Roseville City Council
February 4, 2026

Roseville Electric Building,
116 S. Grant Street, 1st Floor
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Krista Bernasconi, Mayor
Karen Alvord, Vice Mayor
Bruce Houdesheldt, Councilmember
Tracy Mendonsa, Councilmember
Pauline Roccucci, Councilmember
Dominick Casey, City Manager
Michelle Sheidenberger, City Attorney
Carmen Avalos, City Clerk
AGENDA
City Council Legislative Platform Workshop Meeting
February 4, 2026
4:30 PM
Roseville Electric Building,
116 S. Grant Street, 1st Floor
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. ROLL CALL
III. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
IV. MEETING PROCEDURES
V. PRESENTATIONS

1. Workshop
A. Legislative Advocacy Overview
B. Law and Regulation Committee Overview
C. State and Federal Overview - The Ferguson Group & Gonsalves and Son D. Legislative Platform - Review Changes
E. Council Input
CONTACT: Rob Baquera 916-746-1170 [email protected] VI. PUBLIC COMMENTS
VII. STAFF/COUNCIL REPORTS
VIII. ADJOURNMENT

City Council
Communication
Meeting Date: 2/4/2026
Item #: V.1
File #:

Item ID: 2025-973

Title: Workshop
Contact: Rob Baquera 916-746-1170 [email protected]

SUMMARY
A. Legislative Advocacy Overview
B. Law and Regulation Committee Overview
C. State and Federal Overview - The Ferguson Group & Gonsalves and Son D. Legislative Platform - Review Changes
E. Council Input

RECOMMENDATION

BACKGROUND

FISCAL IMPACT

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

CITY COUNCIL STRATEGIC PLAN/OVERARCHING GOALS

Respectfully Submitted,
Rob Baquera, Government Relations Administrator

Megan Scheid, Deputy City Manager

ATTACHMENTS:

1. 2026 Draft Legislative Platform

REVIEWERS:

Katrina Six, City Clerk Department Created -
Helen Dreyer, City Clerk Department

Carmen Avalos, City Clerk Department

Kelly Aye, City Attorney Department

Katrina Six, City Clerk Department

Ryan DeVore, City Manager Department - Assistant City Manager

Dennis Kauffman, City Manager Department - Assistant City Manager

Michelle Sheidenberger, City Attorney Department

Dominick Casey, City Manager Department - City Manager

Katrina Six, City Clerk Department

City of Roseville

2026 Legislative and Regulatory
Platform for
State and Federal Advocacy

Roseville City Council Goals 2025–2028
Ensure a safe and healthy community
Remain fiscally responsible in a changing world
Enhance economic vitality
Invest in well-planned infrastructure and growth
Support community engagement and advocacy
Deliver exceptional City services

Contents
PURPOSE AND AUTHORITY ...............................................................................4 Strategies for Effective Platform Implementation .............................................5 PRIORITIES FOR 2026 .........................................................................................7 Administrative Services Goal .............................................................................8 Community Development Goal .........................................................................10 Electric and Environmental Utilities Goals ......................................................17 Environmental Utilities Platform ......................................................................18 Critical Concerns for the Upcoming Legislative/Congressional Sessions ..22

PURPOSE AND AUTHORITY
The positions defined within this Legislative and Regulatory Platform reflect the City Council’s goals and priorities as well as its position on issues that are currently, or are anticipated to be, the focus of future legislation and regulation at the state and federal levels. Council’s adoption of this platform authorizes the City's active participation to influence state and federal decision-making on legislative, administrative, regulatory, and funding issues and to support judicial advocacy consistent with the City's priorities.

Using this document as a guide, the City will consider and adopt appropriate positions on specific legislation, regulations and budget proposals, and respond to requests for amicus curiae support when the outcome of a pending lawsuit is likely to significantly affect a City priority. The Mayor or, in the event the Mayor is unavailable the Vice Mayor, will sign letters of support or opposition based on the City's identified interests, the Mayor and other Council Members will advance City interests through individual and regional advocacy efforts, and the Mayor, or in the event the Mayor is unavailable the Vice Mayor, will act on requests from the City Attorney to join in friend-of-the-court briefs.

Staff recommends that the Legislative and Regulatory Platform be updated annually to be responsive to changes to the state and federal legislative and regulatory environments and to reflect the interests unique to Roseville and Placer County and interests that may also be common to cities throughout the state.

Strategies for Effective Platform Implementation

• Legislative and regulatory matters and trends are brought before the City Council’s Law and Regulation Committee on a regular basis throughout the year for information, awareness, and discussion. Each year, the Council holds a Legislative Platform workshop to review and provide input to this document that guides the City’s advocacy efforts for the year ahead. All regular Council meetings are televised and available for public viewing on the City’s website and government channels.
• City staff works collaboratively with our federal and state lobbyists to understand and develop strategies to respond to pending legislation and regulations and to help identify funding for infrastructure projects so the City can pursue directed funding. The federal lobbyists also review grant applications before they are submitted, securing support for any submittals. Staff ensures that matching funds, environmental review, or any other grant requirements have a reasonable correlation to the value of the funding and the benefit being derived from the grant.
• City staff participates in stakeholder organizations such as The League of California Cities, Sacramento Area Council of Governments, Placer County Transportation and Planning Agency, Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Northern California Power Agency, California Municipal Utilities Association, Municipal Information Systems Association of California, California Association of Sanitation Agencies, Solid Waste Association of North America - California, Association of California Water Agencies, American Public Works Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Roseville Area Chamber of Commerce to advocate on issues that are important to the City. This allows the City to have a stronger voice and a greater potential to influence key policy, regulatory, and legislative matters.
• Government relations staff works with each department to develop awareness and understanding of legislation, regulations, and project funding opportunities.

During the legislative year, staff monitors legislation, develops priority lists of legislation for each department, and makes recommendations on letters of support or opposition as bills progress through the legislative process. • Government relations staff strategizes and coordinates with other jurisdictions, special districts and organizations on key issues of common interest to ensure a stronger voice on legislation, regulatory and policy matters. • Government relations staff work closely throughout the year with state and federal elected officials, legislative staff, and regulatory agency staff to ensure Roseville’s policy positions and needs are clearly understood. • Proposed City advocacy positions on bills that would result in the issuance of or a vote for a new state bond will be brought to the full Council for direction.

County wide ballot measures are also brought to the full City Council for direction as well.
• Legislative engagement will align with the six overarching priorities identified in the City’s Strategic Plan to ensure that advocacy directly supports Council- adopted goals.

Working collaboratively with the Council’s Law and Regulation Committee and the City’s internal and external partners ensures that the City has the greatest ability to influence legislation and policies that are important to the City. The City has successfully used this process of proactive advocacy and coalition development to take positions on legislation

to effectively advance the legislative platform and secure federal and state assistance that benefits the residents of Roseville.

Funding Opportunities
City staff seeks to identify outside state and federal funding opportunities for Roseville projects and programs.

We take the following approaches to accomplish this:

1. Developing relationships that will leverage funding opportunities by actively promoting Roseville projects that provide a mutual benefit for our funding partners.

2. Advocating with local and regional partners for projects and programs worthy of state and federal funding that deliver value to the Roseville community.

State and Federal Funding Requests
Projects (not in order of priority):

1. Cybersecurity technology and Information/Business and Operational Technology (IT, BT and OT) infrastructure improvements needed to assist in compliance with state and federal mandates.

2. Regional road and highway improvements including I-80/Hwy-65 Interchange, Hwy-65 Widening, Baseline Road Widening, Blue Oaks Widening, Andora Widening, and Placer Parkway.

3. Fleet electrification including vehicles, charging facilities, tools, and training.

4. Emerging energy- and water-use efficiency technologies and conservation programs.

5. Water-supply reliability improvements such as increased conjunctive use capacity, diversification of water supplies as it pertains to implementation of the Roseville Groundwater Strategic Plan and recommended in other long-range resource planning documents.

6. Technologies and projects that modernize and improve water treatment and expand conveyance capacity and create water access redundancy to create resiliency to climate impacts and other natural disaster events including power supply disruptions, decrease in operational performance at Folsom Reservoir and other threats.

7. Expansion of wastewater digestion capacity to provide organics recycling and biogas clean energy generation and support compliance with organics diversion.

8. Pursue federal infrastructure funding under the CHIPS and Science Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act.

9. Projects that fund water and wastewater infrastructure improvements to Roseville’s older core neighborhoods.

10. Pleasant Grove Stormwater Retention Basin to mitigate City and regional, stormwater runoff and prevent downstream impacts.

11. Continue to pursue funding to complete the City’s bike, and pedestrian network, and new and existing park infrastructure.

12. Resiliency projects including aquifer recharge, regional interties, back up generation, and drought response infrastructure to strengthen reliability and protect local supplies under changing hydrology and climate conditions.

13. Support federal and state funding for workforce development, certification, and training programs that assist medium community water, wastewater, and solid- waste utilities, recognizing the distinct operational needs of locally operated systems such as Roseville’s versus larger and regional agencies.

14. Pursue funding to offset unfunded regulatory mandates.

Initiatives: Promoting economic stimulus and infrastructure investment

1. Projects that stimulate job creation especially in the areas of energy, water, wastewater, solid waste, transportation, public safety, and infrastructure development.

2. Economic development assistance to support business attraction, expansion, retention, and formation through reliable, affordable, and sustainable public services and infrastructure.

3. New and diverse sources of revenue and funding partnerships to continue the high- quality public services and sustain the quality of life currently experienced by the Roseville community.

PRIORITIES FOR 2026

Citywide Legislative Principles

1. The City of Roseville believes in local control and the ability of the City Council to make decisions that address the needs of residents, visitors, and businesses within its jurisdiction. In general, the City of Roseville will oppose legislation that erodes local control and will support legislation that increases local control.

2. The City of Roseville also believes in fiscal responsibility and requires financial flexibility to carry out its mission and objectives for the community. The City will oppose legislation that hinders financial flexibility while supporting legislation that encourages financial flexibility.

3. Oppose unfunded mandates from legislation and regulations that require the City to provide a service or benefit without appropriate and full funding.

4. Where applicable, the City will advocate for the use of existing programs and structures to streamline the creation of new state programs.

5. Oppose legislation that would negatively impact City revenues including but not limited to sales tax, property tax, other General Fund and enterprise fund revenues. Support legislation that protects and maintains City tax revenue.

6. Advocacy on sales tax, state bond legislation or state ballot measures beyond these guidelines will be brought to the full Council for consideration and direction. Regarding state ballot measures, once direction is provided staff may prepare and respond to inquiries in ways that provide a fair presentation of the facts about a measure and the City’s view of the merits of the ballot measure.

7. Support sponsoring or co-sponsoring legislation that meets the objectives of the City’s legislative principles and platform.

8. Support legislation and provide leadership in crafting a regional vision and agenda that leverages regional assets in delivering a better economic and social environment and reinforces the value and versatility of regionalism to address complex regional issues including transportation, economic development,

education, land use policy, water supply reliability, environmental concerns, and intraregional inequities in housing and education.

9. Support legislation, policies, and regulations that require economic analysis and/or scientific validation of changes to state policies or regulations before modifications can be enacted.

City’s Federal and State Legislative Platform

1. Oppose state and federal actions that would lead to incompatible consequences and/or have an adverse impact on the City’s ability to comply with state and federal regulations and/or legislation.

2. Support legislation that would further the stated missions of the City’s departments and oppose legislation that would impede the ability of each department to effectively meet its operational objectives.

3. Support legislation and regulations that protect City investments in infrastructure and other projects and that enhances financial sustainability of City assets including additional formula based funding for road and bridge maintenance and park, recreation & libraries’rehabilitation.

4. Support legislation and policies that protect our residents and businesses from inconsistent, unnecessary and costly regulations and guidance, mitigation requirements, and permitting mandates.

5. Oppose legislation and regulations that would adversely affect or divert City revenues to the state or any other entity.

6. Support legislation that would require the state or federal governments to pay for unfunded mandates.

7. Oppose legislation that would impose significant compliance costs to the City and where a public benefit has not been identified to justify the costs.

8. Oppose legislation that would eliminate or curtail local control over City owned property, physical assets and infrastructure including cybersecurity mandates.

9. Oppose new legislation or regulations that would restrict or eliminate local control over cannabis and cannabis related products.

10. Support legislation that would purge laws and regulations that are redundant and/or no longer applicable or necessary.

11. Support all Executive, Administrative, regulatory, and/or legislative actions to provide relief to residents affected by wildfires and other extreme weather events and to ensure that California’s insurance market remains accessible and affordable to all residents without tax increases and/or inadequate coverages.

Administrative Services Goal
To protect the ability of the City to make decisions unencumbered by onerous policies and regulations that are costly and/or restrictive in how they must be implemented regarding areas of finance, human resources, city clerk, information technology, and purchasing; to ensure the City’s positions regarding pension reform are clearly articulated by providing input and expertise in response to future legislative efforts.

We take the following approaches to accomplish this:

Administrative Services Platform

1. Support legislation and measures that provide and promote consistency and the promotion of harmonious labor relations, while maintaining management rights and local deference.

2. Support legislation, policies and regulations that simplify the administration of public records, election code and Brown Act provisions.

3. Oppose legislation that diminishes enacted workers’ compensation reforms and cost controls.

4. Support efforts that engage and include local government in future pension reform discussions and legislation.

5. Oppose legislation and regulations that place new environmental requirements on local agencies that would inhibit the City’s ability to fulfill its mission and are not accompanied by funding necessary for implementation.

6. Support legislation, policies and regulations that simplify public procurement and contracting.

7. Oppose legislation that restricts or diminishes the City’s ability to procure goods and services efficiently and effectively.

8. Oppose legislation that alters the tax treatment of municipal bonds such as proposals that would cap or eliminate the current tax-exempt status.

9. Support reasonable and common-sense legislation and regulations that clarify conflict-of-interest rules.

10. Support legislation and policies that encourage streamlining of business processes for responding to open records requests and that provide funding for these activities.

11. Support legislation that includes operational expenses as an acceptable use of public, educational, and governmental access (PEG) funds collected from franchise holders for video services under the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act (DIVCA).

12. Support legislation that restores the federal tax exemption for advance refunding bonds as a critical cost-saving tool for local governments.

Information Technology Platform

1. Support legislation that promotes and provides funding for increased ability to manage technology, assistance in adhering to regulatory compliance requirements and reducing the risk of cyber-attacks.

2. Oppose legislation that would require public agencies to share information in public settings that could be used by groups or individuals with malicious intent to compromise the systems, services or private information of public employees or residents.

3. Support legislation and regulations that ensure emergency communication capabilities and interoperability for information technology and public safety departments and agencies.

4. Support legislation that would clearly maintain local authority as it applies to platforms like cable, telecommunications, broadband, video, cellular, and Net Neutrality for all current and future development and deployment.

5. Support legislation that promotes artificial intelligence that is human-centric and socially beneficial, fair, explainable and transparent, secure and safe, and accountable.

6. Support legislation for the adoption of innovative and cost-effective environmental technology initiatives that would modernize Roseville infrastructure.

7. Oppose legislation that would restrict procurement practices or impact vendor interaction.

Community Development Goal
To act on legislation that would affect our ability to amend and implement our General Plan policies and/or restrict local control over development or impose new regulations that will increase development costs and place greater demands on the City’s General Fund. The intent of our General Plan policies is to create an attractive, vibrant, well- planned city, demonstrated by balanced land uses with desirable neighborhoods, prosperous businesses, excellent schools, convenient public services, and open space and recreation amenities all linked by superior transportation systems that include well- maintained streets, sidewalks, bike paths, and transit in a cost-effective and financially sustainable manner.

We take the following approaches to accomplish this:

Public Works Platform

1. Support continued reauthorization of the nation's highway and transit funding bills.

2. Oppose legislation that reduces, restricts, or eliminates transportation revenues for transportation purposes or creates new unfunded state and federal mandates on transportation projects.

3. Support legislation and other efforts to distribute Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ) and Surface Transportation Block Grant program (STBG) funding proportionally within the SACOG region.

4. Support legislation that provides additional funding for local roadway maintenance, transportation and infrastructure.

5. Support the reallocation of a portion of existing transportation funding sources to “State of Good Repair” maintenance programs.

6. Oppose legislation that would increase traffic congestion and/or reduce roadway vehicle capacity as a means of reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled and/or greenhouse gases (GHG).

7. Support legislation that allows local governments to determine local roadway Level of Service (LOS) policy.

8. Oppose legislation that places new restrictive burdens or oversights on local transit.

9. Oppose legislation that reduces the ability to use high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes by transit, paratransit and other high-occupancy use vehicles.

10. Support legislation, policies and regulations that allow the use of Medi-Cal funds for transportation purposes and support Medi-Cal policies that promote the use of transit/paratransit as Medicaid providers.

11. Support legislation that provides tax incentives for people who use public transit and other alternatives to driving a single-occupant personal vehicle.

12. Support legislation and advocate for reasonable Advanced Clean Fleet rules, targets, and exemptions.

13. Support legislation that provides funding for cities to comply with state and federal mandates regarding flood-protection levels.

14. Support legislation and other efforts that define equity based on local data and not state or national data.

Development Services Platform

1. Support legislation, policies and regulations that ensure local governments maintain and strengthen local land-use control and maintain, retain the ability to manage and integrate growth responsibly, the ability to address local constituents’ concerns.

2. Support legislation that provides funding and other financial support for the production of affordable housing.

2.3. Support legislation that addresses the housing crisis by addressing building materials costs and skilled labor shortages.

3.4. Support legislation that requires transparency, consistency, and accountability at the state level.

4.5. Support legislation that ensures local control and flexibility in determining appropriate measures to address environmental concerns, including vehicle miles traveled, greenhouse gases, energy use, and other environmental issues. reduction measures for greenhouse gas requirements.

6. Support legislation and regulations, including appropriate resource agency staffing levels, that streamline state and federal permitting processes and ensure permitting is completed within statutory timeframes. require agencies to consider the economic impacts and equities of mitigation measures regarding permits for water supply, flood control, air quality, water quality and sustainability. (This list is representative and not intended to be exhaustive.)

5.7. Support legislation which requires resource agencies to consider the economic impacts and equities of mitigation measures regarding permits for water supply, flood control, air quality, water quality and sustainability. (This list is representative and not intended to be exhaustive.)

6. Oppose legislation for new wetlands regulations that duplicates similar requirements at the federal level.

7.8. Support legislation for California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) reform that streamlines the environmental review process and reduces opportunities for ”green mail” lawsuits.

8.9. Support legislation that more narrowly defines the California Department of Fish and Wildlife jurisdiction under California Department of Fish and Wildlife Code Section 1600 (Streambed Alteration Agreement) and the State Water Resources Control Board definitions and regulations of “wetlands and other waters,” to avoid duplication or conflicts between federal and state regulations.Advocate for appropriate federal resource agency staffing levels to ensure Endangered Species Act Section 7 Consultations are completed within statutory timeframes (in particular, for the National Marine Fisheries Service).

9.10. Support legislation that ensures the rules governing representation of a city on a Board, Committee, or Commission with regional authority allow for meaningful and continual participation by the most populous cities on that Board, Committee, or Commission.

10.11. Support legislation that more narrowly defines the California Department of Fish and Wildlife jurisdiction under California Department of Fish and Wildlife Code Section 1600 (Streambed Alteration Agreement).

Parks, Recreation & Libraries Platform

1. Support legislation and measures that fund recreation, fitness, and wellness, and prevention programs that also include mental health and diversity, equality and inclusion plans for youth and adultsSupport legislation and measures for park, recreation, and library programs, services, and special events, recognizing the benefits to overall health and wellness and quality of life.

2. Support legislation that protects funding for the State Library Fundfunding for local libraries.

3. Support legislation and new measures for park, recreation, and library programs, services, and special events.

4. Support new initiatives that provide funding for the development of parks, and public recreation and library facilities.

5. Support full funding of state parks grant programs that support, and parks, recreation, bike trails, open space, and librarieslibrary grants.

6. Support a change in the definition of “underserved” for grants with requirements to serve underserved areas, to allow for funding for areas that are underserved as compared to other areas within the municipality (e.g., 35% below the city’s median income level), rather than as compared statewide.

7. Support legislation and budgets that fund park, open space, library, and recreation facility improvements and rehabilitation.

8. Support legislation that funds technology for parks, and recreation and library programminglibrary programs and facilities., including fitness, wellness, enrichment, literacy, maintenance, and books/technology for youth and adults.

9. Support legislation that would further fair and appropriate access to parks, recreation and library resources for all persons; including, but not limited to, persons experiencingthose that are homelessness. .

9.10. Support legislation that provides programs and services for people experiencing addiction, mental health and/or homelessness issues to help address the overall safety and security of our public spaces.

10.11. Support legislation that defines appropriate penalties for incidents of vandalism and property theft.

11.12. Support legislation that assists local agencies including parks departments with funding and/or resources for addressing clean-up and hauling of items from encampments.

12.13. Support legislation that provides increased funding for arts and culture.

13.14. Support state and federal legislation and funding opportunities that would provide funding for the mandated transition to electric vehicles as well as the construction of electric vehicle infrastructure and charging stations. In addition, that would accommodate a period to implement the initial installation of chargers by allowing parks &and recreation facilities to open, as long as there is a transition plan.

14.15. Support state and federal legislation to address supply chain issues that disrupt park development requiring the departmentagencies to purchase different, and potentially more expensive products and infrastructure materials (e.g. picnic tables, benches, electrical panels, electric chargers, and other amenities), which delays the ability to complete and open the parks within a reasonable timeframe.

15.16. Support legislation to reinstate state funding for the Building Forward Library Facilities Improvement Program and California Library Services Act Program.

16.17. Support legislation that provides funds for increased access and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) improvements to parks and facilities.

17.18. Support legislation that funds therapeutic and adaptive recreation and library programs, increasing access to people with disabilities.

Building Inspection Platform

1. Promote public health and safety in building construction through responsible legislation that adopts building codes through the regulatory process and allows for local control of enforcement.

2. Support legislation that enhances code enforcement through a uniform approach at the state level with input from the local authority by going through the regulatory process.

3. Oppose legislation that mandates specific enforcement requirements through the legislative process.

4. Protect the ability to adopt local amendments to fire and building codes.

5. Oppose legislation that places additional burdens of enforcement on local officials but is not directly related to issues of health and safety.

Public Safety Goal
To act on legislation that hinders our ability to protect and enhance the safety and quality of life for our residents, businesses, customers, and partners by providing effective responses to all service requests; to promote programs that minimize risk and maximize the safety for our entire community; and to deliver community risk-reduction programs and exceptional solutions as a cohesive team and in a collaborative manner.

We take the following approaches to accomplish this:

1. Oppose legislation and regulatory policies that negatively affect the funding and operations of the police or fire departments.

2. Oppose legislation that would decrease state and federal funding for programs and services including Homeland Security.

3. Oppose reductions to the levels of state and federal funding opportunities for public safety programs and/or services.

4. Support legislation that ensures flexibility for and local control of all grant resources and funding for public safety technology and mandatory reporting systems.

5. Protect the ability to adopt local amendments to fire and building codes.

6. Oppose legislation that would reduce or eliminate funding for disaster mitigation.

7. Oppose legislation that reduces or eliminates local law enforcement flexibility or otherwise enacts broad sentencing reforms that reduce sentences for non-violent crimes in a general fashion.

8. Support legislation that provides municipalities with local control to provide para- transport, community para-medicine services and illness-prevention practices and programs.

9. Support legislation that provides adequate funding to cities for realignment services and oppose legislation that reduces or eliminates funding for those services.

10. Support legislation that results in regionalization of public safety functions and local control of regionalization of fire services. Support policies and legislation that results in cooperative local control of public safety functions and services.

11. Support legislation that requires the state to pay for unfunded mandates related to new public safety training requirements.

12. Support legislation that provides new and/or increased funding for mental health programs, services, and substance abuse treatment.

13. Support legislation that provides funding for first responder programs that improve response to mental health crisis calls for service.

14. Support legislation that provides funding for Police social services programs and outreach.

15. Support legislation that provides funding for public safety infrastructure projects including construction of various types of training facilities.

16. Support legislation that provides funding for programs that help build first responders’ mental health and emotional resiliency.

17. Support legislation that strengthens criminal penalties for repeat offenders.

18. Support legislation that invests in first responder health and wellness programs, with a focus on advancing cancer prevention, research, and early detection initiatives.

19. Support legislation that continues to improve and/or acquire new public safety technology to improve the safety and efficiency of our first responders to better protect our community.

18.20. Support legislation and funding that help public safety safely prepare for, respond to, and mitigate risks associated with emerging technologies, including lithium-ion batteries, while ensuring local control and avoiding unfunded mandates on municipalities.

Economic Development Goal
To act on legislation that affects the City of Roseville’s ability to create a vibrant business and community environment that enhances the quality of life for our residents, promotes employment opportunities, and provides outstanding potential for our businesses and partners to flourish. To provide exceptional facilities, programs, services, affordable housing and economic opportunities in a safe environment by supporting, activating, and maintaining neighborhoods and commercial districts. To create a vibrant economic development environment by forming effective partnerships for the purposes of acting on legislation that encourages and assists with the development of jobs, businesses and industry sectors and maximizes social and economic opportunities.

We take the following approaches to accomplish this:

Housing and Community Investment Platform

1. Support legislation and appropriations that fully fund assistance for affordable housing, prevention and solutions to homelessness, and community investment funding, including the federal Housing Choice Voucher (HCV), Home Investment Partnerships (HOME) and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) programs.

2. Advocate for and support legislation that provides funding aimed toward increasing program resources, accountability of dollars spent to address the primary causes of homelessness, needs of the homeless population, and provides evidence-based solutions and interventions for mental illness, drug treatment, housing, and services.

3. Support legislation and advocacy efforts to protect existing and expand options for housing and community investment funding that will support goals for the City’s core areas and provide support for community assets.

4. Support legislation that expands the local construction workforce through economic development training programs to reduce the cost of housing and promote economic opportunity for low-income households.

5. Support legislation that increases flexibility and local control in the state housing element/Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) process and streamlines environmental statutes.

6. Support legislation and measures that create new state incentives for affordable housing development.

7. Support streamlining of the requirements for the types of projects that can be funded with state and federal funding.

8. Oppose legislation that revamps the current RHNA process by reducing local control and/or giving greater authority to the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to oversee and enforce regional housing goals and in determining a methodology for allocating housing needs to regions and local jurisdictions; and, that links housing element certification to non-housing grant sources.

9. Oppose legislation that imposes penalties on cities for not having a compliant housing element or for violations of state housing laws when the cities are acting in good faith.

Economic Development Platform

1. Oppose legislation and measures that create competitive disadvantages for businesses at local and state levels.

2. Support legislation and measures that allow the City to grow the current economic base by providing the tools and resources needed for businesses to expand and flourish.

3. Support legislation, funding and policies that promote Regional Occupation Programs, trade and skills training, innovation and entrepreneurship, investment in research and development technology, and tax incentives for key industry sectors including manufacturing.

4. Oppose legislation that negatively impacts the City as it relates to the dissolution and wind-down of the Redevelopment Agency.

5. Support legislation that promotes, enhances and provides incentives for business retention and expansion, while ensuring California’s business environment remains an economically viable and competitive destination with national and international markets.

6. Support legislation that supports the development and expansion of higher education institutions including new private institutions and satellite campuses of national universities as an important segment of growth, workforce and economic development throughout the state.

7. Support legislation that creates a new tax increment program that will assist cities and counties with revitalizing their communities through the elimination of physical and economic blight and by providing assistance to building owners, tenants and businesses in their efforts to be successful.

8. Oppose legislation that restricts the City’s ability to dispose of real property or retain control over how the property is used.

9. Support legislation, funding, and policies that promote and retain job growth in the City, increase talent pipelines, expand employment opportunities at all levels and support employment opportunities that provide broad public benefits within the City.

Electric and Environmental Utilities Goals
To protect local control over how utilities provide services to our customers; to protect our customers from state and federal legislation, policies, and regulations that have no clear benefit relative to cost; and to oppose legislation, policies, and regulations that create unfunded mandates and compliance requirements that undermine the utilities’ ability to provide their services and products in the most safe, reliable and cost-effective manner.

Electric Utility Platform
Roseville Electric Utility’s mission is to improve the quality of life in our community and to provide customers with safe, reliable electricity at competitive prices and with exceptional service. As technological advancements in the electric utility industry evolve and new legislative and regulatory mandates emerge, the electric utility will continue to transform its business model to best serve its customers in the most efficient, reliable and cost-effective way.

We take the following approaches to accomplish this:

1. Support legislative efforts that retain local decision-making authority over programs, services, resources, and rates.

2. Support legislation that maintains flexibility to comply with regulations in the way that best reflects community priorities.

3. Support legislation that enables meeting the state’s energy and environmental policies in a cost-effective and reliable manner.

4. Support measures that promote affordability for our customers.

5. Support legislation that preserves public tax-exempt financing and advanced refunding.

6. Support future transmission system improvements and requirements which ensure that cost allocation is born by the parties that impact and/or stand to benefit from those improvements.

7. Support legislation that provides greater flexibility to meet the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) program; and oppose legislation that would reduce flexibility in complying with the RPS program.

8. Support legislation and regulations that streamline permitting for new and existing generating facilities.

9. Support legislation that fosters the utility’s role in local and regional economic development efforts including business retention and expansion.

10. Support technology advancements and efficiencies that benefit our customers in a cost-effective and reliable manner.

11. Oppose measures that would decrease our ability to make financial decisions that protect the financial health of the utility.

12. Oppose legislation that creates new jurisdictional review over Publicly Owned Utilities (POU).

13. Oppose legislation that mandates power purchases from specific projects and/or specific resources that do not fit the needs of our community or do not serve our customers in a reliable, affordable manner.

14. Oppose legislation that would reduce funding for existing energy programs and mandates.

15. Oppose legislation that will increase utility operating costs without commensurate funding.

16. Collaborate with neighboring utilities, the public power industry, and other stakeholders on legislative issues that impact the electric sector.

17. Pursue leadership roles locally, regionally, and nationally to inform, educate and advocate for the interest of our community.

As part of the legislative and regulatory platform, Roseville Electric Utility also takes advocacy positions to promote the City’s position before the applicable regulatory agencies.

Environmental Utilities Platform
Roseville’s Environmental Utilities (EU) Department operates three utilities: Water, Wastewater, and Waste Services. EU strives to deliver critical public health and sanitation services efficiently and economically. EU’s services include management of groundwater, recycled water, and stormwater programs for the dual benefit of Roseville’s residential and business customers and the environment. There are many external factors that influence how EU operates, what it charges for utility services, and the kinds and quality of services provided to its customers.

We take the following approaches to accomplish this:

Addressing Climate Resilience and Sustainability:

1. Support locally developed, practical solutions to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions that provide environmental benefits and are cost-effective for ratepayers.

2. Support only those statewide and federal GHG emission estimating, monitoring, and reporting mandates that demonstrate clear environmental or public health benefits relative to costs.

3. Advocate for policies and funding that strengthen utility system resiliency, including planning, deployment of new technologies, and investments that enhance system and resource redundancy.

4. Advocate for policies and funding that help Roseville and the Sacramento Region address anticipated climate impacts, including drought and atmospheric rivers, as projected in region-specific modeling from the American River Basin Study by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

5. Identify and pursue funding opportunities to support stormwater infrastructure and green infrastructure projects that protect Roseville’s public health and safety, water quality, and economic development.

Advocating for Effective Resource Recovery and Product Stewardship that Minimizes Impacts on Ratepayers:

1. Advocate for the development of recycling and organics-processing markets at the state and federal levels, and support cost-effective beneficial reuse of materials such as recyclables, green waste, food waste, biosolids, plastics, and other organics.

2. Oppose mandated material-disposal bans or restrictions when infrastructure and technology do not exist to manage these materials safely and cost-effectively.

3. Support efforts to enact a comprehensive statewide Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law or a product-by-product EPR law that allocates end-of- life disposal costs with the producer of the product and incentivizes manufacturers to design their products in a way that has less of an environmental impact, consistent with Council direction as outlined in Council Resolution 10- 278.

4. Support efforts that encourage the development of clear state regulations and guidelines on EPR implementation to facilitate consistent compliance for local agencies and industry.

5. Oppose diversion or recycling performance targets when benefits do not justify costs.

6. Oppose efforts to increase statewide tipping fees where there is no clear benefit to Environmental Utilities ratepayers.

7. Support continued availability and expansion of biosolids beneficial use and disposal options.

8. Support state and federal funding, incentives, and tax credits for waste-to-energy and bioenergy projects, including biogas production and related technologies such as e-RINS.

9. Support legislative and regulatory efforts that increase development and use of available recycled water supplies and create a policy environment that supports the development of emerging advanced treatment technologies.

10. Support efforts to require pesticide manufacturers to produce products that are less harmful to the environment and ban the use/production of pesticides prohibited from entering waterways.

11. Support efforts to streamline and expedite permitting, construction, and funding of facilities that allow the City to transform waste into energy or useful products that benefit City customers and the environment.

12. Support peer reviewed, science-based risk assessment models to govern biosolids treatment mandates.

13. Advocate for policies and regulations that support and allow for expansion of the Environmental Utilities circular economy.

Advocating for a Sustainable and Reliable Water Supply:

1. Support streamlined permitting to implement regional conjunctive use programs more effectively to build a more drought resilient water supply for the Sacramento region.

2. Continue to safeguard Roseville’s water supply contracts – both the City of Roseville’s non-Central Valley Project water service contracts with neighboring agencies, as well as the City of Roseville’s Repayment Water Service Contract executed by the Bureau of Reclamation on February 28, 2020.

3. Support and advocate at the local, regional, state, and federal levels to fund the city and region’s water supply portfolio to achieve a regional water supply that is sustainable and reliable for generations to come.

4. Support efforts that allocate the costs for Delta and statewide water infrastructure improvements to the parties that either impact the Delta and/or stand to benefit from those improvements, known as the "Beneficiary Pays Principle”.

5. Support science-based Delta and statewide water-management decisions and oppose arbitrary flow requirements on the American River that undermine responsible water-supply management and the locally developed Modified Flow Management Standard under the Water Forum Agreement.

6. Support efforts to implement the Modified Flow Management Standard on the lower American River, that supports the Water Forum effort and its successor effort and provides for appropriate carryover storage at Folsom Reservoir.

7. Protect primacy of Roseville’s (and the region’s) ability to manage its groundwater resources.

8. Protect the City’s land-use authority and its right to make land-use decisions with respect to water supply.

9. Oppose efforts to standardize water-supply contingency actions.

10. Oppose efforts to upend the water rights system in California.

11. Support efforts to address illegal water diversions without upending California’s water rights system.

12. Support efforts that maintain local control over drought-related decisions that are consistent with the City of Roseville’s most recent Urban Water Management Plan, Water Shortage Contingency Plan and federal Water Management Plan.

13. Support locally controlled, practical water-efficiency programs that meet state objectives, reflect local conditions, and are cost-effective.

14. Support state and federal efforts to increase water-efficiency ratings for common consumer products that use water, including tax credits similar to those provided to energy efficient use technologies.

15. Support efforts for third parties like the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) or Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) to review the implementation of the Making Conservation a California Way of Life regulation for the impacts on rates, daily lives of Californians and the environment.

16. Oppose additional statewide water-use efficiency mandates that exceed the requirements of the Making Conservation a California Way of Life regulation.

17. Support water-efficiency policies that protect key City investments such as undeveloped and developed park lands, the City’s urban forest, and oppose policies that would diminish or impair investments.

11. Advocating for the Efficient Use of Water Resources versus Arbitrary Water Reduction Mandates:

1. Support efforts that maintain local control over drought-related decisions that are consistent with the City of Roseville’s most recent Urban Water Management Plan, Water Shortage Contingency Plan and federal Water Management Plan.

2. Support efforts that help local governments maintain water-efficiency programs that meet state objectives, are cost-effective, and make sense for the local conditions.

3. Support state and federal efforts to increase water-efficiency ratings for common consumer products that use water, including tax credits similar to those provided to energy efficient use technologies.

4. Support efforts for third parties like the Legislative Analysts Office (LAO) or Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) to review the implementation of the Making Conservation a California Way of Life regulation for the impacts on rates, daily lives of Californians and the environment.

5. Oppose additional legislative or regulatory efforts mandating stricter restrictions than what is already under the new Making Conservation a California Way of Life.

6. Support water efficiency policies that enhance key City investments such as undeveloped and developed park lands, the City’s urban forest, and oppose policies that would diminish or impair investments.

7. Support efforts that allow local agencies to develop and implement practical and locally controlled water-use efficiency programs and solutions.

8. Support funding assistance for the adoption of innovative technologies.

Advancing Stormwater Management and Green Infrastructure:

1. Oppose efforts to impose additional state-mandated stormwater program requirements without commensurate funding for those programs.

2. Identify and pursue funding opportunities to support stormwater infrastructure (including green infrastructure) investments that protect Roseville’s public health and safety, water quality, and economic development.

3. Support policies that reduce the cost of compliance for stormwater dischargers.

4. Support legislative efforts to reduce the potential of third-party lawsuits pertaining to stormwater quality issues.

5. Support legislation that revises the state Constitution to allow for stormwater programs to establish a funding mechanism that is similar to that of other water utilities under the Proposition 218 reforms.

6. Support efforts to require pesticide manufacturers to produce products that are less harmful to the environment.

7. Actively track, comment and advocate on proposed changes in National Discharge and Elimination System Permits and Waste Discharge requirements from the State Water Resources Control Board and Regional Water Boards.

Advancing Biosolids, Recycled Water and Energy for a Sustainable Future:

1. Support continued availability and expansion of biosolids beneficial use and disposal options.

2. Support peer reviewed, science-based risk assessment models to govern biosolids treatment mandates.

3. 4. Support state and federal funding programs for any potential City waste-to- energy projects. As an example, allow developers of biogas and electricity to benefit from federal and state funding like e-RINs (Electric Renewable Identification Numbers) so we can use our microturbines to power e-trucks and receive the e-RINs credits.

5. Support policies that deliver tax credits and/or cash subsidies for the construction of bioenergy projects, including biogas.

6. Support legislative and regulatory efforts that increase development and use of available recycled water supplies and create a policy environment that supports the development of emerging advanced treatment technologies.

Enhancing Workforce and Operational Excellence for Safety, Recruitment and Training:

1. Support efforts that protect solid waste, water, wastewater and recycled water worker safety.

2. Support efforts and workforce development programs that promote utility workers as great careers.

3. Support efforts that provide funding for the creation of local technical training, internships, apprenticeships, and journey persons in key water, wastewater, and solid-waste waste services positions – both formal college and trades education training pathways.

4. Support efforts that require manufacturers to provide training on the servicing of their products. Example: as the state transitions to the electrification of our fleets we would like to see requirements on the manufacturers of those vehicles to provide training to our technicians so they can provide routine maintenance.

4.5. Support funding assistance for the adoption of innovative technologies.

Advocating for Regulatory Reform and Cost-Effective Utility Service Delivery:

1. Support legislative and regulatory reforms that modernize permitting processes, efforts that require a cost/benefit analysis for new regulations, and allow flexibility inon permit terms to recognize technological advancements technology and construction timelinesfactors.

2. Support legislative efforts to reduce the potential of third-party lawsuits pertaining to water quality issues.

3.2. Oppose efforts to impose a tax or fees where revenue is collected from local ratepayers or agencies and are allocated for statewide projects that have no direct benefit to Roseville’s ratepayers.

4.3. Advocate on efforts to provide explicit authority to local water, and wastewater, and solid-waste agencies to address affordability concerns unique to their customer base rather than a one-size-fits-all statewide approach.

4. Support legislative efforts to reduce the potential of third-party lawsuits related to water, wastewater, or stormwater quality compliance.

5. Support statutory protections from Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) liability related to biosolids and drinking water residuals of biosolids from Superfund liability.

6. Advocate for policies and regulations that support and allow for expansion of the Environmental Utilities circular economy.

7.6. Oppose efforts to increase whole effluent toxicity testing for recycled water, stormwater and wastewater when it is not cost-effective, has no clear benefit and/or is not based on sound science.

8.7. Ensure efforts to add testing or regulation for contaminants of emerging concern areconcern are cost-effective, have a demonstrated health benefit and/or are is based on peer reviewed, sound science.

9.8. Support legislative and regulatory policies that target source control and place clean-up responsibility and costs related to natural resources damages on the manufacturers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances or manufacturers of products containing intentionally added PFAS.

10.9. Support policies that reduce the cost of regulatory compliance for water, wastewater, and stormwater dischargers to ensure environmental protections remain intact while also safeguarding residents and local businesses.or regulations that streamline environmental compliance while remain protective of public health.

10. Support policies or regulations that streamline environmental compliance while remaining protective of public health.

11. Oppose efforts to impose additional state-mandated stormwater program requirements without commensurate funding for those programs.

11.12. Monitor and advocate for laboratory standards that are reasonable, cost- effective, and ensure data quality for the City’s water quality laboratory which supports the core mission of protecting human health, the environment and safety.

13. Support legislation that revises the state Constitution to allow for stormwater programs to establish a funding mechanism that is similar to that of other water utilities under the Proposition 218 reforms.Support modernization of permitting processes, including extended permit terms of up to ten years to address the lifecycle of technologies and construction schedules.

12.14. Actively track, comment, and advocate on proposed changes in National Discharge and Elimination System permits and Waste Discharge requirements from the State Water Resources Control Board and Regional Water Boards.

13. Support efforts to streamline and expedite permitting, construction, and funding of facilities that allow the City to transform waste into energy or useful products that benefit City customers and the environment.

14. Support policies that reduce the cost of compliance for wastewater dischargers.

Critical Concerns for the Upcoming Legislative/Congressional Sessions

• Tax or Fees – The City opposes legislative efforts that limit or undermine has concerns regarding the Legislature’s desires and threats to establish effective constraints on the ability of local agencies’ ability to impose connection fees, capacity charges, and development related mitigation fees needed to support growth. and charges to mitigate housing impacts. We The City will advocate for maintaining full local authority to recover the cost of infrastructure and services required by new development, ensuring that growth pays for itself and that the existing community is not burdened with these costs. local control and the ability to impose fees and charges to mitigate the impact of new development on current residents and businesses.

• Accessible, Affordable, and Safe Drinking Water - While the customers of the City of Roseville enjoy access to safe, reliable, and affordable drinking water, there are many in California that do not. Roseville is supportive of innovative statewide policies to help bridge that gap, so long as the financial burden is not carried by our customers. Further, Roseville supports efforts to provide urban retail water agencies with express authority to create low-income assistance programs that meet the unique needs of their communities and are compliant with Constitutional provisions such as Proposition 218 and Proposition 26.

Roseville additionally supports statewide affordability solutions that do not create unfunded mandates, arrearage forgiveness obligations, or cost-shifts onto systems that already have rate assistance programs in place.

• Additional Water Efficiency Requirements – The City of Roseville is actively implementing the Making Conservation a California Way of Life regulations .

During droughts, there is a tendency for new legislative concepts to be introduced as a reactive response to drought conditions. Often, such actions do not add value, place a local financial burden and get in the way of implementing water efficiency laws already in place. It is the City of Roseville’s belief that the State Legislature should allow for the implementation of water efficiency laws and regulations, and evaluate their effectiveness and costs borne by ratepayers prior to introducing any new conservation mandates.

• Ensuring Appropriate Offramps are Part of Regulations - As part of the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) adopted in 2021 by USEPA agencies were required to inventory all customer owned service lines and report them to the state and make the inventory publicly available on their agency website. The LCRR allowed for agencies to do a statistical sample to determine if there are any customer owned lead service lines. With the adoption of the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements in October 2024, water agencies that found through their investigation and statistical analysis that they have no customer owned lead service lines are now required to prove through a second investigation and statistical analysis that our original analysis is valid. This comes at significant costs to ratepayers with no-direct benefit. Roseville would like to see an offramp developed for agencies that have found no lead service lines within in their system, and through compliance of the LCR testing have non-detect for lead in their water, and based on the age of their system and other pertinent factors are provided an appropriate offramp from unnecessary costly investigations.

• Municipal Water Systems Performance in Wildfires - Concerns have been raised about Southern California municipal water system's ability to support firefighting efforts as a result of duringthe intense and prolonged wildfires in 2025,. aA Los Angeles Daily News statement has highlighted a critical issue:
municipal water systems aren't designed to fight such intense and prolonged wildfires. This has been underscored by reports that firefighters have encountered fire hydrants that are dry or are barely working. In response, to the growing number of wildfire incidents throughout the state, there may be legislative efforts to address possible regulatory changes for fire hydrants and other aspects of water supply designed for firefighting. Governor Newsom has called for an independent investigation to understand the causes of lost water supply and water pressure during these fire events in Southern California. While

this investigation will provide insights into what occurred in these events, it could lead to statewide changes. Staff is aware of legislative language circulating to address possible regulatory changes for fire hydrants and other aspects of water supply designed for firefighting.

• Cost-Effective Utilities - The ability to provide reliable and cost-effective utilities to the residents and businesses of Roseville continues to be a central concern as new state and federal mandates are proposed that would increase the utilities operational costs. We will continue to advocate to maintain local control of utility rate setting and oppose any state or federal efforts to reduce local control.

• Clean Fleet Standards, RNG Pathways, and Infrastructure Readiness – State requirements, including the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, continue to evolve and have significant implications for essential public-service operations.

As the shift toward zero-emission technologies, challenges remain regarding infrastructure readiness, utility interconnection capacity, available funding, and the operational feasibility of electrification for certain fleet types. Renewable natural gas (RNG) remains a critical compliance pathway for meeting SB 1383 organics diversion requirements and maintaining service reliability. The City seeks a balanced, technology-neutral regulatory framework that provides feasible timelines, maintains essential-service flexibility, and aligns infrastructure requirements with available resources.

• PFAS, Emerging Contaminants, and Regulatory Alignment – PFAS and other emerging contaminants continue to drive significant state and federal regulatory activity, including the development of drinking water and wastewater Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs), monitoring requirements, and residuals management standards. Divergence between state and federal regulatory approaches can result in conflicting or duplicative mandates and substantial cost impacts for utilities and ratepayers. The City seeks clear, science-based regulatory frameworks, alignment between state and federal requirements, feasible compliance timelines, and recognition that water and wastewater agencies are passive receivers of these contaminants rather than sources. •

• Federal and State Funding for Water, Transportation and other Infrastructure Projects – Maintaining or increasing funding for these types of projects and improvements is critical for the City’s ability to maintain a robust economy, providing high paying jobs, upgrading and maintaining roadways, and meeting future infrastructure and transportation demands. Federal assistance in the form of grants, highly subsidized loans including WIFIA, Build America Bonds, Inflation Reduction Act credits, and Advanced Refunding are examples of federal assistance that should be part of any federal assistance program.

• Cybersecurity, Physical Security, and Critical Infrastructure Protection – The City is concerned that evolving Future state and federal cybersecurity and physical security mandates for critical infrastructure can create significant unfunded operational and capital obligations for information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) systems. The City will support efforts that provide funding and flexibility, recognizes the diverse needs and risk profiles of local agencies, and avoid prescriptive or unfunded mandates that increase costs.laws

regarding cybersecurity will continue to affect the City and the community.

Implementing new cybersecurity requirements will impose significant operations and maintenance costs to the City’s information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) systems program. Support legislation and state and federal budget requests that would provide funding assistance for upgrades to these IT and OT systems that are needed to meet new mandates and requirements.

• Gate Safety Requirements and Cal/OSHA Gate Regulation – Following the failure of AB 2149 (Connolly – “Alex Quanbeck Gate Safety Act”), Petition 605 has prompted Cal/OSHA Standards Board, to propose sweeping gate-safety regulations that would apply to all workplace sliding and swinging gates, including low-use internal gates at utilities, service yards, and parks, and require inspections by a “qualified person.” The City will advocate for risk-based, cost- effective requirements, flexibility for low-risk facilities, practical implementation timelines, and state funding to offset new mandates.

• CEQA Reforms, Building Standard Moratorium, and State Preemption of Local Authority – AB 130 and related budget trailer bills enacted major CEQA and housing policy changes, including a moratorium on new residential building standards and new CEQA exemptions and litigation limits for certain housing projects, while continuing to shift responsibility for statewide housing goals onto local governments. The City will advocate for CEQA and land-use policies that preserve local control, protect water and wastewater service capacity, ensure that development pays its fair share, and align housing growth with the infrastructure needed for safe and sustainable communities, without overly burdensome accessory dwelling unit or lot splitting mandates.

• Changes to Tax-Exempt Status of Municipal Bonds - Any proposals that would cap or eliminate the tax exemption on municipal bonds would significantly reduce the City's ability to finance major projects. This would negatively and severely impact the City's budget, increase rates for utility customers, and have a damaging effect on the community at large.

• Modifications to Government-Operated Mortgage Programs – The City will remain active in understanding the changes being considered at the federal level to modify government-operated mortgage programs, tax deductions, and to write new banking regulations regarding mortgage-related lending programs.

• Challenges with State and Federal Permitting Processes – The City remains interested in pursuing ways to facilitate more effective federal and state regulatory agency permitting processes. A specific concern is the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that has become a “one size fits all” approach to identifying and mitigating vehicle miles traveled (VMT) impacts, which does not reflect or serve the diverse conditions and needs of communities throughout California.

• Changing Economy – The City is interested in discussions regarding local tax systems including the fundamental shift from purchasing taxable commodities to

purchasing non-taxable services and ultimately how these changes affect the City’s ability to fund basic services.

• Sales Tax – The City is concerned with the uncertainty over potential changes to the sales tax allocation structure that could result in a loss of revenue to the City.

The City will actively monitor the ever-changing discussions and will remain engaged to ensure the City’s best interests are represented regarding any future changes to the sales tax structure.

• Housing and Homelessness – The City will remain active in supporting legislation addressing the needs of the City’s homeless population with a primary focus on prevention and the length of time people experience homelessness (addressing chronically homelessness individuals. The City will support solutions that address the fundamental causes of homelessness and provide permanent housing options paired with necessary supportive services.

• CalPERS Investment Policy – The City has concerns with actions taken or proposed by the CalPERS Board and the State Legislature to divest from certain companies or industries to be “socially responsible”. These policy decisions come at the price of reduced market rates of return on pension plan investments.

The pension funding requirement not covered by investment returns will be borne by the state and local governments, and ultimately California taxpayers.

• CalPERS Rates – The City has concerns with respect to how CalPERS sets health care plan rates, including combining regions to subsidize the Bay Area at the detriment to our distinguishable geographic region and market.

• Federal and State Funding for Parks and Library Projects – The City is interested in efforts to maintain or increase funding for these types of projects and improvements. The funding is critical for the City’s ability to expand, upgrade and ensure equitable access throughout the city to the City’s new and existing parks, recreation, and library facilities including those that have been underserved. The City will advocate for changes to funding formulas to include per-capita opportunities for local governments.

• Substance and Opioid Abuse Funding – The City supports legislation that increases funding levels for substance and opioid abuse programs and services that will help those who are addicted or abusing substances with overcoming their addiction. The addiction/abuse cycle has negative implications for our community and use of public safety resources.

• Procurement Mandates – The City is concerned with any efforts that would create new procurement mandates for resources that do not fit the needs of our community, compromise reliability, or fail to or do not serve our customers in an reliable and affordable manner.

• Affordability – As more state policies are adopted and included as a component of electric rates, the City is concerned that it will become increasingly challenging to keep electric rates low. The City will continue to advocate for affordability impacts to be explicitly considered in the development and implementation of

new and existing energy policies. local control when approaching new policies that may result in rate increases.

• RPS Cost Containment – Roseville will seek the ability to implement cost containment controls for renewable procurement under California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) program. Cost containment is an existing mechanism within the RPS program that allows utilities to control costs related to eligible renewable energy procurement requirements as reported to the California Energy Commission. The current RPS market is seeing bottlenecks in the ability for new renewable resources to come online because of ongoing supply chain issues and long-lead times in the California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO) interconnection queue. Roseville expects to use the RPS cost containment mechanism for the next compliance period as longer-lead time resources come online. The RPS cost containment mechanism is a short-term strategy and is not intended to be a long-term solution for compliance under the state’s RPS procurement program.
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• Cap-and-Invest Program Implementation – The California Air Resources Board (CARB) will initiate a regulatory process to update the cap-and-invest program in 2026. Roseville will advocate to protect our free allowances which are used to mitigate the costs of the program that are passed on to consumers. Staff will actively engage on CARB’s proposal once released with the goal of minimizing any negative impacts to the electric utility and our customers.

• Flexibility in Meeting State Mandates – Roseville supports maintaining flexibility in the resource mix that the utility can use to meet our energy needs.

The state is proposing to electrify other sectors of the economy while simultaneously reducing emissions from the electric sector and increasing renewable resources needed to serve electric load. Utilities need as much flexibility as possible to meet the state’s clean energy goals, especially as the targets ramp up and become more difficult to reach. Unnecessarily limiting the resources that are eligible to meet the goals may create challenges for reliability and will result in increased costs. Roseville supports policies that make achieving the existing Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) and Greenhous Gas (GHG) emission reduction goals more manageable, including the potential to rethink the application of existing requirements. Roseville supports resource flexibility and diversity in maintaining a reliable, affordable electric grid, particularly as electrification accelerates and clean energy targets increase.

• Support for Light Up Navajo Initiative – In 2023 and 2024Over the past three years, Roseville participated in the Light up Navajo (LUN) initiative, which is a joint effort between the American Public Power Association and the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) to bring electricity to the 13,000 Navajo households that have no power. LUN is an ongoing annual effort that draws voluntary participation from public power utilities across the country. The City supports initiatives that bring reliable electric service to underserved communities and that provide workforce development and skills training for utility employees. Roseville is committed to this humanitarian project, which also provides valuable training for our apprentices in all-weather conditions that we are not regularly exposed to in Roseville. The Light up Navajo project changes the lives of everyone involved including those providing power and receiving it for the first time. As part of our

advocacy for 2025, Roseville will continue is working to bring more visibility to the LUN efforts by addressing our involvement and support for the initiative in our through our advocacy and support for the initiative in 2026.documents that we will share during our state legislative and congressional visits. Roseville’s call to action is to urge others to join this life changing effort to Light Up Navajo.

• Ongoing Collaboration and Advocacy with State Agencies – Roseville was successful in working with the California Energy Commission and the California Department of Water Resources to obtain a Distributed Electricity Backup Assets (DEBA) grant in early 2024, which resulted in subsequent ownership of the RPEAK units in Roseville on November 1, 2024. This effort was an example of successful collaboration with the state’s energy agencies to bring new generation online to meet the state’s growing energy needs while simultaneously benefiting our community. Roseville will continue to seek new opportunities to engage and partner with state agencies in the future.

• Engagement and Outreach for the Roseville Utility Exploration Center – Roseville’s innovative Utility Exploration Center (UEC) cultivates principles of conservation, efficiency, and environmental stewardship in a way that shapes lifestyles and motivates positive behaviors. The UEC demonstrates ways to save energy and water, reduce waste, protect the watershed and live sewer smart through school programs, facility tours, workshops and community events.

Electric staff has been focused on bringing legislators and regulators out to our facility to see the unique value that our UEC provides. Electric and Environmental Utilities staff plan to conduct studies in the coming year that will help quantify the energy efficiency savings, water conservation, and best practices for the proper disposal of garbage that are the result of the UEC’s programs and offerings. The Electric Utility is seeking regulatory benefit for the value provided in the future and the Environmental Utilities are seeking data to best advocate for the educational aspect that the UEC brings to our community.

• Regional Energy Market Legislation – In 2025, Roseville supported legislation, passed into law, that allows California utilities to voluntarily participate in energy markets whose rules are governed by an independent regional organization in coordination with neighboring Western states with the goal of improving reliability, expanding access to generation, and helping lower costs. Utilities can only participate once specific governance and technical requirements are met, ensuring state authority over procurement policies and consumer protections remain in place. This law sets the stage for a more connected and flexible energy system across the West. Roseville will continue to engage in the development and implementation of regional market structures to ensure governance and participation frameworks appropriately reflect the interest of publicly owned utilities and our customers. there will be legislation to address the participation of California utilities in a Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM) and an Electricity Day Ahead Market (EDAM) that is overseen by a West-wide board, not the California Independent System Operator (CAISO).

Roseville is a participant in the WEIM and is assessing participation in the EDAM. The implications of this legislation will have an impact on regional energy markets broadly and is a small incremental step in considering the future for a regional transmission organization (RTO). The publicly owned utility community

is seeking a significant role in this legislative effort. Accordingly, Roseville will be closely monitoring the development of this legislation and will report on the benefits that a regional energy market, not governed by the CAISO, could provide in cooperation with our balancing authority area.

• Electric Vehicles – The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved a rule requiring 100% of all new cars sold in the state to be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) by 2035. The regulation instituteds interim targets of 35% ZEV sales by 2026, 68% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. This policy will create new, increased demand for electric vehicles in the foreseeable future and will call for electric utilities to be instrumental in electrifying the transportation sector. Uncertainty surrounding the implementation of these light-duty zero-emission vehicle standards continue, given challenges at the federal level. The CARB’s Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) Rule, which also requires purchasing requirements for zero- emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles will continue for state and local government fleets but is a small portion of the overall market that the ACF rule was originally intended to impact... The City will continue to evaluate the electric system infrastructure, increased costs to City departments, and capacity needs to accommodate these ACF targets on an ongoing basis while coordinating efforts related to transportation electrification among City departments. The City supports electric vehicle deployment as a means to foster safe and healthy communities and economic growth, while keepingbut overall costs and feasibility must be kept in mind when changing out our fleets.

• Funding/Grant Opportunities – The Electric Department is seeking opportunities to receive grant funding at both the state and federal level. Grant funding opportunities may include bringing new technology online in Roseville; adding new or upgrading our existing distribution and/or generating resources; improving grid resiliency; hardening Information and Operation Technology (IT and OT) systems; improving operations of City services; and facilitating the electrification of the building and transportation sectors. Funding to facilitate infrastructure upgrades are particularly valuable especially as more ZEVs interconnect to our electric system. The City will continue to monitor and engage in these opportunities as they become available.

• Jurisdictional Concerns – Following recent wildfires, heatwaves and power supply shortages, the City is concerned that a statewide effort to address these events could lead to new oversight over publicly owned utilities (POUs) and additional limits to local control. The City will oppose legislation that creates new jurisdictional review over POUs or imposes new limits on our ability to make decisions at the local level.

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• Supply Chain Disruptions – The Electric Department will continue to raise awareness of supply chain delays and disruptions that affect the industry in our state and federal advocacy efforts. We will continue to support our trade association’s support for funding for critical domestic manufacturing of critical grid components manufacturing and the inclusion of $600 million to promote

domestic transformer manufacturing in the Fiscal Year 2025 Senate Energy and Water Appropriations bill. The Electric Department and will remain steadfast in keeping policy makers apprised of any issues obtaining necessary electric equipment as delays or disruptions arise.

• Transportation Development Act – The City will continue to monitor Transportation Development Act legislation to ensure local control and funding use is not restricted further and oppose any proposed changes that would implement these types of restrictions.

• Challenges with Legislation Mandating How Housing is Developed – The City has significant concerns with the continuing onslaught of legislation that is mandating how housing is developed in the state. This includes the elimination of control local governments have over land use, zoning, and permitting approvals.

The sheer volume and breadth of legislation has required significant staff time and expense to track and implement. Moreover, while legislation continues to focus the responsibility for solving the state’s housing crisis on local governments, it neglects to provide the necessary tools to do so. Since the loss of redevelopment in California, local governments have been challenged to assist housing development in our communities. It is imperative that the state provide municipalities with new tools they can employ to meet the countless new housing requirements being imposed on them by the state, and for the state to hold itself to the same standards of timeliness, public engagement, and transparency expected of local governments.

• Information Technology - Engagement in the Regulatory Process – The City will support the inclusion of language in legislation that ensures the participation of local governments in the process of developing new regulations and/or the process for implementing new state and federal requirements.

• Federal Funding for Transit – Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grants require approval from the United States Department of Labor (USDOL). USDOL determined that California’s Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA) restricts agencies from bargaining in good faith with transit employees.

As a result, FTA would withhold grant funds from Roseville Transit and other California transit agencies. This could impact over $15,000,000million in FTA funding programmed for Roseville Transit. There is currently a court-ordered stay in place preventing the withholding of any federal funds. However, if this stay is lifted, the City’s funding would be in jeopardy. The City of Roseville supports efforts to overturn the USDOL and FTA decisions while maintaining PEPRA as an important tool to control local agency pension costs.

• Federal Funding for Active Transportation and Streets – The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Caltrans recently demanded changes to the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) and Regional Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (RSTBGP) funding processes. Per regional funding agreements, CMAQ and RSTBGP were passed through to Placer County Transportation Planning Agency and distributed to local agencies by formula based upon population and (for RSTBGP only) maintained road miles.

CMAQ funds averaged $1,300,000 annually and were used for qualifying bicycle, pedestrian and other projects that reduce emissions such as roundabouts.

RSTBGP averaged $1,500,000 annually and is one of the most flexible federal transportation funding programs as nearly all types of transportation projects are eligible, and in Roseville has been used for arterial road resurfacing. The City of Roseville did not support the demand because we lost local control and are now required to participate in the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) competitive funding program. Staff will continue efforts to collaborate with SACOG regarding parameters currently being developed pertaining to the competitive distribution of that funding, including advocating for use of RSTBGP specifically for “State of Good Repair” Projects, for which it is eligible and has historically been used in Roseville. This will ensure that the benefits of these types of projects will continue to be realized in our community. Staff will also advocate for changes to federal rule making and laws to once again allow for the suballocation of these funds to local transportation planning agencies allowing more local control over the expenditure of these dollars.

• National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) updates and Community Rating System (CRS) program changes – The NFIP is insolvent, and Congress continues to struggle with funding for FEMA’s NFIP and CRS programs. “The [NFIP] owes $20.5 billion to the federal government and ‘has no realistic prospect of repaying the debt as currently structured,’ according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) congressional report.” (Aug. ’23). Severe hurricanes like Helene and Milton create excess cost burdens on the program.

This creates a need to borrow from the Treasury that will drive the NFIP further into insolvency. In recent years, insurance companies outside the NFIP have been offering flood insurance at competitive rates. In late 2021, FEMA released the “Risk Rating 2.0 - Equity in Action” flood insurance program in hopes of bringing greater solvency and stability. However, there are concerns that its complexity and rapidly rising premiums are frustrating policyholders. This, along with the integration of certain costly social equity and environmental justice measures into the NFIP at a time when it is losing policies to the open market further destabilizes the program. The City has concerns that ongoing NFIP instability may lead to Congress terminating the NFIP and its subordinate CRS program, both of which have great value to Roseville residents, with the Risk Rating 2.0 program applying Roseville’s 45% CRS insurance premium discount all flood zones, as opposed to the previous discount only applying to high hazard zones. The NFIP is insolvent, and Congress continues to struggle with funding for FEMA’s NFIP and CRS programs. “The [NFIP] owes $20.5 billion to the federal government and ‘has no realistic prospect of repaying the debt as currently structured,’ according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) congressional report.” (Aug. ’23). The current debt is at ~$22.5 billion and the NFIP pays hundreds of millions annually on its interest to the US Treasury; independent analysis estimate that under current conditions, the NFIP runs a budget deficit of ~$1.4 billion per year. This creates a need to borrow from the Treasury that will drive the NFIP further into insolvency. In recent years, insurance companies outside the NFIP have been offering flood insurance at competitive rates. In late 2021, FEMA released the “Risk Rating 2.0 - Equity in Action” flood insurance program in hopes of bringing greater solvency and stability. However, there are concerns that its

complexity and rapidly rising premiums are frustrating policyholders. This, along with the integration of certain costly social equity and environmental justice measures into the NFIP at a time when it is losing policies to the open market further destabilizes the program; that condition was corrected with the current Administration. About 75% of all NFIP policies are held within CRS communities, therefore having a robust stable CRS program that is integrated well with the NFIP is crucial. The City has concerns that ongoing NFIP instability may lead to Congress terminating the NFIP and its subordinate CRS program, both of which have great value to Roseville residents, with the Risk Rating 2.0 program applying Roseville’s 45% CRS insurance premium discount in all flood zones, as opposed to the previous discount only applying to high hazard zones. In 2022, FEMA launched a CRS programmatic framework revamp. Additionally, the Trump Administration required the CRS Program to simplify, which it has done. These efforts are relatively new but there is a sense of hope that these efforts have had a stabilizing effect.

National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and Community Rating System (CRS)
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and FEMA’s Community Rating System (CRS) play a critical role in providing affordable flood insurance to property owners and incentivizing community investments in floodplain management. However, the NFIP continues to face long-term financial and structural challenges that affect program stability and predictability for participating communities.

The NFIP currently carries significant debt to the U.S. Treasury and operates with ongoing annual deficits, creating uncertainty around its long-term sustainability. In response, FEMA has implemented program changes intended to improve fiscal stability, including the introduction of the Risk Rating 2.0 program and updates to CRS program administration. While these reforms aim to modernize the program, they have also increased complexity and, in some cases, resulted in higher premiums for policyholders.

Approximately 75 percent of NFIP policies nationwide are held within CRS- participating communities, making the continued viability of a well-integrated and stable CRS program essential. For Roseville residents, CRS participation provides meaningful insurance premium reductions across all flood zones, offering direct financial benefit and reinforcing the value of local flood risk mitigation efforts.

The City supports efforts to strengthen the long-term sustainability of the NFIP and CRS programs and will continue to monitor federal policy and administrative changes to ensure they:
• Maintain affordable and predictable flood insurance options for residents,

• Preserve incentives for local floodplain management and risk-reduction investments, and
• Provide stability and clarity for participating communities.

• Pole Attachments/Communications Equipment – The City opposes any legislation that would further diminish local control over attachments on publicly- owned infrastructure and that would go beyond the current requirements or that would create alternative requirements that would conflict with exemptions granted to public providers under the Communications Act or would have negative implications on revenue recovery, aesthetics and most importantly, safety.

• Ballot Initiatives – There is an ever-increasing number of initiatives that qualify for the ballot during regular election cycles, which would have implications for local governments. Due to this trend, coupled with the increased involvement of special interest groups in the initiative process, the importance of educating the community and the Legislature on the implications an initiative may have on the operations, finances, and/or policies of a local government is critical.

• Fentanyl – The ongoing fentanyl crisis continues to impact communities across California, the consequences of which are devastating. The City will prioritize support for legislation that increases accountability of those responsible for the sale and distribution of fentanyl, public awareness of the crisis, resources for law enforcement to address the impacts, and treatment and services for those addicted to this deadly substance.
• Labor Relations – Recent legislative efforts of one-size fits all bills arising out of specific or isolated situations is deleterious to consistent harmonious labor relations, and we oppose disruptive and overly expansive efforts like, attempting to legislate that sympathy strikes are a “fundamental human right”. The City will support legislation that galvanizes appropriate protections for our workforce, but respects the local bargaining dynamic.
• Pleasant Grove Retention Basin – The basin, located in Reason Farms, is a mitigation measure for development in northwest Roseville and will retain 2,100- acre feet of storm water runoff during major rain events thereby offsetting any additional runoff impact on our downstream neighbors from Roseville’s development. The $50 million project is under design and environmental review now and, with sufficient funding, could be ready to construct by 2028. Staff is working with the California Office of Emergency Services on an $18 million FEMA Flood Mitigation Assistance construction grant. Staff will reach out to state and federal legislators, as well as FEMA staff, to garner support for funding the project. The remaining funding will come from developer paid mitigation fees.