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c. gives the Provider the information, authority and assistance the Provider needs to defend against or settle the claim.
6.2 If the Provider believes or it is determined that any of the Material may have violated a third party's intellectual property rights, the Provider may choose to either modify the Material to be non-infringing (while substantially preserving its utility or functionality) or obtain a license to allow for continued use, or if these alternatives are not commercially reasonable, the Provider may end the license for, and require return of, the applicable Material and refund any fees the Recipient may have paid to the other party for it and, if Oracle is the Provider of an infringing Program, any unused, prepaid technical support fees You have paid to Oracle for the license of the infringing Program, if any. If such return materially affects Oracle's ability to meet its obligations under the relevant order, then Oracle may, at its option and upon 30 days prior written notice, terminate the order.
6.3 Notwithstanding the provisions of section 6.2 and with respect to hardware only, if the Provider believes or it is determined that the hardware (or portion thereof) may have violated a third party's intellectual property rights, the Provider may choose to either replace or modify the hardware (or portion thereof) to be non-infringing (while substantially preserving its utility or functionality) or obtain a right to allow for continued use, or if these alternatives are not commercially reasonable, the Provider may remove the applicable hardware (or portion thereof) and refund the net book value and, if Oracle is the Provider of infringing Hardware, any unused, prepaid technical support fees You have paid to Oracle for the Hardware, if any.
6.4 In the event that the Material is Separately Licensed Third Party Technology and the associated Separate Terms do not allow termination of the license, in lieu of ending the license for the Material, Oracle may end the license for, and require return of, the Program associated with that Separately Licensed Third Party Technology and shall refund any Program license fees You may have paid to Oracle for the Program.
6.5 Provided You are a current subscriber to Oracle Technical Support Services for the Operating System (e.g., Oracle Premier Support for Systems, Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems or Oracle Linux Premier Support), then for the period of time for which You were a subscriber to the applicable Oracle Technical Support Services (a) the phrase "Material" above in section 6.1 shall include the Operating System and the Integrated Software and any Integrated Software Options that You have licensed and (b) the phrase "Program(s)" in this section 6 is replaced by the phrase "Program(s) or the Operating System or Integrated Software or Integrated Software Options (as applicable)" (i.e., Oracle will not indemnify You for Your use of the Operating System and/or Integrated Software and/or Integrated Software Options when You were not a subscriber to the applicable Oracle Technical Support Services). Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect solely to the Linux operating system, Oracle will not indemnify You for Materials that are not part of the Oracle Linux covered files as defined at http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-llnux-indemnification-069347.pdf.
6.6 The Provider will not indemnify the Recipient if the Recipient alters Material or uses it outside the scope of use identified in the Provider's user documentation or if the Recipient uses a version of Material which has been superseded, if the infringement claim could have been avoided by using an unaltered current version of Material which was provided to the Recipient, or if the Recipient continues to use the applicable Material after the end of the license to use that Material. The Provider will not indemnify the Recipient to the extent that an infringement claim is based upon any information, design, specification, instruction, software, data, or material not furnished by the Provider. Oracle will not indemnify You for any portion of an infringement claim that is based upon the combination of any Material with any products or services not provided by Oracle. Solely with respect to Separately Licensed Third Party Technology that is part of or is required to use a Program and that is used: (a) in unmodified form; (b) as part of or as required to use a Program; and (c) in accordance with the license grant for the relevant Program and all other terms and conditions of this Agreement, Oracle will indemnify You for infringement claims for Separately Licensed Third Party Technology to the same extent as Oracle is required to provide infringement indemnification for the Program under the terms of this Agreement. Oracle will not indemnify You for infringement caused by Your actions against any third party if the Program(s) as delivered to You and used in accordance with the terms of this Agreement would not otherwise infringe any third party intellectual property rights. Oracle will not indemnify You for any intellectual property infringement claim(s) known to You at the time license rights are obtained.
6.7 This section provides the parties' exclusive remedy for any infringement claims or damages.
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7. TERMINATION
7.1 If either of us breaches a material term of this Agreement and fails to correct the breach within 30 days of written specification of the breach, then the breaching party is in default and the non-breaching party may terminate this Agreement. If Oracle terminates this Agreement as specified in the preceding sentence, You must pay within 30 days all amounts which have accrued prior to such termination, as well as all sums remaining unpaid for Technical Support Services received under this Agreement plus related taxes and expenses. Except for nonpayment of fees, the non-breaching party may agree in its sole discretion to extend the 30 day period for so long as the breaching party continues reasonable efforts to cure the breach. You agree that if You are in default under this Agreement, You may not use those Technical Support Service ordered.
7.2 You may terminate this Agreement at any time without cause by giving Oracle 30 days prior written notice of such termination. If You end this Agreement as specified in the preceding sentence, You agree You must pay within 30 days all amounts which have accrued prior to the end of this Agreement, as well as all sums remaining unpaid for Technical Support Services received under this Agreement plus applicable related taxes and expenses (if any).
7.3 If You have used a contract with Oracle or an affiliate of Oracle to pay for the fees due under an order and You are in default under that contract, You may not use the Technical Support Services that are subject to such contract.
7.4 Provisions that survive termination or expiration are those relating to limitation of liability, infringement indemnity, payment and others which by their nature are intended to survive.
8. FEES AND TAXES; PRICING, INVOICING AND PAYMENT OBLIGATION
8.1 All fees payable to Oracle are due within 30 days from the invoice date. You agree to pay any sales, valueadded or other similar taxes imposed by applicable law that Oracle must pay based on the Technical Support Services You ordered, except for taxes based on Oracle's income. Reimbursement of expenses related to the provision of any Technical Support Services, if any, will be addressed in the relevant order and/or statement of work for such Technical Support Services.
8.2 You understand that You may receive multiple invoices for the Technical Support Services You ordered.
Invoices will be submitted to You pursuant to Oracle's Invoicing Standards Policy, which may be accessed at http://oracle.com/contracts.
9. NONDISCLOSURE
9.1 By virtue of this Agreement, the parties may have access to information that is confidential to one another ("Confidential Information"). We each agree to disclose only information that is required for the performance of obligations under this Agreement. Confidential Information shall be limited information clearly identified as confidential at the time of disclosure.
9.2 A party's Confidential Information shall not include information that: (a) is or becomes a part of the public domain through no act or omission of the other party; (b) was in the other party's lawful possession prior to the disclosure and had not been obtained by the other party either directly or indirectly from the disclosing party; (c) is lawfully disclosed to the other party by a third party without restriction on the disclosure; or (d) is independently developed by the other party.
9.3 Subject to the applicable law, we each agree not to disclose each other's Confidential Information to any third party other than those set forth in the following sentence for a period of three years from the date of the disclosing party's disclosure of the Confidential Information to the receiving party. We may disclose Confidential Information only to those employees or agents or subcontractors who are required to protect it against unauthorized disclosure in a manner no less protective than under this Agreement. Nothing shall prevent either party from disclosing the terms or pricing under this Agreement or orders submitted under this Agreement in any legal proceeding arising from or in connection with this Agreement or disclosing the Confidential Information to a governmental entity as required by law. In the event You receive a valid request for Oracle's Confidential Information pursuant to applicable law, You will provide Oracle with reasonable notice of such request and give Oracle an opportunity to object to or limit any such disclosure.
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10. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
10.1 You agree that this Agreement and the information which is incorporated into this Agreement by written reference (including reference to information contained in a URL or referenced policy), together with the applicabfe order, are the complete agreement for the Technical Support Services ordered by You and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements or representations, written or oral 1 regarding such Technical Support Services.
10.2 It is expressly agreed that the terms of this Agreement and any Oracle order shall supersede the terms in any purchase order, procurement internet portal or any other similar non-Oracle document and no terms included in any such purchase order, portal or other non-Oracle document shall apply to the Technical Support Services ordered. In the event of any inconsistencies between the terms of an order and this Agreement the order shall take precedence. This Agreement and orders may not be modified and the rights and restrictions may not be altered or waived except in a writing signed or accepted online through the Oracle Store by authorized representatives of You and of Oracle. Any notice required under this Agreement shall be provided to the other party in writing.
11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
NEITHER PARTY SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNlTIVE1 OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR DATA USE. ORACLE'S
MAXIMUM LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR
YOUR ORDER, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE
AMOUNT OF THE FEES YOU PAID ORACLE UNDER THE ORDER GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, AND
IF SUCH DAMAGES RESULT FROM YOUR USE OF TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES, SUCH LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMlTED TO THE FEES YOU PAID ORACLE FOR THE DEFICIENT TECHNlCAL SUPPORT SERVICES GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY.
12. EXPORT
Export laws and regulations of the United States and any other relevant local export laws and regulations apply to the Technical Support Services. You agree that such export laws govern Your use of any Technical Support Services deliverables provided under this Agreement, and You agree to comply with all such export laws and regulations (including 11deemed export'' and 11deemed re~exportu regulations). You agree that no dataT information, Product and/or materials resulting from Technical Support Services (or direct product thereof) will be exported, directly or indirectly, in violation of these lawsr or will be used for any purpose prohibited by these laws including, without limitation, nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons proliferation, or development of missile technology.
13. FORCE MAJEURE
Neither of us shall be responsible for failure or delay of performance if caused by: an act of war, hostility1 or sabotage; act of God; pandemic, electrical, internet, or telecommunication outage that is not caused by the oblfgated party; government restrictions (including the denial or cancellation of any export1 import or other license); other event outside the reasonable control of the obligated party. We both will use reasonable efforts to mitigate the effect of a force majeure event. If such event continues for more than 30 days1 either of us may cancel unperformed Technical Support Service and affected orders upon wrftten notice. This section does not excuse either party1s obligatlon to take reasonable steps to follow its normal disaster recovery procedures or Your obligation to pay for Technical Support Services ordered or delivered.
14. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDJCTION
This Agreement is governed by the laws of State of California.
15. NOTICE
If You have a dispute with Oracle or if You wish to provide a notice under the Indemnification section of this Agreement, or if You become subject to insolvency or other similar legal proceedings1 You will promptly send wrftten notice to: Oracle America, lnc. 1 500 Oracle Parkway1 Redwood City, California, United States1 940651 Attention: General Counsel, Legal Department.
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16. ASSIGNMENT
You may not assign this Agreement or give or transfer any Technical Support Services or an interest in them to another individual or entity. If You grant a security interest in any Technical Support Services deliverables, the secured party has no right to use any Technical Support Services deliverables, and if You decide to finance Your acquisition of any Technical Support Services, You will follow Oracle's policies regarding financing which are at http://oracle.com/contracts. The foregoing shall not be construed to limit the rights You may otherwise have with respect to the Linux operating system, third party technology or Separately Licensed Third Party Technology licensed under open source or similar license terms.
17. OTHER
17.1 Oracle is an independent contractor and we agree that no partnership, joint venture, or agency relationship exists between us. We each will be responsible for paying our own employees, including employment related taxes and insurance.
17.2 If any term of this Agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain effective and such term shall be replaced with a term consistent with the purpose and intent of this Agreement.
17.3 Except for actions for nonpayment or breach of Oracle's proprietary rights, no action, regardless of form, arising out of or relating to this Agreement may be brought by either party more than two years after the cause of action has accrued.
17.4 Products and Technical Support Services deliverables are not designed for or specifically intended for use in nuclear facilities or other hazardous applications. You agree that it is Your responsibility to ensure safe use of Products and Technical Support Services deliverables in such applications.
17.5 The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act does not apply to this Agreement or orders placed under it.
17.6 You understand that Oracle's business partners, including any third party firms retained by You to provide consulting services, are independent of Oracle and are not Oracle's agents. Oracle is not liable for nor bound by any acts of any such business partner unless (i) the business partner is providing services as an Oracle subcontractor in furtherance of an order placed under this Agreement and (ii) only to the same extent as Oracle would be responsible for the performance of Oracle resources under that order.
17.7 For software (i) that is part of Programs, Operating Systems, Integrated Software or Integrated Software Options (or all four) and (ii) that You receive from Oracle in binary form and (iii) that is licensed under an open source license that gives You the right to receive the source code for that binary, You may .obtain a copy of the applicable source code from https://oss.oracle.com/sources/ or http://www.oracle.com/qoto/opensourcecode. If the source code for such software was not provided to You with the binary, You may also receive a copy of the source code on physical media by submitting a written request pursuant to the instructions in the "Written Offer for Source Code" section of the latter website.
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18. AGREEMENT EFFECTIVE DATE
14-JAN-2019
The Effective Date of this Agreement is ________ . (DATE TO BE COMPLETED BY ORACLE) City of Santa Clara Oracle America, Inc.
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Agreement No: US-PS-TSSA-2030492
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ORACLE®
AMENDMENT ONE
TO THE
ORACLE PUBLIC SECTOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT
SERVICES AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
CITY OF SANTA CLARA AND
ORACLE AMERICA INC.
This Oracle PUBLIC SECTOR Technical Support Services Agreement Amendment One (this "Amendment") amends the Oracle PUBLIC SECTOR Technical Support Services Agreement, US-PS-TSSA-2030492 dated January 14, 2019, and all amendments and addenda thereto (the "Agreement") between City of Santa Clara ("You") and Oracle America, Inc. ("Oracle").
The parties agree to amend the Agreement as follows:
1. In Section 2. AGREEMENT TERM, delete the phrase "five" and replace it with the phrase "ten".
2. In Section 2. AGREEMENT TERM, add the following:
Orders may be placed under this Agreement for ten years from the Effective Date (indicated below in Section 18). The Parties agree that this Agreement remains valid through the new expiration date set forth in this Amendment One, and the validity of the contract during the term prior to such expiration date is hereby ratified.
Subject to the modifications herein, the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
The Effective Date of this Amendment One is ______ _
City of Santa Clara
Autho,;zed S'.gnat@ A,/L
Name: Jovan rogan
Title: __ C_i--'ty_M_a_n_a-=g_e_r ______ _
Signature Date: <t / tg/J.- lf
Approved as to Form: c (\ ~
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Name: Glen R. Googins
Title: City Attorney
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Oracle America, Inc.
Authorized Signature: _________ _
Name: ______________ _
Title: ___________ _ _ __ _
Signature Date: ___________ _
City of Santa Clara
Agenda Report
1500 Warburton Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95050
santaclaraca.gov
@SantaClaraCity
24-595 Agenda Date: 7/16/2024
REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Action on a Resolution Ordering the Vacation of an Electrical Easement, Wire Clearance Easement, and Anchor Easement at 2215 Martin Avenue and 2225 Martin Avenue
COUNCIL PILLAR
Promote and Enhance Economic, Housing, and Transportation Development
BACKGROUND
The City’s Architectural Review Committee approved the LS1 Data Center project (Project) located at 2215 Martin Avenue (Property) on September 18, 2019. The Project included demolition of an existing one-story office/warehouse building and associated surface parking, and construction of a new three-story data center. The data center building is approximately 80,000 square feet and includes a paved surface parking lot on 1.68 acres. On September 25, 2019, an appeal of the Architectural Review Committee’s approval of the project was filed. On November 13, 2019, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on the appeal and adopted a resolution to deny the appeal, thereby upholding project approval.
DISCUSSION
Due to the redevelopment of the Property, the existing Electrical Easement, Wire Clearance Easement and Anchor Easement encumbering the Property have been relocated and are no longer necessary. The owner has requested that the City vacate the subject easements to clear these unnecessary encumbrances on the Property. Additionally, as these easements cross into the adjacent property at 2225 Martin Avenue, the Project coordinated vacation of the easements with the adjacent property owner who also consented to the vacation of the easements on their property.
Any relevant facilities previously within said easements or portions to be vacated have been removed or abandoned. All departments and agencies having an interest in the easements concur that the easements are eligible to be vacated. Staff has reviewed this proposal and found that these easements are no longer necessary for public purposes and therefore recommend that they be vacated according to California Streets and Highways Code Section 8333(c).
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The potential environmental impact of the Project was addressed in the Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) and the Mitigation Monitoring or Reporting Program (MMRP) that were approved by Architectural Review Committee on September 18, 2019 and upheld by the Planning Commission on November 13, 2019. Therefore, no further action under CEQA is required for this action.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no additional cost to the City other than staff time and expense.
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COORDINATION
This report has been coordinated with the City Attorney’s Office, and Silicon Valley Power.
PUBLIC CONTACT
Public contact was made by posting the Council agenda on the City’s official-notice bulletin board outside City Hall Council Chambers. A complete agenda packet is available on the City’s website and in the City Clerk’s Office at least 72 hours prior to a Regular Meeting and 24 hours prior to a Special Meeting. A hard copy of any agenda report may be requested by contacting the City Clerk’s Office at (408) 615-2220, email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> or at the public information desk at any City of Santa Clara public library.
RECOMMENDATION
1. Adopt a Resolution Ordering the Vacation of the Electrical Easement, Wire Clearance Easement and Anchor Easement at 2215 Martin Avenue [APN 224-10-115 (2023-24)], and 2225 Martin Avenue [APN 224-10-119 (2023-24)]; and
2. Authorize the recordation of the Resolution.
Reviewed by: Craig Mobeck, Director of Public Works
Approved by: Jovan D. Grogan, City Manager
ATTACHMENTS
1. Resolution
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Resolution ordering the vacation of EE & WCE & AE Page 1 of 2 Rev. 8/7/23; Typed:3-19-2024 SC24-0022
RECORD WITHOUT FEE PURSUANT
TO GOV’T CODE SECTION 6103
Recording Requested by:
Office of the City Attorney
City of Santa Clara, California
When Recorded, Mail to:
Office of the City Clerk
City of Santa Clara
1500 Warburton Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95050
Form per Gov’t Code Section 27361.6 [SPACE ABOVE THIS LINE FOR RECORDER’S USE]
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA,
CALIFORNIA, ORDERING THE VACATION OF AN
ELECTRICAL EASEMENT, WIRE CLEARANCE EASEMENT
AND ANCHOR EASEMENT AT 2215 MARTIN AVENUE
[APN 224-10-115 (2023-24)] AND 2225 MARTIN AVENUE
[APN 224-10-119 (2023-24)]
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Clara currently possesses an Electrical Easement, Wire Clearance Easement, and Anchor Easement described in Exhibit A, and shown on Exhibit B, which Exhibits are incorporated herein by reference. Said Easements were dedicated by that certain document as mentioned in said Exhibits; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 8333 of the California Streets and Highways Code, the City Council “may summarily vacate a public service easement” in any of the following cases:
(a) The easement has not been used for the purpose for which it was dedicated or acquired for five consecutive years immediately preceding the proposed vacation. (b) The date of dedication or acquisition is less than five years, and more than one year, immediately preceding the proposed vacation, and the easement was not used continuously since that date.
(c) The easement has been superseded by relocation or determined to be excess by the easement holder, and there are no other public facilities located within the easement.
Resolution ordering the vacation of EE & WCE & AE Page 2 of 2 Rev. 8/7/23; Typed:3-19-2024 SC24-0022
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA AS FOLLOWS:
1. That Electrical Easement, Wire Clearance Easement and Anchor Easement described in Exhibit A, and shown on Exhibit B have been superseded by relocation, and there are no other public facilities located within the easements.
2. That the Electrical Easement, Wire Clearance Easement and Anchor Easement described and shown in said Exhibits in the City are hereby vacated pursuant to California Streets and Highways Code Section 8333.
3. That the vacation hereby releases all easement rights and interest of the City referred in said Exhibits to the current property owner(s).
4. Effective date. This resolution shall become effective immediately.
I HEREBY CERTIFY THE FOREGOING TO BE A TRUE COPY OF A RESOLUTION PASSED
AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, AT A REGULAR MEETING THEREOF HELD ON THE ___ DAY OF _________, 2024, BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: COUNCILORS:
NOES: COUNCILORS:
ABSENT: COUNCILORS:
ABSTAINED: COUNCILORS:
ATTEST: __________________________
NORA PIMENTEL, MMC
ASSISTANT CITY CLERK
CITY OF SANTA CLARA
Attachments incorporated by reference:
1. Exhibits A, and B
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Legal De cription
January 24, 2024
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OVERHEAD & UNDERGROUND ELECTRlC EASEMENTS,
WIRE CLEARANCE EASEMENTS A D
ANCHOR EASEMENTS VACATION
2215 Martin A venue, Santa Clara, CA
All that real property in the City of anta Clara, County of Santa Clara, State of Californ ia. described as fo ll ows:
Being all of that I 0-foot wide Electric Easement being vacated, described as Parcel 14 in that certain Deed entitled "Electric Easement: Overhead and Underground", recorded June 13. 1972 in Book 9877 at Page 179 (Doc. No. 42781 43), Official Records of Santa Clara County; and Being all of that 5-foot wide Wire Clearance Easements being vacated, described as Parcels 15 and 15A in that certain Deed entitled "Electric Easement: Overhead and Underground'·, recorded June 13, 1972 in Book 9877 at
Being all of that 4-foot wide Anchor Easement being vacated, described as Parcel 16 in that certain Deed entitled "Electric Easement: Overhead and Underground'", recorded June 13, 1972 in Book 9877 at Page 179 (Doc. No. 4278143), Official Records of anta Clara County; and Being all of that 2-foot wide Anchor Easements being vacated, within Lots 6 and 7 adjacent to Martin Avenue and within Lots 7 and 8 adjacent to Martin A venue, as said Lots and Easements are shown on Map of Tract No. 4682, entitled "San Tomas Industrial Park'', filed for record on July 24, 1969 in Book 256 of Maps at Pages 42 and 43 , Records of Santa Clara County.
Overhead & Underground Electric Easements, Wire Clearance Easements and Anchor Easements being vacated are shown on Site Plan attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit "B".
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City of Santa Clara
Agenda Report
1500 Warburton Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95050
santaclaraca.gov
@SantaClaraCity
24-597 Agenda Date: 7/16/2024
REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Action on a Resolution Ordering the Vacation of an Electrical Easement at 3378-3386 El Camino Real
COUNCIL PILLAR
Promote and Enhance Economic, Housing, and Transportation Development
BACKGROUND
At the August 16, 2023, Development Review Hearing, the City approved the 3378-3386 El Camino Real Residential Project (Project) to demolish an existing commercial building and construct 22 townhouse units on a 0.88-acre site located at 3378-3386 El Camino Real (Property).
DISCUSSION
Due to the redevelopment of the Property, the existing Electrical Easement encumbering the Property has been determined to be excess and is no longer necessary. The owner has requested that the City vacate the subject easement to clear this unnecessary encumbrance on the Property. Any relevant facilities previously within said easement or portions to be vacated have been removed or abandoned. All departments and agencies having an interest in the easement concur that the easement is eligible to be vacated. Staff has reviewed this proposal and found that this easement is no longer necessary for public purposes and therefore recommend that it be vacated according to California Streets and Highways Code Section 8333(c).
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The potential environmental impact of the Project was addressed in the Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) and the Mitigation Monitoring or Reporting Program (MMRP) that were approved by the City at the August 16, 2023 Development Review Hearing. Therefore, no further action under CEQA is required for this item.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no additional cost to the City other than staff time and expense.
COORDINATION
This report has been coordinated with the City Attorney’s Office, and Silicon Valley Power.
PUBLIC CONTACT
Public contact was made by posting the Council agenda on the City’s official-notice bulletin board outside City Hall Council Chambers. A complete agenda packet is available on the City’s website and in the City Clerk’s Office at least 72 hours prior to a Regular Meeting and 24 hours prior to a Special Meeting. A hard copy of any agenda report may be requested by contacting the City Clerk’s City of Santa Clara Page 1 of 2 Printed on 7/12/2024
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Office at (408) 615-2220, email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> or at the public information desk at any City of Santa Clara public library.
RECOMMENDATION
1. Adopt a Resolution Ordering the Vacation of the Electrical Easement at 3378-3386 El Camino Real [APN 290-02-102 (2023-24)]; and
2. Authorize the recordation of the Resolution.
Reviewed by: Craig Mobeck, Director of Public Works
Approved by: Jovan D. Grogan, City Manager
ATTACHMENTS
1. Resolution
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Resolution ordering the vacation of EE Page 1 of 2
Rev. 8/7/23; Typed:4-9-2024 SC24-0031
RECORD WITHOUT FEE PURSUANT
TO GOV’T CODE SECTION 6103
Recording Requested by:
Office of the City Attorney
City of Santa Clara, California
When Recorded, Mail to:
Office of the City Clerk
City of Santa Clara
1500 Warburton Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95050
Form per Gov’t Code Section 27361.6 [SPACE ABOVE THIS LINE FOR RECORDER’S USE]
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA,
CALIFORNIA, ORDERING THE VACATION OF AN
ELECTRICAL EASEMENT AT 3378-3386 EL CAMINO REAL
[APN 290-02-102 (2023-24)]
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Clara currently possesses an Electrical Easement described in Exhibit A, and shown on Exhibit B, which Exhibits are incorporated herein by reference. Said Easements were dedicated by that certain document as mentioned in said Exhibits; and, WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 8333 of the California Streets and Highways Code, the City Council “may summarily vacate a public service easement” in any of the following cases:
(a) The easement has not been used for the purpose for which it was dedicated or acquired for five consecutive years immediately preceding the proposed vacation. (b) The date of dedication or acquisition is less than five years, and more than one year, immediately preceding the proposed vacation, and the easement was not used continuously since that date.
(c) The easement has been superseded by relocation or determined to be excess by the easement holder, and there are no other public facilities located within the easement.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA AS FOLLOWS:
1. That Electrical Easement described in Exhibit A and shown on Exhibit B has been determined to be in excess, and there are no other public facilities located within the easement.
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2. That the Electrical Easement described and shown in said Exhibits in the City are hereby vacated pursuant to California Streets and Highways Code Section 8333.
3. That the vacation hereby releases all easement rights and interest of the City referred in said Exhibits to the current property owner(s).
4. Effective date. This resolution shall become effective immediately.
I HEREBY CERTIFY THE FOREGOING TO BE A TRUE COPY OF A RESOLUTION PASSED
AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, AT A REGULAR MEETING THEREOF HELD ON THE ___ DAY OF _________, 2024, BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: COUNCILORS:
NOES: COUNCILORS:
ABSENT: COUNCILORS:
ABSTAINED: COUNCILORS:
ATTEST: __________________________
NORA PIMENTEL, MMC
ASSISTANT CITY CLERK
CITY OF SANTA CLARA
Attachments incorporated by reference:
1. Exhibits A, and B
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April 9, 2024
BKF No. 20180775
EXHIBIT “A”
Legal Description – Easements To Be Vacated
ELECTRIC EASEMENTS VACATION
3380 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA
Real property in the City of Santa Clara, County of Santa Clara, State of California, described as follows:
Being a portion of the lands described in that certain interspousal transfer deed, filed for record on June 13, 2013 as Document Number 22262123, Official Records of Santa Clara County; Being all of those Electrical Easements being vacated, as described in that certain Deed entitled “Grant of Easement Electric”, recorded on March 23, 1959 in Book 4375 at Page 229, Official Records of Santa Clara County.
Electric Utility Easements are being vacated and are as shown on Site Plan attached hereto and made a part hereof as EXHIBIT “B”.
This legal description was prepared by me, or under my direct supervision, in conformance with the requirements of the Professional Land Surveyors’ Act.
________________________
Christopher Cassera
L.S. No. 9781
Dated
April 9, 2024
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REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Action on a Resolution to Modify On-Street Parking Regulations on Cecil Avenue between Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street
COUNCIL PILLAR
Deliver and Enhance Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure
BACKGROUND
Cecil Avenue between Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street is a 25-mph residential and commercial street with single family residential uses along the northern side of the street and commercial uses along the southern side of the street. Along the northern side of Cecil Avenue, existing on-street parking is regulated by 1-Hour and 2-Hour time-limited parking from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays excepted). Homeowners do have the option of obtaining an exemption permit from the City that exempts them from the time restrictions. There are no on-street parking restrictions along the southern side of Cecil Avenue.
Residents along the northside of Cecil Avenue have raised concerns regarding commercial business use of Cecil Avenue between Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street. Specifically, residents have stated that used car brokers, with offices on Cecil Avenue, use the southern side of Cecil Avenue for storing, maintaining, and cleaning for-sale vehicles in the public right of way. This has led to excess trash, debris, and noise complaints with residents stating their quality of life has been impacted.
Petition to Establish a new Residential Permit Parking Zone: Previously, residents submitted a petition for a new Residential Permit-Only Parking (RPP) zone for Cecil Avenue, Westridge Drive, North Henry Avenue, and Dorcich Avenue. In accordance with the City Council approved “Guidelines for Designation of Residential Permit Parking Areas,” the Department of Public Works (DPW) surveyed residents to determine potential support for the creation of an RPP zone. Of the 93 properties surveyed, 29 (31%) were in support of the RPP zone. Per the RPP policy, the residents were informed that an RPP zone would not be established, as a simple majority concurrence was not met.
Alternative Measures: The City continued to engage with the residents to identify potential alternative mitigation measures to help address their concerns. For example, to address resident concerns related to parking availability, DPW conducted a parking demand study for the following streets: Cecil Avenue, Westridge Drive, North Henry Avenue, and Dorcich Avenue. The study concluded that only about 30 percent of the available parking was being occupied which left many vacant spaces.
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streets, the Community Development Department continued communication with adjacent commercial businesses about appropriate public right of way uses, and DPW continued to work with the neighborhood representatives to see if other modifications to on-street parking restrictions might address their concerns.
After much discussion and coordination, neighborhood representatives and DPW staff determined that the following proposed additional on-street parking restrictions on Cecil Avenue could potentially address many of their concerns (Table 1 below, also included in map form in Attachment 1).
Table 1: Proposed Changes to On-Street Parking Restrictions (Cecil Avenue between Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street)
Location Existing Parking
Restrictions
New Proposed Parking
Restrictions
Parking
Exemption
Permits
Allowed?*
North side of Cecil
Avenue (Henry Avenue
to 82 feet east of Henry
Avenue)
8AM-6PM: 1-Hour Parking,
Saturdays, Sundays and
Holidays Excepted
All Day: 1-Hour Parking,
Saturdays, Sundays and
Holidays Excepted
Yes
North side of Cecil
Avenue (82 feet east of
Henry Avenue to
Dorcich Street)
8AM-6PM: 2-Hour Parking
, Saturdays, Sundays and
Holidays Excepted
All Day: 2-Hour Parking,
Saturdays, Sundays and
Holidays Excepted
Yes
South side of Cecil
Avenue (Henry Avenue
to Dorcich Street)
None 10PM-6AM: No Parking
Anyday
No
*Per the City’s Residential Permit Parking program, residents who reside along streets with time-limited parking are eligible to apply for a parking permit through the Police Department to exempt certain vehicles from the posted timelimited parking restriction.
The proposed changes to on-street parking restrictions on Cecil Avenue between Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street would restrict overnight parking (10pm to 6am) on the south side of Cecil Avenue and would also expand the time limited parking on the northern side from 8am-6pm to all-day. The proposed overnight parking restrictions (after normal business hours of surrounding businesses) on the south side of Cecil Avenue is proposed to deter excessive parking and storage of vehicles. The proposed expansion of time limited parking on the north side to an all-day restriction is intended to deter the potential shifting of excessive parking and storage of vehicles from the south side to the north side of Cecil Avenue.
DISCUSSION
In late 2023 and early 2024, DPW conducted outreach (mailers and surveys) to the 20 properties with frontages along Cecil Avenue between Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street.
Survey Responses
After three rounds of mailers and surveys, staff received 10 responses as detailed in Table 2 below (and included in Attachment 2). Survey respondents were given the ability to provide feedback on the proposed changes to on-street parking restrictions for both sides of Cecil Avenue. The following table City of Santa Clara Page 2 of 4 Printed on 7/12/2024
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Table 2: Survey Responses on Proposed Parking Regulations Location Proposed Parking
Regulations
Support Do not
Support
No
Response
North side of Cecil
Avenue (Henry Avenue
to 82 feet east of Henry
Avenue)
All Day: 1-Hour Parking,
Saturdays, Sundays and
Holidays Excepted (Except
by Exemption Permit)
7 3 10
North side of Cecil
Avenue (82 feet east of
Henry Avenue to
Dorcich Street)
All Day: 2-Hour Parking,
Saturdays, Sundays and
Holidays Excepted (Except
by Exemption Permit)
South side of Cecil
Avenue (Henry Avenue
to Dorcich Street)
10PM-6AM: No Parking
Anyday
7 3 10
Staff Recommendation
DPW staff reviewed the survey responses and recommends approval of the proposed modifications to parking regulations on Cecil Avenue to discourage improper use of the public right-of-way after hours while maintaining on-street parking during the day to support neighboring business activities.
In 2012, City Council approved an ordinance amending “Title 10 Vehicles and Traffic, Chapter 10.05 Motor Vehicle and Traffic Regulations” of the City Code to delegate certain traffic and motor vehicle regulatory functions from the City Council to the City Manager, or designee. As the proposed parking regulation changes exceed the authority delegated to the City Manager (i.e. zone greater than 350 feet in length), only the City Council has the authority to approve the Resolution (Attachment 3).
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The action being considered is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15301(c) - Existing Facilities, as the activity consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing highways and streets, sidewalks, gutters, bicycle and pedestrian trails, and similar facilities involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the lead agency’s determination.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no additional cost to the City other than staff time and expense.
COORDINATION
This report has been coordinated with the City Attorney’s Office, the Police Department, the Community Development Department, and adjacent property owners on Cecil Avenue between Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street.
PUBLIC CONTACT
Public contact was made by posting the Council agenda on the City’s official-notice bulletin board outside City Hall Council Chambers. A complete agenda packet is available on the City’s website and in the City Clerk’s Office at least 72 hours prior to a Regular Meeting and 24 hours prior to a City of Santa Clara Page 3 of 4 Printed on 7/12/2024
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Special Meeting. A hard copy of any agenda report may be requested by contacting the City Clerk’s Office at (408) 615-2220, email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> or at the public information desk at any City of Santa Clara public library.
RECOMMENDATION
Adopt a resolution to modify on-street parking regulations on Cecil Avenue between Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street.
Reviewed by: Craig Mobeck, Director of Public Works
Approved by: Jovan D. Grogan, City Manager
ATTACHMENTS
1. Location Map and Proposed Parking Regulation Changes
2. Survey Response Map
3. Resolution
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Survey Outreach Details• Outreach area consists of 20
parcels with 91 unique addresses.
• Staff completed three outreach
efforts via USPS mail.
• Staff received a survey response
from 10 of 20 parcels
Survey Outreach Results• Proposed All Day Time Limited
Parking (except by permit) alongnorth side of Cecil Ave. o Yes - 7 o No - 3
• Proposed No Parking (10pm - 6am)
along south side of Cecil Ave.
o Yes - 7 o No - 3
Resolution Modifying Parking Regulations on a “No Stopping Anytime” zone along Bassett Street between Chestnut Street and George Street Page 1 of 2
Rev: 11/22/17
RESOLUTION NO. _____
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA
MODIFYING PARKING REGULATIONS ON BASSETT STREET
BETWEEN CHESTNUT STREET AND GEORGE STREET
WHEREAS, the City established certain parking regulations on Cecil Avenue between North Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street;
WHEREAS, certain property owners expressing concerns regarding parking problems and street cleanliness requested City staff to modify parking regulations on Cecil Avenue between North Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street;
WHEREAS, City Traffic Engineering staff surveyed all property owners and occupants affected by the request and determined that modifying the existing parking regulations would best accommodate these affected properties for improved safety, parking conditions and quality of life; WHEREAS, the City intends to repeal the existing parking regulations on Cecil Avenue between North Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street;
WHEREAS, the City intends to establish new parking regulations on Cecil Avenue between North Henry Avenue and Dorcich Street based on a survey of all affected property owners in the area; BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA AS FOLLOWS:
1. That Resolution No. 7199 is hereby repealed.
2. That Section 3(b) of Resolution No. 6780 is amended to read the following:
a. on both sides of Cecil Street from the west curb of North Henry Avenue to a point 235 feet west of the west curb of North Henry Drive.
3. That there is hereby established a 1-Hour Parking zone, all day, Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays excepted along the north curb of Cecil Avenue from the east curb of North Henry Avenue to a point 97 feet east of the east curb of North Henry Avenue.
4. That there is hereby established a 2-Hour Parking zone, all day, Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays excepted along the north curb of Cecil Avenue from a point 97 feet east of the east curb of North Henry Avenue to the south curb of Dorcich Street.
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5. That there is hereby established a No Parking zone, 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. any day along the south curb of Cecil Avenue between the east curb of North Henry Avenue and the south curb of Dorcich Street.
6. Effective date. This resolution shall become effective immediately.
I HEREBY CERTIFY THE FOREGOING TO BE A TRUE COPY OF A RESOLUTION PASSED
AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY OF SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, AT A REGULAR MEETING THEREOF HELD ON THE ___ DAY OF _________, 2024, BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: COUNCILORS:
NOES: COUNCILORS:
ABSENT: COUNCILORS:
ABSTAINED: COUNCILORS:
ATTEST: ______________________________
NORA PIMENTEL, MMC
ASSISTANT CITY CLERK
CITY OF SANTA CLARA
Attachments incorporated by reference:
None
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24-618 Agenda Date: 7/16/2024
REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Action on Authorizing the Use of City Electric Forces at 2516 Parkland Court
COUNCIL PILLAR
Deliver and Enhance High Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure
BACKGROUND
Section 1310 of the Santa Clara City Charter (Contracts on Public Works) states “that every contract involving an expenditure of more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for the construction or improvement (excluding maintenance and repair) of public buildings, works, streets, drains, sewers, utilities, parks and playgrounds shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder.” The section further states that “the City Council may declare and determine that, in its opinion, the work in question may be performed better or more economically by the City with its own employees, and after the adoption of a resolution to this effect by at least four affirmative votes, it may proceed to have said work done in the manner stated, without further observance of the provisions of this section.”
DISCUSSION
Staff believes that the work described below is better performed with City forces based upon the following factors: (1) the work is limited in size and scope; (2) City forces have knowledge and training in operating and maintaining the electric system that can be leveraged to more economically perform this work; and (3) bidding out the work and contracting with a private entity would not likely result in a lower overall cost or time savings. Therefore, staff recommends that the City Council declare and determine that City forces can better perform the installation of the following electric facilities and approve the use of City forces.
Estimate Number: 38920
Location: 2516 Parkland Court
Type of Service: New Business (2005)
Description of Work: Replace existing overhead electric service drop with a midspan service.
Estimated Cost: $1,856
Appropriation: Electric Utility Capital Fund (591) Project 2005 - New Business Estimate Work
Source of Revenue: Customer/Developer Contribution
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
Staff recommends that the City Council determine that the action being considered is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to section 15302 (Class 2 - Replacement or Reconstruction) as the proposed work involves the replacement or reconstruction of existing overheard electric utilities involving a negligible expansion of capacity.
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FISCAL IMPACT
The funds to support the staff time for work performed by SVP and related construction materials for the work detailed in this report are included in the FY 2024/25 Adopted CIP Budget, $1,856 in the New Business Estimate Work project in the Electric Utility Capital Fund. All referenced work will be performed with City Silicon Valley Power staff. Some work associated with encroachment permits may be performed by the Department of Public Works (DPW). DPW costs are recovered through payment of permit fees.
COORDINATION
This report has been coordinated with the Finance Department and City Attorney’s Office.
PUBLIC CONTACT
Public contact was made by posting the Council agenda on the City’s official-notice bulletin board outside City Hall Council Chambers. A complete agenda packet is available on the City’s website and in the City Clerk’s Office at least 72 hours prior to a Regular Meeting and 24 hours prior to a Special Meeting. A hard copy of any agenda report may be requested by contacting the City Clerk’s Office at (408) 615-2220, email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> or at the public information desk at any City of Santa Clara public library.
RECOMMENDATION
1. Determine the proposed action is exempt from CEQA pursuant to 15302 (Class 2 - Replacement or Reconstruction) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations; and
2. Declare and determine in accordance with Section 1310 of the City Charter that the public work located at 2516 Parkland Court is better performed by the City with its own employees based on the information set forth in this Report to Council and authorize the performance of this public work consistent with this authorization.
Reviewed by: Manuel Pineda, Chief Electric Utility Officer Approved by: Jovan D. Grogan, City Manager
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24-653 Agenda Date: 7/16/2024
REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Action on the Annual City of Santa Clara Electric Department dba Silicon Valley Power 2024 Wildfire Mitigation Plan
COUNCIL PILLAR
Deliver and Enhance High-Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure
BACKGROUND
California Public Utilities Code Section 8387, as amended by Senate Bill 901 in 2018, requires every local publicly electric utility, like City of Santa Clara, Silicon Valley Power (SVP), to prepare a wildfire mitigation plan (WMP). State law requires the WMP to cover, among other things, (1) a description of the preventive strategies and programs to be adopted by the local publicly owned electric utility to minimize the risk of its electrical lines and equipment causing catastrophic wildfire fires; (2) plans for vegetation management; and (3) plans for inspections of electrical infrastructure. On June 25, 2019, the City Council approved SVP’s 2019 Wildfire Mitigation Plan, which include SVP’s remote electric transmission assets. In accordance with State law, the WMP is reviewed by staff and adopted by Council on an annual basis.
SVP’s service territory is contiguous with the City of Santa Clara (City) city limits with limited service in neighboring jurisdictions and is situated in an urban environment. Based on historical fire data and local conditions, and in consultation with local fire departments, there is no significant risk of catastrophic wildfire resulting from overhead electrical lines and equipment within SVP’s service territory. Therefore, the WMP focuses on the management of five transmission assets outside of SVP’s service territory.
The City owns generation facilities and related transmission assets outside of SVP’s service territory.
These include the following:
· The Grizzly Hydroelectric Project (Grizzly), a part of the Bucks Creek Project, FERC No. 619, located in Plumas County, California. To allow for the delivery of energy from Grizzly and interconnection to Pacific Gas & Electric’s transmission system, the City owns approximately
3.4 miles of a 115 kV generation tie line and other appurtenant facilities necessary. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) maintains the generation tie line. The generation tie line is in PG&E’s Wildfire Mitigation Plan.
· The Black Butte Hydroelectric Project (Black Butte), FERC No. 3190 dated May 5, 1983, and amended June 5, 1987. Through this project, the City owns a 9.5 mile long 60 kV generation tie line interconnecting Black Butte to PG&E’s existing 60 kV line near the city of Orland, California. SVP maintains the generation tie line.
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· The Stoney Gorge Hydroelectric Project (Stoney Gorge), FERC No. 3193 dated July 15, 1983.
Through this project, the City owns a one mile-long, 60 kV generation tie line connecting Stoney Gorge with PG&E’s Elk Creek Substation north of the powerhouse. SVP maintains the generation tie line.
· The High Line Canal Hydroelectric Project (High Line), FERC No. 7252 dated July 17, 1984.
Through this project, the City owns an approximately 75 foot long 12 kV three phase generation tie line that interconnects with existing PG&E lines. SVP maintains the generation tie line.
· A 4.98 percent ownership interest in a 230 kV double circuit transmission line between Castle Rock Junction and Lakeville Substation in area known as the Geysers pursuant to co-tenancy agreement in the Castle Rock Junction-Lakeville 230 kV Transmission Line, dated June 1, 1984. This line allows for the transmission of the City’s share of energy from the Geyer’s Geothermal Generation Project. PG&E maintains the transmission line.
SVP used the 2018 California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Fire Threat Map (WMP Appendix A) and historical fire map data to determine the level of wildfire risk. The CPUC Fire-Threat Map has two tiers (Tier 2 fire threat area and Tier 3 fire threat area). Tier 2 fire-threat areas are areas where there is an elevated risk (including likelihood and potential impact on people and property) from utility associated wildfires. Tier 3 fire-threat areas are areas where there is an extreme risk (including likelihood and potential impact on people and property) from utility associated wildfires. Properties that are owned by the City but don’t have any generation, transmission lines, or distribution lines such as the Loyalton property are not part of the WMP.
DISCUSSION
Each year, SVP staff reviews the WMP to see if there are conditions that warrant changes to the plan. After the plan is reviewed, staff submits the plan for the City Council to approve. In connection with its approval of the WMP, staff reviewed the WMP to ensure its compliance with Public Utilities Code Section 8387 and other statutory requirements.
Once the WMP is approved by the City Council, the plan is then submitted to the California Wildfire Safety Advisory Board who is charged with reviewing wildfire mitigation plans and providing suggestions.
There were no significant changes to the 2024 WMP.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The action being considered does not constitute a “project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to section 15378(b)(2) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations as a continuing administrative activity (general policy and procedure making).
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COORDINATION
This report has been coordinated with the Finance Department and City Attorney’s Office.
PUBLIC CONTACT
Public contact was made by posting the Council agenda on the City’s official-notice bulletin board outside City Hall Council Chambers. A complete agenda packet is available on the City’s website and in the City Clerk’s Office at least 72 hours prior to a Regular Meeting and 24 hours prior to a Special Meeting. A hard copy of any agenda report may be requested by contacting the City Clerk’s Office at (408) 615-2220, email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> or at the public information desk at any City of Santa Clara public library.
RECOMMENDATION
1. Approve and adopt the Silicon Valley Power 2024 Wildfire Mitigation Plan with any comments and confirm that this plan complies with all applicable rules, regulations, and standards; and
2. Authorize the City Manager or designee to execute and/or submit any and all documents, notices, disclosures, plans, reports, forecasts, filings, certifications, attestations, or declarations which are necessary, appropriate, advisable, or required by state or local agencies in connection with the 2024 Wildfire Mitigation Plan.
Reviewed by: Manuel Pineda, Chief Electric Utility Officer Approved by: Jovan D. Grogan, City Manager
ATTACHMENTS
1. Proposed Silicon Valley Power 2024 Wildfire Mitigation Plan City of Santa Clara Page 3 of 3 Printed on 7/12/2024
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SILICON VALLEY POWER
WILDFIRE
MITIGATION
PLAN
JUNE 2024
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. CONTEXT SETTING INFORMATION ............................................................................................. 4 II. PUC 8387(B) REQUIREMENTS TABLE .......................................................................................... 6 III. OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................................ 7 A. POLICY STATEMENT......................................................................................................................... 7 B. PURPOSE OF THE WILDFIRE MITIGATION PLAN .............................................................................. 7 C. ORGANIZATION OF THE WILDFIRE MITIGATION PLAN ................................................................... 9 IV. OBJECTIVES OF THE WILDFIRE MITIGATION PLAN ................................................................ 9 A. MINIMIZING SOURCES OF IGNITION ............................................................................................... 9 B. RESILIENCY OF THE ELECTRIC GRID ............................................................................................... 9 C. IDENTIFYING UNNECESSARY OR INEFFECTIVE ACTIONS ................................................................. 9 V. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ................................................................................................... 10 A. UTILITY GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE ............................................................................................... 10 B. WILDFIRE PREVENTION ................................................................................................................. 10 C. WILDFIRE RESPONSE AND RECOVERY .......................................................................................... 11 VI. WILDFIRE RISKS AND DRIVERS ASSOCIATED WITH DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE ..................................................................................................... 12 A. PARTICULAR RISKS AND RISK DRIVERS ASSOCIATED WITH TOPOGRAPHIC AND CLIMATOLOGICAL RISK FACTORS .......................................................................................................... 12 B. IDENTIFYING AND PRESENTING ENTERPRISE WIDE SAFETY RISK ................................................... 13 C. CHANGES TO CPUC FIRE THREAT MAP ..................................................................................... 13 VII. WILDFIRE PREVENTATIVE STRATEGIES ..................................................................................... 14 A. HIGH FIRE THREAT DISTRICT ......................................................................................................... 14 B. WEATHER MONITORING ............................................................................................................... 14 C. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS ................................................................................. 15 D. VEGETATION MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................ 15 E. INSPECTIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 17 F. WORKFORCE TRAINING.................................................................................................................... 18 VIII. RECLOSING POLICY .................................................................................................................... 18 IX. ISOLATION ...................................................................................................................................... 18 X. COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PUBLIC AWARENESS .......................................................... 19 XI. METRICS AND ASSUMPTIONS FOR MEASURING PLAN PERFORMANCE ........................ 19 A. IMPACT OF METRICS ON PLAN .................................................................................................... 19 XII. MONITORING AND AUDITING THE PLAN ............................................................................... 20 A. IDENTIFYING AND CORRECTING DEFICIENCIES IN THE PLAN ....................................................... 20 B. MONITORING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INSPECTIONS ..................................................................... 20 XIII. INDEPENDENT AUDITOR .............................................................................................................. 20 APPENDIX A – LOCATION MAPS .............................................................................................................. 22 Silicon Valley Power Wildfire Mitigation Plan
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4 I. CONTEXT SETTING INFORMATION
Utility Name SVP
Service Territory Size [_19.2_] square miles
Owned Assets Transmission Distribution Generation
Number of Customers
Served
[_57,998_] customer accounts
Population Within Service
Territory
[__132,925__] people
Customer Class Makeup
Number of Accounts Share of Total Load (MWh)
[_85_]% Residential;
[_1_]% Government;
[_0_]% Agricultural;
[_12_]% Small/Medium Business;
[_3_]% Commercial/Industrial
[_7_]% Residential;
[_0_]% Government;
[_0_]% Agricultural;
[_2_]% Small/Medium Business;
[_91_]% Commercial/Industrial
Service Territory
Location/Topography1
[_0_]% Agriculture
[_0_]% Barren/Other
[_0_]% Conifer Forest
[_0_]% Conifer Woodland
[_0_]% Desert
[_0_]% Hardwood Forest
[_0_]% Hardwood Woodland
[_0_]% Herbaceous
[_0_]% Shrub
[_100_]% Urban
[_0_]% Water
Service Territory
Wildland Urban Interface2
(based on total area)
[_0_]% Wildland Urban Interface;
[_100_]% Wildland Urban Intermix;
Percent of Service
Territory in CPUC High Fire
Threat Districts
(based on total area)
☐Includes maps
Tier 2: [_0_]%
Tier 3: [_0_]%
Prevailing Wind Directions
& Speeds by Season
☐ Includes maps
[Spring – NW/9kts, Summer – NW/9kts, Fall – NW/8kts, Winter – SE/10kts] REF: Wind history map
1 This data shall be based on the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, California Multi-Source Vegetation Layer Map, depicting WHR13 Types (Wildlife Habitat Relationship classes grouped into 13 major land cover types) available at: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b7ec5d68d8114b1fb2bfbf4665989eb3. 2 This data shall be based on the definitions and maps maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture, as most recently assembled in The 2010 Wildland-Urban Interface of the Conterminous United States, available at https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/rmap/rmap_nrs8.pdf.
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5 Miles of Owned Lines
Underground and/or
Overhead
Overhead Dist.: [__187__] miles
Overhead Trans. [__31__] miles
Underground Dist: [__375__] miles
Underground Trans.: [__5__] miles
Explanatory Note 1 – Methodology for Measuring “Miles”: Circuit Miles Explanatory Note 2 – Description of Unique Ownership Circumstances: Two lines outside of SVP service territory are maintained and operated by an IOU:
1. Grizzly-Bucks Creek. 3.4 miles, 100% owned by SVP. Data included in this table.
2. Castlerock-Lakeville. 4.8% owned by SVP
Explanatory Note 3 – Additional Relevant Context: 2.1% of lines are outside SVP service territory
Percent of Owned Lines in
CPUC High Fire Threat
Districts
Overhead Distribution Lines as % of Total Distribution System (Inside and Outside Service Territory)
Tier 2: [_0_]%
Tier 3: [_0_]%
Overhead Transmission Lines as % of Total Transmission System (Inside and Outside Service Territory)
Tier 2: [_2_]%
Tier 3: [_0_]%
Percent of Service
Territory in CAL FIRE FRAP
Map Fire Threat Zones
☐ Includes maps
Extreme: [_0_]%
Very High: [_0_]%
High: [_0_]%
Customers have ever lost
service due to an IOU PSPS
event?
Yes No
Customers have ever been
notified of a potential loss
of service to due to a
forecasted IOU PSPS
event?
Yes No
Has developed protocols
to pre-emptively shut off
electricity in response to
elevated wildfire risks?
Yes No
Has previously preemptively shut off
electricity in response to
elevated wildfire risk?
Yes No
If yes, then provide the following data for calendar year 2020:
Number of shut-off events: [__1__] -*event occurred outside of service territory and no customers were affected.
Customer Accounts that lost service for >10 minutes: [__0__] For prior response, average duration before service restored: [__24_hrs_] □ [g]
□ [g]
[g] □
[g] □
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6 II. PUC 8387(B) REQUIREMENTS TABLE
PUC
8387
Requirement Location in
WMP
(A) An accounting of the responsibilities of persons responsible for executing the plan.
(B) The objectives of the wildfire mitigation plan. Page 10 (C) A description of the preventive strategies and programs to be adopted by the local publicly owned electric utility or electrical cooperative to minimize the risk of its electrical lines and equipment causing catastrophic wildfires, including consideration of dynamic climate change risks.
Pages 15-
19 (D) A description of the metrics the local publicly owned electric utility or electrical cooperative plans to use to evaluate the wildfire mitigation plan’s performance and the assumptions that underlie the use of those metrics.
(E) A discussion of how the application of previously identified metrics to previous wildfire mitigation plan performances has informed the wildfire mitigation plan.
(F) Protocols for disabling reclosers and deenergizing portions of the electrical distribution system that consider the associated impacts on public safety, as well as protocols related to mitigating the public safety impacts of those protocols, including impacts on critical first responders and on health and communication infrastructure.
(G) Appropriate and feasible procedures for notifying a customer who may be impacted by the deenergizing of electrical lines. The procedures shall direct notification to all public safety offices, critical first responders, health care facilities, and operators of telecommunications infrastructure with premises within the footprint of potential deenergization for a given event.
Not
Applicable
(H) Plan for vegetation management Page 16-18
(I) Plans for inspections of the local publicly owned electric utility’s or electrical cooperative’s electrical infrastructure.
(J)(i,ii) A list that identifies, describes, and prioritizes all wildfire risks, and drivers for those risks, throughout the local publicly owned electric utility’s or electrical cooperative’s service territory. The list shall include, but not be limited to, both of the following:
(i)Risks and risk drivers associated with design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the local publicly owned electric utility’s or electrical cooperative’s equipment and facilities.
(ii)Particular risks and risk drivers associated with topographic and climatological risk factors throughout the different parts of the local publicly owned electric utility’s or electrical cooperative’s service territory.
(K) Identification of any geographic area in the local publicly owned electric utility’s or electrical cooperative’s service territory that is a higher wildfire threat than is identified in a commission fire threat map, and identification of where the commission should expand a high firethreat district based on new information or changes to the environment.
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7 (L) A methodology for identifying and presenting enterprise- wide safety risk and wildfire-related risk.
(M) A statement of how the local publicly owned electric utility or electrical cooperative will restore service after a wildfire.
(N)
(i,ii,iii)
A description of the processes and procedures the local publicly owned electric utility or electrical cooperative shall use to do all of the following:
(i) Monitor and audit the implementation of the wildfire mitigation plan. (ii) Identify any deficiencies in the wildfire mitigation plan or its implementation and correct those deficiencies.
(iii) Monitor and audit the effectiveness of electrical line and equipment inspections, including inspections performed by contractors, that are carried out under the plan, other applicable statutes, or commission rules.
III. OVERVIEW
A. Policy Statement
Silicon Valley Power (SVP) is the City of Santa Clara’s municipally owned electric utility. SVP’s mission and overarching goal is to provide safe, reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy services with exceptional customer focus. In order to meet this goal, SVP constructs, maintains, and operates its own electrical lines and equipment. SVP carries out these activities in a manner that minimizes the risk of catastrophic wildfire posed by its electrical lines and equipment.
B. Purpose of the Wildfire Mitigation Plan
This Wildfire Mitigation Plan describes the range of activities that SVP is taking to minimize the risk of wildfires ignited by its electrical lines and equipment, including its various programs, policies, and procedures. This plan is subject to direct approval and oversight by the Santa Clara City Council and is implemented by the Santa Clara City Manager. This plan complies with the requirements of Public Utilities Code section 8387 for publicly owned electric utilities to prepare a wildfire mitigation plan by January 1, 2020, and annually thereafter. The Wildfire Mitigation Plan and the Independent Evaluator report are posted on the SVP website located at (https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/svp-and-community/safety/wildfire-mitigation-plan) SVP is a department within the City of Santa Clara (City). SVP coordinates closely with the City’s Fire Department and Police Department in the planning for and response to any emergency event within the City. SVP also owns, operates and maintains remote transmission assets outside the limits of the City as further described below and shown in Appendix A. SVP coordinates with local fire and other public safety agencies that have jurisdictions in those locations.
SVP’s service territory is contiguous with the City of Santa Clara city limits with limited exceptions in neighboring jurisdictions. The City is an urban environment and is surrounded on all sides by urban environments in other Cities. Pursuant to Public Utilities Code section 8387(b)(2) the City Council has determined that, based on historical fire data and local conditions, and in consultation with the Fire Department that there is no significant risk of catastrophic wildfire Silicon Valley Power Wildfire Mitigation Plan
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8 resulting from electrical lines and equipment located within SVP’s geographical service area.
Outside of SVP’s geographic service area, SVP operates electrical lines and equipment in five separate remote locations in Northern California. Some of these remote assets are located in a CPUC High Fire Threat District. The Wildfire Mitigation Plan contains a description of the operations and equipment that Silicon Valley Power utilizes to minimize the risk of wildfire being ignited by our assets with specific strategies for our assets that are located in high fire hazard severity areas, high fire threat areas, or areas we have determined have a high risk for sustaining a destructive wildfire.
SVP owns remote transmission assets, including, but not limited to, wires, poles, and other equipment needed to safely deliver power generated from generation assets located outside the City limits to the grid as more fully described below:
Grizzly Tie Line - SVP owns the Grizzly Hydroelectric Project (Grizzly), a part of the Bucks Creek Project, FERC No. 619, located in Plumas County, California, as set forth in the Grizzly Development and Mokelumne Settlement Agreement by and between Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Santa Clara, dated March 8, 1990, as amended (Grizzly Agreement). Through the project, SVP owns approximately 3.4 miles of a 115 kV generation tie line, extending from the Grizzly powerhouse to, and including the end structure and disconnect switch, near Bucks Creek Powerhouse and all other facilities necessary for interconnection with PG&E's transmission system. PG&E operates and maintains this project including the generation tie line through the Grizzly Operations and Maintenance Agreement. The generation tie line is included as part of PG&E’s Wildfire Mitigation Plan.
Black Butte Tie Line - SVP owns the Black Butte Hydroelectric Project (Black Butte), FERC No. 3190 dated May 5, 1983 and amended June 5, 1987. Through this project, SVP owns a9.5 mile long 60kV generation tie line interconnecting the project to PG&E’s existing 60 kV line near the City of Orland, California. SVP operates and maintains the generation tie line.
Stony Gorge Tie Line - SVP owns the Stoney Gorge Hydroelectric Project (Stoney Gorge), FERC No. 3193 dated July 15, 1983. Through this project, SVP owns a one mile-long, 60 kV generation tie line connecting the project with PG&E’s Elk Creek Substation north of the powerhouse. SVP operates and maintains the generation tie line. High Line Canal Interconnection - SVP owns the High Line Canal Hydroelectric Project (High Line), FERC No. 7252 dated July 17, 1984. Through this project, SVP owns an approximately 75 foot long 12 kV three phase generation tie line that interconnects with existing PG&E lines. SVP operates and maintains the generation tie line. Castle Rock- Lakeville Transmission Line - SVP has a 4.98 percent ownership interest in a 230 kV double circuit transmission line between Castle Rock Junction and Lakeville Substation in the Geysers, as set forth in the Agreement of Co-Tenancy in the Castle Rock Junction-Lakeville 230 kV Transmission Line, dated June 1, 1984. This line supports SVP’s share of the Geothermal Generation Project with the Northern California Power Agency Silicon Valley Power Wildfire Mitigation Plan
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9 (NCPA). PG&E has a 77.2 percent ownership interest in the line, and is responsible for operations and maintenance.
Appendix A contains maps showing the geographic areas of these assets.
C. Organization of the Wildfire Mitigation Plan
This Wildfire Mitigation Plan included the following elements:
Objectives of the plan;
Roles and responsibilities for carrying out the plan; Identification of key wildfire risks and risk drivers; Description of wildfire prevention, mitigation, and response strategies and programs; Reclosing Policy
De-Energization Policy
Community outreach and education;
Metrics for evaluating the performance of the plan and identifying areas for improvement; and
Review and validation of the plan.
IV. OBJECTIVES OF THE WILDFIRE MITIGATION PLAN
A. Minimizing Sources of Ignition
The primary goal of this Wildfire Mitigation Plan is to minimize the probability that SVP owned electrical lines and equipment may be the origin or contributing source for the ignition of a vegetation fire. This plan is intended to supplement, but not replace or duplicate applicable building and fire codes. SVP has evaluated its physical assets, operations, and training that can help to meet this objective. Through this evaluation, SVP has identified prudent and cost effective improvements that have been implemented.
B. Resiliency of the Electric Grid
The secondary goal of this Wildfire Mitigation Plan is to improve the resiliency of the electric grid.
As part of the development of this plan, SVP assesses new industry practices and technologies that will reduce the likelihood of an interruption (frequency) in service and improve the restoration (duration) of service.
C. Identifying Unnecessary or Ineffective Actions
The goal for this Wildfire Mitigation Plan is to measure the effectiveness of specific wildfire mitigation strategies. Where a particular action, program component, or protocol is determined to be unnecessary or ineffective, SVP will assess whether a modification or replacement is merited. This plan will also help determine if more cost-effective measures would produce the same or improved results.
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10 V. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
A. Utility Governance Structure
The City of Santa Clara is a charter city located in the state of California and has adopted a Council/Manager form of government. Pursuant to its charter, the City has the power to furnish electric utility service within its service territory. In connection therewith, the City has the powers of eminent domain, to contract, to construct works, to fix rates and charges for commodities or services it provides and to incur indebtedness. The City provides electric utility service through its electric utility department under the trademarked name of “Silicon Valley Power.” The legal responsibilities and powers of the City are exercised by the elected seven-member Santa Clara City Council. The City Council appoints the Santa Clara City Manager who acts as the Chief Executive Officer for the City. SVP is operated under the direction of the Chief Electric Utility Officer who, together with certain other senior managers of SVP, is appointed by and reports to the Santa Clara City Manager. The Chief Electric Utility Officer is responsible for the implementation of this Wildfire Mitigation Plan.
B. Wildfire Prevention
The Electric Chief Operating Officer coordinates the day-to-day operation of the utility through the Assistant Directors. The Electric Chief Operating Officer is specifically responsible for the following:
Assuring that all employees receive regular training as required for the implementation of this Wildfire Mitigation Plan.
Complying with relevant federal, state, and industry standard requirements, including the industry standards established by the California Public Utilities Commission.
City Manager
Chief Electric Utility
Officer
Assistant Director –
Resource Planning &
Customer
Engagement
Electric Utility Chief
Operating Officer
City Attorney
Assistant Director –
Customer
Development &
Project Management
Assistant Director –
Electric Utility
Operations
Assistant Director –
Business Services
Santa Clara City Council
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11 The Assistant Director of Electric Utility Operations is specifically responsible for operating and maintaining the system in a manner that will minimize potential wildfire risks including, but not limited to:
Taking all reasonable and practicable actions as described in the Wildfire Mitigation Plan to minimize the risk of a catastrophic wildfire caused by SVP’s electric facilities. Coordinating with federal, state, and local fire management personnel as necessary or appropriate to implement the Wildfire Mitigation Plan.
Collecting and maintaining wildfire data necessary for the implementation of this Wildfire Mitigation Plan.
Taking corrective action when the staff witnesses or is notified that fire protection measures have not been properly installed or maintained.
All SVP employees and contractors are responsible for actively taking precautions to prevent fires, reporting potentially unsafe conditions and immediately report fires, pursuant to existing SVP’s practices and the requirements of this Wildfire Mitigation Plan.
C. Wildfire Response and Recovery
All SVP employees and contractors are responsible for immediately reporting fires by calling 911 and providing all information required for responsible fire agencies to respond. If the fire involves or is in the vicinity of any SVP facility, SVP’s Electric Control should be notified immediately after calling 911.
If the facility is operated under SVP control (Black Butte, Highline and Stony Gorge), Electric Control shall verify with the caller that 911 has been notified and then act to isolate any line or other facility potentially creating a hazard to the first responders. If a facility is already isolated, Electric Control will take any action necessary to assure that it is not re-energized until it is safe to do so. Electric Control will dispatch appropriate personnel to coordinate with first responders and then promptly notify management through the text and email notification process.
If the facility is operated under PG&E control (Grizzly and Castle Rock/Lakeville), Electric Control shall verify with the caller that 911 has been notified and then promptly notify management through the text and email notification process.
The Electric Chief Operating Officer is responsible for notifying the Chief Electric Utility Officer and City Manager’s Office. The City Manager is responsible for informing the City Council as appropriate.
The Assistant Director of Utility Operations will coordinate SVP’s investigation into any fire involving SVP facilities and will coordinate with the appropriate fire or other agency investigations. The Assistant Director of Utility Operations will also coordinate restoration of SVP facilities.
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12 VI. WILDFIRE RISKS AND DRIVERS ASSOCIATED WITH DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION,
OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE
A. Particular Risks and Risk Drivers Associated with Topographic and Climatological Risk Factors
As discussed above, there is no significant risk of catastrophic wildfire within SVP’s service territory. However, to ensure reliability and high levels of customer safety and service, SVP performs vegetation management through an area trimming program throughout its service territory on a five year cycle and enhanced focus areas based on outage history in addition to annual and five year asset inspection programs.
Although specific risks differ for each line outside of the SVP service territory, risks associated with extended drought, changing weather patterns and climate change apply to all of the lines.
Each of the lines with the exception of the High Line Canal Interconnection are considered transmission lines operating at the 60kV, 115kV or 230kV. For the initial evaluation of the risks, SVP compared location of our remote lines to the CPUC High Fire Threat District Map and the Cal Fire California Fire Hazard Severity Zone Map.
The Grizzly Tie Line is located in the CPUC Tier 3 Extreme Fire Threat Zone, and Cal Fire identifies the area in which the line is located in as Federal jurisdiction (US Forest Service). The mountainous terrain, heavy vegetation and the potential of lightning strikes and high winds are all risk drivers for this line. This tie line was damaged by the “Dixie” Wildfire in 2021 which burned 963,309 acres. The cause of the fire was found to be unrelated to the Grizzly Tie Line and/or SVP assets.
The Black Butte Tie Line is not located in a CPUC Tier 2 or Tier 3 Fire Threat Zone. Approximately
3.75 miles of the 9.5 mile line are located on the edge of a Cal Fire moderate hazard zone. The terrain is flat and runs along a road through agricultural land. The line is occasionally subject to lightning strikes. The one known fire associated with the line was caused by a bird contact and was limited to a small area (less than 500 square feet) of grass between poles 82 and 83 immediately under the line on October 6th, 2015.
The Stony Gorge Tie Line is located in a CPUC Tier 2 Elevated Fire Threat Zone. Approximately 0.1 miles are located on the edge of a Cal Fire high hazard zone. The remaining 0.9 miles are located in a Cal Fire moderate hazard zone. Except for the first 250 feet of the line located at the base of an undeveloped hill, the line is constructed over level terrain. The line crosses Stony Creek then follows roads through agricultural land. There is no known fire history associated with this line.
The High Line Canal Interconnection consists of a riser, a pole mounted transformer and a 75 foot overhead span connected to a PG&E distribution line. The entire connection is over a gravel and dirt road and parking area adjacent to a cemetery. The High Line Canal Interconnection is not located in a CPUC Tier 2 or Tier 3 Fire Threat Zone. It is located on the edge of a Cal Fire moderate hazard zone. There is no significant risks and no known fire history from the High Line Canal Interconnection.
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13 The Castle Rock Lakeville Transmission Line is located in the CPUC Tier 2 elevated and Tier 3 Extreme Fire Threat Zones. The line runs through Cal Fire moderate, high and very high hazard zones as well as areas notated as Federal jurisdiction. The communities, mountainous terrain, heavy vegetation and the potential of and high winds are all risk drivers for this line. This line is operated and maintained by PG&E the majority owner and is covered by PG&E’s Wildfire Mitigation Plan.
B. Identifying and Presenting Enterprisewide Safety Risk Safety of life and property including mitigation of wildfire risk are part of the culture of SVP.
Enterprise risks associated with wildfire including design and construction standards, vegetation management and operational practices have been reviewed by senior utility staff. Experts in vegetation management have been consulted. Discussions with other utilities and experts have occurred to assure that SVP’s standards meet or exceed the standards in the industry. The potential risks and this mitigation plan have been presented to SVP’s governing body, the Santa Clara City Council and SVP staff.
A diverse team of SVP staff including System Operators, Engineers, and Senior Managers meets monthly to review the Wildfire Mitigation Plan and vegetation management updates. The electric utility operations group works with SVP’s contracted professional tree service company and other contractors to perform annual vegetation inspections as well as inspections of SVP’s electrical assets.
In 2019, SVP also developed a System Operations Procedure for Wildfire Mitigation which SVP’s System Operators use to help SVP adhere to this Wildfire Mitigation Plan. The SOP contains detailed roles and responsibilities, and procedures to be followed during various events.
C. Changes to CPUC Fire Threat Map
During its review of SVP facilities, SVP has not identified any areas having a higher wildfire threat than has been identified in the CPUC maps. No new information or changes to the environment were identified that would justify that the CPUC should expand its maps.
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14 VII. WILDFIRE PREVENTATIVE STRATEGIES
A. High Fire Threat District
SVP directly participated in the development of the California Public Utilities Commission’ s (CPUC) Fire-Threat Map,3 which designates a High-Fire Threat District. In the map development process, SVP served as a territory lead, and worked with utility staff and local fire & government officials to identify the areas of SVP’s service territory that are at an elevated or extreme risk of power line ignited wildfire. None of SVP’s service territory has been designated as a Tier 1, 2, or 3 threat area.
B. Weather Monitoring
The SVP assets located in Glenn and Tehama Counties of California; the Black Butte tie line, Stony Gorge tie line, and the High Line Canal connection, are operated by SVP. Of these assets only the Stony Gorge tie line is located in a wildfire threat area (Tier 2). SVP operates all three of these lines as if they were all within a wildfire threat area. The SVP Electric System Operator monitors current and forecasted weather and associated fire danger data from a variety of sources including:
ONCC Significant Fire Potential (Website - Primary Source) NWS Fire Weather Zone Map (Website - Back-up Source)
PG&E PSPS Map and Portal (Website - Corroborative Source) NWS Watches, Warnings or Advisories; Glenn County (Website - Corroborative Source) During wildfire season4, the SVP Electric System Operators will monitor the ONCC Significant Fire Potential website on a daily basis to identify the fire risk and corresponding response.
Risk Categories:
1. Moist (Little or Low Risk): During moist conditions, all SVP staff and contractors involved in the operation and maintenance of the lines in Glenn and Tehama Counties will be made aware of the low-risk conditions in all safety tailboard briefings. No changes are made to operations or work policy.
2. Dry (Low risk of large fires in the absence of a “High Risk” event): During dry conditions, all SVP staff and contractors involved in the operation and maintenance of the lines in Glenn and Tehama Counties will be made aware of the low-risk conditions in all safety tailboard briefings. No changes are made to operations or work policy.
3. Very Dry (Low/Moderate risk of large fires in the absence of a “High Risk” event): During very dry conditions, all SVP staff and contractors involved in the operation and maintenance of the lines in Glenn and Tehama Counties will be made aware of the Very Dry conditions and will include wildfire safety in all safety tailboard briefings. 3 Adopted by CPUC Decision 17-12-024.
4 Wildfire season is generally defined by SVP as the period typically between May 1st and October 31st unless determined by the SVP Senior Electric and Water System Operator the season needs to be extended due to conditions that may present in any given year.
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15 4. High Risk Days: 20% Chance of a large fire due to a combination of dry or very dry fuel and an ignition trigger, or dry or very dry fuel combined with a critical burn environment.
During High-Risk days, all SVP staff and contractors involved in the operation and maintenance of the lines in Glenn and Tehama Counties will be made aware of the High Risk and will include wildfire safety in all safety tailboard briefings. A wildfire patrol of the lines will be carried out at the onset of the High-Risk condition. If the High-Risk conditions continue for an extended period of 7 days or more, patrols are to be carried out weekly.
5. Red Flag Warnings: If the National Weather Service declares a Red Flag Warning for Glenn and Tehama Counties, all SVP staff and contractors involved in the operation and maintenance of the lines in Glenn and Tehama Counties will be made aware of the Red Flag Warning and will include wildfire safety in all safety tailboard briefings. A wildfire patrol of the lines will be carried out prior to the beginning of the Red Flag Warning, and at least daily if the risk factors persist. All power line maintenance activities will be performed with lines isolated. Consideration of isolating the lines will be made on a caseby-case basis. If a line trips due to an electrical fault, the line will be left out of service until it is patrolled and it is determined safe to be returned to service.
C. Design and Construction Standards
SVP’s electric facilities are designed and constructed to meet or exceed the relevant federal, state, or industry standard. SVP treats CPUC General Order (GO) 95 as a key industry standard for design and construction standards for overhead electrical facilities. SVP meets or exceeds all standards in GO 95. Additionally, SVP monitors and follows as appropriate the National Electric Safety Code.
At our High Line Canal Interconnection, there are expulsion fuses, however, the electrical line is located over a dirt and gravel road and is not located in a HFTD. Even though the line is not located in a high fire threat district, SVP mitigates the risk of expulsion fuses as if it were in a HFTD by maintaining a 10ft radius around the poles free of vegetation and flammable materials.
In 2020, SVP installed raptor guard at 9 locations on the Black Butte 60 kV line to harden them from raptor contact. There are no other planned hardening measures at this time as SVP’s policy is to de-energize the line during high fire threat events. Annual patrols utilizing thermal and corona imaging are performed to ensure that hardware, insulators, and connectors are up to standard.
D. Vegetation Management
SVP meets or exceeds the minimum industry standard vegetation management practices. For transmission-level facilities, SVP complies with NERC FAC-003-4, where applicable. For both transmission and distribution level facilities, SVP meets: (1) Public Resources Code section 4292; (2) Public Resources Code section 4293; (3) GO 95 Rule 35; and (4) the GO 95 Appendix E Guidelines to Rule 35. These standards require significantly increased clearances in the High Fire Threat District. The recommended time-of-trim guidelines do not establish a mandatory standard, but instead provide useful guidance to utilities. SVP contracts with professional tree service company who has Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in vegetation management and uses Silicon Valley Power Wildfire Mitigation Plan
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16 specific knowledge of growing conditions and tree species to determine the appropriate time of trim clearance in each circumstance. SVP does not use herbicides or growth inhibitors.
Although SVP’s service territory is not in an area with high wildfire potential, SVP hires a professional tree service company to systematically trim and remove trees to maintain required clearances from overhead circuits.
SVP treats its facilities located in Glenn and Tehama Counties to be within a High Fire Threat District. As these facilities are 60kV lines totaling no more than 11 miles in length and are easily accessible, SVP employs the following methodology for vegetation control. On an annual basis, SVP contracts with a professional tree service company to perform an inventory of trees in the proximity of facilities in Glenn and Tehama Counties. This inventory is recorded electronically and a scope of work for tree trimming, and removal is created. This scope of work is also completed in the same year and a report by the professional tree service company is provided to SVP.
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The radial clearances shown below are recommended minimum clearances that should be established, at time of trimming, between the vegetation and the energized conductors and associated live parts where practicable. Reasonable vegetation management practices may make it advantageous for the purposes of public safety or service reliability to obtain greater clearances than those listed below to ensure compliance until the next scheduled maintenance. Each utility may determine and apply additional appropriate clearances beyond clearances listed below, which take into consideration various factors, including: line operating voltage, length of span, line sag, planned maintenance cycles, location of vegetation within the span, species type, experience with particular species, vegetation growth rate and characteristics, vegetation management standards and best practices, Silicon Valley Power Wildfire Mitigation Plan
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E. Inspections
SVP meets or exceeds the minimum inspection requirements provided in CPUC GO 165 and CPUC GO 95, Rule 18. SVP staff and contracted SMEs uses their knowledge of the specific environmental and geographical conditions to determine the required frequency of inspections.
Separate vegetation and physical inspections of the remote lines owned and operated by SVP are performed every year and additionally on an as-needed basis. These lines are visually inspected from the ground, drone, helicopter or on elevated platforms. Corona and thermal imaging technologies are also used. Any necessary repairs will be completed in a timely manner as appropriate. Any issue that is creating an eminent safety concern will be immediately addressed.
Inspections carried out on red flag days look for any emergent conditions containing but not limited to the following criteria:
Broken or slack down guys.
Leaning poles
Un-balanced spans.
Encroachment on minimum 4-foot radial clearance between conductors and vegetation.
Broken insulators.
Discolored conductor connections.
Accumulation of flammable debris encroaching in the SVP facility right of way.
The SVP Electric and Water System Operator maintains procedures and tools for mitigating emergent wildfire threats associated with remote facilities owned and operated by SVP. The System Operator logs conditions and the inspection results for high risk and red flag days.
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F. Workforce training
The Electric Utility Chief Operating Officer is specifically responsible for assuring that all employees having obligations for implementation of this Wildfire Mitigation Plan receive regular training. Training on the wildfire plan are held each spring prior to the start of the wildfire season.
Training will include roles and responsibilities, identification of risks, and procedures associated with monitoring and response.
VIII. RECLOSING POLICY
SVP does not have reclosers or reclosing schemes on its remote lines.
If one of the remote lines operated and maintained by SVP is isolated due fire or high fire risk, it will only be restored after physical inspection and in accordance with SVP operating procedures under direction of an SVP Electric and Water System Control Operator and in coordination with PG&E as appropriate. SVP staff or contractors will coordinate with local public safety officials in the event of an active fire. No customers are served by these lines.
IX. ISOLATION5
All SVP remote lines are generation tie lines. SVP has the authority to preemptively isolate the lines it operates and maintains due to fire-threat conditions. No customers would be affected by the isolation of these lines. SVP will make a case-by-case decision to shut off power based on the following considerations:
Red Flag Warnings issued by the National Weather Service for fire weather zones that contain SVP remote lines;
SVP staff assessments of local conditions, including wind speed (sustained and gust), humidity and temperature, fuel moisture, fuel loading and data from weather stations; Real-time information from staff and contractors located in areas identified as at risk of being subject to extreme weather conditions;
Input from fire experts and vegetation experts;
Input from local and state fire authorities regarding the potential consequences of wildfires in select locations;
Availability of alternative generation resources;
Awareness of mandatory or voluntary evacuation orders in place; Other operational considerations to minimize potential wildfire ignitions,; 5 Beginning with the 2023 WMP, the term “de-energization” was replaced with “isolation” because according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration Standard Number 1910.269(m), a line or equipment is not considered de-energized until it is tested as de-energized. Although the operators open the lines, because there is no testing, SVP considers the lines isolated.
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19 On-going fire activity near the remote lines and throughout California; X. COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PUBLIC AWARENESS
This Wildfire Mitigation Plan has been submitted to the Cal Fire Tehama Glenn Unit for review. The plan was also reviewed with Orland Unit Water Association for the lines SVP operates and maintains. The mitigation plan was presented to the City of Santa Clara City Council in a public meeting for approval.
XI. METRICS AND ASSUMPTIONS FOR MEASURING PLAN PERFORMANCE SVP will track two metrics to measure the performance of this Wildfire Mitigation Plan: (1) number of fire ignitions; and (2) wires down on the remote lines.
METRIC 1: FIRE IGNITIONS
For purposes of this metric, a fire ignition is defined as follows:
An SVP remote facility was associated with the fire;
The fire was self-propagating and of a material other than electrical and/or communication facilities;
The resulting fire traveled greater than one linear meter from the ignition point; and SVP has knowledge that the fire occurred.
In October 2015, there was one Fire Ignition associated with the Black Butte Tie Line. A bird contacted the line and a fire started in the grass immediately under the line. The fire was limited to a small area. SVP has no knowledge of other Fire Ignitions associated with its lines. Each of the lines has been in service for over 3 decades.
In future Wildfire Mitigation Plans, SVP will provide the number of fires that occurred that were less than 10 acres in size. Any fires greater than 10 acres will be individually described.
METRIC 2: WIRES DOWN
The second metric is the number of remote line wires downed. For purposes of this metric, a wires down event includes any instance where an electric distribution or transmission conductor falls to the ground or on to a foreign object.
SVP will not normalize this metric by excluding unusual events, such as severe storms. Instead, SVP will supplement this metric with a qualitative description of any such unusual events. SVP has no knowledge of any wire down on its remote lines since placed in service.
A. Impact of Metrics on Plan
Each time an event occurs within one of the metrics above, SVP will perform an analysis of the event including any design or operational recommendations for improvement. SVP will then evaluate potential improvements to the plan.
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20 Between January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2023, there were no fire ignitions caused by SVP and no wires down events.
XII. MONITORING AND AUDITING THE PLAN
This Wildfire Mitigation Plan is reviewed annually by staff and presented to Santa Clara City Council on an annual basis. Staff will review activities throughout the year to determine if changes to the WMP are appropriate.
A. Identifying and correcting Deficiencies in the Plan
This wildfire mitigation plan is a living document. As the plan is implemented, SVP will compile any deficiencies identified by staff, contractors, SMEs and other sources. Improvements and corrections will be reviewed and implemented in a timely manner as appropriate. Each year the plan will be reviewed and updated prior to submittal to Santa Clara City Council.
B. Monitoring the effectiveness of inspections
Any vegetation or physical issues found during inspections will be compiled and retained for future review. Trends involving repeated issues, timeliness of issue resolution, metrics listed in section VII A, or other observations will be reviewed on an annual basis. The inspection program will be adjusted as appropriate.
XIII. INDEPENDENT AUDITOR
Public Utilities Code section 8387(c) requires SVP to contract with a qualified independent evaluator with experience in assessing the safe operation of electrical infrastructure to review and assess the comprehensiveness of this Wildfire Mitigation Plan. The independent evaluator must issue a report that is posted to SVP’s website. This report must also be presented to Santa Clara City Council at a public meeting.
In 2022, SVP hired Dudek, to review and assess the comprehensiveness of SVP’s 2022 WMP.
Dudek has conducted a number of independent evaluator reports for other publicly owned utilities. The independent evaluator report was reviewed by the internal SVP team and staff incorporated the recommended changes into its 2022 WMP. The final IE Report was noted and filed by the Santa Clara City Council on September 13, 2022. The final IE Report can be found on SVP’s website at https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/svp-and-community/safety/wildfiremitigation-plan.
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City of Santa Clara
Agenda Report
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24-470 Agenda Date: 7/16/2024
REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Action on the Annual Report for FY 2024 for the Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System
COUNCIL PILLAR
Deliver and Enhance High Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure
BACKGROUND
The City has participated in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS) program since 2002. CRS is a voluntary incentive program that recognizes and encourages community floodplain management activities that exceed the minimum NFIP requirements. This commitment enhances public safety, property protection, and protects the natural functions of floodplains, and flood insurance premiums.
Flood insurance premium rates for residents and businesses are discounted to reflect the reduced flood risk resulting from the community activities meeting the three goals of the CRS:
1. Reduce flood damage to insurable property
2. Strengthen and support the insurance aspects of the NFIP
3. Encourage a comprehensive approach to floodplain management The City is currently CRS Class 7, which means that residents and businesses in the City’s Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) are eligible for up to a 15 percent insurance premium discount. The average annual flood policy premium for City residents and businesses within the SFHA is approximately $900, with the total insurance premiums being an estimated $642,000. Due to participation in the CRS program, the latest estimated total flood insurance premium savings is approximately $95,000 a year for Santa Clara residents and businesses.
The City works closely with the Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water), whose participation in CRS dates back to 1998. Valley Water’s participation in the CRS program allows them to document qualifying flood risk reduction activities they perform throughout Santa Clara County and receive credits that are then transferred to each CRS participating community, including the City of Santa Clara. These credits contribute to the flood insurance premium discount that residents and businesses enjoy.
The Program for Public Information (PPI) was introduced as part of the CRS in 2013. The PPI encourages participating CRS communities to work together with local stakeholders to design a program incorporating community outreach on flood risk reduction that best fits local needs. Valley City of Santa Clara Page 1 of 3 Printed on 7/12/2024
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Water took the lead in the development of the Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI, a countywide collaborative outreach program to increase flood awareness.
FEMA requires that an annual evaluation report on the Multi-Jurisdictional PPI be shared with the elected bodies.
DISCUSSION
The annual report to FEMA documenting PPI activities and accomplishments in FY 2024 was released by Valley Water in June 2024 and the report is being provided to the City Council as an informational item to satisfy the FEMA requirement. In addition to the general flood awareness message that FEMA wants all CRS communities to share, three additional messages were added specifically for communities in Santa Clara County based on input received through the PPI stakeholder process. They are (1) “Turn Around, Don’t Drown ®,” which encourages people to stay out of flooded roads, whether driving or walking; (2) Download disaster apps; and (3) Make a family emergency plan before an emergency happens. The Annual Evaluation Report for FY 2024 is included as Attachment 1.
The PPI gives the City opportunities to earn extra credit points under the NFIP CRS program. Every 500 CRS points translates to a 5 percent discount on flood insurance premiums for properties in the SFHA. In addition to the annual recertification submittal to FEMA, a field audit is performed by a FEMA representative every five years to verify flood reduction activities that have been implemented.
The City’s last verification visit occurred in November 2023 resulting in the City maintaining its current rating as a Class 7 community in the NFIP CRS.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The action being considered does not constitute a “project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15378(a) as it has no potential for resulting in either a direct physical change in the environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment.
FISCAL IMPACT
The staff time for the City’s participation in CRS is and has been supported by the General Fund.
Since the outreach projects are set to repeat annually, the increase in staff effort due to implementation of PPI is small and it is mainly for project documentation. There are no other financial impacts associated with this item other than the staff time.
COORDINATION
This report has been coordinated with the City Attorney’s Office.
PUBLIC CONTACT
Public contact was made by posting the Council agenda on the City’s official-notice bulletin board outside City Hall Council Chambers. A complete agenda packet is available on the City’s website and in the City Clerk’s Office at least 72 hours prior to a Regular Meeting and 24 hours prior to a Special Meeting. A hard copy of any agenda report may be requested by contacting the City Clerk’s Office at (408) 615-2220, email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> or at the public information desk at any City of Santa Clara public library.
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RECOMMENDATION
Note and File the Annual Report for FY 2024 for the Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System
Reviewed by: Craig Mobeck, Director of Public Works
Approved by: Jovan D. Grogan, City Manager
ATTACHMENTS
1. Annual Evaluation Report for FY 2024
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Page CEO BULLETIN & NEWSLETTERS
3 CEO Bulletin: 06/20/24
BOARD MEMBER REQUESTS & INFORMATIONAL ITEMS
7 BMR/IBMR Weekly Reports: 06/21/24
8 Memo from Lilian Dennis, Management Analyst in the Risk Management Unit, to the board, dated 06/10/24, providing a copy of recent Risk Management staff’s communication with parties/individuals that have filed a claim against Valley Water.
54 Memo from Lilian Dennis, Management Analyst in the Risk Management Unit, to the board, dated 06/13/24, providing a copy of recent Risk Management staff’s communication with parties/individuals that have filed a claim against Valley Water.
67 Memo from Marta Lugo, Acting Chief of External Affairs to CEO Rick Callender, dated 06/21/24, providing the FY24 Annual Evaluation Report for the 2021 Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information (PPI).
146 Memo from Darin Taylor, Chief Financial Officer to the board, dated 06/18/24, providing the summary of monthly report of investments for May 2024.
INCOMING BOARD CORRESPONDENCE
164 Board Correspondence Weekly Report: 06/21/24
166 Email from Libby Lucas to the board, dated 06/13/24, inquiring about the Calabazas/San Tomas Aquino Creek Marsh Connection Project. C-24-0150 168 Email from Janet Miller, CarbUSA LLC to the board, dated 06/18/24, inquiring information on the Santa Teresa Water Treatment Plant. C-24-0151
OUTGOING BOARD CORRESPONDENCE
170 Letter from Director Beall to John Richards, dated 06/13/24, replying to their request regarding the most pressing issues confronting Valley Water.
Board Policy EL-7 Communication and Support to the Board The BAOs shall inform and support the Board in its work.
NON-AGENDA
Valley Water June 21, 2024 2 202 24 SANTA CLARA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT
MEMORANDUM
FC 14 (01-25-23)
TO: Rick L. Callender, Esq.
Chief Executive Officer
FROM: Marta 0Lugo Acting Chief of
External Affairs
SUBJECT: FY24 Annual Evaluation Report
(Year 3: July 2023 – June 2024) for the
2021 Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional
Program for Public Information (PPI)
DATE: June 21, 2024
Valley Water continues to participate in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS) program. The CRS is a voluntary incentive program that recognizes and encourages community floodplain management activities that exceed the minimum NFIP requirements.
Through the CRS, flood insurance holders in participating communities receive discounted premium rates to reflect the reduced flood risk. The three goals of the CRS are:
1. Reduce flood damage to insurable property,
2. Strengthen and support the insurance aspects of the NFIP, and
3. Encourage a comprehensive approach to floodplain management.
Background
Valley Water began participating in the CRS program as a “fictitious community” in 1998. Since Valley Water is not a land-use agency, it is not considered an NFIP community and does not technically qualify to participate in the CRS program. This designation is unique; in fact, Valley Water is the only fictitious CRS community in the nation.
Valley Water's participation as a fictitious community allows it to document qualifying flood risk reduction activities it performs throughout Santa Clara County (county). CRS credits Valley Water earns for activities within those communities are transferred to each CRS participating community, supporting savings on NFIP insurance policies within those jurisdictions. Currently, 11 of the 16 communities (cities, towns, and the county) within Santa Clara County participate in the CRS program.
For many of our communities, Valley Water’s CRS credits serve as a baseline. Between Valley Water’s baseline and the CRS community’s credit, NFIP flood insurance policyholders receive an average 15% discount. The average NFIP flood policy premium in Santa Clara County is approximately $1,000, meaning that CRS participating communities save their flood insurance holders about $150 to $200 per year by documenting the flood risk reduction activities it performs. Participation in the CRS program generates an annual savings of approximately $1.8M for NFIP policyholders in Santa Clara County.
The Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information FEMA first introduced the Program for Public Information (PPI) as a CRS creditable activity in 2013.
The PPI encourages CRS participating communities to work with local stakeholders to design a program for community outreach on flood risk reduction that best fits local needs.
Valley Water led the development of the first Multi-Jurisdictional PPI, which was adopted in 2015 (2015 PPI). This countywide collaboration outreach program standardizes our flood risk and loss reduction outreach messaging while increasing communities’ CRS points.
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Program for Public Information Requirements
Participating communities must update the PPI every five years to maintain CRS credit. Valley Water continued its role as the lead agency in developing the subsequent 2021 Santa Clara County MultiJurisdictional PPI (2021 PPI). On April 27, 2021, the Valley Water Board of Directors adopted the 2021 PPI; the other CRS participating communities' governing bodies adopted the 2021 PPI soon thereafter.
In addition to updating the PPI every five years, FEMA requires an Annual Evaluation Report on PPI efforts and requires the communities to share the annual report with their governing bodies. Attached is our submittal of the Annual Evaluation Report for Fiscal Year 24 (Year 3). Overall, the CRS Users Group/PPI Committee successfully implemented the 2021 PPI in FY24.
The objectives of participating in the 2021 PPI continue to reduce flood risks and earn valuable CRS credit points by continually assessing and enhancing the effectiveness of the flood-preparedness messaging to Santa Clara County. Valley Water’s CRS Program staff, the CRS Users Group, and the 2021 PPI Committee will continue their work efforts through FY25.
Please direct questions about the PPI Annual Evaluation Report to Kristen Yasukawa, Manager, Office of Civic Engagement at (408) 630-2876.
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Deputy Administrative Officer acting for
Rachael Gibson
Chief of External Affairs
External Affairs Division
Attachment: Annual Evaluation Report for FY24 (Year 3) for the 2021 Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information (PPI) cc: R. Gibson, M. Lugo, K. Yasukawa, A. Fonseca, CRS File, Egnyte electronic filing system ML:af
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Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information 2021 FY24 Annual Evaluation Report
(Year 3: July 2023 to June 2024)
June 2024
Prepared by:
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Santa Clara County CRS communities
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I. INTRODUCTION
The Community Rating System (CRS) is a voluntary program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The CRS program allows communities to earn flood insurance premium discounts for their residents and businesses by implementing local mitigation, floodplain management, and outreach activities that exceed the minimum NFIP requirements to reduce the risk of flooding.
In Santa Clara County, 11 (eleven) communities, including Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) have actively participated in the FEMA NFIP CRS for over 30 years.
The CRS participating communities (CRS communities) are City of Cupertino, City of Gilroy, City of Los Altos, City of Milpitas, City of Morgan Hill, City of Mountain View, City of Palo Alto, City of San Jose, City of Santa Clara, City of Sunnyvale, and the Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water).
CRS communities, along with their external non-governmental stakeholders, non-CRS communities: City of Saratoga, Town of Los Altos Hills, Town of Los Gatos, and the County of Santa Clara who opted to join the 2021 Program for Public Information (PPI), comprised the 2021 PPI Committee. The original 2021 PPI Committee is listed in Table 1. Original Members of the Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional 2021 PPI Committee of the 2021 PPI (Attachment 1). Since the development of the 2021 PPI, there may have been changes to the community’s original 2021 PPI Committee members (either the internal representatives to the organization and/or the external stakeholders). Those member changes are noted on the meeting attendance sheets.
For CRS credit, FEMA requires that each CRS community provide at least two representatives to the regional PPI Committee, with at least half of the representatives from outside the local government. Additionally, at least half of the representatives must attend all the meetings of the regional PPI Committee. Non-CRS communities are also required to provide an external stakeholder.
An important benefit of the PPI Committee’s work is close collaboration between local public agency staff who work on flood protection throughout Santa Clara County. Together, PPI Committee members continue strengthening their individual CRS programs and ensuring communities can evaluate their flood programs against a nationally recognized benchmark.
The 2021 PPI Committee, the remaining non-CRS communities (City of Campbell and City of Monte Sereno), and other interested parties make up the Santa Clara County CRS Users Group.
The Santa Clara County CRS Users Group collaborates to ensure floodplain management activities provide enhanced public safety, reduced damage to property and public infrastructure, and avoidance of economic disruption and loss in Santa Clara County. Through the five-year PPI development and the annual reporting process, members of the SC County CRS Users Group learn from one another about local floodplain management activities, including flood protection and land use issues. For both the Santa Clara County CRS Users Group and the 2021 PPI Committee, the PPI is one of the most impactful activities of the CRS program.
Under the CRS program, flood insurance premium rates are discounted to reward CRS communities’ actions that meet the three goals of the CRS:
(1) reduce flood damage to insurable property
(2) strengthen and support the insurance aspects of the NFIP; and (3) encourage a comprehensive approach to floodplain management.
Flood insurance premiums for CRS communities are reduced in 5% increments for every 500 CRS points earned.
As of April 30, 2023, the total savings for Santa Clara County residents from CRS discounts is approximately $1.5 million.
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Valley Water is the lead flood protection agency for Santa Clara County. Valley Water performs many flood preparedness outreach and stream stewardship/maintenance activities that earn credit points for CRS communities. Since Valley Water is not a land-use agency, the points Valley Water earns as a “fictitious community” provide a foundation upon which the CRS communities can build. FEMA approved this unique arrangement with Valley Water in 1998.
The CRS Coordinator’s Manual, 2013 Edition, included the option to undertake a Program for Public Information (PPI), which standardizes our flood preparedness outreach messages and increases communities’ CRS points.
Each participant of the PPI Committee brings unique perspectives and suggestions that enhance the PPI. Each community must adopt the PPI through a formal vote by the community’s governing body.
In 2013, Valley Water initiated and facilitated the effort to develop the first Multi-Jurisdictional PPI so that all Santa Clara County CRS communities could work together and benefit from this activity.
Non-CRS communities were also invited to participate in the development of the PPI. This work effort resulted in the 2015 Multi-Jurisdiction PPI (2015 PPI).
On April 14, 2015, Valley Water’s Board adopted the 2015 PPI, which sunset in April 2020. Following Valley Water’s lead, the other CRS communities’ governing bodies adopted the 2015 PPI soon thereafter.
Under the CRS, the PPI must be updated every five years. Each subsequent year after adopting the PPI, the PPI Committee must submit an annual evaluation report to FEMA describing the PPI implementation for the prior fiscal year. The PPI Committee must evaluate whether the flood risk reduction messages in the PPI are still relevant and adjust the PPI, if needed. The annual evaluation report is shared with each CRS community’s governing body as an informational item.
As required, annual evaluation reports for FY16 (Year 1 of the 2015 PPI) through FY19 (Year 4 of the 2015 PPI) were prepared, sent to each CRS community’s governing body, and included in each community’s respective annual recertifications or as part of a community’s documentation for those that were cycled on any given year.
In FY20 (Year 5 of the 2015 PPI), the PPI Committee was required to update the 2015 PPI. The Insurance Services Office (ISO), FEMA’s CRS program management contractor, exempted the PPI Committee from submitting an annual evaluation report for FY20 (Year 5 of the 2015 PPI) as the committee focused on updating the document.
In February 2020, Valley Water hosted the start of the five-year PPI updated process. Fifteen Santa Clara County communities worked together to update the 2015 PPI. These communities included the current 11 CRS communities as well as four non-CRS communities that expressed interest in joining the 2015 PPI and possibly the CRS program. Staff and external stakeholders from each agency participated in developing the new PPI.
In March 2020, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak started. The California State Emergency Services Act, the Governor’s Emergency Declaration related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20, and Order of the County of Santa Clara Public Health Officer dated March 16, 2020, went into effect.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused far-reaching, unprecedented changes. Businesses and organizations faced economic and operational uncertainty across every industry and sector. The workforce impacts during COVID-19 caused delays beyond control, including the PPI Committee’s ability to continue its work of updating the 2015 PPI. Many communities shifted priorities to respond to the public health crisis; therefore, FEMA provided an extension of completing the update to the 2015 PPI to early 2021.
The 2021 PPI Committee reconvened in October 2020 to resume the 2015 PPI update. Several virtual meetings followed until the 2021 PPI Committee completed the 2021 PPI in April 2021. The 2021 PPI was adopted by CRS communities, as indicated in Table 1. Adoption Dates 2021 PPI.
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II. 2021 PPI DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Valley Water, CRS, and non-CRS communities initiated the 2021 PPI process in February 2020. Due to COVID-19, discussions were postponed; the process was reinitiated in October 2020. The Santa Clara County 2021 Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information document was completed in April 2021 (refer to Section I. Introduction for COVID-19-related delays).
Virtual meetings were held between 2020 and 2021 to develop the 2021 PPI. FEMA’s six priority topic messages and the three additional messages identified in the 2015 PPI carried forward into the 2021 PPI. The 2021 PPI Committee felt all nine topics and supporting messages were still relevant for reaching Santa Clara County residents and ensuring they are flood-ready.
The below listed is Table 3 in the 2021 PPI: CRS Priority Messages Topic
Number Topic message Public Message (Select one message per topic) TOPIC #1 Know your flood hazard
x Know your flood risk
x Contact your floodplain manager to find out if your
property is in a floodplain
x Check if your home or business is in a
Special Flood Hazard Area
TOPIC #2 Insure your property for your flood
hazard
x Get flood insurance ahead of time
x Insure your property
x There is a 30-day waiting period for the policy to take place
TOPIC #3 Protect people from the flood hazard
x Put your 3-day emergency kit together
x Follow evacuation orders
x Learn the best route to high ground
TOPIC #4 Protect your property from the flood
hazard
x Protect your home from flood threats
x Prepare your home
x Sandbags can offer protection against a foot or less of floodwater
x Get sandbags before a flood
TOPIC #5 Build responsibly
x Build responsibly in floodplains
x Comply with development requirements
x Check with your city/county floodplain manager before you build
TOPIC #6 Protect natural floodplain functions
x Keep creeks clean and flowing
x Keep debris and trash out of our streams
x Don’t pollute, dump, or drain anything in creeks
Additional Outreach Topic Messages
(only one message per topic)
TOPIC #7 Develop an emergency plan x Develop an emergency plan TOPIC #8 Download disaster apps x Download disaster emergency apps TOPIC #9 Understand shallow flooding risks––
don’t drive through standing water
x Understand shallow flooding risks - don’t drive through standing water
The 2021 PPI Committee worked between the meetings to draft the 2021 PPI and review the extensive list of outreach and flood response projects (Attachment 2).
Based on the 2021 PPI Committee’s evaluation of the 2015 PPI, the consensus was that most of the 2015 PPI flood risk reduction messages were still relevant, so only minor edits were incorporated as needed.
This became the basis for the 2021 PPI; therefore, no additional FEMA review was required, as the 2015 PPI already ensured its provisions were fully compliant with FEMA requirements.
FEMA's ISO CRS Specialist and Technical Reviewers determine how many CRS points the 2021 PPI activities will earn. The PPI Committee estimates that of the possible 350 points for Activity 330, each CRS community could earn up to 300+/—points for PPI efforts.
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Once Valley Water approved the 2021 PPI (5-Year Plan), the final document was provided to the 2021 PPI Committee to present to their governing bodies for adoption and implementation.
Table 1. Dates of 2021 PPI Adoption shows each agency's 2021 PPI approval dates; all 11 CRS communities have adopted the 2021 PPI.
Table 1. Adoption Dates of the 2021 PPI
Community Date Presented Adopted
Santa Clara Valley
Water District 4/27/21 X
City of Cupertino 8/17/21 X
City of Gilroy 7/01/21 X
City of Los Altos 7/13/21 X
Town of Los Altos Hills
(*non-CRS community)
Not required Not required
Town of Los Gatos
(*non-CRS community)
Not required Not required
City of Milpitas 5/18/21 X
City of Morgan Hill 6/16/21 X
City of Mountain View 6/22/21 X
City of Palo Alto 6/14/21 X
City of San Jose 11/16/21 X
City of Santa Clara 7/06/21 X
County of Santa Clara
(*non-CRS community)
Not required Not required
City of Saratoga
(*non-CRS community)
Not required Not required
City of Sunnyvale 6/29/21 X
Total Approved 11
*Non-CRS communities are encouraged to participate in the ongoing efforts and initiatives of the Santa Clara County CRS Users Group and/or PPI Committee; however, those who opted to participate in the 2021 PPI are not required to adopt the PPI or share annual evaluation reports with their governing bodies.
III. ANNUAL EVALUATION REPORTS
The 2021 PPI states that the 2021 PPI Committee will meet at least once yearly to evaluate the PPI and incorporate any needed revisions. This meeting is coordinated in conjunction with the ongoing CRS User’s Group meetings, which occur at least twice a year.
The evaluation will cover the following:
Ɣ Review of projects that were completed.
Ɣ Evaluate progress toward outcomes.
Ɣ Provide recommendations on projects that have not been completed.
Ɣ Provide recommendations for new projects not previously identified.
Ɣ Address any Target Audience changes; and
Ɣ Assess the program's impact during an actual flood event if one has occurred.
The 2021 PPI Committee prepares the annual evaluation report for submission with each CRS community’s annual CRS recertification package (or scheduled 5-year cycle visits). The annual evaluation report is then shared with each CRS community governing body as an informational item.
Section V. 2024 Santa Clara County CRS Users Group/PPI Committee Meetings – Monitoring and Evaluating the 2021 PPI of this annual evaluation report summarizes the meetings held to develop the FY24 Annual Evaluation Report (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI).
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Table 2 below shows how each community expects to share the FY24 Annual Evaluation Report with its governing body.
Table 2. How the 2021 PPI FY24 Annual Evaluation Report, Year 3 will be shared with the Community’s Governing Body
Community Method for Sharing
Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Non-Agenda Item City of Cupertino Consent Item Council Agenda
City of Gilroy Consent Calendar
City of Los Altos Council Informational Staff Report
Town of Los Altos Hill (*non-CRS community) Not required Town of Los Gatos (*non-CRS community) Not required
City of Milpitas Memo to City Council
City of Morgan Hill Council Consent Calendar
City of Mountain View Council Weekly Update “Council
Connection”
City of Palo Alto Informational Staff Report
City of San Jose Council Consent Calendar
City of Santa Clara Council Consent Calendar
County of Santa Clara (*non-CRS community) Not required City of Saratoga (*non-CRS community) Not required
City of Sunnyvale City Manager’s “Update Sunnyvale”
*Non-CRS communities are not required to share annual evaluation reports with their governing bodies.
IV. 2021 PPI ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR FY24
The 2021 PPI Committee identified three efforts needed from each CRS community to prepare and finalize subsequent annual evaluation reports.
1. Governing bodies must adopt the 2021 PPI (Table 1. Adoption dates of the 2021 PPI). The 2021 PPI Committee must prepare an annual evaluation report and share it with its governing body as informational items (Table 2. How the 2021 PPI Annual Evaluation Report for FY24, Year 3 will be shared with the Community’s Governing Body).
2. For each fiscal year (July 1 - June 30), the communities must implement and monitor the outreach/flood response projects identified in Appendix A, CRS Creditable Outreach and Flood Response Projects by CRS Community of the 2021 PPI (Attachment 2).
3. The PPI Committee must review and consider the ‘New Initiatives’ identified in the 2021 PPI (page 66) for advancing flood risk reduction efforts.
Governing Bodies Approval: All 11 CRS communities’ governing bodies, including Valley Water, adopted the 2021 PPI. Each agency (Community) shows the approval dates in Table 1 noted above.
Tracking System: The 2021 PPI is multi-jurisdictional and includes 15 agencies (11 CRS communities and four non-CRS communities). Tracking implementation is quite complex compared to a single-agency PPI. As the informal lead agency, Valley Water oversees the record-keeping to ensure consistency throughout the county.
An electronic file-sharing system, Egnyte, is set up with folders for each community to file and share documents related to the 109 potential outreach/flood response projects identified in the 2021 PPI and all CRS-related documentation. This also includes a comprehensive spreadsheet tracking which lists outreach projects accomplished in any given fiscal year by each community (Attachment 2). This spreadsheet, along with the annual evaluation report, will be submitted with annual CRS recertifications or as part of scheduled 5-year cycle visits.
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ISO assigns credit for Valley Water outreach/flood response projects to all Santa Clara County CRS communities’ ratings. Some communities also choose to carry out and report on their own outreach/flood response projects, in addition to those of Valley Water. These projects are shown on the composite spreadsheet (Attachment 2 - Appendix A from 2021 SC County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI noting FY24 Project Accomplishments) and include input from each agency.
The PPI Committee discussed the benefits of using the Egnyte shared-filing system for tracking the 2021 PPI outreach/flood response projects and all CRS-related documentation. The PPI Committee also discussed the importance of ensuring each agency regularly uploads its CRS documentation. These benefits are:
- Information Share/Knowledge Transfer: CRS communities can view each other’s program documentation. When a community improves its CRS rating, another community can access the documents submitted to determine how the CRS credited activities helped improve the score. - Document Repository: A central location for CRS-related documentation, organized to mirror the CRS Coordinator’s Manual (by community/activity/element), proves helpful when a community experiences staff turnover.
- Documentation Submittals: CRS documents are organized and easy to share with the CRS Specialists conducting cycle visits and/or annual recertification.
Summary of PPI Projects Accomplished in FY24
Attachment 2 of this annual evaluation report includes the complete list of outreach/flood response projects. It lists all projects proposed in the 2021 PPI, with a “Project Accomplishments” column noting actions taken during the third year, FY24 of the 2021 PPI.
Audiences Projects Accomplished
Community at Large (CAL) 81 potential projects, 64 accomplished Residents and Businesses in the Special Flood
Hazard Area (SFHA)
18 potential projects, 16 accomplished
Messengers to Other Target Audiences
(Organizations & Businesses Serving the
Community)
10 potential projects, 10 were accomplished
*Total Accomplished Projects 90 of 109
* Note: All projects carried out by CRS communities were accomplished in FY24. Variance in the number of potential projects versus accomplished projects is due to no updates from non-CRS communities, which is not required for this annual evaluation report.
These numbers go well beyond the minimum requirements of the CRS program for PPI credit under Activity 330; we anticipate all CRS communities will receive the maximum number of credits for our collective efforts in FY24.
Valley Water’s Outreach/Flood Response Projects
The 2021 PPI Committee identified the outreach/flood response projects for each community. The implementation of these projects is reflected in the ‘FY24 (Year 3) of the 2021 PPI Project Accomplishments’ column of Attachment 2.
FY24 Annual Flood Awareness Campaign
Valley Water's FY24 Flood Awareness Campaign (Attachment 3 for more details) theme was "Get Flood Ready.
You Live In a Flood Zone.” Valley Water's outreach employed digital geo-targeting technologies to reach businesses and residents in the flood zone. The campaign sought to drive awareness of flood risk, encourage residents to sign up for emergency alerts, and know where to find sandbags. Our materials emphasized our efforts to reduce the risk of flooding by working on capital improvement projects and showcasing our crews' work before, during, and after a storm emergency to keep the community safe from flooding. The overarching message was that we are ready and ask everyone to take steps to be flood-ready.
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CRS Communities Outreach/Flood Response Projects
Other Community Engagement Efforts
October officially kicked off the flood season. CRS staff regularly met with the California Department of Water Resources and state-wide partner agencies (communities and local, state, and federal agencies) to discuss the flood season, including sharing information about flood risk and how to prepare, and the 12th Annual California Flood Preparedness Week (CFPW). On September 26, 2023, Valley Water’s Board passed a resolution declaring October 21-28, 2023, as CFPW in Santa Clara County. Valley Water set-up a “Get Flood Ready” display in our Headquarters’ lobby. The resolution and display encourage residents and businesses to “Get Flood Ready” by preparing for the flood season.
Valley Water CRS staff provided materials for the Office of Communications’ Flood Preparedness 2023 Press Conference held on October 25, 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5CbaVSWIuw). The Flood Preparedness Press Conference marked the launch of Valley Water’s 2023 flood campaign and coincided with California Flood Preparedness Week (CFPW).
Valley Water, the County of Santa Clara, and the City of San Jose are preparing for a strong El Niño and the possibility of extreme winter storms. Watch the news conference to learn about the National Weather Service's winter outlook forecast and an outline of our joint flood emergency preparedness efforts.
Valley Water CEO, staff, and then Chair John Varela, Valley Water Board of Directors; Brian Garcia, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service SF Bay Area/Monterey; Supervisor Sylvia Arenas, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, District 1, and Councilmember Domingo Candelas, San Jose City Council, District 8 were in attendance.
The event was live-streamed on Valley Water’s Facebook page. Valley Water staff showcased our Stream Maintenance Program heavy equipment and set up a sandbagging demo booth and an emergency kit table similar to the one displayed in Valley Water’s headquarters lobby at the onset of CFPW and remains throughout the flood season.
“Get Flood Ready” HQ lobby table display with sample contents encouraging visitors and staff to create a three-day emergency kit.
In November 2023, Valley Water presented and hosted a booth on flood preparedness at the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) City of San José District 5 Emergency Preparedness Event at the Mayfair Community Center in San José. Attendees included the San José Fire Department, the American Red Cross, the San José Neighborhood Watch Program, CERT volunteers, and members of the public.
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In November, Valley Water, along with other emergency preparedness organizations, presented flood preparedness tips at the Mayfair Community Center in San José.
In December 2023, the Organization for Latino Affairs (OLA) provided Valley Water’s emergency starter kits, English and Spanish flood preparedness information, and giveaways to approximately 500 attendees at the Santa Visits Alviso Foundation event in San José.
In February 2024, Valley Water partnered with Sacred Heart Community Service to provide free emergency starter kits and multilingual educational materials to distribute at events to help residents “Get Flood Ready!” In addition, Valley Water hosted a booth with “Get Flood Ready!” materials at the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition’s King Tide Ride Event 2024 held on February 10, 2024, at Riverwalk Park in San Jose.
Valley Water provides “Get Flood Ready!” materials and tips at Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition’s King Tide Ride event in the Alviso community in north San José.
In April 2024, Valley Water participated in two emergency preparedness events to share the “Get Flood Ready” message. Staff hosted a booth at the Eggstravaganza Family Event organized by the Strong Neighborhood Initiative Program Mayfair Neighborhood Advisory Council in San Jose, which had more than 350 attendees. Valley
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Water also participated in an educational workshop with 40 attendees at The Links, Incorporated “Emergency Preparedness: Safety Now, Peace Later” event at the African American Community Service Agency in San Jose.
Valley Water provided flood-preparedness materials at the Eggstravaganza Family Event in San Jose.
Valley Water Education Outreach Program
Valley Water’s Education Outreach includes flood awareness messaging in year-round classroom lessons. A dedicated flood-focused lesson is offered from October through April. Valley Water’s role as a flood protection agency is introduced in all lessons so that participants in Education Outreach programs know that flood protection is one of Valley Water’s core objectives in Santa Clara County.
The following are the Education Outreach efforts from October 2023 April 2024.
Flood-Focused Programs
Education Outreach offers two lessons focused on flood awareness and preparedness: The Three Little Pigs and the Bad Weather Wolf for transitional kindergarten through second grade, and Watershed Maps for second and third grades.
The results of the Flood-Focused Programs delivered are as follows:
x 82 lessons
x 2,142 students
x 82 educators
Flood Awareness Messaging
In addition to Flood-Focused Programs, Education Outreach provided additional flood awareness messaging in general classroom presentations, assemblies, libraries, and public events.
The results of the general flood protection messaging are as follows:
x 241 events
x 8,021 students
x 343 educators
x 2,211 members of the public in Santa Clara County
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Community Events and Engagement
Booth Support at Events
Valley Water staff made a concerted effort to actively participate in community events, including community festivals and emergency preparedness affairs, particularly in communities and neighborhoods in or near flood zones. In FY24 (from September 2023 – May 2024), Valley Water and the communities’ staff hosted 25 booths and distributed flood preparedness information on flood safety and emergency preparedness materials, including Valley Water’s annual FPM. Those events are listed below:
1) 2023 Santos Family 17th Annual Car Show, Alviso, CA – 9/2/23 2) Silicon Valley Fall Festival (Day n Night Festival), Cupertino, CA – 9/9/23 3) Mountain View Art & Wine Festival – 9/9 – 9/10/23
4) Viva Calle, San Jose, CA – 9/10/23
5) Picnic by the Lake Multicultural Festival and Resource Fair, San Jose, CA – 9/20/23 6) County Parks La Fuente Celebration, San Jose, CA – 9/23/23 7) Children’s Moon Festival. San Jose, CA – 9/30/23
8) Assembly Member Ash Kalra’s Veggie Fest, San Jose, CA – 10/7/23 9) Supervisor Lee’s Day on the Bay, Alviso, CA – 10/14/23 10) Bay Area Diwali Festival of Lights, Cupertino, CA – 10/14/23 11) Pumpkins in the Park, San Jose, CA – 10/14/3
12) Shoreline 40th Anniversary Event, Mountain View, CA – 10/15/23 13) Teatro Vision Dia de Los Muertos Matinee, San Jose, CA – 10/20/23 14) South Asian Cultural Association of Sunnyvale’s Diwali Festival – 10/21/23 15) Morgan Hill Kidz Fest and Safe Trick or Treat – 10/28/23 16) City of Morgan Hill Fourth Saturday Downtown Event – 10/28/23 17) D8 Family Fall Festival, San Jose, CA – 10/28/23
18) Santa Visits Alviso – 12/9/23
19) Vietnamese American Roundtable Lunar New Year, San Jose, CA – 2/3/24 20) VMC Foundation Women’s Leadership & Policy Summit, San Jose, CA – 3/23/24 21) AAUW Wildflower Run, Morgan Hill, CA – 3/24/24
22) Cupertino Earth and Arbor Day Festival – 4/20/24
23) Emergency Preparedness Workshop, San Jose, CA – 4/27/24 24) Tech Interactive Tech Challenge, San Jose, CA – 4/28/24 25) Berryessa Art Festival, San Jose, CA – 5/11/24
Speakers Bureau Program
In FY24, Valley Water's ‘Let’s Talk Water Speakers Bureau Program’ reached the 22 organizations listed below. All general presentations mention flood protection and the need to ‘Get Flood Ready’ regardless of the county’s drought status. They also include links to Valley Water’s ‘Flood Ready’ information and resources webpage (ValleyWater.org/floodready), the hotline to call to report obstructions in creeks, and flood preparedness collateral available for all in-person events.
Valley Water’s Speakers Bureau Program can customize presentations to update community groups on waterspecific issues and provide updates on projects in their area. The FY24 presentations that included flood preparedness information are listed below.
1) June 2, 2023 – Rotary Club of Saratoga luncheon (FY23) 2) June 12, 2023 – Almaden Valley Community Association meeting (FY23) 3) June 22, 2023 – Gilroy Sons in Retirement meeting (FY23) 4) July 11, 2023 – Morgan Hill Kiwanis Club meeting
5) July 19, 2023 – Rotary Club of Morgan Hill meeting
6) July 25, 2023 – After Hours Rotary Club of Gilroy meeting 7) August 3, 2023 – Evergreen Community Roundtable
8) October 4, 2023 – Almaden Senior Association meeting
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9) November 16, 2023 – San Jose Sons in Retirement meeting 10) November 29, 2023 – Rocketship School Parents meeting 11) December 1, 2023 – Leadership Sunnyvale meeting
12) December 7, 2023 – Palo Alto Kiwanis Club meeting
13) January 8, 2024 – Berryessa Citizen Advisory Committee 14) January 26, 2024 – Valley Water Next Gen Career Pathways 15) February 4, 2024 – Unitarian Fellowship of Los Gatos 16) February 9, 2024 – The Forum
17) February 28, 2024 – Lions Club of Willow Glenn meeting 18) March 4, 2024 – Leadership Morgan Hill meeting
19) March 12, 2024 – Oak Grove Neighborhood Association meeting 20) March 19, 2024 – Santa Clara City Libraries
21) April 4, 2024 – Valley Water 101 Academy
22) April 18, 2024 – Kaiser Permanente Physicians
V. 2024 SANTA CLARA COUNTY CRS USERS GROUP/PPI COMMITTEE MEETINGS – MONITORING AND EVALUATING THE 2021 PPI
The FY24 Santa Clara County CRS Users Group/PPI Committee meetings were held on March 26, 2024 and May 29, 2024. Attendance by CRS communities was high. Staff from some non-CRS communities, external stakeholders, and other interested parties were also in attendance. Agendas, meeting notes, and attendance sheets for each meeting are included (Attachments 4-8).
As required by CRS, the objective of the March and May 2024 meetings was to monitor the implementation of the 2021 PPI, determine if the desired outcomes were achieved, and discuss whether any changes to the 2021 PPI were needed to complete this annual evaluation report. The PPI Committee agreed that the 2021 PPI messaging and projects would remain the same for the duration of the 2021 PPI, which sunsets in 2026.
VI. FUTURE MESSAGING – Other New Initiatives
The PPI Committee identified several opportunities to expand on existing initiatives and initiate new ones as follows:
1. Continue and expand the standardized flood message prepared for each community to include flood messages in utility bills yearly, including PG&E.
2. Expand on partnerships with local chambers of commerce to disseminate and share flood preparedness information.
3. Expand on outreach to the Asian and Latino communities who live in flood-prone areas.
4. Expand on outreach to ‘hot spots’/flood-prone areas by hosting on-site or virtual public events.
5. Expand the reach to local homeowners’ associations (HOA)s and apartment associations (i.e., Executive Council of Homeowners [ECHO]).
6. Expand the reach to residents in historically underserved and low-income communities through partnerships with organizations that serve these communities (i.e., Second Harvest Food Bank and others).
7. Communities could pursue FEMA Matching Funds Grants for severe Repetitive Loss Areas.
8. Review and expand other public information activities, such as Flood Protection Assistance (Activity 360) and Flood Insurance Promotion (Activity 370).
9. Develop a region-wide Flood Response Preparations (FRP) messaging plan.
The messages the PPI Committee originally chose are still relevant to Santa Clara County. The committee will continue to increase its efforts to encourage people to prepare personal/family emergency plans and be floodready. This will be incorporated into the flood preparedness outreach starting every fall. The PPI Committee will also continue coordinating efforts with Valley Water’s Education Outreach Program to promote flood preparedness in local schools.
The PPI Committee recommends continued use of social media for messaging. Mobile usage among individuals has increased exponentially over the years, and online platforms are rapidly adjusting to mobile-friendly
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standards. This provides an excellent opportunity to modernize campaign ad efforts by utilizing social media and digital advertising to increase exposure and reach more residents in Santa Clara County. Furthermore, these modern advertising methods allow for specialized demographic targeting to reach a narrow and defined audience, improving the ability to reach vulnerable populations effectively.
In support of our preparedness messaging, the PPI Committee will continue to promote the importance of having family emergency plans and kits ready before an emergency/flood event occurs.
The PPI Committee will continue to promote the American Red Cross All-Hazard App, which monitors alerts for severe weather, including floods, and the Floodsmart.gov and Ready.gov websites. The communities will distribute American Red Cross Emergency Contact Cards at events throughout the county.
VII. CONCLUSION
Overall, the CRS Users Group/PPI Committee successfully implemented the 2021 PPI in FY24. The 2021 PPI allowed PPI Committee members to mutually decide which flood risk reduction messages are most appropriate for our residents and identify how to deliver these messages effectively. Participating in the 2021 PPI aims to enhance the effectiveness of the flood risk messages to residents, reduce flood risks within Santa Clara County, and earn valuable CRS credit points when identified outreach projects are implemented.
The CRS Users Group/PPI Committee will continue its outreach efforts through FY25. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Attachments for submission to Valley Water Board, City Councils/Managers, and FEMA as part of 2023 Annual Recertification/5-year Verification Package, as required:
1. Members of the Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional 2021 PPI Committee
2. Appendix A from 2021 SC County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI noting FY24 Outreach Project Accomplishments 3. Valley Water's FY24 Flood Awareness Campaign
4. March 26, 2024, Santa Clara County CRS Users Group Meeting Agenda
5. March 26, 2024, Santa Clara County CRS Users Group Meeting Attendance Sheet
6. March 26, 2024, Santa Clara County CRS Users Group Meeting Notes
7. May 29, 2024, Santa Clara County CRS Users Group Meeting Agenda
8. May 29, 2024, Santa Clara County CRS Users Group Meeting Attendance Sheet
9. May 29, 2024, Santa Clara County CRS Users Group Meeting Notes
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ATTACHMENT 1
Table 1. Original Members of the Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional 2021 PPI Committee Community Local Government
Representative and Alternates External Stakeholders
County of Santa
Clara
Chris Freitas, Sr. Civil Engineer
Neville R. Pereira, PE, Development Services Manager,
Department of Planning and Development, Floodplain
Manager
Marsha Hovey, CADRE Board Chair
Cupertino Chad Mosley, Assistant Public Works Director/City Engineer, Public Works Department, Floodplain
Manager
Jennifer Chu, Senior Civil Engineer
Public Works Department
Jim Oberhofer, Emergency Coordinator
Cupertino ARES/RACES
Gilroy Gary Heap, City Engineer
Public Works Department
Jorge Duran, Senior Civil Engineer, Floodplain Manager
Public Works Department
Merna Leal, City of Gilroy resident
Los Altos Steven Golden, Senior Planner, Floodplain Manager Andrea Trese, Associate Civil Engineer
Christopher Wilson, Operations Manager,
Los Altos Suburban District, California Water
Company
Los Altos Hill Carl Cahill, City Manager, Floodplain Manager Nichol Bowersox, Public Works Director/
City Engineer
Christine Hoffmann, Assistant Engineer (DPW)
Phil Witt, General Manager Purissima Hills
Water District
Los Gatos WooJae Kim, P.E, Town Engineer
Parks and Public Works, Floodplain Manager
Annamaria Swardenski, Swardenski
Consulting
Milpitas Steven Erickson, City Engineer/Engineering Director, Floodplain Manager
Kan Xu, Principal Civil Engineer,
Engineering Land Development Section
Brian Petrovic, Associate Civil Engineer
Engineering Land Development Section
Elizabeth Koo, Administrative Analyst, Engineering Land Development Section
Warren Wettenstein, Chairman of the
Economic Development & Trade
Commission and President of the Milpitas
Chamber
Morgan Hill Maria Angeles, Senior Civil Engineer, Floodplain Manager, CFM
Charlie Ha, Supervising Civil Engineer
Engineering & Utilities Department
Swanee Edwards, City of Morgan Hill
resident
Mountain View Renee Gunn, Senior Civil Engineer, Public Works Department
Gabrielle Abdon, Assistant Engineer, CFM
Kevin Conant, PG&E
Palo Alto Rajeev Hada, Project Engineer, CFM
Public Works Department, Engineering Services Division, Floodplain Manager
Dan Melick, CERT Volunteer
City of Palo Alto resident
San Jose Arlene Lew, Principal Engineering Technician
Vivian Tom, Senior Transportation Specialist
Department of Public Works Development Services
Division
Shari Carlet, City of San Jose resident,
certified Floodplain Manager
Santa Clara Evelyn Liang, Senior Civil Engineer
Falguni Amin, Principal Engineer
Public Works – Engineering
Kevin Moore, Retired City Council member
Saratoga David Dorcich, PE, QSP/D, Associate Civil Engineer, Community Development Department, Floodplain
Manager
Rebecca Gallardo, Real Estate Agent for
Intero, a Berkshire Hathaway Affiliate,
servicing all areas of the Bay Area
Sunnyvale Tamara Davis, Senior Management Analyst Jeff Holzman, Director, Real Estate District Development Google
Agnes Veith, City of Sunnyvale resident
Valley Water Trisha Howard, Program Administrator
Paola Giles, Public Information Representative III
Sherilyn Tran, Office of Civic Engagement Unit Manager
Nikki Rowe, American Red Cross
Note: Since the development of the 2021 PPI there may have been changes to a community’s 2021 PPI Committee members (either the local government representatives and/or the external stakeholders). Those member changes are noted on the meeting attendance sheets.
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CRS Creditable Outreach and Flood Response Projects by CRS Community Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI 2021
FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
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Community At Large(CAL)
- Multilingual
Communities
- Groups with
Special EvacuationNeeds
- New Residents,
Visitors andTourists
Topic 1: Know your flood hazard
Message 1A - Know your flood riskMessage 1B - Contact your floodplain manager to find out ifyour property is in a floodplainMessage 1C - Check if your home or business is in a SpecialFlood Hazard Area Topic 2: Insure your property for your flood hazard
Message 2A - Get flood insurance ahead of timeMessage 2B – Insure your propertyMessage 2C – There is a 30-day waiting period for the policy totake place Topic 3: Protect people from the flood hazard
Message 3A - Put your 3-day emergency kit togetherMessage 3B - Follow evacuation ordersMessage 3C – Learn the best route to high groundVVW cTopic 4: Protect your property from the flood hazard
Message 4A - Protect your property from the flood hazardMessage 4B - Prepare your homeMessage 4C - Sandbags can offer protection against a foot orless of floodwaterMessage 4E - Get sandbags before a flood Topic 5: Build responsibility
Message 5A - Build responsibly in floodplainsMessage 5B - Comply with development requirementsMessage 5C - Check with your local floodplain manager beforeyou build Educate our community on floodprotection and preparedness measures (VW OP #01) Multi-language Countywide Mailer(CWM) to every postal address in Santa Clara County(Topics 1-5 and 7, 8) Valley WaterCommunications
Each lateOctober orNovember
All Santa ClaraCounty CRSCommunitiesC
Valley Water’s Countywide Mailer (CWM) ‘Floodingcan happen. Anytime. Anywhere. Get Flood Ready’was mailed countywide from November 17 throughDecember 5, 2023, to 755,210 addresses. The CWMincluded an update on Valley Water's floodprotection projects, stream maintenance, and stormpreparation efforts. The mailer also included amultilingual section outlining the 9 CRS flood tips:know your flood risk, get flood insurance ahead oftime, develop an emergency plan and kit, protectyour home from flood threats, keep creeks clean andflowing, sign up for emergency alerts (AlertSCC andthe American Red Cross Disaster Emergency App),build responsibly in floodplains, and avoidfloodwaters - understanding shallow flooding: TurnAround Don’t Drown®.https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/valleywater.org.us-west-1/s3fs-public/2023%20CountywideMailer.pdfAll Santa Clara communities support and promoteValley Water’s outreach projects. (VW OP #02) Distributes a soft copy of our FloodSafety Tips brochure for all SCC CRS communities’ use(print hard copies to distribute at events and/or postof flood preparedness webpages) (Topics 1-9) Valley WaterCommunications
Annually,November/December
All Santa ClaraCounty CRSCommunities
‘Get Flood Ready. You Live in a Flood Zone’multilingual postcards that included the nine CRStopics and supporting messages, and links to variousflood readiness/preparedness webpages, were 3 A stakeholder can be any agency, organization, or person (other than the community itself) that supports the message. Stakeholders can be: an insurance company that publishes a brochures on flood insurance, even if it is set out at City Hall; a local newspaper that publishes a flood or hurricane season supplement each year; FEMA, if, for example, a FEMA brochure is used as an informational material; schools that implement outreach activities; a local newspaper; a neighborhood or civic association that sponsors and hosts a presentation by a community employee; a utility company that includes pertinentarticles in its monthly bills; or presentations made by state or FEMA staff at a Risk Map meeting. 2 Each September, all deliverables need to be reported to Valley Water for tracking purposes.1 Message Topics: Outreach Projects (OP): Topic 1 – Know your flood hazard; Topic 2 – Insure your property for your flood hazard; Topic 3 – Protect people from the flood hazard; Topic 4 – Protect your property from the hazard; Topic 5 – Build responsibly; Topic 6 – Protect natural floodplain functions; Topic 7 – Develop a Family Emergency Plan; Topic 8 – Download disaster Apps; Topic 9 – Understand shallow flooding risks – “Don’t drive through standing water.” Flood Response Preparations (FRP): What to Do Before, During and After a Flood/Storm 1 ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
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and Outreach Project #)
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Topic 6: Protect natural floodplain functions
Message 6A -Keep creeks clean and flowingMessage 6B - Keep debris and trash out of our streamsMessage 6C - Don’t pollute, dump, or drain anything in creeks Topic 7: Develop a Family Emergency Plan
Message 7A: Develop an emergency plan
Topic 8: Download disaster Apps
Message 8A - Download disaster emergency apps
Topic 9: Understand shallow flooding risks – don’t drive throughstanding water Message 9A - Understand shallow flooding risks - don’t drivethrough standing waterFEMA’s message: “Turn Around Don't Drown®.” produced and distributed to 49,806 properties in theFEMA SFHA in October 2023.Additionally, Valley Water’s floodplain mailerfeatured QR codes, a magnet with important floodsafety websites, a detachable emergency phone list,photos of our most recent flood protection projects,a slideshow of our storm management efforts, whichinclude operating an EOC, filling sandbags,monitoring stream levels, and removing blockages, AQR code led to a video showcasing our streammaintenance work to prevent flooding.https://youtu.be/XCEixz0JzFQ?si=X7llwwnCSJolLdkpA trifold ‘You Live in a Flood Zone– Get Flood Ready.Do You Know What to Do Before, During, and After aFlood?’ was mailed in January 2024.In mid-October 2023, Valley Water’s 2023-2024Flood Awareness Outreach Partner Social MediaToolkit, 'Get Flood Ready', was available fordownload to all partnering agencies, including CRScommunities. The toolkit provided digital and socialmedia banners and animations featuring thecampaign’s calls to action: Get flood ready, knowyour risk, sign up for emergency alerts, and findsandbags. The toolkit included multilingual graphicsshowcasing the 9 CRS tips and offered theopportunity to request co-branded bill inserts andbanners.The toolkit includes the following items whichcontained messages for all nine flood awareness tips(PPI CRS message topics) for all Santa Clara Countycommunities to use:
● Get Flood Ready● Know your risk● Sign up for emergency alerts● Find sandbags● Flood zone cards and banners● Multilingual Flood Ready tips 2 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
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Cupertino distributes copies of Valley Water’s FloodSafety Tips at various fairs/events (i.e., Earth DayFestival) and provides additional copies for the publicon display at City Hall. Cupertino also has a directlink to Valley Water’s annual mailer and Flood Readywebpage on the City’s “Floodplain Management”webpage.Los Altos distributes brochures available at City Hall,library, and community center. They are alsodistributed at community events (emergencytraining, wine stroll, etc.).Morgan Hill hosted ‘National Night Out’ onAugust 1, 2023. Flood preparedness information(Valley Water floodplain mailer, red ‘Get FloodReady’ which includes an emergency supply list, totebags, etc.) were distributed and general Flood Factswere posted for the public’s information. Morgan Hillalso held other events (Leadership Morgan Hill inFebruary 2023 and Public Works Week in May 2023)where flood prepared information was shared.Valley Water’s flood safety brochures were alsoavailable at City Hall.Mountain View promotes and distributes ValleyWater’s Flood Safety Tips and emergency kits at fairs(i.e., Earth Day Celebration, Community SummerKick-Off Event). Valley Water’s flood safety brochuresare available at city hall.Palo Alto promotes and distributes Valley Water’sFlood Safety Tip and emergency kits at fairs (i.e.,Earth Day Festival) and provides as an informationalitem on Utility Inserts sent every year. Valley Water’sflood safety brochures are available at city hall.The City of Santa Clara has hard copy brochuresavailable at city hall and central library. They aredistributed at the yearly art & wine festivals as well. 3 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
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All Santa Clara communities support and promoteValley Water’s outreach projects. (CUP OP #03) Flood notice in the local newsletter,“The Cupertino Scene” (Topics 1-9) City of Cupertino Each October
or Novemberissue
N/A Cupertino changed the frequency of the local
newsletter from monthly to quarterly. Therefore, theannual flood preparation article was published in theSeptember 2023 issue of “The Cupertino Scene”. (LA OP #04) Two (2) newspapers ads, in the Los AltosTown Crier (Topics 1-5) City of Los Altos Each fall N/A Los Altos published two newspaper ads titled “Assess Your Flood Risk and Flood Insurance Availability” on10/4/23 and on 10/11/23 in the Los Altos Town Crier. (LAH OP #05) The town’s “Our Town” quarterlynewsletter includes information on floodpreparedness. The newsletter is mailed out town-wideand is also available online on the town’s website(Topics TBD during cycle visit) Town of Los AltosHills
Each fall N/A Town of Los Altos Hills: No update available - non-CRS participating community.
(LAH OP #06) The town distributes various floodpreparedness and safety materials at events, includingValley Water’s annual floodplain mailer andpromotional item (e.g., emergency starter kits, GetFlood Ready Emergency Supply Checklist tote bags,etc.), FEMA flood insurance information, ReadySCC,and American Red Cross Flood apps, AlertSCC,sandbag guidelines, flood protection project-specificnotices, FEMA NFIP materials, and preparednessactivity/coloring books, etc.) to the public Town of Los AltosHills
Annually,spring and latesummer
N/A Town of Los Altos Hills: No update available -
non-CRS participating community.
(MIL OP #07) “Flood Public Advisory” brochure tocommunity at large (Topics 1-6) City of Milpitas Each December
to January
N/A Milpitas: Utility bill inserts was sent to every address in Milpitas in May 2024, and will be sent out withinthe fiscal year going forward. This was sent out infour languages (English, Vietnamese, Spanish, andChinese). (MH OP #08) Sends a citywMide “Flood Report”brochure (Topics 1-9) City of MorganHill
Annually, closeto or duringthe start of therainy season N/A The City of Morgan Hill will mail out the citywide
“2024 Flood Report” in July/August 2024.
(MV OP #09) Sends “The View” citywide newsletter,Winter version, includes information on flood risk,flood safety, and the importance of buying floodinsurance (Topics 1-9) City of MountainView
Fall newsletteredition
N/A Mountain View sent out “The View” for Fall/Winter
2023 with information on flood risk, flood safety, andthe importance of buying flood insurance (Topics 1-9) 4 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
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(XX denotes Community acronym,
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(MV OP #10) Mails a utility bill insert to all residentand businesses that contains information on flood risk,flood safety, and the importance of buying floodinsurance (Topics 9) City of MountainView
Between July -September
N/A Mountain View sent out Valley Water’s Get Flood
Ready flier as a utility billing insert to every Cityutility customer in Winter 2023/2024. (PA OP #11) Sends the “Are You Ready for WinterStorms?’ flier (aka utilities insert) to all residents andbusinesses in the City, along with their utility bills(Topics 1-9) City of Palo Alto Each Fall N/A Palo Alto sent “Are You Ready for Winter Storms?” fliers to all residents and businesses along with theirutility bills in September 2023. The social media adcampaign (i.e. Facebook, Instagram, Nextdoor) wasalso included in the utility bills that went out inSeptember 2023. (PA OP #12) Sends out utility announcement, “Anytimeit can rain, it can flood. Don’t get caught off-guard”(Topics 1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 9 – will pursue adding othertopic) City of Palo Alto Each
March/April
N/A Palo Alto sent a utility announcement as an
informational announcement on utility bills went outin December 2023. Effective FY23, the City’s PublicWorks Department shifted from the March/Apriltime frame of this announcement, to December eachyear. (PA OP #13) The city distributes various floodpreparedness and safety documents, including FEMANFIP materials for public/policyholders City of Palo Alto Year Round N/A Palo Alto distributed flood preparedness documents, including the emergency starters kit, during EarthDay Event on 4/20/24, and also makesdinformational materials available in our HQ lobby. (SC OP #14) Mails out a citywide newsletter forresidents and businesses called “Inside Santa Clara”(Topics 1-9) City of Santa Clara Each fall N/A Santa Clara: For the flood 2023 season, in-lieu of the newsletter, a Flood Ready email was sent out toresidents in 12/12/23, as well as a Utility BIll Inserton flood information in Spring 2024. The nextnewsletter is projected to be in Fall 2024.
Educate our community on floodprotection and preparedness measuresIncrease in ‘hits’ on Valley Water andcommunities Flood Protection Resourceswebpage______________________These website projects are credited underActivity 350 – Flood ProtectionInformation, element c). Flood protectionwebsite (WEB),not credited under Activity 330 (VW OP #15) Flood Ready webpage: Flood & Safety,Flood Protection Resources, includes floodplain andcountywide mailershttps://www.valleywater.org/bfloodready Valley Water Year Round All Santa Clara
County CRSCommuniohties
Valley Water’s flood protection resources landingpage includes the most current version of the annualfloodplain mailer ‘Get Flood Ready. You Live in aFlood Zone. Know your flood risk. Sign up for alerts.Get Sandbags’ (dated 9/23)https://online.flipbuilder.com/tkap/qkwt/; andCWM “‘Flooding can happen. Anytime. Anywhere.
Get Flood Ready’ (dated 10/23)
https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/valleywater.org.us-west-1/s3fs-public/2023%20CountywideMailer.pdf,; and 5 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
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Note: To receive any WEB credit, thecommunity’s website must meet thefollowing criteria:The community must check the website’slinks at least monthly, and fix those thatare no longer accurate. At least annually,the community must review the content toensure that it is still current and pertinent “You Live in a Flood Zone, Make Sure You Are Ready.
Do You Know What to Do Before, During, and After aFlood?”’ trifold (dated 12/23)https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/valleywater.org.us-west-1/s3fs-public/2023%20flood%20mailer.pdf; and‘Get Flood Ready. You Live in a Flood Zone’multilingual postcards (dated 09/23) DownloadpostcardCupertino’s “Floodplain Management” webpage hasa link that redirects to Valley Water’s Flood Readylanding page.Gilroy’s “Flood Management” and “EmergencyPreparedness” web pages link to Valley Water’sFlood ready landing page.Los Altos’ “Floodplain Management Information”web page links to Valley Water’s Flood Ready webpage.Morgan Hill’s “Floodplain Management” landingpage redirects to Valley Water’s Flood Ready landingpage.Mountain View’s “Flood Protection and InsuranceInformation” webpage links to Valley Water’s FloodReady web page.Palo Alto’s “Flood Information and Winter StormPreparedness” webpage redirects to Valley Water’sFlood Ready landing page.City of Santa Clara’s “Flood Protection Information”web page redirected to Valley Water’s Flood Readypage. 6 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
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All Santa Clara communities flood protectionresource landing pages redirect to Valley Water’sFlood Ready landing page. (ALL OP #16) All communities’ website floodprotection resources webpage includes language thatcontains the three additional PPI priority messagesnoted below:
7. Develop an emergency plan8. Download disaster apps9. Understand shallow flooding risks––don’t drive through standing water
All Santa ClaraCountyCommunities
Year Round N/A Valley Water’s flood protection resources landing page includes the top 6 CRS priority topic messages,as well as the 3 additional messages identified in the2021 PPI (page 45). Reminders to verify requiredlanguage/links was on all communities websites wasdiscussed at both the 3/26/24 and 5/29/24 CRSUsers Group/PPI Meetings.Cupertino’s “Floodplain Management” webpage hasa link to Valley Water’s annual mailer which includesthe CRS 9 topics.Gilroy’s “Emergency Preparedness”' webpageredirects to Valley Water’s Flood Ready landing page,‘9 Essential Tips to Get Flood Ready.’ Our EmergencyPreparedness page also includes topics 7, 8, and 9.Morgan Hill’s “Flood Information, FloodplainManagement” webpage currently includes a link tothe “2023 Flood Report” that includes the CRS 9topics. The link will be updated when the “2024Flood Report” version is available in July/August2024.Mountain View’s “Flood Protection and InsuranceInformation” webpage has a link to Valley Water’sannual mailer which includes the CRS 9 topics.Palo Alto’s utility insert includes all three additionalPPI priority messages, and the Flood Information andWinter Storm Preparedness website has a link to theutility insert which shows the three additional PPI.City of Santa Clara’s “Flood Protection Information”web page includes resources for preparedness. 7 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
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(XX denotes Community acronym,
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(SCC OP #17) Hosts a “Storm and Flood Informationand Resources” webpage available for all residents inthe county, includes re-directing towww.floodsmart.govhttps://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/Pages/storm.aspx Santa Clara CountyOffice of PublicAffairs
Year Round N/A Santa Clara County: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(SCC OP #18) Hosts a “Flood Safety Information”webpage, includes re-directing towww.valleywater.org/floodreadyhttps://cpd.sccgov.org/flood-safety-information Santa Clara CountyConsumerProtection Division
Year Round N/A Santa Clara County: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(SCC OP #19) Hosts a “Be a Prepared CommunityMember” webpage that includes emergencypreparedness informationhttps://emergencymanagement.sccgov.org/be-prepared-community-member Santa Clara CountyOffice ofEmergencyManagement
Year Round N/A Santa Clara County: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(SCC OP #20) Hosts a “People with Access andFunctional Needs (AFN)” webpagehttps://emergencymanagement.sccgov.org/people-access-and-functional-needs-afn Santa Clara CountyOffice ofEmergencyManagement
Year Round N/A Santa Clara County: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(CUP OP#21) Hosts a “Citizen Preparedness” webpagethat includes emergency preparedness information,includes re-directing to Valley Water’swww.valleywater.org/floodready webpagehttps://www.cupertino.org/residents/community-services-programs/emergency-services/citizen-preparedness City of CupertinoOffice ofEmergencyServices
Year Round N/A Cupertino has archived the “Citizen Preparedness” webpage and created a new “FloodplainManagement” webpage:https://www.cupertino.org/our-city/departments/public-works/permitting-development-services/floodplain-management (GIL OP #22) The city hosts an “EmergencyPreparedness” webpage Emergency Preparedness |Gilroy, CA - Official Website (cityofgilroy.org) (listed inAppendix B) City of GilroyFire Department
Year Round N/A Gilroy continues to maintain an “Emergency Preparedness” webpage, including a link thatredirects to Valley Water’s Flood Ready landing page,the National Weather Service webpage, Ready.gov,FloodSmart.gov, and the City’s Flood Managementwebpage. The Emergency Preparedness webpage isreviewed once a month and updated as needed. (LA OP #23) The city’s Public Works Department hostsa ‘Flood Zone Information’ webpage on its website(listed in Appendix B)https://www.losaltosca.gov/publicworks/page/flood-zone-information City of Los AltosPublic WorksDepartment
Year Round N/A Los Altos’ webpage is updated as needed. The webpage URL is:https://www.losaltosca.gov/publicworks/page/floodplain-management-information (LAH OP #24) The town hosts a “Flood Information”webpage on the town’s website. This webpage Town of Los AltosHills
Year Round N/A Town of Los Altos Hills: No update available - non-CRS participating community
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(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
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includes information on the PPI nine topics, includinga supporting message. The webpage redirects to thefollowing key resource websites:www.valleywater.org/floodready,www.floodsmart.org, www.ready.gov, andwww.weather.gov(LG OP #25) The town’s website encourages residentsand businesses to purchase flood insurance andredirects visitors to www.floodsmart.gov Town of Los Gatos Year Round N/A Town of Los Gatos: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(MIL OP #26) The city’s’ website has a “FloodInformation” webpage that contains information onseveral of the PPI message topics; the webpage alsoredirects to Valley Water, FEMA, NOAA,www.floodsmart.gov, www.Ready.gov, and USGSwebpagesThe city’s website also has a “Important Flood HazardInformation” webpage that contains information onseveral of the PPI message topics; the webpage alsoredirects to Valley Water, FEMA, NOAA,www.floodsmart.gov (listed in Appendix B)https://www.ci.milpitas.ca.gov/milpitas/departments/engineering/flood-information/ City of MilpitasEngineeringDepartment
Year Round N/A Milpitas: On-going.
Link:https://www.milpitas.gov/280/Flood-Information
(.MH OP #27) The city’s website has a “FloodInformation, Floodplain Management” webpage thatcontains city’s flooding information which redirects totheir Floodplain Management page and includes a linkto the city’s latest annual “Flood Report.” Thewebpage redirects Valley Water’s flood ready webpageand also contains FEMA flood informationhttp://www.morgan-hill.ca.gov/747/Flood-InformationFloodplain Management | City of Morgan Hill, CA -Official Website City of Morgan HillEngineering LandDevelopment
Year Round N/A Morgan Hill’s “Flood Information, Floodplain Management” webpage will be updated to include alink to the “2024 Flood Report” brochure which isestimated to be available in July/August 2024. 9 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
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(MH OP #28) The city’s website has an “EmergencyPreparedness’ webpage (listed in Appendix B)http://www.morgan-hill.ca.gov/133/Emergency-Preparedness City of Morgan HillPolice Department
Year Round N/A Morgan Hill continues to maintain its “Emergency Preparedness” landing page.The Emergency Preparedness landing page promotes“Do 1 Thing” a 12-month program with a goal ofassisting the community to be better prepared foremergencies and disasters. This information was alsoincluded in the “Weekly 411.” (MV OP #29) Hosts a “Flood Protection and InsuranceInformation” webpage on its website (listed inAppendix B)www.mountainview.gov/depts/pw/flood_protection.asp City of MountainView Public WorksDepartment
Year Round N/A City of Mountain View’s “Flood Protection and Insurance Information” web page includes resourcesfor preparedness and links to Valley Water’sFloodplain Mailer. (PA OP #30) Hosts a “Floodplain Management”webpage (listed in Appendix B)https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/pwd/stormwater/floodzones.asp City of Palo AltoPublic WorksDepartment
Year Round N/A Palo Alto continues to host the “Floodplain Management” webpage that has all relevantinformation regarding flood plain managementtopics. (PA OP #31) Hosts a “Flood Safety Tips” webpagewww.cityofpaloalto.org/storms; flood_safe_11-16.cdr(cityofpaloalto.org) City of Palo AltoPublic WorksDepartment
Year Round N/A Palo Alto continues to host the “Flood Information and Winter Storm Preparedness Webpage” whichhas links to the “Flood Safety Tips” flier under‘Before the Storm Additional Information.’ (PA OP #32) Hosts a ‘Creek Monitor’ webpage (listed inAppendix B)https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/pwd/creek_monitor/default.asp City of Palo AltoPublic WorksDepartment
Year Round N/A Palo Alto continues to host the real time creek monitor webpage that warns residents of imminentdanger of flooding. (PA OP #33) Hosts a “Flood Information and WinterStorm Preparedness” web page which contains usefulinformation for flood readiness (listed in Appendix B)https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/services/public_safety/flood_information_winter_storms/default.asp City of Palo AltoOffice ofEmergencyServices
Year Round N/A Palo Alto continues to host the “Flood Information and Winter Storm preparedness” website has usefulinformation on flood preparedness for before storm,during storm and after storm. (SJ OP #34) The city’s webpages includes a “FloodHazard Zones” webpage which includes information offlood preparednesshttps://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments/public-works/development-services/floodplainmanagement City of San JosePublic Works,DevelopmentServices
Year Round N/A San Jose: Website includes flood zone and flood smart information. Updated link:https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/public-works/development-services/flood-hazard-zone 10 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
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(SC OP #35) The city’s “Flood Protection Information”webpage contains valuable information on floodrelated topicshttps://www.santaclaraca.gov/our-city/departments-g-z/public-works/engineering/flood-protection (alsolisted in Appendix B) City of Santa Clara Year Round N/A Santa Clara: Website is updated and maintains flood topic information
(SAR OP #36) The city’s website encouragesresidents/businesses to purchase flood insurance andredirects visitors to www.floodsmart.gov City of Saratoga Year Round N/A Saratoga: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(SAR OP #37) The city has a “Staying Safe, WinterStorms” webpage. They have also linked the city’sWinter Storms webpage to Valley Water’s Flood Readywebpagehttps://www.saratoga.ca.us/218/Winter-Storms City of Saratoga Year Round N/A Saratoga: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(SUN OP #38) The city has a “Flood Protection”webpage Sunnyvale, CA - Flood Protection (listed inAppendix B) City of Sunnyvale Year Round N/A Sunnyvale: The City continues to maintain its flood protection website.
Topics 1-9 and supporting messages
Flood Awareness Media Campaign, including social media
Educate our community on floodprotection and preparedness measures (VW OP #39) Conducts a flood awareness mediacampaign, reaching the community at large, includingour multilingual community. Many of the Santa ClaraCounty CRS Communities recognize Valley Water’sFlood Awareness Campaign and link it on theircommunity’s flood information web page and redirectto Valley Water’s Flood Ready webpage (Topics 1-9) Campaign features social media videos and postingson various platforms(i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Nextdoor, etc.),digital banners, newspaper advertorials, radio ads,billboards, utility bill inserts for communities to use,communities redirect to ValleyWater.org/FloodReadyand television/mobile ads targeting residents who livein flood-prone areas and multilingual ethniccommunities Valley WaterCommunications
Annually, forthe duration ofthe rainyseason,typically fromNovember toApril All Santa ClaraCounty CRSCommunities
Valley Water's FY24 Flood Awareness Campaigntheme was "Get Flood Ready. You Live in a FloodZone.” Valley Water's outreach employed digitalgeo-targeting technologies to reach businesses andresidents in the flood zone. The campaign sought todrive awareness of flood risk, encourage residentsto sign up for emergency alerts, and know where tofind sandbags. Our materials emphasized ourefforts to reduce the risk of flooding by working oncapital improvement projects and showcasing ourcrews' work before, during, and after a stormemergency to keep the community safe fromflooding. The overarching message was that we areready and ask everyone to take steps to beflood-ready.An educational paid advertising campaignsupplemented Valley Water's community outreacheffort. Polling results from the prior wintercampaign supported the advertising campaign,helping to understand target audiences and theirawareness levels and explore what educationalmessages and images most appealed to them. 11 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
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The Flood Awareness Campaign lasted six months,from October 2023 to March 2024, and cost$336,000. Valley Water’s FY24 Annual FloodAwareness Campaign cemented the shift to a digitalgeo-targeted campaign supplemented by fourdirect multilingual mailings to approximately 49,806homes and businesses in or near a high-risk floodarea, as designated by the FEMA Special FloodHazard Area (SFHA).See Attachment 3 of the FY24 Annual EvaluationReport for flood awareness campaign and postcampaign survey details.Los Altos included an insert provided by Valley Waterto all residents and businesses via a refuse collectionbill insert in November 2022 (non-residential) andJanuary 2023 (residential).Morgan Hill’s flood preparedness outreach efforts forFY24 are listed below:● August 1, 2023 - Hosted ‘National Night Out.’ Flood preparedness information (Valley Waterfloodplain mailer, red ‘Get Flood Ready’ whichincludes an emergency supply list, tote bags,etc.) were distributed and general Flood Factswere posted for the public’s information. ● August 25, 2023 - Included Emergency
Preparedness resources and tips in its Weekly411.
● September 2023 - Announced in its Weekly 411
that September was Emergency PreparednessMonth. City’s Office of Emergency Services alsoheld an Emergency Preparedness Presentationon September 20, 2023 at the City’s CentennialRecreation Senior Center. ● October 2023 - Starting in July 2023, began
participating in the ongoing statewide agencycoordination calls that led up to California FloodPreparedness Week held during the week ofOctober 21-28, 2023. 12 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
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All Santa Clara communities support and promoteValley Water’s outreach projects (VW OP #40) As part of the flood awareness campaign,a ‘Get Flood Ready, Social Media and Web ResourcesGuide’ is provided to all cities/county in Santa ClaraCounty for their use as part of their outreach efforts Valley Water Upon the
completion ofthe annualFPM
All Santa ClaraCounty CRSCommunities
Valley Water also deployed a small-scalemultilingual social media campaign with the slogan"Get Flood Ready’ on social media and webplatforms. The campaign launched in winter 2023,starting with the season's first rains, and continuedthrough March 2024.A key strategy for the paid flood awareness campaignwas incorporating the 2021 Program for PublicInformation (PPI) 6 priority topics and the threeadditional outreach topics, including messagessupporting the nine topics, in Valley Water ads. Staffcrafted messages derived from Valley Water's annualFPM to residents in the SFHA.The ‘Get Flood Ready’ Partner Toolkit(https://conta.cc/46LwBzd) includes ‘MultilingualFlood Ready Tips’ for communities to share the 9 keymultilingual flood preparedness tips on social mediaor post individually as a multilingual slideshow.Download CRS tipsSee Attachment 3 of the FY24 Annual EvaluationReport for flood awareness campaign and postcampaign survey details.Los Altos has included links to the flood awarenesscampaign web resources in electronic newslettersduring the 2022/2023 flood season and on the city’swebsite.Morgan Hill’s Public Information utilizes ValleyWater’s Get Flood Ready social media and resourcesas they deem applicable on any given period.Mountain View’s “Flood Protection and InsuranceInformation” webpage has links to Valley Water’s GetFlood Ready webpage. 13 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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CRS Creditable Outreach and Flood Response Projects by CRS Community Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI 2021
FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
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Palo Alto has Valley Water’s Flood AwarenessCampaign linked on the City’s Flood Information andWinter Storm Preparedness website.Santa Clara has Valley Water’s Flood AwarenessCampaign linked on the City’s Public Works,Engineering, Flood Protection Information landingpage on their website.All Santa Clara communities flood protectionresource landing pages redirect to Valley Water’sFlood Ready landing page. (SCC OP #41) Shares Valley Water’s digital social mediaresource links during the flood season. The “FloodsFollow Fires. Are you Ready?” and “Got Sandbags”messages redirect to Valley Water’s website.Messages are used on social media, short formnewsletter, short form email, web, and Nextdoor Santa Clara CountyOffice ofEmergencyManagement
Year Round N/A Santa Clara County: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(CUP OP #42) Recognizes the robust social mediacampaign led by Valley Water and has linked the city’smain flood preparation webpage to Valley Water’sFlood Ready webpage City of Cupertino Year Round N/A Cupertino continues to maintain the “Floodplain Management” webpage, including a link thatredirects to Valley Water’s Flood Ready webpage. (GIL OP #43) The city recognizes Valley Water’s FloodAwareness Campaign and has linked the city’s mainflood webpage to Valley Water’s Flood Ready webpage City of Gilroy Year Round N/A Gilroy: The “Emergency Preparedness” and Public Works “Flood Management” webpage both link toValley Water’s Flood Ready webpage. (LAH OP #44) The town recognizes Valley Water’sFlood Awareness Campaign and has linked the town’smain flood webpage to Valley Water’s Flood Readywebpage Town of Los AltosHills
Year Round N/A Town of Los Altos Hills: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(LG OP #45) Recognizes Valley Water’s FloodAwareness Campaign and has linked the Town’s mainflood webpage to Valley Water’s Flood Ready webpage Town of Los Gatos Year Round N/A Town of Los Gatos: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(MV OP #46) The city does a social media notificationabout storm preparation for winter storms ahead oftime. The notification directs residents to their “FloodProtection and Insurance Information” webpage. Thecity has also linked the city’s webpage to ValleyWater’s Flood Ready webpage City of MountainView
Year Round N/A Mountain View shared several social media posts before, during and after the major rain events duringthe winter. Posts included information onpreparation, forecasts for rain events and real timeupdates on current flooding. 14 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
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(SC FRP #47) City publishes social media posts, onFacebook, Twitter, and other platforms, focused onsafety.The city has prepared a pre-flood plan (FRP) for publicinformation projects that will be implemented before,during, and after a storm/flood, as well as identifyingwho is responsible for posting these messages, whattype of events they apply to, what social mediaplatforms to post to and how often City of Santa ClaraOffice ofEmergencyServices
During thestorm season
N/A Santa Clara: Information was posted on social media for flood awareness week led by City Streets Division
(SJ OP #48) Recognizes Valley Water’s FloodAwareness Campaign and has linked the city’s mainflood webpage to Valley Water’s Flood Readywebpage. Keeps Valley Water’s floodplain mailer staticlocation at City Hall for residents to pick-up and is alsodistributed at various events throughout the year City of San Jose Year Round N/A San Jose places Valley Water’s FPM at City Hall and their website redirects to Valley Water’s Flood Readywebpage. The City recognizes and supports ValleyWater’s Flood Awareness Campaign. (SAR OP #49) Recognizes Valley Water’s FloodAwareness Campaign and has linked the city’s mainflood webpage to Valley Water’s Flood Ready webpage City of Saratoga Year Round N/A Saratoga: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(SAR OP #50) The city does a social media notificationabout storm preparation for winter storms ahead oftime City of Saratoga Year Round N/A Saratoga: No update available - non-CRS participating community
(SUN OP #51) The city actively posts flood safety andpreparedness messaging through social mediaplatforms (i.e., Facebook and Twitter) City of SunnyvaleEnvironmentalServices
During therainy season(October –March)
N/A Sunnyvale: City staff posted information to Facebook regarding keeping the storm drain clear to preventclogging.
Topics 1-9 and supporting messages
Community Events – Distribute flood preparedness materials tothe community Educate our community on floodprotection and preparedness measuresIncrease in ‘hits’ on Valley Water and citiesFlood Protection Resources pages andimprove Valley Water’s Flood CampaignresultsResidents less stress during emergenciesand better prepared before a flood event (VW OP #52) Copies of Valley Water’s multilanguagefloodplain mailer is made available to all Santa ClaraCounty CRS Communities to disseminate at variousevents, including keeping the mailer static in lobbyareas for visitors to pick-up. Valley Water attendsvarious communities’ events/fairs throughout thecounty and disseminates flood readiness materials,including various FEMA flood-related publications andValley Water flood ready materials (Topics 1– 9) Valley Water Annually,
September -May
All Santa ClaraCounty CRSCommunities
The below table reflects the quantities
requested/sent by/to the agency. FPM estimateddelivery date December 2023, Postcard and Trifoldestimated delivery date January 2024.
Community Floodplain
Mailer
Postcard /
Trifold
City of Los Altos 50 100 / 20Town of Los Altos Hills 25 150 /20City of Los Gatos 25 25/20City of Milpitas 50 25/20City of Morgan Hill 150 150/150City of Mountain View 25 25/20City of Cupertino 50 50/20VW CRS Program 150 300/50City of Palo Alto 100 25/20City of Sunnyvale 25 25/20All other cities/county(6 ct. ) 25 25/25
15 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
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The FPM is posted on our website
https://online.flipbuilder.com/tkap/qkwt/Valley Water’s 2023-2024 Flood Awareness OutreachPartner Toolkit (https://conta.cc/46LwBzd) wasmade available for download to all partneringagencies and includes access to our FPM:In mid-October 2023, Valley Water’s 2023-2024Flood Awareness Outreach Partner Social MediaToolkit, 'Get Flood Ready', was available fordownload to all partnering agencies, including CRScommunities. The toolkit provided digital and socialmedia banners and animations featuring thecampaign’s calls to action: Get flood ready, knowyour risk, sign up for emergency alerts, and findsandbags. The toolkit included multilingual graphicsshowcasing the 9 CRS tips and offered theopportunity to request co-branded bill inserts andbanners.Cupertino distributes copies of Valley Water’sFloodplain Mailer at various fairs/events andprovides additional copies for the public on display atCity Hall.Los Altos distributes copies of the Valley Water’sFloodplain Mailer and postcards at City Hall andCommunity Center buildings.Mountain View distributes copies of Valley Water’sFloodplain Mailer and postcards at City Hall andduring tabling events such as Earth Day and SummerKick-Off.Palo Alto distributes Valley Water’s multi-languagefloodplain mailer during fairs during Earth Day eventand Palo Alto’s Open House every year.Santa Clara: Fliers and additional information arecurrently at city hall and public library. 16 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
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All Santa Clara communities support and promoteValley Water’s outreach projects. (CUP OP #53) Distributes flood readiness outreachmaterials at various events/ facilities City of Cupertino Year Round, as
needed
N/A Cupertino distributes copies of Valley Water’s
Floodplain Mailer and other promotional itemsprovided by Valley Water at various fairs/events andprovides additional copies of the mailer for thepublic on display at City Hall. (GIL OP #54) Participates in two fair/events: GilroyGarlic Festival (GF) and city’s Public Works WeekCommunity Open House (PWWCOH) City of Gilroy End of July (GF)
Typically, inMay(PWWCOH)
N/A Gilroy: There was no Garlic Festival (due to the
shooting at this festival in July 2019, the City haspostponed this event indefinitely), so no materialswere distributed at this event. However, on August1, 2023, the City hosted National Night Out whereflood readiness materials were distributed.Materials were also distributed during the PWWCOHon May 22, 2024. (LAH OP #55) Hosts two events - Earth Day (ED) andthe Town Picnic (TP) Town of Los AltosHills
Annually,Spring (ED) andlate Summer(TP)
N/A Town of Los Altos Hills: No update available -
non-CRS participating community
(MIL OP #56) Distributes FEMA flood-relatedpublications at various events City of Milpitas Year Round N/A Milpitas: Ongoing. Distributing flood ready kits and information on “Earth Day” which is onApril 22, 2024.
(MV OP #57) The city participates Mountain View Art& Wine Festival (MVA&WF) and Thursday Night Live(TNL) and distributes flood preparedness information City of MountainView
EachSeptember(MVA&WF)Months ofJune/July (TNL)
Valley Water Mountain View attends various events such as Earth Day, Summer Kick-Off, and Public Works Week anddistributes flood readiness fliers and handoutsduring these events. (PA OP #58) Staff hosts a flood readiness table at city’sannual Earth Day (ED) event and at the city MunicipalCorporation Open House (MCOH). Upon request, thecity also participates in other fairs and promotes floodreadiness, including Creekwise mailer/brochure City of Palo Alto Each April (ED)
and July(MCOH)
Can varydepending onrequests madeto City tosupport fairs Palo Alto hosted a flood readiness table at the EarthDay Event on 4/20/24 and will host a table at the CityMunicipal Corporation Open House which will beheld on 7/15/24 (FY25). (SJ OP #59) Staff hosts and participates in the ‘BuildingPermits and Home Safety Open House.’ The city’s alsohosts ‘Pumpkins in the Park’ event which Valley Waterstaff participates in and promotes flood preparedness City of San Jose Each May and
October
Valley Water San Jose hosts the annual Building and Home Safety Open House. This year’s open house was held on5/2/24. The City also hosted “Pumpkins in the Park”on 10/14/23. Valley Water hosted an information 17 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
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booth and distributed flood preparednessinformation on flood safety and emergencypreparedness materials, including Valley Water’sannual floodplain mailer. (SC OP #60) City hosts a flood readiness table at theArt & Wine Festival. Valley Water also sponsors a tableat the festival promoting flood preparedness anddistributes various flood readiness materials to thecommunity City of Santa Clara Each
September
N/A Santa Clara: Flood readiness table was set-up at Arts & Wine Festival September 2023. Flood promotionalpackets and fliers provided by Valley Water weredistributed to visitors.
Topic 3: Protect people from the flood hazard
Message 3A - Put your 3-day emergency kit togetherMessage 3B - Follow evacuation ordersMessage 3C – Learn the best route to high ground Topic 9: Understand shallow flooding risks – don’t drive throughstanding water Message 9A - Understand shallow flooding risks - don’t drivethrough standing waterFEMA’s message: “Turn Around Don't Drown®.” Less damage due to the floods; improvesandbag distributionFewer accidents and rescues (SUN OP #61) City has permanent “Road May Flood”street signs in areas of the City prone to flooding andpromotes the “Flood Zone Look Up” featured on thecity’s website City of Sunnyvale Year Round N/A Sunnyvale: Ongoing. City staff still promote the use of the “Flood Zone Lookup.”
Topic 4: Protect your property from the flood hazard
Message 4A - Protect your property from the flood hazardMessage 4B - Prepare your homeMessage 4C - Sandbags can offer protection against a foot orless of floodwaterMessage 4E - Get sandbags before a flood Topic 5: Build responsibility
Message 5A - Build responsibly in floodplainsMessage 5B - Comply with development requirementsMessage 5C - Check with your local floodplain manager beforeyou build Increase in inquiries on retrofittingmeasures. Decrease the number ofrepairs and elevations without permits.Increase number of repairs with permitsEnsure people who are interested inprotecting their property from floodingare getting the help they needKeep families safe (CUP OP #62) The city offers Flood ProtectionAssistance, Property Protection Advice. Staff providesin-person flood risk consultation at the front counterand/or site visits when requested City of Cupertino Year Round N/A Cupertino: Ongoing. The City maintains a log of FEMA-related requests.
(MIL OP # 63) The city offers Flood ProtectionAssistance, Property Protection Advice and providesin-person flood risk consultation at the front counter City of Milpitas Year Round N/A Milpitas: Ongoing. City maintains logs of FEMA-related requests.
(SC OP #64) The city offers Flood ProtectionAssistance, Property Protection Advice City of Santa Clara Year Round N/A Santa Clara: On-going per requests to the city Topic 6: Protect natural floodplain functions
Message 6A -Keep creeks clean and flowingMessage 6B - Keep debris and trash out of our streamsMessage 6C - Don’t pollute, dump, or drain anything in creeks Cleaner streams and fewer dumpingviolationsFewer debris blockages during high-floweventsDrainage inspectors report fewer callsand a decrease in the amount of trashremoved (VW OP #65) “Do Not Dump”/illegal dumping messageis sent each year to all Santa Clara County residents inValley Water’s CWM and FPM Valley WaterCommunications
Each lateOctober orNovember(CWM)EachNovember/December(FPM) All Santa ClaraCounty CRSCommunities
Valley Water’s FY24 FPM included the 'Do NotDump/Illegal to Dump' (Topic 7, page 5) messaging.Additionally, Valley Water’s website ‘Get Flood ReadyEssential Tips’ landing page contains ‘Keep debrisand trash out of our streams,’ and the, dump, ordrain anything in creeks’ under the ‘Flood SafetyAdvice: Before a Flood’ section., and our ‘ReportCreek Blockages and local street flooding’ promotesthe do not dump/illegal dumping message. 18 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
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https://www.valleywater.org/flooding-safety/flood-readyhttps://www.valleywater.org/flooding-safety/flood-ready/flood-safety-advicehttps://www.valleywater.org/flooding-safety/flood-ready/report-creek-blockages-local-floodingValley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 53 sites; 1,209Volunteers; 61.06 distance cleaned (miles); 23,456weight of trash collected (rounded up to the nearestpound); 3,614 weight of recyclables collected(rounded up to the nearest pound); andNational River Cleanup Day (NRCD) on May 18, 2024(Preliminary Results: 43 sites; 690 Volunteers; 66.22distance cleaned (miles); 16,481 weight of trashcollected (rounded up to the nearest pound); 773weight of recyclables collected (rounded up to thenearest pound)https://cleanacreek.org/past-results-2/Several Santa Clara communities participate in theseclean-up events.Cupertino’s “Floodplain Management” webpage hasa link to Valley Water’s Floodplain Mailer. The Cityalso includes the “Do Not Dump” messaging in TheCupertino Scene’s annual flood preparedness article.Morgan Hill includes this message in their annualFlood Report. The report is posted on the City’s“Floodplain Management” landing page.Mountain View’s “Flood Protection and InsuranceInformation” webpage has a link to Valley Water’sFloodplain Mailer and notes who to call in the city toreport illegal dumping. 19 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
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Palo Alto has Valley Water’s CWM and FPM linked onthe City’s Flood Information and Winter StormPreparedness website.All Santa Clara communities support and promoteValley Water’s outreach projects. (VW OP #66) “Do Not Dump” signs placed bywaterways/channels Valley Water O&M Year Round N/A Valley Water’s Operations & Maintenance continues its practice of placing ‘Do Not Dump’ signs onwaterways/ channels.All Santa Clara communities support and promoteValley Water’s outreach projects. (VW OP #67) Lists Pollution Hotline number in allProject Notices Valley WaterCommunications
Year Round N/A Valley Water’s project notices lists the pollution hotline number.All Santa Clara communities support and promoteValley Water’s outreach projects. (SCC OP #68) Storm Drain Stenciling/MedallionProgram
Santa Clara CountyYear Round All Santa Clara
County CRSCommunities
Mountain View installs Stenciling/Medallion on allcatch basins and inlets in the public right of way.Palo Alto installs Storm Drain Stenciling/Medallionon all public right of way catch basin and inlets.City of Santa Clara: Medallion installed on publiccatch basins/inlets.Santa Clara County: No update available - non-CRSparticipating community. (SUN OP #69) The city’s “Horizon” newsletter, includesDo Not Dump messaging City of Sunnyvale Annually, fall N/A Sunnyvale: The City still produces the Horizon newsletter and includes a “Do Not Dump” message.It was published in fall 2023. 20 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
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(ALL OP #70) Developments that are modifying orconstructing new catch basins/storm drains/inlets arerequired, per the below-noted permits, to stencil the“No Dumping! Flows to Bay.” In addition, some ofthese cities require all bid documents for capitalprojects which are modifying or constructing newcatch basins, and require the contractors to install thesame stencil. The program is also highlighted on cities’websites. ▪ South County municipalities are subject to the
statewide “Phase II” NPDES Permit
▪ North County municipalities are subject to the SF
Bay Municipal Regional Stormwater NPDES Permit
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Year Round N/A Valley Water mark’s each inlet with a “No Dumping! Flows to Bay” message on Valley Water properties.Cupertino requires all storm drain inlets to include amedallion with “NO DUMPING - FLOWS TOCREEK/BAY” for development projects.Gilroy requires all new storm inlets and catch basinsto include a stencil or medallion with no dumping,flows to creek/waterway language for developmentprojects.Morgan Hill requires all storm drain inlets and catchbasins within the project area of developmentapplications to be stenciled with prohibitive language(such as: “NO DUMPING – DRAINS TO CREEK”)and/or graphical icons to discourage illegal dumping.Mountain View requires all storm drain inlets toinclude a medallion with “NO DUMPING - FLOWS TOCREEK/BAY” for development projects.Palo Alto requires all storm drain inlets to include amedallion with “NO DUMPING-FLOWS TOCREEK/BAY” for development projects.City of Santa Clara provides and installs “No DumpingFlows to Bay” medallions near each catch basin forany new storm drain inlets constructed as part of aproject per the City specifications (CUP OP #71) The city’s annual flood notice in the localnewsletter, ‘The Cupertino Scene,’ contains dumping isillegal messaging and how to report City of Cupertino Annually,
October-November
N/A Cupertino includes the “Do Not Dump” messaging in
The Cupertino Scene’s annual flood preparednessarticle. (CUP OP #72) Participates in clean-up events: theannual National River Clean-up Day (NRCD) andCoastal Clean-Up Day (CCD). They coordinate withValley Water on both these clean-up efforts. The cityalso participates in Valley Water’s Adopt-a-CreekProgram City of Cupertino Each May
(NRCD) andSeptember(CCD)
VolunteersValley WaterStreamStewardship
Cupertino participated in Coastal Clean-Up Day on9/23/23 and National River Clean-Up Day on5/18/24.The City no longer participates in Valley Water’sAdopt-a-Creek Program. 21 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
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(LAH OP #73) The town participates in annual clean-upevents: National River Clean-up Day (each May) andCoastal Clean-up Day (each September) andcoordinates volunteers. They coordinate with ValleyWater on both these clean-up efforts. The town alsoparticipates in Valley Water’s Adopt-a-Creek Program Town of Los AltosHills
Each May(NRCD) andSeptember(CCD)
VolunteersValley WaterStreamStewardship
Town of Los Altos Hills: No update available -non-CRS participating community. (MIL OP #74) “Flood Public Advisory” brochurecontains dumping is illegal messaging and how toreport City of Milpitas Annually from
December toJanuary
N/A Milpitas: Utility bill inserts was sent to every address in Milpitas in May 2024, and will be sent out withinthe fiscal year going forward. This was sent out infour languages (English, Vietnamese, Spanish, andChinese). (MIL OP #75) Participates in annual clean-up events:National River Clean-up Day (NRCD) and CoastalClean-Up Day (CCD). They coordinate with ValleyWater on both these clean-up efforts. The city alsoparticipates in Valley Water’s Adopt-a-Creek Program City of Milpitas Each May
(NRCD) andSeptember(CCD)
VolunteersValley WaterStreamStewardship
Milpitas: CCD held as an in-person event onSeptember 22, 2023. NRCD was held orMay 18, 2024 with one cleanup location. (MH OP #76) “Flood Report” contains message onkeeping debris and trash out of streams – Do NotDump messaging City of Morgan Hill Annually, close
to or duringthe start of therainy season
N/A Morgan Hill’s “2024 Flood Report” brochure will
contain the message “It’s illegal to dump debris andtrash into our creeks.” (PA OP #77) “Are You Ready for Winter Storms?”utilities insert contains the Do Not Dump and reportillegal dumping messages City of Palo Alto Each fall N/A Palo Alto includes Do Not Dump and Report Illegal Messages on City’s utility insert that was sent out inOctober 2023. (PA OP #78) Utility bill insert includes a ‘UtilityAnnouncement on Flood Safety Tips,’ including Protectnatural floodplains - keep rain gutters and drainagechannels free of debris City of Palo Alto Annually,
March-April
N/A Palo Alto includes Protect Natural Floodplains-keep rain gutters and creeks free of debris messages onflood safety tips sent as Utility Announcement andthe flier sent as an attachment on utility bills everyyear. (PA OP #79) Participates in annual clean-up events:National River Clean-up Day (NRCD) and CoastalClean-Up Day (CCD). They coordinate with ValleyWater on both these clean-up efforts. Additionally, thecity participates in Valley Water’s Adopt-a-CreekProgram City of Palo Alto Each May
(NRCD) andSeptember(CCD)
VolunteersValley WaterStreamStewardship
Palo Alto participates every year during NationalRiver Clean-up Day on Matadero and Adobe Creek.Palo Alto also participates in the multi-jurisdictionaleffort on creek clean-up of San Francisquito Creek. (PA OP #80) Clean-ups of trash booms located inMatadero Creek and Adobe Creek are done annuallyon an as-needed basis. The city also assesses its hotspots and cleans up the local drainage system on anongoing basis and part of its operations andmaintenance City of Palo Alto Annually,
as needed
N/A Palo Alto City staff continue clean-ups of trash
booms on Matadero Creek and Adobe Creek, assesshot spots and clean ups on an ongoing basis on theentire City’s storm drain network system. 22 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
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(SUN OP #81) “Horizon” newsletter includes a “KnowHow to Be FloodSafe” article that promotes the DoNot Dump message City of Sunnyvale Each October,
Fall Edition
N/A Sunnyvale: The City still includes a “flood Safe”
message in the fall Horizon. It was published in fall2023.
Residents andBusinesses in theSpecial Flood HazardArea (SFHA) - Low Lying Areas,
Along Rivers andCreeks
- Coastal Communities
at Risk for Sea LevelRise/Tsunamis
- Repetitive Loss (RL)
Areas
Topic 1: Know your flood hazard
Message 1A - Know your flood riskMessage 1B - Contact your floodplain manager to find out ifyour property is in a floodplainMessage 1C - Check if your home or business is in a SpecialFlood Hazard Area Topic 2: Insure your property for your flood hazard
Message 2A - Get flood insurance ahead of timeMessage 2B – Insure your propertyMessage 2C – There is a 30-day waiting period for the policy totake place Topic 3: Protect people from the flood hazard
Message 3A - Put your 3-day emergency kit togetherMessage 3B - Follow evacuation ordersMessage 3C – Learn the best route to high ground Topic 4: Protect your property from the flood hazard
Message 4A - Protect your property from the flood hazardMessage 4B - Prepare your homeMessage 4C - Sandbags can offer protection against a foot orless of floodwaterMessage 4E - Get sandbags before a flood Topic 5: Build responsibility
Message 5A - Build responsibly in floodplainsMessage 5B - Comply with development requirementsMessage 5C - Check with your local floodplain manager beforeyou build Topic 6: Protect natural floodplain functions
Message 6A -Keep creeks clean and flowingMessage 6B - Keep debris and trash out of our streamsMessage 6C - Don’t pollute, dump, or drain anything in creeks Topic 7: Develop a Family Emergency Plan
Message 7A: Develop an emergency plan
Residents/businesses in the SFHA areaware they’re in the SFHA and preparebefore floodsIncrease in number of flood insurancepolicies in the SFHAs and RLAs in thecounty in generalProspective buyers understand flood risksIncrease number of elevation certificateson file, and structures repaired withpermits; decrease the number ofrepetitive loss increase homesIncrease in the number of flood insurancepolicies with contents coverage (VW OP #82) Multi-language floodplain mailer (FPM)to all residents and businesses within the SFHA inSanta Clara County (Topics 1– 9) Valley Water Each
November/December
All Annual Floodplain Mailer (FPM) - Valley Water’s
multi-language (English, Spanish, Chinese, andVietnamese) annual FPM “Get Flood Ready. You LiveIn A Flood Zone” (dated 09/23) mailed on December2023 to approximately 49,806 homes and businessesin or near a high-risk flood area, as designated by theFEMA Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA)..https://online.flipbuilder.com/tkap/qkwt/The FPM featured QR codes, a magnet withimportant flood safety websites, a detachableemergency phone list, photos of our most recentflood protection projects, a slideshow of our stormmanagement efforts, which include operating anEOC, filling sandbags, monitoring stream levels, andremoving blockages, A QR code led to a videoshowcasing our stream maintenance work to preventflooding.https://youtu.be/XCEixz0JzFQ?si=X7llwwnCSJolLdkpHard copies of the FPM’s (quantities noted below, asrequested by the communities), postcards andtrifolds were also mailed to each city/County inapproximately January 2024 and the FPM was mailedin approximately November/December 2023 Community Floodplain
Mailer
Postcard /
Trifold
City of LosAltos
50 100 / 20
Town of LosAltos Hills
25 150 /20
City of LosGatos
25 25/20
City of Milpitas 50 25/20City of MorganHill
150 150/150
City ofMountain View
25 25/20
City ofCupertino
50 50/20
VW CRSProgram
150 300/50
23 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
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(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
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Topic 8: Download disaster Apps
Message 8A - Download disaster emergency apps
Topic 9: Understand shallow flooding risks – don’t drive throughstanding water Message 9A - Understand shallow flooding risks - don’t drivethrough standing waterFEMA’s message: “Turn Around Don't Drown®.” City of PaloAlto
100 25/20
City ofSunnyvale
25 25/20
All othercities/county(6 ct. )
25 25/25
The FPM, postcards, and trifolds posted on Valley
Water’s website ‘Flood Ready’ landing page:https://www.valleywater.org/flooding-safety/flood-readyValley Water’s FPM was distributed throughout thecounty various events through the flood season, andwe kept copies in our HQ lobby area.The City of Los Also posted Valley Water’s FPM onour flood protection website and we kept copies inthe city hall lobby.The City of Cupertino posted Valley Water’s FPM onour flood protection website and we kept copies inthe City Hall lobby.All Santa Clara communities support and promoteValley Water’s outreach projects. (CUP OP #83) Flood notice in the local newsletter, TheCupertino Scene, which reaches residents andbusinesses in the SFHA (Topics 1-9) City of Cupertino Each October
or Novemberissue
N/A Cupertino published the annual flood preparation
article in the September 2023 issue of “TheCupertino Scene”. (LA OP #84) Letter, along with a “Are You Prepared fora Flood in Your Neighborhood?” brochure to propertyowners in the SFHA (Topics 1-8) City of Los Altos Annually, each
fall
N/A Los Altos mailed letters to all SFHA property owners in October 2023.
(LAH OP #85) The town’s “Our Town” quarterlynewsletter includes information on floodpreparedness. The newsletter is mailed out town-wideand is also available online on the town’s website(Topics TBD during cycle visit) Town of Los AltosHills
Each fall N/A Town of Los Altos Hills: No update available - non-CRS participating community.
(MIL OP #86) “Flood Public Advisory” brochure toresidents and businesses within SFHA (Topics 1-6) City of Milpitas Each December
or January
N/A Milpitas: Utility bill inserts was sent to every address in Milpitas in May 2024, and will be sent out withinthe fiscal year going forward. This was sent out in 24 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
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four languages (English, Vietnamese, Spanish, andChinese). (MH OP #87) Sends a citywide “Flood Report”brochure, including to those in the SFHA (Topics 1-9) City of Morgan Hill Annually, close
to or duringthe start of therainy season
N/A Morgan Hill’s “2024 Flood Report” brochure is
anticipated to be mailed out in July/August 2024.
(MV OP #88) Sends “The View” citywide newsletter,Winter version, includes information on flood risk,flood safety, and the importance of buying floodinsurance (Topics 1-9) City of MountainView
Fall newsletteredition
N/A Mountain View sent out “The View” for Fall/Winter
2023 with information on flood risk, flood safety, andthe importance of buying flood insurance (Topics1-9) (MV OP #89) Mails a utility bill insert to all residentand businesses that contains information on flood risk,flood safety, and the importance of buying floodinsurance (Topics 9) City of MountainView
Between July -September
N/A Mountain View sent out Valley Water’s Get Flood
Ready flier as a utility billing insert to every Cityutility customer in December 2022. (PA OP #90) Sends the “Are You Ready for WinterStorms?’ flier (aka utilities mailer) to all residents andbusinesses in the city, including to those in the SFHA,along with their utility bills (Topics 1-9) City of Palo Alto Each fall N/A Palo Alto sent “Are you Ready for Winter Storms?” flier as utility inserts was sent out inSeptember 2023. (PA OP #91) Sends out utility announcement, “Anytimeit can rain, it can flood. Don’t get caught off-guard”(Topics 1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 9 – will pursue adding othertopic) City of Palo Alto Each
March/April
N/A Palo Alto sent flood safety tips as a utility
announcement in December 2023.
(SC OP #92) Mails out a citywide, including alladdresses in the SFHA, newsletter for residents andbusinesses called “Inside Santa Clara” (Topics 1-9) City of Santa Clara Each fall N/A Santa Clara: An additional Flood Preparedness email was sent out 12/13/23, with a utility bill insertmailed to residents in Spring of 2024. (SUN OP #93) Sends two (2) mailers and one (1)“Horizon” newsletter article “Know How to Be FloodSafe” that promotes flood safety and floodpreparedness messaging targeted to all residents andbusinesses within the SFHA (Topics 2 and 4) City of Sunnyvale Each fall
aroundOctober
N/A Sunnyvale: The City still sends out mailers to targeted residents and a flood safe newsletter article. Themailers were sent October 2023. (SUN OP #94) Sends mailer to all those in the SFHA(Topics 1-4, and 7) City of Sunnyvale Each October N/A Sunnyvale: The City still sends out these mailers. The mailers were sent October 2023.
Topic 2: Insure your property for your flood hazard
Message 2A - Get flood insurance ahead of timeMessage 2B – Insure your property Increase in number of flood insurancepolicies in the SFHAs, RLAs, and in thecounty in generalProspective buyers understand flood risks (SCC OP #95) Sends letters to the properties in theunincorporated section in the areas of the county’smapped repetitive loss areas Santa Clara CountyAnnually, each
fall
N/A Santa Clara County: No update available - non-CRS
participating community.
25 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
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Message 2C – There is a 30-day waiting period for the policy totake place Increase in the number of flood insurance policies with contents coverage
(CUP OP #96) Continues to send a letter to formerrepetitive loss properties City of Cupertino Annually,
mid-year
N/A Cupertino continues to send out an annual letter to former repetitive loss properties.
(MH OP #97) Sends a notice to repetitive loss (RL)areas as required by FEMA City of Morgan Hill Annually, each
summer
N/A Morgan Hill will send letters to properties in the
City’s mapped repetitive loss areas in June 2024.
(PA OP #98) Sends letters to the properties in the city’smapped repetitive loss areas, highlighting flood safetytips City of Palo Alto Annually,
typicallyAugust -September
N/A Palo Alto sent letters to properties in the City’s
mapped repetitive loss areas, highlighting floodsafety tips in August 2023. (SJ OP #99) Sends letters to the properties in the city’smapped repetitive loss areas City of San Jose Annually, each
typicallybetweenSeptember -December
N/A San Jose sent letters to general repetitive loss
property areas in March 2024.
26 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
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Messengers to OtherTarget Audiences(Organizations &Businesses Servingthe Community) Topic 1: Know your flood hazard
Message 1A - Know your flood riskMessage 1B - Contact your floodplain manager to find out ifyour property is in a floodplainMessage 1C - Check if your home or business is in a SpecialFlood Hazard Area Topic 2: Insure your property for your flood hazard
Message 2A - Get flood insurance ahead of timeMessage 2B – Insure your propertyMessage 2C – There is a 30-day waiting period for the policy totake place Topic 3: Protect people from the flood hazard
Message 3A - Put your 3-day emergency kit togetherMessage 3B - Follow evacuation ordersMessage 3C – Learn the best route to high ground Topic 4: Protect your property from the flood hazard
Message 4A - Protect your property from the flood hazardMessage 4B - Prepare your homeMessage 4C - Sandbags can offer protection against a foot orless of floodwaterMessage 4E - Get sandbags before a flood Topic 5: Build responsibility
Message 5A - Build responsibly in floodplainsMessage 5B - Comply with development requirementsMessage 5C - Check with your local floodplain manager beforeyou build Topic 6: Protect natural floodplain functions
Message 6A -Keep creeks clean and flowingMessage 6B - Keep debris and trash out of our streamsMessage 6C - Don’t pollute, dump, or drain anything in creeks Topic 7: Develop a Family Emergency Plan
Message 7A: Develop an emergency plan
Topic 8: Download disaster Apps
Message 8A - Download disaster emergency apps
Educate our community on floodprotection and preparedness measures byworking and coordinating with groupswho serve as messengers, to people whoare at risk of flooding, as they providetheir respective business service (VW OP #100) Administers a “Let’s Talk Water”Speakers Bureau Program that customizespresentations to update groups on specific issues,provide updates on Valley Water projects, includingflood protection projects and to educate residents onexisting flood risks as well as provide resources andtips to be flood ready.https://www.valleywater.org/learning-center/lets-talkwater-speakers-bureau Valley WaterCommunicationsUnit
On aproject-specificbasis or asrequested
Could vary fromyear-to-yearKiwanisRotary ClubsHomeownersandNeighborhoodAssociationsForum GroupsAssociation ofRealtors In FY24, Valley Water's ‘Let’s Talk Water SpeakersBureau Program’ reached the 22 organizations listedbelow. All general presentations mention floodprotection and the need to ‘Get Flood Ready’regardless of the county’s drought status. They alsoinclude links to Valley Water’s ‘Flood Ready’information and resources webpage(ValleyWater.org/floodready), the hotline to call toreport obstructions in creeks, and floodpreparedness collateral available for all in-personevents.Valley Water’s Speakers Bureau Program cancustomize presentations to update communitygroups on water-specific issues and provide updateson projects in their area. The FY24 presentations thatincluded flood preparedness information are listedbelow
1. June 2, 2023 – Rotary Club of Saratoga
luncheon (FY23)
2. June 12, 2023 – Almaden Valley
Community Association meeting (FY23)
3. June 22, 2023 – Gilroy Sons in
Retirement meeting (FY23)
4. July 11, 2023 – Morgan Hill Kiwanis
Club meeting
5. July 19, 2023 – Rotary Club of Morgan
Hill meeting
6. July 25, 2023 – After Hours Rotary Club
of Gilroy meeting
7. August 3, 2023 – Evergreen Community
Roundtable
8. October 4, 2023 – Almaden Senior
Association meeting
9. November 16, 2023 – San Jose Sons in
Retirement meeting
10. November 29, 2023 – Rocketship
School Parents meeting
27 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
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Topic 9: Understand shallow flooding risks – don’t drive throughstanding water Message 9A - Understand shallow flooding risks - don’t drivethrough standing waterFEMA’s message: “Turn Around Don't Drown®.”
11. December 1, 2023 – Leadership
Sunnyvale meeting
12. December 7, 2023 – Palo Alto Kiwanis
Club meeting
13. anuary 8, 2024 – Berryessa Citizen
Advisory Committee
14. January 26, 2024 – Valley Water Next
Gen Career Pathways
15. February 4, 2024 – Unitarian Fellowship
of Los Gatos
16. February 9, 2024 – The Forum17. February 28, 2024 – Lions Club of Willow Glenn meeting
18. March 4, 2024 – Leadership Morgan
Hill meeting
19. March 12, 2024 – Oak Grove
Neighborhood Association meeting
20. March 19, 2024 – Santa Clara City
Libraries
21. April 4, 2024 – Valley Water 101
Academy
22. April 18, 2024 – Kaiser Permanente
Physicians
All Santa Clara communities support and promoteValley Water’s outreach projects. (VW OP #101) Participates in booth duty support atvarious events and fairs throughout the county,including Valley Water Capital project meetings orother events, as requested by various organizations Valley WaterOffice ofGovernmentRelations
Annually.During theflood season(starting inSeptember –May) All Santa ClaraCounty CRSCommunities
Valley Water staff made a concerted effort toactively participate in community events, includingcommunity festivals and emergency preparednessaffairs, particularly in communities andneighborhoods in or near flood zones. In FY24(from September 2023 – May 2024), Valley Waterand the communities’ staff hosted 25 booths anddistributed flood preparedness information onflood safety and emergency preparednessmaterials, including Valley Water’s annual FPM.Those events are listed below:
28 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
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1) 2023 Santos Family 17th Annual Car Show,
Alviso, CA – 9/2/23
2) Silicon Valley Fall Festival (Day n Night
Festival), Cupertino, CA – 9/9/23
3) Mountain View Art & Wine Festival – 9/9 –
9/10/23
4) Viva Calle, San Jose, CA – 9/10/235) Picnic by the Lake Multicultural Festival and Resource Fair, San Jose, CA – 9/20/23
6) County Parks La Fuente Celebration, San
Jose, CA – 9/23/23
7) Children’s Moon Festival. San Jose, CA –
9/30/23
8) Assembly Member Ash Kalra’s Veggie Fest,
San Jose, CA – 10/7/23
9) Supervisor Lee’s Day on the Bay, Alviso, CA –
10/14/23
10) Bay Area Diwali Festival of Lights, Cupertino,
CA – 10/14/23
11) Pumpkins in the Park, San Jose, CA – 10/14/312) Shoreline 40th Anniversary Event, Mountain View, CA – 10/15/23
13) Teatro Vision Dia de Los Muertos Matinee,
San Jose, CA – 10/20/23
14) South Asian Cultural Association of
Sunnyvale’s Diwali Festival – 10/21/23
15) Morgan Hill Kidz Fest and Safe Trick or Treat –
10/28/23
16) City of Morgan Hill Fourth Saturday
Downtown Event – 10/28/23
17) D8 Family Fall Festival, San Jose, CA –
10/28/23
18) Santa Visits Alviso – 12/9/2319) Vietnamese American Roundtable Lunar New Year, San Jose, CA – 2/3/24
20) VMC Foundation Women’s Leadership &
Policy Summit, San Jose, CA – 3/23/24
21) AAUW Wildflower Run, Morgan Hill, CA –
3/24/24
22) Cupertino Earth and Arbor Day Festival –
4/20/24
29 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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CRS Creditable Outreach and Flood Response Projects by CRS Community Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI 2021
FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
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23) Emergency Preparedness Workshop, San
Jose, CA – 4/27/24
24) Tech Interactive Tech Challenge, San Jose, CA
– 4/28/24
25) Berryessa Art Festival, San Jose, CA – 5/11/24
Morgan Hill hosted ‘National Night Out’ onAugust 1, 2023. Flood preparedness information(Valley Water floodplain mailer, red ‘Get FloodReady’ which includes an emergency supply list, totebags, etc.) were distributed and general Flood Factswere posted for the public’s information.All Santa Clara communities support and promoteValley Water’s outreach projects. (VW OP #102) Partner with local Second Harvest FoodBank with distributing FEMA and Valley Water floodpreparedness materials, including promotional item(s)as available Valley Water CRSProgram
In October(during CFPW)
Second HarvestFood Bank ofSilicon Valley
In February 2024, Valley Water partnered withSacred Heart Community Service to provide freeemergency starter kits and multilingual educationalmaterials to distribute at events to help residents“Get Flood Ready!” In addition, Valley Water hosteda booth with “Get Flood Ready!” materials at theSilicon Valley Bicycle Coalition’s King Tide RideEvent 2024 held on February 10, 2024, at RiverwalkPark in San Jose.In April 2024, Valley Water participated in twoemergency preparedness events to share the “GetFlood Ready” message. Staff hosted a booth at theEggstravaganza Family Event organized by theStrong Neighborhood Initiative Program MayfairNeighborhood Advisory Council in San Jose, whichhad more than 350 attendees. Valley Water alsoparticipated in an educational workshop with 40attendees at The Links, Incorporated “EmergencyPreparedness: Safety Now, Peace Later” event atthe African American Community Service Agency inSan Jose.In December 2023, the Organization for LatinoAffairs (OLA) provided Valley Water’s emergencystarter kits, English and Spanish flood preparednessinformation, and giveaways to approximately 500 30 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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CRS Creditable Outreach and Flood Response Projects by CRS Community Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI 2021
FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
INPUT HERE ONLY
attendees at the Santa Visits Alviso Foundationevent in San José. (ALL OP #103) Other New Initiatives (as noted in thePPI document)1. Continue and expand the standardized flood message prepared for each community to includeflood messages in utility bills each year, includingPG&E.
2. Expand on partnerships with local chambers of
commerce to disseminate and share floodpreparedness information.
3. Expand on outreach to the Asian and Latino
communities who live in flood prone areas.
4. Expand on outreach to “hot spot” flood prone
areas by hosting on-site or virtual events.
5. Expand on reaching local homeowners
associations (HOA)s and apartment associations(i.e. Executive Council of Homeowners [ECHO])
6. Expand on reaching residents in marginal and
low-income communities through partnering withorganizations that reach these communities. (i.e.Second Harvest Food Bank and others)
7. Communities could pursue FEMA Matching Funds
Grants for severe Repetitive Loss Areas.
8. Review and expand other public information
activities, such as Flood Protection Assistance(Activity 360) and Flood Insurance Promotion(Activity 370).
9. Develop a region-wide Flood Response
Preparations (FRP) messaging plan.
All TBD TBD The Santa Clara County CRS Group/PPI Committee, included the ‘Other New Initiatives’ topic fordiscussion at both the March 26, 2024 and May 29,2024 meetings. See Section V. SC County CRS UsersGroup/PPIM Committee Meetings - Monitoring andEvaluating the 2021 PPI in the FY24 AnnualEvaluation Report for details regarding thereview/discussion of the nine other new initiatives.3/26/24 Meeting, Item #6: Review 2021 PPI “OtherNew Initiatives” discussion was as follows:Focus on two PPI New Initiatives:Initiative #2: Expand partnerships with the localchamber of commerce to disseminate and shareflood preparedness information. ■ Approach the Silicon Valley Chamber of
Commerce and identify opportunities forpartnerships. We need to be able to reachresidents and businesses. ■ Morgan Hill—Chamber of
Commerce/Downtown Association. EconomicDevelopment staff can support thedistribution of information.· Outreach timing – End of Summer 2024.
Action Item:
Identify each city's chamber of commerce orequivalent and find ways to share information viawebsites, blogs, and newsletters.Who in each organization can help establish aconnection with the chamber of commerce anddowntown associations? 31 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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CRS Creditable Outreach and Flood Response Projects by CRS Community Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI 2021
FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
INPUT HERE ONLY
Initiative #4: Expand on outreach to "hot spot"flood-prone areas by hosting on-site or virtualevents.■ Valley Water has hotspot data; cities may maintain different hotspot data depending onneed (e.g., trash hot spots).■ Valley Water has floodplain flood data; it’s been provided to cities.
■ Identify high-risk areas (e.g., libraries,
parks, stores, etc.) to provide floodpreparedness information. ■ Valley Water maintains GIS layers with
hotspot information.
We have flexibility with this initiative; we can getcreative on addressing it.
Questions:
● What do we mean by "hot spot"? Is it a
real event or a modeling hotspot?
● Valley Water has modeling results for
design flows with hot spot GIS layers. TheGIS layer is based on historicalobservations of repeated flooding. ● Valley Water has recently installed
cameras to assist with flood monitoring.
○ https://alert.valleywater.org/ma
p?p=map
● Valley Water and cities might have
different hot spot information based onwhat they manage (e.g., storm drains) 5/29/24 Meeting, Item #2: Review of the MeetingGoals and Agenda discussion was as follows:Review pending “Action Items” from the committee’smeeting on March 26, 2024.Agenda Item #6: Review 2021 PPI “Other NewInitiatives”Based on targeted outreach efforts utilizing hotspotinformation, initiative #4 (expand on outreach to 32 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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CRS Creditable Outreach and Flood Response Projects by CRS Community Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI 2021
FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
INPUT HERE ONLY
"hot spot" flood-prone areas by hosting on-site orvirtual events) is complete.Initiative #2I: Identify the Chamber of Commerce orequivalent in each city and find ways to shareinformation via websites, blogs, and newsletters.This initiative will be re-evaluated next fiscal year.All Santa Clara communities support and promoteValley Water’s outreach projects. (CUP OP #104) The city provides a WinterPreparedness notification informing contractors thatduring the winter season, they need to winterize theirproject(s) site as certain soil disturbance activities arenot allowed during the rainy season City of Cupertino On a
project-specificbasis
Variouscontractors
Cupertino continues to prepare and mail the rainyseason letters every year to applicable projects.These letters were mailed in mid-August 2023. (MIL OP#105) On a project-specific basis, the cityprovides contractors a Winter Preparednessnotification that informs them that during the winterseason, they need to winterize their project(s) site.Certain soil disturbance activities are not allowedduring the rainy season City of Milpitas On a
project-specificbasis
Variouscontractors
Milpitas: On-going. The City of Milpitas sent outwinterization notices to larger development projectsin October 2023.
Topic 2: Insure your property for your flood hazard
Message 2A - Get flood insurance ahead of timeMessage 2B – Insure your property Message 2C – There is a 30-day waiting period for the policy to takeplace Increase in number of flood insurancepolicies in the SFHAs and in the county ingeneralProspective buyers understand flood risksThese projects are credited under Activity340 (DFH and REB) – Additional credit isprovided if the PPI states that real estateagents should (or have agreed to) advisehouse hunters about the flood hazard andthat real estate agents give house huntersa REB brochure (MH OP #106) The city mails out a newsletter, “AskBefore You Buy: Know Your Flood Risk!” to local realestate agents which are provided to homebuyers tohelp determine the flood risk of the property beingpurchased (listed in Appendix B) City of Morgan Hill During or prior
to the rainyseason
Real EstateAgencies/Agent
Morgan Hill will be sending the brochure to realestate agents in June 2024. (PA OP #107) Sends out letters to real estate agenciesinforming them of their responsibility to identify floodhazard areas and to take advantage of the Flood ZoneLookup on the city’s website City of Palo Alto Annually,
beginning offlood season(September/October)
Real EstateAgencies/Agent
Palo Alto sent letters to real estate agenciesinforming of their responsibility to identify floodhazard areas in August 2023. (SJ OP #108) Sends out letters to real estate andinsurance agencies and lenders, informing them oftheir responsibility to identify flood hazard areas andto take advantage of the Flood Zone Lookup on thecity’s website on the “Flood Hazard Zones webpageand advises to contact the city for map readingservices and elevation certificates on file City of San Jose At the
beginning ofthe floodseason(September –December)
Real EstateAgencies/Agent
San Jose emailed letters to real estate, insuranceagencies and lenders in March 2024. 33 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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CRS Creditable Outreach and Flood Response Projects by CRS Community Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI 2021
FY 2024 (Year 3) Outreach Projects Accomplishments by CRS Communities Audience 1 Message Outcome
Project(s) Proposed to
Support the Messages
(XX denotes Community acronym,
and Outreach Project #)
Assignment 2 Schedule 3 Stakeholder
FY 2024 (Year 3 of the 2021 PPI)
Outreach Projects Accomplishments
INPUT HERE ONLY
(SUN OP #109) Sends mailer/postcard targeted to realestate agents informing them of the client’sresponsibility for identification and purchase of floodinsurance and the availability of the automatic 15%discount City of Sunnyvale Each October Real Estate
Agencies/Agents
Sunnyvale: The City sent the mailers to real estateagents October 2023. 34 Valley Water hosted Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) onSeptember 23, 2023 (Results: 52 organized clean-up sites; 1,100 volunteers;24,076 pounds of garbage on roadsides, along water channels and other public properties; 3,584 pounds of recyclable material that had been improperly discarded was collected)https://morganhilltimes.com/volunteers-pick-up-tons-of-garbage-on-coastal-cleanup-day/; ATTACHMENT 2
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Santa Clara Valley Water District
FY24 Flood Awareness Campaign
Valley Water's FY24 Flood Awareness Campaign theme was "Get Flood Ready. You Live in a Flood Zone.” Valley Water's outreach employed digital geo-targeting technologies to reach businesses and residents in the flood zone. The campaign sought to drive awareness of flood risk, encourage residents to sign up for emergency alerts, and know where to find sandbags. Our materials emphasized our efforts to reduce the risk of flooding by working on capital improvement projects and showcasing our crews' work before, during, and after a storm emergency to keep the community safe from flooding. The overarching message was that we are ready and ask everyone to take steps to be flood-ready.
An educational paid advertising campaign supplemented Valley Water's community outreach effort. Polling results from the prior winter campaign supported the advertising campaign, helping to understand target audiences and their awareness levels and explore what educational messages and images most appealed to them.
The Flood Awareness Campaign lasted six months, from October 2023 to March 2024, and cost $336,000. Valley Water’s FY24 Annual Flood Awareness Campaign cemented the shift to a digital geo-targeted campaign supplemented by four direct multilingual mailings to approximately 49,806 homes and businesses in or near a high-risk flood area, as designated by the FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA).
Targeted Mailings
1. FLOOD CAMPAIGN ANNUAL FLOODPLAIN MAILER
Annual Floodplain Mailer (FPM) - Valley Water’s multi-language (English, Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese) annual FPM ‘Get Flood Ready. You Live in a Flood Zone. Know your flood risk. Sign up for alerts. Get Sandbags’ was mailed in December 2023.
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The FPM featured QR codes, a magnet with important flood safety websites, a detachable emergency phone list, photos of our most recent flood protection projects, a slideshow of our storm management efforts, which include operating an EOC, filling sandbags, monitoring stream levels, and removing blockages, A QR code led to a video showcasing our stream maintenance work to prevent flooding. https://youtu.be/XCEixz0JzFQ?si=X7llwwnCSJolLdkp
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2. FLOOD CAMPAIGN POSTCARD MAILER
‘Get Flood Ready. You Live in a Flood Zone’ multilingual postcards that included the nine CRS topics and supporting messages, and links to various flood readiness/preparedness webpages, were produced and distributed to 49,806 properties in the FEMA SFHA in October 2023.
Download postcard
3. FLOOD CAMPAIGN TRI-FOLD BROCHURE
Trifold ‘You Live in a Flood Zone– Get Flood Ready. Do You Know What to Do Before, During, and After a Flood?’ was mailed in January 2024.
https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/valleywater.org.us-west-1/s3fs-public/2023%20flood%20mailer.pdf
4. COUNTYWIDE MAILER
Valley Water’s Countywide Mailer (CWM) ‘Flooding can happen. Anytime. Anywhere. Get Flood Ready’ was mailed countywide from November 17 through December 5, 2023, to 755,210 addresses. The CWM included an ATTACHMENT 3
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update on Valley Water's flood protection projects, stream maintenance, and storm preparation efforts. The mailer also included a multilingual section outlining the 9 CRS flood tips: know your flood risk, get flood insurance ahead of time, develop an emergency plan and kit, protect your home from flood threats, keep creeks clean and flowing, sign up for emergency alerts (AlertSCC and the American Red Cross Disaster Emergency App), build responsibly in floodplains, and avoid floodwaters - understanding shallow flooding: Turn Around Don’t Drown®. https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/valleywater.org.us-west-1/s3fs-public/2023%20CountywideMailer.pdf CRS Community Resources
Santa Clara County cities and County Public Works and Planning Departments received requested copies of Valley Water’s FPM, postcards, and trifold mailers for their outreach efforts.
Public Agency
Annual Floodplain
Mailer (FPM) Postcard Trifold
(Estimated Mail Date
January 2024) (Estimated mail dates Nov/Dec 2023
and January 2024)
City of Los Altos 50 100 20
Town of Los Altos Hills 25 150 20
City of Los Gatos 25 25 20
City of Milpitas 50 25 20
City of Morgan Hill 150 150 150
City of Mountain View 25 25 20
City of Cupertino 50 50 20
City of Palo Alto 100 25 20
City of Sunnyvale 25 25 20
VW CRS Program 150 300 50
All other cities & County
(6 count)
25 count each 25 count each 25 count each
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All cities and the County were requested to add a link redirecting site visitors from their respective flood protection resource pages and homepage to ValleyWater.org/floodready, Floodsmart.gov, and Ready.gov.
Partner Toolkit
In mid-October 2023, Valley Water’s 2023-2024 Flood Awareness Outreach Partner Social Media Toolkit, 'Get Flood Ready', was available for download to all partnering agencies, including CRS communities. The toolkit provided digital and social media banners and animations featuring the campaign’s calls to action: Get flood ready, know your risk, sign up for emergency alerts, and find sandbags. The toolkit included multilingual graphics showcasing the 9 CRS tips and offered the opportunity to request co-branded bill inserts and banners. https://conta.cc/46LwBzd
Partnerships and Media
On October 26, 2023, Valley Water, the County of Santa Clara, and the City of San Jose held a news conference at a recently completed stream maintenance site to inform the community about preparedness for the possibility of extreme winter storms. The news conference included an update from the National Weather Service and an interactive display on proper sandbagging techniques. https://youtu.be/g5CbaVSWIuw?si=XH54H-Fg8fgUBemn ATTACHMENT 3
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On November 14, 2023, a joint news conference involving Valley Water leaders and the City of San Jose was held at the Coyote Creek Flood Protection Measurements Project site. Valley Water CEO Rick Callender attended the event and was joined by Valley Water Board Director Richard Santos, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, and Assistant City Manager Lee Wilcox to brief the public and the media on winter storm preparations.
New Technologies and Animations
In November 2023, Valley Water created an animation explaining the use of our stream gauge portal. The animation outlines how users can see live updates on the stream levels in the County. Our newsletter shared the animation and sent it to 61,000 email addresses and social media channels. https://youtu.be/XCEixz0JzFQ?si=X7llwwnCSJolLdkp
The FY23-24 campaign also featured geotargeted digital alerts sent to the IP addresses of homes in areas prone to flooding (hot spots). The alerts were deployed with National Weather Service alerts, and residents were encouraged to sign up for emergency alerts.
Leveraging Community Channels
Valley Water also used its monthly newsletter, news blog, and social media profiles to enhance flood awareness efforts before and during forecasted storms starting as early as September 2023. During the length of the campaign and leading up to anticipated storm events, Valley Water posted flash flood warnings, shared posts with critical messages about flood safety, and promoted the Flood Watch Tool throughout the winter.
Additionally, the Valley Water Board of Directors shared posts on Nextdoor highlighting the ‘Get Flood Ready’ messaging and the nine CRS topics throughout winter 2023-24. Valley Water also posted a flood preparedness blog, a digital copy of the FPM, and a guide on what to do before, during, and after a flood.
Valley Water’s flood protection resources page at ValleyWater.org/floodready acted as a hub of flood safety information, with icons leading to a series of related web pages. The page includes information on flood zone maps, signing up for emergency alerts, sandbags, reporting local flooding, and safety tips.
Organic Social Media
Valley Water also deployed a small-scale multilingual social media campaign with the slogan "Get Flood Ready’ on social media and web platforms. The campaign launched in winter 2023, starting with the season's first rains, and continued through March 2024.
A key strategy for the paid flood awareness campaign was incorporating the 2021 Program for Public Information (PPI) 6 priority topics and the three additional outreach topics, including messages supporting the nine topics, in Valley Water ads. Staff crafted messages derived from Valley Water's annual FPM to residents in the SFHA.
The campaign achieved the following social media metrics with a modest spend:
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Healthy, flowing creeks reduce flood risks. by carrying stormwaters away from properties and roads.
Don't pollute, dump, or drain anything in creeks, Dumping into a stream is illegal; it affects the water quality and creek habrtat. It can also cause blockages, increasing flood risks.
Report blockages like wood or debris dumping in creeks to the Valley Water Watersheds Operations & Maintenance hotline at 408-630·2378.
Report pollution in a creek, pood, or reservoir. call 1-888-510·5151. You can also report these issues through Access Va lley Water.
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As we continue through the rainy season, we want to remind you to stay safe on the road.
Keep an eye out for puddles, which can lead to hydroplaning, and be cautious of falling debris due to heavy winds. And, as tempting as it may be, neve r drive or walk through flooded areas, no matter how shallow. Remember, safety firstJ For more flood tips, visit valleywater.org/floodready. ~ Va ll ey Water •
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You can register to receive emergency alerts and warnings by signing up for Santa Clara County's Alertscc system: https://emergencymanagementsccgov.org/Alertscc Puede registrarse para red bir alertas y advertencias de emergencia a traves del sistema A!ertscc del Condado de Santa Clara: https:,//emergencymanagementsccgov.org/Alertscc OlJYvt c6 thE n~n C2c tin nhan b.3o dQng kha'n dp 3 tll' Qu~n h~ Santa Clara bang each dang k9' vcri Alertscc: https://emergencymanagemenLsccgov.org/AlertSCC l,JoJL:,()±!liJL:J,,'i;L~j~Jl, imw±/lilrox~fil~ ~ill.U.~139 AlertSCC ~ https://emergencymanagement.sccgov.org/AlertSCC You can rC!QISlC!t Lo recelv• emergency
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This is an important flood tip reminder! Your local government requires spedal peimits for construction within Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) zones.
Property owners can also make physical alterations to buildings, such as elevating a structure, to reduce flood risks and insurance premiums. Before you build or begin upgrades to your property, check with your local floodplain manager to ensure compliance with special re quirements.
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Public space banners and lobby display
Valley Water also hung ‘Get Flood Ready’ banners in 10 areas identified as flooding hot spots. The banners included our calls to action and a QR code leading to our ValleyWater.org/floodready page. A display featuring the contents of an emergency kit was placed at a prominent location in Valley Water’s headquarters. Readiness materials were made available.
Get Flood Ready banners placed throughout the County in Valley Water hotspot areas.
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Valley Water HQ Lobby Displaying FY24 Flood Readiness Materials Valley Water HQ Lobby Displaying FY24 Flood Readiness Materials Valley Water 2023-24 Flood Media Campaign
The main objective of the 2023-24 Flood Awareness Campaign was to alert the public in Santa Clara County of FY 24 Floodplain Mailer
FY 24 Postcard
FY 24 Countywide Mailer
FY 24 Trifold Mailer
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the area's ongoing flood risks. Valley Water used geo-mapping data to target residents in areas at high risk of flooding, demographically targeting ads in the four most prominent languages in Santa Clara County (English, Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese).
The digital outreach campaign featured three engaging multilingual animations encouraging residents to get floodready by knowing their risk, signing up for emergency alerts, and finding sandbags. Platforms used included Google and Meta and digital banners on multilingual community newspaper sites. Our website and social media platforms were also branded with the Get Flood Ready theme for the campaign's duration.
The campaign spent $107,778 overall. The campaign served over 20 million impressions and sent over 2.9 million people to the landing pages to learn more about their flood risks and options to prevent danger in their neighborhood.
The Media Buy:
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$15,860 $7,138 $7,193 $7,188 $37,379
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2023-24 Flood Awareness Campaign Results
Probolsky Research conducted A post-Flood Awareness Campaign survey of 400 residents in the FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area between March 7 and 14, 2024. Results indicated a 15.3% increase in outreach mailing recollection versus 2023 and a 21% increase in flood preparation. The number of residents who think Valley Water is doing an excellent or good job of informing Valley Water on what to do when flooding occurs increased by 10% versus 2023 and now sits at 54%.
The post-2024 Flood Awareness Campaign survey found:
x 54% remember receiving mail with information about flood safety in the past year (39% in 2022-23). x 82% are confident they have taken all necessary measures to protect themselves from flooding impacts (64% in 2022-23).
x 54% say Valley Water does an excellent/good job keeping residents informed about what to do when flooding occurs (43% in 2022-23).
o Among those who said excellent/good
o 76% said good, 24% said excellent.
x 53% say their home is located in a flood zone or at risk of flooding area (48% in 2022-23). x 45% of respondents have flood insurance (39% in 2022-23). o 24% of renters polled have flood insurance (15% in 2022-23) x 64% do not have flood insurance because they don’t think they need it. x 72% say their home is prepared for a flood.
o Among those who said they are confident, 57% are very confident. x 85% have never experienced flooding in their home.
x 47% are most likely to notice and remember social media ads.
Based on the findings, we will continue with targeted mailings to the FEMA SFHA as our outreach strategy for the flood awareness campaign and targeted advertising.
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Agenda Meeting
Santa Clara County CRS Users Group & Program for Public Information (PPI) Committee Meeting March 26, 2024 _ 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
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Meeting ID: 860 1349 5419 _ +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) Purpose: PPI Stakeholder Committee Annual Evaluation Meeting per Activity 330, Outreach Project, Element 332.c. Program for Public Information, Step 7 requirement (page 2) Outcome: Complete development of the 2021 Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information (PPI) Annual Report for FY24 (Year 3: July 2023 to June 2024) Item Meeting Topic Presenter Time
1. Introductions Amy Fonseca 10 min
2. Review of the meeting goals and agenda Amy Fonseca 2 min
3. Annual review of CRS Communities Roster (Google Link) Amy Fonseca 2 min
4. Valley Water CRS Program updates Amy Fonseca 5 min
5. Floodplain Management Plan (FMP) update
Amy Fonseca
Melissa Mitchell
Tetra Tech
15 min
6. Review 2021 PPI ‘Other New Initiatives’ Amy Fonseca 20 min
7. 2021 Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information (PPI) Annual Evaluation Report
Complete development of the Annual Evaluation Report for FY24 (Year 3:
July 2023 to June 2024)
x Reference the Activity 330 Outreach Project sheets located here https://fta.valleywater.org/fl/1a2Jh3wyoO as a starting point to update Appendix A from 2021 SC County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI x Update the FY24 Project Accomplishments column for your community Google Link NOTE: Update Input Here Only column; Do Not edit anything else x Communities’ updates are due by next CRS Users Group/PPI Meeting or no later than May 31, 2024
Amy Fonseca 45 min
8. Activity 350 – Flood Protection Information, c. flood protection website (WEB) (page 350-7)
The community must:
1) The community must check the website’s links at least monthly, and fix those that are no longer accurate.
2) At least annually, the community must review the content to ensure that it is still current and pertinent (e.g., make sure names, addresses, phone numbers, and other contact information are still correct; update any ordinance changes; etc.).
Amy Fonseca 2 min
9. Next meeting – Joint CRS Users Group/Program for Public Information (PPI) Committee meeting x Complete the development of the 2021 PPI Annual Report Year 3 (FY 2024)
Amy Fonseca 2 min
10. Adjourn
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Excerpt from 2017 CRS Coordinator’s Manual:
“Step 7: Implement, monitor, and evaluate the program. The Program for Public Information committee meets at least annually to monitor the implementation of the outreach projects. The committee assesses whether the desired outcomes were achieved and what, if anything, should be changed. This work is described in an evaluation report that is prepared each year, sent to the governing body, and included in the annual recertification.
The community must update its Program for Public Information at least every five years. This can be a new document or an addendum to the existing document that updates the needs assessment and all sections that should be changed based on evaluations of the projects.
The Program for Public Information update will be reviewed for CRS credit according to the Coordinator’s Manual currently in effect, not the version used when the community originally requested this credit.
The update can qualify as the annual evaluation report for the year it was prepared. The updated Program for Public Information must be adopted following the same process as adoption of the original document.”
AGENDA ITEM NO. 6 [Excerpt from page 66 from 2021 PPI]
For questions, please contact Amy Fonseca at (408) 630-3005 (office) or (408) 691-8889 (cell) or [email protected]
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Other New Initiatives
The PP! committee fdenli,fied a number of new in· Uves:
1. Continue alld e)il)and lhe stanrnrdl ·ed flood n ssage prepared for each coJnJrunity to include flood messages bl utility bills eadl year, fncludtng PG&E
2. Expand on partnerships wi cal chambers of commerce to dissenfnate and share ood preparedness - fonnation"
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7. Comrnur,me-s cou d pursue FEMA Matchir,;;i Funds Grants for severe Repefitil/e Loss Areas.
H. Review ancl elq)arid other public inform · an activities, such as Flood Prote on Assistance (Activity 360} ~nd Flood lnS11Jrance Promotion (Aclivily 370). 9_ Develop a regionwide Rood Response Progf<ITTI messag ing plan.
Name Agency
Robb Lampa California Department of Water Resources
Jenn Chu City of Cupertino
Susana Ramirez City of Gilroy
Vency Woo City of Los Altos
Chris Wilson City of Los Altos External Stakeholder
Arthur Valderrama City of Milpitas
Brian Petrovic City of Milpitas
Roberto Alonzo City of Milpitas
Maria Angeles City of Morgan Hill
Renee Gunn City of Mountain View
Rajeev Hada City of Palo Alto
Vicki Thai City of Palo Alto
Arlene Lew City of San Jose
Vivian Tom City of San Jose
Brandon Coco City of Santa Clara
Christian Tran City of Santa Clara
Lea Velasco City of Sunnyvale
Tamara Davis City of Sunnyvale
Darrell Wong County of Santa Clara
Emma Kilkelly Tetra Tech, Consultant
Amy Fonseca Valley Water
Diana Padilla Valley Water
Emily Zedler Valley Water
Jessica Vasquez Valley Water
Kristen Yasukawa Valley Water
Merna Leal Valley Water
Rene Moreno Valley Water
Santa Clara County CRS Users Group / PPI Committee Meeting Attendance Sheet
March 26, 2024 | 2:30 - 4:30pm | Zoom
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Agenda Meeting
Santa Clara County CRS Users Group & Program for Public Information (PPI) Committee Meeting Notes
March 26, 2024 | 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Item #1: Introductions/Attendance
Item #2: Review of Meeting Goals and Agenda / Agenda Item #3: Annual Review of CRS Communities Roster:
x The main objectives of the meeting are as follows:
o Fulfill the requirements for CRS PPI credit as per the CRS Coordinator’s Manual. o Initiate the Annual PPI Reporting process for the 2021 PPI, year 3, which will conclude at the end of May 2024.
o Review the status of the outreach initiatives listed in the 2021 PPI. o Discuss the Multi-jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan. o Provide updates on the Regionalization Project and other Valley Water updates. x Action Items:
o Review the CRS community roster within the next 2 weeks and ensure accurate information.
Item #4: Valley Water CRS Program Updates
x Transition the Hazard Mitigation Plan to the watersheds division for better alignment, with Emily Zedler (Valley Water) being the new contact.
x Amy Fonseca has taken a new leadership role at Valley Water. Amy and Merna Leal will continue to support certain aspects of the plan during the transition to the watershed division. x Valley Water is collaborating with Emma Kilkelly from Tera Tech, who will assist with the Hazard Mitigation Plan.
x Valley Water has been receiving several event tabling requests from different communities. We will share relevant events with the group and invite you to participate. This could be a great opportunity to use the flood event kits provided last year. Valley Water will try to attend the event, but if you cannot, we would encourage you or someone else from your office to attend. o Valley Water wants to coordinate with cities to prevent duplicating efforts and attend the same events (and distribute the same materials).
o Valley Water receives calls/emails from residents and will forward calls/emails to respective cities' contacts as listed in the CRS roster.
Item #5: Floodplain Management Plan (FMP) Update:
x Valley Water/Tetra Tech will coordinate a meeting to discuss the mitigation plan. x Emma Kilkelly (Lead Planner, Tetra Tech) presented an overview of the Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan.
o The purpose of this plan is to reduce the adverse impacts of flooding by assessing existing measures and conducting hazard and risk assessments. Emma outlined the 10- step planning process, following the Community Rating System (CRS) guidelines. x Action Items:
o Provide Tetra Tech presentation to the group.
o Merna to meet with Emily Zedler to continue the conversation on hotspots. x Questions:
o When will the plan be valid? Is it a five-year plan, and if so, what are the active dates? This information is important for people who plan their schedules around their cycle. For instance, we just passed our cycle for Santa Clara in 2023. Will the new plan be active from 2024 until 2029, and will it be valid during our next cycle? x The validity of the document will start from the time it is adopted or approved by CRS, and it will last for 5 years. The document will still be valid during ATTACHMENT 6
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Santa Clara’s next cycle. If, for any reason, it increases your points, you can always request a modification of your score.
o In the past, we had an appendix for the mitigation plan when we used it for our floodplain management credits, and the county prepared the documents for this. Will there be an appendix for each of our agencies so that we can provide specific details and data for you to fill in? Or will it be just one comprehensive document that's standard for all agencies? It's important to have an appendix for each agency as the issues we face are different and specific to each of us.
x All agencies will be covered under the general floodplain plan, but the specifics regarding the appendices are currently uncertain. We need to address specific requirements for each jurisdiction. Our goal is to include all agencies within the general plan.
o Could we get a copy of the presentation provided by Tetra Tech? x Yes, the presentation will be shared with the group.
o The all-hazard mitigation plan is typically developed by the county with input from representatives of the Office of Emergency Services (OES) rather than Floodplain managers or CRS coordinators. Will we be working with or mentioning the plan to the county OES to stay informed on its progress? Will there be regional coordination to ensure that everyone is aware of what is happening with the plan? x We intend to create a flood hazard mediation plan, which will be rolled into the counties either as an appendix or at the time of their next update. We hope they will be able to add the CRS requirements in a way that is similar to what they did in 2017. However, that is still a long way away, and we all need to be thinking about it. It may not affect you, but sometime in 2028 or 2029, we need to ensure everyone is on board with the CRS requirements, as they could impact your credit rating.
o Is the plan to assess and evaluate the known flood hotspots part of the new initiative? Could this be done to align with other efforts?
x It depends on the hotspot definition; there's no formal definition. But Valley Water and cities could align. As we start the planning process, there is an opportunity for credits when evaluating hotspot information.
Item #6: Review 2021 PPI “Other New Initiatives”
x Focus on two PPI New Initiatives:
o Initiative #2: Expand partnerships with the local chamber of commerce to disseminate and share flood preparedness information.
x Approach the Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce and identify opportunities for partnerships. We need to be able to reach residents and businesses. x Morgan Hill—Chamber of Commerce/Downtown Association. Economic Development staff can support the distribution of information. x Outreach timing – End of Summer 2024.
o Action Item:
x Identify each city's chamber of commerce or equivalent and find ways to share information via websites, blogs, and newsletters. Who in each organization can help establish a connection with the chamber of commerce and downtown associations?
o Initiative #4: Expand on outreach to "hot spot" flood-prone areas by hosting on-site or virtual events.
x Valley Water has hotspot data; cities may maintain different hotspot data depending on need (e.g., trash hot spots).
Valley Water has floodplain flood data; it’s been provided to cities. Identify high-risk areas (e.g., libraries, parks, stores, etc.) to provide flood preparedness information.
Valley Water maintains GIS layers with hotspot information. x We have flexibility with this initiative; we can get creative on addressing it.
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The meeting notes correspond with the discussion of the meeting agenda items. x Questions:
What do we mean by "hot spot"? Is it a real event or a modeling hotspot? x Valley Water has modeling results for design flows with hot spot GIS layers. The GIS layer is based on historical observations of repeated flooding.
x Valley Water has recently installed cameras to assist with flood monitoring.
x https://alert.valleywater.org/map?p=map
x Valley Water and cities might have different hot spot information based on what they manage (e.g., storm drains)
Agenda Item #7: 2021 Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information (PPI) Annual Evaluation Report
x 330 Outreach Project (OP) Worksheet (on Egnyte):
o Each city has a worksheet available. Sections include 1) All OP projects – each city can receive credits, 2) City-specific and 3) Valley Water-specific credits. x Appendix A
o Review and update information in the “FY 2024 (Year 2 of the 2021 PPI)” column. Focus only on each respective community and two OP #All. Double-check information to ensure relevance. If there are any changes, provide a brief explanation.
Do not update or change any information in the other columns. x If changes to other columns are needed, please note any changes in the “FY 2024 (Year 2 of the 2021 PPI)” column.
Reminder—Appendix A is due August 1, 2024. However, it must be approved by the governing body as part of the annual recertification package. Check if the governing body takes a summer recess to ensure it's approved by 8/1/24 (annual recertification due date), and/or when you are cycled by ISO. o When the PPI report is unavailable, cities are given a draft report by Valley Water, which is submitted along with an explanation regarding the governing body approving PPI. This is an information item. The report describes how each city takes it to its governing body.
o Action Item:
Review and update information in the “FY 2024 (Year 2 of the 2021 PPI)” column by the end of May 2024.
Agenda Item# 8: Activity 350 – Flood Protection, c. flood protection website x Action Item:
o Check flood protection resource web page links monthly to ensure active links; update the entire content annually.
x Make sure to redirect to 1) valleywater.org/floodready, 2) floodsmart.gov, and 3) ready.gov.
Agenda Item#9: Next meeting – Joint CRS Users Group/Program for Public Information (PPI) Committee meeting
x Upcoming meeting in May 2024. A Doodle Poll will be sent. o Upcoming Agenda Items:
Valley Water’s Communications Unit will provide an update on their flood preparedness campaign.
Solicit ideas for next year’s campaign.
Discuss promotional materials for future flood readiness campaigns.
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General Updates/Announcements:
o CRS regionalization Feasibility Study:
x Thank you for your feedback. Your input has been used to readjust the study recommendations. Along with the baseline model suggested by Tetra Tech, Valley Water is currently exploring ways to simplify the program. The study is still ongoing, and Valley Water is evaluating various models. We will keep you informed as we move forward.
o Upcoming State CRS Users Group meeting – April 17, 2024. o Reflections on recent ISO evaluations and efforts to improve documentation for ISO certification. Participants discuss their experiences with ISO specialists, challenges faced during ISO evaluations, and strategies for improving their scores, particularly in areas like floodplain management and hazard mitigation plans.
o Reminder to upload post-cycle documentation to Egnyte to ensure information is available for future use.
o Questions:
Can ISO revisit the evaluation if sufficient points are obtained from Valley Water's hazard mitigation plan? ISO may agree to a revision if points from the hazard mitigation plan can elevate the city's rating, but this depends on meeting or surpassing the threshold for the next class.
What documentation does ISO require from Valley Water for water drainage within Milpitas? ISO requirements for documentation from Valley Water may have changed over time. Previously, a comprehensive cost and accomplishment report sufficed, but confirming current requirements is essential. If documentation is needed, submit a request to Valley Water with enough time to pull reports/documentation. It is up to each community to conduct the impact adjustment analysis.
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Agenda Meeting
Santa Clara County CRS Users Group & Program for Public Information (PPI) Committee Meeting May 29, 2024 _ 2:30pm – 4:30pm
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https://valleywater.zoom.us/j/81019341372?pwd=MmpVU1RJK1RsU0pNcXkvanBFcU53UT09 Meeting ID: 810 1934 1372 _ Passcode: 653912 _ +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) Purpose: PPI Stakeholder Committee Annual Evaluation Meeting to monitor the Implementation of the 2021 Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information per Activity 330, Outreach Project, Element 332.c. Program for Public Information (PPI), Step 7 requirement
Outcome: 2021 PPI Annual Evaluation Report, FY24 Year 3 of 5 Item Meeting Topic Presenter Time
1. Introductions
Roll Call / Roster Updates
Amy Fonseca 10 min
2. Review of the Meeting Goals and Agenda
Review pending Action Items from this committee’s 3/26/24 meeting (see attached list)
Amy Fonseca 10 min
3. Flood Awareness Survey 2024 Results Presentation
FY23-24 Flood Awareness Campaign Results
Launch of Valley Water’s Annual Flood Awareness Campaign kicks-off October 2024.
Adam
Probolsky
Paola Reyes
15 min
10 min
4. Valley Water update of the Feasibility Study for Regionalizing CRS in Santa Clara County and the Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Floodplain Management Plan (FMP) (flood-focused)
Amy Fonseca 10 min
5. CRS 2024 Cycle Group (San Jose and Valley Water) and Annual Recertification Amy Fonseca 5 min
6. California Flood Preparedness Week (October 2024)
1. The committee roster is shared w/CA DWR to include all communities to the CFPW meetings.
2. Please attend for good ideas, networking, and sharing resources (DWR has a lot of samples and other items).
3. Invite your Communications and OES staff to help promote flood-readiness.
4. Opportunity for DWR to report on your work and participation and vis-versa.
Amy Fonseca 5 min
7. Complete Development of the 2021 Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information (PPI) Annual Report, FY 24 (Year 3: July 2023 to June 2024) Reference the Activity 330 Outreach Project sheets located here https://fta.valleywater.org/fl/1a2Jh3wyoO as a starting 0oint to update Appendix A from 2021 SC County Multi-Jurisdictional PPI Update the FY24 Project Accomplishments column for your community Google Link NOTE: Update Input Here Only column; Do Not edit anything else
Communities’ updates are due by next CRS Users Group/PPI Meeting or by the DEADLINE no later than May 31, 2024 (Friday)
Amy Fonseca 20 min
8. Other Items Amy Fonseca 5 min
9. Adjourn
For questions, please contact Amy Fonseca at (408) 630-3005 (office) or (408) 691-8889 (cell) or [email protected]
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Pending Action Items from the
3/26/24 CRS Users Group / PPI Committee Meeting
AGENDA ITEM #2: Review of Meeting Goals and Agenda / Agenda Item #3: Annual Review of CRS Communities Roster:
Action Item:
Review the CRS community roster within the next 2 weeks and ensure accurate information. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ttp_t7c6-XXCfQ5urxqRJ-GxZDZ0jG6g/edit#gid=1135493871 AGENDA ITEM #5: Floodplain Management Plan (FMP) Update Action Items:
Merna will meet with Emily Zedler to continue the conversation on hotspots.
Amy & Merna briefly met with Emily. It was determined that VW hotspots most likely differ from a community-identified hotspot/problem area. VW conducted hotspot outreach in FY24; we sent a community toolkit, materials, and signs to organizations in hotspot areas on 11/23 and 2/24. This will be reflected in the FY24 Annual Evaluation Report, and Paola Reyes will share details at the 5/29/24 PPI Committee Meeting.
You could build on VW's Field Information Team (FIT) hotspot GIS layer for communities wanting to do their own outreach to hotspot areas. https://tinyurl.com/scvwdfit.
AGENDA ITEM #6: Review 2021 PPI “Other New Initiatives” Action Items:
Initiative #2: Identify the Chamber of Commerce or equivalent in each city and find ways to share information via websites, blogs, and newsletters. This initiative will be re-evaluated next fiscal year.
Who in each organization can help establish a connection with the Chamber of Commerce and downtown associations? Initiative #4: Expand on outreach to "hot spot" flood-prone areas by hosting on-site or virtual events.
Valley Water has hotspot data; cities may maintain different hotspot data depending on need (e.g., trash hot spots). Valley Water has floodplain flood data; it’s been provided to cities. Identify high-risk areas (e.g., libraries, parks, stores, etc.) to provide flood preparedness information. Valley Water maintains GIS layers with hotspot information. https://data-valleywater.opendata.arcgis.com/ We have flexibility with this initiative; we can get creative on how to address it. See notes on Action Item #5 mentioned above.
AGENDA ITEM #7: 2021 Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information (PPI) Annual Evaluation Report Action Item:
Review and update information in the “FY 2024 (Year 2 of the 2021 PPI)” column by the end of May 2024. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zYW25x_MB3lNnmTBV8CrlfgTE7zoEZKJ/edit AGENDA ITEM # 8: Activity 350 – Flood Protection, c. flood protection website Action Item:
Check flood protection resource web page links monthly to ensure active links; update the entire content annually.
Make sure to redirect to 1) valleywater.org/floodready, 2) floodsmart.gov, and 3) ready.gov.
AGENDA ITEM #9: Next meeting – Joint CRS Users Group/Program for Public Information (PPI) Committee meeting Upcoming meeting in May 2024. A Doodle poll will be sent.
Upcoming Agenda Items:
Valley Water’s Communications Unit will provide an update on their flood preparedness campaign. Solicit ideas for next year’s campaign.
Discuss promotional materials for future flood readiness campaigns. Due to budget constraints, Valley Water's approach to giveaway items for community use will change starting in the October 2024 flood season.
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Name Agency
Robb Lampa CA Department of Water Resources
Jenn Chu City of Cupertino
Susana Ramirez City of Gilroy
Brian Petrovic City of Milpitas
Charlie Ha City of Morgan Hill
Maria Angeles City of Morgan Hill
Lauren Cody City of Mountain View
Renee Gunn City of Mountain View
Rajeev Hada City of Palo Alto
Vivian Tom City of San Jose
Brandon Coco City of Santa Clara
Christian Tran City of Santa Clara
Darrell Wong County of Santa Clara
Lea Velasco City of Sunnyvale
Amy Fonseca Valley Water
Kristen Yasukawa Valley Water
Merna Leal Valley Water
Paola Reyes Valley Water
Rene Moreno Valley Water
Adam Probolsky Valley Water Consultant, Probolsky Research Santa Clara County CRS Users Group / PPI Committee Meeting Attendance Sheet
May 29, 2024 | 2:30 - 4:30pm | Zoom
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Santa Clara County CRS Users Group & Program for Public Information (PPI) Committee Meeting Notes
May 29, 2024 | 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Item #1: Introductions/ Roll Call/ Roster Updates
Item #2: Review of the Meeting Goals and Agenda
x Review pending “Action Items” from the committee’s meeting on March 26, 2024. o Agenda Item #2: Review of Meeting Goals and Agenda / Agenda Item #3 – Annual Review of CRS Communities Roster – Reminder to update the CRS community roster. o Agenda Item #5: Floodplain Management Plan (FMP) Update – Valley Water met with Emily Zedler to discuss hotspots. Based on the conversation, there was no specific outreach to hotspots because they differ based on agency. A GIS layer is available for agencies to use to conduct targeted outreach. o Agenda Item #6: Review 2021 PPI “Other New Initiatives” – Based on targeted outreach efforts utilizing hotspot information, initiative #4 (expand on outreach to "hot spot" flood-prone areas by hosting on-site or virtual events) is complete.
Initiative #2: Identify the Chamber of Commerce or equivalent in each city and find ways to share information via websites, blogs, and newsletters. This initiative will be re-evaluated next fiscal year.
o Agenda Item # 8: Activity 350 – Flood Protection, c. flood protection website – Check links and ensure links direct to 1) valleywater.org/floodready, 2) floodsmart.gov, and 3) ready.gov. to ensure agencies receive CRS WEB credit. o Giveaway Items: Starting in FY25, Valley Water will be limited on giveaway items due to budget constraints. For the October 2024 flood season, Valley Water has purchased first aid pocket kits that will be provided to all SC County agencies for their use. Valley Water will also order emergency starter kits that we will distribute throughout the county; emergency starter kits shared previously will no longer be available to communities.
Action Items:
o Review and update the CRS community roster, including additional staff positions outside the CRS coordinator (if needed).
x CRS community roster link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ttp_t7c6- XXCfQ5urxqRJ-GxZDZ0jG6g/edit#gid=1135493871
o Review and check links to ensure they direct to Valley Water's website.
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The meeting notes correspond with the discussion of the meeting agenda items. x Paola Reyes from Valley Water’s Communications Unit shared a presentation providing an overview of the launch of Valley Water’s Annual Flood Awareness Campaign (FY24). x Adam Probolsky from Probolsky Research shared a presentation providing an overview of the 2024 Flood Awareness Survey Results.
Item #4: Valley Water update of the Feasibility Study for Regionalizing CRS in Santa Clara County and the Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Floodplain Management Plan (FMP) (flood-focused)
x A draft of the Feasibility Study for regionalizing CRS was shared with the CRS Users Group and Valley Water management. Valley Water Management is still considering the ideas proposed in the plan and has requested ways to streamline the program's administration. Tetra Tech, Valley Water’s consultant, continues to work on the study, and there have been no major changes since it was shared with the CRS Users Group. x Valley Water is working on the flood-centric Multi-Jurisdictional Floodplain Management Plan and aims to provide an update soon. Tetra Tech is assisting in developing the floodplain management plan; they will reach out to Marlene Jacobs, ISO CRS Specialist, to review the 510 FMP checklists for both Valley Water and the City of San Jose (communities scheduled to be cycled in 2024) using the 2023/2024 (?) SC County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan. The goal is to avoid duplicating efforts as the flood-centric FPM is developed.
Item #5: CRS 2024 Cycle Group (San Jose and Valley Water) and Annual Recertification x If you completed the cycle last year, please upload the information to Egnyte. This will enable Valley Water to support future efforts in potential transition and provide examples for other cycling agencies.
x San Jose and Valley Water are scheduled to be cycled in November 2024. There have been no updates regarding the upcoming cycle. Valley Water can schedule a meeting with San Jose if they need our assistance/Valley Water documentation. x Letters from ISO/FEMA for the annual recertifications should arrive soon. Valley Water will start gathering information for Activity 540; agencies requiring this and other Valley Water documentation for other activities should contact us. x Final PPI Annual Evaluation Report should be ready to submit to ISO for recertification due on August 1, 2024 (see Agenda Item #7).
x Action Item:
o If you do not receive a recertification letter or email from ISO by mid-June 2024, please contact Bradley Arkens @ [email protected] for further information.
x Question:
o Where can agencies upload their recertification files to Egnyte? Is there a specific folder? All recertification documents should be uploaded to respective community folders. If there are any access or questions, please contact Valley Water.
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Item #6: California Flood Preparedness Week (October 2024) x In preparation for California Flood Preparedness Week, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) will begin planning the upcoming campaign. Partner meetings will start soon. Please ensure that the contact information in the CRS community roster is current, as it will be shared with DWR to send out meeting invitations. x Valley Water will have its separate kickoff event, including a flood preparedness week resolution and outreach, in October 2024.
Item #7: Complete Development of the 2021 Multi-Jurisdictional Program for Public Information (PPI) Annual Evaluation Report, FY 24 (Year 3: July 2023 to June 2024) x All agencies should review and update FY24 Project Accomplishments column as soon as possible. Valley Water is preparing the non-agenda item for the Valley Water Board (June 21, 2024) submitting the Annual Evaluation Report. x Each community should specify how the PPI Annual Evaluation Report will be shared with its governing board. At the meeting, each community confirmed the method of sharing the annual report with its governing body, and the present communities noted no changes.
o Note that the PPI Annual Evaluation Report only needs to be sent (does not need to be adopted – only the PPI itself has to be adopted) to their respective governing body before submitting the report as part of the recertification documentation submittal that’s due on August 1, 2024.
o Valley Water will provide the committee with the final PPI Annual Evaluation Report and our Board non-agenda item cover memo by June 21, 2024 (after 5:00 pm PST). x If communities do not update the PPI Annual Evaluation Report, Valley Water will proceed with the report without community information.
Action Item:
o Deadline – May 31, 2024: Update the FY24 Project Accomplishments column for your community Google Link NOTE: Update Input Here Only column; Do Not edit anything else
x Question:
o It was mentioned that Valley Water plans to take the report to the Valley Water Board on June 21, 2024. Will the report be available after that? Cupertino plans to present to the council in July and will need the report in late June. The PPI Annual Report will be posted and sent to the CRS community group on June 21 (after 5:00 pm PST). If content is required before June 21, contact Valley Water for draft content.
Agenda Item #8: Other Items
x Rob Lampa from DWR is preparing to send an invite to an upcoming webinar series.
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REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Informational Report on 2024 Q2 Legislative Updates
COUNCIL PILLAR
Enhance Community Engagement and Transparency
BACKGROUND
On October 9, 2018, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 18-8611 to approve a Legislative Advocacy Position (LAP) Policy. The LAP Policy establishes guidelines for advancing City goals and positions through legislative review and advocacy at the regional, state, and federal levels of government. The policy also provides guidance for City officials who serve on regional, State, and national boards, committees, and commissions when they are asked to review public policy matters and issues.
The Council is required to annually adopt or update LAPs at the beginning of the calendar year to identify specific legislative priorities outside of the LAP Policy’s legislative guiding principles. On December 12, 2023, the City Council adopted eleven (11) LAPs that had been updated for 2024 on the following key issues:
· Broadband, Cable Services, and Wireless Facilities
· Community Services
· Emergency Management
· Energy Legislation, Regulations and Issues
· Housing
· Human Resources and Public Sector Employment
· Public Safety (Further Amended on July 11, 2023)
· Regional Issues and Collaboration
· Sustainability and Environmental Protection
· Transportation Issues
· Water Supply and Conservation
The LAP Policy includes the following procedures that streamline the City’s legislative review and advocacy process:
· If the City Council has previously adopted a policy directly relevant to the legislation or the proposed legislation is generally consistent with the City’s overall guiding principles for legislative advocacy or LAP, the Mayor or City Manager may sign a letter supporting or opposing legislation on behalf of the City.
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· In order to keep the City Council informed of all City communications on legislation, copies of the letter or summary of actions will be distributed to the City Council as information items in the Council Meeting Agendas.
· Staff will provide and/or coordinate quarterly legislative updates on public policy items of interest to the City Council and departments.
In coordination with staff, the City’s legislative advocacy consultant, Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. (Townsend), tracks and monitors legislation and advocates the City’s position on various legislation at the State and federal levels of government. This report provides an update on such efforts.
DISCUSSION
A 2024 Q2 Legislative Update prepared by Townsend summarizes key State and federal updates that have occurred recently (Attachment 1). Townsend has also provided a 2024 Q2 Legislative Bill Matrix that outlines key State legislation that staff and Townsend are tracking (Attachment 2). The bills are grouped under their respective LAP and a summary has been provided for each bill.
City action on legislative items for the quarter is documented in the 2024 Q2 Legislative Action Summary (Attachment 3), along with copies of legislative letters, in accordance with the LAP Policy requirement to provide copies of the letters or a summary of actions to Council.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The action being considered does not constitute a “project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15378(b)(5) in that it is a governmental organizational or administrative activity that will not result in direct or indirect changes in the environment.
FISCAL IMPACT
The City has an existing agreement with Townsend Public Affairs for state and federal legislative advocacy services. Townsend’s services which are described in this report are included in the consultant’s monthly service fee.
COORDINATION
This report has been coordinated with Townsend Public Affairs and the City Attorney’s Office.
PUBLIC CONTACT
Public contact was made by posting the Council agenda on the City’s official-notice bulletin board outside City Hall Council Chambers. A complete agenda packet is available on the City’s website and in the City Clerk’s Office at least 72 hours prior to a Regular Meeting and 24 hours prior to a Special Meeting. A hard copy of any agenda report may be requested by contacting the City Clerk’s Office at (408) 615-2220, email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> or at the public information desk at any City of Santa Clara public library.
RECOMMENDATION
Note and file the informational report on 2024 Q2 legislative updates.
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Prepared by: Christine Jung, Assistant to the City Manager Approved by: Jovan D. Grogan, City Manager
ATTACHMENTS
1. 2024 Q2 Legislative Update by Townsend
2. 2024 Q2 Legislative Bill Matrix
3. 2024 Q2 Legislative Action Summary
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M E M O R A N D U M
To: City of Santa Clara
From: Townsend Public Affairs
Casey Elliott, Vice President
Date: June 19, 2024
Subject: Q2 Legislative Update
The month of May is traditionally one of the busier months in Sacramento, as the Legislature navigated through the Appropriations Committee Suspense File process and moves bills out of their House of Origin. Additionally, the Governor released the May Revise of the proposed state budget and began working with the Legislature to craft a final budget agreement so that the Legislature can meet their constitutional deadline to pass a budget on June 15th.
Appropriations Committees Consider the Fate of Hundreds of Bills On May 16th, the Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committee each held a hearing to consider measures that had been referred to each committee’s suspense file. The Appropriations Committees typically refer any bill that is deemed to have a non-minor fiscal impact to the state to their suspense file. The committees then hold a single hearing where they consider all bills on the suspense file and either advance bills to the Assembly or Senate Floor for consideration or hold the bills in committee. Those bills that are held in committee are ineligible for additional consideration this year.
Suspense File hearings are done at a rapid speed, with Appropriations Chairs reading through the outcomes of hundreds of bills. Traditionally, the first suspense hearings of a legislative session happen in May, when lawmakers and their staff have a better idea of the budget picture for that year. Given the recent budget projections of an increasing budget deficit, lawmakers exercised prudence in moving forward bills with big price tags.
Of the 668 bills considered during the Assembly Appropriations Committee’s Suspense File hearing, 65% passed, and 35% were held and deemed inactive for the remainder of the Session.
Similarly, the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Suspense File Agenda featured 341 total bills – 74.5% of which were passed, and 25.5% were held and deemed inactive. In total, there were 1,009 bills in the Suspense Files between both Committees; 689 passed to their House Floors, with 320 measures held in committee. Notably, many of the measures passed onto the floor received substantial amendments.
Assembly and Senate Move Bills Out of the First House Prior to Deadline Following Appropriations Suspense File Hearings in both houses, the week of May 20 – May 24 featured another major legislative hurdle for bills – the May 24th House of Origin deadline. During this time, both houses held daily floor session proceedings as they raced to consider bills to meet the House of Origin deadline. The House of Origin deadline marks the last day for any bill
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introduced in the Senate or Assembly to pass off of the floor and into the second house for consideration.
Looking forward, policy committees will resume hearings with a quick pace in late May through early July. Policy committees will have little over a month to hear and pass measures from the opposite house out of their policy committee, prior to the July 3rd statutory deadline, which also marks the beginning of the Legislature’s Summer Recess.
Retail Theft and Fentanyl Crisis Bills Pass First House In late May, numerous measures pertaining to retail theft and preventing fentanyl overdoses passed in both the Assembly and Senate floors, prior to the house of origin deadline.
The Assembly passed their seven-measure retail theft legislative package, titled the California Retail Theft Reduction Act, which aims to curb retail theft occurrences. The package, originally announced by Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and a bipartisan coalition of Assembly Members earlier this year in April, consists of seven bills that are focused on reducing retail crime and addressing other theft incidents.
Similarly, the Senate passed their legislative package, titled the Safer California Plan, which includes fifteen measures to address the fentanyl crisis and curbing retail theft and communitybased crime. Specifically, the package includes ten measures to address the fentanyl crisis, and five measures to curb retail theft and community-based crime.
Notably, the Assembly package does not include constitutional reforms to Proposition 47, the 2014 initiative which specified that all thefts of property worth $950 or less are punished as misdemeanors and reduced certain nonserious and nonviolent drug possession and property crimes from felonies and wobblers to misdemeanors, among other key provisions. Currently, a coalition is pursuing a ballot initiative to enact reforms to Proposition 47 on the November ballot.
The initiative, titled the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act, would increase penalties for some drug and theft crimes, by rolling back Proposition 47 and requires some individuals, arrested three or more times for drug crimes, into treatment. The statutory deadline for measures to qualify for the November ballot is June 27.
In mid-June, Speaker Rivas and Democratic leaders from the Assembly and Senate held a press conference to announce that they would be fast-tracking retail theft and organized crime bills, so that they can be signed by the Governor. The Speaker announced that the the bills would be amended to add an urgency clause, as well as language that would repeal the bills should the initiative to amend Prop 47 be approved by voters at the November General Election.
The Speaker also indicated that he supports the will of voters, so that if voters would prefer the initiative approach to amend Proposition 47, and approve that measure in November, then the legislative vehicles would then be rescinded. Legislative Republicans, and some law enforcement stakeholders, view the amendments as a political maneuver to draw support away from the proposed initiative in November, and have withdrawn their support for the legislative package.
They contend that in order to address the state’s issues related to crime and retail theft both the legislative modifications and the proposed initiative are necessary.
At this point, it is anticipated that the measures will be fast-tracked so that they can be approved by both Houses prior to the Legislature, and signed into law by Governor Newsom, prior to June 27th.
May Revise Released
On May 10th, Governor Newsom released his 2024-25 State Budget May Revise, which reflects an update to the Governor’s Proposed Budget in January 2024. The May Revise incorporates updated revenue adjustments, adjustments to January Budget proposals, as well as new proposals. The revised spending proposal totals $288 billion, which is significantly smaller than the $310.8 billion budget signed into law last year.
In his presentation, the Governor estimated the state needed to address a $27.6 billion deficit this year, as well as ongoing deficits of around $30 billion per year beginning in 2025. The total deficit was less than that of the January Budget following the enactment of the “Early Action” budget package the Legislature and Administration worked on to solve $17 billion of the total shortfall.
The Early Action budget package included cuts to undisbursed one-time spending programs across the previous three budgets.
Throughout his presentation, the Governor attributed the shortfall to the state’s “volatile” progressive tax structure that largely relies on the financial performance of high-income earners. Earlier this year, during the Governor’s January Proposed Budget, the Governor attributed the shortfall to the substantial decline in the stock market that drove down revenues in 2022 and the unprecedented delay in critical income tax collections. Additionally, the 2023 Budget Act experienced a budget shortfall of approximately $32 billion which became exacerbated by the IRS’s tax filing and payment delay which generated a budget without an accurate depiction of revenues. Once additional tax receipts for 2022 were received in late November 2023, the 2022 revenues were lower than projected when the 2023 Budget Act was adopted. Similar to the 2023- 24 budget cycle, the FY 24-25 continues the deficit trend with a total shortfall of $37.9 billion.
As mentioned, in recognizing the importance of addressing the shortfall ahead of schedule, the Legislature passed an Early Action Budget Package in April that reduced the size of the budget shortfall by approximately $17.3 billion (AB 106). This package was comprised primarily of solutions included in the Governor’s Budget and also accounted for the use of $12.2 billion from the Budget Stabilization Account (BSA).
Subtracting the savings of $17.3 billion from the Early Action Budget Package from the stated total budget deficit of $37.9 billion, there remained a $20.6 billion deficit to resolve in the coming budget year. The May Revise estimates an additional $7.0 billion reduction in revenues, which sums up the new problem to resolve in the budget to $27.6 billion.
Jan 10 Budget Deficit Estimate $37.9 billion
Early Action Budget Package - $17.3 billion
May Revise Deficit Adjustment $7.0 billion
Total State Budget Deficit $27.6 billion
The May Revise takes into account the budget solutions proposed in the January 10 budget (including those proposals that were and were not included in the Early Action Budget Package), adds the additional revenue reductions to the problem, and then proposes the additional solutions necessary to close the entire gap. Below is a summary of both the Jan 10 solutions and May Revise solutions necessary to close the entire estimated budget deficit. Detailed breakdowns follow.
Jan 10 Budget Solutions Additional May Revise
Solution and Adjustments
Reserves $13.1 billion - $8.9 billion
Reductions $8.5 billion $10.7 billion
Revenue/Borrowing $5.7 billion $2.0 billion
Delays $5.1 billion $520 million
Fund Shifts $3.4 billion $3.9 billion
Deferrals $2.1 billion
Total $37.9 billion $8.2 billion
Joint Legislative Budget Proposal Released
On May 29th, Senate and Assembly leadership released their outline of a joint proposed budget in response to the Governor’s May Revise proposal. The Joint Legislative Budget Plan is a highlevel outline and lacks technical details that accompany the Governor’s budget proposals but will help serve as a basis for the Legislature in the ongoing budget negotiations with the Administration. Specific details on the items, and other related actions, within the Legislature’s Budget Plan will be made available as part of the public hearing agendas for the Assembly and Senate budget committee hearings in the coming days.
The Legislature’s proposed budget solves a similar deficit and reserve spending problem as outlined by the Administration. The Legislature’s plan does rely more on increased revenue over the budget year than the Governor’s May Revise, and then utilizes that new revenue to offset many of the cuts contained within the May Revise. The primary source of increased revenue is building on the Governor’s proposal to suspend Net Operating Loss deductions and cap various business tax credits for three years; however, the Legislature’s Plan starts the three-year period earlier than the Governor so that the suspension and cap will be in place for tax years 2024, 2025, and 2026. The Legislature believes that applying these revenue measures in FY 2024-25 will result in an additional $7 billion in revenue beyond what was contemplated in the May Revise.
In addition, the Legislature proposes reconfiguring or rejecting a number of proposed cuts initially incorporated into the Governor’s proposal. These include:
• The Legislature proposes rejecting proposed cuts to Multifamily Housing, Regional Early Action Planning (REAP) 2.0, and Housing Navigation and Maintenance Program. • The Legislature proposes reinstating the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for Round 6 at $1 billion.
• The Legislature proposes rejecting the proposed cut to the Active Transportation Program and shifting to the State Highway Account.
Additionally, the Legislature’s Budget Plan contains two proposals aimed at providing avoiding significant budget shortfalls in the future. The first proposal would update the state’s rainy-day fund by increasing the maximum size of the rainy day from 10% of the state’s general fund to 20%, as well as excluding deposits into the rainy-day fund from the Gann Limit. The second reform would create a “Projected Surplus Temporary Holding Account” that can be used in years in which a significant budget surplus is anticipated. Under this proposal an unspecified amount of the anticipated surplus would be allocated to the account and available for use once the funding materializes, so that the Legislature does not approve spending based on projected revenue that never materializes. Specific information on these proposals is still forthcoming, but it is possible that these reforms will need to be approved by voters, potentially as soon as at the November General Election.
Budget Approval
On June 13th, the Legislature met to consider three bills: a main budget bill and two trailer bills.
These three bills represent the Legislature’s version of the state budget, but do not reflect an agreement with the Administration on the overall budget.
This three-bill package approved by the Legislature is reflective of the joint legislative budget plan approved by both the Assembly and Senate in late May. The contents of the bills are overarching in nature, but do not contain the level of specificity that will be found in the final budget/trailer bill package that will implement the final budget agreement. During the floor debate, Senate Pro Tem McGuire expressed optimism over the ongoing negotiations with the Administration and that the Legislature would be able to consider a final budget package prior to the end of June.
In addition to the main budget bill (AB 107), two trailer bills were approved, as they contain provisions that are foundational to the revenue assumptions contained within the main budget.
SB 167 contain numerous revenue adjustments, including the Legislature’s plan to start a threeyear suspension of corporate net operating loss (NOL) deductions and tax credits in 2024—one year earlier than the Governor proposed. This results in the legislative plan having more revenues than the May Revision proposal in 2024-25. The higher revenues allow the restoration of some social services, transportation, and housing cuts in the legislative plan. Additionally, the Prop 98 trailer bill suspends the Prop 98 minimum guarantee in the current budget year and will require reductions in current year education spending to be provided back to educational entities as part of future budgets.
SB 154 suspends the Proposition 98 minimum funding guarantee for school districts and community colleges in the current 2023-24 budget year. The bill creates an $8.314 billion maintenance factor, which will be constitutionally required to be repaid in subsequent budget years. This budget trailer bill helps the budget balance in the current year without requiring educational entities to provide funding, that has already been received and spent, back to the state. Additionally, the measure ensures that the budget balancing measure will not result in lower levels of funding for education in future years.
The State’s Constitution requires the Legislature to pass a balanced budget bill by June 15th of each calendar year. With the passage of AB 107, the Legislature met their constitutional requirement to approve a budget.
Subsequent amendments to the Budget Act, to enact the final budget agreement, will be done by a series of budget trailer bills. There is no constitutional deadline for approval of these trailer bills, so it is likely that the Legislature will approve these trailer bills later in June, once a complete budget deal is reached, but there may be additional actions over the remainder of the legislative session.
Proposition 1 Update: Preliminary Guidance Released
On May 14th, Governor Newsom held a press conference in San Mateo County to discuss the rollout of Proposition 1 funds. While there is no notice of funding availability language in hand at this point, there is new supplemental guidance for how this funding will be disseminated. Linked here is bond guidance issued by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) which serves as a supplemental to the forthcoming Requests for Applications (RFAs). The programs will include the following:
• Bond BHCIP Round 1: Launch Ready RFA is expected to be released in July 2024 for up to $3.3 billion in funding.
• Bond BHCIP Round 2: Unmet Needs RFA is expected to be released in May 2025 for up to $1.1 billion in funding.
Overall, prospective applicants for Proposition 1 funding should prepare for a quick application period. The Governor iterated that funding would become available as soon as July, with requirements for applicants to complete pre-application consultations at least 8 weeks before the undetermined application deadline. The urgency associated with the quick rollout is likely not unrelated to the lack of homeless funding included in the State’s budget proposal, which is experiencing significant funding shortfalls.
Notably, the bond funding will institute regional funding caps – aside from the $1.5 billion available for Cities, counties, and tribal entities. This funding pot will be competitive and not region-specific or subject to population-based formulaic disbursements. Additional information is anticipated to be released in the coming weeks regarding the application specifics and requirements for each round of funding.
Legislative Calendar
The Legislature reconvened for the second year of the 2023-24 Legislative Session on January 3rd. The Legislature will initially focus on revisiting legislation that was introduced last year, but failed to move out of the first house, before moving on to new bills to be considered in 2024.
Below are the upcoming relevant dates for the Legislature:
June 15th – Deadline for the Legislature to approve a budget bill June 27th – Deadline to qualify measures for the November General Election ballot July 3rd – Deadline for bills to advance out of Second House policy committees July 3rd – August 4th – Legislative Summer Recess
August 16th – Deadline for bills to advance out of Second House fiscal committees August 31st – Final recess begins on adjournment of floor session September 30th – Last day for Governor to act on pending legislation Priority Legislation
The State Legislature returned from interim recess in January to begin the second year of the 2023-24 legislative session. As it is the second year of a two-year session, those bills that did not progress in the previous session and were marked as “2-Year Bills” had the opportunity to progress at the behest of their authors until the end of January. Additionally, legislators had until February 16th to introduce new bills. Ultimately, the Legislature introduced 2,124 new bills prior to the deadline; 1,505 Assembly Bills, and 619 Senate Bills.
Notable introductions include the following:
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AB 1794 (McCarty) – Crimes: larceny
The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by the electors at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, makes the theft of money, labor, or property petty theft punishable as a misdemeanor, whenever the value of the property taken does not exceed $950. Under current law, if the value of the property taken exceeds $950, the theft is grand theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Proposition 47 requires shoplifting, defined as entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny if the value of the property taken does not exceed $950, to be punished as a misdemeanor. Under current law, if the value of all property taken over the course of distinct but related acts motivated by one intention, general impulse, and plan exceeds $950, those values may be aggregated into a single charge of grand theft. This bill would clarify that those values may be aggregated even though the thefts occurred in different places or from different victims.
The bill would also, declarative of existing law, provide that circumstantial evidence may be used to prove that multiple thefts were motivated by one intention, general impulse, and plan. This bill was approved by the Senate Public Safety Committee and has been referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee for consideration.
AB 1893 (Wicks) – Housing Accountability Act
This bill would make changes to the “Builder’s Remedy” under the Housing Accountability Act.
As proposed, this bill would reduce the required percentage of affordable units for a Builder’s Remedy project from 20% to 10% where lower income units would be provided and create a new basis for denying a Builder’s Remedy project, including where the residential density of the project would be lower than otherwise permitted, the project is excessively dense, or that a project fails to meet objective, quantifiable, or written development standards applicable to the site. This bill was approved by the Senate Housing Committee and has been referred to the Senate Local Government Committee.
AB 2561 (McKinnor) – Local public employment: vacant positions This bill would require each public agency with bargaining unit vacancy rates exceeding 10% for more than 90 days within the past 180 days to meet and confer with a representative of the recognized employee organization to produce, publish, and implement a plan consisting of specified components to fill all vacant positions within the subsequent 180 days. The bill would require the public agency to present this plan during a public hearing to the governing legislative body and to publish the plan on its internet website for public review for at least one year. This bill was on the Assembly Floor (51-5) and is currently awaiting consideration in the Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee.
AB 2813 (Aguiar-Curry) – Government Investment Act
The Legislature adopted Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 (ACA 1) at the 2023–24 Regular Session of the Legislature, which, if approved by the voters, would amend and add provisions of the California Constitution to (1) create an additional exception to the 1% limit on the ad valorem tax rate on real property by authorizing a local jurisdiction to levy an ad valorem tax to service bonded indebtedness incurred to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters in that local jurisdiction; and (2) authorize a local jurisdiction to impose, extend, or increase a sales and use tax to fund the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of public infrastructure, affordable housing, or permanent supportive housing, if the proposition proposing that tax is approved by 55% of the voters in that local jurisdiction. Pursuant to the existing law described above, ACA 1 is scheduled to appear on the ballot at the November 5, 2024, statewide general election. This bill, for purposes of ACA 1, would define “affordable housing” to include rental housing, ownership housing, interim housing, and affordable housing programs such as downpayment assistance, first-time homebuyer programs, and owner-occupied affordable housing rehabilitation programs, that are affordable to households earning up to 150% of countywide median income. The bill would require a local government to ensure that any project that is funded with ACA 1 bonded indebtedness to have an estimated useful life of at least 15 years or 5 years if the funds are for specified public safety facilities, infrastructure, and equipment. The bill would define “public infrastructure” to exclude the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of a sports stadium or arena where the majority of the use of the facility is for private ticketed activities.
This bill was approved on the Assembly Floor (56-5) and is currently in the Senate Rules Committee awaiting referral to a policy committee.
SB 972 (Min) – Methane emissions: organic waste: landfills Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in the state and to achieve a reduction in specified emissions, including methane, as provided. Current law requires the methane reduction goals to include a 75% reduction target from the 2014 level by 2025.
Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations, as provided, that achieve the targets for reducing organic waste in landfills. This bill would require the department to provide procedures for local jurisdictions to request technical assistance regarding organic waste and methane reduction requirements from the department, to post those procedures on its internet website, and to provide that technical assistance. This bill was approved by the Assembly Natural Resources Committee and has been referred to the Assembly Appropriations Committee for consideration.
SB 1037 (Wiener) – Planning and zoning: housing element: enforcement This bill, in any action brought by the Attorney General, on behalf of HCD or in an independent capacity, to enforce the adoption of housing element revisions, as specified, or to enforce any state law that requires a city, county, or local agency to ministerially approve any planning or permitting application related to a housing development project, would subject the city, county, or local agency to specified remedies, including a civil penalty of, at minimum, $10,000 per month, and not exceeding $50,000 per month, for each violation. The bill would require that the penalties set forth in its provisions only apply when the local agency’s acts or omissions, as described, are arbitrary, capricious, or entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair. This bill was approved by the Assembly Judiciary Committee and has been referred to the Assembly Appropriations Committee for consideration.
In addition to the House fully transitioning into the FY2025 appropriations cycle in May, the Senate continued legislative mark ups, and committee and floor hearings. The House and Senate were both out of session for their annual Memorial Day Recess during the week of May 27th. Members of Congress take this time to schedule outreach in their districts and states, while some participate in diplomatic delegations overseas. When Congress returns, the House will begin work to advance Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations bills, starting with the bills funding the Legislative Branch and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. The Senate will return to vote on several of President Biden’s nominees ahead of a busy summer working on the Water Resources Development Act, National Defense Authorization Act, Farm Bill, and other legislation.
FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE UPDATES
FY2025 Appropriations Early Timeline Prospects
The House has conducted budget request hearings and announced the markup schedule for the summer for all twelve appropriations bills, as the new Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole would like to pass all twelve bills off the floor by the August recess.
In a letter addressed to members of the House of Representatives, Chairman Cole stated that nonprofits will no longer be eligible for earmarks. This reopened discussions around policy riders in FY2025 spending packages. The House Freedom Caucus will attempt to strongarm Chairman Cole and pressure a politically confined House Speaker to attach partisan riders. Conservatives will aim to add provisions around diversity, abortion, climate change, transgender and LBGTQ funding, among other partisan issues. Freedom Caucus members tried to attach these measures previously in the FY2024 packages, but they were unsuccessful. It is unclear how Chairman Cole will engage with the conservative wing of the Republican Conference.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Approves the Water Resources Development Act of 2024
On May 22nd, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works unanimously approved S.4367, the Water Resources Development Act of 2024 (WRDA) in their committee markup. The legislation was authored by committee Chairman Tom Carper and cosponsored by Ranking Member Shelley Moore-Capito. With full committee support, the legislation is likely to pass in the Senate.
WRDA addresses various aspects of water resources: environmental, structural, navigational, flood protection, hydrology, and more. WRDA authorizes investments in projects and programs of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and is reauthorized every two years.
Senators are hoping to advance S.4367 to the floor in the coming weeks but are awaiting a score from the Congressional Budget Office. The House is still working on its own WRDA bill. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is looking to consider it in June.
House Agriculture Committee Hosts Farm Bill Markup
The House Agriculture Committee hosted an overdue markup for the Food and National Security Act of 2024, commonly known as the Farm Bill. The Farm Bill is a comprehensive spending package that funds agriculture, food, and nutrition programs for five years.
Committee Democrats and anti-hunger groups came out against the bill, arguing that despite its benefits to nutrition programs, future updates to the popular Thrifty Food Plan should not be limited. Democrats aimed to expand access to nutrition programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as CalFresh in California. Election year politics play a pivotal role in the legislation’s outlook. Republicans are looking to oust Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee who represent agriculture-heavy districts.
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow intends to produce a rival piece of legislation with more Democrat priorities. Senate Agriculture Committee Democrats and party leadership criticized the House version of the Farm Bill for its partisanship. They believe their version will be bipartisan and overcome the filibuster.
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The House Agriculture Committee’s decisive action comes as they continue to work through the list of mandatory spending items. The last Farm bill authorized was in 2018, and it was originally set to expire last September. Congress voted for a continuing resolution to keep agriculture programs funded in order to focus on FY2024 appropriations and other spending packages; the resolution expires this coming September.
Congress Passed FAA Reauthorization Act
Congress passed the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 (H.R. 3935). Senate and House Members came to an agreement after passing multiple continual resolutions (CR) last year. FAA funding was set to expire on May 10, but a last-minute weeklong CR was passed, allowing Senators to consider amendments to the legislation. H.R. 3935 has been signed by President Biden.
Under the agreement the FAA will receive $105 billion through FY2028 for operations. The measure reauthorized the National Transportation Safety Board, allotting $738 million over five years. The bill will also make it possible for the FAA to hire and train air traffic controllers to close a gap of 3,000 vacancies. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 250 air traffic control vacancies in California. The bill mandates more research into how many controllers are needed at each tower and center and increases access to training simulators in more air traffic control towers nationwide.
Due to bicameral opposition, the pilot retirement age was not raised to 67 from 65. International rules would have prevented airline pilots older than 65 from flying in most countries. Last July, the House voted on an earlier version of H.R. 3935 to raise the retirement age, however, the Senate Commerce Committee voted to reject the increase.
California Bipartisan Lawmakers Pass Fire Weather Legislation in the House Congresswoman Young Kim and Congressman Mike Garcia’s Fire Weather Development Act (H.R. 4866) passed in the House. The collaborative legislation aims to expand fire weather and environment monitoring and forecasting capabilities. The objective is to improve communications and data accessibility to first responders and meteorological personnel. California averages between 7,000-8,000 wildfires per year. Managing wildfires is a major statewide effort every year for federal, state, and local leaders. H.R. 4866 would likely be brought to the Senate floor as part of a larger legislative vehicle if it is considered. Congress has a few outstanding mandatory spending packages to address prior to the end of the legislative session.
H.R. 4866 directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to create and improve fire weather and environment forecasting and detection through federal, state, and local collaboration by:
• Allowing NOAA to enter private contracts to gain airborne and space-based data to enhance fire weather and fire environment monitoring and prediction. • Giving NOAA the ability to assess drone use to improve data collection and to conduct drone pilot programs.
• Creating an Interagency Coordinating Committee on Wildfires to accurately detect and forecast wildfires to assist state and local emergency officials. • Setting up a National Advisory Committee on Wildfires to offer recommendations on wildfire forecasting communication and opportunities to streamline Federal forecasting and detection data to local communities.
• Developing a fire weather testbed to evaluate technology and fire weather tools and services.
• Directing NOAA to submit an assessment of National Weather Service workforce challenges for Incident Meteorologists and a plan of action to address these challenges.
Biden-Harris Administration Launches Federal-State Initiative to Bolster America’s Power Grid
On May 28th, the White House announced the Federal-State Modern Grid Deployment Initiative.
The initiative aims to modernize and improve the nation’s electrical grid and create a coordinated plan between states, federal entities, and power sector stakeholders to help drive grid adaptation quickly and cost-effectively. The program received commitments from twenty-one states, including California.
The plan will help states meet the demands of a rapidly changing energy landscape with aging infrastructure and new grid-enhancing technologies. The initiative hopes to increase grid resilience to the growing impacts of climate change and better protect consumers from variability in energy prices.
The Biden Administration said that most electrical grids have not been updated in decades, but there is modern technology to achieve higher capacity expansion and maximize electricity transmission. This is important to meet the growing demand on the grid from the transition away from fossil fuels. For example, as the number of electric vehicles on the country’s roads grows, a more robust electrical grid will be necessary to meet the demand for electricity. Improving electrical infrastructure has been a priority for President Biden and was a central pillar of his Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in Fall 2021.
HUD is Expanding Solutions to Tackle Homelessness with Housing Vouchers The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a new opportunity for communities to expedite housing assistance for people experiencing homelessness with the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. Housing agencies can now request self-certification of income to determine program eligibility. This will help shorten the amount of time it takes to move people experiencing homelessness into healthy, stable homes.
The new HCV waivers will also allow housing agencies to accept disability status and other specific information to expedite assistance. Agencies must then verify tenants’ eligibility within 90 days after the date they begin receiving assistance.
People experiencing homelessness often lack the documents necessary to establish their eligibility for voucher assistance, such as social security cards or pay stubs. Missing documents significantly delays or prevents assistance and timely access to housing.
HUD Released New Rule to Modernize Housing Voucher Programs The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the publication of a new rule taking effect on June 6 aimed at modernizing and increasing the efficiency of HUD’s voucher programs. The two programs impacted, the Housing Choice Voucher and Project Based Voucher programs, provide Public Housing Agencies (PHA) the tools to preserve and expand affordable housing. However, particularly in California, PHAs have struggled to rapidly increase the affordable housing supply necessary to meet demand.
In response, HUD’s new rule makes numerous changes to decrease the regulatory burden on PHAs and assist families in their search for housing. Specifically, PHAs will now be able to tie long term Project Based Vouchers to specific units rather than to a tenant, allowing project owners to more easily secure financing. These vouchers can now also be used for manufactured housing, which costs far less and can be rapidly constructed. HUD asserts that these changes will provide the needed flexibility to increase the supply of affordable housing more efficiently. Other changes set new housing quality standards, ensure that units do not remain overcrowded or underoccupied, and establish local project-specific waiting lists to help families move into units more quickly.
The final rule can be accessed here.
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AB 1825 Muratsuchi, D HTML PDF
California Freedom to Read Act.
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Status: 06/18/2024 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED.
Summary: Would require each public library jurisdiction, as defined, that directly receives any state funding to establish, adopt, and maintain a written and publicly accessible collection development policy for its libraries by January 1, 2026, as specified.
The bill would require the collection development policy to, among other things, (1) establish a process for community members to share their concerns regarding library materials and request materials be reconsidered for inclusion in the library’s collection and (2) establish that library materials shall not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to the creation of the materials, or because of the topic addressed by the materials or the views or opinions expressed in the materials. (Based on 06/18/2024 text) Location: 06/05/2024 - Senate ED.
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Parks: counties and cities: interpretive services.
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Status: 06/11/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Summary: Current law authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation, as a means of furthering its mission to expand access to state parks and outdoor recreation to all, and contingent upon the availability of its resources, to enter into community access agreements, as defined, with eligible entities, as defined, to provide interpretive services and visitor services, as defined, at units of the state parks system to underserved park users, as defined. This bill would require that use of local parks, as defined, by eligible entities, as defined, to provide interpretative services, as defined, to 30 or fewer participating park visitors at a time be considered an allowable public use of the local park, and would require cities, counties, and cities and counties to treat this use of the local park in the same manner as general public use of the local park, except as provided, provided that no benefit is conferred by cities, counties, or cities and counties on eligible entities that is not conferred on the general public. (Based on 06/05/2024 text) Location: 06/11/2024 - Senate N.R. & W.
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AB 817 Pacheco, D HTML PDF
Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body.
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Status: 06/05/2024 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, each legislative body of a local agency to provide notice of the time and place for its regular meetings and an agenda containing a brief general description of each item of business to be transacted. Current law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternate teleconferencing provisions during a proclaimed state of emergency (emergency provisions) and, until January 1, 2026, in certain circumstances related to the particular member if at least a quorum of its members participate from a singular physical location that is open to the public and situated within the agency’s jurisdiction and other requirements are met (nonemergency provisions). Current law imposes different requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed, when a legislative body is using alternate teleconferencing provisions. The nonemergency provisions impose 1st House 2nd House
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Location: 05/01/2024 - Senate L. GOV.
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AB 2302 Addis, D HTML PDF
Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
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Status: 06/06/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: The Ralph M. Brown Act generally requires for teleconferencing that the legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Current law also requires that, during the teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction. The act provides an exemption to the jurisdictional requirement for health authorities, as defined. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing in specified circumstances if, during the teleconference meeting, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, and the legislative body complies with prescribed requirements. Current law imposes prescribed restrictions on remote participation by a member under these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including establishing limits on the number of meetings a member may participate in solely by teleconference from a remote location, prohibiting such participation for a period of more than 3 consecutive months or 20% of the regular meetings for the local agency within a calendar year, or more than 2 meetings if the legislative body regularly meets fewer than 10 times per calendar year. This bill would revise those limits, instead prohibiting such participation for more than a specified number of meetings per year, based on how frequently the legislative body regularly meets. (Based on 02/12/2024 text)
Location: 06/06/2024 - Senate THIRD READING
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California Public Records Act: state of emergency.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
Summary: The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, except as specified. Current law requires each agency, within 10 days of a request for a copy of records, to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable public records in possession of the agency and to promptly notify the person of the determination and the reasons therefor. Current law authorizes that time limit to be extended by no more than 14 days under unusual circumstances, and defines “unusual circumstances” to include certain circumstances. This bill would revise the unusual circumstances under which the time limit may be extended to include the need to search for, collect, and appropriately examine records during a state of emergency, as defined, proclaimed by the Governor in the jurisdiction where the agency is located when the state of emergency currently affects, due to the state of emergency, the agency’s ability to timely respond to requests due to staffing shortages or closure of facilities where the requested records are located, except as specified. (Based on 06/05/2024 text) Location: 06/19/2024 - Assembly CONSENT CALENDAR
Introduced: 02/06/2024
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SB 233 Skinner, D HTML PDF
Practice of medicine: Arizona physicians: abortions and abortion-related care for Arizona patients.
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Status: 05/23/2024 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 11, Statutes of 2024.
Summary: Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to license and regulate the practice of medicine, and establishes examination, training, and other requirements - _10
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••---11•--•--------11•--•------"""o;J-- -'-1">--~•--•--•.,.__~•----,0 Policy Floor Des• for licensure as a physician and surgeon. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor. This bill, through November 30, 2024, would authorize a physician licensed to practice medicine in Arizona who meets certain requirements to practice medicine in California for the purpose of providing abortions and abortion-related care to patients who are Arizona residents traveling from Arizona, upon application for registration with the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, as applicable. The bill would prohibit the physician from providing care or consultation for other purposes or to other patients, except under specified circumstances. The bill would require an Arizona physician, before practicing in California, to submit specified information to the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, as applicable, including, among other information, written verification from the Arizona Medical Board or the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners in Medicine and Surgery, or documentation printed from an online licensing system, that the physician's Arizona license to practice medicine is in good standing and confers on the physician the authority to practice abortions and abortion-related care. The bill would require the applicant to provide an affidavit attesting that, among other things, the applicant meets all of the requirements for registration, as specified, and would make it a misdemeanor for a person to provide false information. The bill would limit the information the California boards are required to disclose about a registrant. The bill would deem a physician registered pursuant to the bill's provisions a licensee of the applicable board, would authorize the applicable board to take enforcement against a person registered pursuant to the bill's provisions, and would prohibit the applicable boards from collecting any fees for registration. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would repeal the bill's provisions on January 1, 2025. (Based on 05/23/2024 text) Location: 05/23/2024 - Senate CHAPTERED
Introduced: 01/24/2023
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Electricity: Family Electric Rate Assistance: reports.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Summary: Would require the Public Utilities Commission, by June 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, to review each electrical corporation’s report to ensure it has sufficiently enrolled eligible households in the FERA program commensurate with the proportion of households the commission determines to be eligible within the electrical corporation’s service territory. If the commission, in its review of a report, determines an electrical corporation has not sufficiently enrolled eligible households in the FERA program, the bill would require the commission to require the electrical corporation to develop a strategy and plan to sufficiently enroll eligible households within 3 years of the adoption of the strategy and plan. (Based on 02/13/2024 text)
Location: 06/19/2024 - Assembly APPR.
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Interagency Council on Homelessness: funding: state programs.
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Status: 06/13/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and HUMAN S.
Summary: Current law requires the Governor to create an Interagency Council on Homelessness, consisting of specified members, and provides specified goals for the council, including to coordinate existing funding and applications for competitive funding. Current law requires the council to create a statewide data system, which is known as the Homeless Data Integration System, that collects local data through the Homeless Management Information System, with a goal of matching data on homelessness to programs impacting homeless recipients of state programs. Current law authorizes the council to collect data from continuums of care. Current law defines state programs as any programs a California state agency or department funds, implements, or administers for the purpose of providing housing or housing-based services to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, except as specified. The bill would additionally require the council to include the Governor’s Tribal Advisor. The bill would remove the above-mentioned reference to competitive funding and would instead require the council to coordinate applications for funding. The bill would require council staff to develop and regularly maintain a strategic funding guide and a calendar of new or existing funding opportunities. The bill would require agencies and departments administrating state programs to provide the council updated information on new or existing funding opportunities on a quarterly basis. (Based on 06/10/2024 text) Location: 06/13/2024 - Senate HUM. S.
Introduced: 02/13/2023
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06/10/2024
AB 1318 Rivas, Luz, D HTML PDF
California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: residential projects.
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Status: 06/13/2024 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or - ________.I D
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Introduced: 02/16/2023
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The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024.
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Status: 03/04/2024 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Summary: Current law authorizes the issuance of bonds in specified amounts pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law and requires that proceeds from the sale of these bonds be used to finance various existing housing programs, capital outlay related to infill development, brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development, and housing-related parks. This bill would enact the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2024, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance programs to fund affordable rental housing and homeownership programs, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHome Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program. This bill would provide for submission of the bond act to the voters at the March 5, 2024, statewide general election in accordance with specified law. (Based on 03/04/2024 text) Location: 03/04/2024 - Senate APPR.
Introduced: 02/17/2023
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Housing development projects: applications: fees and exactions.
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Status: 06/11/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Summary: Current law requires a city or county to deem an applicant for a housing development project to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing specified information about the proposed project to the city or county from which approval for the project is being sought. Current law requires a housing development project be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when the preliminary application was submitted. This bill would authorize a development proponent that submits a preliminary application for a housing development project to request a preliminary fee and exaction estimate, as defined, and would require a city, county, or city and county to provide the estimate within 30 business days of the submission of the preliminary application. For development fees imposed by an agency other than a city, county, or city and county, the bill would require the development proponent to request the fee schedule from the agency that imposes the fee without delay. (Based on 06/05/2024 text) Location: 06/11/2024 - Senate HOUSING
Introduced: 01/11/2024
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Housing Element Law: substantial compliance: Housing Accountability Act.
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Status: 06/19/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. The Housing Element Law prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. If the department finds that a draft housing element or amendment does not substantially comply with the Housing Element Law, current law requires the legislative body of the city or county to either (A) change the draft element or amendment to substantially comply with the Housing Element Law or (B) adopt the draft housing element or amendment without changes and make specified findings as to why the draft element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law despite the findings of the department. Current law requires a planning agency to promptly submit an adopted housing element or amendment to the department and requires the department to review the adopted housing element or amendment and report its findings to the planning agency within 60 days. This bill would require a planning agency that makes the above-described findings as to why a draft housing element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law despite the findings of the department to submit those findings to the department. The bill would require the department to review those finding in its review of an adopted housing element or amendment. The bill would create a rebuttable presumption of validity for the department’s findings as to whether the adopted element or amendment substantially complies with the Housing Element Law. (Based on 06/11/2024 text)
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AB 1893 Wicks, D HTML PDF
Housing Accountability Act: housing disapprovals: required local findings.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: Current law, commonly referred to as the Housing Element Law, prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. The Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderateincome households unless the local agency makes written findings as to one of certain sets of conditions, as specified.
Among these conditions, the act allows a local agency to disapprove a housing development project that is inconsistent with the jurisdiction’s zoning ordinances and general plan land use designation as it existed on the date the application was deemed complete, if the jurisdiction has adopted a revised housing element that is in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, as specified. This bill would make various changes to that condition. The bill would specify that a local agency may disapprove or condition approval of a housing development project or emergency shelter, as described above, if the local agency makes written findings that on the date the application for the housing development project or emergency shelter was deemed complete the jurisdiction did not have an adopted revised housing element that was in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law and the housing development project is not a builder’s remedy project, as defined. (Based on 06/20/2024 text)
Location: 06/19/2024 - Senate L. GOV.
Introduced: 01/23/2024
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AB 2023 Quirk-Silva, D HTML PDF
Housing element: inventory of land: rebuttable presumptions.
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Status: 05/29/2024 - Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD.
Summary: The Housing Element Law prescribes requirements for a city’s or county’s preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified. Current law requires the housing element to include an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. If that inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of all household income levels, as provided, current law requires that the local government rezone sites within 3 years after the date the housing element is adopted or within one year if the local government fails to adopt a housing element that the department finds to be in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law within 120 days of the statutory deadline to adopt the housing element. This bill, for the 7th and each subsequent revision of the housing element, would require a local government to complete the rezoning of sites within one year of the statutory deadline for the adoption of the housing element or the earlier of 3 years after the date the housing element is adopted or 90 days after receipt of comments from the department, as specified, if the local government satisfies certain requirements, including submitting a draft element or draft amendment to the department for review within specified timeframes and adopting a draft element or draft amendment that the department finds to be insubstantial compliance with the Housing Element Law, as specified. (Based on 03/21/2024 text) Location: 05/29/2024 - Senate JUD.
Introduced: 01/31/2024
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03/21/2024 - Amended
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03/21/2024
AB 2085 Bauer-Kahan, D HTML PDF
Planning and zoning: permitted use: community clinic.
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Status: 06/11/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law, among other things, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA does not apply to the approval of ministerial projects. This bill would make a development that meets specified objective planning standards, including that, among other things, it is on a parcel that is within a zone where office, retail, health care, or parking are a principally permitted use, a permitted use and would require a local agency to review an application for that development on an administrative, nondiscretionary basis. The bill would require a local agency, within 60 calendar days of receiving an application pursuant to these provisions, to approve or deny the application subject to specified requirements, including that, among other things, if the local agency determines that the development is in conflict with any of the above-described standards, the local agency is required to provide the development proponent written documentation of which standard or standards the development conflicts with, as specified. (Based on 06/11/2024 text) Location: 06/05/2024 - Senate E.Q. Current
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AB 2430 Alvarez, D HTML PDF
Planning and zoning: density bonuses: monitoring fees.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: The Density Bonus Law requires a city, county, or city and county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus, waivers or reductions of development standards and parking ratios, and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing, including a housing development in which 100% of the units are for lower income households, except that up to 20% of the units in the development may be for moderate-income households, as specified. This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from charging a monitoring fee, as defined, on those types of housing developments if certain conditions are met, except as specified. The bill would provide that, beginning on January 1, 2025, any housing development that is currently placed in service, is subject to monitoring fees, and meets those conditions shall no longer be subject to those fees. (Based on 06/20/2024 text)
Location: 06/19/2024 - Senate L. GOV.
Introduced: 02/13/2024
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AB 2694 Ward, D HTML PDF
Density Bonus Law: residential care facilities for the elderly.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - From Consent Calendar. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Current law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, a senior citizen housing development, as defined. The Density Bonus Law defines a “development” for these purposes to include a shared housing development, and defines various other terms, including “shared housing unit.” This bill would expand the - ________ I I:]
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Introduced: 02/14/2024
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AB 2712 Friedman, D HTML PDF
Preferential parking privileges: transit-oriented development.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Summary: Current law authorizes a local authority, by ordinance or resolution, to prohibit or restrict the stopping, parking, or standing of vehicles on certain streets or highways during all or certain hours of the day. Current law authorizes the ordinance or resolution to include a designation of certain streets upon which preferential parking privileges are given to residents and merchants adjacent to the streets for their use and the use of their guests, under which the residents and merchants may be issued permits that exempt them from the prohibition or restriction of the ordinance or resolution.
Current law prohibits a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit, as defined, unless the public agency makes written findings that not imposing or enforcing minimum automobile parking requirements on the development would have a substantially negative impact on, among other things, the city’s, county’s, or city and county’s ability to meet its share of the regional housing need for low- and very low income households. This bill would, for purposes of its provisions, define “development project” to mean a residential, commercial, or other development project exempt from minimum automobile parking requirements, or subject to parking minimum reductions based on any other applicable law, located within the boundaries of the City of Los Angeles. This bill, for a development project that is located within a preferential parking area, would require the development project to be excluded from the boundaries of the preferential parking area and would prohibit the local authority, as defined, from issuing any permit to the residents or visitors of the development project that grants preferential parking privileges. (Based on 06/24/2024 text) Location: 06/11/2024 - Senate HOUSING
Introduced: 02/14/2024
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06/24/2024 - Amended
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06/24/2024
AB 2813 Aguiar-Curry, D HTML PDF
Government Investment Act.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS. Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 14.) Withdrawn from committee. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 14.) Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed.
Ordered to the Senate. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes
30. Noes 6.) Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: Would for purposes of ACA 1, would define “affordable housing” to include rental housing, ownership housing, interim housing, and affordable housing programs such as downpayment assistance, first-time homebuyer programs, and owner-occupied affordable housing rehabilitation programs, that are affordable to households earning up to 150% of countywide median income. The bill would require a local government to ensure that any project that is funded with ACA 1 bonded indebtedness to have an estimated useful life of at least 15 years or 5 years if the funds are for specified public safety facilities, infrastructure, and equipment. The bill would define “public infrastructure” to exclude the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of a sports stadium or arena where the majority of the use of the facility is for private ticketed activities. The bill would prohibit ACA 1 bonded indebtedness from being used for the acquisition or lease of any real property that has, at the time of acquisition or lease, been improved with one to 4 dwelling units, except as specified. The bill would also prohibit any ACA 1 bonded indebtedness, when added to existing bonded indebtedness of a local government, from exceeding the applicable statutory limit on the maximum amount of bonded indebtedness that a local government is authorized to incur. (Based on 06/21/2024 text) Location: 06/24/2024 - Senate L. GOV.
Introduced: 02/15/2024
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06/21/2024 - Amended
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06/21/2024
AB 3012 Grayson, D HTML PDF
Development fees: fee schedule template: fee estimate tool.
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Status: 06/12/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Summary: Would require a city or county that has an internet website to make a fee estimate tool that the public can use to calculate an estimate of fees and exactions, as specified, for a proposed housing development project available on its internet website. The bill would authorize the city or county to choose the format of the fee estimate tool. The bill would require a city or county with a population of greater than 500,000 to meet these requirements on or before July 1, 2031.
The bill would require a city or county with a population of 500,000 or fewer to meet these requirements on or before July 1, 2032. By requiring a city or county to include a fee estimate tool on its internet website, the bill would impose a statemandated local program. (Based on 06/12/2024 text) 1st House 2nd House
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Introduced: 02/16/2024
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AB 3057 Wilson, D HTML PDF
California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: junior accessory dwelling units ordinances.
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Status: 06/05/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements the adoption of an ordinance by a city or county to issue a zoning variance, special use permit, or conditional use permit for a dwelling unit to be constructed, or which is attached to or detached from, a primary residence on a parcel zoned for a single-family residence, as provided, or and the adoption of an ordinance to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned to allow single-family or multifamily dwelling residential use. This bill would expand the above CEQA exemption to include the adoption of an ordinance by a city or county to provide for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units in single-family residential zones. (Based on 04/08/2024 text)
Location: 06/05/2024 - Senate HOUSING
Introduced: 02/16/2024
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04/08/2024 - Amended
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04/08/2024
AB 3068 Haney, D HTML PDF
Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives.
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Status: 06/12/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. --I ID
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Desk. Policy Floor Desk Polic;y Fi5e;,I Floor Conreonc, Enrolled lktocd Choptirrcd Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards, including that the development is a multifamily housing development that contains two or more residential units. This bill would deem an adaptive reuse project a use by right in all zones, regardless of the zoning of the site, and subject to a streamlined, ministerial review process if the project meets specified requirements. In this regard, an adaptive reuse project, in order to qualify for the streamlined, ministerial review process, would be required to be proposed for an existing building that is less than 50 years old or meets certain requirements regarding the preservation of historic resources, including the signing of an affidavit declaring that the project will comply with the United States Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation or receive federal or state historic rehabilitation tax credits, as specified. The bill would require an adaptive reuse project to meet specified affordability criteria. In this regard, the bill would require an adaptive reuse project for rental housing to include either 8% of the unit for very low income households and 5% of the units for extremely low income households or 15% of the units for lower income households. For an adaptive reuse project for owner-occupied housing, the bill would require the development to offer either 30% of the units at an affordable housing cost to moderate-income households or 15% of the units at an affordable housing cost to lower income households. The bill would require at least one-half of the square footage of the adaptive reuse project to be dedicated to residential uses. The bill would authorize an adaptive reuse project subject to these provisions to include the development of new residential or mixed-use structures on undeveloped areas and parking areas on the parcels adjacent to the proposed adaptive reuse project site if certain conditions are met. (Based on 06/12/2024 text)
Location: 06/11/2024 - Senate HOUSING
Introduced: 02/16/2024
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06/12/2024 - Amended
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AB 3116 Garcia, D HTML PDF
Housing development: density bonuses: student housing developments.
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Status: 06/19/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: Current law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, 20% of the total units, as defined, for lower income students in a student housing development that meets certain requirements. Current law requires that all units in the student housing development be used exclusively for undergraduate, graduate, or professional students enrolled full time at an institution of higher learning, as specified. To be eligible under this provision, current law requires a developer, as a condition of receiving a certificate of occupancy, provide evidence to the city, county, or city and county that the developer has entered into an operating agreement or master lease with one or more institutions of higher education, as specified. Current law also requires the development to provide priority for the applicable affordable units for lower income students experiencing homelessness, as specified. Current law requires units described in these provisions to be subject to a recorded affordability restriction of 55 years. This bill would define “student housing development” to mean a development that contains bedrooms containing 2 or more bedspaces that have a shared or private bathroom, access to a shared or private living room and laundry facilities, and access to a shared or private --I ID
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• • • • C Desk. Policy Fisc-ol Floor Floor Conf,Conc, Enrolled ~toad Ch&l)tt'rcd kitchen. The bill would authorize units in the student housing development to be used for undergraduate, graduate, or professional students enrolled currently or in the past 6 months in at least 6 units at an institution of higher learning, as specified. (Based on 06/10/2024 text)
Location: 06/19/2024 - Senate L. GOV.
Introduced: 02/16/2024
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AB 3177 Carrillo, Wendy, D HTML PDF
Mitigation Fee Act: land dedications: mitigating vehicular traffic impacts.
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Status: 06/13/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Summary: The Mitigation Fee Act imposes various requirements with respect to the establishment, increase, or imposition of a fee by a local agency as a condition of approval of a development project. Current law requires a local agency that imposes a fee on a housing development for the purpose of mitigating vehicular traffic impacts to set the rate for the fee to reflect a lower rate of automobile trip generation if the housing development satisfies specified characteristics, including that the housing development is located within1/2 mile of a transit station, as specified. Current law defines transit station for these purposes to mean a rail or light-rail station, ferry terminal, bus hub, or bus transfer station. This bill would instead require the housing development to be located within a transit priority area, as specified, for purposes of a local agency setting the rate for a mitigating vehicular traffic impacts fee to reflect a lower rate of automobile trip generation. The bill would define “transit priority area” as an area within 1/2 mile of a major transit stop that is existing or planned, if the planned stop is scheduled to be completed within the planning horizon included in a Transportation Improvement Program or applicable regional transportation plan. This bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing a land dedication requirement, as defined, on a housing development to widen a roadway if the land dedication requirement is for the purpose of mitigating vehicular traffic impacts, achieving an adopted traffic level of service related to vehicular traffic, or achieving a desired roadway width. (Based on 06/13/2024 text) Location: 06/11/2024 - Senate HOUSING
Introduced: 02/16/2024
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SB 7 Blakespear, D HTML PDF
Regional housing need: determination.
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Status: 06/19/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires, for the 4th and subsequent revisions of the housing element, the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. That law requires the department, in consultation with the council of governments, to determine the existing and projected need of housing for each region in a specified manner. That law requires the department’s determination to be based upon population projections produced by the Department of Finance, as specified. That law also requires the department to meet and consult with the council of governments regarding the assumptions and methodologies to be used to determine each region’s housing need and requires the council of governments to provide data assumptions from the council of governments’ projections, as specified. That law authorizes the department to accept or reject the information provided by the council of governments and, after consultation with each council of governments, to make determinations on the council of governments’ data assumptions and the methodology the department will use to determine each region’s housing need. That law requires the department to provide its determinations to each council of governments, as specified. That law, upon making that determination, authorizes the council of governments to object to the determination. This bill, for regions in which the department is required to distribute the regional housing need, would prohibit a city or county from filing an objection to the regional housing need determination. (Based on 06/10/2024 text)
Location: 06/19/2024 - Assembly L. GOV.
Introduced: 12/05/2022
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06/10/2024 - Amended
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06/10/2024
SB 937 Wiener, D HTML PDF
Development projects: permits and other entitlements: fees and charges.
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Status: 06/17/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. The Permit Streamlining Act, among other things, requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Current law extended by 18 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement, as defined, that was issued before, and was in effect on, March 4, 2020, and that would expire before December 31, 2021, except as specified. Current law provides that if the state or a local agency extended the otherwise applicable time for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement for not less than 18 months, as specified, that housing entitlement would not be extended an additional 18 months pursuant to these provisions. This bill would extend by 24 months the period for the expiration, effectuation, or utilization of a housing entitlement for a priority residential development project, as those terms are defined, that was issued before January 1, 2024, and that will expire before - _10
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Introduced: 01/17/2024
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SB 1037 Wiener, D HTML PDF
Planning and zoning: housing element: enforcement.
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Status: 06/18/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. The Planning and Zoning Law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. The Planning and Zoning Law requires HCD to notify a city, county, or city and county, and authorizes HCD to notify the office of the Attorney General, that the city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the local government has taken action in violation of specified provisions of law. The Planning and Zoning Law also requires, among other things, that an application for a housing development be subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards. This bill, in any action brought by the Attorney General, on behalf of HCD or in an independent capacity, to enforce the adoption of housing element revisions, as specified, or to enforce any state law that requires a city, county, or local agency to ministerially approve any planning or permitting application related to a housing development project, as specified, would subject the city, county, or local agency to specified remedies, including a civil penalty of, at minimum, $10,000 per month, and not exceeding $50,000 per month, for each violation, as specified. The bill would require that the penalties set forth in its provisions only apply when the local agency’s acts or omissions, as described, are arbitrary, capricious, or entirely lacking in evidentiary support, contrary to established public policy, unlawful, or procedurally unfair. (Based on 06/13/2024 text)
Location: 06/18/2024 - Assembly APPR.
Introduced: 02/06/2024
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SB 1164 Newman, D HTML PDF
Property taxation: new construction exclusion: accessory dwelling units.
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Status: 06/03/2024 - Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Summary: The California Constitution generally limits ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full cash value of that property.
For purposes of this limitation, “full cash value” is defined as the assessor’s valuation of real property as shown on the 1975–76 tax bill under “full cash value” or, thereafter, the appraised value of that real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred. This bill would exclude from classification as “newly constructed” and “new construction” the construction of an accessory dwelling unit, as defined, if construction on the unit is completed on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, until one of specified events occurs. The bill would require the property owner to, among other things, notify the assessor that the property owner intends to claim the exclusion for an accessory dwelling unit and submit an affidavit stating that the owner shall make a good faith effort to ensure the unit will be used as residential housing for the duration the owner receives the exclusion. (Based on 05/16/2024 text) Location: 06/03/2024 - Assembly REV. & TAX
Introduced: 02/14/2024
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05/16/2024
SB 1361 Blakespear, D HTML PDF
California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: local agencies: contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness.
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Status: 06/11/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exempts for its requirements, among other things, actions taken by the Department of Housing and Community Development, the California Housing Finance Agency, or a local agency not acting as the lead agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing for persons and families of low or moderate income, as provided. This bill would additionally exempt from CEQA’s requirements actions taken by a local agency to approve a contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness, as provided. (Based on 04/08/2024 text) Location: 06/11/2024 - Assembly H. & C.D.
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AB 2561 McKinnor, D HTML PDF
Local public employees: vacant positions.
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Status: 06/13/2024 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Summary: Would require each public agency with bargaining unit vacancy rates exceeding 10% for more than 90 days within the past 180 days to meet and confer with a representative of the recognized employee organization to produce, publish, and implement a plan consisting of specified components to fill all vacant positions within the subsequent 180 days. The bill would require the public agency to present this plan during a public hearing to the governing legislative body and to publish the plan on its internet website for public review for at least one year. By imposing new duties on local public agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern. (Based on 03/11/2024 text) Location: 06/05/2024 - Senate L., P.E. & R.
Introduced: 02/14/2024
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03/11/2024 - Amended
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03/11/2024
AB 2631 Fong, Mike, D HTML PDF
Local agencies: ethics training.
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Status: 06/05/2024 - Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Summary: Current law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided. Current law requires all local agency officials who are members of specified public bodies to receive the above-described training, whether or not the member receives any type of compensation, salary, or stipend or reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties. Current law requires an entity that develops curricula to satisfy the above-described requirements to consult with the Fair Political Practices Commission and the Attorney General regarding the sufficiency and accuracy of the proposed course content. Current law prohibits the Fair Political Practices Commission and the - ________ I I :J
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Introduced: 02/14/2024
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05/20/2024 - Amended
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05/20/2024
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AB 1779 Irwin, D HTML PDF
Theft: jurisdiction.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Current law sets forth specific rules relating to the jurisdiction for the prosecution of theft by fraud, organized retail theft, and receiving stolen property, including that the jurisdiction for prosecution includes the county where an offense involving the theft or receipt of the stolen merchandise occurred, the county in which the merchandise was recovered, or the county where any act was done by the defendant in instigating, procuring, promoting, or aiding or abetting in the commission of a theft offense or other qualifying offense. Current law jurisdictionally limits prosecution of each of the above to criminal actions brought by the Attorney General. This bill would no longer limit the jurisdictional rules for the above crimes to criminal actions brought by the Attorney General. If a case is brought by someone other than the Attorney General and multiple offenses are committed by the same defendant in multiple jurisdictions, the bill would allow a criminal action to be brought in any of those jurisdictions subject to a hearing on consolidation of the offenses, as specified. The bill would require the prosecution to present written evidence at the hearing that all district attorneys in counties with jurisdiction over the offenses agree to the venue. The bill would require charged offenses from jurisdictions where there is not a written agreement from the district attorney to be returned to that jurisdiction. (Based on 06/20/2024 text)
Location: 06/20/2024 - Senate THIRD READING
Introduced: 01/03/2024
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06/20/2024 - Amended
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06/20/2024
AB 1794 McCarty, D HTML PDF
Crimes: larceny.
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Status: 06/17/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Summary: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by the electors at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, makes the theft of money, labor, or property petty theft punishable as a misdemeanor, whenever the value of the property taken does not exceed $950. Under current law, if the value of the property taken exceeds $950, the theft is grand theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Proposition 47 requires shoplifting, defined as entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny if the value of the property taken does not exceed $950, to be punished as a misdemeanor. Under current law, if the value of all property taken over the course of distinct but related acts motivated by one intention, general impulse, and plan exceeds $950, those values may be aggregated into a single charge of grand theft. This bill would clarify that those values may be aggregated even though the thefts occurred in different places or from different victims. The bill would also, declarative of existing law, provide that circumstantial evidence may be used to prove that multiple thefts were motivated by one intention, general impulse, and plan. (Based on 04/11/2024 text) Location: 06/11/2024 - Senate APPR.
Introduced: 01/04/2024
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04/11/2024 - Amended
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04/11/2024
AB 1802 Jones-Sawyer, D HTML PDF
Crimes: organized theft.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces with the intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts as an agent of another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or finances another to undertake acts of theft. This bill would extend the operation of the crime of organized retail theft indefinitely, unless a specified initiative is approved by the voters. (Based on 06/20/2024 text) Location: 06/20/2024 - Senate THIRD READING Current
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AB 1990 Carrillo, Wendy, D HTML PDF
Criminal procedure: arrests: shoplifting.
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Status: 06/05/2024 - Referred to Coms. on PUB S. and APPR.
Summary: Current law prohibits shoplifting, defined as entering a commercial establishment with intent to commit theft while that establishment is open during regular business hours, where the value of the property that is taken or intended to be taken does not exceed $950. Current law authorizes a peace officer to make a warrantless arrest for a misdemeanor when the officer has probable cause to believe the person to be arrested has committed the misdemeanor in the officer’s presence. Current law also authorizes a private person to make an arrest for a misdemeanor committed in their presence, and requires the person to deliver the arrested person to a peace officer or magistrate. Current law additionally authorizes a merchant to detain a person for a reasonable time and in a reasonable manner to determine if a person has unlawfully taken merchandise. Current law authorizes a peace officer to make a warrantless arrest for specified misdemeanors relating to domestic violence, violation of a restraining order, and carrying a concealed firearm at an airport that did not occur in the officer’s presence. This bill would authorize a peace officer to make a warrantless arrest for a misdemeanor shoplifting offense not committed in the officer’s presence if the officer has probable cause to believe that person has committed shoplifting, as specified. (Based on 04/16/2024 text) Location: 06/05/2024 - Senate PUB. S.
Introduced: 01/30/2024
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04/16/2024 - Amended
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04/16/2024
AB 2309 Muratsuchi, D HTML PDF
City attorney: state law: misdemeanor.
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Status: 06/19/2024 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB S.
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Desk. Policy Floor Policy Fis.col Floor Conf,Conc, Enrolled Vctocd O,i,,pt('tcd Summary: Current law authorizes the city attorney of any general law city or chartered city to, with the consent of the district attorney of that county, prosecute any misdemeanor committed within the city arising out of violation of state law, as specified. This bill would, notwithstanding the above-described authorization for city attorneys, authorize the city attorney of any general law city to prosecute any misdemeanor committed within the city arising out of violation of state law, provided that specified conditions are met, including that the legislative body of a city passes an ordinance granting that prosecutorial authority to the city attorney. (Based on 06/19/2024 text) Location: 05/22/2024 - Senate PUB. S.
Introduced: 02/12/2024
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06/19/2024 - Amended
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06/19/2024
AB 2943 Zbur, D HTML PDF
Crimes: shoplifting.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Current law divides theft into grand theft and petty theft. Existing law punishes petty theft as a misdemeanor while grand theft is punished as either a misdemeanor or a felony. Current law lists specific types of theft which are grand theft and all other cases of theft as petty theft. Current law authorizes a person to be charged with grand theft if the property taken exceeds $950 over the course of distinct but related acts. This bill would clarify that those related acts include acts committed against multiple victims or in counties other than the county of the current offense. (Based on 06/20/2024 text) Location: 06/20/2024 - Senate THIRD READING
Introduced: 02/15/2024
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06/20/2024 - Amended
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06/20/2024
AB 3085 Gipson, D HTML PDF
Vehicles: removal and impoundment.
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Policy "'"'' floor Desk Polic;y Fiscal Floor ConfConc. Enrolled Vetoed Choptcrcd Status: 06/12/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S.
Summary: Current law requires a magistrate to issue a warrant or order authorizing a peace officer to immediately seize and cause the removal of a vehicle if the magistrate is presented with a peace officer’s affidavit establishing reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was an instrumentality used in the peace officer’s presence in violation of specified offenses, including, among others, a person who, while operating a motor vehicle and with the intent to evade, willfully flees or otherwise attempts to elude a pursuing peace officer’s motor vehicle. Current law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, as specified. This bill would include this crime in the list of offenses for which a peace officer may impound a vehicle pursuant to a warrant or order issued by a magistrate, and make other technical changes, as specified. (Based on 04/08/2024 text)
Location: 06/11/2024 - Senate PUB. S.
Introduced: 02/16/2024
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04/08/2024 - Amended
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04/08/2024
AB 3209 Berman, D HTML PDF
Crimes: theft: retail theft restraining orders.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Current law prohibits the theft of merchandise from a retail establishment. Current law authorizes a court, upon sentencing a person for specified offenses, including stalking and elder abuse, to issue a criminal protective order prohibiting the person from contacting any victim of their offense. This bill would authorize a court, when sentencing a person for an offense involving theft from a retail establishment, vandalism of a retail establishment, or battery of an employee of a retail establishment, to issue a criminal protective order prohibiting a person from entering the retail establishment, including any parking lots and including other franchise or chain locations of the retail establishment, as specified. The bill would also authorize a prosecuting attorney, city attorney, county counsel, or attorney representing a retail establishment to file a petition for the issuance of a criminal protective order of this type against a person who has been arrested, including, but not limited to, the issuance of a citation in lieu of a custodial arrest, 2 or more times for any of the offenses at the same retail establishment, as specified. (Based on 06/20/2024 text) Location: 06/20/2024 - Senate THIRD READING
Introduced: 02/16/2024
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06/20/2024 - Amended
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06/20/2024
SB 21 Umberg, D HTML PDF
Controlled substances.
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Status: 05/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. From committee with author's amendments.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
Summary: Current law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, or sell, various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl. Current law requires the court, when granting probation after conviction of any controlled substance offense, as specified, to order as a condition of probation that the defendant secure education or treatment from a local community agency and requires the court or probation department to refer defendants to controlled substance education or treatment programs that adhere to specified standards. Current law permits a defendant to withdraw their plea of guilty or plea of nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty and authorizes a court to set aside a verdict of guilty, if the defendant has met certain requirements. This bill would require a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above-described crimes as they relate to fentanyl to receive a written advisory of the danger of distribution of controlled substances and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the distributor can be charged with homicide or murder. (Based on 05/02/2024 text) Location: 05/02/2024 - Assembly RLS.
Introduced: 12/05/2022
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05/02/2024 - Amended
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05/02/2024
SB 905 Wiener, D HTML PDF
Crimes: theft from a vehicle.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Would make forcibly entering a vehicle, as defined, with the intent to commit a theft or a felony therein a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 06/20/2024 text)
Location: 06/24/2024 - Assembly THIRD READING
Introduced: 01/04/2024
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06/20/2024 - Amended
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06/20/2024
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Fentanyl: child deaths.
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Status: 06/19/2024 - June 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
Summary: The State Department of Public Health administers the California Overdose Surveillance Dashboard that provides data on state- and local-level drug-related overdose outcomes for California, including, among other data, the number of deaths related to fentanyl overdoses. Current law requires the department to update the dashboard to reflect additional information, as specified. This bill would require the department to use best efforts to utilize all of its relevant data regarding overdoses in the state to monitor and identify current trends of fentanyl-related deaths of children 0 to 5 years of age, inclusive. The bill would require the department to develop guidance and spread awareness of the trends to protect and prevent children from fentanyl exposure. The bill would require the department, on or before June 1, 2025, to annually distribute its findings and guidance to local health departments, county boards of supervisors, and the Legislature. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2031. (Based on 05/16/2024 text) Location: 06/19/2024 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Introduced: 01/08/2024
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05/16/2024 - Amended
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05/16/2024
SB 910 Umberg, D HTML PDF
Treatment court program standards.
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Status: 06/18/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Summary: Current law states the intent of the Legislature that drug court programs be designed and operated in accordance with specified standards developed by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals and Drug Court Standards Committee. Current law further states the intent of the Legislature that key programs of the drug court programs include, among other things, integration by drug courts of alcohol and other drug treatment services. This bill would instead require, for counties and courts that opt to have treatment court programs, that the treatment court programs be designed and operated in accordance with state and national guidelines incorporating the “Adult Treatment Court Best Practice Standards” developed by All Rise. The bill would revise the above-described statement of legislative intent regarding key - _10
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Introduced: 01/08/2024
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06/06/2024 - Amended
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06/06/2024
SB 926 Wahab, D HTML PDF
Crimes: distribution of intimate images.
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Status: 06/18/2024 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Summary: Would make it a crime for a person to intentionally create and distribute or cause to be distributed any photo realistic image, digital image, electronic image, computer image, computer-generated image, or other pictorial representation of an intimate body part or parts of another identifiable person, or an image of the person depicted engaged in an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, sexual penetration, or an image of masturbation by the person depicted or in which the person depicted participates that was created in a manner that would cause a reasonable person to believe the image is an authentic image of the person depicted, under circumstances in which the person distributing the image knows or should know that distribution of the image will cause serious emotional distress, and the person depicted suffers that distress. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 05/16/2024 text)
Location: 06/18/2024 - Assembly P. & C.P.
Introduced: 01/12/2024
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05/16/2024 - Amended
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05/16/2024
SB 933 Wahab, D HTML PDF
Crimes: child pornography.
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Summary: Current law makes it a crime to, among other things, possess any matter, representation of information, data, or image, including, but not limited to, any film, filmstrip, photograph, negative, slide, photocopy, videotape, video laser disc, computer hardware, computer software, computer floppy disc, data storage media, CD-ROM, or computer-generated equipment or any other computer-generated image that contains or incorporates in any manner, any film or filmstrip, the production of which involves the use of a person under 18 years of age, knowing that the matter depicts a person under 18 years of age personally engaging in or simulating sexual conduct. This bill would, for the purposes of those provisions, include an image generated through the use of artificial intelligence as a computer-generated image. (Based on 01/16/2024 text)
Location: 06/18/2024 - Assembly P. & C.P.
Introduced: 01/16/2024
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01/16/2024 - Introduced
SB 982 Wahab, D HTML PDF
Crimes: organized theft.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Current law, until January 1, 2026, makes a person guilty of organized retail theft, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified, if the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces with the intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, acts in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acts as an agent of another to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplaces as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruits, coordinates, organizes, supervises, directs, manages, or finances another to undertake acts of theft. This bill would extend the operation of the crime of organized retail theft indefinitely, unless a specified initiative is approved by the voters. (Based on 06/20/2024 text) Location: 06/24/2024 - Assembly THIRD READING
Introduced: 01/29/2024
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06/20/2024 - Amended
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06/20/2024
SB 1144 Skinner, D HTML PDF
Marketplaces: online marketplaces.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Current law generally requires an online marketplace to require a high-volume third-party seller on the online marketplace to make certain disclosures. Current law requires an online marketplace to suspend future sales activity of a high-volume third-party seller that is not in compliance with those information sharing requirements, as specified. Current law imposes certain information retention and security requirements on an online marketplace and prohibits specified uses of that information. Current law generally defines a “high-volume third-party seller,” for purposes of the abovedescribed provisions, as a third-party seller who has entered into a certain number of consumer product sales transactions through an online marketplace for which payment is processed by the online marketplace, as specified.
Current law defines an “online marketplace,” for purposes of those provisions, as a consumer-directed, electronically accessed platform that includes features that allow for, facilitate, or enable, and are used by, a third-party seller to engage in the sale, purchase, payment, storage, shipment, or delivery of a consumer product and that has a contractual relationship with consumers governing their use of the platform to purchase consumer products. This bill would revise the types of transactions that qualify a third-party seller as a “high-volume third-party seller,” for those purposes. Specifically, the bill would remove the conditions that the transactions be made through an online marketplace and that the online marketplace process the payment and, instead, would add the condition that the transactions were made utilizing an online marketplace. (Based on 06/20/2024 text)
Location: 06/24/2024 - Assembly THIRD READING
Introduced: 02/14/2024
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06/20/2024 - Amended
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06/20/2024
SB 1242 Min, D HTML PDF
Crimes: fires.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Current law prohibits unlawfully causing a fire by recklessly setting fire to, burning, or causing to be burned, any structure, forest land, or property. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would, for the purposes of sentencing for a violation of these provisions, make it a factor in aggravation that the offense was carried out within a merchant’s premises in order to facilitate organized retail theft. (Based on 06/20/2024 text)
Location: 06/24/2024 - Assembly THIRD READING
Introduced: 02/15/2024
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06/20/2024 - Amended
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06/20/2024
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Medi-Cal: community health workers: supervising providers.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
Summary: Under current law, community health worker services are a covered Medi-Cal benefit subject to any necessary federal approvals. Under current law, a community health worker is a liaison, link, or intermediary between health and social services and the community to facilitate access to services and to improve the access and cultural competence of service delivery. Current law requires a Medi-Cal managed care plan to engage in outreach and education efforts to enrollees, and to notify providers, about the community health worker services benefit, as specified. This bill would require a MediCal managed care plan, no later than July 1, 2025, to adopt policies and procedures to effectuate a billing pathway for supervising providers to claim for the provision of community health worker services to enrollees during an emergency department visit and as an outpatient followup to an emergency department visit. The bill would require that the policies and procedures be consistent with guidance developed by the department for use by supervising providers to claim for community health worker services to Medi-Cal members in the fee-for-service delivery system in the settings described above. (Based on 06/05/2024 text)
Location: 06/19/2024 - Assembly CONSENT CALENDAR
Introduced: 02/16/2024
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06/05/2024 - Amended
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06/05/2024
SB 1416 Newman, D HTML PDF
Sentencing enhancements: sale, exchange, or return of stolen property.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Current law defines types of theft, including petty theft, grand theft, and shoplifting. Current law also defines the crime of burglary, which consists of entering specified buildings, places, or vehicles with the intent to commit grand or petty theft or a felony. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, create sentencing enhancements for selling, exchanging, or returning for value, or attempting to sell, exchange, or return for value, any property acquired through one or more acts of shoplifting, theft, or burglary from a retail business, if the property value exceeds specified amounts. The bill would ___ 1_10
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Location: 06/24/2024 - Assembly THIRD READING
Introduced: 02/16/2024
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06/20/2024 - Amended
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06/20/2024
SB 1468 Ochoa Bogh, R HTML PDF
Healing arts boards: informational and educational materials for prescribers of narcotics: federal “Three Day Rule.” Progress bar
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Status: 06/03/2024 - Referred to Com. on B. & P.
Summary: Current law regulates healing arts practitioners by various boards under the Department of Consumer Affairs. Current federal regulations, known as the “Three Day Rule,” authorize a practitioner who is not specifically registered to conduct a narcotic treatment program to dispense not more than a 3-day supply of narcotic drugs, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, to one person or for one person’s use at one time for the purpose of initiating maintenance treatment or detoxification treatment while arrangements are being made for referral for treatment, as specified. This bill would require each board that licenses a prescriber, as defined, to develop and annually disseminate to each licensee informational and educational material regarding the “Three Day Rule,” and to post that material on their internet website. (Based on 05/17/2024 text)
Location: 06/03/2024 - Assembly B.&P.
Introduced: 02/16/2024
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05/17/2024 - Amended
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05/17/2024
SB 1502 Ashby, D HTML PDF
Controlled substances: xylazine.
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Status: 06/11/2024 - June 11 hearing postponed by committee. - _11:]
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1------1e--- 1------1e------1 ,_ a .. --< >----< ·1---< >--< J---< }---< 1 Desk. Policy Floor Polic;y Fiscal Floor Conf.Conc, Enrolled Vetoed Choptercd Summary: The California Uniform Controlled Substances Act categorizes controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions on those substances contained in Schedule I. Under current law, the substances in Schedule I are deemed to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use while substances in Schedules II through V are substances that have an accepted medical use, but have the potential for abuse. Current law restricts the prescription, furnishing, possession, sale, and use of controlled substances, and makes a violation of those laws a crime, except as specified. Current law defines drug paraphernalia and prohibits, among other things, the manufacture, sale, and possession, as specified, of drug paraphernalia. Current law excludes from these prohibitions any testing equipment that is designed, marketed, used, or intended to be used to analyze a substance for the presence of fentanyl, ketamine, gamma hydroxybutyric acid, or any analog of fentanyl. This bill would add xylazine to the list of Schedule III substances, as specified. If an animal drug containing xylazine that has been approved under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act is not available for sale in California, the bill would create an exception for a substance that is intended to be used to compound an animal drug, as specified. (Based on 06/06/2024 text) Location: 06/03/2024 - Assembly PUB. S.
Introduced: 02/16/2024
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06/06/2024 - Amended
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06/06/2024
Regional Issues and Collaboration LAP
AB 52 Grayson, D HTML PDF
Income tax credit: sales and use taxes paid: manufacturing equipment: research and development equipment.
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Status: 09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
Summary: The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law, authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and current laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Exemptions from state sales and use taxes are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws. This bill would allow, for a taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029, a credit against those taxes to a taxpayer in an amount equal to the amount of tax reimbursement paid during the taxable year for sales tax on gross receipts that would be exempt from taxation under the Sales and Use Tax Law pursuant to the sales and use tax exemption described above but for the provision that prohibits that exemption from applying with respect to any tax levied by a county, city, or district pursuant to, or in accordance with, the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or the Transactions and Use Tax Law, sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the Sales and Use Tax Law, and sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to certain provisions of the California Constitution. (Based on 06/15/2023 text)
Location: 06/26/2023 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Introduced: 12/05/2022
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06/15/2023 - Amended
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AB 2338 Jones-Sawyer, D HTML PDF
Statewide Homelessness Coordinator.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
Summary: Current law establishes various programs to address homelessness, including requiring the Governor to create an Interagency Council on Homelessness. This bill would require the Governor to appoint a Statewide Homelessness Coordinator, within the Governor’s office, subject to confirmation by the Senate, to serve as the lead person for ending homelessness in California. This bill would require the coordinator to perform prescribed duties, including, among others, identifying a local leader in each relevant city, county, city and county, or other jurisdiction to serve as a liaison between the coordinator and that jurisdiction, overseeing homelessness programs, services, data, and policies between federal, state, and local agencies, coordinating the timing of release of funds and applications for funding for housing and housing-based services impacting Californians experiencing homelessness, and, in collaboration with local leaders, providing annual recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor, as specified. (Based on 06/20/2024 text) Location: 06/19/2024 - Senate HUM. S.
Introduced: 02/12/2024
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06/20/2024 - Amended
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06/20/2024
AB 2682 Kalra, D HTML PDF
Santa Clara Valley Open-Space Authority.
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Status: 05/22/2024 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: Current law authorizes the Santa Clara Valley Open-Space Authority, among other things, to acquire, hold, use, enjoy, and lease or dispose of real and personal property, within or without the authority’s jurisdiction, necessary to the full exercise of its powers. Current law requires the authority to acquire remote ranchlands east of the westernmost ridgeline of the Diablo Range as permanent open space only through conservation easement purchases or the granting of lands - ________
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-·--Policy ·--•--Floor -·--~ ·- Policy Fiscol F"loor Conf,Conc, Enrolled Vctocd Chopt4:'rtd or conservation easements by owners to the authority. This bill would instead require the authority to acquire remote ranchlands east of the westernmost ridgeline of the Diablo Range as permanent open space only from willing sellers through conservation easement or fee title purchases or the granting of lands or conservation easements by owners to the authority. (Based on 05/06/2024 text)
Location: 05/22/2024 - Senate L. GOV.
Introduced: 02/14/2024
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05/06/2024 - Amended
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05/06/2024
Sustainability and Environmental Protection LAP
AB 1176 Zbur, D HTML PDF
General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan for the city’s or county’s physical development that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified. This bill, the Local Electrification Planning Act, would require a city, county, or city and county to prepare and adopt a specified plan, or otherwise integrate a plan into the general plan, that, among other things, identifies opportunities to expand electric vehicle charging to meet the needs of the city’s, county’s, or city and county’s current and future visitors, residents, and businesses, and includes policies and implementation measures that address the needs of disadvantaged communities, low-income households, and small businesses for investments in zero-emission technologies that directly benefit these groups, as specified. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to adopt a specified plan, or otherwise integrate the plan into the general plan, on or after January 1, 2026, but no later than January 1, 2029. (Based on 05/29/2024 text)
Location: 06/05/2024 - Senate E. U., & C.
Introduced: 02/16/2023
Current
Text:
05/29/2024 - Amended
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05/29/2024
AB 1567 Garcia, D HTML PDF
Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, Clean Energy, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2024.
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Status: 05/22/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
Summary: Would enact the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, Clean Energy, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2024, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15,995,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, clean energy, and workforce development programs. (Based on 05/26/2023 text) Location: 05/22/2024 - Senate N.R. & W.
Introduced: 02/17/2023
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05/26/2023 - Amended
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05/26/2023
AB 2236 Bauer-Kahan, D HTML PDF
Solid waste: reusable grocery bags: standards: plastic film prohibition.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Summary: Current law prohibits a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag, as defined, to a customer, with specified exceptions, including an exemption for bags used to contain unwrapped food. Current law requires a reusable grocery bag sold by a store to a customer at the point of sale to be made by a certified reusable grocery bag producer and to meet specified requirements with regard to the bag’s durability, material, labeling, heavy metal content, and, with regard to reusable grocery bags made from plastic film, recycled material content. Current law prohibits a producer of reusable grocery bags made from plastic film from selling or distributing those bags unless the producer is certified by a third-party certification entity, and provides proof of that certification and a certification fee to the department, as specified. Current law also prohibits a store from selling or distributing a recycled paper bag at the point of sale unless the store makes that bag available for purchase for not less than $0.10. Existing law defines “recycled paper bag,” in part, as a paper carryout bag that contains a minimum of 40% postconsumer recycled materials, except as provided, and meets other requirements. Current law allows a retail establishment to voluntarily comply with these requirements, if the retail establishment provides the department with irrevocable notice. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, revise and recast those provisions to, among other things, revise the single-use carryout bag exception to include a bag provided to a customer before the customer reaches the point of sale, that is designed to protect a purchased item from damaging or contaminating other purchased items in a checkout bag, or to contain an unwrapped food item, as specified. 1st House 2nd House
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Desk. Policy "'"'' Floor Policy Fiscol Floor ConrConc. Enrolled Vctood Olopt.:'rcd The bill would revise the definition of “recycled paper bag” to require it be made from a minimum of 50% postconsumer recycled materials on and after January 1, 2028, without exception. (Based on 06/20/2024 text) Location: 05/29/2024 - Senate E.Q.
Introduced: 02/08/2024
Current
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06/20/2024 - Amended
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06/20/2024
AB 2285 Rendon, D HTML PDF
Natural resources: equitable outdoor access: 30x30 goal: urban nature-based projects.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - VOTE: Placed on suspense file (PASS) Summary: By Executive Order No. N-82-20, Governor Gavin Newsom directed the Natural Resources Agency to combat the biodiversity and climate crises by, among other things, establishing the California Biodiversity Collaborative and conserving at least 30% of the state’s lands and coastal waters by 2030. Current law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to prepare and submit, on or before March 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, a report to the Legislature on the progress made in the prior calendar year toward achieving the goal to conserve 30% of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030. Current law provides that it is the goal of the state to conserve at least 30% of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030, known as the 30x30 goal. This bill would provide that, to advance and promote environmental, conservation, and public access policies and budget actions, the Governor’s office, state agencies, and the Legislature, when distributing resources, shall aspire to recognize the coequal goals and benefits of the 30x30 goal and Outdoors for All, and, to the extent practical, maximize investment in historically underserved urban communities consistent with those initiatives. The bill would encourage decisionmakers, when distributing resources to achieve the goals and benefits of the 30x30 goal and Outdoors for All, to consider factors that are unique to urban settings, including, among other things, higher land value acquisition and development costs per acre, the acute health needs of a local population due to historic lack of greenspace access and development externalities, local park needs assessment plans, current or impending loss of parks or greenspace as a result of state or federal infrastructure projects, and the availability of mobility options near a proposed land conservation site. (Based on 06/12/2024 text) Location: 06/24/2024 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Introduced: 02/08/2024
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06/12/2024 - Amended
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06/12/2024
AB 2346 Lee, D HTML PDF
Organic waste reduction regulations: procurement of recovered organic waste products.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Summary: Current law requires the State Air Resources Board to complete, approve, and implement a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in the state to reduce the statewide methane emissions by 40% below 2013 levels by 2030. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations that achieve specified targets for reducing organic waste in landfills, as provided. The department’s organic waste regulations require local jurisdictions to annually procure a quantity of recovered organic waste products and to comply with their procurement targets by directly procuring recovered organic waste products for use or giveaway or by requiring, through a written agreement, that a direct service provider to the jurisdiction procure recovered organic waste products, or both. Those regulations specify the types of recovered organic waste products that a jurisdiction may procure, including compost that is produced at a compostable material handling operation or facility, or a specified digestion facility that composts onsite. Other regulations of the department require all compostable materials handling activities to obtain a facility permit from the department prior to commencing operations and meet other specified requirements, but exclude from those requirements certain activities that the regulations state do not constitute a compostable material handling operation or facility, including the composting of green material, agricultural material, food material, and vegetative food material, and the handling of compostable materials under certain conditions, as provided. This bill would authorize local jurisdictions to be credited for the procurement of recovered organic waste products through an agreement with a direct service provider, as defined, and would allow the direct service provider agreement to include the procurement of recovered organic waste products on a prospective or retrospective basis as long as the purchase of those products occurs during the year for which the local jurisdiction seeks credit, and under other specified circumstances. (Based on 06/20/2024 text) Location: 05/15/2024 - Senate E.Q.
Introduced: 02/12/2024
Current
Text:
06/20/2024 - Amended
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06/20/2024
AB 2427 McCarty, D HTML PDF
Electric vehicle charging stations: permitting: curbside charging.
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Status: 06/19/2024 - Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Summary: Current law continues into existence the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) division within GO-Biz as the Zero-Emission Vehicle Market Development Office. Current law references GO-Biz’s Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permitting Guidebook, which recommends best practices for electric vehicle supply equipment permitting. This bill would require the office to develop a model permitting checklist, model zoning ordinances, and best practices for permit costs and permit review timelines to help local governments permit curbside charging stations as part of the office’s development of the Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permitting Guidebook or any subsequent updates. The bill would also require the office to consult with local governments, electric vehicle service providers, and utilities while developing the above-described materials. (Based on 06/17/2024 text)
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Introduced: 02/13/2024
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06/17/2024 - Amended
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06/17/2024
ACA 16 Bryan, D HTML PDF
Environmental rights.
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Status: 06/06/2024 - Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Summary: Would amend the California Constitution to declare that the people have a right to clean air and water and a healthy environment considering the general well-being and other needs of the people. The measure would specify that the principles inherent in these rights shall serve as a guide to all branches of government in the performance of their official duties and that these rights shall inure to all people in equal measure and shall not be construed or applied in a manner inconsistent with duly enacted laws of the state or other rights set forth in the California Constitution. (Based on 06/06/2024 text)
Location: 05/20/2024 - Assembly THIRD READING
Introduced: 01/25/2024
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Text:
06/06/2024 - Amended
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06/06/2024
SB 504 Dodd, D HTML PDF
Wildfires: defensible space: grant programs: local governments.
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Status: 06/11/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish a local assistance grant program for fire prevention and home hardening education activities and provides that local agencies, among others, are eligible for these grants. Current law requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas of the state as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on specified criteria. Current law requires a local agency to designate, by ordinance, the ___ I ___ ID
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This bill would require the department, when reviewing applications for the local assistance grant program, to give priority to any local governmental entity that is qualified to perform defensible space assessments in very high and high fire hazard severity zones and that reports that information using the common reporting platform, as provided. (Based on 06/04/2024 text)
Location: 06/10/2024 - Assembly APPR.
Introduced: 02/14/2023
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06/04/2024 - Amended
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06/04/2024
SB 867 Allen, D HTML PDF
Drought, Flood, and Water Resilience, Wildfire and Forest Resilience, Coastal Resilience, Extreme Heat Mitigation, Biodiversity and Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Park Creation and Outdoor Access, and Clean Energy Bond Act of 2024.
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Status: 07/06/2023 - July 10 hearing postponed by committee.
Summary: Would enact the Drought, Flood, and Water Resilience, Wildfire and Forest Resilience, Coastal Resilience, Extreme Heat Mitigation, Biodiversity and Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Park Creation and Outdoor Access, and Clean Energy Bond Act of 2024, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15,500,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and naturebased climate solutions, climate smart agriculture, park creation and outdoor access, and clean energy programs. (Based on 06/22/2023 text)
Location: 06/20/2023 - Assembly NAT. RES.
Introduced: 02/17/2023
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06/22/2023 - Amended
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06/22/2023
SB 972 Min, D HTML PDF
Methane emissions: organic waste: landfills.
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Status: 06/19/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to adopt regulations, as provided, that achieve the targets for reducing organic waste in landfills. This bill would require the department to provide procedures for local jurisdictions to request technical assistance regarding organic waste and methane reduction requirements from the department, to post those procedures on its internet website, and to provide that technical assistance, as specified. The bill would require the department to report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2028, on, among other things relating to organic waste and methane reduction, the status of the technical assistance provided to local jurisdictions and, on or before January 1, 2031, on the state’s ability to meet the targets for reducing the disposal of organic waste in landfills and any recommendations to modify the program to achieve those goals. (Based on 06/19/2024 text)
Location: 06/17/2024 - Assembly APPR.
Introduced: 01/25/2024
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06/19/2024 - Amended
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06/19/2024
SB 1046 Laird, D HTML PDF
Organic waste reduction: program environmental impact report: small and medium compostable material handling facilities or operations.
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Status: 06/12/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Summary: Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to adopt regulations to achieve certain reduction targets in the organic waste disposed in landfills and to analyze the progress that the waste sector, state government, and local governments have made in achieving those reduction targets, as provided. Current law authorizes the department to provide incentives to facilitate progress towards the reduction targets if the department determines that sufficient progress has not been made. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect, as provided. This bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to prepare and certify, by January 1, 2027, a program environmental impact report that streamlines the process with which jurisdictions can develop and site small and medium compostable material handling facilities or operations, as defined, for processing organic material, as specified. (Based on 06/12/2024 text)
Location: 06/10/2024 - Assembly APPR.
Introduced: 02/07/2024
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Text:
06/12/2024 - Amended
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06/12/2024
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Solid waste: reusable grocery bags: standards: plastic film prohibition.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT.
RES.
Summary: Current law prohibits a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag, as defined, to a customer, with specified exceptions, including an exemption for bags used to contain unwrapped food. Current law requires a reusable grocery bag sold by a store to a customer at the point of sale to be made by a certified reusable grocery bag producer and to meet specified requirements with regard to the bag’s durability, material, labeling, heavy metal content, and, with regard to reusable grocery bags made from plastic film, recycled material content. Current law prohibits a producer of reusable grocery bags made from plastic film from selling or distributing those bags unless the producer is certified by a third-party certification entity, and provides proof of that certification and a certification fee to the department, as specified. Current law also prohibits a store from selling or distributing a recycled paper bag at the point of sale unless the store makes that bag available for purchase for not less than $0.10. Current law defines “recycled paper bag,” in part, as a paper carryout bag that contains a minimum of 40% postconsumer recycled materials, except as provided, and meets other requirements. Current law allows a retail establishment to voluntarily comply with these requirements, if the retail establishment provides the department with irrevocable notice. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, revise and recast those provisions to, among other things, revise the single-use carryout bag exception to include a bag provided to a customer before the customer reaches the point of sale, that is designed to protect a purchased item from damaging or contaminating other purchased items in a checkout bag, or to contain an unwrapped food item, as specified.
The bill would revise the definition of “recycled paper bag” to require it be made from a minimum of 50% postconsumer recycled materials on and after January 1, 2028, without exception. (Based on 06/20/2024 text) Location: 06/03/2024 - Assembly NAT. RES.
Introduced: 02/08/2024
Current
Text:
06/20/2024 - Amended
Last
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06/20/2024
SB 1054 Rubio, D HTML PDF
Natural gas: customer credit.
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Summary: The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms in regulating those emissions. The implementing regulations adopted by the state board provide for the direct allocation of greenhouse gas allowances to electrical corporations and gas corporations pursuant to a market-based compliance mechanism. This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to direct the balance of the revenues received by a gas corporation as a result of that allocation to be credited directly to the residential customers of the gas corporation, as specified. (Based on 05/20/2024 text) Location: 06/03/2024 - Assembly U. & E.
Introduced: 02/08/2024
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05/20/2024 - Amended
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05/20/2024
Transportation Issues LAP
AB 295 Lowenthal, D HTML PDF
Residential real property: foreclosure.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
Summary: Current law prescribes various requirements to be satisfied before the exercise of a power of sale under a mortgage or deed of trust and prescribes a procedure for the exercise of that power. This bill would prohibit a person from contacting, soliciting, or initiating communication with an owner to claim the surplus funds from a foreclosure sale of the owner’s residence before 90 days after the trustee’s deed has been required. (Based on 06/13/2024 text) Location: 06/24/2024 - Assembly JUD.
Introduced: 01/25/2023
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06/13/2024 - Amended
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06/13/2024
AB 1958 Berman, D HTML PDF
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority: board of directors.
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Status: 06/17/2024 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: Current law creates the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) with various powers and duties relative to transportation projects and services and the operation of public transit in the County of Santa Clara. Current law vests the government of the VTA in a 12-member board of directors, appointed by the County of Santa Clara and the cities within the county, as specified. Current law requires, to the extent possible, the county and cities to appoint individuals to the board of directors who have expertise, experience, or knowledge relative to transportation issues. Existing law establishes a term length of 2 years for a member of the board of directors. This bill would require, to the extent possible, the county and cities to appoint individuals to the board of directors who have expertise, experience, or knowledge relative to transit or transportation issues. (Based on 06/17/2024 text) Location: 05/01/2024 - Senate TRANS.
Introduced: 01/29/2024
Current
Text:
06/17/2024 - Amended
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06/17/2024
AB 2290 Friedman, D HTML PDF
Transportation: Class III bikeways: bicycle facilities: Bikeway Quick-Build Project Pilot Program.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - VOTE: Placed on suspense file (PASS) Summary: Existing law establishes the Active Transportation Program in the Department of Transportation for the purpose of encouraging increased use of active modes of transportation, such as biking and walking, with specified available funds to be allocated to eligible projects by the California Transportation Commission and regional transportation agencies through the adoption of a program of projects. Existing law requires the commission to develop guidelines regarding, among other topics, project eligibility and project selection for the program of projects, as provided. This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2026, the commission from adding a project that creates a Class III bikeway or adds a specific road marking used to inform road users that bicyclists might occupy the travel lane to the program of projects, unless the bikeway or road marking is on a highway with a design speed limit of 25 miles per hour or less or the project will implement improvements to reduce the design speed limit to 25 miles per hour or less. (Based on 06/13/2024 text) Location: 06/24/2024 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Introduced: 02/12/2024
Current
Text:
06/13/2024 - Amended
Last
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06/13/2024
AB 2553 Friedman, D HTML PDF
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Housing development: major transit stops: vehicular traffic impact fees.
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Status: 06/12/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
Summary: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements residential projects on infill sites and transit priority projects that meet certain requirements, including a requirement that the projects are located within 1/2 mile of a major transit stop. CEQA defines “major transit stop” to include, among other locations, the intersection of 2 or more major bus routes with a frequency of service interval of 15 minutes or less during the morning and afternoon peak commute periods. This bill would revise the definition of “major transit stop” to increase the frequency of service interval to 20 minutes. (Based on 06/12/2024 text)
Location: 06/11/2024 - Senate HOUSING
Introduced: 02/14/2024
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Text:
06/12/2024 - Amended
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06/12/2024
AB 2583 Berman, D HTML PDF
School zones and walk zones.
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Status: 06/17/2024 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: The Planning and Zoning Law requires the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan that includes various elements, including a circulation element to plan for transportation routes. This bill would require, upon any substantive revision of the circulation element on or after January 1, 2025, the legislative body of a city or county, to identify and establish school walk zones for all schools located within the scope of the general plan. The bill would define a “school walk zone” to mean all roadways and sidewalks within 1,000 feet in all directions of the boundary line of a school grounds. (Based on 06/17/2024 text)
Location: 05/29/2024 - Senate TRANS. Current
Text:
06/17/2024 - Amended
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06/17/2024
AB 2812 Kalra, D HTML PDF
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
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Status: 06/14/2024 - Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 17, Statutes of 2024.
Summary: The Local Agency Public Construction Act requires contracts of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority for the purchase of supplies, equipment, and materials to be let to the lowest responsible bidder or to the bidder who submits a proposal that provides the best value, as defined, if the amount of the contract exceeds $150,000 and requires the authority to obtain a minimum of 3 quotations for those contracts between $3,500 and $150,000. This bill would increase the first threshold for bidding to apply for contracts that exceed $200,000 and would require the authority to obtain the minimum of 3 quotations for contracts between $5,000 and $200,000. (Based on 06/14/2024 text) Location: 06/13/2024 - Assembly CHAPTERED
Introduced: 02/15/2024
Current
Text:
06/14/2024 - Chaptered
Last
Amend:
03/11/2024
SB 1216 Blakespear, D HTML PDF
Transportation projects: Class III bikeways: prohibition.
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Status: 05/28/2024 - Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Summary: Current law establishes 4 classifications of bikeways and defines a “Class III bikeway” as a bikeway that provides a rightof-way on-street or off-street, designated by signs or permanent markings and shared with pedestrians and motorists.
This bill would define “sharrow” as the pavement marking used to inform road users that bicyclists might occupy the travel lane. The bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2025, an agency responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or highways where bicycle travel is permitted from installing or restriping a Class III bikeway or a sharrow on a highway that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 miles per hour. (Based on 04/16/2024 text) ___ I ___ ID
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Introduced: 02/15/2024
Current
Text:
04/16/2024 - Amended
Last
Amend:
04/16/2024
Water Supply and Conservation LAP
AB 460 Bauer-Kahan, D HTML PDF
State Water Resources Control Board: water rights and usage: civil penalties.
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Status: 06/12/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Summary: Under current law, the diversion or use of water other than as authorized by specified provisions of law is a trespass, subject to specified civil liability. This bill would require the State Water Resources Control Board to adjust for inflation, by January 1 of each year, beginning in 2025, the amounts of civil and administrative liabilities or penalties imposed by the board in water right actions, as specified. (Based on 06/12/2024 text) Location: 06/11/2024 - Senate JUD.
Introduced: 02/06/2023
Current
Text:
06/12/2024 - Amended
Last
Amend:
06/12/2024
AB 1827 Papan, D HTML PDF
Local government: fees and charges: water: higher consumptive water parcels.
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Status: 05/29/2024 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: The California Constitution specifies various requirements with respect to the levying of assessments and propertyrelated fees and charges by a local agency, including requiring that the local agency provide public notice and a majority - ________.I D
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··--Policy ·--Fisc-ol ·--Floor ·--0.sk -- Polic;y Fiscol Floor conr.eonc. Enrolled Ve-toed O,opt4:'rcd protest procedure in the case of assessments and submit property-related fees and charges for approval by property owners subject to the fee or charge or the electorate residing in the affected area following a public hearing. Current law, known as the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with these requirements and, among other things, authorizes an agency providing water, wastewater, sewer, or refuse collection services to adopt a schedule of fees or charges authorizing automatic adjustments that pass through increases in wholesale charges for water, sewage treatment, or wastewater treatment or adjustments for inflation under certain circumstances. Current law defines, among other terms, the term “water” for these purposes to mean any system of public improvements intended to provide for the production, storage, supply, treatment, or distribution of water from any source. This bill would provide that the fees or charges for property-related water service imposed or increased, as specified, may include the incrementally higher costs of water service due to specified factors, including the higher water usage demand of parcels. (Based on 04/04/2024 text) Location: 05/29/2024 - Senate L. GOV.
Introduced: 01/12/2024
Current
Text:
04/04/2024 - Amended
Last
Amend:
04/04/2024
AB 2257 Wilson, D HTML PDF
Local government: property-related water and sewer fees and assessments: remedies.
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Status: 06/20/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: The California Constitution specifies various requirements with respect to the levying of assessments and propertyrelated fees and charges by a local agency, including notice, hearing, and protest procedures, depending on the character of the assessment, fee, or charge. Current law, known as the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act, prescribes specific procedures and parameters for local jurisdictions to comply with these requirements. This bill would prohibit, if a local agency complies with specified procedures, a person or entity from bringing a judicial action or proceeding alleging noncompliance with the constitutional provisions for any new, increased, or extended fee or assessment, as defined, unless that person or entity has timely submitted to the local agency a written objection to that fee or assessment that specifies the grounds for alleging noncompliance, as specified. This bill would provide that local agency responses to the timely submitted written objections shall go to the weight of the evidence supporting the agency’s compliance with the substantive limitations on fees and assessments imposed by the constitutional provisions. (Based on 06/20/2024 text)
Location: 06/18/2024 - Senate L. GOV.
Introduced: 02/08/2024
Current
Text:
06/20/2024 - Amended
Last
Amend:
06/20/2024
ACA 2 Alanis, R HTML PDF
Water Resiliency Act of 2024.
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Status: 03/19/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Summary: The California Constitution declares that the general welfare requires that the water resources of the state be put to beneficial use to the fullest extent of which they are capable, and that the right to the use of water does not extend to the waste or unreasonable use, method of use, or method of diversion of water. This measure would require the Treasurer to annually transfer an amount equal to 1.5% of all state revenues from the General Fund to the California Water Resiliency Trust Fund, which the measure would create. The measure would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to the California Water Commission for its actual costs of implementing these provisions and for specified water infrastructure projects. (Based on 03/06/2024 text)
Location: 04/20/2023 - Assembly W.,P. & W.
Introduced: 12/05/2022
Current
Text:
03/06/2024 - Amended
Last
Amend:
03/06/2024
SB 1210 Skinner, D HTML PDF
New housing construction: electrical, gas, sewer, and water service: service connection information.
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Status: 06/24/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
Summary: Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, gas corporations, sewer system corporations, and water corporations, while local publicly owned utilities, including municipal utility districts, public utility districts, and irrigation districts, are under the direction of their governing boards. This bill would, for new housing construction, require the above-described utilities, on or before January 1, 2026, to publicly post on their internet websites (1) the schedule of estimated fees for typical service connections for each housing development type, including, but not limited to, accessory dwelling unit, mixed-use, multifamily, and single-family developments, except as specified, and (2) the estimated timeframes for completing typical service connections needed for each housing development type, as specified. The bill would exempt from its provisions a utility with fewer than 4,000 service connections that does not establish or maintain an internet website due to a hardship and would authorize the utility to establish that a hardship exists by annually adopting a resolution that includes detailed findings, as provided. (Based on 06/24/2024 text)
Location: 06/19/2024 - Assembly L. GOV.
Introduced: 02/15/2024
Current
Text:
06/24/2024 - Amended
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SB 1218 Newman, D HTML PDF
Water: emergency water supplies.
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Status: 06/18/2024 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Summary: The Urban Water Management Planning Act requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan. The act requires an urban water management plan to include a water shortage contingency plan, as provided. This bill would declare that it is the established policy of the state to encourage, but not mandate, the development of emergency water supplies, and to support their use during times of drought or unplanned service or supply disruption, as provided. (Based on 06/18/2024 text)
Location: 06/03/2024 - Assembly W.,P. & W.
Introduced: 02/15/2024
Current
Text:
06/18/2024 - Amended
Last
Amend:
06/18/2024
SB 1330 Archuleta, D HTML PDF
Urban retail water supplier: water use.
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Status: 06/13/2024 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
Summary: The Urban Water Management Planning Act requires every urban water supplier to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan, as specified. Current law requires an urban wholesale water supplier to include in the urban water management plans an assessment of their present and proposed future measures, programs, and policies to help achieve water use reductions. Current law requires urban water retail suppliers to report to the department on their progress in meeting their urban water use targets as part of their urban water management plans. This bill would repeal - ________ I I:]
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• • • Policy Fisc.ol F• loor • Policy Fiscal Floor Corlf,Conc. Enrolled Vctocd 0-,opt('rcd the above-described requirements relating to urban wholesale water suppliers and urban water retail suppliers under an urban water management plan. (Based on 06/13/2024 text) Location: 05/28/2024 - Assembly W.,P. & W.
Introduced: 02/16/2024
Current
Text:
06/13/2024 - Amended
Last
Amend:
06/13/2024
Total Measures: 82
Total Tracking Forms: 82
2024 Q2 Legislative Action Summary
Below is a summary of the actions that were taken during 2024 Q2 as they align with the City of Santa Clara’s 2024 Legislative Advocacy Positions (LAPs), guiding principles for legislative advocacy, approved City policies (e.g., City Council Goals and Priorities), and/or Council action.
Council Pillar: Deliver and Enhance High-Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure
• April 29, 2024 Letter of support for the City’s FY 25 Community Project Funding Requests to Congressman Khanna
Community Services LAP
• June 7, 2024 Letter requesting protection of California Library Services program funding to Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, and Budget Chairs Scott Weiner and Jess Gabriel Energy Legislation, Regulations and Issues
• April 25, 2024 Letter of support for LS Power Grid California, LLC’s Power the South Bay Project application to the California Public Utilities Commission • May 29, 2024 Letter of support for Northern California Power Agency’s Lodi Hydrogen Project to the California Energy Commission
Public Safety LAP
• June 24, 2024 Letter of support for SB 926 (Wahab) – Safeguarding Against Digitized Misrepresentation to Chair Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee
• June 24, 2024 Letter of support for SB 933 (Wahab) – Child AI Safety to Chair Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee Sustainability and Environmental Protection LAP
• May 23, 2024 Letter of support for AB 2236 (Bauer-Kahan) – Solid waste:
reusable grocery bags: standards: plastic film prohibition to California State Legislature
• May 23, 2024 Letter of support for SB 1053 (Blakespear) – Solid waste: reusable grocery bags: standards: plastic film prohibition to California State Legislature City of
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Multiple Legislative Priorities
• April 11, 2024 Cities Association of Santa Clara County Legislative Action Committee Discussion Bills
• May 9, 2024 Cities Association of Santa Clara County Legislative Action Committee Discussion Bills
• June 13, 2024 Cities Association of Santa Clara County Legislative Action Committee Discussion Bills
• June 24, 2024 Letter of support for World Cup 2026 Security Funding to Congressman Ro Khanna
1500 Warburton Avenue ● Santa Clara, CA 95050 ● Phone: 408-615-2200 ● Fax: 408-241-6771 ● www.SantaClaraCA.gov Mayor
Lisa M. Gillmor
April 29, 2024
The Honorable Ro Khanna
United States House of Representatives
306 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
RE: Letter of Support for the Fiscal Year 2025 Community Project Funding Requests from the City of Santa Clara
Dear Representative Khanna:
On behalf of the City of Santa Clara, I want to express my gratitude and appreciation to you, and your staff, for your leadership and support. We appreciate the opportunity to work with your office to bring investments and improvements to residents, businesses, and visitors in our region.
I also want to highlight the City of Santa Clara’s community project funding requests for the Fiscal Year 2025 Federal Appropriations process and respectfully request your support. Our projects specifically seek to increase regional transportation opportunities, provide our community with expanded access to mental health professionals, and create safe streets for bicyclists and pedestrians.
The City’s top priority projects are:
1. Silicon Valley Hopper On-Demand Microtransit Shuttle - $2,508,828 The City of Santa Clara has partnered with the City of Cupertino to implement an ondemand micro-transit shuttle project, known as Silicon Valley Hopper, to serve those who live and work in Cupertino and Santa Clara. With support from a California State Transportation Agency State Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program grant, the goal is to continue Cupertino’s existing On-Demand Micro-Transit Shuttle Project and expand service into Santa Clara with a fleet of zero-emissions vehicles. Service is being designed to focus on offering improved and affordable connections between local Caltrain, Amtrak, VTA stations to job centers and other key destinations in Cupertino and Santa Clara while providing increased transit access for disadvantaged communities, high poverty zones, and senior populations. The implementation of Silicon Valley Hopper service in Santa Clara will be completed in two phases. The first phase, which launched in November 2023, provides service for the southern half of Santa Clara for a period of two years. The requested funding would allow for the second phase of service to be implemented in Santa Clara, which will extend the program for an additional two years and expand service into northern Santa Clara.
2. 24/7, 365 Mental Health/Crisis Response Coverage - $1,935,500 The Santa Clara Police Department’s Community Response Team (CRT) manages a caseload of "quality of life" issues and offenses. The team addresses and responds to the most concerning societal issues facing our community today, including homelessness, mental health crises, and human trafficking. The CRT has also taken a leading role in City of
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The Honorable Ro Khanna
Re: Letter of Support for the Fiscal Year 2025 Community Project Funding Requests from the City of Santa Clara
April 29, 2024