2024 LEGISLATION
UPDATE & 2025
LEGISLATION
PLATFORM
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Kristin Eriksson, Assistant City
Manager
2024 City Positions
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• AB 1886 & SB 1037 – Housing Element Requirements –
Oppose
• Support Proposition 4 (Climate Bond) & Proposition 36 (Retail Theft)
2024 Legislation – General Government
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• AB 2561 – Vacant Positions.
• Requires public hearing to present status of vacancies and recruitment prior to budget adoption
• Employee organizations must be allowed to attend
• If vacancies at 20% or higher, employee organizations may request info • AB 2302 – Open Meetings - Teleconferences.
• Allows those legislative body members who participate remotely for cause to do so without noticing their location for up to 5 meetings per year
2024 Legislation – Public Safety
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• Proposition 36 & Retail Theft Package.
• Increases penalties for repeat theft and repeals reductions in punishment enacted by former Proposition 46. Adds fentanyl to list of drugs subject to felony charges.
• Will increase number of bookings in jails, which will impact police officer workload and reduce the number of officers available to allow for bookings.
• AB 1775 – Cannabis – Retail Sale of Non-Cannabis Food and Beverage.
• Allows sale of non-cannabis food and beverage where cannabis consumption is allowed. This may encourage on site consumption lounges.
2024 Legislation – Transportation & Public
Works
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• SB 867 – Climate Bond Act (Enacting Proposition 4)
• Allows the State to issue $10 billion in bonds to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation and clean energy.
• AB 2427 – Electric Charging Stations
• Requires agencies to publish information about approved locations within the public right-of-way where installation of electric vehicle charging is allowed. Staff plan to conduct a feasibility study for appropriate locations, create a permit for installation and establish fees or post findings of infeasibility by January 2029.
2024 Legislation – Community
Development
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• Housing Element Bills
• Generally, make the development of housing elements more difficult and subject to penalties for noncompliance up to $50,000 per month.
Preparation of the next Housing Element for the City will begin in 2026. • SB 450 – Housing Development Approvals
• Prohibits denial of an SB 9 project for objective standards or impacts to the physical environment and requires approval or rejection of an application within 60 days of receipt of a completed application. Staff will work to update the Development Code to comply with these requirements.
2024 Legislation – Community
Development
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• SB 937 – Development Fees and Charges
• Requires agencies to defer payment of mitigation fees until certificate of occupancy or final inspection for specified affordable housing projects. This will delay funds to offset the cost of public infrastructure and community services for these developments.
Legislative Platform Purpose
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• Clearly set forth the City’s positions on issues that impact City operations
• High-level expression of Council priorities (provides flexibility) • Allow for staff to quickly respond
Legislative Platform Process
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• Staff works with the Mayor as Council representative on all legislative support or opposition
• Annually review with Council
2024 Platform
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• General Government – Generally supports local control to address local needs and opposes State preemption of local authority and unfunded or underfunded mandates;
• Local Government Finance – Generally supports legislation protecting or enhancing City revenues and opposes unfunded mandates, restrictions on revenues and restrictions on contracting for cities;
• Public Safety – Generally supports funding and support for emergency response and crime reduction programs; 2024 Platform
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• Transportation and Public Works – Generally supports funding and expedited processes capital and infrastructure projects • Resources and Environment – Generally supports funding and programs related to energy and water supply projects along with organic waste disposal;
• Community Development – Generally supports funding and programs to address homelessness, supports legislation to reform cannabis regulations and supports protection of transient occupancy tax revenue. 2025 Platform Change
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• Add support for any legislation that removes a potential SLOCOG regional transportation tax from local governments’ sales tax cap.
• SLOCOG requesting support from all cities – 5 of 7 cities have • Local sales tax capped at 2% over base level with voter approval (Grover Beach – 8.75% - 6 other cities in SLO County)
• 0.5% below cap
• Maintain cities’ capacity to advance sales tax measures for voter approval
• Does not approve or institute tax or change in approval requirements Recommendation
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• Approve the 2025 the City of Grover Beach Legislative Platform with direction to staff on whether to include any additional changes
Questions?
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