and law enforcement liability insurance policies for the City's 2022-23 fiscal year, in an amount not to exceed $4,478,993
Moved: Najarian Seconded: Brotman
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2. Resolution 22-109 of Appropriation to appropriate $1,218,921 for the annual renewal of the Excess Liability policy
Moved: Najarian Seconded: Brotman

9. HEARINGS
a. Public Works, re: Approval of the Final's Engineer's Report and Ordering the Levy and Collection of Annual Assessments for the North San Fernando Road Corridor Landscape Maintenance District for FY 22-23
Hearing opened and closed at 7:51 p.m.

1. Resolution 22-110 Approving the Engineer’s Annual Levy Report for the City of Glendale’s North San Fernando Road Corridor Landscape Maintenance District for Fiscal Year 2022-23
Moved: Devine Seconded: Brotman

2. Resolution 22-111 Ordering the Levy and Collection of the City of Glendale’s North San Fernando Road Corridor Landscape Maintenance District for Fiscal Year 2022- 23 Moved: Devine Seconded: Brotman

10. REPORTS – INFORMATION

11. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS

Ramella Eravhi
Edwin
Diane Martin
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13. NEW BUSINESS

14. ADJOURNMENT – 8:03 p.m.

Moved: Devine Seconded: Brotman
Mayor of the City of Glendale
City Clerk of the City of Glendale
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613 E. Broadway, 2nd Floor Glendale, CA 91206
JUNE 28, 2022
ROLL CALL – All Present

1. CLOSED SESSION – 3:54 p.m.
a. Conference with Labor Negotiators. The City-designated negotiators attending the closed session are: Roubik Golanian, Michael J. Garcia, Gillian van Muyden, John Takhtalian, Aymee Martin, Jason Bradford, Carl Povilaitis, and Laura Kalty. The name of the employee organization is: Glendale Police Officers’ Association
b. Conference with Labor Negotiators. The City-designated negotiators attending the closed session are: Roubik Golanian, Michael J. Garcia, Gillian van Muyden, John Takhtalian, Aymee Martin, Jason Bradford, and Silvio Lanzas. The name of the employee organization is: Glendale Management Association
City Attorney Mike Garcia indicated that is not anticipated. Council recessed to closed session at 3:55 p.m.

2. REGULAR BUSINESS AGENDA – 6:00 PM
Roll Call – Absent: Agajanian
a. Flag Salute: Mayor Kassakhian
b. Invocation: Aram Adjemian, City Clerk
c. Report of City Clerk, re: Posting of Agenda. The Agenda for the June 28, 2022 Regular Meeting of the Glendale City Council was Posted on June 22, 2022, on the Bulletin Board Outside City Hall.

3. PRESENTATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
a. Agenda Preview for the Meetings of Tuesday, July 5, 2022 Regular meetings have been cancelled and will resume on July 12, 2022.

4. CONSENT ITEMS (Including Minutes)
The following are Routine and May be Acted Upon by One Motion. Any Member of Council or the Audience Requesting Separate Consideration May do so by Making Such Request Before Motion is Proposed.
a. Glendale Water and Power, re: Award of Professional Services Agreements (PSAs) to NV5, Inc. and Cannon Corporation for Owner’s Engineering Services for Public Water System Activities

1.Motion authorizing the City Manager, or his designee, to execute two (2) three-year Professional Services Agreements (PSAs) with two qualified consultants, NV5, Inc. and Cannon Corporation, to act on behalf of the City as Owner's Engineers specializing in the design and engineering oversight of various public water system activities for a total not-to-exceed amount of 14 of 245
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$750,000 per consultant
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian
b. Police Department, re: The County of Los Angeles Real Estate Fraud Prosecution Trust Fund, Request for Authorization to Accept Grant Funds in the amount of $31,000 to be used for the purpose of prosecution and/or investigation of real estate fraud

1.Motion to approve the Glendale Police Department’s participation in the Real Estate Fraud Prosecution Trust Fund Program and to authorize the City Manager to accept grant funds in the amount of $31,000, and to execute the necessary agreements, certifications, and other documents required to accept the grant funds
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian

2.Resolution 22-95 of appropriation
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian
c. Police Department, re: State of California, Department of California Highway Patrol (CHP), Cannabis Tax Fund Grant Program, Request for Authorization to Accept Grant Funds in the amount of $391,715 to be used to reduce and mitigate the impacts of impaired driving in local communities

1.Motion to accept grant funds in the amount of $391,715 and authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with the State of California – Department of California Highway Patrol for the award of funds under the California Highway Patrol (CHP), Cannabis Tax Fund Law Enforcement Grant Program
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian
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Agajanian
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d. City Attorney, re: Annual Insurance Policy Renewals for Fiscal Year 2022- 2023

1.Motion authorizing the annual renewal of excess insurance policies for the City's property, Workers' Compensation, employment practices, and other miscellaneous coverages for 2022-23 fiscal year, in an amount not-to-exceed $2,134,162
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian
e. Community Services and Parks, re: Award of Supportive Services Program Amendment Five of Grant Funds for FY 2022-2023 from County of Los Angeles Workforce Development, Aging and Community Services (WDACS)

1.Motion accepting $54,000 in Older Americans Act (OAA) Title III B (Supportive Services and Senior Centers) original baseline funding from County of Los Angeles Workforce, Aging and Community Services (WDACS) for FY 2022- 2023 Supportive Services Program (SSP); and authorizing the City Manager or a designee to execute Amendment Five to the WDACS Contract Subaward Number SSP192004 Subaward period July 2019 – June 2023 to accept and implement WDACS funding
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian

2.Resolution 22-96 of Appropriation to appropriate additional $4,000 in Supportive Services Program baseline grant funding for defined and contracted senior case management services from County of Los Angeles WDACS Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian
f. Community Services and Parks, re: Award of Elderly Nutrition Program Amendment Eight of Grant Funds for FY 2022-2023 from County of Los Angeles Workforce Development, Aging and Community Services (WDACS) for baseline and Federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding for Elderly Nutrition Program services

1.Motion accepting baseline and Federal ARPA grant funding in the amount of $678,000 from County of Los Angeles Workforce, Aging and Community Ayes:

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Services (WDACS) for FY 2022-2023 Elderly Nutrition Program (ENP) C1, C2, and IIIB; and authorizing the City Manager or a designee to execute Amendment Eight to the WDACS Contract Subaward Number ENP202106 Subaward period July 2020 – June 2023 to accept and implement WDACS funding
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian

2.Resolution 22-97 of Appropriation to appropriate additional $130,000 in Older Americans Act baseline funding and $247,000 in Federal ARPA funding for defined and contracted services from County of Los Angeles Workforce Development, Aging and Community Services (WDACS) for the Elderly Nutrition Program
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian

3.Motion authorizing the City Manager or a designee to execute Amendment Nine with Bateman Community Living, LLC dba Trio Community Meals, to add an additional $55,220, to provide additional meals to seniors through the Elderly Nutrition Program, for a total contract price, including past and future increases, not to exceed $2,150,704 through November 30, 2022
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian
g. Management Services, re: Extension of Current Contract for State Legislative Advocacy Services

1.Motion to Extend Current Contract with Emanuels Jones & Associates for State Legislative Advocacy Services through October 31, 2022
Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian
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5. CITY COUNCIL/STAFF COMMENTS
Council Member Devine attended the following events: Glendale Latino Association Komunidad Event and celebrated Fire Chief Silvio Lanzas as the “Man of the Year,” and the Opening of the Young Ladies Institute Convention Event.

Council Member Brotman asked staff to provide a report to change traffic lights on designated bike routes to detect bikes. Najarian seconded and added optical sensors.

Mayor Kassakhian announced the Crescenta Valley Fireworks on July 4. He congratulated USA Swim Team Trenton Julian, a graduate of Glendale High School, in winning gold medals at the FINA World Championships in the 200-meter freestyle relay. He congratulated the Powerball winner, who bought the winning ticket at a Glendale gas station. Mr. Kassakhian thanked staff for running a smooth meeting during his absence due to COVID-19 and his trip with City Manager Roubik Golanian to South Korea to visit our sister cities.

6. COMMUNITY EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS (3-Minutes)
Herbert Molano

7. ADOPTION OF ORDINANCES
a. City Attorney, re: Adoption of Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance (Brotman, 06/14/22)
Staff Comment:

Mike Garcia, City Attorney

1.Motion Receiving Report Under Elections Code Section 9212

2.Adoption of Ordinance 5991 Entitled “AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL

OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE AMENDING THE GLENDALE MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADD CHAPTER 5.120, HOTEL WORKER PROTECTION ORDINANCE” Moved: Brotman Seconded: Devine

3.Motion Providing Further Direction

8. ACTION ITEMS
a. Glendale Water and Power, re: Glendale Water & Power (GWP) Annual Authority for the Purchase or Sale of Energy Commodities and Services Presenting:

Chie Valdez, Integrated Resource Planning Administrator Ayes:

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Brotman, Devine, Najarian, Kassakhian
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1.Resolution 22-98 approving renewal of annual authorization for the City Manager or GWP General Manager, or their designees, to enter into contracts for the purchase or sale of energy commodities and services, including the transfer of initiating and clearing brokers services, not to exceed five years in duration, and dispensing with competitive bidding Moved: Devine Seconded: Najarian
b. Glendale Water and Power, re: Annual Update to Glendale Water and Power’s (GWP’s) Wildfire Mitigation Plan
Presenting:

Daniel Scorza, Chief Assistant General Manager – Electric

1.Resolution 22-99 adopting Annual Update to Glendale Water and Power’s (GWP’s) Wildfire Mitigation Plan
Moved: Devine Seconded: Brotman
c. Community Services and Parks, re: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Triple Bottom Line (3BL) Assessment of Natural Turf vs. Artificial Turf Presenting:

Koko Panossian, Deputy Director of Community Services and Parks Ravi Bajaj, Citadel EHS
Staff Comments:

Roubik Golanian, City Manager
Mike Garcia, City Attorney
Michael De Ghetto, Chief Assistant General Manager
Onnig Bulanikian, Director of Community Services and Parks Public Comments:

Harry Hannessian, AYSO
David Eisenberg, Sierra Club
Ralph Tapia
Victor Roman
David Sagherian
Andrew Schaeffer
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Leonard Manoukian
Alexander Ayrapetyan
Monica Campagna
Mark Garscia
Yesenia Martinez
Jose Serrano
Dianne Woelke
Joanne Pringle
Elise Kalfayan
Denise Duval
Violette Sacre
Elizabeth Vitanza
Jackie Eco
Erin Fortin
Aimee Noel
Nat Yonce
Kourtney Smith
Paul Berolzheimer
Kate Unger
Erin Dinan
Matthew Bissonnette
David Vennick
Regina Alcazar
Sarojini Lall
Lia Caprara
Edwin

1.Motion providing direction to staff on the use of artificial turf as the preferred surface type for multipurpose fields based on the findings of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Triple Bottom Line (3BL) Assessment (Turf on sports complex on field 3 and Fremont park, natural grass on pacific park)
Moved: Najarian Seconded: Devine
Motion did not pass.

Motion to reconsider previous Motion.

Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Devine, Najarian
Brotman, Kassakhian
Agajanian
None
Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Brotman, Devine, Najarian, Kassakhian
None
Agajanian
None
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Motion providing direction to staff on the use of artificial turf as the preferred surface type for multipurpose fields based on the findings of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Triple Bottom Line (3BL) Assessment (Turf on sports complex on field 3 and Fremont park, natural grass on pacific park)
Moved: Najarian Seconded: Devine

2.Resolution 22-100 Repealing Resolution No. 19-135, adopting revised Public Works Specification No. 3624R for construction of the Fremont Park Renovation Project, and directing the City Clerk to advertise for bids Moved: Najarian Seconded: Devine

9. HEARINGS

10. REPORTS - INFORMATION

11. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS

13. NEW BUSINESS

14. ADJOURNMENT – 10:09 p.m.

Moved: Najarian Seconded: Devine
Mayor of the City of Glendale
City Clerk of the City of Glendale
Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Brotman, Devine, Najarian, Kassakhian
None
Agajanian
None
Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Brotman, Devine, Kassakhian, Najarian
None
Agajanian
None
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M I N U T E S

JOINT CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 613 E. Broadway, 2nd Floor
Glendale, CA 91206
JUNE 14, 2022
The Joint Meeting of the Glendale City Council and Glendale Housing Authority convened in the City Hal Council Chambers, in said City, at 2:06 p.m. on the above date, pursuant to a call for such meeting signed by the City Clerk of the City Council, and on file with the City Clerk, a copy of which is as follows:

June 8, 2022
Date
A JOINT PUBLIC MEETING of the City Council and Housing Authority is hereby called to meet at 2:00 PM on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, in the Council Chamber, 613 E.

Broadway, 2nd Floor, Glendale, CA 91206 to Consider the Following Item(s) of Business, to wit;

1. Community Services and Parks, re: FY 2022-2023 Proposed Annual Action Plan for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), and HOME Investment Partnerships Act (HOME) Programs a. Council Resolution adopting a Final Negative Declaration b. Council Motion to approve a FY 2022-2023 CDBG, ESG, and HOME Annual Action Plan totaling $3,529,800; authorize submission of the Annual Action Plan to the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as recommended by the CDBG Advisory Committee and modified by staff, and the Glendale Homeless Continuum of Care Board; and authorize the City Manager, or a designee, to redirect excess, cancelled, or unused program funds under $50,000 from one project to another with CDBG Advisory Committee approval
c. Housing Authority Motion to approve a FY 2022-2023 CDBG, ESG, and HOME Annual Action Plan totaling $3,529,800; and authorize submission of the Annual Action Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as recommended by the CDBG Advisory Committee and modified by staff, and the Glendale Homeless Continuum of Care Board

2. Community Development, re: Adoption of the FY 2022-23 Glendale Housing Authority Budget with Approval of a Professional Services Contract Amendment with Emphasys Software
a. Council Resolution Making Findings and Approving Expenditures of Low Moderate Income Housing Asset Funds for Administration and Planning and Expenditures Outside Redevelopment Project Areas for the FY 2022-23 Housing Authority Budget b. Housing Authority Resolution Making Findings and Approving Expenditures of Low Moderate Income Housing Asset Funds for Administration and Planning and Expenditures Outside Redevelopment Project Areas for the FY 2022-23 Housing Authority Budget and Adopting the FY 2022-23 Housing Authority Budget c. Housing Authority Motion to Approve an Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement with Emphasys Software (C105966A) to Increase the Contract Amount by $77,418 for a New “Not to Exceed” Contract of $486,425 for a Computer Software License with Maintenance and Hosting of the Housing Authority Owner Portal; and to Extend the Agreement Term for One Year to End August 31, 2023 22 of 245
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Written Notice of said meeting was given, which Notice consisted of a copy of the foregoing Call, and was served on each Member of the Council not joining in the Call, and upon the in said City not less than 24 hours before the time fixed in said Call for said meeting, as follows:

Upon Robert Adjinian at 5:00 p.m. June 8, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Vrej Agajanian at 5:00 p.m. June 8, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Dan Brotman at 5:00 p.m. June 8, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Ardy Kassakhian at 5:00 p.m. June 8, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Ara Najarian at 5:00 p.m. June 8, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Laura Parazian at 5:00 p.m. June 8, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Paula Devine at 5:00 p.m. June 8, 2022 Glendale, CA Chair Brotman called the meeting to order at 2:06 p.m.

ROLL CALL
- Absent: Kassakhian
- Report of the City Clerk of the City Council and Housing Authority, re: Posting of Agenda. The Agenda for the Tuesday, June 14, 2022 joint public meeting of the City Council and Housing Authority was posted on June 8, 2022 on the Bulletin Board outside City Hall.

Onnig Bulanikian, Director of Community Services and Parks Presenting:

Maggie Kavarian, Community Services Manager
Public Comments:

Ronnie Gharibian
Anita Quinonez-Gabrielian
a. Council Resolution 22-81 adopting a Final Negative Declaration Moved: Agajanian Seconded: Devine
Vote as Follows
b. Council Motion to approve a FY 2022-2023 CDBG, ESG, and HOME Annual Action Plan totaling $3,529,800; authorize submission of the Annual Action Plan to the U.S.

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Agajanian, Brotman, Devine, Najarian (pro tem)
None
Kassakhian
None
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Moved: Agajanian Seconded: Devine
Vote as Follows
c. Housing Authority Motion to approve a FY 2022-2023 CDBG, ESG, and HOME Annual Action Plan totaling $3,529,800; and authorize submission of the Annual Action Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as recommended by the CDBG Advisory Committee and modified by staff, and the Glendale Homeless Continuum of Care Board
Moved: Devine Seconded: Agajanian
Vote as Follows

2. Community Development, re: Adoption of the FY 2022-23 Glendale Housing Authority Budget with Approval of a Professional Services Contract Amendment with Emphasys Software
Presenting:

John Takhtalian, Deputy City Manager
a. Council Resolution 22-82 Making Findings and Approving Expenditures of Low Moderate Income Housing Asset Funds for Administration and Planning and Expenditures Outside Redevelopment Project Areas for the FY 2022-23 Housing Authority Budget
Moved: Agajanian Seconded: Devine
Vote as Follows
b. Housing Authority Resolution H-525 Making Findings and Approving Expenditures of Low Moderate Income Housing Asset Funds for Administration and Planning and Expenditures Outside Redevelopment Project Areas for the FY 2022-23 Housing Authority Budget and Adopting the FY 2022-23 Housing Authority Budget
Moved: Devine Seconded: Agajanian
Vote as Follows
Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Adjinian, Agajanian, Devine, Najarian, Parazian, Brotman None
Kassakhian
None
Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Agajanian, Brotman, Devine, Najarian (pro tem)
None
Kassakhian
None
Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Adjinian, Agajanian, Devine, Najarian, Parazian, Brotman None
Kassakhian
None
Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Agajanian, Brotman, Devine, Najarian (pro tem)
None
Kassakhian
None
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c. Housing Authority Motion to Approve an Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement with Emphasys Software (C105966A) to Increase the Contract Amount by $77,418 for a New “Not to Exceed” Contract of $486,425 for a Computer Software License with Maintenance and Hosting of the Housing Authority Owner Portal; and to Extend the Agreement Term for One Year to End August 31, 2023 Moved: Devine Seconded: Agajanian
Vote as Follows
ADJOURNMENT – 2:48 p.m.
- City Council
Moved: Devine Seconded: Agajanian
- Housing Authority
Moved: Devine Seconded: Agajanian
Mayor of the City of Glendale
City Clerk of the City of Glendale
Chair of the Glendale Housing Authority
Clerk of the Glendale Housing Authority
Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Adjinian, Agajanian, Devine, Najarian, Parazian, Brotman None
Kassakhian
None
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M I N U T E S
JOINT MEETING: GLENDALE CITY COUNCIL AND GLENDALE HOUSING AUTHORITY

COUNCIL CHAMBERS
613 E. Broadway, 2nd Floor
Glendale, CA 91206
JUNE 28, 2022
The Joint Meeting of the Glendale City Council and Glendale Housing Authority convened in the City Hal Council Chambers, in said City, at 3:06 p.m. on the above date, pursuant to a call for such meeting signed by the City Clerk of the City Council, and on file with the City Clerk, a copy of which is as follows:

June 22, 2022
Date
A JOINT PUBLIC MEETING of the City Council and Housing Authority is hereby called to meet at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in the Council Chamber, 613 E. Broadway, 2nd Floor, Glendale, CA 91206 to Consider the Following Item(s) of Business, to wit;

1.Community Development, re: Amended and Restated Letter of Loan Commitment with LINC Housing and National CORE
a.Council Resolution of Appropriation in the amount of $6M for additional funding of 515 Pioneer Drive
b.Housing Authority Motion to Authorize the Executive Director to Execute an Amended and Restated Letter of Loan Commitment

2.CLOSED SESSION
a.Conference with Real Property Negotiators. Agency negotiators attending the closed session are: Roubik Golanian, Mike Garcia, Gillian van Muyden, John Takhtalian, Peter Zovak, Mike Fortney, Michelle Shahnazarians, and Jason Bradford. Instructions to the negotiator(s) will concern the price and terms for the acquisition of property
Property No. 1 Location: 332-346 W. Cerritos and 341 Mira Loma. Negotiating parties: Kefalonia Holdings, LLC
Property No. 2 Location: 426 Piedmont Avenue. Negotiating Parties: Berg Senior Services, LLC
Written Notice of said meeting was given, which Notice consisted of a copy of the foregoing Call, and was served on each Member of the Council not joining in the Call, and upon the in said City not less than 24 hours before the time fixed in said Call for said meeting, as follows:

Upon Robert Adjinian at 5:00 p.m. June 22, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Vrej Agajanian at 5:00 p.m. June 22, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Dan Brotman at 5:00 p.m. June 22, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Ardy Kassakhian at 5:00 p.m. June 22, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Ara Najarian at 5:00 p.m. June 22, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Laura Parazian at 5:00 p.m. June 22, 2022 Glendale, CA Upon Paula Devine at 5:00 p.m. June 22, 2022 Glendale, CA Mayor Kassakhian called the meeting to order at 3:06 p.m. 26 of 245
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ROLL CALL
- Absent: Parazian
- Report of the City Clerk of the City Council and Housing Authority, re: Posting of Agenda. The Agenda for the Tuesday, June 28, 2022 joint public meeting of the City Council and Housing Authority was posted on June 22, 2022 on the Bulletin Board outside City Hall.

Agenda out of order. Item 2 read first into the record.

1.Community Development, re: Amended and Restated Letter of Loan Commitment with LINC Housing and National CORE
Staff Comment:

Roubik Golanian, City Manager
Presenting:

Mike Fortney, Principal Housing Project Manager
Public Comment:

Rebecca Clark, CEO of Linc Housing
a.Council Resolution 22-94 of Appropriation in the amount of $6M for additional funding of 515 Pioneer Drive
Moved: Agajanian Seconded: Devine
Vote as Follows
b.Housing Authority Motion to Authorize the Executive Director to Execute an Amended and Restated Letter of Loan Commitment
Moved: Agajanian Seconded: Kassakhian
Vote as Follows

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Agajanian, Brotman, Devine, Najarian, Kassakhian
None
None
None
Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

Adjinian, Agajanian, Devine, Kassakhian, Najarian, Brotman None
Parazian
None
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Property No. 2 Location: 426 Piedmont Avenue. Negotiating Parties: Berg Senior Services, LLC
City Attorney Mike Garcia indicated that action is not anticipated. Council recessed to Closed Session at 3:07 p.m. and reconvened at 3:31 p.m.

ADJOURNMENT – 3:54 p.m.
- City Council
Moved: Agajanian Seconded: Devine
- Housing Authority
Moved: Kassakhian Seconded: Agajanian
Mayor of the City of Glendale
City Clerk of the City of Glendale
Chair of the Glendale Housing Authority
Clerk of the Glendale Housing Authority
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CITY OF GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA

REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL

AGENDA ITEM
Report: Weed abatement charges 2021-2022

1. Resolution confirming weed abatement charges

COUNCIL ACTION
Item Type: Consent Calendar
Approved for July 19, 2022 calendar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Fire Department Vegetation Management Program includes 9,667 parcels within the very high fire hazard area that receive an annual inspection. Of those, 609 are unimproved, vacant properties. The City has an agreement with the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner for weed abatement services on those unimproved properties.

On March 8th, and subsequent public hearing on March 22 nd, the City Council approved the declaration list of the vacant properties that constitute a public hazard in order to permit the County Agricultural Commissioner to abate the hazards within the City. The Commissioner recovers the cost of abatement through assessment on the current property tax assessment roll. This report describing cost of the abatement on all the properties inspected by the Commissioner is submitted to the City for review of the charges, and approval, before forwarding to the County Auditor. 29 of 245
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COUNCIL PRIORITIES
Safe and Healthy Community: Inspecting for, and removing noxious weeds that present an actual or potential fire hazard within 100 feet of a structure will allow the City to be more prepared to prevent a destructive wildfire.

RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully requested that the City Council approve the attached Resolution confirming Weed Abatement Charges as described on the attached County of Los Angeles Weed Abatement Charge List dated July 7, 2022.

BACKGROUND
The City has a Weed Abatement Agreement with the County of Los Angeles, which was renewed in 2022 for a five-year period. Under this agreement, the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner is the agent of the City authorized to carry out removal of noxious and dangerous weed growth.

The Fire Department, along with Agricultural Commissioner inspectors, conducts inspections to determine if a hazard exists and requests the Commissioner to carry out abatement. The Commissioner recovers the cost of abatement through assessment as permitted under Article II, Chapter 13, Part II, Division 3, Title 4 of Government Code of the State of California. As part of our communication program, the Commissioner has been notifying the Fire Marshal of planned and completed work assignments.

ANALYSIS
For the past several years, the Agricultural Commissioner has been contracting with private vendors to keep the costs of weed abatement as low as possible. The FY 2021- 2022 Weed Abatement Charges Report was submitted by the Agricultural Commissioner on July 7, 2022 for the period covering July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022.

The Commissioner has provided a copy of the report, describing the cost of abatement on all properties to be posted, setting the date of July 19, 2022 as the date the report will be submitted to the City Council for confirmation of charges. Once approved, the charges will be forwarded to the County Auditor to enter the amounts on the current property tax assessment roll.

The public hearing held on March 22, 2022 approved the County’s Declaration List of properties constituting a public nuisance, which then allowed the Commissioner to abate the identified hazards.

Property owners are sent letters (in advance of the actual abatement) when charges are estimated to exceed $750. While this notification letter is not a requirement, it is provided as a courtesy to property owners.
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STAKEHOLDERS/OUTREACH
The stakeholders include the owners of the 609 properties identified in the approved declaration list. A notice has been mailed to the property owners informing them of the program.

FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact associated with this report.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW (CEQA/NEPA)
N/A

CAMPAIGN DISCLOSURE
This item is exempt from campaign disclosure requirements.

ALTERNATIVES
Alternative 1: City Council may approve the Resolution confirming Weed Abatement Charges as described on the attached County of Los Angeles Weed Abatement Charge List.

Alternative 2: The City Council may consider any other alternative not proposed by staff.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
Prepared by:

Foster McLean, Fire Marshal
Approved by:

Roubik R. Golanian, P.E., City Manager

EXHIBITS/ATTACHMENTS
Exhibit 1: Weed Abatement Charges Report
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RESOLUTION NO.

RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE

RELATING TO CONFIRMATION OF WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE: that the 2021- 2022 Report On the Cost of Weed Abatement prepared by the County of Los Angeles Department of Agricultural Commissioner/Weights and Measures was submitted to the City Council of the City of Glendale on the 19th day of July, 2022 for hearing and confirmation and was, with all objections thereto, duly received and considered, and is now confirmed.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Los Angeles County Auditor is hereby ordered, authorized and instructed to enter the amounts of the respective assessments against the respective parcels of land as they appear on the current assessment roll.

Adopted by the City Council of the City of Glendale on this day of , 2022.

Mayor
ATTEST:

City Clerk

STATE OF CALIFORNIA )

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS

CITY OF GLENDALE )
I, ARAM ADJEMIAN, City Clerk of the City of Glendale, certify that the foregoing Resolution No. was adopted by the City Council of the City of Glendale, California, at a regular meeting held on the day of , 2022, and that same was adopted by the following vote:

Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

City Clerk
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CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
REVISED 7/12/22

KEY MAPBOOK PAGE PARCEL ZONE CITY CODE CHARGES
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CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5607 022 056 07 255 45.05
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CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5613 023 007 07 255 45.05
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WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5630 011 038 07 255 45.05
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6 5649 019 017 07 255 45.05
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CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5649 025 032 07 255 45.05
6 5649 026 014 07 255 45.05
6 5649 026 024 07 255 45.05
6 5649 027 012 07 255 45.05
6 5650 001 016 07 255 45.05
6 5650 001 017 07 255 45.05
6 5650 039 011 07 255 45.05
6 5652 012 014 07 255 45.05
6 5652 012 015 07 255 45.05
6 5652 012 063 07 255 45.05
6 5652 012 064 07 255 45.05
6 5652 018 031 07 255 45.05
6 5652 023 003 07 255 45.05
6 5653 022 031 07 255 45.05
6 5654 002 124 07 255 45.05
6 5654 002 125 07 255 45.05
6 5654 004 008 07 255 45.05
6 5654 004 024 07 255 45.05
6 5654 006 001 07 255 45.05
6 5654 011 005 07 255 45.05
6 5654 011 009 07 255 45.05
6 5654 011 010 07 255 45.05
6 5654 011 014 07 255 45.05
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6 5654 011 020 07 255 45.05
6 5654 011 023 07 255 45.05
6 5654 011 024 07 255 45.05
6 5654 012 003 07 255 45.05
6 5654 012 005 07 255 45.05
6 5654 012 010 07 255 45.05
6 5654 012 011 07 255 45.05
6 5654 012 015 07 255 45.05
6 5654 012 016 07 255 45.05
6 5654 012 021 07 255 45.05
6 5654 012 023 07 255 45.05
6 5654 012 024 07 255 45.05
6 5654 012 034 07 255 45.05
6 5654 025 027 07 255 45.05
6 5654 025 028 07 255 45.05
6 5654 028 003 07 255 45.05
6 5654 028 009 07 255 45.05
6 5654 028 010 07 255 45.05
6 5654 028 011 07 255 45.05
6 5654 028 013 07 255 45.05
6 5654 028 014 07 255 45.05
6 5654 028 015 07 255 45.05
6 5654 028 020 07 255 45.05
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CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5654 030 006 07 255 45.05
6 5654 030 007 07 255 45.05
6 5654 030 020 07 255 45.05
6 5654 030 022 07 255 45.05
6 5659 004 015 07 255 45.05
6 5659 005 017 07 255 45.05
6 5659 005 021 07 255 45.05
6 5659 007 001 07 255 45.05
6 5659 007 013 07 255 45.05
6 5659 007 015 07 255 45.05
6 5659 007 024 07 255 45.05
6 5659 009 011 07 255 45.05
6 5659 009 014 07 255 45.05
6 5659 020 008 07 255 45.05
6 5659 024 009 07 255 45.05
6 5659 026 008 07 255 45.05
6 5659 028 023 07 255 45.05
6 5660 003 008 07 255 45.05
6 5660 005 006 07 255 45.05
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6 5660 005 014 07 255 45.05
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6 5660 007 001 07 255 45.05
6 5660 007 007 07 255 45.05
6 5660 008 002 07 255 45.05
6 5660 008 004 07 255 45.05
6 5660 008 023 07 255 45.05
6 5660 008 024 07 255 45.05
6 5660 008 027 07 255 45.05
6 5660 013 003 07 255 45.05
6 5660 013 005 07 255 45.05
6 5660 015 006 07 255 45.05
6 5660 015 014 07 255 45.05
6 5660 015 016 07 255 45.05
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6 5660 015 029 07 255 45.05
6 5660 017 007 07 255 45.05
6 5660 019 014 07 255 45.05
6 5660 019 015 07 255 45.05
6 5660 020 034 07 255 45.05
6 5660 020 035 07 255 45.05
6 5660 021 027 07 255 45.05
6 5660 022 001 07 255 45.05
6 5660 022 003 07 255 546.43
6 5660 022 004 07 255 45.05
6 38 of 245

CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5660 022 005 07 255 45.05
6 5660 022 007 07 255 45.05
6 5660 022 008 07 255 45.05
6 5660 023 012 07 255 45.05
6 5660 023 014 07 255 45.05
6 5660 023 018 07 255 45.05
6 5660 024 002 07 255 45.05
6 5660 024 012 07 255 45.05
6 5660 024 013 07 255 45.05
6 5660 024 014 07 255 45.05
6 5660 024 015 07 255 45.05
6 5660 024 025 07 255 45.05
6 5660 024 027 07 255 45.05
6 5660 024 028 07 255 45.05
6 5660 024 029 07 255 45.05
6 5660 024 034 07 255 45.05
6 5660 026 027 07 255 45.05
6 5660 032 024 07 255 45.05
6 5660 032 044 07 255 45.05
6 5660 033 005 07 255 45.05
6 5660 033 270 07 255 45.05
6 5660 034 026 07 255 45.05
6 5660 037 039 07 255 45.05
6 5661 006 037 07 255 45.05
6 5661 007 035 07 255 45.05
6 5661 007 036 07 255 45.05
6 5661 017 021 07 255 45.05
6 5662 009 002 07 255 45.05
6 5662 009 003 07 255 45.05
6 5662 009 020 07 255 45.05
6 5662 012 010 07 255 45.05
6 5662 018 016 07 255 45.05
6 5662 019 001 07 255 45.05
6 5662 019 002 07 255 45.05
6 5662 019 011 07 255 45.05
6 5662 019 012 07 255 45.05
6 5662 020 006 07 255 45.05
6 5662 020 007 07 255 45.05
6 5662 020 008 07 255 45.05
6 5662 020 009 07 255 45.05
6 5662 020 010 07 255 45.05
6 5662 020 011 07 255 45.05
6 5662 020 014 07 255 45.05
6 5662 021 008 07 255 45.05
6 5662 021 009 07 255 697.96
6 5662 021 010 07 255 784.86
6 5662 021 011 07 255 915.21
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CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5663 003 002 07 255 45.05
6 5663 007 008 07 255 45.05
6 5663 007 023 07 255 45.05
6 5663 009 001 07 255 45.05
6 5663 009 002 07 255 407.01
6 5663 009 003 07 255 407.01
6 5663 009 004 07 255 45.05
6 5663 009 005 07 255 45.05
6 5663 009 006 07 255 407.01
6 5663 009 007 07 255 45.05
6 5663 009 008 07 255 45.05
6 5663 009 010 07 255 45.05
6 5663 009 015 07 255 45.05
6 5663 009 016 07 255 45.05
6 5663 011 001 07 255 45.05
6 5663 011 008 07 255 45.05
6 5663 011 009 07 255 45.05
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6 5663 011 012 07 255 45.05
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6 5663 011 016 07 255 45.05
6 5663 011 017 07 255 45.05
6 5663 011 018 07 255 45.05
6 5663 011 020 07 255 45.05
6 5663 012 003 07 255 45.05
6 5663 013 003 07 255 45.05
6 5663 013 007 07 255 45.05
6 5663 013 008 07 255 45.05
6 5663 013 009 07 255 45.05
6 5663 013 012 07 255 654.51
6 5663 013 013 07 255 697.96
6 5663 013 014 07 255 524.16
6 5663 014 007 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 008 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 011 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 012 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 015 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 016 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 021 07 255 784.86
6 5663 014 023 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 024 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 026 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 027 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 028 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 039 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 040 07 255 45.05
6 5663 014 041 07 255 45.05
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CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5663 015 002 07 255 45.05
6 5663 015 007 07 255 45.05
6 5663 015 009 07 255 45.05
6 5663 016 001 07 255 45.05
6 5663 016 002 07 255 45.05
6 5663 017 002 07 255 45.05
6 5663 017 003 07 255 45.05
6 5663 017 005 07 255 45.05
6 5663 019 003 07 255 45.05
6 5663 019 004 07 255 45.05
6 5663 019 005 07 255 45.05
6 5663 019 006 07 255 784.86
6 5663 019 010 07 255 45.05
6 5663 020 008 07 255 45.05
6 5663 020 011 07 255 45.05
6 5663 020 015 07 255 45.05
6 5663 020 016 07 255 45.05
6 5663 020 017 07 255 45.05
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6 5663 037 021 07 255 45.05
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6 5665 006 004 07 255 45.05
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6 5665 015 004 07 255 45.05
6 5665 015 005 07 255 45.05
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6 5665 015 007 07 255 45.05
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6 5665 017 028 07 255 45.05
6 5665 017 029 07 255 45.05
6 5665 017 030 07 255 45.05
6 5665 017 031 07 255 45.05
6 5665 017 032 07 255 45.05
6 5666 001 001 07 255 45.05
6 5666 003 002 07 255 45.05
6 5666 004 018 07 255 45.05
6 5666 004 019 07 255 45.05
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CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5666 004 020 07 255 45.05
6 5666 004 038 07 255 45.05
6 5666 007 013 07 255 45.05
6 5666 007 014 07 255 45.05
6 5666 007 015 07 255 45.05
6 5666 008 007 07 255 45.05
6 5666 008 034 07 255 45.05
6 5666 008 039 07 255 45.05
6 5666 008 040 07 255 45.05
6 5666 008 041 07 255 45.05
6 5666 009 014 07 255 45.05
6 5666 013 005 07 255 530.11
6 5666 014 008 07 255 45.05
6 5666 016 013 07 255 45.05
6 5666 017 008 07 255 45.05
6 5666 017 014 07 255 45.05
6 5666 018 005 07 255 45.05
6 5666 018 006 07 255 45.05
6 5666 018 019 07 255 45.05
6 5666 018 020 07 255 45.05
6 5666 018 021 07 255 45.05
6 5666 019 012 07 255 45.05
6 5666 019 016 07 255 45.05
6 5666 019 017 07 255 45.05
6 5666 019 030 07 255 530.11
6 5666 019 031 07 255 45.05
6 5666 019 036 07 255 45.05
6 5666 020 004 07 255 45.05
6 5666 020 005 07 255 45.05
6 5666 020 006 07 255 45.05
6 5666 020 048 07 255 45.05
6 5666 021 001 07 255 45.05
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6 5666 022 013 07 255 45.05
6 5666 022 031 07 255 45.05
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6 5666 022 034 07 255 45.05
6 5666 023 005 07 255 45.05
6 5666 023 006 07 255 45.05
6 5666 023 007 07 255 45.05
6 5666 023 025 07 255 45.05
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CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5666 023 026 07 255 45.05
6 5666 023 028 07 255 45.05
6 5666 023 029 07 255 45.05
6 5666 023 030 07 255 45.05
6 5666 023 031 07 255 45.05
6 5666 027 019 07 255 45.05
6 5666 027 020 07 255 45.05
6 5672 008 001 07 255 45.05
6 5672 008 002 07 255 45.05
6 5672 009 001 07 255 45.05
6 5672 009 002 07 255 45.05
6 5672 009 003 07 255 45.05
6 5672 021 001 07 255 45.05
6 5672 022 024 07 255 45.05
6 5672 022 026 07 255 45.05
6 5672 022 027 07 255 45.05
6 5672 022 028 07 255 45.05
6 5672 022 029 07 255 45.05
6 5672 022 030 07 255 45.05
6 5672 022 039 07 255 45.05
6 5672 023 017 07 255 45.05
6 5672 023 018 07 255 45.05
6 5672 023 019 07 255 45.05
6 5672 023 020 07 255 45.05
6 5672 023 021 07 255 45.05
6 5672 023 022 07 255 45.05
6 5672 023 023 07 255 45.05
6 5672 025 003 07 255 45.05
6 5672 025 006 07 255 45.05
6 5672 025 007 07 255 45.05
6 5672 025 008 07 255 45.05
6 5672 025 009 07 255 664.76
6 5672 025 011 07 255 45.05
6 5672 025 012 07 255 45.05
6 5672 025 013 07 255 45.05
6 5672 025 017 07 255 45.05
6 5672 025 041 07 255 700.31
6 5672 025 043 07 255 802.61
6 5672 026 001 07 255 45.05
6 5677 007 007 07 255 45.05
6 5677 007 008 07 255 45.05
6 5677 007 009 07 255 45.05
6 5677 007 010 07 255 45.05
6 5677 008 028 07 255 45.05
6 5677 008 031 07 255 45.05
6 5677 018 001 07 255 45.05
6 5677 018 003 07 255 45.05
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CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5677 018 005 07 255 45.05
6 5677 018 007 07 255 45.05
6 5677 018 008 07 255 45.05
6 5677 018 014 07 255 45.05
6 5677 019 006 07 255 45.05
6 5677 025 011 07 255 45.05
6 5677 025 017 07 255 45.05
6 5677 026 010 07 255 45.05
6 5677 026 011 07 255 45.05
6 5677 026 012 07 255 45.05
6 5677 026 013 07 255 45.05
6 5677 026 014 07 255 45.05
6 5677 026 015 07 255 45.05
6 5677 027 009 07 255 45.05
6 5678 005 011 07 255 45.05
6 5678 012 010 07 255 45.05
6 5678 012 018 07 255 45.05
6 5678 012 022 07 255 45.05
6 5678 012 023 07 255 45.05
6 5678 015 010 07 255 586.62
6 5678 016 025 07 255 45.05
6 5678 018 011 07 255 45.05
6 5678 018 012 07 255 45.05
6 5678 018 019 07 255 45.05
6 5678 018 020 07 255 653.21
6 5678 018 021 07 255 45.05
6 5678 018 022 07 255 45.05
6 5678 018 023 07 255 530.11
6 5678 018 024 07 255 899.41
6 5678 018 025 07 255 45.05
6 5679 011 022 07 255 45.05
6 5679 011 024 07 255 45.05
6 5679 012 016 07 255 45.05
6 5679 013 013 07 255 45.05
6 5679 014 010 07 255 45.05
6 5679 015 008 07 255 45.05
6 5679 015 010 07 255 45.05
6 5679 015 011 07 255 45.05
6 5679 015 012 07 255 45.05
6 5679 015 013 07 255 45.05
6 5679 015 014 07 255 45.05
6 5679 015 017 07 255 45.05
6 5679 015 018 07 255 45.05
6 5679 016 001 07 255 45.05
6 5679 016 002 07 255 45.05
6 5679 016 003 07 255 45.05
6 5679 016 004 07 255 45.05
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CITY OF GLENDALE

WEED ABATEMENT CHARGES
JULY 7, 2022
6 5679 016 005 07 255 45.05
6 5679 016 007 07 255 45.05
6 5679 016 008 07 255 45.05
6 5679 016 009 07 255 45.05
6 5679 016 015 07 255 45.05
6 5679 016 022 07 255 45.05
6 5679 016 023 07 255 45.05
6 5679 016 024 07 255 45.05
6 5679 017 006 07 255 45.05
6 5679 017 015 07 255 45.05
6 5683 032 006 07 255 45.05
6 5683 033 038 07 255 45.05
6 5867 005 018 07 255 45.05
TOTAL IMPROVED PARCELS = 0 TOTAL CHARGES 0.00
TOTAL UNIMPROVED PARCELS = 24 TOTAL CHARGES 16,354.71
TOTAL INSPECTION FEE ONLY PCLS = 551 TOTAL CHARGES 24,822.55 TOTAL PARCELS 575 TOTAL CHARGES $45,175.82
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CITY OF GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA

REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL

AGENDA ITEM
Report: Amendment to Professional Services Agreement with Cit Com LLC.

COUNCIL ACTION
Item Type: Consent Calendar
Approved for July 19, 2022 calendar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Glendale Police Department requests approval to amend the existing Professional Services Agreement with Cit Com LLC to extend the time for performance of services and increase the maximum cost by $150,000 for a new not-to-exceed amount of $516,283 for project management services as it relates to the completion of the Computer Aided Dispatch/Records Management System (CAD/RMS) upgrade project. 46 of 245
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COUNCIL PRIORITIES
N/A

RECOMMENDATION
That the City Council authorize the City Manager to execute an amendment to the Professional Services Agreement with Cit Com LLC to extend the time for performance of services and to increase the maximum cost by $150,000 for a new not-to-exceed amount of $516,283.

BACKGROUND
The Police Department contracts for professional services with firms that offer specialized expertise. Cit Com LLC provides consulting and project management services for police technology projects. Cit Com has been providing these services for the replacement of the Department’s Computer Aided Dispatch and Records Management System (CAD/RMS) and has been engaged to provide services such as: assessment, planning, request for proposal (RFP) development, evaluation, procurement, project management, implementation and post implementation services.

ANALYSIS
The City entered into a Professional Services Agreement with Cit Com LLC on September 14, 2018, for project management services related to the Police Department’s CAD/RMS replacement project including assessment, planning, RFP development, and procurement. On November 5, 2019, the City Council authorized Amendment No. 1 to the Agreement to expand the scope of the services provided by the consultant, increase the maximum cost for continued CAD/RMS project management and implementation services, and extend the completion date for services. Due to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Amendment No. 2 was executed on February 18, 2021, to extend the completion date for Cit Com LLC’s services. On October 26, 2021, due to continued delays and challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Amendment No. 3 was executed to extend the time for performance of consultant’s services and add the contingency funding to the contract’s maximum amount previously approved by Council in November 2019. To be able to finalize the last phase and complete the implementation of the CAD/RMS System, the Police Department is requesting to amend the existing Professional Services Agreement. As a result of the project delays, not attributed to the Department, the CAD/RMS vendor has agreed to $237,100 in project credits that will offset the increased contract amount with Cit Com, LLC. By extending the time for performance, the consultant’s services will be utilized for final phase of testing, training, implementation, system go-live, and post go-live support.

STAKEHOLDERS/OUTREACH
This item is considered a ministerial activity and therefore, not subjected to Stakeholders/Outreach.
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FISCAL IMPACT
This contract amendment will cost $150,000, which will be funded by a project carryover from FY2021-22. As the CAD/RMS vendor agreed to $237,100 in project credits due to delays within the project implementation, the credit will provide an offset for the additional funding of the amendment resulting in an overall savings for the CAD/RMS project. No new appropriation is being requested at this time. The City Council approved funding is outlined below:

Existing Appropriation
Amount Account String Funding Source
$150,000 GL: 51000-6040-ISD-0020
PL: 51802
ITD Applications Fund –
Capital

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW (CEQA/NEPA)
This item is considered a ministerial activity and therefore, not subjected to CEQA/NEPA review. There is no possibility that this item may have a significant effect on the environment. (14 Cal. Code Regs. § 15061(b)(3)).

CAMPAIGN DISCLOSURE
This item is exempt from campaign disclosure requirements.

ALTERNATIVES
Alternative 1: Authorize the City Manager to amend the agreement with Cit Com LLC as recommended herein. Approval of the motion will allow for the essential project management services of the CAD/RMS project for testing, training, implementation, system go-live, and post go-live support.

Alternative 2: Elect not to authorize the City Manager to amend the agreement with Cit Com LLC as recommended herein. If the motion to amend the agreement is not approved, there will be no project management services for the remainder of the CAD/RMS project for testing, training, implementation, system go-live, and post go-live support.

Alternative 3: The City Council may consider any other alternative not proposed by staff.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
Prepared by:

Sheryl Davis-Moore, Police Civilian Division Commander
Approved by:

Roubik R. Golanian, P.E., City Manager

EXHIBITS/ATTACHMENTS
Exhibit 1: Cit Com, LLC Amendment No. 4
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MOTION
Moved by Council Member ____________________________, seconded by Council Member ___________________________, that the City Manager, or a designee, is authorized to execute an amendment to the Professional Services Agreement with Cit Com LLC to increase the maximum cost by $150,000 and to extend the time for performance of services, as more particularly described in the report to City Council dated July 19, 2022, by the Police Chief. The maximum cost of the Professional Services Agreement, with the increase, must not exceed $516,283. The amendment shall be subject to review and approval as to form by the City Attorney.

Vote as follows:

Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:
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1 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT

BETWEEN THE CITY OF GLENDALE
AND

CIT COM, LLC
CONTRACT NO. 106897
AMENDMENT NO. 4
This Amendment No. 4 (“Amendment”) to the Professional Services Agreement (“Agreement”) between City of Glendale, a municipal corporation (“CITY”) and Cit Com, LLC ("CONSULTANT”), a California limited liability company (collectively, “PARTIES” or individually, “PARTY”) is effective as of June 1, 2022, (this Amendment’s “Effective Date”).

RECITALS
WHEREAS, on September 14, 2018, CITY and CONSULTANT entered into the Agreement under which CONSULTANT was engaged to perform work related to the replacement Computer Aided Dispatch/Records Management System (“CAD/RMS) for the Police Department;
WHEREAS, CONSULTANT satisfactorily completed Phase I (Assessment and Planning) and Phase II (Technology Procurement), as set forth in “Exhibit A” to the Agreement, which includes the development of a Request for Proposals (“RFP”) and the evaluation of vendor responses to the RFP; WHEREAS, on November 5, 2019, the Glendale City Council authorized the City Manager, or a designee, to execute Amendment No. 1 to the Agreement to expand the scope of CONSULTANT’s services to add Phase III, increase the maximum cost of the Agreement for continued CAD/RMS project management and implementation services, and change the completion date for Services by CONSULTANT;

WHEREAS, due to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the PARTIES executed Amendment No. 2 on February 18, 2021, to extend the term of the Agreement and the completion date for CONSULTANT’s Services; WHEREAS, due to challenges with CAD/RMS implementation project, the PARTIES executed Amendment No. 3 on or about October 26, 2021 to extend the time for performance of the Services by CONSULTANT to September 30, 2022, add contingency funding, and increase the maximum cost; and WHEREAS, the PARTIES now desire to extend the time for performance of CONSULTANT’s Services to May 31, 2023 and to increase the maximum cost for said services.

WHEREAS, this Amendment No. 4, Amendment Numbers 1 through 3, and the Agreement shall be considered the Agreement between the parties. 50 of 245
2 NOW, THEREFORE, CITY and CONSULTANT mutually agree as follows:

1.Paragraph 4.1 of the Agreement is amended to read as follows:

4.1 CONSULTANT shall complete all of the Services set forth in “Exhibit A-1” attached to Amendment No. 1 by May 31, 2023.

2.Paragraph 7.2 of the Agreement is amended to read as follows:

CITY shall pay for the Services that CONSULTANT performs in accordance with this Agreement at the hourly rate specified in Exhibit A-1 to Amendment No.1, the TOTAL amount of which is not to exceed $516,283.00.

3.Paragraph 7.4 of the Agreement is amended to read as follows:

Maximum Cost. CONSULTANT expressly acknowledges that the total cost to complete all tasks set forth in the Agreement must not exceed Five Hundred Sixteen Thousand Two Hundred Eighty-Three dollars ($516,283.00) (“Maximum Cost”). When CONSULTANT has billed 75% of the Maximum Cost, CONSULTANT shall provide written notice to CITY’s Project Manager that CONSULTANT has expended 75% of the Maximum Cost.

4.All other provisions, requirements, terms and conditions of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, CITY and CONSULTANT have caused this Amendment No. 4 to Contract No. 106897 to be executed by their duly authorized representatives on the day and year first written above.

Executed at Glendale, California.

CITY OF GLENDALE:

By Date:
(Name) ________________________
(Title) _________________________
By
Carl Povilaitis
Chief of Police
CONSULTANT:

By Date:
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CITY OF GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA

REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL

AGENDA ITEM
Report: Resolution Dispensing with Competitive Bidding and Authorizing a Services Agreement with InfoSend, Inc.

1. Resolution dispensing with competitive bidding and authorizing the City Manager, or his designee, to execute a contract for bill print and mailing services for Glendale Water and Power (GWP) with InfoSend, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $3,619,900 for the four-year term, plus an annual ten percent (10%) contingency in the amount of $361,990 for a term of four years, plus an option to extend for two additional years in the amount of $1,835,900 plus a ten percent (10%) contingency in the amount of $183,590.

COUNCIL ACTION
Item Type: Consent
Approved for July 19, 2022 calendar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City of Glendale Water and Power (GWP) has an ongoing requirement to provide printing and mailing services for the City’s Municipal Bill which includes electric, water, waste water, integrated waste services, and other associated fees including utility users tax, billing for the Fire department’s CUPA, industrial waste fees, and fire inspection charges.

This City’s current contract for billing services expires on August 8, 2022. In May 2022, GWP staff issued a Request for Proposals and, after expressed interest from three different vendors, received only one proposal from InfoSend, Inc., the City’s current contracted vendor. The City has been satisfied with InfoSend’s reliability, customer service, and competitive pricing.

COUNCIL PRIORITIES
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RECOMMENDATION
Dispense with competitive bidding under Article VI, Section 9 of the City Charter on the grounds that it is in the City’s best interest, and authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to approve and execute a contract with InfoSend, Inc., the sole proposer responding to the City’s Request for Proposals for bill print and mailing services, in the amount of $3,619,900 plus an additional $361,990 for the four-year term with the option to extend for an additional two years.

BACKGROUND
Bill print and mailing services has been an essential component of the City’s Municipal services since 2003. Consistent, professional, and timely bill printing and delivery is critical in ensuring that the City’s services are billed, and revenues are collected promptly. Services within the contract support customer service necessities such as disseminating information regarding utility assistance programs, conservation measures, available rebates, and other City news. Due to time sensitivity related to mailing, the vendor must be located within the Southern California region of 75 miles or less from Glendale. This requirement supports timely delivery of bills, notices, permits, and other customer communication.

GWP mails a monthly average of 50,000 utility bills, 12,700 reminder notices, 5,500 final notices, and 80 summarized bill packets, which are primarily destined to zip codes 91201-91208. Mailings are based on a Monday through Friday work schedule. Bills are generated daily in both monthly and bi-monthly cycles for electric and/or water services as well as rubbish, waste water and other city charges. On an annual basis GWP processes billing for the Glendale Fire Department’s business inspections and CUPA permits. Fire mailing tasks consist of approximately 1,600 permit invoices, 1552 notices, and 1,300 permit certificates.

On July 11, 2017, following a competitive Request for Proposals process, InfoSend Inc. was again awarded a Professional Services Agreement (PSA) for three-year with optional two-year extension by the City Council. Infosend, Inc. has been meeting our bill print, mailing, and marketing needs for the past ten years. They have been consistent in supporting GWP’s utility and Fire billing requirements by providing reliable processing and timely delivery to the United States Postal Service (USPS) for proper distribution.

Additional support has been obtained for marketing design services and development of special customer correspondence.

On May 13, 2022, GWP conducted a Request for Proposal (RFP) for bill print and mailing services that included marketing needs associated with customer communications for both City and utility news.

GWP set minimum qualifications to include that proposer’s must have completed ten contracts within the last five years in California providing like services to a city, government, or utility. The selected proposer may not outsource any part of the bill printing or mail processing, and must be a “full service” provider capable of fulfilling all services and requirements including delivery of bills, notices and associated documents to a United States Postal Service (USPS) office within Southern California, specifically 54 of 245
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within 75 miles of Glendale California. Proposer must be able to integrate with GWP’s existing Customer Information Systems (CIS), Harris Computers NorthStar Utilities Solutions.

The contract has two primary costs components. One is for the materials and services related to the preparing, printing, and mailing of bills and associated documents. The other is for postage. Both costs are dependent upon the number of bills and documents produced and mailed, and the cost for postage is reliant upon the USPS postage charges, which are a past through expense.

The RFP was emailed to four prospective vendors currently integrated with our Customer Information System, Harris Utilities or known to process billing data files, bill print and mailing services and who are also within the 75-mile radius of Glendale. The RFP was also posted on the City’s website. GWP received inquiries related to the requirements set forth in the RFP for PSA and Insurance exhibits. Out of a total of four prospective vendors only one responded, which is Infosend, Inc., the City’s current contracted vendor. Infosend, Inc. proposal meets all of the RFP criteria and requirements.

1. InfoSend, Inc.

InfoSend, Inc. is a privately held California corporation, incorporated in 1997, with 183 current employees delivering nearly 300 million print/electronic documents across the nation per year. In addition to our California headquarters, we own and operate production facilities in Illinois, Texas, and Florida that also serve as disaster recovery facilities. InfoSend’s core competencies are information technology, data processing, document formatting, and document production/delivery. The Software as a Service (SaaS) approach allows InfoSend to continually refine its services and equipment without requiring software installation and maintenance at your site. The InfoSend team is confident that our offering and benefits presented herein will continue to provide the City and its customers with the greatest value in the market today.

ANALYSIS
Upon review of the proposal, the RFP selection committee comprised of GWP staff from Marketing, Business Systems Support, and Customer Services recommend the selection of InfoSend, Inc. to continue to provide bill print and mailing services in addition to other marketing necessities for GWP.

InfoSend, Inc. included full résumés for essential personnel and a detailed scope of work covering the RFP requirements. Neither GWP or the City have the resources or qualified staff with the expertise necessary to support marketing requirements and the bill print and mailing services needed by GWP.

The evaluation committee found that InfoSend, Inc. meets the minimum qualifications necessary to be considered in the RFP evaluation and recommends awarding a Professional Services Agreement (PSA) with InfoSend, Inc. 55 of 245
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Project Description: Bill Print and Mailing Services

RFP Approved: May 12, 2022
Advertisement
Method:
Direct email to four (4) prospective Vendors
City Website RFP Bid Page

RFP Issued: May 13, 2022

RFP Due Date: June 1, 2022

Company Name(s)
and Proposal
Amount(s):

InfoSend, Inc. $6,001,380
Selection Criteria
(If SS, list applicable
Provision):

1. Quality and Completeness of Proposal 10%

2. Quality, performance and effectiveness of the solution, goods and or services 15%

3. Proposer’s Qualifications, Capabilities, & Experience 30%

4. Technical Approach and Methodology 15%

5. Project Costs and Fee Schedules 30%
Consultant(s): Same as above.

New / Existing
Consultant(s):

Existing
Procurement Method
(RFP / SS):

RFP

Contract Term:

Four years with the option for two additional one-year terms.

Project Begins:

August 8, 2022

Project Ends:

August 8, 2026

Change Orders (When Applicable)
Company name:

Original Approved
Contract Amount:

Approved
Contingency:

Change Order
History:

This Change Order
(Increase):

New Contract Total (If
Approved):
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Article VI, Section 9 of the Glendale City Charter authorizes the City Council to dispense with competitive bidding “for any contract when it determines that it is in the best interests of the city so to do and acts by resolution setting for the reason for such action.” In this case, it is in the City’s interest to dispense with competitive bidding and award a contract to InfoSend, for the following reasons:
The City solicited proposals for the services through a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) process.
In contrast to a competitive bid process under the Charter, which requires the City to select the lowest-cost, responsive bid, an RFP process allows the City to evaluate and rank proposals based upon all appropriate and relevant evaluation criteria. In addition to evaluating based upon the proposal price, the criteria for the RFP included: quality and completeness of the proposal; the quality performance and effectiveness of the solution goods, and/ or services; the proposer’s qualifications, capabilities, and experience, the technical approach and methodology.
A more holistic evaluation of the proposer’s qualifications and experience, including an evaluation of the proposer’s data and cybersecurity protocols, is appropriate for this scope of work to ensure the City receives quality services in addition to the lowest cost. Timely, accurate, and professional billing services and communications with City customers are an essential function. In addition to the bill print and mailing services to be performed, the scope of work includes professional elements such as design services and coding. Despite posting the RFP on the City’s website and outreach to all known vendors meeting the RFP criteria, City received only one proposal in response to the RFP.
InfoSend, the sole proposer, meets the RFP criteria and has satisfactorily performed services for the City under an existing contract.

For the foregoing reasons, GWP recommends dispensing with formal competitive bidding under Article VI, Section 9 of the Charter and awarding a contract to InfoSend, Inc. for bill print mailing and billing services, as described in this report.

The proposed annual contract amount per year for years 1, 3, 4, and 5 is $892,000, plus a ten percent (10%) contingency per year in the amount of $89,200, for years 2 and 6 in the amount of $943,900 with a ten percent (10%) contingency of $94,390. Increases for years 2 and 6 are due to anticipated notifications to property owners of proposed rate changes by means of Proposition 218 notice; special mailers would result in increased cost for those years.

The estimated expenses for each of the fiscal years of the proposed contract are as follows:

Year Fiscal Year O&M 10% Contingency Total
1 2022-2023 $ 892,000 $ 89,200 $ 981,200
2 2022-2024 $ 943,900 $ 94,390 $1,038,290
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3 2022-2025 $ 892,000 $ 89,200 $ 981,200
4 2022-2026 $ 892,000 $ 89,200 $ 981,200
5 2022-2027 $ 892,000 $ 89,200 $ 981,200
6 2022-2028 $ 943,900 $ 94,390 $1,038,290
Total $5,455,800 $545,580 $6,001,380

STAKEHOLDERS/OUTREACH
Not applicable.

FISCAL IMPACT
The InfoSend, Inc contract will cost $892,000 plus a ten percent (10%) contingency for a total cost of $981,200 for FY 2022-23, which was approved as a part of the budget.

No new appropriation is being requested at this time. Funding for future years will be budgeted during the annual budget process.

Account Strings Fund Description
43110-5820-GWP-4509/4520-P0000- Electric Works Surplus Fund 43110-5920-GWP-4509/4520-P0000- Water Works Surplus Fund 43110/44450-2190-GFD-40000-P0000- Hazardous Disposal Fund

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
This item is exempt from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review as it will not have a direct physical change or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment. Cal. Public Resources Code Section 21065.

CAMPAIGN DISCLOSURE
In accordance with the City Campaign Finance Ordinance No. 5744, the following are the names and business addresses of the members of the board of directors, the chairperson, CEO, COO, CFO, contractors and any other person or entity with more than ten percent (10%) interest in the company proposed for the contract in this agenda item report:

Officers of InfoSend, Inc.:

Full Name Title Business Address City State Zip
Mahmood Rezai Chief
Executive
Officer
4240 East La Palma
Avenue
Anaheim CA 92807
Russ Rezai President 4240 East La Palma
Avenue
Anaheim CA 92807
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Matt Schmidt Chief
Operating
Officer
4240 East La Palma
Avenue
Anaheim CA 92807

ALTERNATIVES
Alternative 1: Dispense with competitive bidding pursuant to Article VI, Section 9 of the Charter and award and enter into contract with InfoSend, Inc., the sole proposer responding to the City’s competitive Request for Proposals, to continue providing GWP with bill print and mailings services.

Alternative 2: Choose to not authorize the requested action herein. In this event, the City’s will no longer have a contract for bill printing and mailing services when the current contract expires (in August 2022).

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ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
Prepared by:

Craig Kuennen, Assistant General Manager - Business Services Miriam Padron, Customer Service Operations Manager
Approved by:

Roubik R. Golanian, P.E., City Manager

EXHIBITS / ATTACHMENTS
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1 RESOLUTION NO.______________

A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE,

CALIFORNIA, DISPENSING WITH COMPETITIVE BIDDING, AND

AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A FOUR-YEAR
CONTRACT WITH INFOSEND, INC. FOR BILL PRINT AND MAILING

SERVICES PLUS AN OPTION TO EXTEND FOR TWO ADDITIONAL
YEARS
WHEREAS, the City of Glendale has an ongoing requirement to provide printing and mailing services for the City’s municipal bill, including electric, water, wastewater, integrated waste services, and other associated fees; and WHEREAS, consistent, professional, and timely bill printing and delivery is critical in ensuring that the City’s services are billed and revenues are collected promptly; and
WHEREAS, InfoSend, Inc. has been providing bill print, mailing and marketing needs for the City of Glendale for the past ten years and the City has been satisfied with InfoSend’s reliability, customer service, and competitive pricing; and WHEREAS, most recently, on July 11, 2017, following a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP) process, the City Council awarded to InfoSend, Inc. a Professional Services Agreement for a three-year term with an optional two-year extension, and that contract, with extensions, expires on August 8, 2022; and WHEREAS, in May 2022, the City issued a competitive RFP for bill print and mailing services, as well as marketing and design services, and, after outreach to four vendors, posting on the City’s website, and expressed interest from three different vendors, the City received only one proposal, from InfoSend, Inc.; and / / /
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2 WHEREAS, the proposal of InfoSend, Inc. meets all of the RFP criteria and requirements; and
WHEREAS, a more holistic evaluation of the proposers’ qualifications and experience, including an evaluation of the proposers’ data and cybersecurity protocols, is appropriate for this scope of work to ensure the City receives quality services in addition to the lowest cost, and due to the professional marketing, design and coding elements of the scope of work; and
WHEREAS, Glendale Charter Art. VI, Sec. 9 provides an exemption to competitive bidding where the Council determines it is the best interest of the City; and WHEREAS, it is in the City’s best interest, upon recommendation of the City Manager and General Manager of GWP, to dispense with competitive bidding, and authorize the City Manager to execute a contract with InfoSend, Inc., the sole proposer responding to the City’s RFP for municipal bill print and mailing services and associated professional marketing and design services for Glendale Water & Power.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE:

1. That the foregoing facts are deemed to be true and correct and a basis for dispensing with competitive bidding, and authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract with InfoSend, Inc. for municipal bill print and mailing services and associated professional marketing and design services in the amount of $3,619,900 for a four (4) year term plus an annual ten percent (10%) contingency in the amount of $361,990 for each of the four (4) years, plus an option to extend for two (2) additional years in the amount of $1,835,900 plus a ten percent (10%) contingency in the amount of $183,590. 62 of 245
3 2. The Council hereby dispenses with competitive bidding and authorizes the City Manager to enter into and execute a contract with InfoSend, Inc., and amendment(s) extending the contract for the two-year option, if exercised by the City, for municipal bill print and mailing services and associated professional marketing and design services in the amount of $3,619,900 for a four (4) year term plus an annual ten percent (10%) contingency in the amount of $361,990 for each of the four (4) years, plus an option to extend for two (2) additional years in the amount of $1,835,900 plus a ten percent (10%) contingency in the amount of $183,590. The form of said contract and amendment(s) exercising the option to extend the contract shall be subject to the approval of the City Attorney.

Adopted this __________ day of ______________________, 2022. _________________________________
Mayor
ATTEST:
_______________________________
City Clerk
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4 STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
) SS

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, Suzie Abajian, Clerk of the City of Glendale, certify that the foregoing Resolution No. ________________ was adopted by the Council of the City of Glendale, California, at a regular meeting held on the _______ day of ____________________, 2022, and that same was adopted by the following vote:

Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:

________________________________
City Clerk
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CITY OF GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA

REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL

AGENDA ITEM
Report: Vision Zero - Introduction and Update Report

1.Motion to note and file the report regarding Vision Zero and provide direction to staff regarding next steps.

COUNCIL ACTION
Item Type: Action Item
Approved for July 12, 2022 calendar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Council directed staff to begin work on developing a Vision Zero policy for the City. Vision Zero seeks to eliminate traffic related fatalities across all modes, within a specified period of time. Vision Zero also seeks to enhance coordination across the various disciplines associated with planning, designing, implementing, and enforcing transportation systems.

The policy relies on collecting data that allows for responses that are targeted and focused, while creating synergy amongst a city’s many plans and implementation strategies.

Staff is presenting this item to provide an overview of some of the strategies Glendale has already incorporated in an effort to improve mobility and safety across the city. This includes various plans that have been adopted, physical interventions and implementation that have been completed, and enforcement strategies. Staff is seeking direction as it relates to particular strategies the Council may wish to see incorporated as part of the development of a Vision Zero policy, as well as recommendations for potential technical working group participants that will shape and inform the plan. 65 of 245
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COUNCIL PRIORITIES
Mobility/Connectivity/Safety – Developing a plan that will create cohesive strategies to improve transportation safety.
Infrastructure – Enhance strategies to improve the safety of the public right-of- way for all modes of transportation.
Environmental Stewardship – Assist in creating a safe active transportation network that will encourage the use of alternative transportation systems.

RECOMMENDATION
Provide direction on potential initiatives that may be desired as part of the Vision Zero policy regarding safety and enforcement, as well as input on a technical working group that will help shape and inform the policy.

BACKGROUND
Vision Zero is a policy program that is aimed at reducing deaths and injuries from automobile collisions to zero. This includes vehicular collisions as well as those involving pedestrians and cyclists. This is achieved through a combination of policies, roadway design, and enforcement, requiring extensive collaboration and analysis to adapt and modify programs in response to trends. Vision Zero was created and adopted in Sweden in 1997 and since inception cities across the world have developed and adopted Vision Zero policies. These programs have been particularly effective in reducing collisions involving pedestrians.

The City of Glendale can implement a Vision Zero program with much of the underlying framework already built into its existing infrastructure, enforcement, and plans such as the Citywide Pedestrian Plan and the Bicycle Transportation Plan. Existing plans and programs have shown the ability to reduce collisions, injuries, and deaths. These existing initiatives will serve as a starting point for the development of Glendale’s Vision Zero policy.

Beginning in January 2009, and initiated by City Council, City staff took part in a Safe Streets Initiative Program with the ultimate goal of initiating programs that would increase safety for non-motorized transportation in Glendale. This effort included a Community Pedestrian Safety Training where participants learned about the active transportation safety needs of Glendale, as well as potential safety interventions. Following the training, members of the public and the Transportation and Parking Commissioners established a series of pedestrian safety priorities. These priorities resulted in the creation of an Action Plan to improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety, as well as updating City policies, and creating a consolidated outreach program.

In April of 2014, a follow-up training was led by the University of California Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center. The recommendations from this training included a call for a Citywide Pedestrian Plan. Understanding the urgency of pedestrian safety in the City, Council directed staff to move forward with the creation of a plan, as well as a Citywide Safe Routes to School program and a Citywide Safety Education Initiative. These programs sought to improve pedestrian safety across the city, and in 66 of 245
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particular, the most vulnerable population. These programs have produced results while also raising awareness of safe active transportation systems.

A number of programs have been implemented by the City in an effort to reduce pedestrian collisions, and have included:
Safe Routes for Seniors
Pedestrian Priority Streets Program
Arterial Traffic Calming Program
Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program
Ongoing Safe Routes to School Program Implementation
Safety Education Initiative
Innovative Enforcement Programs
Community Engagement and Activation Programs
Outreach to Low-English Proficiency Populations
Open Street Events
Festival Street Programs
While many of these programs were focused on pedestrian safety, the City also created and adopted a Bicycle Transportation Plan. This plan sought to create a network of safe bicyclist infrastructure across the city, connecting people to where they live, work, and seek entertainment. Implementation, led by the Public Works Department has occurred when opportunities are presented for roadway improvement projects. A map of the improvements can be found in Exhibit 1. Staff recently began a process to update the Bicycle Transportation Plan, which is expected to be completed in 2023.

The City has also taken steps to reduce collisions with pedestrians and cyclists by creating events for public engagement, public education, and awareness of City policies and plans.

As part of the Citywide Pedestrian Plan, walk audits were conducted to engage stakeholders in collecting objective data on the pedestrian environment. This included feedback regarding the condition and width of sidewalks, crosswalk frequency and visibility, pedestrian lighting, street trees, and to measure perceptions of safety. This information helped to inform the creation of the plan, and was also used in education campaigns.

The Safe Routes to School program has hosted interactive community events and provided education information through safety booths where parents and students were engaged in learning pedestrian and bicycle rules of the road, as well as helmet safety.

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The “Be Street Smart Glendale” campaign was an all-modes centered education and awareness campaign. Ads were placed on billboards along high-collision corridors where pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists frequently interacted with one another. Banners as well as sidewalk medallions were utilized to reach various modes to raise awareness of mobility safety. Advertising for the program was also placed in Asbarez, an Armenian- language newspaper, focused on reaching the senior Armenian community. Ads were also placed in Balita, an English-language newspaper targeted towards the Filipino community. The first “media flight” ran in October and November of 2016. During the campaign, the City recorded zero pedestrian fatalities in 2018, and zero bicycle fatalities in 2017 and 2018. There were also significant declines in the overall number of incidents during the campaign.

Additionally, the Public Works Department is currently working on preparation of a Local Roadway Safety Plan (LRSP). The LRSP is a local level, data-driven, traffic safety plan to reduce traffic accident fatalities and serious injuries on local public roads. The plan provides local agencies a framework to systemically identify, analyze, and prioritize roadway safety improvements on local roads and facilitates partnerships and collaboration with local stakeholders. The plan includes a citywide analysis of all collision types, including motor vehicle, pedestrian and bicycle collisions. The plan will provide potential systemic safety projects that target the reduction of severe crashes on public roads within the City of Glendale and will meet Caltrans requirements for submittal of Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) grant applications. The LRSP is expected to be a key element of the Vision Zero Plan.

While education programs, plans, and implementation are largely led by the Community Development and Public Works Departments, enforcement is a significant factor in transportation safety and in any Vision Zero program. The Glendale Police Department (GPD) also offers a strong foundation to develop a Vision Zero program through various enforcement initiatives aimed at improving safety and reducing speed. These enforcement programs seek to reduce the number of collisions while also seeking to curb reckless driving behavior. Programs have included:
Pedestrian crosswalk enforcement operations
OTS grant funded “Primary Collision Factor” enforcement operations Billboard advertisements regarding safe behavior
Focused enforcement in areas of frequent collisions or reckless behavior Distracted driving enforcement
Joint operations with neighboring cities
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evening hours. In addition to enforcement, GPD has also played a significant role in education and information. This has included appearances on television to inform viewers about pedestrian safety, as well as the release of a pedestrian safety video in February of 2022 on social media platforms. GPD is also working on training for elderly residents, school-aged residents, flyers, pamphlets, and other means to educate and inform all modes of transportation of safe behavior and habits.

ANALYSIS
Results from the city’s efforts in education, enforcement, planning, and implementation have demonstrated improvements, though more work is still needed. The total number of incidents is provided in the chart below from 2010 through available data for 2022.

Following the launch of several initiatives, pedestrian collisions declined significantly in 2016 before rising again in 2019. Since the adoption of the Bicycle Transportation Plan, incidents involving cyclists have consistently declined.

The intent of Vision Zero seeks to build on those successes, along with other adopted plans, completed implementation and enforcement actions. Vision Zero seeks to create a comprehensive approach through each discipline, using data to create a plan that focuses on areas of the greatest need based on incidents and equity, while allowing for flexibility to try new approaches and initiatives, while being able to adapt the plan as necessary. As such, the approach to create the Vision Zero policy will be led by various departments including Community Development, Innovation and Performance Office, Police, and Public Works. This will seek a holistic approach of planning and design, implementation, enforcement, and the collection of data to create measurable benchmarks.

Much like Glendale, cities across the state and region have had similar goals in reducing and eliminating transportation related injuries and deaths. The City of Fremont adopted a Vision Zero plan in 2016 and has seen a significant decline in fatalities. The traffic fatality rate of Fremont is 2.1 for every 100,000 residents annually, compared to the State of California’s rate of 9.1 for every 100,000. Some of the major accomplishments of the plan include the restriping of 40% of their streets, enhanced safety measures such as creative crosswalks, and the implementation of additional bikeways. The city also enhanced enforcement of intoxicated driving, including saturation patrols in the evening hours to reduce incidents.

While most cities in Southern California have adopted principles of a Vision Zero program, Los Angeles adopted a full policy in 2017 with the goal of eliminating traffic fatalities by 2025. The plan saw a number of upgrades and enhancements at high injury locations that saw a drastic decline in the total number of incidents. The City of Los Angeles’ program began with an initial investment of $3 million, largely focused on education, awareness, and outreach campaigns. This funding was largely used to enhance existing programs and projects.
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Los Angeles and Fremont both experienced significant declines in incidents, particularly related to pedestrian injuries and fatalities. In recent years, both cities have seen increases in pedestrian incidents, consistent with trends across the country. This can be attributed to a number of factors including changes in travel behavior during the pandemic and the rapidly increasing rate of sales of sport utility vehicles and trucks, which pose a greater risk for active modes of transportation.

The value of the Vision Zero program will ensure a better coordinated effort across the various disciplines responsible for transportation safety. It will also set goals and objectives that will use data and allow the City to respond as necessary, while coordinating and updating existing plans and policies. Additionally, staff recommends that the Council directs the inclusion of a Complete Streets program as part of the policy and that this should be pursued in the early stages of developing the Vision Zero policy.

Complete Streets is an approach to street design and implementation that accommodates all modes of transportation and users of all abilities. Much like the Vision Zero policy, incorporating Complete Streets will unlock funding opportunities that could help the City realize implementation goals in the near term. Many grant and outside funding sources require cities to have a Complete Streets program adopted.

As part of this report staff will be seeking input and feedback on the following topics:
Direction on incorporating a Complete Streets program as part of Vision Zero, Particular tactics, efforts, or strategies the Council may wish to see as part of the Vision Zero policy,
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Strategies for public engagement,
Input on representatives that will serve on the technical advisory working group, and
Key points of data that the Council may wish to see collected as part of the policy.

Following Council’s direction staff will begin assembling a technical working group that will advise on the type of interventions and programs that will be included as part of the Vision Zero policy. This will also include data, and other relevant information that should be collected to establish benchmarks of success for the program. During its development, staff will return to Council with regular updates regarding the process, providing opportunities for direction and feedback to the technical working group.

STAKEHOLDERS/OUTREACH
Stakeholder outreach will be conducted after feedback from Council regarding the composition of a technical working group.

FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact associated with this report.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW (CEQA/NEPA)
Environmental review is not applicable.

CAMPAIGN DISCLOSURE
This item is exempt from campaign disclosure requirements.

ALTERNATIVES

1. Note and file the report, and provide feedback to staff regarding direction of creating a Vision Zero policy.

2. Note and file the report and not provide feedback, directing staff to not proceed with creating a Vision Zero policy.

3. Consider any other alternative not proposed by staff.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
Prepared by:

Bradley Calvert, Assistant Director of Community Development Fred Zohrehvand, Principal Mobility Planner
Ismael Carbajal Perez, Associate Mobility Planner
Approved by:

Roubik R. Golanian, P.E., City Manager
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EXHIBITS/ATTACHMENTS

1. Implemented segments of the Bicycle Transportation Plan

2. Fremont Vision Zero
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M O T I O N
Moved by Council Member _________________________, seconded by Council Member ___________________________, that the Council hereby notes and files the Report to Council dated July 12, 2022, pertaining to Vision Zero, and directs staff regarding next steps as follows:
______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Vote as follows:

Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:
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VISION
ZERO
Five Years of Progress &
A Renewed Effort Towards
“Getting to Zero”

PREPARED BY
MAY 2021
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This report is dedicated to the 29 people who lost their lives on Fremont streets and local state highways over the past five years. Their loss reminds us that every life is precious and inspires us all to continue our efforts toward the vision of zero traffic deaths.

REMEMBERING

LIVES LOST
2016–2020
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The community of Fremont, California is renowned as a safe, livable and happy city, having great neighborhoods, parks, schools, and a wonderfully diverse population, all located within the vibrant economy of Silicon Valley and as part of the cultural richness and environmental beauty of the San Francisco Bay Area. With our population of 240,000 residents, we value public safety as among our highest priorities. That is why in 2015, we embraced “Vision Zero” as a traffic safety strategy with the goal to continually improve street safety and eliminate traffic fatalities.

By boldly applying a “Safe System” approach to street design, operations and public education, over the past five years we have achieved a 45% reduction in major traffic crashes involving a fatality or severe injury. Our strong leadership in the area of traffic safety is evidenced by having an average fatality rate of 2.1 (annual traffic deaths per 100,000 population), well below the 9.1 rate for California and the 11.0 rate for the nation. We commend our Public Works and Police staff, the City organization as a whole, and the entire Fremont community for this remarkable achievement.

But there is more work to do to meet our goal of eliminating the tragedy of traffic deaths on our streets. At this time, we are renewing our commitment to Vision Zero and updating our action plan for “getting to zero” by 2025. We look forward to having you join us!

MESSAGE FROM

CITY LEADERS
Lily Mei
Mayor
Teresa Keng
Councilmember
District 1
Rick Jones
Councilmember
District 2
Jenny Kassan
Councilmember
District 3
Yang Shao
Vice Mayor
Councilmember
District 4
Raj Salwan
Councilmember
District 5
Teresa Cox
Councilmember
District 6
Mark Danaj
City Manager
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01 INTRODUCTION
& BACKGROUND
PAGE 1

Getting to Zero in Fremont
Crash Summary
Principles & History
Vision Zero Communities
Fremont Vision Zero Origin Story

CONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Fremont Vision Zero (VZ) Progress
Report and 2025 Action Plan was
prepared and guided by
City of Fremont, Public Works
Matthew Bomberg , VZ Program Leader ,
Senior Transportation Engineer
Daniel Miller, VZ Data Leader ,
Transportation Engineer
Natalie Khwaja, VZ Communications
Leader, Management Analyst II
Hans Larsen, VZ Cheerleader,
Public Works Director
Mirza Sabanovic, Transportation
Engineer
Fehr & Peers
Lee Reis, Project Manager
Carrie Modi
Melody Wu
Marta Polovin
City of Fremont, Police Department
Lieutenant Ariel Quimson, Traffic Unit
Leader
Chief Kim Petersen
Captain John Harnett
Fremont Mobility Commission
Mark Spencer, Chair
Melissa Avery, Vice Chair
Erin Vaca
Flavio Poehlmann
Ken Wu
Nissar Ahmed
Julie Huang
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02 FREMONT’S APPROACH

TO VISION ZERO

Organizational Practices
Partnerships
Using Data for High-Impact Work
Updating Plans & Community Engagement
Safety on a Shoestring
Core Staff Team
The Joy of Safe
03 ACCOMPLISHMENTS FROM

FIRST FIVE YEARS

Safe & Complete Streets
Safe Crossings
Speed Management
Brighter Street Lighting
Safe Routes to Schools & Safe Neighborhoods
Hot Spot Response
State Highways
A
A

APPENDICES
Details on Safety Projects Delivered and Funding Sources Fatal Crash Narratives: Understanding Safety Issues Is More Than Dots on a Map A Deeper Data Dive
33 41
04 DEVELOPING

A NEW ACTION PLAN
A Needs-Based Approach
People Walking & Biking Are Most Vulnerable
Major Crashes R emain Highest
on Wide, Fast Streets
Older People & Unhoused People Are
Killed & Injured Disproportionately
VISION ZERO 2025:

NEXT LEVEL ACTION PLAN
05 Get State Legislation for Safer Speeds
Continue Local Actions for Safer Streets
Encourage Support from Regional Partners
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INTRODUCTION
& BACKGROUND
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2 Fremont Vision Zero Action Plan
10 20
30 40
Number of Major Crashes
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Fatal Severe
Fremont Vision Zero
was adopted
3-Year Average = 35
3-Year Average = 19
Getting to Zero in Fremont
2 4
6 8
10 12
Traﬃc Fatalies Per 100,000 (2019 Popula�on & Fatali�es, Unless Otherwise Noted) United
States
California Bay Area London Berlin OsloFremont
2013–2015
Fremont
2018–2020

11.0 9.1

5.9 3.3

2.1 1.4

1.1 0.1
Sources: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety , City of Fremont, U.S. Census, European Transport Safety Council. FleetNews. Berlin Spectator .

The City of Fremont is a mid-sized city
located in the Silicon Valley. Over the past five
years, Fremont has achieved a remarkable
45% reduction in fatalities and severe injuries
caused by traffic crashes. This significant safety
accomplishment was facilitated through hard
work, leadership, and diligent investment in
safety infrastructure and programs. Fremont's
concerted organizational focus on traffic safety
began in 2015 with the adoption of a Vision
Zero policy by the Fremont City Council.

The five-year status report presents Fremont’s Vision
Zero playbook as a model for similar cities. Fremont’s
successes (and lessons learned) may be helpful
for other cities both big and small in making safer
streets for everyone. Everyone is in this together .

The Fremont Vision Zero 2025 Action
Plan provides a next-generation plan
for getting to zero.

Average Annual
Major Crashes have
reduced by 45%
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Introduction & Background 3

FREMONT
Crash Summary
Major crashes have decreased for riskier road
environments such as in the DARK and on
ARTERIAL ROADS . They have also decreased
for Fremont’s YOUNGEST RESIDENTS . Major
crashes declined for all modes, with DRIVER -
involved crashes seeing the greatest drop.

ARTERIAL ROADS

29.0/per year 16.7/per year
45%

BICYCLISTS

4.3/per year 3.3/per year
23%
YOUTH AGE 15 OR YOUNGER

3.0/per year <1/per year
67%

DRIVERS

19.3/per year 8.3/per year
57%
DARK

14.0/per year 9.3/per year
36%
2013–2015 2018–2020

PEDESTRIANS

11.3/per year 7.7/per year
32%
Comparison between
2013–2015 & 2018–2020
1% fatal
4% severe
injury
35%
minor
injury
60%
property
damage
Crash Type Frequency
Vision Zero
aims to
prevent the
small
percentage
of fatal &
severe injury
crashes.

While reading this Report,
keep the following details in mind:
• A major crash results in a death or severe injury,
and is also called a Killed or Severely Injured (KSI)
crash. According to the California Highway Patrol,
severe injuries include broken bones, dislocated
limbs, severe lacerations, severe burns, or
unconsciousness.
• Major crashes represent just a small percentage—
approximately 5 percent—of overall crashes. Vision
Zero’s goal is to get to zero fatal and life-altering
injuries, not to eliminate all crashes. When cities
create safe streets and systems minor traffic
injuries will still occur, but people live and can walk away from the crash.
• Major crash locations include all Fremont city
streets, railroad corridors, freeway interchanges,
and State Highways with local access like State
Route (SR) 238 (Mission Blvd) and SR 262 (Mission
Blvd). Not included are I -680 and I-880 freeway
corridors, SR 84 (Niles Canyon Rd) and private
property.
• The COVID-19 pandemic changed when and how
many people traveled in 2020. While COVID-19
resulted in significantly less travel overall, there
is some evidence that less traffic led to more
speeding, and severe crashes. Indeed, nationally,
traffic deaths increased in 2020 by 8%, even as the
number of miles people drove decreased by 13%. 1
1 https://www.nsc.org/newsroom/motor-vehicle
deaths-2020-estimated-to-be-highest
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VISION ZERO
Principles & History
Each year approximately 40,000 people die on
our nation’s streets and highways and hundreds
of thousands more are severely injured, resulting
in tragic personal loss and deep community
impact. The effects include emotional trauma
to affected individuals, families and friends;
personal economic loss; long-term healthcare
costs; and significant taxpayer spending on
emergency response involving paramedics,
police, ambulance services, and hospitals.

Vision Zero is a fundamental
rethinking of street safety.

A Vision Zero approach holds that any loss of
life from traffic crashes is unacceptable and
preventable. A Vision Zero philosophy accepts that
humans will make mistakes and that traffic crashes
will happen, but seeks to design and operate
the transportation system so that crashes do not
result in life-altering injuries or death. This is a
fundamental shift from a traditional approach
to traffic safety that accepts loss of live as
inevitable and unpreventable. Vision Zero
requires a comprehensive approach that
seeks to achieve safe roads, safe speeds, safe
vehicles, safe road users, and post-crash care.

First created by Sweden in 1997, European Vision
Zero programs have achieved 50% reductions
in fatalities over a decade. The City of Oslo 2,
Norway reduced traffic fatalities by 68% from
2010 to 2018, and to a single fatality in 2019.

As of November 2020, the Vision Zero approach
has been adopted by about 50 American cities.

In support of the Vision Zero goal, the US Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA) recommends a
Safe System approach to transportation safety
planning, design, and implementation. This
approach is founded on the principles that humans
are vulnerable and redundancy is crucial to reach
the goal. The Safe System approach expands on
Vision Zero principles by emphasizing separating
road users in space and time and reducing the
kinetic energy of crashes to improve safety.

Traﬃc deaths are INEVITABLE
PERFECT human behavior
Prevent COLLISIONS
INDIVIDUAL responsibility
Saving lives is EXPENSIVE
Traﬃc deaths are PREVENTABLE
Integrate HUMAN FAILING in approach
Prevent FATAL AND SEVERE CRASHES
SYSTEMS approach
Saving lives is NOT EXPENSIVE

TRADITIONAL

APPROACH
Tradi�onal vs. Vision Zero Approach

VISION ZERO

APPROACH
2 Oslo, Norway's population in 2020 was approximately 698,000 according to Statistics Norway .

Source: Vision Zero Network
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If Hit By a Person
Driving At
Person Survives
the Collision
Results
in a Fatality
20 MPH 10%
30 MPH 40%
40 MPH 80%
Why Safe Speeds?
Safer vehicle speeds are
critical to reducing deaths
and severe injuries. Human
bodies are vulnerable.

The faster a car or truck is
traveling, the more likely a
person is to be killed. Safer
speeds also reduce the
likelihood of crashes as at
higher speeds cars require
longer distances to slow
down and drivers have a
reduced field of vision.

Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Literature Reviewed On Vehicle Travel Speeds And Pedestrian Injuries, March 2000.

The Safe System approach
aims to eliminate fatal and
severe traffic injuries. This
FHWA-led strategy
uses a holistic view of the road
system that first anticipates
human mistakes and second
keeps impact energy on the
human body at tolerable
levels. Vision Zero is one of
several initiatives in the United
States working to implement
a Safe System approach and
make this a reality.

The Safe System
Approach
Crash severity depends on the energy transfer involved in a collision.

Kinetic Energy is higher when a vehicle is heavier, and increases quadratically as a vehicle moves faster . Reducing the system kinetic energy on the roads reduces major crashes.

How does Kinetic Energy
affect Crashes?
Pull from Safe Streets Pinellas
20 MPH
30 MPH
40 MPH
Lower Speeds Increases A Driver's Field of Vision
Source: Vision Zero Network
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NATIONAL
Vision Zero
Communities
Vision Zero Communi�es
Portland
San Francisco
San Jose
San Diego
Boston
Somerville
New York City
Washington, D.C.

Montgomery County
Denver
Chicago
Fort Lauderdale
San Antonio
Houston
Aus�n
Columbia
Anchorage
Eugene
Bellevue
Sea�le
San Luis Obispo
Monterey
Bethlehem
Alexandria
Richmond
Cambridge
Santa Barbara Durham
Charlo�e
Macon
Minneapolis
Tempe
Watsonville
Boulder
Orlando
Harrisburg Jersey City
West Palm Beach
Philadelphia
Hillsborough County
Tampa
Laredo
Albuquerque
Fremont
Los Angeles
Sacramento
La Mesa
Source: Vision Zero Network Map, November 2020
Vision Zero Community
Source: Vision Zero Network Map, November 2020
City
VZ Action Plan
Approved Population
1 New York City Feb 2014 8,300,000
2 San Francisco Feb 2015 880,000
3 Seattle Feb 2015 750,000
4 San Jose May 2015 1,000,000
5 Los Angeles Aug 2015 4,000,000
6 Boston Dec 2015 690,000
7 Washington DC Dec 2015 710,000
8 Fremont Mar 2016 240,000
9 Austin May 2016 980,000
10 San Diego Jun 2016 1,400,000
11 San Antonio Nov 2016 1,500,000
12 Portland Dec 2016 650,000
The Vision Zero Network is a non-profit
organization that helps cities reach their
goals of Vision Zero. Founded in 2015,
with support from Kaiser Permanente, the
Network convenes leaders in the realms of
public health, transportation planning &
engineering, policy, community advocacy,
and the private sector to develop and share
promising strategies that make Vision Zero
a reality. The Network recognizes cities
that are taking demonstratable actions,
such as the adoption of an “action plan”
to advance the principles of Vision Zero to
ensure safe mobility for all. Nearly 50 cities
are recognized as Vision Zero communities.

For more information, visit:
www.visionzeronetwork.org
Vision Zero Early Adopters in the U.S.
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1997 Sweden creates Vision
Zero as national policy.
2012 Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA)
includes vision of “Toward
zero deaths and severe
injuries on the Nation’s
roadways” in its 2012
Strategic Safety Plan.
2014 New York City is the
first U.S. city to adopt a
Vision Zero Action Plan.
2016 Fremont Vision Zero
2020 Action Plan adopted
in March; City Council
reallocates budget to
prioritize safety investments.

Fremont initiates "20
projects in 20 months"
program to focus on hot
spots, pedestrian countdown
signals, brighter street
lighting, and traffic calming.

Fremont City Council
& School Board commit
to "walk and roll" safety
plans and projects at all
40 public schools; 400
projects get completed
in the next 4 years.

Introduction & Background 7

VISION ZERO
Timeline
2017 National Transportation
Safety Board (NTSB)
releases recommendations
for reducing speed-
related crashes in July.
2018 RAND Corporation
releases The Road to Zero:

A Vision for Achieving Zero
Roadway Deaths by 2050.
2019
Fremont cuts ribbon on
first permanent protected
intersection on Bike to
Work Day, with nine
more in development.
2020
Fremont launches
"Drive Slowly, Be Healthy"
speed management
program in April.
2020 Alameda CTC adopts a
Safe System strategy in the
Countywide Transportation
Plan in December .

FHWA publishes
Safe System Approach
materials in November .

Metropolitan
Transportation Commission
(MTC) adopts regional Vision
Zero policy for the Bay Area
in June.

Caltrans announces
Safe System “Pivot” for the
2020 Strategic Highway
Safety Plan , and appoints
first Chief Safety Officer.
2021 Fremont updates its
Vision Zero Action Plan
FREMONT’S

NATIONAL

RECOGNITION
Fremont has made
significant progress
towards Vision
Zero goals, and its
achievements stand
out even alongside
other major U.S. cities.

Local, regional, and
national organizations
have recognized
Fremont’s success and
asked City officials to
share approaches and
efforts behind this
accomplishment.

Vision Zero Network
Webinars, 2017 & 2019
Transportation
Research Board
Conference
Presentation, 2018
Federal Highway
Administration Case
Studies, 2018 & 2020
Institute of
Transportation
Engineers Conference
Presentations,
2019 & 2020
National Safe Routes
to School Conference
Presentation, 2019
Vision Zero for
Youth USA Leadership
Award, 2020
2015 Vision Zero
Network is founded.

Fremont City Council
initiates and adopts
Vision Zero policy.
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FREMONT VISION ZERO
Origin Story
The origin of Fremont’s Vision Zero program is a story of an entire organization and community embracing a mission to urgently improve traffic safety. During the three years from 2013 to 2015, Fremont experienced a concerning rise in traffic fatalities and severe injuries, particularly involving pedestrians, seniors and youth. Fremont’s Vice Mayor, Sue Lee Chan, after hearing a presentation from the Vision Zero Network, initiated a referral to the City Council in July 2015 to consider adopting a Vision Zero policy. With enthusiastic support, two months later in September 2015, a written Vision Zero policy was approved. City staff then went to work on preparing a data-driven action plan.

There was no time to wait for hiring consultants, funding new staff positions, or convening a major outreach process. Experts from the Police Department (Traffic Unit) and the Public Works Department (Traffic Engineering Section) worked to analyze past crash data and the best practices for improving traffic safety.

The Fremont Vision Zero 2020 Action Plan was created as a starting point and was unanimously approved by the City Council in March 2016. As a demonstration of an immediate commitment to the vision of zero traffic deaths, simultaneous action was taken to redirect $2.5 million in City funding, not aligned with the “safety first” policy, which allowed work to start immediately. No time to wait for the regular budget process. Public Works committed to delivering a “20 projects in 20 months” program, with a focus on pedestrian countdown signals, brighter street lighting, and safer pedestrian crossings.

The entire City organization embraced Vision Zero and
then set to engage the community as a partner.
• The City Manager’s Communications Team
highlighted Vision Zero as the headline article in
the City newsletter sent to all residents.
• “Safety” was adopted as the 2016 theme for the
City’s outreach booth at community events.
• The Police Department hosted a Vision Zero “traffic
edition” of their popular Coffee with Cops program.
• The City’s Youth Service Corps launched the annual “look for safety” program to paint LOOK markings at City crosswalks. • A local Girl Scout started up a program
to prevent distracted driving.
• Educational videos were created with a local
community college and by student interns.
• Vice Mayor Sue Lee Chan started a speaker series
to discuss Vision Zero to everyone that was
interested. She hosted a lot of meetings!
FREMONT VISION ZERO 2020 ACTION PLAN
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VISION ZERO STICKERS

COFFEE WITH COPS

VISION ZERO EVENT BOOTH

COMMUNITY MEETINGS WITH VICE MAYOR SUE LEE CHAN

YOUTH SERVICE CORPS
"LOOK FOR SAFETY" PROGRAM
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TO VISION ZERO
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Complete Streets are designed to accommodate all
modes of travel and not just automobiles. They are
planned and operated with multiple users in mind,
including motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, transit
users, and people of all ages and physical abilities.
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APPROACH
Organizational Practices
Fremont’s Vision Zero success starts with an
organization that prioritizes safety and enables
quick and coordinated action. Fremont is a medium-
size city with a part-time City Council and limited
community advocacy infrastructure (as compared
to larger cities). Fremont's Vision Zero program is
primarily driven by an engaged and enlightened
staff team. The City is guided by a General Plan
that references being a "national leader" and
that establishes a goal of creating Complete
Streets. The City has both the leadership and
organizational alignment to achieve this goal.

Transportation Engineering, the City’s Pavement
Maintenance Program, and Street Maintenance are
all organized within the Public Works Department,
which reduces barriers to collaboration. Fremont
has achieved a tremendous output of safety
projects by leveraging the pavement maintenance
program for roadway restriping and by having street
maintenance crews install quick-build projects.

Recurring coordination meetings between Public
Works staff and with the Police Department ensure
clear communication and information sharing.

The City’s work to implement Vision Zero has
been guided by an empowered staff using
cutting-edge tools and best practices. The City
prioritizes staff training through both external
opportunities such as conference attendance and
internal peer learning. Public Works staff from
A quick-build
project changes
the roadway
using materials
that are easy and
inexpensive to
install, primarily
paint and plastic
bollards.

GRIMMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
What is a
Quick-Build
Project?
What are
Complete Streets?
a variety of groups, including Transportation,
Design, and Development, have learned from
study tours in places such as Portland, Seattle,
Austin, Minneapolis, and Chicago, as part of
attending conferences. Staff are encouraged to
be engaged, to understand the larger goals and
context of their work, and to take ownership of
projects. Engineers make use of the latest design
standards including NACTO guidance, examples
from peer cities, and lessons observed abroad.

The City and Public Works Department have
a culture that promotes acting quickly and
innovating. Staff are encouraged to act with
urgency and to collaborate directly with colleagues.

The City has made extensive use of quick-build
projects to achieve immediate safety out comes
and to test out designs. This decisiveness
stems from a risk assessment framework that
concludes the greatest risk is taking no action
in the face of significant known safety issues.
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FIRE TRUCK FIELD TEST

APPROACH
Partnerships
Partnerships have been
a hallmark of Fremont’s
Vision Zero implementation
approach.

Partnerships have included both
internal collaboration between
departments and work with
other community organizations.

Traffic enforcement officers and
transportation engineers meet
monthly to share information,
and Fremont's Police Department
provides access to crash data and
reporting of issues such as locations
of frequent near misses or reckless
driving. In the initial years of Vision
Zero implementation, Fremont’s
Police Department shifted its
traffic enforcement focus to known
high risk behaviors (speeding and
impaired driving) and increased
enforcement resources through
cross-training and providing non-
traffic officers with equipment to
do traffic enforcement on down
time. Fremont’s Police Department
also manages the City’s robust
network of red-light enforcement
cameras. Fremont's Public Works
and Police Department have also
collaborated to install infrastructure
measures to prevent dangerous
and illegal sideshow activity.

Fremont’s Fire Department has
been an important partner,
working to resolve design issues
to ensure that narrower, tighter
street designs to manage speeds do
not impede emergency response
times. The Fire Department has
worked with engineering staff to
test the ability of their equipment
to maneuver through proposed
intersection geometries. The Fire
Department has also worked
with Public Works to deploy and
implement use of an upgraded,
GPS-based Emergency Vehicle Pre-
emption system to activate traffic
signals in advance of their arrival.

The City has also sought out
partnerships with major healthcare
providers and the School District in
Fremont. Kaiser Permanente and
Washington Hospital, two major
hospitals in Downtown Fremont and
two of the City’s largest employers,
have worked with the City to install
pedestrian crossing improvements
near their campuses. Kaiser also
funded the installation of a street
banner campaign promoting Vision
Zero. The Fremont Unified School
District partnered with the City
to jointly fund the completion of
school safety assessments at all
40 schools citywide, which set
the stage for the City’s quick-build
school access safety projects.

POLICE PARTNERSHIP ,

VISION ZERO &

ENFORCEMENT
The City’s Police and Public
Works Departments have a
close working relationship
which supports Vision
Zero. The Fremont Police
Department largely conducts
high-visibility traffic stops
to provide warnings and
education, rather than issue
tickets and fines, in order to
create a visible enforcement
presence while not generating
economic hardship.

Recently, the national dialogue
around policing has brought
attention to inequalities
associated with traditional
traffic enforcement, including
biases in discretionary
enforcement1. Fremont's Police
Department has conducted
extensive community outreach
on the topic of race and
policing through its
Engage Fremont initiative .

The Engage Fremont
initiative developed ten
recommendations in the areas
of funding, transparency and
accountability, and policing and
community relations, which
Fremont's Police Department
is now working to implement.
1 As opposed to universal enforcement
through tools such as traffic cameras.

KAISER PERMANENTE

STREET BANNER PARTNERSHIP
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High-Injury
Network Mapping
Fremont created a
map of high-crash
roads to focus
infrastructure
projects. This
approach ensures
projects are
targeted based
on need and not
vocal complaints.

APPROACH
Using Data for High-Impact Work
Without good
quantitative and
qualitative data,
it would be
impossible to
prioritize Fremont’s
resources effectively.

Everything from how
quickly Fremont
receives crash
information to how
City staff use that
data is important for
Vision Zero progress.

These are
some of the
key elements
for how
Fremont
uses data
effectively.

Regular &
Timely Monitoring

FREMONT

VISION ZERO

APPROACH
Crash Narratives
& Reports
High-Injury
Network Mapping
Systemic
Responses
Hot Spot
Responses
1 Staff also supplement crash data and reports with collecting and analyzing video footage, which provides insights into near misses and user behaviors and interactions.

Regular &
Timely Monitoring
Fremont
transportation
engineers often
receive crash
reports within 30
days of the crash.

Engineers in many
other cities do not
receive detailed
crash summaries
until a year or more
after crashes occur .

Crash Narratives
& Reports
Public Works staff
coordinate closely
with the Police
Department and
have access to
detailed information
about each major
crash in Fremont.

This helps staff to
target street safety
improvements to
factors causing
crashes.1
Hot Spot
Responses
Previous crashes
may be clustered
together
and indicate
opportunities for
improvements.

Fremont evaluates
historical crash
data to identify
such hot spots.

Systemic
Responses
Hot spots may share
characteristics, such
as high speed limits
and wide roadways,
with other locations
without crashes that
would benefit from
changes. Fremont
looks for these types
of factors to identify
locations where
improvements are
needed because
they are a risk for
a future crash.
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MOBILITY ACTION PLAN OUTREACH

MOBILITY ACTION PLAN TASK FORCE
The City’s Vision Zero Plan is generally high level, with a focus on types of projects and actions that will be impactful to eliminate major crashes. Fremont has a number of other plans, including a Mobility Action Plan
, Bicycle Master Plan , Pedestrian Master
Plan , and Safe Routes to Schools Plans , that provide location- specific recommendations and identify priority projects. Fremont has developed or updated all of these plans since its Vision Zero policy was adopted in 2015, and all of them are infused with an emphasis on safety and Vision Zero principles. Each of these plans was developed in consultation with the community.

The Mobility Action Plan featured one of the most extensive community engagement efforts that the City has ever undertaken, including collaboration with a Mobility Task Force comprised of community members that guided the process. An "Open City Hall" survey received responses from more than 2,600 people. Numerous "pop-up" events and meetings were held to target participation from seniors, youth, and community leaders. The Mobility Action Plan identifies safety as a top priority and includes a finding that the community’s top safety interest was more enforcement. An outgrowth of the Mobility Action Plan was the formation of a permanent Mobility Commission, which has reviewed and helped to shape the Vision Zero 2025 Action Plan.

APPROACH
Updating Plans
& Community
Engagement

FREM ONT PLA NS
City of Fremont
Adopted by City Council July 10, 2018
Bicycle Master Plan
Prepared by
Alta Planning
+ Design | i
City of Fremont

PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN
Adopted by City Council December 13, 2016
March 2019
Fremont
Mobility Action Plan
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CROSSWALKS ARE QUICKLY ENHANCED

USING LOW-COST MATERIALS

FREMONT MAINTENACE CREWS ARE TRAINED TO INSTALL

QUICK-BUILD & LOW-COST SAFETY PROJECTS

EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS ARE CREATED BY COMMUNITY

COLLEGE PARTNERS OR STUDENT INTERNS
16 Fremont Vision Zero Action Plan
Fremont’s Vision Zero success has
generally been achieved with no new
City funding commitments and no new
dedicated staff positions. The City initiated
its Vision Zero program by reallocating
existing funding resources away from
projects that did not serve Vision Zero
goals and reshuffling existing staff
assignments. Early projects focused on
making creative use of existing resources
and programs (such as strategic use of the
pavement program to target safety priority
areas), low-cost improvements (such as
quick-build project implementation using
City crews), and other creative methods
to finance projects (such as the City’s LED
street light conversion project, which was
paid for by debt financing against future
energy savings). The City has also made
use of student interns for data collection
and analysis, video production, and design
drafting.

In more recent years, the City has received
an infusion of grant funding that has
made it possible to construct higher
cost projects such as new traffic signal
installations, raised cycletracks, and
protected intersections. The City’s Vision
Zero commitment, data-driven approach
to safety, and track record of success with
respect to reducing major crashes have
helped the City to successfully attract grant
funds. New funding for transportation
safety projects was also made possible
due to voter approval of Measure BB
Transportation Sales Tax Program in
2014 (managed by the Alameda County
Transportation Commission) and the State
approved gas tax increase in 2017.

APPROACH
Safety on a
Shoestring
Link to video
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Fremont’s Approach to Vision Zero 17
The guiding stars of Fremont’s Vision Zero
program are a lean but comprehensive,
five-person staff team that work in concert
to plan and implement safety projects and
initiatives. This team includes five leaders
with the following responsibilities:

APPROACH
Core Staff Team
Fremont has been named the “Happiest City in
America” three years in a row 3, and the City strives
to bring fun and happiness to even the serious work
of eliminating severe traffic crashes. Examples of
this approach are numerous. At community outreach
events, City staff have given away Vision Zero stickers and kites and dressed up in safety themed costumes;
in 2016, Fremont partnered with the California
Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to participate in their
“pedestrians don’t have armor” safety campaign.

Staff have created educational videos explaining how
to use newer infrastructure treatments, featuring
characters as Safety Sheila and Mobility Matt.

Traffic safety education banners were created
with an original, fun and contemporary “text and
emoji” messaging style, which was conceived and
developed by City staff. In Spring 2020, as part
of a speed management campaign at the start of
the Covid-19 pandemic, City staff collaborated
with Mobility Commissioners to create a “Drive
Slowly, Be Healthy” video set to the tune of Bobby
McFerrin’s classic song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”

APPROACH
The Joy of Safe
3 WalletHub.

TOP , LEFT TO RIGHT: OTS PARTNERSHIP , "DRIVE SLOWLY" VIDEO BOTTOM: KAISER PERMANENTE STREET BANNER PARTNERSHIP
Speeding isn't
worth it!
The individuals that have served in these starring
roles over the past five-years have included:
• Program Manager/Transportation Engineer
“Safety Sheila” Marquises, “Mobility Matt” Bomberg,
Senior Transportation Engineers
• Police Department Traffic Unit
Lt Mike Tegner, Lt Mark Dang, Lt Ariel Quimson
• Crash Data “Data Daniel” Miller,
Transportation Engineer
• Communications
Alina Kwak, Management Analyst (City
Manager’s Office) ; Natalie Khwaja,
Management Analyst II (Public Works)
• Executive Support Hans Larsen, Public Works Director
Other key support members and significant
contributors on the Vision Zero team for project
delivery include:
• Public Works Street Maintenance Section
for quick-build project delivery:

Jeff Edwards, Jason Bonilla
• Public Works Engineering Division for project
delivery by construction contract or private
development: Kandee Bahmani, City Engineer ; Noe
Veloso, Assistant City Engineer (previously Principal
Transportation Engineer) ; Ed Nakayama, Senior Civil
Engineer (Pavement Maintenance Program Manager) .

Crash Data
collection & analytics
Police
Department
Traffic Unit
Executive
Support
Program Manager/
Transportation Engineer 2
Communications
2 The lead transportation engineer serves as the
overall Vision Zero program manager . None of these
individuals work full-time on Vision Zero.

SAFER

VEHICLES
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

FROM THE FIRST FIVE YEARS
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Safe & Complete Streets
Since adopting Vision Zero in 2015 , Fremont has
worked to systematically re-engineer its streets to
be “safe and complete streets” that promote safer
speeds and increase safety for motorists and also
provide safe and comfortable facilities for people
walking, biking, and taking transit. Fremont uses
a variety of design tools to create safer streets.

Historically many Fremont streets were built with
wide 12-14 foot travel lanes, which is a design
standard that promotes high speeds and is more
appropriate for traveling at freeway speeds. Since
2015, Fremont has adopted a 10 foot travel lane
standard, which encourages slower speeds by
creating a feeling of greater enclosure and friction
for drivers. Narrower lanes also free up roadway
width for enhanced bike facilities, including
buffered and protected lanes. Fremont has
restriped 40 miles ( 47% of its arterial roadways)
as safe and complete streets since 2015.

At intersections, street designs have focused on
tighter radii which shorten crossing distances for
bicyclists and pedestrians and force drivers to take
turns at slower speeds. Fremont has implemented
protected intersections, which eliminate weaving
maneuvers between bicyclists and vehicles, improve
sight lines, and further reduce crossing distances
for pedestrians. Intersection improvements have
been implemented as both quick-build projects and
as full reconstruction with modified and upgraded
traffic signal systems as part of major capital and
grant-funded projects. Five intersections have
been rebuilt as protected intersections, with
five more in construction, and more than 30
quick-build bulbouts have been installed.

FACTOR: STREET DESIGN
Vision Zero recognizes that people make mistakes. Impairment, speeding, distracted driving, aggressive driving—these are behaviors to be discouraged, and Vision Zero lays out a coordinated set of actions to deter them.

But we must also design streets that enable and encourage safe behaviors.

Streets should discourage dangerous driving by design. The safest streets slow down traffic, provide separation between modes, and provide visual cues that make it clear that people using different modes share the space. These streets keep all people safer—even when they make mistakes.

At the other end of the spectrum, wide streets with four or more lanes of fast- moving traffic, unprotected pedestrian crossings and bike lanes, and longer distances between signals are the places where deadly crashes happen most often. While mistakes can occur anywhere, these streets are where those mistakes more often can have lethal consequences. In Portland, over half of deadly crashes occur on just 8% of our streets. The maps on pages 17–20 show where these are located. Fixing them is a central element of Portland’s Vision Zero strategy.

WIDE STREET

FAST MOVING TRAFFIC

UNPROTECTED CROSSINGS

UNPROTECTED BIKE LANES

NO STREET LIGHTING

ANATOMY OF A DANGEROUS STREET
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CRASHES ARE ON
8%

OF PORTLAND

STREETS

LONG DISTANCE BETWEEN SIGNALS
11 What are
Buffered
Bike Lanes? Buffered bike lanes are separated from vehicle traffic by striping or parked cars.

These facilities can increase safety by decreasing opportunities for crashes with over-taking vehicles, and reducing the risk of dooring.

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Walnut Avenue Bikeway

COMPLETE STREETS PROJECT

In 2020, the City of Fremont completed
construction on the Walnut Avenue Bikeway, a

1.2-mile safe and complete street capital project.

Walnut Avenue features raised separated
bikeways, four protected intersections, bus
boarding areas, and upgraded traffic signal
infrastructure. The Walnut Avenue Bikeway serves
the Fremont BART Station, Kaiser and Washington
Hospitals, civic destinations, local businesses, and
housing. Designed with feedback from students
and faculty at the California School for the Blind,
the Walnut Avenue Bikeway is a national model
for street design that serves people of all ages
and abilities walking, biking, and using transit.

Washington Boulevard

SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
In response to several major crashes, including
one pedestrian fatality, the City of Fremont
implemented the Washington Boulevard Safety
Improvement Project. The project includes an
improved pedestrian crossing at Washington
Boulevard and Olive Avenue featuring a bulbout,
pedestrian refuge median island, and rectangular
rapid flashing beacons. The project also
narrowed general travel lanes to reduce vehicle
speeding and provide a buffered bike lane, and
installed multiple radar speed feedback signs.

People for Bikes
America’s Best New Bikeways,
Rank #6, 2020

PROJECT SPOTLIGHTS

CIVIC CENTER DRIVE & WALNUT AVENUE WASHINGTON BOULEVARD & OLIVE AVENUE FACTOR: STREET DESIGN
Vision Zero recognizes that people make mistakes. Impairment, speeding, distracted driving, aggressive driving—these are behaviors to be discouraged, and Vision Zero lays out a coordinated set of actions to deter them.

But we must also design streets that enable and encourage safe behaviors.

WIDE STREET

FAST MOVING TRAFFIC

UNPROTECTED CROSSINGS

UNPROTECTED BIKE LANES

NO STREET LIGHTING

ANATOMY OF A DANGEROUS STREET
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OF DEADLY

CRASHES ARE ON
8%

OF PORTLAND

STREETS

LONG DISTANCE BETWEEN SIGNALS
11 Bulbouts provide
protected space
for pedestrians in
roads before they
enter a crosswalk,
increasing
pedestrian
visibility and
slowing drivers.

Protected Intersections
improve safety for everyone
by reducing crossing
distances for pedestrians
and bicyclists, and slowing
turning automobile speeds.

They provide dedicated space
for each road user to travel
through the intersection.

What are
Bulbouts?
What are
Protected
Intersections
Streetsblog SF
Eyes on the Street: Fremont Finishes
Best Bikeway in the Bay Area, June 2020
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Safe Crossings
Fremont’s early Vision Zero data analysis
showed that crashes involving pedestrians
accounted for more than 30 percent of major
crashes, with most crashes happening while
the pedestrian was crossing a street. Fremont’s
efforts to improve safety of crossings have
included installing pedestrian countdown
signals at all signalized intersections citywide
(see opposite page) and installing a suite
of short-term and long-term treatments at
uncontrolled crossings of major streets.

Fremont had approximately 40 crosswalks
on multi-lane, higher speed roadways that
are uncontrolled, meaning that there is no
signal and that motorists must yield to crossing
pedestrians. Fremont has sought to enhance
these uncontrolled crosswalks with both short-
and long-term measures to improve yielding
compliance. Short-term measures have included
high visibility crosswalk striping, advance yield
signage and markings, and striping and channelizer
posts between travel lanes. Long-term measures
to enhance crossings have included installing
rectangular rapid flashing beacons, pedestrian
signals, median refuge islands, and bulbouts. These
measures are all proven by national research to
reduce crash frequency.

14 crossings in Fremont have now been upgraded
with flashing beacons or pedestrian signals.

Mowry Avenue at Waterside Circle

SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
To improve pedestrian crossing safety at the
uncontrolled crosswalk at Mowry Avenue and
Waterside Circle, Fremont implemented narrowed
travel lanes, yield markers, buffered bike lanes,
and channelizers between lanes approaching
the crosswalk. Since this intervention, the City
has returned to install a pedestrian HAWK
signal, providing traffic control for the crossing.

Even with this more permanent solution, the
channelizers and narrower lanes are still in
place to provide traffic calming effects.

Quick-Build Crosswalk Improvements

SYSTEMIC RESPONSE

Fremont has installed signage and vertical
posts at 20 locations citywide to improve driver
yielding at uncontrolled crosswalks. This quick-
build improvement combination reminds drivers
to yield while emphasizing existing lane markings.

It also eliminates multiple threat crash risks by
physically prohibiting lane changing maneuvers
by motorists in advance of a crosswalk.

PROJECT SPOTLIGHTS

QUICK-BUILD
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High-Intensity Activated Crosswalk (HAWK) Signals,
also known as a pedestrian hybrid beacons or pedestrian signals, are flashing lights that are activated by a
pedestrian pushing a button or some other form of
detection. HAWK signals are used at unsignalized
intersections or mid-block crosswalks to notify oncoming motorists to stop with a series of red and yellow lights.

What are
HAWK Signals?

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Pedestrian Countdown Signals

SYSTEMIC RESPONSE

Pedestrians are over-represented in crashes in
Fremont. In its initial Vision Zero data analysis,
Fremont identified a prevalence of crashes in which
pedestrians were crossing against traffic at signalized intersections; reviewing crash reports revealed that
many of these involved pedestrians getting stuck in
wide intersections after misjudging how long they had
to cross. Pedestrian countdown signals improve safety
by clearly communicating how much time remains to
cross a street, which greatly reduces the chance that
someone will be stranded in a high-speed roadway.

Prior to its Vision Zero adoption, Fremont had only
40 intersections with pedestrian countdown signals.

Fremont installed pedestrian countdown signals
at all 220 signalized intersections, including on all
Caltrans-owned facilities, and pedestrian crashes
are down 32% compared to before Vision Zero.

Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons
(RRFBs) are pedestrian-activated flashing
lights with additional signage to alert
motorists of a pedestrian crossing. RRFBs
improve safety by increasing the visibility of
marked crosswalks and provide motorists a
cue to slow down and yield to pedestrians.

What are
RRFBs?
What are Multiple
Threat Crashes?
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Speed
Management
There are clear relationships between
excessive speed, reduced perception-
reaction time, and increased crash
severity. In Fremont, 70 percent of
major crashes happened on streets
with a speed limit of 40 mph or
higher before Vision Zero. Because of
this, speed management has been an
overarching theme of Fremont’s Vision
Zero work. After engineering streets for
safer speeds, the City re-surveys streets
to see if the implemented projects
resulted in lower operating speeds.

Since 2015, Fremont has lowered the
posted speed limit on more than 50
street segments. Fremont has also
worked with its Police Department on
targeted speeding enforcement and
has installed 45 speed feedback signs.

Crashes involving unsafe speed
dropped by 44 percent compared
to the years before Vision Zero
adoption.

Map showing lowered speed
limits and speed feedback signs
NEWARK

SAN JOSE

MILPITAS

FREMONTUNION CITY
Fremont Bl
Fremont Bl
Mission Bl
Paseo Padre Pkwy
Paseo Padre Pkwy
Mission Bl
Warm Springs Bl
Osgood Bl
Cushing Pkwy
Grimmer Blvd
Auto Mall Pkwy
Blacow Rd
Thornton Av Mowry Av
Peralta Blvd
Stevenson Av
262
680
880
238
2015–2020
Reducing
Speed Limits
40 MPH
35 MPH
30 MPH
25 MPH

SPEED FEEDBACK SIGN
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Brighter
Street Lighting
The 2020 Action Plan identified that approximately
50 percent of the City’s fatal and severe injury
crashes occurred in the early or late evening
period between 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. In
response to this data, the City accelerated an
environmental sustainability initiative to upgrade
street lighting to achieve immediate safety benefits.

The new streetlight fixtures use half as much
energy and are twice as bright. In residential
areas, the City used a warmer tone of white
light, consistent with the American Medical
Association’s recommendation to minimize
blue light. The public responded positively to
the conversions and expressed a greater sense
of safety from the increased illumination.

Following the approval of a Vision Zero Action Plan,
the City decided to rapidly convert the rest of the
streetlights over several months in 2016 rather than
multiple phases over several years by issuing bonds.

The City determined that fatal and severe
injury crashes in dark conditions declined by
approximately 23 percent between the three
years prior to implementation (2013-2015) and
three years directly following the completion of the
upgrades (2016-2018).

BEFORE
AFTER
The City converted
approximately 16,000
streetlights from the
standard “yellow” sodium
vapor lights to brighter
“white”LED lights.
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Safe Routes to Schools
& Safe Neighborhoods
Fremont has been a national leader in school
area safety improvements. The City and
Fremont Unified School District jointly funded
and participated in school site assessments
at all 40 public schools citywide, in which City
engineers, school principals and parents, and
traffic enforcement officers met to observe
school circulation patterns and infrastructure
conditions. These assessments were conducted
over a two-year period and resulted in school
area safety improvement plans for every school.

Based on the assessments, the City undertook
a three-year effort to implement the short-term
improvements at every school through work
orders installed by the Public Work's Street
Maintenance Division. These improvements totaled
approximately 400 items and included new all-way
stops, upgraded (high visibility) crosswalks, parking
restrictions, enhanced warning signage, and “paint
and plastic” bulbouts, among other improvements.

From 2013-2015, Fremont, tragically, saw nine
major crashes involving youth 15 years of age
or younger . This number dropped to just one
in the period from 2018-2020, which is still
one more than there should be in Fremont.

These successes earned Fremont national
recognition as the third ever recipient of the
Vision Zero for Youth Award, presented by the
National Center for Safe Routes to Schools.

While much of the City’s efforts around Vision
Zero have been focused on higher speed
roadways, the City has also undertaken measures
to ensure safe speeds in neighborhoods, as
part of a balanced program. These efforts have
included increasing the number of speed lumps
from 200 to 250 citywide (with a focus on
school areas) and a citywide “Drive Slowly,
Be Healthy” yard sign campaign to promote a
20 mph advisory speed on all residential streets.

OLIVEIRA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

INTERNATIONAL WALK AND ROLL TO SCHOOL DAY
"DRIVE SLOWLY , BE HEALTHY"

YARD SIGN CAMPAIGN
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WEIBEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PASEO PADRE PARKWAY & ONONDAGA DRIVE

SCHOOL YIELD MARKERS

BASIS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL

LIBERTY STREET & SUNDALE DRIVE

PAINT & PLASTIC BULBOUTS
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PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
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CIVIC CENTER DRIVE & BART WAY

CIVIC CENTER DRIVE
Civic Center Drive

Completed in Fall 2015, Civic Center Drive
improvements consisted of a road diet which
reduced the roadway from four travel lanes
to two, narrowed intersection crossings, and
added rapid flashing beacons at uncontrolled
crosswalks. By reducing the number of lanes
that pedestrians must cross and eliminating
“multiple threat” crashes, the lane reduction
or “road diet” has significantly improved
pedestrian safety. In 2019 and 2020, protected
intersections were installed at Civic Center
Drive & BART Way and Civic Center Drive &
Walnut Avenue, respectively. From 2013-2015,
there were three major crashes along Civic
Center Drive. Since the road diet, there have
been no major crashes on Civic Center Drive
and speed surveys have resulted in a reduction
of the posted speed limit from 30 to 25 mph.
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BEFORE AFTER
In addition to implementing systemic improvements to prevent future crashes, staff looked for potential improvements in response to crash hot spots. These include short-term quick-build projects, and longer- term road redesigns.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Hot Spot Response
Grimmer Curve
Grimmer Boulevard has a large high speed curve
that was a hot spot for major crashes prior to
2016, including three in the period from 2013-2015
and some in which vehicles ran off the roadway. The
location was regularly featured in local media as a
collision hot spot. The City had tried "traditional"
traffic engineering solutions such as curve warning
flashing beacons and high friction surface treatment
pavement, but they did not correct the issue.

Following a particularly scary crash in which a
vehicle ended up in a backyard swimming pool,
neighboring residents demanded a protective
barrier and suggested rebuilding fences as concrete
walls. The City, after evaluating options, elected to
restripe the roadway with narrower, 10' travel lanes
and a buffered bike lane, and installed a k-rail in
the bike buffer. The improvements ran contrary
to a traditional traffic engineering approach,
which would generally recommend wide lanes and
shoulder to provide a generous clear recovery zone
for errant vehicles. The narrowed lanes and k-rail
provided the community with the desired crash
barrier and forced drivers to negotiate the curve
at slower, safer speeds due to the more confined
space and friction with adjacent vehicles. As a co-
benefit, the improvements also create Fremont's
first protected bike lane. There have been no major
crashes since these improvements were installed
in 2016. The success of the Grimmer Curve
provided staff with an object lesson in the power
of a Vision Zero street design approach that has
been applied to improve safety at other locations.

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
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PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
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SIDESHOW PREVENTION MEASURE
Sideshow Response
The City has experienced recurring issues with sideshows in isolated industrial cul-de-sac locations. Sideshows
are illegal gatherings in which people congregate and
perform automobile stunts such as donuts or jumping
out of moving vehicles. Responding to sideshow
activity became a significant public safety issue and
staffing resource issue for the City's Police Department.

Gatherings reached sizes of 100 to 200 cars and 300
spectators and became violent in some instances.

The City's Police and Public Works Departments
collaborated to develop infrastructure measures to
physically prohibit large gatherings and reckless driving maneuvers in these locations. Transportation Engineering and Street Maintenance collaborated to design and
install large traffic circles in the interior of the cul- de-sacs using plastic curbing and vertical posts.

EXAMPLE BAY AREA SIDESHOW
Source: YouTube
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
State
Highways
The state highway system poses a major
challenge for safety, with multiple surface
streets designed for automobile speed and
throughput and interstate freeways cutting
across Fremont. While the City of Fremont
does not control the facilities on the state
highway system, Caltrans has a Complete
Streets policy and supports Vision Zero
goals. The City can work with Caltrans to
promote rapid safety fixes to crash hot spots
along Mission Boulevard, design bicycle
and pedestrian overcrossings over major
barriers, and advance projects to modernize
freeway interchanges. Additionally,
Fremont has secured relinquishment
of a section of State Route 84
(which includes portions of Thornton
Avenue, Fremont Boulevard, Peralta
Avenue, and Mowry Avenue) following a
multi-year process that included securing
state legislative approvals. Portions of
former State Route 84 will undergo
undergo redesign as part of the Centerville
Complete Streets project beginning in 2022.

Centerville Complete Streets Project

The City received a federal grant to transform
portions of former State Route 84 (SR 84) in
the Centerville area from a high speed street
that promotes regional vehicle throughput to
a complete street that serves local access and
supports local businesses. The City is engaged in
a community outreach and visioning process to
determine the ultimate design of the Fremont
Boulevard portion of former SR 84. As part of
this process, the City has implemented a pilot
roadway design, which features the removal
of a vehicle travel lane in order to add on-
street parking and outdoor dining parklet
spaces to support local businesses as well
as bikeway facilities. The pilot project was
accelerated to be implemented in 2020 as a
COVID-19 response measure. The pilot is being
evaluated and will inform the ultimate design
of comprehensive streetscape improvements.

CENTERVILLE PARKLET

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
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I-880 GREEN BIKE LANES
I-880 Green Bike Lanes Project

After a sequence of severe crashes and one
fatality at the interchanges of I-880 and Auto
Mall Parkway and Fremont Boulevard, the City of
Fremont designed and implemented a striping
project that reconfigured bicycle/vehicle merging,
added bike lane buffers with vertical protection,
and added green paint in conflict zones near
on- and off-ramps. Because of the innovative
design, the City of Fremont pursued a long design
decision and maintenance agreement process
with Caltrans in order to deliver the project.

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
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A NEW ACTION PLAN
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By People Major Crashes Percentage Fatalities Percentage Age Under 16 1 2% 0 0%
16 to 29 14 23% 4 27%
30 to 49 13 21% 1 7%
50 to 64 14 23% 4 27%
65 and over 19 31% 6 40%
Gender Male 41 67% 13 87%
Female 20 33% 2 13%
Involves Unhoused Party 6 10% 3 20%
By Crash Type Major Crashes Percentage Fatalities Percentage Light Day 28 48% 5 33%
Dark 30 52% 10 67%
Mode Pedestrian 23 40% 9 60%
Bicycle 10 17% 2 13%
Motorcycle 8 14% 2 13%
Vehicle 17 29% 2 13%
Speed Limit 25 mph 6 10% 1 7%
30-35 mph 20 34% 5 33%
40 mph or more 32 55% 9 60%
Lanes Two 8 14% 1 7%
Three to four 34 59% 8 53%
Five or more 16 28% 6 40%
Involves DUI Party 8 14% 5 33%
State Highway Facility 8 14% 4 27%
Source: City of Fremont Collision Database; Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS), Safe Transportation Research and Education Center, University of California, Berkeley.

Major Crashes (2018–2020)
36 Fremont Vision Zero Action Plan
A Needs-Based Approach
The City of Fremont looked at major crashes over the past three years to develop an action plan that will move the City towards its goals of zero fatal and severe crashes.

How should Fremont
focus its Vision Zero
efforts going forward?
There were 58 major crashes, with 61 people who
were severely injured or killed in those crashes.
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1 California Household Travel Survey (2012)
Major Crashes (2018–2020)
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KEY TAKEAWAY
People Walking
& Biking Are
Most Vulnerable

KEY TAKEAWAY
Major Crashes
Remain Highest on
Wide, Fast Streets
As major crashes have declined , they continue
to impact people on foot and on bicycle
disproportionately compared to how people travel
in Fremont. Major crashes involving pedestrians
and bicyclists represent 40 percent and 17 percent
of all major crashes, which is substantially more
than the share of all trips made using these modes
(5 percent and less than one percent, respectively 1).

The City will continue t o look for ways to protect
its most vulnerable residents and visitors.

Major crashes are primarily on wider, faster
arterial streets. Continued progress towards
zero deaths and severe injuries will require
continued work on these streets to reduce
both the number and severity of crashes.

The primary factors of major crashes in recent
years are varied, and no single factor dominates.

Drivers violating a pedestrian’s right-of-way, drivers
violating another driver’s right-of-way, drivers
violating traffic signals and signs, drivers under the
influence, and pedestrians violating a rule of the
road are all common factors in major crashes.

Strategies that focus on safe speeds will reduce
major crashes regardless of the collision
factor by giving people more time to react
before a crash occurs and reducing kinetic
energy transfer in the event of a crash.

CHANGING ROADS
Change, especially on the roads where people
walk, bike, and drive every day, can be difficult.

New road designs can make people
nervous, and new expectations for driving
speeds may involve changing habits.

Fremont thinks that these changes are
worthwhile to reach zero deaths and severe
injuries on our roads. Certainly one major
lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is
that big shifts in behavior and design can
be critical to reducing harm to people.

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KEY TAKEAWAY
Older People &
Unhoused People Are
Killed & Injured Disproportionately
Major crashes do not affect everyone in Fremont
equally. Pedestrians and people who are older are
overrepresented in fatalities and severe injuries
in Fremont. More people who are homeless have
also been involved in major crashes. Infrastructure,
education, and other outreach efforts could be
targeted towards one or more of these groups,
some of which are highlighted in this section.

Fatal and Severe Injury Rates for
People 65 and Older Have Not
Decreased as Quickly
People who are older are more likely to be severely
injured or killed if they are involved in a crash. In
Fremont, the number of seniors in major crashes
each year is lower since the City's Vision Zero
program was initiated, but has not decreased
as quickly as other age groups. Seniors were
killed or severely injured in over 30% of major
crashes since 2018 while representing 12% of
Fremont’s population. Fremont will be focusing
work in areas and on projects that support
safety for older people traveling in the City.

Major Crashes involving People
Who Are Homeless Have Increased
Eliminating deaths and severe injuries on
the road also requires thinking about people
experiencing homelessness. Since 2018, there
have been four pedestrian crashes, one bicyclist
crash, and one vehicle crash involving people
who were homeless, compared to no crashes
between 2013-2015. 2 At the same time, the
number of homeless people increased to 608
in 2019, which is up 27% since 2017. 3 Fremont
provides a winter shelter, mobile shower and
laundry unit. In August 2020, Fremont opened
the first Housing Navigation Center in southern
Alameda County, and a multi-departmental team
is currently working on a safe parking strategy
for individuals living in RVs. Improving safety for
people who are homeless involves more than traffic
safety, and needs everyone working together .
2 Noted as “transient” in crash reports.
3 Applied Survey Research, 2019, Alameda EveryOne
Home Homeless Count & Survey, Watsonville, CA.

Fremont-focused Summary of the Survey, 2019.

Mapping major crashes in
Fremont before (2013–2015)
and after (2018–2020)
Vision Zero highlights the
City's many successes,
together with continuing
opportunities and emerging
hot spots.

CHANGING & CONTINUED

HOT SPOTS
The maps on pages 38 and 39 show:

Previous hot spots including Civic Center Drive, Grimmer Curve, and the Ardenwood Area has been reduced or eliminated.

SR 262 is an emerging hot spot.

Most crashes are on or near major arterials.
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NEXT LEVEL ACTION PLAN
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NEXT LEVEL ACTION PLAN
Ten Actions
Get State Legislation
for Safer Speeds

1. Enable Speed Safety Cameras

2. Allow Lower Speed Limits
Continue Local Actions
for Safer Streets

3. Manage Speeds with Signal Timing & Speed Feedback

4. Enhance Pedestrian Crosswalks

5. Improve Intersection Safety for Everyone

6. Restripe Major Streets to be “Safe & Complete Streets”

7. Build Better Bikeways
Encourage Support
from Regional Partners

8. Make State Highways & Interchanges Safer

9. Promote Safer Vehicles & Drivers

10. Foster a Bay Area Culture of Safety & Equity
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NEXT LEVEL ACTION PLAN
Get State Legislation
for Safer Speeds

1. Enable Speed Safety Cameras

WHAT Speed safety cameras, also known as
automated speed enforcement (ASE) is a technique
for ensuring compliance with posted speed limits
that is legal in 150 communities across 16 states
and the District of Columbia as of 2019. 1 Currently,
ASE is prohibited by state law in California. Fremont
can advocate for state legislative change to allow
local communities to decide for themselves if they
wish to use this important speed management tool.

WHY Studies show that speed safety cameras
reduce both vehicle speeds and crashes. Because
speed is a major factor in crash severity, ASE
may be a critical tool for California cities, as
noted by the California Zero Fatalities Task
Force.2 Speed safety cameras can ensure
enforcement is more consistently and equitably
applied with less potential for human bias, and
their use has low rates of repeat offenders. 3
Speed safety cameras also provide the ability
to continuously enforce speed limits even if law
enforcement is not present, and can reduce
distraction and congestion from traffic stops.

HOW Several bills have been proposed in the
legislature in recent years to legalize speed
safety cameras in California. Fremont will
work with its local state legislators to support
efforts to enable speed safety cameras.

Montgomery County, Maryland

SPEED SAFETY CAMERA

Montgomery County introduced speed safety
cameras in 2007, and early research found
that over 60 percent of residents supported
the program after it started. The speed safety
cameras reduced the chances of fatal and
severe injuries in crashes by 19 percent.

The county also designated corridors where
cameras would be moved so that people did
not slow for only one location, and found that
fatal and severe injuries in crashes reduced by
an additional 30 percent on these corridors.
1 https://www.iihs.org/topics/speed
2 CalSTA. CalSTA Report of Findings: AB 2363 Zero Traffic Fatalities Task Force. January 2020. 3 City and County of San Francisco. Automated Speed Enforcement Implementation: Survey Findings and Lessons Learned From Around the Country . 2015.

CASE STUDY
Sources: Evaluation of Automated Speed Enforcement in
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2. Allow Lower Speed Limits

WHAT In California, state law requires that
speed limits be set based on the 85th percentile
speed that drivers are measured to travel at,
with limited exceptions. The law states that
posted speed limits that do not correspond to a
current survey of vehicle operating speeds are not
enforceable. The use of the 85th percentile rule
means that the fastest 15 percent of drivers form
the basis for the posted speed limit, regardless
of safety implications. Today, Fremont does not
have authority to change how speed limits are
set beyond these parameters without action from
the state legislature. Fremont can advocate for
state legislative change that allows local control in
how speed limits are set, including use of national
and international best practice approaches.

WHY A growing body of research has documented
that there is no engineering or scientific basis
for the use of the 85th percentile rule. 4 The use
of the 85th percentile rule does not consider
context-appropriate speeds for local roads,
does not account for the presence of people
walking and biking, and can lead to increasing
speed limits over time. 5 A variety of best
practices internationally and around the U.S.
point to setting speed limits based on roadway
type (e.g. arterial versus local) and maximum
speed limits in urbanized areas. Alternative
speed limit setting methods are supported by
the National Transportation Safety Board and
California’s Zero Traffic Fatalities Task Force.6
4 National Traffic Safety Board. Reducing Speeding-Related Crashes Involving Passenger Vehicles. July 2017.
5 Ibid.
6 CalSTA. CalSTA Report of Findings: AB 2363 Zero
Traffic Fatalities Task Force. January 2020.

Photo Source: Andy Shupe
HOW With this action item, Fremont will
support legislative efforts to remove the 85th
percentile rule requirement from state law.

This would provide Fremont with the ability
to set context-sensitive speed limits, such as
limiting all speed limits on urban arterials to
35 mph and all neighborhood streets to 20 mph.
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NEXT LEVEL ACTION PLAN
Continue Local Actions
for Safer Streets

3. Manage Speeds with Signal Timing
& Speed Feedback

WHAT Managing speeds also means designing
and operating safe streets. Since Vision Zero
was adopted in 2015, Fremont has redesigned
many streets for slower, safer speeds, which
allowed Fremont to lower posted speed limits on
many of those streets. This action would include
additional strategies such as changing signal
timing and additional speed feedback signs.

WHY All elements of the road, including
signals, should reinforce expectations for safer
speeds. Limited enforcement resources mean
that the City must use a variety of strategies to
ensure adherence to posted speed limits.

HOW Fremont will time the traffic signals along
corridors with existing coordinated traffic signals
so that the signal progression speed favors drivers
who are traveling at a safe speed. Drivers adhering
to the speed limit would get a “green wave” while
drivers who speed would hit more red lights.

Speed feedback signs will be used to emphasize
the expected speed, particularly in areas with
sensitive land uses (e.g. schools), crash hot spots,
and long distances between traffic signals, and
to collect data to target signal coordination.

4. Enhance Pedestrian Crosswalks

WHAT Fremont can use a variety of tools to
enhance safety for people crossing the street.

Some of the common tools include reducing
crossing distances with median refuges and
bulbouts, introducing traffic signals, pedestrian
signals, or flashing beacons, and installing lighting
to improve pedestrian visibility. Fremont already
uses each of those tools and will continue
to invest in those crosswalk upgrades at all
uncontrolled pedestrian crosswalks citywide. In
the near-term, commercial districts, uncontrolled
crossings of major arterials, and locations with
frequent crashes after dark are priorities.

WHY While major crashes involving pedestrians
have declined, recent crash data suggest that
additional focus is needed on pedestrian safety:
9 of the 15 traffic fatalities between 2018 and
2020 involved a pedestrian, with eight of those
nine occurring after dark. More than a quarter
of all pedestrian major crashes since Vision Zero
adoption were at uncontrolled, marked crosswalks
on high speed arterials. Pedestrian crashes at
midblock and other non-crosswalk locations
in commercial districts emerged as a common
crash profile in recent years. Crashes after dark
have declined overall, however no reduction
was noted for bicyclists and pedestrians.

HOW The City will use a full toolbox of crosswalk
enhancements at unsignalized, mid-block, and
signalized locations. The City will continue to
upgrade uncontrolled crosswalks with flashing
beacons or pedestrian signals. The City will
seek to add enhanced, midblock crossings in
densifying areas and commercial districts, where
increased pedestrian activity may warrant more
crossing opportunities. The City will also work to
ensure that all uncontrolled pedestrian crossing
locations meet basic safety lighting standards.

These crossing do not have traffic
signals that require vehicles to
stop, so motorists must yield to
pedestrians.

What are Uncontrolled Crossings?

EXAMPLE UNCONTROLLED CROSSING
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5. Improve Intersection Safety
for Everyone

WHAT Continue improving intersection
safety through signal investments and safer
intersection designs, including reducing crossing
distances, slower turning speeds, protected
intersection designs, and roundabouts.

WHY Complex interactions occur at intersections
between drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit
vehicles as they make decisions about whether
to turn or proceed straight and how to interact
with each other . Not surprisingly, more than half
of major crashes since Fremont adopted Vision
Zero occurred at intersections. Many of Fremont’s
signalized intersections are designed to allow
higher speeds, such as with right-turn slip lanes
or large curb radii; require drivers to mix with
bicyclists and pedestrians as they make turns; and
do not meet current standards for the number,
size, and placement of traffic signal heads.

HOW Fremont will work to modify older traffic
signals to upgrade these to current safety
standards and, as appropriate, can install new
protected intersections. Protected intersections
improve safety for everyone: reduce crossing
distances for pedestrians, reduce the speeds of
turning automobiles, and provide better sightlines
between drivers and bicyclists. Adjusting traffic
signal phasing and timing can also improve safety
at many existing signalized intersections and can
include new protected turn phases and leading
pedestrian intervals. As funds permit, Fremont
will install new traffic signals at uncontrolled
intersections that meet signal warrants7, which will
provide the highest level of control of conflicting
movements and make the intersection safer for
everyone. Fremont will also consider installing
roundabouts, which provide many similar benefits
to protected intersections, where appropriate.

Roundabouts are large circular islands,
placed in the middle of an intersection,
which direct flow in a continuous circular
direction around the intersection.

Roundabouts can reduce the number of
conflict points, compared to an uncontrolled
intersection, and decrease vehicle speeds
due to intersection geometry.

Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPIs) improve
pedestrian visibility and safety by providing
time for people on foot to start crossing the
street before automobiles have a green light.

Protected Turn Phases improve safety by
giving vehicles dedicated time to turn and
reducing the number of conflicts. People
making turns in automobiles without
protected turns often have to look for
oncoming vehicles and people on foot,
which is more likely to result in a crash.
7 These warrants are defined in the the California
Manual of Uniform Traffic Design (MUTCD)
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6. Restripe Major Streets to be
“Safe & Complete Streets”

WHAT Continue restriping major streets to narrow
lanes, provide bicycle facilities, upgrade crosswalks,
and implement road diets, as appropriate.

WHY More than 80 percent of severe injury
and fatal crashes in Fremont happen on arterial
roadways. Fremont has restriped more than
40 miles of roadways as “safe and complete
streets” since 2015. This represents 47 percent
of arterial roadway mileage. During this period
of time, major crashes with unsafe speed as a
primary crash factor dropped by 44 percent.

HOW Fremont will continue to leverage
its pavement maintenance program to
expand this treatment on a systemic
basis to all arterial roadways.

7. Build Better Bikeways

WHAT Continue installing additional protected
intersections and separated bikeway facilities as
recommended in Fremont’s Bicycle Master Plan.

WHY Since Vision Zero adoption, 8 of the 11
major crashes involving bicyclists occurred at
signalized intersections or on higher speed streets
that had striped bike lanes but no separated
bikeway. Separated bikeways protect people on
bicycles from moving traffic through vertical posts
or curbs, improving safety for vulnerable road
users and reducing the stress of riding a bicycle.

HOW Fremont has installed more than 15 miles of
separated bikeways and five protected intersections
since 2015, and will continue to expand these
treatments to additional locations. In addition,
Fremont will continue to advance projects to construct
new regional trails and bridges to provide bikeway
connections across major barriers, such as highways.

Separated Bikeways
provide physical barriers
and buffer space between
people on bicycles and
people in cars. The
separation is provided by
materials such as flexible
posts, or concrete curb.

What are
Separated
Bikeways?

EXAMPLE SEPARATED BIKEWAY
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NEXT LEVEL ACTION PLAN
Encourage Support
from Regional Partners

8. Make State Highways
& Interchanges Safer

WHAT Work with Caltrans to advance safety improvement
projects on and across the state highway system. Mission Boulevard (SR 262 and SR 238) is part of the state
highway systems, and the many interchanges along I-880
and I-680 create safety challenges on City streets.

WHY Four of the 15 fatalities in Fremont between 2018 and 2020 happened on Mission Boulevard (SR 262 and SR 238). The state highway system provides important connections in Fremont, but can be a barrier to safe and comfortable walking and biking.

Additionally, the I-680 off-ramp at Mission Boulevard has had multiple truck overturning incidents, presenting an injury and potential hazardous material risk. Caltrans has had a Complete Streets policy since 2008, emphasized the design flexibility for multimodal design in its standards, and endorsed the Safe System Approach through its 2020 Strategic Highway Safety Plan.

HOW Fremont will work with Caltrans to design and install safety fixes at crash hot spots along Mission Boulevard. In addition, Fremont will work to advance projects to modernize freeway interchange locations, such as I-880/Decoto, I-680/ Mission, and I-680/Washington with designs that promote safe, comfortable access across the freeway for bikes and pedestrians. Fremont will work with the Alameda County
Transportation Commission (Alameda CTC) to advance the SR 262 Cross Connector project, which will provide a comprehensive, longer term solution to safety issues along this section of Mission Boulevard by separating local and regional traffic.

REGIONAL PROJECTS
State Route 262 Cross Connector
(Alameda CTC lead)
Status: Preliminary Engineering
Grade-separated connector between 880
and 680 with managed lanes removes
regional traffic from local streets
I-880/Decoto
Interchange Modernization
Status: Preliminary Engineering
Transit priority treatments and separated
bike/ped facilities through interchange in
Decoto Transbay corridor
I-680/Mission (SR 238)
Interchange Modernization
Status: Preliminary Engineering
Modified interchange design to address
truck overturning issues, provide
separated and continuous bike/ped
facilities, and manage ramp meter traffic
I-680/Washington
Interchange Modernization
Status: Preliminary Engineering
Modified interchange design, provide
separated and continuous bike/ped
facilities and manage ramp meter traffic
I-880/Innovation District Bridge
Status: Final Design
New bicycle and pedestrian bridge over
a major freeway barrier between Tesla,
Warm Springs BART and Innovation
District, and Bay Trail
I-880/Pacific Commons Bridge
Status: Preliminary Engineering
New bicycle and pedestrian bridge over a
major freeway barrier connecting to Pacific
Commons Shopping and Job Center
I-680/Sabercat Bridge
Status: Preliminary Engineering
New bicycle and pedestrian bridge over a
major freeway barrier connecting future
Irvington BART Station to Sabercat Trail,
Mission San Jose District, and Ohlone
College
PROPOSED 880/INNOVATION DISTRICT

BICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
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9. Promote Safer
Vehicles & Drivers

WHAT Promote the use of crash and
injury prevention vehicle technology among
individuals and fleet owners in the Fremont
community, including pedestrian and bicycle
detection, crash avoidance, truck side guards,
and vehicles that are designed for better crash
outcomes with pedestrians and bicyclists.

Work to ensure that drivers are educated and
mindful of the laws and rules of the road, the
rights of all road users including bicyclists and
pedestrians, how to travel safely under dangerous
conditions (dark, rain, etc.), and how to use
new types of infrastructure treatments.

WHY Fremont’s review of crash data and
narratives suggest that some major crashes are
result of human error, so there is a lack of clear
engineering countermeasures. Many newer
vehicles have sophisticated safety technology built-
in, such as pedestrian detection with crash warning
and automatic braking that can assist drivers in
complex decision making, helping to prevent
crashes that result from human error . In addition,
vehicle designs that are intended for better
outcomes for vulnerable road users can reduce
crash severity when crashes do happen. Fremont
is also home to leading autonomous vehicle
companies such as Tesla and Pony.ai, and is excited
that this innovative technology is developed locally.

In addition, Fremont recognizes a particular need
to provide motorists with education and training
regarding safe driving behavior, as motor vehicles,
due to their size and speed, are the most likely
to cause severe or fatal traffic crashes (all major
crashes in Fremont from 2018-2020 involved
a motor vehicle, and 43 percent involved two
motor vehicles and no bicyclists or pedestrians).

RESOURCES
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) Ratings
The NHTSA provides searchable vehicle safety ratings to help consumers make smart decisions about safety when
purchasing a vehicle.

MyCarDoesWhat.org
The MyCarDoesWhat.org website helps to educate drivers
on new vehicle safety technologies designed to prevent
crashes, with information provided by the University of Iowa and the National Safety Council.

HOW Major auto manufacturers in the U.S. have
voluntarily agreed to implement advanced safety
features in new vehicles starting with Model Year
2022. Fremont can accelerate their uptake within
the community by educating individuals and fleet
owners as to the benefits of these technologies.

Fremont can also work with regional partners to
ensure that drivers education at the state level is
responsive to the needs of Vision Zero cities, to
safety data, and incorporates best practices. In
addition, Fremont can supplement state level driver
training and education with additional information
distributed through City communications and at
highly visited community centers and destinations.

VEHICLE HEIGHT , SPEED & MASS INFLUENCES

THE CHANCE OF A PEDESTRIAN FATALITY
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10. Foster a Bay Area
Culture of Safety & Equity

WHAT Work locally and regionally to advance
a culture of safety and equity in transportation.

WHY The transportation system is funded
and managed by many agencies, so promoting
safety requires all of them to work together .

In addition, many impactful safety education
campaigns can be implemented at a regional
scale, such as working with media outlets. Many
equity issues that result in disproportionate
safety impacts are regional problems that
require regional solutions (such as housing
shortages and homelessness). There is a
commitment to Vision Zero throughout the
region, including MTC's adoption of a Vision
Zero policy, and work to address inequality is
also underway at all levels throughout the Bay
Area. Fremont is well-positioned to participate
in regional efforts in this area. Fremont is a
self-declared compassionate city, is home to
the Family Resource Center which provides
services to a variety of communities of concern,
and has engaged in a genuine community
dialogue around issues of race and policing
HOW Fremont can work with partners
around the region, including Metropolitan
Transportation Commission (MTC), Alameda
County Transportation Commission (CTC),
other Vision Zero cities, community groups,
public health groups, and others to promote
a culture of safety. Fremont can share its
expertise and data to assist in the development
and implementation of safety campaigns
and encourage additional funding for safety
improvements. Areas of emphasis could include
educating the public on high-risk behaviors and
humanizing the issue of safety by working with
the families of victims to highlight their stories. In
addition, Fremont can work to ensure that actions
to improve safety benefit all, including groups
that are disproportionately impacted by safety
outcomes or have been historically marginalized.

Elderly people, people who are homeless, lower
income people, and people speaking other
languages should be authentically included and
engaged as part of all Vision Zero efforts.

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Project Name Project Description Project Cost Funding Sources Citywide LED Street
Light Upgrade
This project replaced over 14,000 high-
pressure sodium (HPS) streetlights
with LED streetlights. The purpose of
the project was to improve roadway
visibility, reduce energy consumption,
and reduce ongoing maintenance costs.

The project was completed in 2015.

Initial upfront cost
of $6,316,000,
with an immediate
PG&E rebate of
$635,000 for a
total upfront cost
of $5,681,000.

Debt-financed via
bond issuance,
repaid with
savings in energy
costs over the life
of the project.

Anticipated
annual savings of
$904,000 mean
that the project
may break even
a little more than
6 years after
installation.

Civic Center
Drive Crosswalk
Improvements
The project consisted of installation of new
midblock crossing improvements including
bulbouts and RRFBs. The improvements
were implemented in 2015 (Washington
Hospital) and 2017 (Kaiser Permanente). N/A
Privately funded
and implemented
in partnership
with Washington
Hospital
and Kaiser
Permanente.

Grimmer Curve
High Friction
Pavement &
K-Rail Projects
This project overlaid a curved roadway
portion of Grimmer Boulevard with a
High Friction Surface Treatment (HFST)
as well as installed K-Rail and collapsible
delineators within the bike buffer in order
to address a number of vehicle crashes
onto adjacent residential properties as
a result of roll-over or run-off-the-road
collisions. The HFST was completed in
2015 and the K-Rail was installed in 2016.
$145,000 State Gas
Tax funds
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& Funding Sources
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2016 Cape
& Slurry
This project included modifications
to roadway striping as part of routine
pavement preventative maintenance
in accordance with Safe and Complete
Street design practices. Specific
treatments implemented included
narrower vehicular lanes, buffered bike
lanes, enhanced crosswalks, and bulb
out treatments at intersections. The
project covered 20 centerline miles in
total that included segments of major
arterials including Washington Boulevard,
Paseo Padre Parkway, South Grimmer
Boulevard, and Civic Center Drive. The
project was completed in 2016.
$1,712,000
Measure B
and State Gas
Tax funds
Citywide Pedestrian
Countdown Signals
This project upgraded existing pedestrian
signal heads to new countdown
pedestrian signal heads at all 220 City
and Caltrans signalized intersections
within the City of Fremont. The purpose
of the project was to increase awareness
for pedestrians by displaying the
amount of time remaining to clear the
crosswalk at a signalized intersection.

The project was completed in 2017.
$166,000 State Gas
Tax funds
Project Name Project Description Project Cost Funding Sources Appendix A3
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2016 Pavement
Rehabilitation –
Speed Lump
Installations
This project included the installation of
21 speed lumps at various residential
roadways that met the City’s adopted
warrants for excessive speeding and
criteria for speed lump installation.

Locations included an emphasis on
school zones. All installations were
accomplished as part of the City’s annual
pavement rehabilitation project and
were completed by January 2018.
$85,000 for
speed lumps Measure BB funds
2017 Pavement
Rehabilitation –
Speed Lump
Installations
This project included the installation of
69 speed lumps at various residential
roadways that met the City’s adopted
warrants for excessive speeding and
criteria for speed lump installation.

Locations included an emphasis on
school zones. All installations were
accomplished as part of the City’s
annual pavement rehabilitation project
and were completed by July 2018.
$383,000 for
speed lumps City General Funds
2017 Cape
& Slurry
This project included modifications
to roadway striping as part of routine
pavement preventative maintenance in
accordance with Safe and Complete Street
design practices. Specific treatments
implemented included narrower vehicular
lanes, buffered bike lanes, enhanced
crosswalks, and bulb out treatments at
intersections. The project covered 40
centerline miles in total that included
segments of major arterials including
Fremont Boulevard, Mowry Avenue,
Washington Boulevard, Paseo Padre
Parkway, Mission Boulevard, East
Warren Avenue, and Peralta Boulevard.

The project was completed in 2018.
$3,822,000
Measure
B, Vehicle
Registration
Fee, and City
General Funds
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2018 Cape
& Slurry
This project included modifications
to roadway striping as part of routine
pavement preventative maintenance in
accordance with Safe and Complete Street
design practices. Specific treatments
implemented included narrower vehicular
lanes, buffered bike lanes, enhanced
crosswalks, and bulb out treatments at
intersections. The project covered 28
centerline miles in total that included
segments of major arterials including
Washington Boulevard, Paseo Padre
Parkway, Central Avenue, Stevenson
Boulevard, East Warren Avenue,
South Grimmer Boulevard, Grimmer
Boulevard, and Auto Mall Parkway.

The project was completed in 2019.
$3,707,000
Measure B,
Measure BB,
SB1, State Gas
Tax, Vehicle
Registration
Fee, and City
General Funds
Year 1 Bikeway
Improvements
This project installed enhanced bikeway
striping on 9 miles of Vision Zero Safety
Priority streets including the Driscoll
Road, Grimmer Boulevard, Paseo
Padre Parkway, Stevenson Boulevard,
and Walnut Avenue corridors. The
project was completed in 2019.
$1,018,000
TDA, Measure
B and Measure
BB funds
Pedestrian Crossing
Enhancements,
Phase I
This project installed a Rectangular Rapid
Flashing Beacon (RRFB) at E Warren
Avenue & Bradley Street and a Pedestrian
Hybrid Beacon (PHB) on Mowry Avenue
& Waterside Circle. The purpose of the
project was to increase driver awareness
of crossing pedestrians. The project
was completed in Spring 2019.
$342,000
Transportation
Development
Act (TDA) and
SB1 funds
Pedestrian Crossing
Enhancements,
Phase II
This project installed a Pedestrian Hybrid
Beacon (PHB) on Fremont Boulevard
at Norris Road and Rectangular Rapid
Flashing Beacons (RRFB) on Paseo
Padre Parkway at Surry Place, Fremont
Boulevard at Margery Drive, Driscoll Road
at Joyce Avenue, Driscoll Road between
Chiltern Drive and Amapola Drive, and
Paseo Padre Parkway at Baylis Street. The
project was completed in Fall 2019.
$850,000 TDA, Measure B,
and SB1 funds
Project Name Project Description Project Cost Funding Sources Appendix A5
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Radar Feedback
Sign Installations
Prior to 2020
In 2018, the City procured 4 Radar
Speed Feedback (RSF) signs in its
efforts to manage speeds at known
speeding locations. Over the next
year, an additional 15 RFS signs
were procured and installed.
$88,000
California OTS
Grant, Federal
HSIP grant,
Stratford School
development,
and the City’s
General Fund
School Area Safety
Improvements
This project installed quick build
improvements including new and
enhanced crosswalk striping, advance yield
signage and markings, parking restrictions
to improve sight distance, “paint and
plastic” bulbouts, and new stop signs, as
identified in school safety assessments.

Over 400 discrete improvements were
installed at all schools citywide over
a three-year period from 2018-2020.

Project installation was completed
by Street Maintenance Division.
$100,000 in
materials
State Gas
Tax funds
Washington
Boulevard
HSIP Project
This project installed new roadway
striping, buffered bike lanes, and radar
feedback signs along Washington
Boulevard from Fremont Roberts Avenue
to Meredith Drive. The project also
included a Rectangular Rapid Flashing
Beacon (RRFB) on Washington Boulevard
and Olive Avenue with a median refuge
median island and curb bulb-out. The
project was completed in early 2020.
$499,000
Federal
Highway Safety
Improvement
Program (HSIP)
and Measure
B funds
2019 Engineering
& Traffic Survey
& Speed Limit
Signage Changes
Following roadway striping redesign to
implement "safe and complete street
design standards", this project performed
a mid-cycle Engineering and Traffic Survey
(E&TS) along 86 segments of safety
priority street corridors to determine
whether changes in speed limits were
justified due to the new roadway
configurations/characteristics. The
project was completed in March 2020.

Subsequently, posted speed limits were
lowered on 40 street segments citywide.
$74,000 State Gas
Tax funds
Project Name Project Description Project Cost Funding Sources A6 Fremont Vision Zero Action Plan
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2019 Cape
& Slurry
This project included modifications
to roadway striping as part of routine
pavement preventative maintenance
in accordance with Safe and Complete
Street design practices. Specific
treatments implemented included
narrower vehicular lanes, buffered bike
lanes, enhanced crosswalks, and bulb
out treatments at intersections. The
project covered 27 centerline miles in
total that included segments of major
arterials including Mowry Avenue, Paseo
Padre Parkway, and Auto Mall Parkway.

The project was completed in 2020.
$3,800,100
City General
Funds and State
Gas Tax funds
BART Way
Multimodal
Improvements
The project consisted of streetscape
improvements along BART Way, which
serves as a gateway street between the
Fremont BART Station and Downtown, as
well as intersection improvements at BART
Way/Civic Center Drive. Improvements
included widened sidewalks, pedestrian
scale lighting, street trees, a landscaped
median, a raised cycletrack, a protected
intersection with a new traffic signal
system, and pedestrian wayfinding
signage and access improvements
through an adjacent shopping center .

The project was completed in 2019.
$4,512,000
Federal Grant,
City General
Funds, State
Gas Tax funds,
Measure B,
Measure BB
and TIF funds
Walnut Avenue
Protected Bikeway
The project consisted of a 1.2 mile
raised cycletrack and 4 new protected
intersections in the Walnut Avenue
Corridor, which provides access from
the Fremont BART Station to Downtown
destinations including high density
housing, shopping centers, hospitals,
and civic destinations. The project
featured upgraded traffic signal systems,
raised bus loading islands, new paving,
a midblock crossing enhanced with
an RRFB, and emergency vehicle pre-
emption. The project was completed in
2020 and has won national recognition
from People for Bikes and CalBike as one
of the nation's best bikeway facilities.
$6,000,000 Measure BB grant
Project Name Project Description Project Cost Funding Sources Appendix A7
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2020 Cape
& Slurry
This project included modifications
to roadway striping as part of routine
pavement preventative maintenance in
accordance with Safe and Complete Street
design practices. Specific treatments
implemented included narrower vehicular
lanes, buffered bike lanes, enhanced
crosswalks, and bulb out treatments at
intersections. The project covered 28
centerline miles in total that included
segments of major arterials including
Mowry Avenue, Mission Boulevard,
Warm Springs Boulevard, East Warren
Avenue, and Grimmer Boulevard. The
project was completed in 2020.
$4,285,000
Measure B,
Measure
BB, Vehicle
Registration Fee,
City General
Funds, State Gas
Tax, and TIF
Blacow Road/
Gatewood Street &
Grimmer Boulevard/
Seneca Park Avenue
Traffic Signals
This project installed traffic signals
at Blacow Road & Gatewood Street
and Grimmer Boulevard & Seneca
Park Avenue. The project was
completed in Summer 2020. $1,553,000
Fremont’s Traffic
Impact Fees
(TIF), Measure
BB, Measure
B, Vehicle
Registration Fees,
and SB1 funds
Year 2 Bikeway
Improvements
Project consists of conversion of 10
miles of buffered bike lanes to separated
bike lanes via the installation of flexible
bollards. The project improvements
were in various corridors including
Paseo Padre Parkway, Walnut Avenue,
Stevenson Boulevard, Driscoll Road,
Grimmer Boulevard, and Scott Creek Road.

The project was completed in 2021.
$700,000
TDA,
Transportation
Fund for Clean
Air, Measure BB,
and TIF funds
Year 3 Bikeway
Improvements
The project consists of upgraded bikeway
striping at various locations citywide
including Paseo Padre Parkway, Kato Road,
and numerous streets in the City Center
and Warm Springs/South Fremont areas.

The project is currently in design and is
estimated to be completed in 2021.

Approximately
$550,000
Measure BB
and TIF funds
Project Name Project Description Project Cost Funding Sources A8 Fremont Vision Zero Action Plan
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Pedestrian
Crossing
Yield Marker
Improvements
This project installed yield markers at
uncontrolled crosswalks along high speed,
multilane crossings of major arterial
roadways. Select locations also included
installation of gore striping and channelizer
posts between travel lanes to prevent
vehicles from making unsafe passing/
lane changing maneuvers at crosswalks.

Improvements were installed at 21
locations and installation was completed
by Street Maintenance Division.
<$10,000 City General Funds
Ardenwood
Office Park Area
Improvements
The City is working with private developers
in the Ardenwood Office Park Area to
install new traffic signals (designed as
protected intersections) at Paseo Padre
Parkway/Kaiser Drive and Paseo Padre
Parkway/Dumbarton Circle as well as
restriping Campus Court, Kaiser Drive,
and Dumbarton Circle with buffered and
separated bike lanes. The project will
serve commuters to an existing major job
center that is planned to further densify
and provide workplaces thousands of
additional employees. Improvements are
being implemented as a series of discrete
projects, some of which are already
installed and others of which are in design.

N/A
Private
Development
Funds
Warm Springs
District South
Grimmer Boulevard
Protected Bikeway
& Intersections
The City is working with private developers
in the Warm Springs/South Fremont Area
to construct a two-way protected bikeway
along South Grimmer and protected
intersections at South Grimmer Boulevard/
Wisdom Way, South Grimmer Boulevard/
Lopes Court, and South Grimmer
Boulevard/Warm Springs Boulevard. This
densifying areas is adjacent to the Warm
Springs/South Fremont BART Station and a
new community with 4,000 housing units.

The project is currently in construction in
2021.

N/A
Private
Development
Funds
Project Name Project Description Project Cost Funding Sources Appendix A9
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Pedestrian Crossing
Enhancements,
Phase III
This project installed Rectangular Rapid
Flashing Beacons (RRFB) at Washington
Boulevard & Jerome Avenue and Central
Avenue & Joseph Street. The project
includes pedestrian refuge islands.

The project is in construction and
will be completed in Spring 2021.

Approximately
$407,000
TDA, Measure BB,
and SB1 funds
2020 Citywide
Radar Feedback Sign
Installation Project
After successful deployments of the
initial 17 Radar Speed Feedback (RSF)
signs, the City procured an additional
30 signs which will make a total of
47 signs that will be installed and
operational by the Summer of 2021.
$150,000
Measure BB
and the City
General Funds
Niles Boulevard
& Rancho
Arroyo Parkway
Safe & Complete
Street
This project consists of the installation
of a new traffic signal at Niles/Rock,
flashing pedestrian crossing beacons
at Niles/El Portal and Niles/Rancho
Arroyo intersections, closing a sidewalk
gap along Rancho Arroyo Parkway, and
repaving and restriping Niles Boulevard
with buffered bike lanes from the Niles
Bridge to Hillview Drive. The project
is currently under construction and
will be completed in Fall 2021.

Approximately
$2,300,000
Measure B,
Measure BB,
TIF , Vehicle
Registration
Fee, and State
Gas Tax funds
Fremont Boulevard/
Stevenson Boulevard
& Fremont Boulevard/
Mowry Avenue
Intersection
Improvements
This project consists of modernization
of the traffic signals and intersection
design for overall safety along Fremont
Boulevard at Mowry Avenue and
Stevenson Boulevard, in the Central
Fremont area. Project includes removing
the existing high-speed, right-turn lanes
at the intersections and replacing them
with new protected refuge islands for
pedestrians and bicyclists. The traffic
signal system will be replaced with modern
equipment to enhance efficiency for
all travel modes and with prioritization
capabilities for emergency vehicles and
transit. The project is in construction
and will be completed in Fall 2021.

Approximately
$3,500,000
Federal HSIP
grant, TIF ,
and State Gas
Tax funds
Project Name Project Description Project Cost Funding Sources A10 Fremont Vision Zero Action Plan
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Fremont Boulevard/
Country Way
Intersection
Improvements
The Fremont/Country Intersection
Improvements project will construct a
protected intersection to improve safety
for all roadway users by slowing turning
vehicles, eliminating weaving maneuvers
between bikes and turning vehicles,
and shortening crossing distances. The
project is located adjacent to Washington
High School and to a heavy pedestrian
activity area in Downtown Fremont. The
project is anticipated to be designed
and constructed in 2021-2022.
$1,348,000
Alameda CTC
Safe Routes to
School "Mini
Grant" funds,
TDA, Measure BB,
and TIF funds
Centerville
Complete Streets
The Centerville Complete Streets project
will improve Fremont Boulevard (Alder
Avenue to Eggers Drive), Thornton
Avenue and Peralta Boulevard by repaving
steets and installing complete streets
treatments to enhance safety for all
users. The project site is located in the
heart of the Centerville commercial
district and within close proximity to
numerous schools, businesses, AC Transit
bus lines, and the Centerville Altamont
Corridor Express (ACE)/Amtrak train
station. Many of the area roadways are
in poor condition and were developed
to old state highway standards (former
State Route 84) focused on vehicle traffic
with wide lanes and intersections. The
City implemented a pilot design in 2021
including a road diet, adding on-street
parking, adding parklet spaces to support
local businesses, and adding buffered
and protected bike lanes. Full streetscape
construction is anticipated in 2022.
$8,693,000
City General
Funds, CMAQ, and
STP Federal grants
Pedestrian Crossing
Enhancements,
Phase IV
This project includes Rectangular Rapid
Flashing Beacons (RRFB) at Paseo Padre
Parkway & Dorne Place, Paseo Padre
Parkway & Mento Drive, Mission Boulevard
& Ohlone College, Walnut Avenue &
Godfrey Drive, and Washington Boulevard
& Bryant Street. The project is in design
and is estimated to be completed in 2022.

Approximately
$450,000 To be determined
Project Name Project Description Project Cost Funding Sources Appendix A11
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Project Name Project Description Project Cost Funding Sources Safe & Smart
Corridor Project
This project includes the installation
of traffic signal cabinets, traffic signal
controllers, vehicle detection cameras,
video analytics cameras, connected
vehicle communication, adaptive signal
control, and smart lighting systems
along a 10-mile stretch of Fremont
Boulevard. The project will also upgrade
approximately 7.5 miles of existing traffic
signal communication network with fiber
optic cable and networking switches on
segments of Fremont Boulevard, Paseo
Padre Parkway, and Thornton Avenue.

The project will be completed in 2022.

Approximately
$8,000,000 Measure BB funds
Washington
Boulevard/Osgood
Road Intersection
Improvements
The Washington/Osgood Intersection
Improvements project will construct a
protected intersection to improve safety
for all roadway users by slowing turning
vehicles, eliminating weaving maneuvers
between bikes and turning vehicles,
and shortening crossing distances. The
project is located on the edge of the
Irvington commercial district, adjacent
to the future Irvington BART station,
and will form a part of the future East
Bay Greenway. The project is in design
with construction anticipated in 2022.
$1,350,000
Redevelopment
and State Gas
Tax funds
Walnut Avenue/
Liberty Street
Intersection
Improvements
The Walnut/Liberty Intersection
Improvements project will construct a
protected intersection to improve safety
for all roadway users by slowing turning
vehicles, eliminating weaving maneuvers
between bikes and turning vehicles, and
shortening crossing distances. The project
includes an upgraded traffic signal system
and a raised bus loading island. One
corner is being completed by an adjacent
private development. The project is
located in Downtown Fremont and will
extend the Walnut Avenue Protected
Bikeway. The project is in design with
construction anticipated for 2022.
$1,831,000
Safe Routes to
BART Grant Funds,
TIF , Measure BB,
and developer
improvements
A12 Fremont Vision Zero Action Plan
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# Project Description
1 Pledging to “Don’t Drive Distracted” Girl Scouts Volunteer, Preetha Vellayapan, created a website promoting safe driving behavior , obtained hundreds of pledges , and earned a Girl Scout “Gold” Award 2 “Look for Safety” Education Campaign Fremont Youth Service Corps installed “Look” messages at over 40 crosswalks 3 Reducing “High” Speed Limits
Albrae Street – Stewart Avenue to Christy Street
Ardenwood Boulevard – Union City Limit to Newark City Limit Auto Mall Parkway – Boyce Road to I-880
Cushing Parkway – South end of causeway to Fremont Boulevard Dumbarton Circle – Paseo Padre Parkway to Kaiser Way
Gateway Boulevard – Fremont Boulevard to Lakeview Boulevard Milmont Drive – Page Avenue to City Limits
Old Warm Springs Boulevard – Fremont Boulevard to Grimmer Boulevard Paseo Padre Parkway – Thornton Avenue to Peralta Boulevard Warm Springs Boulevard – Grimmer Boulevard to Warren Avenue Warm Springs Boulevard – Warren Avenue to City Limits 4 Countdown Pedestrian Signals Increased installation from 50 locations to all 220 traffic signal locations Citywide 5 More Buffered Bike Lanes 20 miles of streets with buffered bike lanes on Washington Boulevard, Paseo Padre Parkway, Grimmer Boulevard, and Warm Springs Boulevard 6 Green Bike Lanes "Conflict zones" installed at Walnut Avenue/Civic Center Drive, Stevenson Boulevard/ Civic Center Drive, Warm Springs Boulevard/BART, and Washington Boulevard/Paseo Padre Parkway 7 Neighborhood Traffic Calming Speed lumps installed on Second Street, Parkside Drive, Butano Park Drive, Farwell Drive, Palm Avenue, and Alder Avenue 8 Brighter Lighting on Fremont Boulevard Increased lighting levels on 250 street lights from Irvington to Centerville 9 LED Streetlight Conversion Converted 14,279 lights from “yellow” sodium lights to “white” LED lights 10 Grimmer Boulevard Curve Installed concrete safety barrier to protect sidewalk, bikeway and backyards 11 Turn Restrictions Washington Boulevard/Starr Street/Mission Boulevard 12 Turn Restrictions Palm Avenue/Via San Dimas/Mission Boulevard (near I-680) 13 Turn Restrictions Canyon Heights/Old Canyon Road/ Niles Canyon Road 14 Morrison Canyon Road Partial one-way street conversion 15 New Traffic Signal Fremont Boulevard/Old Warm Springs Boulevard 16 Enhanced Crosswalks Fremont Boulevard/Bonde Way
17 Enhanced Crosswalks Mowry Avenue/Waterside Circle
18 Enhanced Crosswalks Washington Boulevard/Olive Avenue 19 Enhanced Crosswalks Warren Avenue/Bradley Street
20+ Neighborhood Speed Lumps 14 planned locations
More Speed Limit Reductions Paseo Padre Parkway
More Enhanced Bikeways
More Enhanced Crosswalks
Make Freeway Interchanges Safer for Pedestrian & Bicyclists I-680/Washington Boulevard, I-880/Fremont Boulevard Planning for the Next 20 Projects!
Appendix A13
Fremont initiated its Vision Zero implementation with a program of projects that it referred to as "20 projects in 20 months". The following is a list of the projects that comprised this program.
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A14 Fremont Vision Zero Action Plan
2018
On 2/5 at 6:56 pm (dark), a 18-year old male pedestrian crossing Blacow Road (4-lane, 40 mph, major street) at Gatewood Street was killed when hit by a vehicle traveling eastbound and driven by a 48-year old female. Pedestrian was walking across the roadway looking down at his cellphone and wearing headphones.

Pedestrian did not see or hear a witness honking to warn him of the oncoming vehicle.

On 7/8 at 10:38 am, a 89-year old male pedestrian crossing Decoto Road (5-lane, 40 mph, major street) near Mount Palomar Court was killed when hit by a vehicle traveling westbound and driven by a 25-year old male. The pedestrian was crossing the roadway after disembarking from the AC transit bus. This collision occurred due to a multiple threat scenario when the vehicle closest to the pedestrian blocks the view of the driver in the adjacent lane.

On 12/11 at 3:51 am (dark), a 56-year old transient male pedestrian crossing Paseo Padre Parkway (4-lane, 45 mph, major street) near Waugh Place was killed when hit by a vehicle traveling northbound an driven by a 67-year old male
On 12/18 at 10:05 pm (dark), a 33-year old male pedestrian crossing Fremont Boulevard (4-lane, 35 mph, major street) at Clough Avenue was killed when hit by a vehicle traveling northbound and driven by a 53-year old female.
2019
On 3/7 at 7:32 pm (dark), a 67-year old male pedestrian crossing Mission Boulevard (6-lane, 45 mph, state route) at Warm Springs Boulevard was killed when hit by a vehicle making a right turn from southbound Warm Springs Blvd and driven by a 60-year old male. Video was captured of the incident and showed an un-involved vehicle making a right turn nearly missing the pedestrian before the trailing vehicle struck the pedestrian.

On 3/17 at 6:17 pm, a 69-year old female passenger of a motor vehicle on westbound Central Avenue (4-lane, 35 mph, major street) at Central Cove Court was killed when the 69-year old male driver was hit by a vehicle traveling eastbound and driven by a 47-year old intoxicated male. The driver lost control of the vehicle and crossed over the raised median into oncoming traffic. The party at fault ran from the scene but was located shortly in a nearby backyard.

On 6/19 at 5:25 am (dusk), a 28-year old male motorcyclist riding on westbound Mission Boulevard (6-lane, 45 mph, state route) at Brown Road was killed when hit by a vehicle making a left turn from eastbound Mission Boulevard and driven by a 27-year old intoxicated male.

Understanding Safety Issues
Is More Than Dots on a Map

FATAL CRASH NARRATIVES
This section describes each fatal crash that occurred on Fremont city streets between 2018 and 2020.
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Appendix A15
On 8/18 at 11:50 pm (dark), a 53-year old male transient pedestrian crossing Paseo Padre Pkwy (6-lane, 35 mph, major street) near Capitol Avenue was killed when hit by a vehicle traveling northbound on Paseo Padre Parkway and driven by an 18-year old female. Pedestrian was walking during the “Don’t Walk” phase.

On 8/28 at 5:11 am, a 28-year old male bicyclist on northbound Boyce Road (4-lane, 45 mph, major street) near Stewart Avenue was killed when hit by a vehicle traveling northbound on Boyce Road and driven by a 25-year old male. The vehicle veered from the travel lane into the bike lane.

On 11/6 at 6:47 pm (dark), a 29-year old male motorcyclist riding on eastbound Stevenson Boulevard (6-lane, 40 mph, major street) at Liberty Street was killed when hit by a vehicle making a left turn from westbound Stevenson and driven by a 42-year old male. Witness statements and video evidence showed that the motorcyclist ran the red light.

On 11/29 at 8:29 pm (dark), a 72-year old female pedestrian crossing Niles Boulevard (4-lane, 35 mph, major street) at Rock Avenue was killed when hit by a vehicle traveling northbound and driven by an unknown motorist.
2020
On 3/19 at 5:49 am (dark), a 73-year old male pedestrian crossing Mission Boulevard (6-lane, 45 mph, state route) at Warm Springs Blvd was killed when hit by a vehicle traveling eastbound and driven by a 29-year old male. Video footage captured that pedestrian was nearly hit by a vehicle in the westbound direction immediately before this collision. The pedestrian was crossing during the “Don’t Walk” phase.

On 7/9 at 9:26 am, a 89-year old male bicyclist riding on northbound Fremont Boulevard (4-lane, 35 mph, major street) near Monroe Avenue was killed when riding into a construction trench. The officer documented that the traffic control was in accordance with the encroachment permit issued by the City of Fremont. The bicyclist passed away on 7/21 due to injuries sustained during the incident.

On 8/23 at 6:25 pm (dark), a 59-year old intoxicated male motorist driving on eastbound Mill Creek Road (1-lane, 25 mph, minor street) near Mission Boulevard was killed when he ran off the road. Driver was found after rolling down the hillside approximately 28 hours after the collision and tested positive for drugs and alcohol.

On 10/17 at 10:28 pm (dark), a 54-year old transient male pedestrian crossing Mission Boulevard (4- lane, 40 mph, state route) at Ondina Drive was killed when hit by a vehicle driven by a 36-year old male.

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A16 Fremont Vision Zero Action Plan
Number of Major Crashes
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Fatal Severe
3-Year Average = 35
3-Year Average = 19
10 15
5 20
25 30
35 40
Average Annual Major Crashes
have Reduced By 45%
A Deeper Data Dive
This section summarizes major crashes and associated roadway characteristics based on data from the City of Fremont's collision database, supplemented with information on crash locations from the Transportation Injury mapping System (TIMS) maintained by UC Berkeley's Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). 150 of 245
Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Vehicle 20 23 15 15 18 7 12 6
Bicycle 6 3 4 4 1 3 3 4
Pedestrian 9 8 17 8 7 7 10 6
Appendix A17
10 15
5 20
25 30
35 40
Number of Major Crashes
By Year & Mode
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Pedestrian
Bicycle
Vehicle
9 6
20 8
3 23
8 4
15 10
3 12
7 1
18 7
3 7
6 4
6 17
4 15
Major Crashes have Dropped For All Travel Modes ,
with the Greatest Reduction For Vehicle Crashes .
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1 Broadside - One driver crashes into the side of the other driver's vehicle at an angle. 2 Sideswipe - One driver crashes into the side of the other driver's vehicle traveling in the same or opposite directions.

A18 Fremont Vision Zero Action Plan
Crashes for Vulnerable Road Users at Intersections
have Decreased the Most
2 4
6 8
10 12
Intersec�on
Pedestrian Bicycle Vehicle
Before
2013-2015
A�er
2018-2020
Non-Intersec�on Intersec�on Non-Intersec�on Intersec�on Non-Intersec�on Crashes per Year
Pedestrian Intersection
Crashes Decreased by 25%
Bicycle Intersection
Crashes Decreased by 50%
Before
2013-2015
A�er
2018-2020
2 4
6 8
10 12
Crashes per Year
Vehicle/
Pedestrian
Hit Object Broadside 1 Rear End Head-On Sideswipe 2 Other Overturned Some Crash Types
have Decreased by 50% or More
57% Decrease
67% Decrease
29% Decrease
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Appendix A19
Major Crashes Post-Vision Zero (2018–2020)
are Primarily on High-Speed Roadways
25 MPH 30-35 MPH 40-45 MPH
5 10
15 20
25 30
35 Fatal Severe
Number of Major Crashes
Major Crashes have Decreased the Most
on Wide, Fast Streets
5 10
15 20
25 30
35 Crashes per Year
Arterial + Parkway Collector Residen�al
Before
2013-2015
A�er
2018-2020
Collisions on
Arterials & Parkways
Decreased by 43%
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1 Crossing Not in Crosswalk - This category includes people crossing on a leg of an intersection that does not have a crosswalk. 2 Crossing in Crosswalk at Intersection - This category includes people crossing against a red light, as long as they are within a crosswalk. 3 Crossing in Crosswalk Not at Intersection - This category covers mid-block crosswalks 4 Not in Road - This category includes people on sidewalks, including at driveways.

A20 Fremont Vision Zero Action Plan
Major Crashes with People Crossing Outside of Crosswalks have Decreased over 60%
Crossing
Not in Crosswalk 1
Not in Road 4 In Road,
Including Shoulder
Crossing in Crosswalk
at Intersec�on 2
Crossing in Crosswalk
Not at Intersec�on 3
1 2
3 4
5 6
Crashes per Year Before
2013-2015
A�er
2018-2020
63% Decrease
Mid-block Crashes
have Decreased
by 67%
Crashes in Daylight & at Night
have Both Decreased
Daylight Dark with
Street Lights
Dusk-Dawn
2 6
10 14
18 16
12 8
4 20
Crashes per Year Before
2013-2015
A�er
2018-2020
Dark Street Lights
Not Func�oning
Dark with
No Street Lights
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Definitions
1 Pedestrian Violation This violation category covers pedestrians not following a rule of the road. A common citation is for a pedestrian crossing outside of a crosswalk and not yielding to vehicles. It also includes pedestrians crossing improperly during the flashing “DON’T WALK” or red phase of a signal, pedestrians suddenly leaving the curb, and pedestrians walking in the roadway on the right-hand side of the road.
2 Pedestrian Right of
Way Violation
This violation category covers drivers violating a pedestrian’s right-of-way. A common citation is for drivers not yielding at a crosswalk. It also includes drivers not yielding to a pedestrian on a sidewalk, such as at a driveway. 3 Vehicle Right of
Way Violation
This violation category generally covers a party (of any mode) not yielding to the driver’s right -of-way or the driver observing his or her right -of-way improperly, depending on which party is listed at fault. A common citation under this category is for drivers who do not yield to oncoming traffic during a left turn or U-turn. Other citations include not yielding properly at a stop sign, and not yielding when entering a road from a property. This also covers not yielding to pedestrians for right turns on red. While the title specifies automobile, a vehicle hitting a person on a bicycle can also be cited under this category.
4 Traffic Signals & Signs This violation category covers drivers not observing the rules of a particular signal or sign. Common citations under the category involve a vehicle not stopping at the limit line or stop bar at a signal or stop sign, respectively, or the crosswalk if neither is present. This includes running red lights. If a vehicle stops but then does not yield properly to another vehicle in the intersection, it is included under the Automobile Right of Way Violation category. 5 Improper Turning This violation category primarily covers turns at intersections and turning off of a road, plus proper signaling during lane changes. common citation under this category is for drivers who move left or right on a roadway when it is not safe or without signaling. It also covers drivers making an illegal U-turn, turning from a lane that does not allow turns, or making a turn that is signed as prohibited.

Appendix A21
Major Crashes have Decreased Across Most
Primary Collision Factors
Primary Collision Factors
Pedestrian Viola�on 1
Driving Under the Inﬂuence
Unsafe Speed
Pedestrian Right of Way Viola�on 2
Unknown
Vehicle Right of Way Viola�on 3
Traﬃc Signals & Signs 4
Improper Turning 5
Wrong Side of Road
Other
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Before
2013-2015
A�er
2018-2020
Number of Major Crashes
Pedestrian Violations
have Decreased by 50%
Unsafe Speeds have
Decreased by 42%
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Fatal and Severe Injury Rates for People
65 and Older have Not Decreased
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
<15Age
Percentage of Crashes
15-64 65+
Fremont, 2013-2018
Before
2013-2015
A�er
2018-2020
Fremont Popula�on
2013-2018 American
Community Survey
Only One Major
Crash Since 2016
Gender Split for Fatal & Severe Injuries
is Mostly the Same
Female Male
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
Percentage of Crashes
Before
2013-2015
A�er
2018-2020
Fremont, 2013-2018
Fremont Popula�on
2013-2018 American
Community Survey
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Impacts of Fatal and Severe Injuries by Race
Consistent Over Time for Many Groups
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
Asian Black Hispanic
Percentage of Crashes Before
2013-2015
A�er
2018-2020
Fremont Popula�on
2013-2018 American
Community Survey
White Other Not Stated
Fremont,
2013-2018
7% Decrease as
Proportion of Crashes
6% Decrease as
Proportion of Crashes
Note: Data Limited by CHP Categories
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SAFER VEHICLES
Department of Public Works,
Transportation Engineering
39550 Liberty Street, P .O. Box 5006
Fremont, CA 94537-5006
510-494-4745
www.fremont.gov/VisionZero2020 www.fehrandpeers.com

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CITY OF GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA

REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL

AGENDA ITEM
Report: Legislative Update

1. Motion to note and file report

2. Motion providing direction on bills as recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women

COUNCIL ACTION
Item Type: Action Item
Approved for July 19, 2022 calendar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report provides City Council with an update of state legislation over the course of the past year, which includes information about the state budget as well as the bills that the City of Glendale is supporting, opposing, and watching. This report also asks City Council to consider six bills for support as recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women.
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COUNCIL PRIORITIES
The City’s Legislative Platform supports legislation in line with Council’s Priorities in the FY2022-23 Workplan, as follows:
Environmental Stewardship
Housing
Mobility/Connectivity/Safety
Infrastructure

RECOMMENDATION
Staff respectfully recommends that the City Council note and file the report regarding the legislative update. Staff also seeks Council's direction on support for legislation recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women.

BACKGROUND
The City of Glendale’s Legislative Platform outlines the City’s position on legislative matters and serves as the foundation for the City to support, remain neutral, or oppose positions on legislation. Based on the Legislative Platform, the City has, with the assistance of its lobbyists, Emanuels Jones & Associates (EJA), monitored and taken action on legislation when appropriate. The City of Glendale’s Legislative Platform is included as Exhibit 1 of this report.

For the 2022 calendar year, the California State Legislature reconvened on January 3, 2022, for the second of its two-year session. They had until February 18 to introduce new bills. A total of 2,019 bills were introduced in 2022 (1,360 in Assembly and 659 in Senate), bringing the two-year total of bills introduced to 4,442 bills. Over half of the bills introduced this year were done so in the last 4 days before the February 18 deadline.

The State Legislature is currently on summer recess, and will reconvene on August 1.

The last day for each house to pass bills is August 31, after which point they will go into final recess. The Governor will have until September 30 to sign or veto all bills passed by the Legislature.

ANALYSIS
State Budget
Late last month, Governor Newsom signed the main budget bill junior, AB/SB 178, which provides this year’s appropriations for the support of the state government for the 2022–23 fiscal year. He also signed AB/SB 180, which included updates to last year’s budget bill. Of note in the general budget are the following line items:
$9.5 billion in inflation relief payments to 17.5 million Californians with joint incomes up to $500,000. The payment will come in the form of a direct tax refund (likely a check).
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$2 billion (over multiple years) for an affordable housing package, including investments in Multifamily Housing Program, the Housing Accelerator Program, ADU financing and the Veterans Housing, and Homelessness Prevention Program.
$550 million of additional support for broadband infrastructure (over three years). $150 million in additional library infrastructure grant funding (over two years). $180 million for local assistance grants to improve organic waste infrastructure.

The budget also includes the following line items for the City of Glendale:
$23 million to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Regional Housing Trust to be used to help finance affordable housing projects.
oThis request was submitted by Senator Portantino as part of his efforts under SB 1177 to establish the tri-city Regional Housing Trust. $1.1 million for the Active Transportation and Wildfire Prevention Infrastructure oThis was a request submitted by Assemblymember Friedman and includes $100,000 for the Fire Department’s Fuels Crew Initiative for wildfire hazard mitigation, and $1 million towards the Verdugo Wash Project.
$2 million to the City of Glendale for the restoration of the Casey Stengel Baseball Field historic Glendale landmark submitted by Senator Portantino.

There will be other budget trailer bills taken up in the State Legislature once they reconvene in August after the summer recess, and there is a possibility that there will be one or two additional budget line items for the City of Glendale. 2021 – 2022 Glendale Legislative Priorities
Affordable Housing
oCreation of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Regional Housing Trust - SB1177 (Portantino) to fund housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, low, and moderate income.
oSecured $23,000,000 in funding for the newly created Burbank-Glendale- Pasadena Regional Housing Trust in the state Budget.
oSecured direct funding to Glendale in the state budget in both 2021 ($323,000) and 2022 (to be determined) to address homelessness. oSecured assistance for rental evictions in 2021.
Utility Arrears Funding
oWhen Glendale Water and Power was facing a significant shortfall due to customers’ non-payment of electric and water bills during COVID, EJA worked to secure funding: $6.2 million in 2021 and approximately $3 million in 2022 to address this shortfall.
Mylar Balloons
oAB 847 (Quirk) is the result of a multi-year effort to find solutions to lesson power outages caused by metallic coated balloons.
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Grant Support
oBeeLine Funding
oCalifornia Commission on the Status of Women and Girls as part of the Women’s Recovery Response Grant Program
Glendale’s Legislative Tracking List
In 2021, the City tracked 159 pieces of legislation, including:
Support for:
oAB 43 (Friedman) Traffic Safety Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 690, Statutes of 2021.
oAB 1346 (Berman) Air pollution: small off-road engines. Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 753, Statutes of 2021.
oSB 15 (Portantino) Housing development: incentives: rezoning of idle retail sites. Failed in Committee.
oAB 550 (Chiu) Vehicles: speed safety pilot program. EJA was able to have the City of Glendale included in Speed Safety System Pilot. This bill was held in the Assembly Appropriates Committee Suspense Calendar. Opposition to:
oAB 2115 (Chiu) Planning and Zoning Law: housing element: violations.

Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 342, Statutes of 2021.
oAB 967 (Carrillo) Immigration enforcement. Died in Committee. oSB 9 (Atkins) Housing development: approvals. Vetoed by Governor. oSB 556 (Dodd) Street light poles, traffic signal poles: small wireless facilities attachments. Vetoed by Governor.

This year, the City of Glendale is tracking 115 pieces of legislation, which are provided as Exhibit 2 of this report, and include the City’s position on each bill. In total, the City is currently supporting nine bills, opposing six, supporting one bill if amended, and opposing three bills unless they are amended, including:
Support for
oSB1177 (Portantino) Joint powers authorities: Cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena. Pending on Assembly Floor.
oSB1255 (Portantino) Single-use products waste reduction: Dishwasher Grant Program for Waste Reduction in K–12 Schools and Community Colleges. Pending in the Assembly Committee on Appropriations oAB 2336 (Friedman) Vehicles: speed safety pilot program. EJA was able to have the City of Glendale included in Speed Safety System Pilot. This bill was held in the Assembly Appropriates Committee Suspense Calendar.
Opposition to
oAB 2011 (Wicks) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022.

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oSB 897 (Wieckowski) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units. Pending in Assembly Committee on Appropriations.

Legislation Recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women At this time, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is recommending support of six bills to Council for their approval on behalf of the City of Glendale. These bills were recommended based on the CSW’s adopted legislative platform, which reflects the following priorities:

1. Women in the Workplace

2. Women’s Health

3. Women’s Safety

4. Women in the Budget

5. Women in the Military and Military Families

6. Women in Postsecondary Education
The bills for Council’s consideration are as follows:
AB 1467 (Cervantes) Student Safety: Sexual Assault Procedures and Protocols:

Sexual Assault Counselors
oWould require public colleges and universities to have a sexual assault counselor independent from the campus Title IX office who would need to be appointed based on experience and a demonstrated ability to effectively provide sexual violence victim services and response. AB 2024 (Friedman) Health Care Coverage: Diagnostic Imaging oWould require health care service plans or health insurance policies to provide coverage for screening and mammography, necessary diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations, or testing for screening or diagnostic purposes upon referral.
AB 2185 (Weber) Forensic Examinations: Domestic Violence oWould provide a domestic violence victim access to medical evidentiary examinations free of charge, and would also create a funding system to reimburse qualified healthcare professionals for administering these exams.
SB 914 (Rubio) HELP (Homeless Equity for Left Behind Populations) Act oWould require cities, counties, and continuums of care receiving state funding to address homelessness, to take specific steps to ensure that the needs of victim service providers and survivors of violence, and a gendered analysis of the causes and consequences of homelessness, are incorporated into homelessness planning and responses.
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children, regardless of family income, and allow for flexible hours for working families.
SB 1207 (Portantino) Health Care Coverage: Maternal and Pandemic-Related Mental Health Conditions
oThis bill aims to improve maternal mental health support by providing outreach services, education, and access to mental health treatment. oWould require health care service plans or health insurance policies to provide coverage for maternal mental health conditions and pandemic- related mental health conditions.

These bills, along with a summary and current status for each, are included as Exhibit 3 of this report.

STAKEHOLDERS/OUTREACH
Staff and City Council regularly take requests from stakeholders into consideration when considering supporting or opposing state legislation.

FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact associated with this report.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW (CEQA/NEPA)
The legislative update provided to the City Council is exempt from environmental review because it can be seen with certainty that the act of providing information about state legislation would not have any effect on the environment, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3).

CAMPAIGN DISCLOSURE
This item is exempt from campaign disclosure requirements.

ALTERNATIVES
Alternative 1: Note and file the legislative update as received, and approve support for the list of bills recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women.

Alternative 2: Note and file the legislative update as received, provide direction on additional bills not included in the report, and approve support for the list of bills as recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women.

Alternative 3: Note and file the legislative update as received, but take no action on the list of bills recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women.

Alternative 4: City Council may consider any other alternative not proposed by staff.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
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Prepared by:

Christine Powers, Senior Executive Analyst
Approved by:

Roubik R. Golanian, P.E., City Manager

EXHIBITS/ATTACHMENTS

1. City of Glendale's Legislative Platform

2. Legislative Tracking List

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M O T I O N
Moved by Council Member ________________________________, seconded by Council Member ___________________________________, that the Council hereby notes and files the Legislative Update dated July 19, 2022.

Vote as follows:

Ayes:

Noes:

Abstain:

Absent:
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Moved by Council Member , seconded by Council Member , that the Council of the City of Glendale hereby provides the following direction on bills of the State Legislature recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women, as described in the Report to Council dated July 19, 2022:
______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

Vote as follows:

Ayes:

Noes:

Absent:

Abstain:
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CITY OF GLENDALE

LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM

1. Fiscal Responsibility
The City of Glendale has a fiduciary responsibility to the residents of the community to ensure assets and resources are properly safeguarded and deployed in a prudent, efficient manner. As such, the City supports the protection of existing federal, state, and local funding sources and the authorities that provide revenues to the City of Glendale. Additionally, the City generally opposes any mandates that are unfunded or inadequately funded.

2. Economic Vibrancy
Economic development is vital to the City, its residents, and businesses alike. While public funding resources continue to be scarce, most notably due to the end of Redevelopment in California, private development is resurfacing. As such, the City continues to evaluate several key policy initiatives that will preserve the high level of services that have historically been provided to Glendale. The City promotes legislation that supports urban development, including encouragement of economic activity, transit-oriented development, and pedestrian and bicycle- friendly streets.

3. Informed & Engaged Community
Earning and maintaining the community’s trust is by far one of the greatest priorities for the City.

As such, the City consistently strives to conduct the business of the government in the best interest of the public with integrity, openness, and full inclusion of the community. Each community has unique needs and characteristics that are best met by policies set by its local governing body; and in that vein, the City supports local decision-making authority and opposes preemption of local control. In an effort to provide direct access of information to the community, the City supports legislation that allows the City to further its infrastructure in maintaining and enhancing the City’s communication needs.

4. Safe & Healthy Community
One of Glendale’s key objectives is to ensure the preservation of a community that is physically safe, free of blight, and prepared for emergencies. The City of Glendale supports federal and state local assistance for local police, fire, and homeland security initiatives, and any measures that will help contribute to local public safety. The City opposes any legislation that would jeopardize the safety of its community.

5. Balanced, Quality Housing
A balanced mix of housing opportunities is a primary goal for all segments of the population, including families, the elderly, low-income residents, and persons with special needs.

Legislation that provides fair, affordable housing is a priority, as is homelessness prevention and the transition of the homeless into permanent housing. The City also supports legislation that develops and/or expands programs to protect existing housing stock. Furthermore, the City opposes impediments to the City’s ability to provide opportunities for housing commensurate with the community’s housing needs.

6. Community Services & Facilities
Maintaining a city that offers a variety of facilities, programs, services, and open space options is a priority for the City of Glendale. In order to maintain and enhance this development and programming, the City supports legislation that will help provide residents of Glendale with safe, accessible services and facilities. Furthermore, the City opposes action that depletes services and funding sources created to enhance the community’s varying needs. 168 of 245
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Cultivating a City with appealing features to draw in small and large businesses, families, new entertainment, and retail and dining destinations takes determination, planning, and forward thinking in the maintenance of existing infrastructure, and development of sustainable mobility.

This can be accomplished with the City supporting legislation that increases funding for transportation, infrastructure, operations, and maintenance for the City of Glendale.

Furthermore, the City supports legislation which ensures that federal and state transportation planning funds are available to the City throughout the year and are not made unavailable due to delays or changes in enacting the federal or state budget.

8. Arts & Culture
The City is committed to providing quality and accessible arts experiences for the entire community and promoting education and participation in the arts by creating an arts-friendly and arts-aware environment. The City supports legislation that will help maintain and enhance the City’s performance arts venues, and funding for arts development. Additionally, the City opposes any reductions and/or eliminations of library programming.

9. Sustainability
For many years, Glendale has embraced sustainability efforts given current and future environmental challenges. The City continuously seeks out new technology and innovation to foster and promote sustainability and is among the first public agencies to successfully implement sustainability improvements such as the landfill gas to energy system, curbside recycling program, storm drain catch basin inserts, alternative fueled vehicles, and energy saving retrofits. As such, the City supports environmentally friendly legislation and urban sustainability.
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AB 215 (Chiu D) Planning and Zoning Law: housing element: violations.

Status: 9/28/2021-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 342, Statutes of 2021.

Location: 9/28/2021-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: (1)Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. That law requires a planning agency, before adopting its housing element or amendment to its housing element, to submit a draft element or draft amendment to the Department of Housing and Community Development.This bill would require a local government to make the first draft revision of a housing element available for public comment for at least 30 days and, if any comments are received, take at least 10 additional business days to consider and incorporate public comments into the draft revision before submitting it to the department. The bill would require a local government to post any subsequent draft revision on its internet website and to email a link to the draft revision to individuals and organizations that have requested notices relating to the local government’s housing element, as specified. The bill would prohibit the department from reviewing a first draft revision submitted by the local government, until the local government has made the draft available for public comment for at least 30 days and has taken at least 10 business days to consider and incorporate the comments. By imposing new duties on local governments with regard to the adoption of a housing element revision, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Oppose

AB 399 (Salas D) The Medical Provider Network Transparency Act of 2022.

Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was S.

L., P.E. & R. on 5/4/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-S. DEAD

Existing law requires the employer to provide medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment that is reasonably required to cure or relieve the injured worker from the effects of the injury. Existing law requires the administrative director to adopt and revise periodically an official medical fee schedule establishing reasonable maximum fees paid for medical services other than physician services, drugs and pharmacy services, health care facility fees, home health care, and all other treatment, care, services, and goods. Existing law also establishes the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (appeals board) to exercise all judicial powers vested in it, including workers’ compensation 170 of 245
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2 proceedings for the recovery of compensation. Existing law authorizes an insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services to establish or modify a medical provider network for providing medical treatment to injured employees and imposes various duties upon the insurer, employer, or entity in connection with the network. Existing law requires every medical provider network to post on its internet website a roster of all treating physicians in the medical provider network and requires every network to provide to the administrative director the internet website address of the network and of its roster of treating physicians. Existing law requires an insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services to submit a plan for the medical provider network to the administrative director for approval. Existing law requires the administrative director to adopt a medical treatment utilization schedule. Existing law authorizes the administrative director to investigate complaints and to conduct random reviews of approved medical provider networks. Existing law permits a medical provider to request an independent bill review for disputes relating to the amount of payment and authorizes the imposition of fees for this purpose, as specified. This bill, the Medical Provider Network Transparency Act of 2022, would limit the independent bill review fee for the independent bill review organization to determine the eligibility of a request to $50 and would authorize additional fees, as specified, for a request that is reviewable. If the independent bill review organization finds that an employer owes the medical provider, the bill would require the independent bill review organization to bill the employer for the additional review fees, as specified. If the employer is found to not owe the medical provider, the bill would require the independent bill review organization to bill the provider for the additional review fees, as specified. The bill would require employers to pay any additional amounts found owed within 30 days of the final determination.

Position
Oppose
Memo
2-Year Bill

AB 522 (Fong R) Forestry: Forest Fire Prevention Exemption.

Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

5. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/28/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: The Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from some or all of those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities, as prescribed, including the harvesting of trees for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration and intensity, fuel ignitability, or ignition of tree crowns, as provided, known as the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption. The act provides that the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption is operative for a period of 5 years after the effective date of emergency regulations adopted by the board to implement the exemption and is inoperative 171 of 245
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Position
Watch

AB 641 (Holden D) Transportation electrification: local publicly owned electric utilities.

Status: 8/27/2021-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(12). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/23/2021)(May be acted upon Jan 2022) Location: 8/27/2021-S. 2 YEAR

Summary: Existing law requires a local publicly owned electric utility with an annual electrical demand exceeding 700 gigawatts, determined as provided, to adopt an integrated resource plan to meet certain goals. Existing law requires the local publicly owned electric utility, as a part of its integrated resource plan update, to consider establishing electric vehicle grid integration strategies and evaluating how its electric vehicle grid integration programs further the electric vehicle grid integration strategies it has established.This bill would require each local publicly owned electric utility to facilitate and ensure the availability of at least one station for public charging of passenger motor vehicles within its service territory. The bill would require each local publicly owned electric utility to develop and adopt a transportation electrification plan, individually, or in collaboration with other local publicly owned electric utilities, local governments, or local or regional transportation planning organizations, to include certain information to support the level of electric vehicle adoption required for the state to meet certain goals. The bill would require local publicly owned electric utilities to make their adopted plans available on their internet websites. The bill would deem a local publicly owned electric utility that has adopted an integrated resource plan or a transportation electrification plan before January 1, 2022, to be in compliance with the bill’s requirements and would require the utility to update the adopted plan at least once every 5 years. Because the bill would increase the duties of local publicly owned electric utilities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 847 (Quirk D) Electrically conductive balloons.

Status: 6/21/2022-Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/21/2022-S. APPR.

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Existing law also imposes specified requirements on a person who sells or distributes a balloon constructed of electrically conductive material that is filled with lighter-than-air gas, including prohibiting the person from attaching the balloon to an electrically conductive object. This bill would require a person, as defined, who manufactures a foil balloon to permanently mark the balloon with additional specified information, including the dangers of releasing foil balloons that may come into contact with overhead power lines and that the balloon is in compliance with the provisions of this bill. The bill would define a “foil balloon” to mean a balloon that is constructed of electrically conductive material and filled with lighter- than-air gas. This bill would require a person who sells, offers for sale, or manufactures for sale any foil balloon to ensure that those foil balloons pass a standard test, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard test, once it is approved, that is performed by a reputable electric testing center without causing a fault at high-voltage electric distribution levels. The bill would require foil balloons to become compliant with the provisions of this bill according to a phase-in period, as specified. The bill, following completion of the phase-in period, would prohibit a person from selling, offering for sale, or manufacturing for sale, a foil balloon, unless the balloon complies with these provisions.

Position
Support
AB 916 (Salas D) Zoning: accessory dwelling units: bedroom addition.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

5. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/30/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city to adopt ordinances that regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes.

This bill would prohibit a city or county legislative body from adopting or enforcing an ordinance requiring a public hearing as a condition of reconfiguring existing space to increase the bedroom count within an existing dwelling unit. The bill would apply these provisions only to a permit application for no more than 2 additional bedrooms within an existing dwelling unit. The bill would specify that these provisions are not to be construed to prohibit a local agency from requiring a public hearing for a proposed project that would increase the number of dwelling units within an existing structure. The bill would include findings that ensuring adequate housing is a matter of statewide concern and is not a municipal affair, and that the provision applies to all cities, including charter cities. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Oppose Unless
Amended
Memo
2-Year Bill
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Status: 9/10/2021-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(15). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/10/2021)(May be acted upon Jan 2022) Location: 9/10/2021-S. 2 YEAR

Summary: Existing law, the California Values Act, prohibits a California law enforcement agency from providing a person’s release date, or responding to a request for notification of a release date, unless that information is available to the public, and prohibits the transfer of an individual to immigration authorities, as specified, unless the person has been convicted of specified crimes or arrested for a serious or violent felony.This bill would prohibit any state or local agency from arresting or assisting with the arrest, confinement, detention, transfer, interrogation, or deportation of an individual for an immigration enforcement purpose, as specified. The bill would additionally prohibit state or local agencies or courts from using immigration status as a factor to deny or to recommend denial of probation or participation in any diversion, rehabilitation, mental health program, or placement in a credit-earning program or class, or to determine custodial classification level, to deny mandatory supervision, or to lengthen the portion of supervision served in custody. The bill would authorize a person to bring an action for equitable or declaratory relief in a court of competent jurisdiction against a state or local agency or state or local official that violates these provisions, and would make those agencies or officials liable for actual and general damages and reasonable attorney’s fees. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Oppose

AB 983 (Kalra D) Employee obligations: exclusivity options.

Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was S.

JUD. on 6/23/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-S. DEAD

Summary: Existing law, except as specified, prohibits enforcement of a personal service contract beyond 7 years from the commencement of service under the contract. Under existing law, an employee who is a party to a contract to render personal services in the production of specified phonorecords is prohibited from invoking this provision without first giving written notice to the employer that the employee, from and after a specified date, will no longer render service under the contract by reason of the above provision. Existing law specifies that a party to a contract to render personal services in the production of specified phonorecords may still pursue an action for certain damages. This bill would authorize any music talent who is a party to a contract to render personal services in the production of specified phonorecords to invoke that limitation by giving written notice and paying a third party any contractual advances actually paid by the third party, as specified.

The bill would repeal the provisions related to damages. This bill contains other related provisions.
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AB 1001 (Garcia, Cristina D) Environment: mitigation measures for air quality impacts: environmental justice.

Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was S.

E.Q. on 5/4/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-S. DEAD

Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would require mitigation measures, identified in an environmental impact report or mitigated negative declaration to mitigate the adverse effects of a project on air quality of a disadvantaged community, to include measures for avoiding, minimizing, or otherwise mitigating for the adverse effects on that community. The bill would require mitigation measures to include measures conducted at the project site that avoid or minimize to less than significant the adverse effects on the air quality of a disadvantaged community or measures conducted in the affected disadvantaged community that directly mitigate those effects. The bill would require all public agencies, in implementing CEQA, to give consideration to the principles of environmental justice, as provided, by ensuring the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of people of all races, cultures, incomes, and national origins. Because the bill would impose additional duties on the lead agency, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 1037 (Grayson D) Infrastructure construction: digital construction management technologies.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to develop the full potential of all resources and opportunities that are now, and may become, available to the state for meeting California’s transportation needs and to plan, 175 of 245
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7 design, construct, operate, and maintain those transportation systems that the Legislature has made, or may make, the responsibility of the department. This bill would require the department to develop an implementation plan for the use and integration of digital construction management technologies, as defined, for use on transportation infrastructure projects. The bill would require the implementation plan to include specified milestone goals, including that the department will begin using digital construction management technologies through construction by July 1, 2029. The bill would require the department to submit a report to the Legislature by December 1, 2029, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032.

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AB 1206 (Bennett D) Property taxation: affordable housing: welfare exemption.

Status: 6/1/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/1/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: (1)Existing property tax law, in accordance with the California Constitution, provides for a "welfare exemption" for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by certain types of nonprofit entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met. Under existing property tax law, property that meets these requirements that is used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities is entitled to a partial exemption, equal to that percentage of the value of the property that is equal to the percentage that the number of units serving lower income households represents of the total number of residential units, in any year that any of certain criteria apply, including that the property be subject to a legal restriction that provides that units designated for use by lower income households are continuously available to or occupied by lower income households, at rents not exceeding specified limits. For the 2018–19 fiscal year through the 2027–28 fiscal year, in the case of an owner of property receiving a low-income housing tax credit under specified federal law, existing property tax law requires that a unit continue to be treated as occupied by a lower income household for these purposes if the occupants were lower income households on the lien date in the fiscal year in which their occupancy of the unit commenced and the unit continues to be rent restricted, notwithstanding an increase in the income of the occupants of the unit to 140% of area median income, adjusted for family size.This bill, for the 2022–23 fiscal year through the 2027–28 fiscal year, would require that a unit continue to be treated as occupied by a lower income household, as described above, if the owner is a community land trust whose land is leased to low-income households, subject to a contract that complies with specified requirements. This bill would require a claim for a welfare exemption pursuant to this requirement to be accompanied by an affidavit containing specified information regarding the units for which the exemption is claimed and would provide that the affidavit is not subject to public disclosure. This 176 of 245
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8 bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 1287 (Bauer-Kahan D) Price discrimination: gender.

Status: 6/27/2022-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: 6/27/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: Existing law prohibits a business establishment from discriminating against a person because of the person’s gender with respect to the price charged for services of similar or like kind. Existing law also requires specified business establishments to disclose in writing the pricing for each standard service, as defined, to display, in a specified manner, a sign stating that it is illegal to base pricing on gender and that a complete price list is available upon request, and to display, in a specified manner, a price list, and to provide the customer with a copy of the complete price list upon request. This bill would prohibit a person, firm, partnership, company, corporation, or business from charging a different price for any 2 goods that are substantially similar, as defined, if those goods are priced differently based on the gender of the individuals for whom the goods are marketed and intended. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to seek an injunction to enjoin and restrain the continuance of those violations, and would authorize the court, in addition to granting the injunction, to impose a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000.

Position
Support

AB 1288 (Quirk-Silva D) Income tax credits: low-income housing: California Debt Limit Allocation Committee rulemaking.

Status: 6/21/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/15/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing federal law prescribes a volume ceiling on the aggregate amount of private activity bonds that may be issued in a state. Existing law creates the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee (CDLAC) for the purpose of administering the volume limit for the state on private activity bonds through an allocation system. Existing law authorizes CDLAC to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations as emergency regulations in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. This bill, instead, would authorize CDLAC to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations without complying with the procedural requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act, except as specified.

The bill would make rules and regulations adopted, amended, or repealed by CDLAC effective immediately upon adoption. The bill would repeal these changes to existing law on January 1, 2028. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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AB 1395 (Muratsuchi D) The California Climate Crisis Act.

Status: 9/10/2021-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(15). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/10/2021)(May be acted upon Jan 2022) Location: 9/10/2021-S. 2 YEAR

Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years. This bill, the California Climate Crisis Act, would declare the policy of the state both to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, and achieve and maintain net negative greenhouse gas emissions thereafter, and to ensure that by 2045, statewide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 90% below the 1990 levels. The bill would require the state board to work with relevant state agencies to ensure that updates to the scoping plan identify and recommend measures to achieve these policy goals and to identify a variety of policies and strategies that support carbon dioxide removal solutions, carbon capture and storage technologies, and nature-based climate solutions in California, as specified. The bill would require the state board to work with relevant agencies to establish criteria for the use of carbon dioxide removal technologies and carbon capture and storage technologies for purposes of achieving these policy goals. The bill would require the state board to identify interim 5-year greenhouse gas emission reduction goals that begin on January 1, 2025, and submit an annual report, as specified. The bill would impose other requirements on state agencies, as specified.

Position
Watch

AB 1406 (Lackey R) Law enforcement agency policies: carrying of equipment.

Status: 6/20/2022-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: 6/20/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: Existing law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy on the use of force, as specified. Existing law places certain restrictions on the use of force by law enforcement agencies, including prohibiting the use of a choke hold or carotid restraint.This bill would require a law enforcement agency that authorizes peace officers to carry an electroshock device, such as a taser or stun gun that is 178 of 245
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10 held and operated in a manner similar to a pistol, to require that device to be holstered or otherwise carried on the lateral side of the body opposite to the side that that officer’s primary firearm is holstered. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 1445 (Levine D) Planning and zoning: regional housing need allocation: climate change impacts.

Status: 6/13/2022-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: 6/13/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. For the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region. Existing law requires the appropriate council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided. Existing law requires that the final regional housing plan adopted by a council of governments, or a delegate subregion, as applicable, be based on a methodology that includes specified factors, and similarly requires that the department take into consideration specified factors in distributing regional housing need, as provided. Commencing January 1, 2025, this bill would require that a council of governments, a delegate subregion, or the department, as applicable, additionally consider among these factors emergency evacuation route capacity, wildfire risk, sea level rise, and other impacts caused by climate change. By adding to the duties of local officials in allocating regional housing need, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other existing laws.

Position
Watch
Memo
2-Year Bill

AB 1640 (Ward D) Office of Planning and Research: regional climate networks:
regional climate adaptation and resilience action plans.

Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

8. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/28/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires, by July 1, 2017, and every 3 years thereafter, the Natural Resources Agency to update, as prescribed, the state’s climate adaptation 179 of 245
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11 strategy, known as the Safeguarding California Plan. Existing law establishes the Office of Planning and Research in state government in the Governor’s office.

Existing law establishes the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program to be administered by the office to coordinate regional and local efforts with state climate adaptation strategies to adapt to the impacts of climate change, as prescribed. This bill would authorize eligible entities, as defined, to establish and participate in a regional climate network, as defined. The bill would require the office, through the program, to encourage the inclusion of eligible entities with land use planning and hazard mitigation planning authority into regional climate networks. The bill would authorize a regional climate network to engage in activities to address climate change, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.

Position
Watch

AB 1642 (Salas D) California Environmental Quality Act: water system well and domestic well projects: exemption.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would, until January 1, 2028, exempt from CEQA a well project, as defined, that meets specified conditions, including that the domestic well or the water system to which the well is connected has been designated by the state board as high risk or medium risk in the state board’s drinking water needs assessment. The bill would require a lead agency, before determining that a well project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to these provisions, to contact the state board to determine whether claiming the exemption will affect the ability of the well project to receive federal financial assistance or federally capitalized financial assistance. The bill would require a lead agency that determines that a well project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to these provisions to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk, as provided. Because the bill would increase the responsibilities of a lead agency related to the applicability of this exemption, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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12 AB 1648 (Maienschein D) Disaster preparedness: local government: animal natural disaster evacuation plan.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

10. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/28/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Under existing law, the Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, is required to jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency response agencies. Existing law requires the office to approve and adopt, and incorporate the California Animal Response Emergency System (CARES) program developed under the oversight of the Department of Food and Agriculture into the standardized emergency management system. This bill would require a city or county that requires a kennel license or permit to operate a kennel within its jurisdiction, to require, as a condition for obtaining the kennel license or permit, that the kennel owner create and submit to the city or county an animal natural disaster evacuation plan for any kennel covered by the license or permit. By imposing a new duty on local government, this bill would impose a state- mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 1672 (Boerner Horvath D) Public swimming pools: lifeguards.

Status: 6/20/2022-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: 6/20/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: Existing law requires lifeguard services to be provided for any public swimming pool that is of wholly artificial construction where a direct fee is charged for its use. For all other public swimming pools, existing law requires lifeguard service or signs clearly indicating that the service is not provided. Existing law requires lifeguards who provide lifeguard service to possess current certificates from an American Red Cross or YMCA of the U.S.A. lifeguard training program, or equivalent qualifications, as determined by the State Department of Public Health, and who are trained to administer first aid, in conformance with laws and regulations, and who have no duties to perform other than to supervise the safety of participants in water-contact activities. This bill would authorize a local public agency that is certified by the United States Lifesaving Association to use qualified lifeguard personnel, as defined, to provide lifeguard services at a public swimming pool if certain requirements are met.

Position
Watch
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13 AB 1685 (Bryan D) Vehicles: parking violations.

Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

4. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/28/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law authorizes a parking citation processing agency, as defined, to collect an unpaid parking penalty by requesting the Department of Motor Vehicles to place a registration hold on the vehicle to which the citations have been issued, or by obtaining a civil judgment against the registered owner of the vehicle, as specified. Existing law requires a processing agency to offer a payment plan for unpaid parking citations to qualified indigent persons. This bill would require a processing agency to forgive at least $1,500 in parking fines and fees annually for a qualified homeless person, as specified. The bill would also require a processing agency to provide certain information regarding the parking citation forgiveness program, as specified, including on its internet website. The bill would also require each processing agency that receives an application for the citation forgiveness program to annually report specified information to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness and would require the council to compile this data and submit an annual report to the Legislature. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch
AB 1717 (Aguiar-Curry D) Public works: definition.

Status: 6/27/2022-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: 6/27/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Existing law defines the term “public works” for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages to include construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for using public funds, except as specified. Existing law makes a willful violation of laws relating to the payment of prevailing wages on public works a misdemeanor. This bill would expand the definition of “public works” to include fuel reduction work done under contract and paid for in whole or in part out of public funds performed as part of a fire mitigation project, as specified. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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Watch

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14 AB 1738 (Boerner Horvath D) Building standards: installation of electric vehicle charging stations: existing buildings.

Status: 6/20/2022-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: 6/20/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code.

This bill would, commencing with the next triennial edition of the California Building Standards Code, require the commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development to research, develop, and propose for adoption mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations with low power level 2 or higher electric vehicle chargers, including direct current fast chargers, in existing multifamily dwellings, hotels, motels, and nonresidential development during certain retrofits, additions, and alterations to existing parking facilities that are issued permits on and after the effective date of those building standards, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 1778 (Garcia, Cristina D) State transportation funding: freeway projects: poverty and pollution: Department of Transportation.

Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was S.

TRANS. on 6/1/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-S. DEAD

Summary: Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and vests the department with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law authorizes the department to do any act necessary, convenient, or proper for the construction, improvement, maintenance, or use of all highways that are under its jurisdiction, possession, or control. Existing law requires the department to prepare and submit to the Governor a proposed budget, as provided. This bill would require the department to consult the California Healthy Places Index, as defined, as a condition of using state funds or personnel time to fund or permit freeway projects, as provided. The bill would require the department to analyze housing and environmental indicators through the index, as provided, and would prohibit any state funds or personnel time from being used to fund or permit freeway projects in certain areas that fall within the zero to 40th percentile on the housing and environmental indicators analyzed through the index, as provided.

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Watch

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15 AB 1817 (Ting D) Product safety: textile articles: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 6/30/2022-S. THIRD READING

Summary: Existing law prohibits, beginning January 1, 2023, any person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any food packaging that contains regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS, as defined, and requires a manufacturer to use the least toxic alternative when replacing regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS in food packaging to comply with this requirement. Existing law similarly prohibits, beginning July 1, 2023, a person from selling or distributing in commerce in this state any new, not previously owned, juvenile product, as defined, that contains regulated PFAS chemicals.This bill would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2025, any person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any new, not previously owned, textile articles that contain regulated PFAS, except as specified, and requires a manufacturer to use the least toxic alternative when removing regulated PFAS in textile articles to comply with these provisions. The bill would require a manufacturer of a textile article to provide persons that offer the product for sale or distribution in the state with a certificate of compliance stating that the textile article is in compliance with these provisions and does not contain any regulated PFAS.

Position
Watch

AB 1845 (Calderon D) Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: alternative project delivery methods.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

5. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/30/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law generally sets forth the requirements for the solicitation and evaluation of bids and the awarding of contracts by local agencies for public works contracts. Existing law authorizes certain entities, including the Department of General Services, the Military Department, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and specified local agencies, to use the design-build procurement process, as prescribed, for specified public works. This bill would authorize the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to use the design-build procurement process for certain regional recycled water projects or other water infrastructure projects. The bill would define “design-build” to mean a project delivery process in which both the design and construction of a project are procured from a single entity. The bill would require the district to use a specified design-build procedure to assign contracts for the design and construction of a project, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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Support
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16 AB 1850 (Ward D) Public housing: unrestricted multifamily housing.

Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was S.

GOV. & F. on 6/22/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-S. DEAD

Summary: Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. This bill would prohibit a city, county, city and county, joint powers authority, or any other political subdivision of a state or local government from acquiring unrestricted multifamily housing, as defined, unless the development meets specified criteria, including, among other things, that units are subject to a long-term recorded regulatory agreement with a public entity that requires the unit to be affordable to, and occupied by, low- or moderate-income persons and families for a term of 55 years, and the public entity agrees to make certain reports and data public on its internet website. The bill would specify that those provisions do not apply to a development that is or will be subject to a regulatory agreement with the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, the Department of Housing and Community Development, or a public entity that restricts use of the development to serve specified lower income individuals, or when a public entity purchases unrestricted multifamily housing that within one year will be removed from the housing market. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 1851 (Rivas, Robert D) Public works: prevailing wage: hauling.

Status: 6/22/2022-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

Location: 6/14/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Existing law defines the term “public works” for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages to include construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for using public funds, except as specified. Existing law includes in the definition of “public works” under certain circumstances the hauling of refuse from a public works site to an outside disposal location. Existing law makes a willful violation of laws relating to the payment of prevailing wages on public works a misdemeanor. This bill would expand the definition of “public works” for those purposes to include the on-hauling of materials used for paving, grading, and fill onto a public works site if the individual driver’s work is integrated into the flow process of construction. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that this change is declaratory of existing law. By expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated 185 of 245
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17 local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 1886 (Cooper D) Public works: definition.

Status: 6/28/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 6/28/2022-S. THIRD READING

Summary: Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Existing law defines the term "public works" for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages to include construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for using public funds, except as specified. Existing law makes a willful violation of laws relating to the payment of prevailing wages on public works a misdemeanor.This bill would expand the definition of "public works" to include street sweeping maintenance performed for the preservation, protection, and keeping of any publicly owned or publicly operated street, road, or highway done under contract and paid for in whole or in part out of public funds. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 1931 (Rivas, Luz D) Community water systems: lead service lines.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: (1)Existing law prohibits a person from using any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, solder, or flux that is not lead free in the installation or repair of any public water system or any plumbing in a facility providing water for human consumption, except when necessary for the repair of leaded joints of cast iron pipes.This bill would require, until January 1, 2025, or as specified, the State Water Resources Control Board to provide certain federal funds received by the board to community water systems to fund, among other things, the removal or replacement of lead service lines or lead fittings that are owned by a community water system, and the removal or replacement of lead service lines, and galvanized lines downstream of lead service lines or lead components, that are not owned by the community water system, as specified. The bill would also require a community water system to take specified actions when replacing an unknown material user service line or a user service line containing lead.This bill contains other existing laws.
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18 Position
Watch

AB 1944 (Lee D) Local government: open and public meetings.

Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was S.

GOV. & F. on 6/8/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-S. DEAD

The act provides an exemption to the jurisdictional requirement for health authorities, as defined. This bill would require the agenda to identify any member of the legislative body that will participate in the meeting remotely. The bill would also require an updated agenda reflecting all of the members participating in the meeting remotely to be posted, if a member of the legislative body elects to participate in the meeting remotely after the agenda is posted. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 2000 (Gabriel D) Motor vehicle speed contests and exhibitions of speed: offstreet parking facilities.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

4. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or an exhibition of speed on a highway, or to aid or abet therein.This bill would also make it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest in an offstreet parking facility or an exhibition of speed in an offstreet parking facility, or to aid or abet therein. By expanding the definition of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 2011 (Wicks D) Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

5. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/30/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process and not subject to a conditional use permit if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards. This bill would create the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, which would make certain housing developments that meet specified affordability and site criteria and objective development standards a use by right within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, and would subject these development projects to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes. The bill would require a development proponent for a housing development project approved pursuant to the streamlined, ministerial review process to require, in contracts with construction contractors, that certain wage and labor standards will be met, including a requirement that all construction workers be paid at least the general prevailing rate of wages, as specified. The bill would require a development proponent to certify to the local government that those standards will be met in project construction. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Oppose

AB 2016 (Bauer-Kahan D) State Water Resources Control Board: desalination plant:
feasibility study.

Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/20/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources, not later than July 1, 2004, to report to the Legislature on potential opportunities and impediments for using seawater and brackish water desalination, and to examine what role, if any, the state should play in furthering the use of desalination technology. Existing law requires the department to convene a Water Desalination Task Force, composed of representatives from listed agencies and interest groups, to advise the department in carrying out these duties and in making recommendations to the Legislature. This bill would repeal those provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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20 AB 2026 (Friedman D) Recycling: plastic packaging.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

10. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste, including, among other solid waste, plastic packaging containers. This bill would require an e- commerce shipper, as defined, that ships purchased products in or into the state to reduce from its 2023 calendar year levels the total weight and number of units of single-use plastic shipping envelopes, cushioning, and void fill, and expanded and extruded polystyrene, it uses to ship or transport the products, by no less than unspecified percentages on or before January 1, 2030. The bill would establish exemptions from these prohibitions. This bill contains other related provisions.

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AB 2053 (Lee D) The Social Housing Act.

Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was S.

GOV. & F. on 6/22/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-S. DEAD

Summary: Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and sets forth its powers and duties. Existing law creates a housing authority in each county or city, which functions upon the adoption of a specified resolution by the relevant governing body. Existing law authorizes these housing authorities, within their jurisdictions, to construct, reconstruct, improve, alter, or repair all or part of any housing project. Existing law establishes various programs that provide housing assistance. This bill would enact the Social Housing Act and would create the California Housing Authority, as an independent state body, the mission of which would be to produce and acquire social housing developments for the purpose of eliminating the gap between housing production and regional housing needs assessment targets, as specified. The bill would prescribe a definition of social housing that would describe, in addition to housing owned by the authority, housing owned by other entities, as specified, provided that all social housing developed by the authority would be owned by the authority. The bill would prescribe the composition of the California Housing Authority Board, which would govern the authority, and would be composed of appointed members and members who are elected by residents of social housing developments, as specified. The bill would prescribe the powers and duties of the authority and the board. The bill would provide that the authority seeks to achieve revenue neutrality, as defined, and would require the authority to seek to recover the cost of development and operations over the life of its properties through the mechanism of rent cross- subsidization, as defined. The bill would require the authority to prioritize the development of specified property, including vacant parcels and parcels near 189 of 245
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21 transit, and would prescribe a process for the annual determination of required social housing units. Under the bill, social housing would accommodate a mix of household income ranges and would provide specified protections for residents, who would participate in the operation and management of the units in which they reside. This bill contains other related provisions.

Position
Oppose Unless
Amended

AB 2061 (Ting D) Transportation electrification: electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law creates the Clean Transportation Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), to provide, among other things, competitive grants and revolving loans to specified entities for those entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change policies. Existing law requires the Energy Commission to develop and adopt an investment plan to determine priorities and opportunities for the program. Existing law requires the Energy Commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board (state board), as part of the development of the investment plan, to assess whether charging station infrastructure is disproportionately deployed, as specified, and, upon finding disproportionate deployment, to use moneys from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, as well as other mechanisms, including incentives, to more proportionately deploy new charging station infrastructure, except as specified. Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards.

Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the Energy Commission and the state board, to direct electrical corporations to file applications for programs and investments to accelerate widespread transportation electrification to, among other things, reduce dependence on petroleum and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.

The PUC is required to approve, or modify and approve, programs and investments in transportation electrification, including those that deploy charging infrastructure, through a reasonable cost recovery mechanism, if certain requirements are met.

Beginning July 1, 2023, this bill would require an entity that receives an incentive funded by a state agency or through a charge on ratepayers to install, own, or operate a charging station, in whole or in part, to report charging station uptime, as defined, to the Energy Commission. The bill would require the Energy Commission, in consultation with the PUC, to develop a formula to calculate uptime to provide 190 of 245
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22 consistent, standardized reporting of information. This bill contains other existing laws.

Position
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AB 2075 (Ting D) Energy: electric vehicle charging standards.

Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/27/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval and adoption. Existing law requires the California Building Standards Commission to adopt, approve, codify, and publish mandatory building standards for the installation of future electric vehicle charging infrastructure for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings and nonresidential development, as specified. Existing law requires the California Building Standards Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development, in proposing and adopting those mandatory building standards, to consult interested parties. This bill would specify the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) is an interested party that the California Building Standards Commission and the Department of Housing and Community Development are required to consult with in proposing and adopting those standards. The bill would require the California Building Standards Commission, as part of each triennial California Building Standards Code rulemaking cycle that commences on or after January 1, 2023, to convene a workshop or other collaborative process on electric vehicle charging infrastructure standards, and would require the Energy Commission, as part of its participation in the workshop or collaborative process, to incorporate the most recent update to a specified statewide assessment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, any relevant electric load forecasts, and the statewide transportation electrification goals, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
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AB 2094 (Rivas, Robert D) General plan: annual report: extremely low-income housing.

Status: 6/23/2022-From Consent Calendar. Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Cortese.

Location: 6/23/2022-S. INACTIVE FILE
Summary: Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to 191 of 245
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23 adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide an annual report to certain specified entities by April 1 of each year that includes, among other information, the city or county’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs and local efforts to remove governmental constraints to the maintenance, improvement, and development of housing, as specified. This bill would additionally require a city or county’s annual report to include the locality’s progress in meeting the housing needs of extremely low income households, as specified. By requiring cities and counties to include additional information in their annual reports, the bill would impose a state- mandated local program. This bill contains other existing laws.

Position
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AB 2097 (Friedman D) Residential, commercial, or other development types: parking requirements.

Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a land use element, and a conservation element. Existing law also permits variances to be granted from the parking requirements of a zoning ordinance for nonresidential development if the variance will be an incentive to the development and the variance will facilitate access to the development by patrons of public transit facilities. This bill would prohibit a public agency, in a county with a population of 600,000 or more, from imposing or enforcing a minimum automobile parking requirement, on any of specified residential, commercial, or other development types if the project is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined. The bill would also prohibit a public agency, in a county with a population of less than 600,000, and a city with a population of 75,000 or more, from imposing or enforcing a minimum automobile parking requirement on specified residential, commercial, or other development types if the project is located within 1/4 mile of public transit. For a city with a population of less than 75,000, or a county with a population of less than 600,000, the bill would authorize that city or county to adopt an ordinance or resolution that applies certain prohibitions regarding the above- described parking requirements within its boundaries. When a project provides parking voluntarily, the bill would authorize a public agency to impose specified requirements on the voluntary parking. The bill would prohibit these provisions from reducing, eliminating, or precluding the enforcement of any requirement imposed on a new multifamily or nonresidential development to provide electric vehicle supply equipment installed parking spaces or parking spaces that are accessible to persons with disabilities. The bill, notwithstanding the above provisions, would also require the development project to provide parking, as required by local ordinance, 192 of 245
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24 for employees and other workers of hotels, motels, bed and breakfast inns, transient lodgings, and event centers. The bill would exempt certain commercial parking requirements from these provisions if the requirements of the bill conflict with an existing contractual agreement of the public agency that was executed before January 1, 2023. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
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AB 2142 (Gabriel D) Income taxes: exclusion: turf replacement water conservation program.

Status: 6/27/2022-In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Location: 6/27/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, in conformity with federal income tax law, generally defines “gross income” as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income. Existing law provides an exclusion from gross income for any amount received as a rebate or voucher from a local water or energy agency or supplier for the purchase or installation of a water conservation water closet, energy efficient clothes washers, and plumbing devices, as specified.

This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2027, under both of these laws, provide an exclusion from gross income for any amount received as a rebate, voucher, or other financial incentive issued by a public water system, as defined, local government, or state agency for participation in a turf replacement water conservation program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Support

AB 2186 (Grayson D) Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29).

Location: 6/30/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law establishes, among other housing programs, the Multifamily Housing Program, pursuant to which the Department of Housing and Community Development provides financial assistance in the form of deferred payment loans to pay for the eligible costs of development for specified types of housing projects. Existing law, the Mitigation Fee Act, establishes procedures and limitations with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of fees, as defined, as a condition of approval of a development project by a local agency, including requiring the local agency to determine the reasonable relationship between the fee’s use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed. This bill would establish the Housing Cost Reduction Incentive Program, 193 of 245
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25 to be administered by the department, for the purpose of reimbursing cities, counties, and cities and counties for development impact fee reductions provided to qualified housing developments, as defined, and for the reasonable interest costs associated with impact fee deferrals. Upon appropriation, the bill would require the department to provide grants to applicants in an amount equal to 50% of the amount of development impact fee reduced for a qualified housing development and grants to applicants in an amount equal to the accrued interest on a deferred development impact fee, as provided. This bill would require the department to administer these grants by issuing a Notice of Funding Availability before December 31 of the year that the program receives funding, as specified, and accepting grant applications after the subsequent year. The bill would require a public entity that receives grant funds under the program to use those funds solely for those purposes for which the development impact fee that was reduced or deferred would have been used. The bill would require the department to adopt guidelines to implement the program and exempt those guidelines from the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act.

Position
Watch

AB 2206 (Lee D) Nonattainment basins: employee parking: parking cash-out program.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 6/30/2022-S. THIRD READING

Summary: Existing law requires, in any air basin designated as nonattainment for certain air quality standards, an employer, defined as an employer of 50 persons or more that provides a parking subsidy to employees, to also offer a parking cash-out program. Existing law defines “parking cash-out program” as an employer-funded program under which an employer offers to provide a cash allowance to an employee equivalent to the parking subsidy that the employer would otherwise pay to provide the employee with a parking space. Existing law defines a “parking subsidy” as the difference between the out-of-pocket amount paid by an employer on a regular basis in order to secure the availability of an employee parking space not owned by the employer and the price, if any, charged to an employee for use of that space.This bill would revise the definitions of “employer,” “parking cash-out program,” and “parking subsidy.” The bill would require an employer to maintain a record of communication with each employee who receives a parking subsidy that those employees have been informed of their right to receive the cash equivalent of the parking subsidy.

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26 AB 2221 (Quirk-Silva D) Accessory dwelling units.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29).

Location: 6/30/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, provides for the creation of accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Existing law requires a local ordinance to require an accessory dwelling unit to be either attached to, or located within, the proposed or existing primary dwelling, as specified, or detached from the proposed or existing primary dwelling and located on the same lot as the proposed or existing primary dwelling. This bill would specify that an accessory dwelling unit that is detached from the proposed or existing primary dwelling may include a detached garage.

This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 2233 (Quirk-Silva D) Excess state land: development of affordable housing.

Status: 6/22/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

8. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law establishes the Department of General Services (DGS) in the Government Operations Agency for purposes of, among other things, planning, acquiring, constructing, and maintaining state buildings and property. Under existing law, by executive order, the DGS was required to, among other things, create a digitized inventory of all excess state land, create screening tools for prioritizing affordable housing development on excess state land, and issue requests for proposals for and select affordable housing developments on excess state land, as described. This bill would require the DGS to develop, no later than September 1, 2023, a set of criteria to consistently evaluate state-owned parcels for suitability as affordable housing sites. The bill would also require, on or before July 1, 2024, and every 4 years thereafter, the DGS to, among other things, conduct a review of all state-owned property and identify state-owned parcels that are potentially viable for affordable housing based on those criteria. The bill would require the DGS to create, no later than April 30, 2024, a digitized inventory of all excess state land, as defined, by, among other things, conducting a comprehensive survey of all state-owned property. The bill would require the DGS, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the California Housing Finance Agency to develop, no later than March 29, 2024, 2 new screening tools, as described. The bill would require the screening tools to be applied to the digitized inventory and would require the DGS to create a comprehensive map of excess state land, as described. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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27 AB 2234 (Rivas, Robert D) Planning and zoning: housing: postentitlement phase permits.

Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, the Permit Streamlining Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each public agency to provide a development project applicant with a list that specifies the information that will be required from any applicant for a development project. The act requires public agencies to approve or disapprove of a development project within certain specified timeframes. Existing law requires a city, county, or special district to provide specified information, including a current schedule of fees, exactions, and affordability requirements applicable to a proposed housing development project, and an archive of impact fee nexus studies, cost of service studies, or equivalent studies, conducted by the city, county, or special district, on its internet website. This bill would require a local agency to compile a list of information needed to approve or deny a postentitlement phase permit, as defined, to post an example of a complete, approved application and an example of a complete set of postentitlement phase permits for at least 5 types of housing development projects in the jurisdiction, as specified, and to make those items available to all applicants for these permits no later than January 1, 2024. The bill would define “local agency” for these purposes to mean a city, county, or city and county. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Oppose

AB 2237
(Friedman D) Transportation planning: regional transportation improvement plan: sustainable communities strategies: alternative planning strategy: state transportation funding.

Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was S.

TRANS. on 6/16/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-S. DEAD

Summary: Existing law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Existing law requires each regional transportation plan to also include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization in order to, among other things, achieve certain targets established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region for 2020 and 2035, respectively. Existing law, to the extent the sustainable communities strategy is unable to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, requires the affected metropolitan planning organization to prepare an alternative planning strategy showing how the targets may be achieved through alternative 196 of 245
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28 development patterns, infrastructure, or additional transportation measures or policies. Existing law requires each regional transportation planning agency or county transportation commission to biennially adopt and submit to the California Transportation Commission and the Department of Transportation a 5-year regional transportation improvement program that includes, among other things, regional transportation improvement projects and programs proposed to be funded, in whole or in part, in the state transportation improvement program. This bill would require that those projects and programs included in each regional transportation improvement program also be consistent with the most recently prepared sustainable communities strategy of the regional transportation planning agency or county transportation commission, or, if applicable, the alternative planning strategy, and state and federal air quality standards. The bill would prohibit funds collected from any local transportation tax measure passed on or after January 1, 2023, from being spent until the transportation projects or programs to be funded by the tax measure are included in the most recently adopted sustainable communities strategy of the applicable regional transportation planning agency or county transportation commission or, if applicable, the alternative planning strategy.

The bill would also prohibit the expenditure of funds from local tax measures that passed before January 1, 2023, but that exclusively provide for the collection and expenditure of funds on or after January 1, 2023, until the transportation projects or programs to be funded by the tax measure are included in the most recently adopted sustainable communities strategy, or, if applicable, the alternative planning strategy. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 2247 (Bloom D) Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and PFAS products and product components: publicly accessible reporting platform.

Status: 6/22/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

5. Noes 2.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law provides that the Department of Toxic Substances Control regulates the handling and management of hazardous substances, materials, and waste. Existing law requires the department, among other things, to issue hazardous waste facilities permits to facilities handling hazardous waste and to enforce the requirements of the hazardous waste control laws. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. This bill would require, as part of the hazardous waste control laws, the department to work with the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse to establish, on or before January 1, 2025, a publicly accessible reporting platform to collect information about perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and products or product components containing intentionally added PFAS, as defined, being sold, offered for sale, distributed, or offered for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, a manufacturer, as defined, of PFAS or a product or a product component containing intentionally 197 of 245
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29 added PFAS that is sold, offered for sale, distributed, or offered for promotional purposes in, or imported into, the state to register the PFAS or the product or product component containing intentionally added PFAS, and specified other information, on the publicly accessible reporting platform. Because a violation of these provisions would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 2271 (Gipson D) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority:
contracting: local businesses.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 6/30/2022-S. THIRD READING

Summary: Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), with various powers and duties with respect to transportation planning, programming, construction, and operations. Existing law authorizes LA Metro to provide for a small business preference of 5% of the lowest responsible bidder meeting specifications, with respect to contracts in construction, the construction component of a design-build team, the procurement of goods, or the delivery of services. Existing law also authorizes LA Metro to set aside work for competition, until January 1, 2024, (1) among certified small business enterprises and award each contract to the certified small business enterprise that is the lowest responsible bidder whenever the expected expenditure required exceeds $5,000 but is less than $3,000,000, as specified, and (2) among medium business enterprises for no more than 20 contracts and award each contract to the medium business enterprise that is the lowest responsible bidder whenever the expected expenditure required exceeds $3,000,000 but is less than $30,000,000, as provided. Existing law defines a small business enterprise and medium business enterprise for these purposes. This bill would authorize LA Metro to also provide for a local small business enterprise preference of 5% of the lowest responsible bidder meeting specifications, with respect to contracts in construction, the construction component of a design-build team, the procurement of goods, or the delivery of services, and to provide the preference to nonlocal businesses if the bid includes a 30% participation by local small business enterprises. The bill would define a local small business enterprise for these purposes. The bill would extend, to January 1, 2028, the authorization described above for LA Metro to set aside work for competition among certified small business enterprises and medium business enterprises and award those contracts to those certified small business enterprises and medium business enterprises that are lowest responsible bidders. The bill would increase the limitation on the expected expenditure required for those contracts LA Metro may award to small business enterprises to be less than $5,000,000 instead of $3,000,000. The bill would increase the minimum expected expenditure required for those contracts LA Metro may award to medium business enterprises to be greater than $5,000,000 instead of $3,000,000. If LA Metro awards contracts pursuant to these provisions, the bill would require LA Metro to 198 of 245
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30 submit a report to the Legislature by December 31, 2026, on the contracts issued between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2026, including the number of employees working at a medium business enterprise receiving awards, as provided.

Position
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AB 2282 (Bauer-Kahan D) Hate crimes: nooses, crosses, and swastikas.

Status: 6/22/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

4. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/21/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law establishes various offenses for a person who places or displays certain symbols, marks, signs, emblems, and other physical impressions, including, but not limited to, a Nazi swastika, hangs nooses, or burns or desecrates crosses or other religious symbols on private and nonprivate property, as specified, with the intent to terrorize a person, as specified. Existing law, for the first conviction, punishes a person who hangs a noose or places or displays a sign, mark, symbol, emblem, or other physical impression with the intent to terrorize a person, as specified, with imprisonment in county jail not to exceed one year, a fine not more than $5,000, or both the fine and imprisonment, and with imprisonment in county jail not to exceed one year, a fine not to exceed $15,000, or both the fine and imprisonment for a subsequent conviction. Existing law, for a person who engages in a pattern of conduct by placing or displaying certain symbols, as specified, allows a person’s punishment to be increased to imprisonment of 16 months or 2 or 3 years, a fine not more than $10,000, or both. Existing law punishes a person convicted of burning or desecrating a religious symbol with imprisonment for 16 months or 2 or 3 years, by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by both the fine and imprisonment, or imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, by a fine not to exceed $5,000, or both the fine and imprisonment for the first conviction, and the same punishment for a subsequent conviction except the misdemeanor fine increases to $15,000.This bill would expand these offenses to include hanging a noose, placing or displaying a sign, mark, symbol, emblem, or other physical impression, including, but not limited to, a Nazi swastika, and burning, desecrating, or destroying a religious symbol, such as a cross, at schools and public places, generally, as specified, for the purpose of terrorizing a person, as specified. The bill would, for the first conviction, punish a person who hangs a noose, places or displays certain symbols, or burns or desecrates a religious symbol, as specified, with imprisonment for 16 months or 2 or 3 years, by a fine of not more than $10,000, or both the fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, by a fine not to exceed $5,000, or by both the fine and imprisonment. For a 2nd or subsequent conviction under these provisions, the bill would punish a person with imprisonment for 16 months or 2 or 3 years, by a fine of not more than $15,000, or by both the fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, by a fine not to exceed $10,000, or by both the fine and imprisonment. This bill contains other related 199 of 245
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31 provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 2295 (Bloom D) Local educational agencies: housing development projects.

Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: (1)Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires that the legislative body of each county and each city adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county and city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of any county or city, pursuant to specified procedures, to adopt ordinances that, among other things, regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space, and other purposes. Existing law generally requires each local agency to comply with all applicable building ordinances and zoning ordinances of the county or city in which the territory of the local agency is situated, but, among other things, authorizes the governing board of a school district that has complied with specified law, by a 2/3 vote of its members, to render a city or county zoning ordinance inapplicable to a proposed use of property by the school district, unless the proposed use of the property is for nonclassroom facilities, as provided. This bill would deem a housing development project an allowable use on any real property owned by a local educational agency, as defined, if the housing development satisfies certain conditions, including other local objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design review standards, as described. The bill would deem a housing development that meets these requirements consistent, compliant, and in conformity with local development standards, zoning codes or maps, and the general plan. The bill, among other things, would authorize the land used for the development of the housing development to be jointly used or jointly occupied by the local educational agency and any other party, subject to specified requirements. The bill would exempt a housing development project subject to these provisions from various requirements regarding the disposal of surplus land. The bill would make these provisions effective on January 1, 2024, except that the bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide a specified notice to the planning agency of each county and city on or before January 31, 2023. The bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2033. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Support If
Amended

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32 AB 2334 (Wicks D) Density Bonus Law: affordability: incentives or concessions in very low vehicle travel areas: parking standards: definitions.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 29).

Location: 6/30/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified percentages of units for lower income, very low income, or senior citizen housing, among other things, and meets other requirements. Existing law requires that an applicant agree to, and the city, county, or city and county ensure, the continued affordability of all very low and low-income rental units that qualified the applicant for a density bonus, as provided. Existing law, for developments where 100% of all units are for lower income households, except as provided, requires that rent for 20% of the units be set at an affordable rent and that rent for the remaining units be at an amount consistent with the maximum rent levels for a housing development that receives an allocation of state or federal low-income housing tax credits from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (CTCAC). Existing law, with respect to a for-sale unit that qualified the applicant for a density bonus, also requires that the local government enforce an equity sharing agreement, as provided, unless it is in conflict with the requirements of another public funding source or law. This bill, with respect to the affordability requirements applicable to 100% lower income developments, would instead require the rent for the remaining units in the development be set at an amount consistent with the maximum rent levels for lower income households, as those rents and incomes are determined by CTCAC. The bill, with regard to the enforcement of equity sharing agreements for for-sale units, would also permit the local government to defer to the recapture provisions of the public funding source.

The bill would also make a technical change to the Density Bonus Law by deleting duplicative provisions relating to for-sale units subject to the above-described provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 2336 (Friedman D) Vehicles: Speed Safety System Pilot Program.

Status: 5/20/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was A.

APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/11/2022)
Location: 5/20/2022-A. DEAD

Summary: Existing law establishes a basic speed law that prohibits a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent given the weather, visibility, traffic, and highway conditions and in no event at a speed that endangers the safety of persons or property. This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2028, the Cities of Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose, Glendale, and Palm Springs, and the City and County of San Francisco, to establish the Speed Safety System Pilot Program if the system meets specified requirements. The bill 201 of 245
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33 would require the participating cities or city and county to adopt a Speed Safety System Use Policy and a Speed Safety System Impact Report before implementing the program, and would require the city or city and county to engage in a public information campaign at least 30 days before implementation of the program, including information relating to when the systems would begin detecting violations and where the systems would be utilized. The bill would require the participating cities or city and county to issue warning notices rather than notices of violations for violations detected within the first 60 calendar days of the program. The bill would require the participating cities or city and county to develop uniform guidelines for, among other things, the processing and storage of confidential information. The bill would designate all photographic, video, or other visual or administrative records, not including data about the number of violations issued or the speeds at which they were issued for, made by a system as confidential, and would only authorize public agencies to use and allow access to these records for specified purposes.

This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Support

AB 2387
(Garcia, Eduardo D) Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2022.

Status: 5/19/2022-In committee: Held under submission.

Location: 5/11/2022-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: The California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, and Outdoor Access For All Act of 2018, approved by the voters as Proposition 68 at the June 5, 2018, statewide primary election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,100,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a drought, water, parks, climate, coastal protection, and outdoor access for all program. Article XVI of the California Constitution requires measures authorizing general obligation bonds to specify the single object or work to be funded by the bonds and further requires a bond act to be approved by a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature and a majority of the voters. This bill would enact the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2022, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $7,430,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, and workforce development programs.

This bill contains other related provisions.

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Watch

AB 2449 (Rubio, Blanca D) Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences. 202 of 245
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34 Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.

The act provides an exemption to the jurisdictional requirement for health authorities, as defined.This bill would revise and recast those teleconferencing provisions and, until January 1, 2026, would authorize a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with the teleconferencing requirements that each teleconference location be identified in the notice and agenda and that each teleconference location be accessible to the public if at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the local agency’s jurisdiction. Under this exception, the bill would authorize a member to participate remotely under specified circumstances, including participating remotely for just cause or due to emergency circumstances. The emergency circumstances basis for remote participation would be contingent on a request to, and action by, the legislative body. The bill would define terms for purposes of these teleconferencing provisions.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 2536 (Grayson D) Development fees: impact fee nexus studies: connection fees and capacity charges.

Status: 7/11/2022-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.

Location: 7/11/2022-A. ENROLLED

Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act requires a local agency that establishes, increases, or imposes a fee as a condition of approval of a development project to, among other things, determine a reasonable relationship between the fee’s use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed. Existing law requires a local agency that conducts an impact fee nexus study to follow certain standards and practices, as specified. Existing law also requires a local agency to hold at least one open and public meeting prior to levying a new fee or service 203 of 245
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35 charge, as specified. This bill would require a local agency, prior to levying a new fee or capacity charge or approving an increase in an existing fee or capacity charge, to evaluate the amount of the fee or capacity charge. The bill would require the evaluation to include evidence to support that the fee or capacity charge does not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing service, as specified. The bill would require all information constituting the evaluation to be made publicly available at least 14 days prior to a specified meeting. This bill contains other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 2556 (O'Donnell D) Local public employee organizations.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

4. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Under the act, if the representatives of the public agency and the employee organization fail to reach an agreement, they may mutually agree on the appointment of a mediator and equally share the cost. Existing law gives public employees the right to refuse to join or participate in the activities of employee organizations, and provides that employees who are members of a bona fide religion, body, or sect that has historically held conscientious objections to joining or financially supporting public employee organizations are not required to join or financially support a public employee organization as a condition of employment, as specified. Existing law, the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act, grants certain employment rights to firefighters, as defined. This bill would authorize a recognized employee organization to charge an employee covered by the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act for the reasonable cost of representation when the employee holds a conscientious objection described above or declines membership in the organization and requests individual representation in a discipline, grievance, arbitration, or administrative hearing from the organization. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 2560 (Bonta, Mia D) Housing: blighted and tax defaulted property.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer 204 of 245
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36 to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29).

Location: 6/30/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, sets forth various requirements relating to the development of property in local jurisdictions. This bill would, until January 1, 2028, require a qualified jurisdiction, as defined, to develop and execute a plan to, among other things, identify blighted properties, as defined, through code enforcement, nuisance abatement, and tax delinquency. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 2582 (Bennett D) Recall elections: local offices.

Status: 6/22/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 6/22/2022-S. THIRD READING

Summary: The California Constitution reserves to the electors the power to recall an elective officer and requires the Legislature to provide for recall of local officers.

Existing law requires a recall election to include the question of whether the officer sought to be recalled shall be removed from office and an election for the officer’s successor in the event the officer is removed from office. This bill would instead require a recall election for a local officer to include only the question of whether the officer sought to be recalled shall be removed from office. If a local officer is removed from office in a recall election, the bill would provide that the office is vacant until it is filled according to law. The bill would make related conforming and clarifying changes.

Position
Watch

AB 2647 (Levine D) Local government: open meetings.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5.

Noes 0.) (June 29).

Location: 5/25/2022-S. GOV. & F.

Summary: Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state agencies and local agencies to make public records available for inspection, subject to specified criteria, and with specified exceptions. Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires the meetings of the legislative body of a local agency to be conducted openly and publicly, with specified exceptions. Existing law makes agendas of public meetings and other writings distributed to the members of the governing board disclosable public records, with certain exceptions. Existing law requires a local agency to make those writings distributed to the members of the governing board less than 72 hours before a meeting available for public inspection, as specified, at a public office or location that the agency designates. Existing law also requires the local agency to list the address of the office or location on the agenda for all meetings of the legislative body of the agency. Existing law authorizes a local 205 of 245
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37 agency to post the writings on the local agency’s internet website in a position and manner that makes it clear that the writing relates to an agenda item for an upcoming meeting. This bill would instead require a local agency to make those writings distributed to the members of the governing board available for public inspection at a public office or location that the agency designates and list the address of the office or location on the agenda for all meetings of the legislative body of the agency unless the local agency meets certain requirements, including the local agency immediately posts the writings on the local agency’s internet website in a position and manner that makes it clear that the writing relates to an agenda item for an upcoming meeting. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 2653 (Santiago D) Planning and Zoning Law: housing elements.

Status: 6/22/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

7. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide an annual report to the Department of Housing and Community Development by April 1 of each year that includes, among other information, a housing element portion that includes, as provided, the city or county’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs and local efforts to remove governmental constraints on the maintenance, improvement, and development of housing, as specified. This bill would authorize the Department of Housing and Community Development to reject the housing element portion of an annual report if the report is not in substantial compliance with these requirements.

If the department rejects the housing element portion of an annual report, the bill would require the department to provide the reasons for the rejection in writing, as specified.

Position
Watch

AB 2667 (Friedman D) Integrated Distributed Energy Resources Fund.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/27/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to require the administration, until January 1, 2026, of a self-generation incentive program to increase the development of distributed generation resources and energy storage technologies. In administering the program, existing law requires the commission to 206 of 245
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38 provide an additional incentive of 20% from existing program funds for the installation of eligible distributed generation resources manufactured in California.This bill would establish the Integrated Distributed Energy Resources Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury, the moneys in which would be available to the Energy Commission, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the bill. The bill would require the Energy Commission to administer the fund in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission and the State Air Resources Board to provide incentives for eligible resources to support statewide customer adoption of clean distributed energy resources, as specified. The bill would require the commission to establish a system to equitably award incentives, as specified. The bill would authorize the commission to authorize incentives for different technology types to be combined within this program and with other state- mandated programs, as provided, and would require the commission to adopt equipment inspection, operation, and verification procedures, and applicable performance criteria for eligible resources, as specified.This bill contains other existing laws.

Position
Watch

AB 2696 (Garcia, Eduardo D) Electricity: transmission facilities: study.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/21/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Current law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and requires the Energy Commission to undertake a continuing assessment of trends in the consumption of electrical energy and other forms of energy and to analyze the social, economic, and environmental consequences of these trends, and to carry out, or cause to be carried out, under contract or other arrangements, research and development into alternative sources of energy, improvements in energy generation, transmission, and siting, fuel substitution, and other topics related to energy supply, demand, public safety, ecology, and conservation that are of particular statewide importance.

This bill would require the Energy Commission, in consultation with the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, the Independent System Operator, and the Public Utilities Commission, to conduct a study to review potential lower cost ownership and alternative financing mechanisms for new transmission facilities needed to meet the state’s clean energy and climate targets, as specified, and to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before September 30, 2023, with findings and recommendations related to the study.

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39 AB 2703 (Muratsuchi D) Electric vehicle charging stations: reliability standards: low- income and disadvantaged community financial assistance.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 2.) (June 28).

Location: 6/28/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), working with the State Air Resources Board and the Public Utilities Commission, to prepare and update, as provided, a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of electric vehicle adoption required for the state to meet its goals of putting at least 5,000,000 zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2030, and of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Existing law establishes the Clean Transportation Program, administered by the Energy Commission, to provide funding to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change policies. This bill would require a person who receives state funding to deploy a publicly available electric vehicle charging station to agree, as a condition of receiving the funding, to operate the station in compliance with reliability standards that would be developed by the Energy Commission, as specified. The bill would require the Energy Commission to publish data on compliance with the reliability standards as part of the above- described assessment and to protect the confidential information of an entity subject to the reliability standards by anonymizing and aggregating the compliance data in the assessment. The bill would also require the Energy Commission, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to develop a program to provide financial assistance to low-income and disadvantaged community members to use electric vehicle charging stations, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry D) Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure: voter approval.

Status: 4/22/2021-Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and APPR.

Location: 4/22/2021-A. L. GOV.

Summary: (1)The California Constitution prohibits the ad valorem tax rate on real property from exceeding 1% of the full cash value of the property, subject to certain exceptions.This measure would create an additional exception to the 1% limit that would authorize a city, county, city and county, or special district to levy an ad valorem tax to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing, or the acquisition or lease of real property for those purposes, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters of the city, county, or city and county, as applicable, and the 208 of 245
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40 proposition includes specified accountability requirements. The measure would specify that these provisions apply to any city, county, city and county, or special district measure imposing an ad valorem tax to pay the interest and redemption charges on bonded indebtedness for these purposes that is submitted at the same election as this measure. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

ACR 188 (Holden D) Independent System Operator: regional cooperation: study.

Status: 6/27/2022-Amended. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 6/27/2022-S. THIRD READING

Summary: This measure would request that by February 28, 2023, the Independent System Operator, in consultation with the California balancing authorities, produce a report that summarizes recent relevant studies on the impacts of expanded regional cooperation on California and identifies key issues that will most effectively advance the state’s energy and environmental goals, including any available studies that reflect the impact of regionalization on transmission costs and reliability for California ratepayers, relevant updates to specified transmission development and resource diversity estimates, and discussion of regional transmission organizations in Colorado, Nevada, and other regional states, collaboration between states on energy policies to maximize consumer savings while respecting state policy autonomy, and engagement between neighboring states on the future of regional transmission organizations in the west.

Position
Watch

SB 6 (Caballero D) Local planning: housing: commercial zones.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

6. Noes 1.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Existing law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If the inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all households pursuant to specified law, existing law requires the local government to rezone sites within specified time periods and that this rezoning accommodate 100% of the need for housing for very low and low-income households on sites that will be zoned to permit owner- occupied and rental multifamily residential use by right for specified developments. 209 of 245
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41 This bill, the Neighborhood Homes Act, would deem a housing development project, as defined, an allowable use on a parcel that is within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, if the development and site meet specified requirements, including that the site is not adjacent to an industrial use or agricultural use. The bill would require the density for a housing development under these provisions to meet or exceed the density deemed appropriate to accommodate housing for lower income households according to the type of local jurisdiction, including a density of at least 20 units per acre for a suburban jurisdiction. The bill would require the housing development to meet all other local requirements, other than those that prohibit residential use, or allow residential use at a lower density than that required by the bill. The bill would provide that a housing development under these provisions is subject to the local zoning, parking, design, and other ordinances, local code requirements, and procedures applicable to the processing and permitting of a housing development in a zone that allows for the housing with the density required by the act. If more than one zoning designation of the local agency allows for housing with the density required by the act, the bill would require that the zoning standards that apply to the closest parcel that allows residential use at a density that meets the requirements of the act would apply. If the existing zoning designation allows residential use at a density greater than that required by the act, the bill would require that the existing zoning designation for the parcel would apply. The bill would also require that a housing development under these provisions comply with public notice, comment, hearing, or other procedures applicable to a housing development in a zone with the applicable density. The bill would require that the housing development is subject to a recorded deed restriction with a 15% affordability requirement, as provided.

The bill would require that a developer either certify that the development is a public work, as defined, or is not in its entirety a public work, but that all construction workers will be paid prevailing wages, as provided, or certify that a skilled and trained workforce, as defined, will be used to perform all construction work on the development, as provided. The bill would require a local agency to require that a rental of any unit created pursuant to the bill’s provisions be for a term longer than 30 days. The bill would authorize a local agency to exempt a parcel from these provisions in its land use element of the general plan if the local agency makes written findings supported by substantial evidence that the local agency concurrently reallocated the lost residential density to other lots so that there is no net loss in residential density in the jurisdiction, as provided. The bill would specify that it does not alter or affect the application of any housing, environmental, or labor law applicable to a housing development authorized by these provisions, including, but not limited to, the California Coastal Act, the California Environmental Quality Act, the Housing Accountability Act, obligations to affirmatively further fair housing, and any state or local affordability laws or tenant protection laws. The bill would require an applicant of a housing development under these provisions to provide notice of a pending application to each commercial tenant of the parcel. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2029. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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42 Oppose Unless
Amended

SB 12 (McGuire D) Local government: planning and zoning: wildfires.

Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was A.

H. & C.D. on 5/24/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-A. DEAD

Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan that includes various elements, including, among others, a housing element and a safety element for the protection of the community from unreasonable risks associated with the effects of various geologic and seismic hazards, flooding, and wildland and urban fires.

Existing law requires the housing element to be revised according to a specific schedule. Existing law requires the planning agency to review and, if necessary, revise the safety element upon each revision of the housing element or local hazard mitigation plan, but not less than once every 8 years to identify new information relating to flood and fire hazards and climate adaptation and resiliency strategies applicable to the city or county that was not available during the previous revision of the safety element. Existing law requires that the Office of Planning and Research, among other things, coordinate with appropriate entities, including state, regional, or local agencies, to establish a clearinghouse for climate adaptation information for use by state, regional, and local entities, as provided. This bill would require the safety element, upon the next revision of the housing element or the hazard mitigation plan, on or after July 1, 2024, whichever occurs first, to be reviewed and updated as necessary to include a comprehensive retrofit strategy to reduce the risk of property loss and damage during wildfires, as specified, and would require the planning agency to submit the adopted strategy to the Office of Planning and Research for inclusion into the above-described clearinghouse. The bill would also require the planning agency to review and, if necessary, revise the safety element upon each revision of the housing element or local hazard mitigation plan, but not less than once every 8 years, to identify new information relating to retrofit updates applicable to the city or county that was not available during the previous revision of the safety element. By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

SB 17 (Pan D) Office of Racial Equity.

Status: 6/29/2022-June 29 set for second hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: Existing law establishes an Office of Health Equity in the State Department of Public Health for purposes of aligning state resources, decisionmaking, and programs to accomplish certain goals related to health equity 211 of 245
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43 and protecting vulnerable communities. Existing law requires the office to develop department-wide plans to close the gaps in health status and access to care among the state’s diverse racial and ethnic communities, women, persons with disabilities, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning communities, as specified. Existing law requires the office to work with the Health in All Policies Task Force to assist state agencies and departments in developing policies, systems, programs, and environmental change strategies that have population health impacts by, among other things, prioritizing building cross- sectoral partnerships within and across departments and agencies to change policies and practices to advance health equity.This bill, until January 1, 2029, would establish in state government an Office of Racial Equity, an independent public entity not affiliated with an agency or department, governed by a Racial Equity Advisory and Accountability Council. The bill would authorize the council to hire an executive director to organize, administer, and manage the operations of the office. The bill would task the office with coordinating, analyzing, developing, evaluating, and recommending strategies for advancing racial equity across state agencies, departments, and the office of the Governor. The bill would require the office, in consultation with state agencies, departments, and public stakeholders, as appropriate, to develop a statewide Racial Equity Framework that includes a strategic plan with policy and inclusive practice recommendations, guidelines, goals, and benchmarks to reduce racial inequities, promote racial equity, and address individual, institutional, and structural racism. The bill would require the office to develop the statewide Racial Equity Framework in collaboration with a Chief Equity Officer, who would be appointed and serve at the pleasure of the Governor and who would report to the Secretary of Government Operations in the Government Operations Agency. The bill would also require the office, in consultation with state agencies and departments, to establish methodologies, a system of measurement, and data needs for assessing how state statutes, regulations, and practices contribute to, uphold, or exacerbate racial disparities and to prepare an annual report that evaluates and reports on progress in, and any obstacles to, meeting statewide goals and policies established under the Racial Equity Framework. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Watch

SB 45 (Portantino D) Short-lived climate pollutants: organic waste reduction goals:
local jurisdiction assistance.

Status: 6/29/2022-June 29 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to adopt regulations to achieve the organic waste reduction goals established by the state board for 2020 and 2025, as provided. Current law requires the department, no later than July 1, 2020, and in consultation with the state board, to analyze the progress that 212 of 245
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44 the waste sector, state government, and local governments have made in achieving these organic waste reduction goals. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the state board, to provide assistance to local jurisdictions, including, but not limited to, any funding appropriated by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, for purposes of assisting local agencies to comply with these provisions, including any regulations adopted by the department.

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SB 49 (Umberg D) Corporate conversions.

Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/28/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law specifies the process by which a corporation may be converted into a domestic other business entity if specified conditions are met. This bill would instead provide that this process applies to the conversion of a corporation into a domestic other business entity, foreign other business entity, or foreign corporation, as specified. The bill would define terms for purposes of these provisions, make other conforming changes, and establish the means by which an obligation of a corporation that has converted to a foreign corporation or foreign other business entity may be enforced.

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SB 54 (Allen D) Solid waste: reporting, packaging, and plastic food service ware.

Status: 6/30/2022-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 54, Statutes of 2022.

Location: 6/30/2022-S. CHAPTERED

Summary: The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. The act requires disposal facility operators to submit information to the department on the disposal tonnages that are disposed of at the disposal facility, and requires solid waste handlers and transfer station operators to provide information to disposal facility operators for purposes of that requirement. The act requires recycling and composting operations and facilities to submit periodic information to the department on the types and quantities of materials that are disposed of, sold, or transferred to other recycling or composting facilities or specified entities. This bill would provide that these reporting requirements do not apply to materials that are used by facilities defined as end users pursuant to the regulations adopted by the department or that are otherwise exempt pursuant to those regulations. The bill would also clarify that recycling is not limited to the processing of materials that 213 of 245
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45 would otherwise become solid waste, but also includes processes applied to nonhazardous materials that have value principally as a feedstock for that processing, regardless of whether the materials have been discarded or constitute solid waste. The bill would further clarify that, regardless of whether a recycling operation or facility is required to register and report pursuant to specified regulations adopted by the department, that recycling operation or facility is not a solid waste handler unless the operation or facility is, in fact, handling solid waste.

This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Position
Support

SB 222 (Dodd D) Water Rate Assistance Program.

Status: 6/23/2022-Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 6/21/2022-A. THIRD READING

Summary: Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. Existing law declares it to be the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes. Existing law requires the state board, by January 1, 2018, to develop a plan for the funding and implementation of the Low-Income Water Rate Assistance Program, as prescribed. Existing law requires the state board, by February 1, 2018, to report to the Legislature on its findings regarding the feasibility, financial stability, and desired structure of the program, including any recommendations for legislative action that may need to be taken. This bill would establish the Water Rate Assistance Fund in the State Treasury to help provide water affordability assistance, for both drinking water and wastewater services, to low-income residential ratepayers. The bill would make moneys in the fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature to the state board to provide, in consultation with relevant agencies, direct water bill assistance, water bill assistance to residential ratepayers served by eligible systems, as defined, and by tribal water systems that choose to participate and would require 80% of total funds to be directly applied to customer assistance. The bill would authorize the state board to identify and contract with a third-party fund administrator. The bill would impose requirements on the state board in connection with the program, including, among others, within 270 days of the effective date, as defined, adopting guidelines in consultation with relevant agencies and an advisory group for implementation of the program and preparing a report to be posted on state board’s internet website identifying how the fund has performed. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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46 SB 230 (Portantino D) State Water Resources Control Board: Constituents of Emerging Concern in Drinking Water Program.

Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

8. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/28/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. The state board’s duties include, but are not limited to, conducting research, studies, and demonstration programs relating to the provision of a dependable and safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, and adopting and enforcing regulations. This bill would require the state board to build upon its existing work dealing with, and work to improve its knowledge of, constituents of emerging concern (CEC) in water and, as part of this work, to improve its knowledge of CECs in drinking water by assessing the state of information, as specified. The bill would authorize the state board to establish, maintain, and direct a dedicated program called the Constituents of Emerging Concern in Drinking Water Program. The bill would authorize the state board to convene a Science Advisory Panel to review and provide recommendations to the state board on CECs for further action, among other duties. The bill would require the state board to provide a report to the Legislature 3 years after the panel is convened on the work conducted by the panel. This bill contains other related provisions.

Position
Support

SB 379 (Wiener D) Residential solar energy systems: permitting.

Status: 6/29/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires a city or county to approve administratively applications to install solar energy systems through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. Existing law requires every city, county, or city and county to develop a streamlined permitting process for the installation of small residential rooftop solar energy systems, as that term is defined. Existing law prescribes and limits permit fees that a city or county may charge for a residential and commercial solar energy system. Existing law creates the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) in the Natural Resources Agency and prescribes its duties, which include administering programs for the installation of solar energy systems. This bill would require every city, county, or city and county to implement an online, automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits in real time or allows the city, county, or city and county to issue permits in real time for a residential solar energy system, as defined, that is no larger than 38.4 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating and a residential energy storage system, as defined, paired with a residential solar energy system that is no larger than 38.4 215 of 245
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47 kilowatts alternating current nameplate rating. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 396 (Bradford D) Forestry: electrical transmission or distribution lines:
clearances: notice and opportunity to be heard.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 6/15/2022-A. THIRD READING

Summary: Existing law authorizes any person who owns, controls, operates, or maintains any electrical transmission or distribution line to traverse land as necessary, regardless of land ownership or express permission to traverse land from the landowner, after providing notice and an opportunity to be heard to the landowner, to prune trees to maintain clearances, as provided, and to abate, by pruning or removal, any hazardous, dead, rotten, diseased, or structurally defective live trees. Existing law authorizes this abatement at the full discretion of the person that owns, controls, operates, or maintains the electrical transmission or distribution lines, except for certain applicable minimum clearance requirements for those lines.

This bill would subject property access by an electrical corporation for felling, cutting, or trimming trees to provisions similar to those applicable to pruning trees, maintaining clearances, and abating trees around electrical transmission or distribution lines, including provisions requiring notice to the landowner and an opportunity to be heard. The bill would explicitly require tree felling, cutting, and trimming activities to comply with certain commission vegetation management rules, if applicable, and with the California Coastal Act of 1976 and the forest practice rules and regulations adopted by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection. The bill would require any trees that are felled, cut, or trimmed, as provided, to remain on the property of the landowner, unless the landowner timely requests the electrical corporation to treat or remove the wood, as specified. The bill would require woody material that was trimmed, cut, or felled to be treated to achieve a maximum postactivity depth of 9 inches when operating within 150 feet of a structure, public road, or other infrastructure, except where the landowner has requested that material to be kept intact. The bill would exempt electrical cooperatives, as defined, from these provisions. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 443 (Hertzberg D) Emergency medical services (EMS): prehospital EMS.

Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was A.

HEALTH on 6/16/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-A. DEAD
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48 Summary: Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, governs local emergency medical services (EMS) systems and authorizes each county to develop an EMS program and designate a local EMS agency. Existing law requires a county to enter into a written agreement with a city or fire district that contracted for or provided prehospital EMS as of June 1, 1980. Existing law requires, until that written agreement is reached, prehospital EMS to be continued at not less than the existing level and the administration of prehospital EMS by cities and fire districts contracting for or providing those services as of June 1, 1980, to be retained by those cities and fire districts. This bill would require a city or fire district that contracted for or provided, as of June 1, 1980, prehospital emergency medical services, to be deemed to retain its authority regarding, and administration of, the prehospital emergency medical services when a city or fire district enters into an agreement with a county for the joint exercise of powers regarding prehospital emergency medical services for that city or fire district, or ceases to contract for, provide, or administer prehospital emergency medical services as a result of a judicial finding, as specified. The bill would clarify the Legislature’s intent that a city’s or fire district’s entry into a written agreement, as described, does not make the city or fire district ineligible to contract with a county, as described above, or result in the transfer, termination, relinquishment, or extinguishment of that city’s or fire district’s authorities regarding, or administration of, prehospital emergency medical services, and to abrogate contrary judicial holdings. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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Watch

SB 457 (Portantino D) Personal income taxes: credit: reduction in vehicles.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

10. Noes 1.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/30/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by the law. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, allow a credit against those taxes in an amount of $2,500 for each household member, as defined, that exceeds the number of registered vehicles, as defined, and would limit the amount of the credit allowed to $7,500. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 485 (Portantino D) Income taxes: tax credits: motion picture credit extension.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 30).
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49 Location: 6/30/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a motion picture credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, to be allocated by the California Film Commission on or after July 1, 2020, and before July 1, 2025, in an amount equal to 20% or 25% of qualified expenditures for the production of a qualified motion picture in this state, with additional credit amounts allowed, including for amounts equal to specified qualified expenditures and qualified wages relating to original photography outside the Los Angeles zone, as specified.

Existing law limits the aggregate amount of credits that may be allocated to specified amounts per fiscal year, and sets forth allocation percentages for various productions under the motion picture credit. This bill would extend the period during which the commission allocates the above-described motion picture credits through July 1, 2030. The bill would also extend the application of the limit on the aggregate amount of credits that may be allocated through the 2029–30 fiscal year and would make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions.

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SB 490 (Caballero D) Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation Program:
technical assistance.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

7. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, and requires the department to administer various housing programs throughout the state, including the Affordable Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program with the purpose of funding the acquisition of property to develop or preserve affordable housing. This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, establish the Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation Technical Assistance Program, with the purpose of providing technical assistance to qualified entities engaged in acquisition-rehabilitation projects. The bill would define “acquisition- rehabilitation project” as a project to acquire and preserve unsubsidized housing units and attaching long-term affordability restrictions on the housing units. The bill would define “qualified entity” to include an eligible nonprofit corporation, community land trust, public housing authority, a nonprofit, limited-equity, or workforce housing cooperative, a resident association or organization, and a local or regional government agency administering an acquisition-rehabilitation project funding program. This bill contains other related provisions.

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50 SB 649 (Cortese D) Local governments: affordable housing: local tenant preference.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

Location: 6/30/2022-A. SECOND READING

Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment, or harassment on account of various personal characteristics. Under existing law, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing is responsible for receiving, investigating, conciliating, mediating, and prosecuting complaints alleging violations of specified civil rights.This bill would provide that it is the state’s policy to use its resources, as specified, to assist low-income individuals at risk of displacement, as described, in accessing affordable housing and in avoiding displacement. The bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Fair Employment and Housing to jointly develop and publish informational guidelines for developing local tenant preference policies consistent with state and federal law, as specified. This bill would require any local government adopting a local tenant preference policy, as specified, to submit the ordinance and its supporting materials to the Department of Housing and Community Development.

The bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to post on its internet website any local government ordinances enacted, any supporting materials related to those ordinances, and other materials, as specified.

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SB 679 (Kamlager D) Los Angeles County: affordable housing.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

5. Noes 2.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: (1)Existing law provides for the establishment of various special districts that may support and finance housing development, including affordable housing special beneficiary districts that are authorized to promote affordable housing development with certain property tax revenues that a city or county would otherwise be entitled to receive.This bill, the Los Angeles County Regional Housing Finance Act, would establish the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency and would state that the agency’s purpose is to increase the supply of affordable housing in Los Angeles County by providing for significantly enhanced funding and technical assistance at a regional level for renter protections, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production, as specified. The bill would require a board composed of 21 voting members and one nonvoting member from Los Angeles County, as specified, to govern the agency.

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SB 733 (Hueso D) Gas corporations: renewable gas procurement.

Status: 6/29/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/27/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to consider adopting specific biomethane procurement targets or goals for each gas corporation, as specified. Existing law requires that the commission, before establishing biomethane procurement targets or goals, find that the targets or goals are cost-effective means of achieving the reductions in emissions of short-lived climate pollutants and other greenhouse gases forecast pursuant to specified laws and that the targets or goals comply with all applicable state and federal laws. This bill would require the commission to open a new proceeding, or a new phase of an existing proceeding, to consider establishing procurement goals for renewable hydrogen, as defined, and consider requiring each gas corporation and core transport agent to annually procure a proportionate share of renewable hydrogen to meet those goals. The bill would require the commission to make specified findings before establishing renewable hydrogen procurement targets or goals. The bill would also require the commission to evaluate whether authorizing a gas corporation to recover in its rate base expenses incurred from investments in infrastructure to interconnect facilities producing biomethane, renewable hydrogen, or both, is just and reasonable, as specified.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 833 (Dodd D) Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law establishes within the Natural Resources Agency the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Existing law assigns the commission various duties, including applying for and accepting grants, contributions, and appropriations, and awarding grants consistent with the goals and objectives of a program or activity the commission is authorized to implement or administer. This bill, the Community Energy Resilience Act of 2022, would require the commission to develop and implement a grant program to award grants through a noncompetitive process for local governments to develop community energy resilience plans that help achieve energy resilience objectives and state clean energy and air quality goals. The bill would require a plan to, among other things, identify critical facilities, facilities where the construction of microgrids or 220 of 245
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52 other distributed energy sources could meet local resilience needs, and potential funding sources for implementing projects in the plan, include a process for the expedited permit review of distributed energy resources by the local government, and demonstrate consistency with the city, county, or city and county general plan and other local government planning documents, as specified. As a condition of receiving grant funding, the bill would require a local government to submit its plan to the commission within 6 months of adopting the plan. The bill would require grant funds to be encumbered within 2 years, and liquidated within 4 years, of the date of an award. This bill contains other related provisions.

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Watch

SB 887 (Becker D) Electricity: transmission facility planning.

Status: 6/27/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law establishes an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation, and requires the ISO to ensure the efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid consistent with the achievement of planning and operating reserve criteria, as specified.This bill would require the PUC, on or before January 15, 2023, to request the ISO to identify the highest priority transmission facilities that are needed to allow for increased transmission capacity into local capacity areas to deliver renewable energy resources or zero-carbon resources that are expected to be developed by 2035 into those areas and to consider whether to approve the identified transmission projects as part of the ISO’s 2022–23 transmission planning process. The bill would require the PUC, in consultation with the Energy Commission, to provide transmission-focused guidance to the ISO about resource portfolios of expected future renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources, as specified, to allow the ISO to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers. The bill would express the policy of the state that planning for new transmission facilities considers the goals of minimizing the risk of wildfire and increasing systemwide reliability and cost efficiency, among other goals.

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SB 892 (Hurtado D) Cybersecurity preparedness: food and agriculture sector and water and wastewater systems sector.

Status: 6/28/2022-Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/27/2022-A. APPR.
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53 Summary: Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, among other things, creates the Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), which is responsible for the state’s emergency and disaster response services, as specified. Existing law requires Cal OES to establish the California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC) with the primary mission of reducing the likelihood and severity of cyber incidents that could damage California’s economy, its critical infrastructure, or public and private sector computer networks in the state. Existing law requires Cal- CSIC to provide warnings of cyberattacks to government agencies and nongovernmental partners, coordinate information sharing among these entities, assess risks to critical infrastructure information networks, enable cross-sector coordination and sharing of best practices and security measures, and support certain cybersecurity assessments, audits, and accountability programs. Existing law also requires Cal-CSIC to develop a statewide cybersecurity strategy to improve how cyber threats are identified, understood, and shared in order to reduce threats to California government, businesses, and consumers, and to strengthen cyber emergency preparedness and response and expand cybersecurity awareness and public education. This bill would require Cal OES to develop, propose, and adopt optional reporting guidelines applicable to companies and cooperatives in the food and agriculture industry and entities in the water and wastewater systems industry if they identify a significant and verified cyber threat or active cyberattack. The bill would require a report of cyberattack or cyber threat submitted pursuant to guidelines developed pursuant to these provisions to be confidential and would prohibit disclosure as a public record. The bill would require Cal OES to direct Cal-CSIC to prepare, and Cal OES to submit to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2024, a strategic, multiyear outreach plan to assist the food and agriculture sector and the water and wastewater sector in their efforts to improve cybersecurity and an evaluation of options for providing grants or alternative forms of funding to, and potential voluntary actions that do not require funding and that assist, those sectors in their efforts to improve cybersecurity preparedness. The bill would make related findings and declarations. This bill contains other existing laws.

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SB 897 (Wieckowski D) Accessory dwelling units: junior accessory dwelling units.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency, by ordinance or ministerial approval, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Existing law authorizes a local agency to impose standards on accessory dwelling units that include, but are not limited to, parking, height, setback, landscape, architectural review, and maximum size of a unit. This bill would require that the standards imposed on accessory dwelling units be objective. For purposes of this 222 of 245
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54 requirement, the bill would define “objective standard” as a standard that involves no personal or subjective judgment by a public official and is uniformly verifiable, as specified. The bill would also prohibit a local agency from denying an application for a permit to create an accessory dwelling unit due to the correction of nonconforming zoning conditions, building code violations, or unpermitted structures that do not present a threat to public health and safety and are not affected by the construction of the accessory dwelling unit. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 930 (Wiener D) Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale.

Status: 6/23/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

12. Noes 4.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, who sells, gives, or delivers to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law provides for moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill, beginning January 1, 2025, and before January 2, 2030, would require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to conduct a pilot program that would authorize the department to issue an additional hours license to an on-sale licensee located in a qualified city that would authorize, with or without conditions, the selling, giving, or purchasing of alcoholic beverages at the licensed premises between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., upon completion of specified requirements by the qualified city in which the licensee is located. The bill would impose specified fees related to the license to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund. The bill would require the applicant to notify specified persons of the application for an additional hours license and would provide a procedure for protest and hearing regarding the application. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol and each qualified city that has elected to participate in the program to submit reports to the Legislature and specified committees regarding the regional impact of the additional hours licenses, as specified. The bill would provide that any person under 21 years of age who enters and remains in the licensed public premises during the additional serving hour without lawful business therein is guilty of a misdemeanor, as provided. The pilot program would apply to the Cities of Cathedral City, Coachella, Fresno, Oakland, Palm Springs, and West Hollywood, and the City and County of San Francisco.

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SB 931 (Leyva D) Deterring union membership: violations. 223 of 245
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55 Status: 6/22/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

5. Noes 2.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law prohibits a public employer from deterring or discouraging public employees or applicants to be public employees from becoming or remaining members of an employee organization, authorizing representation by an employee organization, or authorizing dues or fee deductions to an employee organization.

Existing law generally vests jurisdiction over violations of these provisions in the Public Employment Relations Board. This bill would authorize an employee organization, as described, to bring a claim before the Public Employment Relations Board alleging that a public employer violated the above-described provisions. Upon a finding by the board that the public employer violated those provisions, the public employer would be subject to a civil penalty, to be deposited in the General Fund, of up to $1,000 for each affected employee, not to exceed $100,000 in total, and subject to attorney’s fees and costs, as described and except as specified.

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SB 932 (Portantino D) General plans: circulation element: bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans.

Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

10. Noes 2.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/28/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law states the Legislature’s intention that a county or city general plan and the elements and parts of that general plan comprise an integrated, internally consistent and compatible statement of policies for the adopting agency.This bill would emphasize the intent of the Legislature to fight climate change with these provisions.

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SB 948 (Becker D) Housing finance programs: development reserves.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

8. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law establishes various programs and funding sources administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to enable the development of affordable housing, including the Building Homes and Jobs Act, the Multifamily Housing Program, the Housing for a Healthy California Program, and the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act of 2014. Under existing law governing the State Community Development Block Grant Program, the department is required to distribute funds made available under the program in 224 of 245
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56 order to provide decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expand economic opportunities, consistent with federal requirements. Existing federal law also establishes the HOME Investment Partnership Program to, among other things, expand the supply of affordable housing. Existing law designates the department as the state agency responsible for administering the HOME Investment Partnership Act. This bill would prohibit the department from requiring a project-specific transition reserve, as defined, for any unit subject to a qualified project rental or operating subsidy. This bill would create the Pooled Transition Reserve Fund and would continuously appropriate moneys in that fund to the department for the purpose of maintaining a pooled transition reserve to mitigate the impacts on tenant rents from the loss or exhaustion of rental or operating subsidies. This bill would prescribe the sources from which the fund may receive moneys. This bill would authorize the department to charge a fee to a development that receives qualified project rental or operating subsidies at the time of permanent loan closing, not to exceed the department’s reasonable costs to capitalize the reserve fund and cover administrative costs, to be deposited in the fund. This bill would authorize the department to adopt guidelines to implement these provisions and would exempt the adoption, amendment, or repeal of those guidelines from the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. This bill would provide that these provisions apply to units financed by any department-administered program, for which permanent loan closing has not occurred prior to January 1, 2023, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 991 (Newman D) Public contracts: progressive design-build: local agencies.

Status: 6/20/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/16/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, until January 1, 2025, authorizes local agencies, as defined, to use the design-build procurement process for specified public works with prescribed cost thresholds. Existing law requires specified information submitted by a design-build entity in the design-build procurement process to be certified under penalty of perjury. This bill, until January 1, 2029, would authorize local agencies, defined as any city, county, city and county, or special district authorized by law to provide for the production, storage, supply, treatment, or distribution of any water from any source, to use the progressive design-build process for up to 15 public works projects in excess of $5,000,000 for each project, similar to the progressive design-build process authorized for use by the Director of General Services. The bill would require a local agency that uses the progressive design-build process to submit, no later than January 1, 2028, to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a report on the use of the progressive design-build process containing specified information, including a description of the projects awarded using the progressive design-build process. 225 of 245
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57 The bill would require the design-build entity and its general partners or joint venture members to verify specified information under penalty of perjury. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1010 (Skinner D) Air pollution: state vehicle fleet: zero-emission vehicles.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, except as provided, beginning December 31, 2025, requires at least 15% of newly purchased vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 19,000 pounds or more purchased by the Department of General Services and other state entities for the state vehicle fleet to be zero-emission vehicles. If, on or after December 31, 2026, the department finds that it cannot meet the needs of the state while meeting the above purchasing requirement, existing law requires the department to take certain steps, including conducting a technological assessment of zero-emission vehicle technology that includes a plan to address the issues preventing the department and other state entities from meeting the purchasing requirement and implementing the plan for at least one year. If, after one year of implementing the plan, the department finds that it still cannot meet the needs of the state while meeting the purchasing requirement, existing law requires the department to notify the Legislature and makes the purchasing requirement inoperative. This bill would, instead, beginning January 1, 2024, require at least 50% of newly purchased medium- and heavy-duty vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 8,501 pounds or more purchased by the department and other state entities for the state vehicle fleet to be zero-emission vehicles. The bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, require 100% of newly purchased medium- and heavy- duty vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 8,501 pounds or more purchased by the department and other state entities for the state vehicle fleet to be zero- emission vehicles. If, on or after January 1, 2026, the department finds that it cannot meet the needs of the state while meeting these purchasing requirements and, after at least one year of implementing a plan to address the issues preventing the department and other state entities from meeting these purchasing requirements, that it still cannot meet the needs of the state while meeting these purchasing requirements, the bill would require the department to develop a set of requirements for the purchase of new vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 8,501 pounds or more that are zero-emission vehicles at as high of a percentage as possible, as soon as possible, while meeting the needs of the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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58 SB 1020 (Laird D) Clean Energy, Jobs, and Affordability Act of 2022.

Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

8. Noes 3.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/27/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years. The act requires the state board to conduct a series of public workshops to give interested parties an opportunity to comment on the plan and requires a portion of those workshops to be conducted in regions of the state that have the most significant exposure to air pollutants, including communities with minority populations, communities with low-income populations, or both. This bill instead would modify, with respect to the provision that a portion of the workshops be conducted in regions of the state that have the most significant exposure to air pollutants, the above-described included communities as additionally being areas designated as federal extreme nonattainment. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1032 (Becker D) State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: electrical transmission grid development and expansion: study.

Status: 6/27/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to undertake various actions in furtherance of meeting the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives. Existing law requires the commission to provide for research and development in, among other things, improvements in energy generation, transmission, and siting and other topics related to energy supply, demand, public safety, ecology, and conservation that are of particular statewide importance. Existing law requires the commission to carry out studies, technical assessments, research projects, and data collection directed to reducing wasteful, inefficient, unnecessary, or uneconomic uses of energy, including advances in power generation and transmission technology.This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2024, to submit to the Governor and the Legislature a study identifying proposals to accelerate the development of, and reduce the cost to ratepayers of expanding, the state’s electrical transmission grid as necessary to achieve the state’s goals, and meet the state’s requirements, to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, as specified.

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SB 1067 (Portantino D) Housing development projects: automobile parking requirements.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Existing law also authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking. This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on a housing development project, as defined, that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined. The bill, notwithstanding the above-described prohibition, would authorize a city, county, or city and county to impose or enforce minimum automobile parking requirements on a housing development project if the local government makes written findings, within 30 days of the receipt of a completed application, that not imposing or enforcing minimum automobile parking requirements on the development would have a substantially negative impact, supported by a preponderance of the evidence in the record, on the city’s, county’s, or city and county’s ability to meet its share of specified housing needs or existing residential or commercial parking within 1/2 mile of the housing development. The bill would create an exception from the above-described provision if the development (1) dedicates a minimum of 20% of the total number of housing units to very low, low-, or moderate-income households, students, the elderly, or persons with disabilities, (2) contains fewer than 20 housing units, or (3) is not subject to parking requirements based on any other state law. The bill would prohibit these provisions from reducing, eliminating, or precluding the enforcement of any requirement imposed on a housing development project that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit to provide electric vehicle supply equipment installed parking spaces or parking spaces that are accessible to persons with disabilities. By changing the duties of local planning officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1075 (Skinner D) Hydrogen: green hydrogen: emissions of greenhouse gases.

Status: 6/29/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/27/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: The Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act establishes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank in 228 of 245
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60 the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, that is governed by a board of directors. The Bank Act, among other things, authorizes the I-Bank to make loans, issue bonds, and provide financial assistance for various types of projects that qualify as economic development or public development facilities. This bill would create the California Clean Hydrogen Hub Fund within the State Treasury under the administration of the I-Bank. The bill would authorize the moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be used to provide grants for clean hydrogen projects developed in California, to match federal funds granted to a regional clean hydrogen hub, or to fund or match research grants that may be necessary to meet the goal of affordably producing hydrogen from renewable feedstock at scale. The bill would require the I-Bank to prepare, and the I-Bank board to approve, criteria, priorities, and guidelines for the provision of grants under the fund in line with specified priorities and requirements of the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act as well as specified state goals. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1100 (Cortese D) Open meetings: orderly conduct.

Status: 6/22/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 6/22/2022-A. THIRD READING

Summary: Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency, as those terms are defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Existing law requires every agenda for regular meetings of a local agency to provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the legislative body on any item of interest to the public, before or during the legislative body’s consideration of the item, that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body. Existing law authorizes the legislative body to adopt reasonable regulations to ensure that the intent of the provisions relating to this public comment requirement is carried out, including, but not limited to, regulations limiting the total amount of time allocated for public testimony on particular issues and for each individual speaker. Existing law authorizes the members of the legislative body conducting the meeting to order the meeting room cleared and continue in session, as prescribed, if a group or groups have willfully interrupted the orderly conduct of a meeting and order cannot be restored by the removal of individuals who are willfully interrupting the meeting. This bill would authorize the presiding member of the legislative body conducting a meeting to remove an individual for disrupting the meeting. The bill, except as provided, would require removal to be preceded by a warning to the individual by the presiding member of the legislative body or their designee that the individual’s behavior is disrupting the meeting and that the individual’s failure to cease their behavior may result in their removal. The bill would authorize the presiding member or their designee to then remove the individual if the individual does not promptly cease their disruptive behavior. The bill would define “disrupting” for this purpose. This bill contains other 229 of 245
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61 related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1127 (Atkins D) Workers’ compensation: liability presumptions.

Status: 6/22/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

10. Noes 2.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries arising out of and in the course of their employment. Existing law requires an injured employee to file a claim form with the employer. Under existing law, except for specified injuries, if liability is not rejected within 90 days after the date the claim form is filed with the employer, the injury is presumed compensable and the presumption is rebuttable only by evidence discovered subsequent to the 90-day period.This bill would, for specified firefighters and peace officers claiming illness or injury related to cancer, increase the number of compensable weeks to 240 without limitation as to time from the date of injury.

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SB 1144 (Wiener D) Water efficiency and quality assessment reports: state buildings and public school buildings.

Status: 6/29/2022-VOTE: Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (PASS)
Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. In this regard, existing law prohibits a person from using any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, solder, or flux that is not lead free in the installation or repair of any public water system or any plumbing in a facility providing water for human consumption, except as provided. This bill would require, no later than January 1, 2025, except as provided, an operating agency, as defined, to complete a water efficiency and quality assessment report, as specified, for each covered building. The bill would define a “covered building” to mean a building owned and occupied, or leased, maintained, and occupied, by a state agency, or a public school building, as described. If the report identifies noncompliant plumbing fixtures and noncompliant appliances, the bill would require the operating agency to replace those fixtures and appliances that fail to meet water efficiency standards, as specified, at the earliest practical time, subject to available funding. If the report determines that a building’s potable water system is contaminated with lead, the bill would require the operating agency to fit all drinking and cooking water sources with particulate and lead filters as soon 230 of 245
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62 as possible, no later than one year from receipt of the report, subject to available funding, as specified. If the report determines that a building contains lead pipe, the bill would require the operating agency to replace the lead pipe at the earliest practical time, subject to available funding. If the report determines that a building contains pipe of unknown material that was installed prior to 2010, the bill would require the operating agency to either treat the pipe as lead pipe or test the pipe to determine if it meets the definition of lead pipe. The bill would also require that buildings that contain non-lead-free pipe be remediated by providing occupants access to drinking fountains with filters, as specified, subject to available funding.

This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1157 (Hertzberg D) Urban water use objectives.

Status: 6/16/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/14/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources, in coordination with the State Water Resources Control Board, and including collaboration with and input from stakeholders, to conduct necessary studies and investigations and authorizes the department and the board to jointly recommend to the Legislature a standard for indoor residential water use. Existing law, until January 1, 2025, establishes 55 gallons per capita daily as the standard for indoor residential water use. Existing law establishes, beginning January 1, 2025, the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use, and beginning January 1, 2030, establishes the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use. Existing law requires the board, in coordination with the department, to adopt by regulation variances recommended by the department and guidelines and methodologies pertaining to the calculation of an urban retail water supplier’s urban water use objective recommended by the department. This bill would eliminate the option of using the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily and the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily, as applicable, or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use. The bill would instead require that from January 1, 2025, to January 1, 2030, the standard for indoor residential water use be 47 gallons per capita daily and beginning January 1, 2030, the standard be 42 gallons per capita daily. The bill would require the department, in coordination with the board to conduct necessary studies and investigations to assess and quantify the economic benefit and impacts of meeting the 2030 indoor residential use standard on water, wastewater, and recycled water systems, as specified. The bill would require the department to summarize the findings of these studies and investigations in a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2027. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2028, the department, in coordination with the board, to submit a report 231 of 245
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63 to the Legislature on the progress of urban retail water suppliers towards achieving their urban water use objective.

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SB 1158 (Becker D) Retail electricity suppliers: emissions of greenhouse gases.

Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes

8. Noes 3.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/27/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires every entity that offers an electricity product for sale to retail consumers in California to disclose its electricity sources and the associated intensity of the emissions of greenhouse gases for the previous calendar year. Existing law requires a retail supplier to disclose its electricity sources as a percentage of annual sales that is derived from specified sources of energy, including eligible renewable energy resources. This bill would require, beginning January 1, 2028, every retail supplier to annually report specified information to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), including an analysis of the retail supplier’s sources of electricity and the emissions of greenhouse gases associated with those sources of electricity, as specified. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2024, the Energy Commission to adopt rules, through an open process, subject to public comment, and adopted by a vote of the Energy Commission, to implement these reporting requirements. The bill would require the Energy Commission to annually publish on its internet website an aggregated summary of the data reported by each retail supplier. The bill would require all sellers of electricity from generation facilities or energy storage facilities, and entities allocating electricity from specified sources, to timely provide specified information to the purchaser of, or entity allocated, that electricity, as specified. The bill would require the PUC, for all load-serving entities, and the governing board, for each local publicly owned electric utility, to review the total annual emissions of greenhouse gases and the annual average greenhouse gas emissions intensity reported for each retail supplier. The bill would authorize the PUC, for all load- serving entities, and the governing board, for each local publicly owned electric utility, to assess whether those emissions of greenhouse gases, combined with the retail supplier’s procurement plans for subsequent years, demonstrate adequate progress towards achieving the retail supplier’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1174 (Hertzberg D) Electricity: eligible renewable energy or energy storage 232 of 245
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64 resources: transmission and interconnection.

Status: 6/27/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: (1)The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has exclusive jurisdiction over the transmission of electricity in interstate commerce, over the sale of electricity at wholesale in interstate commerce, and over all facilities for the transmission or sale of electricity in interstate commerce. This bill would require each electrical corporation that owns electrical transmission facilities to annually prepare, and submit to the PUC, a report on the in-service dates of eligible renewable energy resources or energy storage resources that have executed interconnection agreements and that are active, and to identify the reason for any changes to the status of in-service dates. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1177 (Portantino D) Joint powers authorities: Cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. CONSENT CALENDAR

Summary: The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law authorizes the agreement to set forth the manner by which the joint powers authority will be governed. That act specifically authorizes the creation of the Orange County Housing Finance Trust, a joint powers authority, for the purposes of funding housing specifically assisting the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within the County of Orange. This bill would similarly authorize the creation of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Regional Housing Trust, a joint powers authority, by the Cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena, with the stated purpose of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, low, and moderate income. The bill would authorize the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Regional Housing Trust to fund the planning and construction of housing, receive public and private financing and funds, and authorize and issue bonds. The bill would require that the joint powers agreement establishing the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Regional Housing Trust incorporate specified annual financial reporting and auditing requirements. This bill contains other related provisions.

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SB 1188 (Laird D) Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: financial assistance. 233 of 245
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65 Status: 6/28/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/28/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997, establishes the continuously appropriated Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to provide financial assistance for the design and construction of projects for public water systems that will enable those systems to meet safe drinking water standards. Existing law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board, to the extent permitted by federal law, to provide up to 100% grant funding, and principal forgiveness and 0% financing on loans, from the fund to a project for a water system that serves a severely disadvantaged community.

Existing law requires the interest rate for repayable financing provided from the fund to be 0% if the financing is for a public water system that serves a disadvantaged community with a financial hardship or if the financing is for a public water system that provides matching funds. This bill would delete those provisions relating to 0% financing and interest and would instead generally authorize the board, to the extent authorized by federal law, to provide reduced or 0% financing to further the purposes of the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997. The bill would delete the requirement that a water system serve a severely disadvantaged community in order to be provided with up to 100% grant funding or principal forgiveness and instead authorize providing that grant funding or principal forgiveness to certain other water systems. By making moneys in the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, available for new purposes, the bill would make an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1194 (Allen D) Public restrooms: building standards.

Status: 6/23/2022-Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 6/23/2022-A. THIRD READING

Summary: Existing law requires a public agency, as defined, that serves the public or is open to the public and maintains toilet facilities to make those facilities available to the public free of charge. Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. This bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county to require, by ordinance or resolution, that public restrooms constructed within its jurisdiction comply with specified requirements instead of complying with the plumbing standards set forth in the California Building Standards Code. This bill would, except as specified, authorize public toilet facilities to be designed to serve all genders, as specified. The bill would give a city, county, or city and county discretion to exclude certain occupancies from the bill’s requirements. 234 of 245
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SB 1208 (Hueso D) Low-income utility customer assistance programs: concurrent application process.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations, electrical corporations, and water corporations. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that an electrical corporation or gas corporation with a commission-approved program to provide discounts based on economic need use a single application form to enable an applicant to alternatively apply for any assistance program for which the applicant may be eligible. This bill would require the commission, on or before June 30, 2024, in coordination and consultation with the Department of Community Services and Development, the State Water Resources Control Board, and other relevant state agencies that provide low-income electric, gas, or water utility customer assistance programs, to develop a process that enables customers to concurrently apply, or begin to apply, to multiple low-income customer assistance programs, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1213
(Hueso D) Public Utilities Commission and State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: public outreach: community- based organizations.

Status: 6/23/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/22/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: The California Constitution and Public Utilities Act vest the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities. Existing law establishes various committees and boards to advise the PUC on specified topics, including, among others, the Low-Income Oversight Board, and requires the PUC to work with community-based organizations to increase participation in programs for low-income customers, as specified. Existing law also establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) with various responsibilities with respect to developing and implementing the state’s energy policies. This bill would require the PUC and 235 of 245
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67 Energy Commission to collaborate to develop and maintain a list of community- based organizations to help ensure adequate public outreach regarding available programs and incentives, as specified. The bill also would require the PUC and Energy Commission to work with existing committees, boards, and community- based organizations in developing the list. This bill contains other existing laws.

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SB 1255 (Portantino D) Single-use products waste reduction: Dishwasher Grant Program for Waste Reduction in K–12 Schools and Community Colleges.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires the State Department of Education to take specified actions relating to the construction of school facilities, including to establish standards for use by school districts to ensure that the design and construction of school facilities are educationally appropriate and promote school safety and provide school districts with flexibility in designing instructional facilities.

Existing law requires the department to provide information relating to the impact or potential impact upon a schoolsite of, among other things, hazardous substances and solid waste. This bill would establish the Dishwasher Grant Program for Waste Reduction in K–12 Schools and Community Colleges to be administered by the State Department of Education to provide grants to school districts, charter schools, and community college districts for the purchase and installation of commercial dishwashers at the schoolsites and campuses, as specified. The bill would require the department to award grants of up to $40,000 per kitchen of a school or campus of an applicant district, as specified. The bill would require the department to develop administrative guidelines for implementation of the program, as specified. The bill would require the department to develop materials and conduct outreach to those local educational agencies about the program, as provided. The bill would authorize, for purposes of the program, the department to consult with the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and enter into interagency agreements with other state agencies. The bill would make the implementation of these provisions contingent on an appropriation being made for its purposes by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute. This bill contains other existing laws.

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SB 1336 (Wiener D) Planning and zoning: housing development: higher education 236 of 245
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68 institutions and religious institutions.

Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was A.

NAT. RES. on 6/15/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-A. DEAD

The bill would define various terms for these purposes. Among other things, the bill would require that 100% of the units, exclusive of manager units, in a housing development project eligible for approval as a use by right under these provisions be affordable to lower income households, except that 20% of the units may be for moderate-income households, provided that all of the units are provided at affordable rent, as set in an amount consistent with the rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, or affordable housing cost, as specified. The bill would authorize the development to include ancillary uses on the ground floor of the development, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1385 (Cortese D) Electricity: multifamily housing local solar program.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Under existing law, the Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program requires an electrical corporation with 100,000 or more customers in California to file with the commission an application requesting approval of a tariff to implement a program enabling ratepayers to participate directly in offsite electrical generation facilities that use eligible renewable energy resources. Existing law requires the commission, by June 30, 2017, to authorize, through the Multifamily Affordable Housing Solar Roofs Program, the awarding of monetary incentives for qualifying solar energy systems that are installed on qualified multifamily affordable housing properties through December 31, 2030. This bill would require the commission, on or before 237 of 245
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69 January 1, 2024, to establish a new multifamily housing local solar program that would require each electrical corporation with more than 100,000 service connections in California to construct, or contract for the construction of, a solar and storage system on or near qualified multifamily housing, as specified. The bill would require those electrical corporations to export electricity from those solar and storage systems and use the resulting revenues to offset the costs of providing monthly bill credits to the participating low-income customers, pay the costs of constructing and operating the system, and pay the costs of administering the program, and would prohibit those electrical corporations from shifting those costs to, or recovering those costs from, nonparticipating customers. The bill would require the commission, when the installed capacity of the program reaches 500 megawatts or as of January 1, 2026, whichever occurs first, to evaluate the program and other voluntary customer renewable energy programs, and would require the commission to report to the Legislature the results of the evaluation on or before July 1, 2026, as provided. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2027. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1393 (Archuleta D) Energy: appliances: local requirements.

Status: 6/30/2022-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/29/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to gather or develop, and publish on its internet website, guidance and best practices to help building owners, the construction industry, and local governments overcome barriers to electrification of buildings and installation of electric vehicle charging equipment that include one or more specified topics.

This bill would require the commission to gather or develop, and publish on its internet website, the guidance and best practices by July 1, 2023, and would require the guidance to include all of those specified topics and additional topics.

The bill would require the commission to update annually the guidance and best practices. The bill would require a city, including a charter city, or county, when adopting an ordinance requiring The replacement of a fossil fuel-fired appliance with an electric appliance upon the alteration or retrofit of a residential and nonresidential building, to consider any guidance published by the commission.

The bill would require the commission, upon request by a local government considering the adoption of that ordinance, to provide technical assistance to the local government. The bill would require a local government, within 60 days of adopting that ordinance, to submit to the commission a copy of the ordinance, and other specified information and would require the commission to provide written comments on the ordinance based upon the commission’s guidance published at the time the ordinance is adopted. If the commission determines that the local government did not consider the guidance, the bill would require the local government to consider the guidance or portion of the guidance that the 238 of 245
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70 commission determines the local government did not consider, make any modification of the ordinance deemed necessary by the local government, and resubmit the ordinance and other information to the commission. The bill would specify that the commission is to implement the requirements of the bill upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill contains other related provisions.

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SB 1426 (Caballero D) Cannabis: water pollution crimes.

Status: 5/19/2022-May 19 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

Location: 5/16/2022-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), approved by the voters as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, regulates the cultivation, distribution, transport, storage, manufacturing, testing, processing, sale, and use of marijuana for nonmedical purposes by people 21 years of age and older. AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions with a 2/3 vote of both houses to further its purposes and intent. Under AUMA, a person 18 years of age or older who plants, cultivates, harvests, dries, or processes more than 6 living cannabis plants, or any part thereof, may be charged with a felony if specified conditions exist, including when the offense causes substantial environmental harm to public lands or other public resources. This bill would amend AUMA by making it a misdemeanor or felony to plant, cultivate, harvest, dry, or process more than 50 living cannabis plants, or any part thereof, and where that activity involves unauthorized tapping into a water conveyance or storage infrastructure or digging or extracting groundwater from an unpermitted well. The bill would also clarify that causing substantial environmental harm to public resources includes groundwater. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1486 (Stern D) Natural gas: Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility: reliability.

Status: 5/26/2022-Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 5. Noes 12.) Location: 5/23/2022-S. THIRD READING

Summary: Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical and gas corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards.

Existing law, until January 1, 2021, required the commission, no later than July 1, 2017, to open a proceeding to determine the feasibility of minimizing or eliminating use of the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility located in the County of Los Angeles while still maintaining energy and electric reliability for the region. This bill would require the commission, as part of that proceeding, to continue to consider 239 of 245
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71 minimizing or closing the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility while maintaining reliability and affordability for customers, and to annually submit a report on its findings and any efforts to reduce customer energy demand in the Los Angeles Basin through investments in clean hydrogen projects to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature. The bill would require the commission to undertake an analysis of potential alternatives to the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility that includes using multiple planning horizons and determining if each potential alternative would satisfy specified objectives, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SCA 9 (Gonzalez D) Personal rights: right to housing.

Status: 3/23/2022-Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and E. & C.A.

Location: 3/23/2022-S. HOUSING

Summary: The California Constitution enumerates various personal rights, including the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.This measure would declare that the fundamental human right to housing exists in this state. The measure would specify that it is the shared obligation of state and local jurisdictions to respect, protect, and fulfill this right through progressively implemented measures, consistent with available resources, within an aggressive but reasonable timeframe.

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AB 1467 (Cervantes D) Student safety: sexual assault and domestic violence procedures and protocols: sexual assault and domestic violence counselors.

Status: 6/29/2022-From Consent Calendar. Ordered to third reading.

Location: 6/29/2022-S. THIRD READING
Summary: Existing federal law, known as Title IX, prohibits a person, on the basis of sex, from being excluded from participation in, being denied the benefits of, or being subject to discrimination, which includes sexual harassment, under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. A portion of the Donahoe Higher Education Act, known as the Equity in Higher Education Act, declares, among other things, that it is the policy of the State of California that all persons, regardless of their sex, should enjoy freedom from discrimination of any kind in the educational institutions of the state. Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, and the Regents of the University of California to adopt and implement a written procedure or protocols relating to to ensure that students, faculty, and staff who are victims of sexual assault committed at specified locations receive treatment and certain information, as provided. This requirement applies to the University of California only if the regents, by appropriate resolution, make it applicable. Existing law requires these public postsecondary governing bodies, including the regents if they make it applicable by appropriate resolution, to annually review, and update as necessary, in collaboration with sexual assault counselors and student, faculty, and staff representatives, the written procedure or protocols related to sexual assault.

This bill would expand the written procedure or protocols to apply to those students, faculty, and staff who are victims of sexual assault or domestic violence at any location. The bill would require sexual assault and domestic violence counselors to be independent of the campus Title IX office, to meet certain education and experience qualifications, to provide services regardless of whether a report is made to the Title IX office or law enforcement, and to obtain specific permission, as defined, from the victim before disclosing or revealing the victim’s identity to any authority, including law enforcement, unless otherwise required to do so by law, as provided.

The bill would expand the information that victims are required to receive, including information regarding the availability of counselors and support services and information regarding any alternative dispute resolution or 241 of 245
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2 other accountability processes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 2024 (Friedman D) Health care coverage: diagnostic imaging.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29).

Location: 6/30/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2000, or an individual or group policy of disability insurance or self-insured employee welfare benefit plan to provide coverage for mammography for screening or diagnostic purposes upon referral by specified professionals.

This bill would require a health care service plan contract, health insurance policy, or self-insured employee welfare benefit plan issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2023, to provide coverage for screening mammography, medically necessary diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations, or testing for screening or diagnostic purposes upon referral by specified professionals. The bill would prohibit a health care service plan contract, health insurance policy, or self-insured employee welfare benefit plan issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2023, from imposing cost sharing for screening mammography, medically necessary or supplemental breast examinations, or testing, unless the contract or policy is a high deductible health plan and the deductible has not been satisfied for the year. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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AB 2185 (Weber, Akilah D) Forensic examinations: domestic violence.

Status: 6/30/2022-From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29).

Location: 6/30/2022-S. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish medical forensic forms, instructions, and examination protocols for victims of domestic violence and elder and dependent adult abuse and neglect based on the guidelines for those forms as they relate to sexual 242 of 245
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3 assault. Existing law requires the forms to have a place for notation of specified information, including a patient history of domestic violence or elder or dependent adult abuse and neglect. This bill would require that victims of domestic violence have access to medical evidentiary examinations, free of charge, by Local Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART), Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) teams, or other qualified medical evidentiary examiners. This bill would make specified changes to the forms, including requiring the forms to include information regarding history and evidence of strangulation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 914 (Rubio D) HELP Act.

Status: 6/29/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/28/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law requires the Governor to create a California Interagency Council on Homelessness for specified purposes, including to create partnerships among various entities, like participants in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care Program, and to identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. This bill would enact the HELP (Homeless Equity for Left Behind Populations) Act. The bill would require cities, counties, and continuums of care receiving state funding to address homelessness on or after January 1, 2023, to take specific steps to ensure that the needs of victim service providers and survivors of violence, and a gendered analysis of the causes and consequences of homelessness, are incorporated into homelessness planning and responses. The bill would also impose other homelessness planning and data analysis requirements on these cities, counties, and continuums of care. The bill would prohibit victim service providers, as defined, from being required or expected to enter client-level data into specified homeless data systems and would permit any funding provided to cities, counties, and continuums of care to be used to support the development of these data systems and the maintenance of comparable databases, as specified. By imposing new duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 976 (Leyva D) Universal Preschool Act.
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4 Status: 7/5/2022-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was A. ED. on 6/28/2022)
Location: 7/5/2022-A. DEAD

Summary: Existing law, the Early Education Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to, among other things, provide an inclusive and cost-effective preschool program. Existing law requires the Superintendent to develop standards for the implementation of high-quality preschool programs. This bill would rename the Early Education Act as the Universal Preschool Act, and would revise and recast the act to, among other things, require the State Department of Education, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, to administer the universal preschool program. The bill would require the Superintendent and the Director of Social Services to convene a statewide coordination council to develop, among other things, goals, guidelines, and best practices to be used at a local level to implement a universal preschool program, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent, in consultation with the Director of Social Services, to develop standards for the implementation of high-quality preschool programs in all settings, including, among other settings, transitional kindergarten. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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SB 1207 (Portantino D) Health care coverage: maternal and pandemic-related mental health conditions.

Status: 6/22/2022-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Location: 6/21/2022-A. APPR.

Summary: Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of that act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plans and health insurers to provide specified mental health and substance use disorder coverage, and requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions, as specified. Existing law requires health care service plans and health insurers, by July 1, 2019, to develop, consistent with sound clinical principles and processes, a maternal mental health program designed to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes, as specified. This bill would make findings and declarations relating to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in California and the 244 of 245
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5 importance of outreach, education, and access to quality mental health treatment. The bill would extend the deadline for establishment of the maternal mental health program to July 1, 2023. The bill would revise the requirements of the program to include quality measures to encourage screening, diagnosis, treatment, and referral. The bill also would encourage health care service plans and health insurers to include coverage for doulas, incentivize training opportunities for contracting obstetric providers, and educate enrollees and insureds about the program. Because a violation of the bill by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

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Glendale City CouncilJuly 19, 2022

Glendale City Council
July 19, 2022