San Jose City Council
March 29, 2022

Office of Administration, Policy, and
Intergovernmental Relations
Presenters:

Sarah Zárate, Director, Office of Administration, Policy, & Intergovernmental Relations
Zane Barnes, Deputy Director, Intergovernmental
Relations
Thomas Westphal, Senior Executive
Analyst, Intergovernmental Relations
Leslie Pollner, Holland & Knight
Steve Cruz, Cruz Strategies
2022 Spring Intergovernmental
Relations Report
San José City Council 03.29.22
Item 3.4
2022 Spring
Report
Federal Highlights
State Highlights
 Governor's 2022-2023 Budget Proposal
 Priority Bills
Top Legislative and Regulative Priorities
Strategic Project List
AB 1944 (Lee) Brown Act Reform
Federal Highlights
 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684)
 $136 million in additional Emergency Rental Assistance funding to California  FY 22 Federal Omnibus Budget: $1.5 trillion, including:
• $13.6 billion in emergency supplemental funding for Ukraine • $53.7 billion for HUD programs (a $4 billion increase from FY 21) • $102.9 billion for DOT to begin standing up new competitive programs established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
• Excludes $15.6 billion pandemic aid package
 FY 23 Federal Earmark process began
FY 22 Federal Omnibus Budget Earmarks – Direct funding to City  $1 million for SJPD – Mobile Crisis Assessment Team (Rep. Lofgren)  $1.5 million for SJ Libraries – Digital Literacy Program (Rep. Khanna & Rep. Eshoo)
 $182 million for COVID-19 vaccine
distribution
 $8 billion for Homelessness Programs
 $9.1 billion for Transportation Infrastructure
 $5.2 billion for Water & Drought Resilience
 $2 billion for Clean Energy
 $2.1 billion for Climate Adaptation
 $1.2 billion Wildfire Resilience
State Highlights 2022-23 Budget Proposal
FY 23 State Budget Earmarks – Working with members to advance funding in budget process  $10 million for East San José Vision Zero improvements  $800,000 for Responsible Landlord Engagement Initiative  AB 2164 (Lee) -- Disability Access Funding

SPONSOR
 SB 649 (Cortese) -- Affordable Housing
Tenant Preferences SPONSOR
 AB 2336 (Friedman) Speed Cameras

SUPPORT
State Highlights Priority Bills
Passed Committee 3/22/22
Next Step – Appropriations Committee
Key Provisions
 Extends protections thru June 2022 for tenants that applied for COVID-19 emergency rental assistance on or before March 31, 2022;  Maintains a standard for eviction protections across CA for rent due March 2020 - March 31, 2022;
 Extends preemption so that the City can not pass local moratoria covering rent from March 2020 - June 2022;
• Local moratoria are still pre-empted if related to any rent from August 19, 2020 – June 2022  Bill does not extend application deadline past March 31st to apply for rental assistance.

State Highlights Priority Bills
AB 2179 (Grayson and Wicks)
COVID-19 Relief: Tenancy
Staff will author an information memorandum if bill passes with preemption language included.  Passed
Assembly
Floor
3/28/22
Also Monitoring:
 AB 2883 (Ting) Firearm Owner Notifications
 AB 1721 (Rodriguez) Local Grants for Emergency
Services Funding
 AB 2234 (Rivas) Housing Planning and Zoning: Post-
Entitlement Phase Permits
 SB 917 (Becker) Seamless Transit Transformation Act
 SB 1338 (Umberg/Eggman) Community Assistance,
Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program
 SB 612 (Portantino) Power Charge Indifference
Adjustment
 AB 2181 (Berman) VTA Reform
State Highlights Priority Bills
Family Friendly
Policy
Supporting
 AB 452 (Friedman) Parental
Notification of Firearm Safety
 SB 854 (Skinner) Hope for
Children Act of 2022
 SB 878 (Skinner) Road to
Success

OPPOSE -- Initiative 21-0042A1: "Taxpayer Protection
and Government Accountability Act”
 Restricts state and local governments' abilities to raise revenue  Potentially impacts existing City fees, and requires citizen initiative special taxes to be approved by two-thirds of the voting electorate  Issue discussed and action taken by San Jose's Rules and Open Government Committee on 2/23/22
 Letter of opposition sent to League of California Cities + San Jose's State delegation
State Highlights Priority Advocacy
Top Legislative and Regulatory Priorities
Approved by Council 11/30/21
 COVID-19 Response, Mitigation, and
Recovery
 COVID-19 Vaccine Access,
Outreach, and Prioritization
 Homelessness Funding
 Funding to Advance Smart,
Sustainable, and Reliable
Infrastructure
Recommended Adjustment
 COVID-19 Recovery and Endemic
Response
 Safety and Vision Zero Initiatives
 Homelessness Funding
 Funding to Advance Smart,
Sustainable, and Reliable Infrastructure
Recommend Updating City Advocacy Priorities
Strategic Project List
Regional/Partner Projects
 BART Silicon Valley Extension
 CalTrain Electrification
 Valley Water Shoreline Levee
 Diridon Station
City Projects
 Vision Zero / Pedestrian & Bicyclist
Safety Projects
 Water Recycling
 Regional Wastewater Facility Capital
Improvement Program
 Green Stormwater Infrastructure
 Emergency Housing
 City Infrastructure Repair Backlog
Advocacy Underway
AB 1944 (Lee) Brown Act Reform
 Removes current legal requirements for local legislative body members to publicly disclose their teleconferencing locations and to make those locations publicly accessible
 Requires legislative bodies choosing to teleconference to provide the following:
• A publicly accessible video stream of the meeting's proceedings • An audio-visual or call-in option for public comment
This bill is not yet scheduled for a hearing.

Presenters:

Sarah Zárate, Director, Office of Administration, Policy, & Intergovernmental Relations
Zane Barnes, Deputy Director, Intergovernmental Relations Thomas Westphal, Senior Executive Analyst
Leslie Pollner, Holland & Knight
Steve Cruz, Cruz Strategies
Council
Actions
San José City Council 03.29.22
2022 Spring Intergovernmental Relations
Report, Item 3.4
 Accept the IGR Annual Report
 Adopt updated City Advocacy
Priorities
 Reaffirm City positions in Legislative Log
 Accept the 2022 Strategic Project List
 Adopt a position on AB 1944 (Lee)