City of Orange
City Manager's Office
Memo
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
FROM: Rob Houston, City Manager
DATE: October 11, 2022
SUBJECT: Item 6.4 Agreement with Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. for grant writing and legislative advocacy services
Attached is a two-page information sheet about Townsend Public Affairs that highlights their recent successes at the federal and state level, including with members of the City's legislative delegation in Sacramento.
TOWNSEND
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
TPA
TPA is a state and federal legislative advocacy and grant writing firm that provides lobbying and funding services to public agencies and nonprofit organizations throughout California.
FIRM BACKGROUND
• Advocacy Success: Shepherded over 100 client-sponsored legislative proposals into law • Funding Success: Over $2.5 billion in state, federal, and local government grants as well as grants from nonprofit organizations and private companies • Longevity: 24 years (founded in 1998)
• Number of Registered State and Federal Lobbyists and Grant Writers: 14 Ranked 6" (of 486 firms) in revenue reported to the California Secretary of State by all lobbying firms registered for the 2021-22 Legislative Session (99th percentile) • More California public agencies hire TPA to represent them in Washington DC than any other federal advocacy firm
STATE BUDGET EARMARKS
TPA has secured over $614 million in State Budget funding for our clients from FY2020-2023.
TPA has secured over $41 million in State Budget funding for our clients from the Legislative Delegation that represents the City of Orange in Sacramento, including the following projects:
Client and Year of Member Amount
Project Awarded
Funding
Discovery Cube OC Assembly Member Santiago Creek Sustainability $10,000,000 (FY22-23) Tom Daly Project
City of Anaheim Assembly Member Boysen Park Rehabilitation $15,000,000 (FY22-23) Tom Daly
City of Santa Ana Assembly Member Youth Facility Improvements $4,000,000 (FY21-22) Tom Daly
Discovery Cube OC issembly Member Tor Re-Opening Operating aly and Senator Tor $2,040,000
(FY21-22) Expenses
Umberg
Discovery Cube OC Senator Tom Umberg Property Acquisition for Parking $10,000,000 (FY20-21)
Total Funding Secured from City of Orange State Delegation Representatives: $41 million
FEDERAL BUDGET EARMARKS (COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING)
TPA has secured over $59 million in Community Project Funding for our clients in FY2021-22
TOWNSEND
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
EsT TPA
TPA has tentatively secured another $60 million in Community Project Funding for our clients in the FY2022-23 House Appropriations Bill (pending final adoption of Federal Budget Bill).
The cumulative total of $119 million in Community Project Funding for our clients includes over $27 million from current and future Members of the Congressional Delegation that represent the City of Orange in Washington, DC for the following projects:
Member Amount
Client Project Awarded
FY 21-22 Community Project Funding Secured
Congressman Santiago Creek Sustainability $2,000,000
Discovery Cube OC Lou Correa Project
Rancho Santiago Congressman
Community College Lou Correa Digital Access Consortium $2,000,000 District
Congresswoman Tracks at Brea Project $2,000,000
City of Brea Young Kim
North Orange County Homelessness, Youth Gang
Public Safety Congresswoman Prevention and Reduction $5,000,000 Collaborative (includes Young Kim Reentry of Offenders.
City of Orange)
Congresswoman Fuel Mitigation $565,000
City of Chino Hills Young Kim
Congresswoman Golden Avenue Bridge $2,200,000
City of Placentia Young Kim Replacement
Yorba Linda Water Congresswoman Heli-Hydrant $500,000
District Young Kim
Total Funding Secured: $14.2 million
FY22-23 Community Project Funding including in the Adopted House Appropriations Bill. (Pending Final Federal Budget Adoption)
Affordable Community Congressman Veterans Affordable Housing Lou Correa $1,000,000
Living Corporation
Congressman Santiago Creek Sustainability $2,000,000
Discovery Cube OC Project
Lou Correa
Orange County Housing Congressman Affordable Housing Projects $3,000,000 Finance Trust Lou Correa
Workforce Development
Rancho Santiago Pathways Targeting Dislocated
Community College Congressman $2,000,000
Lou Correa and At-Risk Populations
District
Yorba Linda Water Congresswoman Green Crest Lift Station $300,000 District Young Kim
North Orange County
Public Safety Congresswoman Homelessness, Youth Gang
Collaborative (includes Prevention and Reduction, $5,000,000 Young Kim Reentry of Offenders.
City of Orange)
Total Funding Pending Final Federal Budget Adoption: $13.3 million