Agenda Item: 6
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
AGENDA REPORT
CONSENT CALENDAR
CITY MANAGER APPROVAL:
DATE: December 10, 2024
SUBJECT: SANTA CLARITA 2025 EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE
PLATFORM
DEPARTMENT: City Manager's Office
PRESENTER: Masis Hagobian
RECOMMENDED ACTION
City Council adopt the Santa Clarita 2025 Executive and Legislative Platform.
BACKGROUND
Many cities, special districts, and other organizations that frequently take positions on federal and state legislation, adopt an annual legislative program or platform. The legislative platform outlines policy statements regarding legislative and regulatory issues that are of interest to the organization and are likely to come forward during the congressional session or state legislative session. The City Council adopted the Santa Clarita 2024 Executive and Legislative Platform on December 12, 2023.
The attached Santa Clarita 2025 Executive and Legislative Platform outlines policy statements regarding legislative and regulatory issues that are of interest to the City of Santa Clarita (City) and may come forward during the 119th Congress and the California Legislature’s 2025-26 Session.
The proposed changes to the 2025 Executive and Legislative Platform include:
• Expanding the scope of Item 5 in the Federal section to include support for enhancements to the City’s resiliency to natural disasters. • Adding the following as Item 11 in the Federal section: “Support legislation or administrative action designating the Northern Angeles National Forest as a national monument.”
• Expanding the scope of Item 3 in the State section to include local prosecutorial discretion.
• Moving Item 50 to Item 4 in the State section to be grouped with public safety related
directives.
• Expanding the scope of Item 6 in the State section to include support for covered conductor conversions.
• Revising Item 29 in the State section to reflect the recent adoption of the Palmdale to Burbank alignment by the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
The aforementioned proposed changes to the 2025 Executive and Legislative Platform were presented to the City Council Legislative Committee on November 12, 2024.
The 2025 Executive and Legislative Platform is consistent with previous positions adopted by the City Council and is designed to provide City staff, as well as the City’s federal and state legislative delegation, with general guidance on legislative and regulatory issues of interest and concern to the City Council. The 2025 Executive and Legislative Platform will also inform organizations with an advocacy presence in Washington and Sacramento of the Santa Clarita City Council’s legislative interests. Finally, the document will assist City staff in communicating about legislative and regulatory issues of interest and concern and will enable City staff to quickly respond in the event an issue of direct impact to the City requires immediate action.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION
Other direction, as provided by the City Council.
FISCAL IMPACT
No additional resources beyond those contained within the adopted Fiscal Year 2024-25 budget are required for implementation of the recommended action.
ATTACHMENTS
Santa Clarita 2025 Executive and Legislative Platform DRAFT