Agenda — Administration, Finance and Public Safety Committee, February 4, 2026

CITY OF MOORPARK
CHRIS R. ENEGREN
Mayor

RENEE DELGADO
Councilmember

CHRIS BARRETT
Councilmember

TOM MEANS
Councilmember
DR. ANTONIO CASTRO
Councilmember
CITY MANAGER’S OFFICE | 323 Science Drive, Moorpark, California 93021 Main City Phone Number (805) 517-6200 | Fax (805) 532-2528 | www.moorparkca.gov

NOTICE AND CALL OF A

REGULAR MEETING OF THE

ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE & PUBLIC SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE (Mayor Enegren and Mayor Pro Tem Dr. Castro)
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, at 5:45 p.m.

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE AND PUBLIC SAFETY STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Regular Meeting of the Administration, Finance and Public Safety Standing Committee is hereby called to be held on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, commencing at 5:45 p.m. Said meeting will be held in the Century Conference Room of Moorpark City Hall, located at 323 Science Drive, Moorpark, California.

Said Regular Meeting shall be for the purpose of considering the following items:

1. CALL TO ORDER:

2. ROLL CALL:

3. PUBLIC COMMENT

4. DISCUSSION ITEMS:

A. Consider the City’s 2026 Legislative Platform Update. Staff Recommendation:

Review the draft 2026 Legislative Platform, make amendments as appropriate, and recommend that the City Council adopt it to guide the City’s legislative and intergovernmental activities. (Staff: Brian Chong, Assistant to the City Manager)
B. Consider Resolution Reestablishing Warrant Issuance and Signing Authority in City Council Policies. Staff Recommendation: Recommend approval to reestablish the Policy 5.7, formerly known as 5.3 in City Council Resolution No. 2022-4076, to the City Council Policies and rescinding Resolution No. 2025-4351. (Staff: Hiromi Dever, Finance Director) (ROLL CALL VOTE REQUIRED)

5. ADJOURNMENT:
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Posted: January 28, 2026
All writings and documents provided to the members of the Administration, Finance and Public Safety Standing Committee of the City of Moorpark regarding all agenda items are available for public inspection at the City Hall public counter located at 323 Science Drive during regular business hours. The agendas and agenda reports for City Council Standing Committee meetings are available on the City's website at www.moorparkca.gov.

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MOORPARK ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE AND PUBLIC SAFETY

COMMITTEE

AGENDA REPORT
TO: Administration, Finance and Public Safety Committee (Mayor Enegren and Mayor Pro Tem Castro)
FROM: Brian Chong, Assistant to the City Manager
DATE: 02/04/2026 Regular Meeting
SUBJECT: Consider the City’s 2026 Legislative Platform Update

SUMMARY
The City last updated its Legislative Platform in 2024. Staff recommends that the Administration, Finance and Public Safety Committee review, make amendments as appropriate, and recommend to the City Council approval of the draft 2026 Legislative Platform to guide the City’s legislative and intergovernmental activities.

BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
The City maintains a Legislative Platform that is updated every two years to facilitate the City’s quick response to county, state, and federal legislation and proposals in a proactive manner, since legislation and proposals can often move quickly through legislative bodies, with insufficient time for the City Council to take a formal action on a particular project or piece of legislation. In such instances, the Mayor (or Mayor Pro Tem or City Manager, in the Mayor’s absence) is authorized by the Legislative Platform to sign correspondence expressing the City’s position on pending legislation or projects without formal City Council action. If a project or piece of legislation pertains to a topic not included in the Legislative Platform, then the City Council must authorize such correspondence. Even in these instances, however, the Legislative Platform can serve as a guide for the City Council when it considers such matters on an ad hoc basis.

City staff routinely monitors state and county legislation for potential impacts to the City and, to a lesser extent, monitors federal legislation. In 2025, the City took formal positions on 11 state bills, as authorized under the current Legislative Platform.

Additionally, the City took positions and provided feedback on various administrativelevel decisions made by the federal, state, and county governments.

Item: 4.A.
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The City last updated its Legislative Platform in 2022 and 2024; the current 2024 Legislative Platform is provided as Attachment 1. While the City’s major overarching legislative goals and concerns have not changed significantly, some issues have either concluded or arisen. In developing the draft 2024 update to the Legislative Platform, staff has incorporated City Council votes on legislation on issues not included in the 2022 Legislative Platform. Staff also reviewed the current Legislative Platforms for Cal Cities, the County of Ventura, and other cities throughout the region.

Proposed Updates
All proposed changes for the 2026 Legislative Platform update are shown in Attachment 2 as follows:
• Deletions are shown in strikethrough
• Additions are shown in red
Attachment 3 is a clean copy of the draft 2026 Legislative Platform.

While there are also minor clarifying and minor language changes, the most significant proposed changes are summarized below:
• Local Zoning Control for Battery Energy Storage Systems [Section 5.9]: In recent years, multiple developers have proposed battery energy storage systems (BESS) facilities both inside and adjacent to Moorpark. The City Council has consistently opposed these facilities, largely due to the fire risks associated with BESS facilities.
• Workforce Development Funding [Section 5.19]: The City’s 2025-2029 Economic Development Strategic Plan contains several goals related to workforce development: Attract high-quality jobs and expand the advanced manufacturing sector, and Retain, empower, and leverage existing businesses and assets for economic growth. Over one third of businesses surveyed in the strategic plan’s development expressed interest in collaborating with local educational institutions like Moorpark College to develop targeted training programs that align with industry needs.

Adding support for local workforce development would strengthen the City’s ability to support legislation and grants for workforce development efforts, as well as new degree and certification programs for entities like Moorpark College, the Moorpark Adult School, CSUCI, and CLU.
• Delta Conveyance Project (DCP) [Section 3.5]: Due to numerous environmental, legal, and demographic factors, Southern California’s water supply has become increasingly threatened in recent decades even as the region 2 Administration, Finance and Public Safety Committee
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has become increasingly water-efficient and has invested in new retention facilities to capture stormwater. The DCP would connect the Sacramento River through a tunnel to the State Water Project, which brings water to Southern California via the California Aqueduct (and other related infrastructure).

Many Northern California communities have been concerned with connecting the two systems, with fears that larger populations in Southern California would use their political power to effectuate the shift of water resources from Northern to Southern California and trigger water use reductions in Northern California.

However, the DCP has been downscaled significantly from previous similar proposals (i.e., smaller tunnels, fewer tunnels, fewer intakes, revised alignments, etc.), and staff believes that the understandable concerns from Northern California communities have been sufficiently mitigated to support the DCP project and make California’s water system as a whole more resilient. • AT&T’s Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) Requirement [Section 8.15]: AT&T has been seeking permission from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for several years to shed its COLR requirement, which requires AT&T to maintain its copper line telephone service. The technology is both outdated and expensive for AT&T to maintain, and AT&T prefers to instead deploy Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology instead, which replaces analog signals with digital signals and transmits telephone calls as data. While VoIP technology is superior to copper telephone lines in many ways, it also comes with the downside that VoIP technology does not transmit electricity to land lines during power outages. Copper lines will power land lines during power outages. To mitigate this shortcoming, federal law requires VoIP providers to include a 24- hour backup battery as part of their systems, to preserve 911 and reverse-911 functionality during emergencies.

While this approach is likely sufficient for many parts of the country, Moorpark’s frequent multi-day power outages associated with Southern California Edison’s (SCE’s) Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) present a unique risk. Especially because PSPS outages coincide with maximum wildfire dangers, maintaining access to 911 and reverse-911 systems is of critical importance. Because PSPS outages frequently exceed 24 hours, the default federal standard of 24-hour battery backups is insufficient to mitigate the risks associated with VoIP systems.

Accordingly, staff recommends that the Legislative Platform be amended to oppose legislation that would allow AT&T to eliminate its COLR requirement unless it provides an option to customers for a 72-hour battery backup system.

In recent years, staff has advised AT&T representatives of this concern, even stating that the City is not opposed to AT&T charging higher monthly fees for a 72-hour battery backup system than a 24-hour battery backup system. 3 Administration, Finance and Public Safety Committee
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Review by the Administration, Finance and Public Safety Committee The Administration, Finance and Public Safety Committee may recommend additions, deletions, or amendments to any portion of the draft 2026 Legislative Platform during its review. However, the following issues are generally not included in the Platform:
• Matters outside of the City’s jurisdiction, such as international relations and reproductive rights, etc.
• Overly specific matters that may be written too strictly to have the desired effect; matters should be just specific enough so that staff will understand the intent.

An issue’s exclusion from the Legislative Platform does not construe that the City will not have a position on a particular issue. In recent years, the City Council has considered matters not addressed in the Legislative Platform, such as statewide mental health reform.

STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Review the draft 2026 Legislative Platform, make amendments as appropriate, and recommend that the City Council adopt it to guide the City’s legislative and intergovernmental activities.

Attachment 1: 2024 Legislative Platform
Attachment 2: Draft 2026 Legislative Platform (Showing Edits) Attachment 3: Draft 2026 Legislative Platform
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Legislative Platform
April 3, 2024
ATTACHMENT 1
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Table of Contents
Introduction and Purpose ............................................................................................................................. 3 Section 1. Community Services..................................................................................................................... 4 Section 2. Environmental Quality ................................................................................................................. 5 Section 3. Water ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Section 4. Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations ........................................................................ 6 Section 5. Housing, Community, and Economic Development .................................................................... 8 Section 6. Public Safety................................................................................................................................. 9 Section 7. Revenue and Taxation................................................................................................................ 10 Section 8. Transportation, Communication, and Public Works.................................................................. 12 6 City of Moorpark • 2024 Legislative Platform

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i. Introduction and Purpose
The City of Moorpark developed and maintains a Legislative Platform to facilitate the City’s quick response to county, state, and federal legislation in a proactive manner, since legislation can often move quickly through legislative bodies, with insufficient time for the City Council to take a formal action on a particular piece of legislation. The Legislative Platform further serves as a guide for the City Council to consider legislative affairs on an ad hoc basis.

Whenever possible, the Mayor (or Mayor Pro Tem or City Manager, in the Mayor’s absence) is authorized to sign correspondence expressing the City’s position on pending legislation, consistent with the City’s Legislative Platform and/or other positions on pending legislation consistent with the Legislative Program or prior City Council actions. The Administration, Finance, and Public Safety (AFPS) Committee may also periodically review legislation for recommendation to the City Council.

City staff monitors state and county legislation for potential impacts to the City. State or federal legislation may also be brought to staff’s attention by the League of California Cities, Ventura Council of Governments, or other professional organizations for engineering, legislative, finance, community development, public safety, and other professions.

City positions on pending legislation on topics not included in the Legislative Program shall require a vote of the City Council. If warranted due to complexity, the City Manager may also present pending legislation to the Administration, Finance, and Public Safety (AFPS) Committee, or other standing committee as appropriate for the topic, for a recommendation prior to City Council consideration.

Nothing in the Legislative Platform is intended to preclude consideration of any legislation by the City Council, regardless of whether it is included in the Legislative Platform.

City positions in support of legislation on a specified topic shall be construed as opposition to something that shall do the opposite, and the reverse is also true. For example, if the Legislative Platform supports increased funding for libraries, it also inherently opposes decreased funding for libraries. ii. Participation in League of California Cities City Leaders Summit The City will participate in the City
Leaders Summit event, hosted by the
League of California Cities in Sacramento
annually in the spring.

The event includes in‐person updates from the League of California Cities and its lobbyists representing cities’ interests, panel discussions of critical contemporaneous issues, meetings with the City’s representatives in the State Assembly and State Senate, and other networking opportunities.

Participation will further bolster the City’s abilities to successfully lobby state officials in the City’s interest.

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Solid Waste Services

1.1 Oppose legislation that would restrict or limit local government’s ability to franchise refuse and recycling collection services, to direct municipal solid waste flow (flow control), or to contractually require haulers to guarantee achievement of AB 939/AB 341/SB 1383 goals.

1.2 Support legislation that shifts AB 939 metrics from mathematical accounting toward program implementation.

1.3 Support legislation that provides cities with financial assistance for programs designed to provide for the safe disposal of solid, hazardous, and special wastes.

1.4 Support legislation that promotes source reduction measures without creating an unfunded mandate.

1.5 Support legislation and efforts to expand the market for recycled materials, including advance disposal fees, minimum content laws, manufacturer responsibility programs, and recycling market development zones.

1.6 Support new resource recovery and conversion technologies, such as bio‐diesel from organic waste.

Library Services

1.7 Oppose legislation that reduces funds for libraries, including Public Library Funds, and support legislation that provides financial assistance for local public libraries without the imposition of new taxes.

1.8 Support legislation that ensures cities receive a proportionate share of property taxes upon withdrawal from a county library services district, or any other county service or district for which property taxes are received.

1.9 Support legislation with the intent to allow City operated Libraries (as opposed to districts) to have an “Advisory” commission, not a Board, as per current law.

Animal Services

1.10 Support legislation that promotes low‐cost or no‐cost spay and neuter programs.

1.11 Support legislation that holds animal owners accountable for injuries or property damage caused by animals under their care or control.
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1.12 Support legislation providing resources toward the Ventura County Animal Shelter expansion project.

Other Services

1.13 Support funding for local arts activities.

1.14 Support Community Choice Aggregation and measures that further the goals of choice, clean energy, and affordable rates.

1.15 Support a statewide, dedicated funding source for 211 dispatch services, designed to provide 24/7 support to meet public health and human services needs.

1.16 Support legislation limiting a city’s liability associated with hazardous recreational activities, such as skateboarding and in‐line skating.

1.17 Support legislation that preserves existing resources, and that provides additional resources, for child care and early childhood education programs such as First 5 and the City’s programs operated at the Arroyo Vista Recreation Center.

1.18 Support legislation that provides funding for food and nutrition programs for low‐income households.

1.19 Support legislation that provides support, funding, improved access, and/or improved outcomes for mental health and substance use disorder service providers.

2.1 Support legislation that streamlines the state’s environmental review process and maintains public participation without compromising environmental quality standards.

2.2 Support legislation and/or programs that provide money and resources to local governments for energy efficiency programs, energy conservation programs, and food waste recovery programs.

2.3 Support legislation that makes funds available to refurbish and improve parks and trails, and to acquire and maintain open space.

2.4 Support funding and legislation for the designation and preservation of open space and preservation, restoration, and enhancement of natural resources.

2.5 Support legislation that exempts from property taxes any City‐owned property outside city limits (but within the same County) that is used for open space preservation purposes.

2.6 Support legislation that reimburses cities for revenue losses stemming from environmental decisions made without city participation.
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2.7 Support funding and other incentives for local government and private industry projects and planning strategies to promote sustainability in infrastructure and operations, greater energy efficiency, lower energy usage, and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

2.8 Support legislation to ban all anticoagulant rodenticides statewide, with exceptions for emergencies.

2.9 Support legislation that reduces or eliminates local government’s owner/operator Superfund liability.

2.10 Support legislation to either consolidate or streamline the federal and state Clean Air Acts without reducing air quality standards.

2.11 Support air quality efforts that emphasize use of advanced technologies and market incentives, including use of alternative fuels and development of an infrastructure for alternative fuel vehicles.

2.12 Support legislation and science‐based regulation of herbicides, rodenticides, and similarly used chemically‐based compounds.

3.1 Support development of reasonably achievable, environmentally sound, and cost‐effective Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) based on monitoring and sound science.

3.2 Support legislation and programs to promote water recycling to better safeguard water supplies.

3.3 Support legislation that protects ground water quality.

3.4 Support legislation that provides incentives for water conservation and drought reduction, such as education, marketing, and rebate programs.

4.1 Oppose any measure that makes local agencies more dependent on the state for financial stability and policy direction.

4.2 Support legislation that provides maximum local flexibility in contracting for services, and oppose legislation that requires the use of city employees rather than contractors. 10 City of Moorpark • 2024 Legislative Platform

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4.3 Oppose legislation that limits and/or decreases the existing amount of retention proceeds withheld from any payment by a public entity to the contractor on a public project.

4.4 Oppose legislation that would restrict a city’s ability to use its own employees on public works projects when such projects have been previously advertised for bid.

4.5 Oppose legislation that increases local government’s exposure to litigation.

4.6 Oppose legislation that expands or extends any presumptions of occupational injury or illness.

4.7 Oppose legislation that would grant employee benefits that should be decided at the local bargaining table.

4.8 Oppose legislation that removes or reduces management rights, such as deciding staffing or service levels, either by direct action or increased liability.

4.9 Oppose efforts that reduce local control over public employee disputes or impose regulation of an outside agency on such disputes.

4.10 Support legislation that provides reasonable reform of local government pension systems and that preserves local control.

4.11 Oppose a mandatory Social Security tax for public employers and public employees.

4.12 Support legislation that would reform the Workers’ Compensation system to reduce employer cost through the reduction of system abuse.

4.13 Support legislation that limits the ability of employees to receive Workers’ Compensation benefits for occupational injuries/illnesses that result from stress, disciplinary action, or performance evaluation consultations.

4.14 Support alternative methods of meeting public notice requirements and enhancing them through the use of cost effective, innovative, and technology friendly methods of communication.

4.15 Support modifying the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) to provide cities more flexibility to remedy a potential CVRA lawsuit by converting to a rank‐choice voting (RCV) method.

4.16 Support U.S. Congressional, California State Senate, California State Assembly, Ventura County Supervisorial, and other regional governmental districting/redistricting maps that keep Moorpark within one district and keep Moorpark in districts with neighboring communities in southeastern Ventura County.

4.17 Support legislation facilitating remote attendance and participation at public meetings subject to the Brown Act, if there is a declared emergency.
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Land Use/Planning

5.1 Support efforts that are consistent with the doctrine of “local control” and the local exercise of police powers, through planning and zoning processes, over local land use.

5.2 Support legislation that strengthens local control to prepare, adopt, and implement fiscal plans for orderly growth, development, beautification, and conservation of local planning areas, including, but not limited to, regulatory authority over zoning, subdivisions, and annexations.

5.3 Support local discretion in the assessment, collection, and usage of development fees.

5.4 Oppose legislation that restricts or weakens a City’s ability to regulate smoking areas, sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices and products, alcoholic beverage licenses, marijuana dispensaries, or adult‐oriented business establishments.

5.5 Oppose legislation that limits cities’ use of eminent domain as a resource for extraordinary circumstances.

5.6 Support legislation that reforms annexation law by strengthening cities’ authority over spheres of influence and ensures that fair property tax agreements can be obtained.

5.7 Oppose county development projects for undeveloped areas in the City’s area of interest that do not conform to City standards.

5.8 Support legislation that provides for shared land use determinations between counties and cities when the General Plan of the city establishes a planning area consistent with Government Code provisions.

Housing

5.9 Oppose legislation that expands the state Department of Housing and Community Development’s review role for local Housing Elements.

5.10 Support legislation that addresses occupancy levels and strengthens cities’ ability to reduce overcrowding in residential housing.

5.11 Support efforts to develop federal, state, and county participation, financial support, and incentives for programs that provide adequate, affordable housing for the elderly, handicapped, and low‐income persons throughout the community.

5.12 Support Housing Element reform legislation that provides greater local control and flexibility, simplifies the process, and improves its effectiveness. 12 City of Moorpark • 2024 Legislative Platform

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5.13 Support legislation that fairly implements the Regional Housing Need Allocation process and defines an equitable process to determine a “fair share” of new housing need to respond to growth trends in the region.

5.14 Support legislation to ensure that property tax valuations for deed restricted dwelling units with reinforcing Deeds of Trust are based on the Affordable Sales Price, actually paid by the buyers, rather than based on market value.

5.15 Support legislation to protect homebuyers from predatory lending by ensuring that mortgage brokers are effectively regulated and that mortgage loans are suited to the financial means of the homebuyer.

Economic Development/Redevelopment

5.16 Support legislation that gives cities resources to finance economic development efforts, such as business attraction, retention, and growth, as well as marketing and tourism.

5.17 Support the enactment and expansion of tax increment financing authority for economic development, infrastructure, and community revitalization.

5.18 Support efforts to protect local military bases from closure and the work of the Regional Defense Partnership 21st Century (RDP‐21).

Homelessness

5.19 Support legislation that provides financial support and assistance to local governments, non‐ profit organizations, and other groups that provide services to unsheltered people, including for related social services, temporary housing, transitional housing, permanent housing, and mental health services, particularly those initiatives that lead to self‐sufficiency.

6.1 Oppose legislation that weakens enforcement of, and penalties for, commercial truck violations.

6.2 Support legislation that would provide additional resources for commercial truck safety inspections and the enforcement of commercial truck vehicle codes.

6.3 Support legislation that promotes the efforts of the Moorpark Police Department and the Ventura County Fire Department to maintain the level of services consistent in sustaining the City’s rank as one of the nation’s “Safest Cities.”

6.4 Support legislation that would provide additional resources for emergency preparedness (including planning, mitigation, and education) and disaster recovery efforts. 13 City of Moorpark • 2024 Legislative Platform

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6.5 Support legislation and additional state and federal legislation crafted to ensure that first responders can perform their duties during emergency response operations without interference from unmanned aerial systems/drones.

6.6 Support efforts to construct an additional fire station serving the northeastern portion of Moorpark.

6.7 Support development of wildland fuel management programs to mitigate or decrease impacts to public health and safety resulting from wildland‐urban interface fires and the presence of Very High Wildfire Severity Zones in the community.

6.8 Oppose legislation that would shift the costs or liability of wildfire emergency response to local governments.

6.9 Support legislation that increases local law enforcement resources without increasing taxes.

6.10 Protect funding for state Citizens’ Option for Public Safety (COPS) and federal Community Oriented Police Services (COPS) funding.

6.11 Support legislation that allows use of state and federal public safety grants for maintenance efforts in addition to service increases.

6.12 Support legislation that would provide cities with contract law enforcement a proportionate share of Proposition 172 sales tax revenues for public safety.

6.13 Support legislation that would provide cities with a greater share of fines and forfeitures.

6.14 Support legislation that would provide a greater share of seized assets to cities.

6.15 Support legislation that provides resources for education, intervention, treatment, and criminal justice programs related to the opioid and fentanyl epidemic.

7.1 Support measures that provide greater fiscal independence to cities and result in greater stability and predictability in local government budgeting.

7.2 Oppose any change in revenue allocations that would negatively affect the City of Moorpark, including but not limited to the redistribution of sales tax, property tax, transient occupancy tax, and vehicle in‐lieu fees.

7.3 Oppose legislation that: (A) Eliminates or restricts the taxing authority of cities over development; (B) Weakens existing Government Code Section 66000 fee authority; or (C) Redefines any development tax, condition, or other monetary charge as development fees. 14 City of Moorpark • 2024 Legislative Platform

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7.4 Support legislation requiring the state and federal governments to provide full cost reimbursement to cities for all mandated programs and for all programs resulting in revenue losses.

7.5 Support legislation that protects the ability of local government to recover the costs of mandated programs through fees that are not subject to Proposition 218.

7.6 Support legislation that safeguards existing City revenue sources from preemption or seizure by the state or county.

7.7 Oppose legislation that restricts or limits a city’s ability to use tax‐exempt debt for the purchase or construction of public purpose improvements.

7.8 Support legislation that eliminates cities’ contributions to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) and directs the repayment of past contributions.

7.9 Support the establishment of a constitutionally‐protected funding structure for local government.

7.10 Support efforts that provide greater accountability on the part of counties for the distribution of funds back to municipalities, including, but not limited to, fines and forfeitures.

7.11 Advocate and join with other Ventura County cities to encourage the Ventura County Treasurer‐ Tax Collector to shorten the time to collect property tax readjustments.

7.12 Support efforts by state government to distribute revenue to local government in a manner that does not create incentives for commercial “sprawl” retail development and/or disincentives for residential, industrial, open space, or agricultural land uses.

7.13 Support legislation to authorize a simple majority of the voters in a city or county to establish local priorities, including the right to increase taxes or issue general obligation bonds.

7.14 Support legislation to ensure sales and use tax proceeds collected from Internet sales be allocated to the local jurisdiction where the product is received by the purchaser.

7.15 Oppose efforts to cut funding for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) programs and other community services and workforce assistance programs to serve low‐income and/or other disadvantaged residents.

7.16 Support legislation to give non‐entitlement cities the same rights as entitlement cities in CDBG program administration.
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Transportation

8.1 Support legislation that will help reduce non‐local commercial vehicle traffic on SR‐118 through the City.

8.2 Oppose efforts to increase truck size or weight.

8.3 Support enhanced autonomy for local transportation decision‐making, and pursue transportation policy changes that move more dollars and decisions to local policy leaders.

8.4 Support legislation that would provide additional resources to cities to finance local transportation systems, facilities, and improvements, including funding for the Safe Routes to Schools programs, ADA‐related improvements, and the City’s Arroyo Simi Trail project.

8.5 Encourage the timely appropriations for the safety and enhancement of surface transportation in the region, including local transit, commuter rail, highway projects such as the widening of the SR 118 Freeway, local road improvements, and intermodal transportation center development, and to encourage transit‐oriented projects in the downtown area.

8.6 Support efforts to construct and operate a full‐service Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Facility (a.k.a. weigh station) along SR 118.

8.7 Support legislation that provides funding, incentives, and rebates for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations.

Telecommunications

8.8 Support efforts to provide for the improvement of broadband availability, accessibility, competition, and performance in the city and in Ventura County.

8.9 Support efforts to provide financial support for broadband access, especially for seniors, students, and low‐income residents.

8.10 Oppose any legislation that reduces or restricts local authority to regulate public right‐of‐way and receive compensation for its use, including use by electric bicycle and scooter vehicle sharing companies.

8.11 Oppose regulations and legislation that erodes or eliminates local government authority regarding siting of cellular communications towers or transmission sites.

8.12 Support legislation that reinstates effective local regulation of the cable television industry and other deregulated utilities, including financial reimbursement for use of public right‐of‐way. 16 City of Moorpark • 2024 Legislative Platform

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8.13 Support preserving public, education, and government (PEG) television channels, funding, and programming support by video service providers, such as payments to local government of franchise fees, PEG fees, and facility/equipment grants, and furnishing public access production facilities.

8.14 Oppose efforts to make PEG channels hard to find or navigate to, such as on an obscure channel or accessible only via several Internet web page menus, of any lesser signal quality than basic channels, or requiring an additional fee or device for viewers to access.

Public Works

8.15 Support efforts to develop funding policies and incentives at the state and federal level to ensure funding for the maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation of public infrastructure.

8.16 Oppose efforts to shift legal costs and liability away from design professionals and contractors to local governments.

8.17 Support legislation that gives cities the authority to meet their National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) requirements on a more collective and regional basis.

8.18 Support legislation that holds electric utilities accountable for the prevention of Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events and mitigation of their impacts. 17 City of Moorpark
Legislative Platform
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Table of Contents
Introduction and Purpose ............................................................................................................................. 3 Section 1. Community Services ..................................................................................................................... 4 Section 2. Environmental Quality ................................................................................................................. 5 Section 3. Water ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Section 4. Governance, Transparency, and Labor Relations ........................................................................ 6 Section 5. Housing, Community, and Economic Development .................................................................... 8 Section 6. Public Safety ................................................................................................................................. 9 Section 7. Revenue and Taxation ................................................................................................................ 10 Section 8. Transportation, Communication, and Public Works .................................................................. 12

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Nothing in the Legislative Platform is intended to preclude consideration of any legislation by the City Council, regardless of whether it is included in the Legislative Platform.

The event includes in-person updates from the League of California Cities and its lobbyists representing cities’ interests, panel discussions of critical contemporaneous issues, meetings with the City’s representatives in the State Assembly and State Senate, and other networking opportunities.

Participation will further bolster the City’s abilities to successfully lobby state officials in the City’s interest.

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Solid Waste Services

1.2 Support legislation that shifts AB 939 metrics from mathematical accounting toward program implementation.

1.3 Support legislation that provides cities with financial assistance for programs designed to provide for the safe disposal of solid, hazardous, and special wastes.

1.4 Support legislation that promotes source reduction measures without creating an unfunded mandate.

1.6 Support new resource recovery and conversion technologies, such as bio-diesel from organic waste.

Library Services

1.9 Support legislation with the intent to allow City operated Libraries (as opposed to districts) to have an “Advisory” commission, not a Board, as per current law.

Animal Services

1.10 Support legislation that promotes low-cost or no-cost spay and neuter programs.

1.11 Support legislation that holds animal owners accountable for injuries or property damage caused by animals under their care or control.
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1.12 Support legislation providing resources toward the Ventura County Animal Shelter expansion project.

Other Services

1.13 Support funding for local arts activities.

1.14 Support Community Choice Aggregation and measures that further the goals of choice, clean energy, and affordable rates.

1.15 Support a statewide, dedicated funding source for 211 dispatch services, designed to provide 24/7 support to meet public health and human services needs.

1.16 Support legislation limiting a city’s liability associated with hazardous recreational activities, such as skateboarding and in-line skating.

1.18 Support legislation that provides funding for food and nutrition programs for low-income and senior households.

1.19 Support legislation that provides support, funding, improved access, and/or improved outcomes for mental health and substance use disorder service providers.

2.1 Support legislation that streamlines the state’s environmental review process and maintains public participation without compromising environmental quality standards.

2.2 Support legislation and/or programs that provide money and resources to local governments for energy efficiency programs, energy conservation programs, and food waste recovery programs.

2.3 Support legislation that makes funds available to refurbish and improve parks and trails, and to acquire and maintain open space.

2.4 Support funding and legislation for the designation and preservation of open space and preservation, restoration, and enhancement of natural resources.

2.5 Support legislation that exempts from property taxes any City-owned property outside city limits (but within the same County) that is used for open space preservation purposes.

2.6 Support legislation that reimburses cities for revenue losses stemming from environmental decisions made without city participation.
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2.8 Support legislation to ban all anticoagulant rodenticides statewide, with exceptions for emergencies.

2.9 Support legislation that reduces or eliminates local government’s owner/operator Superfund liability.

2.10 Support legislation to either consolidate or streamline the federal and state Clean Air Acts without reducing air quality standards.

2.12 Support legislation and science-based regulation of herbicides, rodenticides, and similarly used chemically-based compounds.

3.1 Support development of reasonably achievable, environmentally sound, and cost-effective Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) based on monitoring and sound science.

3.2 Support legislation and programs to promote water recycling to better safeguard water supplies.

3.3 Support legislation that protects ground water quality.

3.4 Support legislation that provides incentives for water conservation and drought reduction, such as education, marketing, and rebate programs.

3.5 Support construction of the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP) and other measures to improve reliability and resiliency of Southern California’s water supply.

4.1 Oppose any measure that makes local agencies more dependent on the state for financial stability and policy direction.
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4.2 Support legislation that provides maximum local flexibility in contracting for services, and oppose legislation that requires the use of city employees rather than contractors.