2025 Federal
Legislative Platform
City Council Meeting
January 7, 2025
Jason Nutt, Assistant City Manager
John O’Donnell & Kyriakos Pagonis, MMO Partners
Presented by:
• Outline’s the City’s federal policy and project priorities to the public, CA Congressional Delegation, Congress and
federal agencies.
• Provides guidance and direction to City staff and federal representatives regarding City’s federal funding and policy priorities.
Purpose of Federal
Legislative Platform
3 2024 Federal Platform Review:
Total funding: $32,631,550
Housing, Homelessness and Economic Development
HUD CDBG (formula) $1,306,590
HUD HOME (formula) $645,619
HUD HOPWA (formula) $522,399
HUD Housing Choice Vouchers (formula) $24,431,497 HUD Homeless Santa Rosa/Petaluma CoC $4,592,448
Surface Transportation
DOT-FTA SR BUS Urbanized Area (formula) $2,700,000
DOT-OST SE Greenway Thriving Communities (competitive)
DOT-SS4A SCTA/RCPA Multijurisdictional (competitive) $1,750,000 2024 Highlights
4 Wildfire/Public Safety
FY24 CPF SRPD Community Violence Prevention (competitive) $898,000 Sponsored by Rep. Thompson
DOJ-COPS Recruitment and Retention (competitive) $166,875 HR 5863 Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act Signed into law Water and Energy Resiliency
DOE Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Master Plan(formula) $210,570 Corps Santa Rosa Creek Flood/Evacuation Mapping (discretionary) FY25 CPF Llano Trunk Line (Rep. Huffman) $1,734,000
FEMA-HMGP Laguna Treatment Plant $14,577,742
Economic Development
EDA Economic Development Reauthorization signed into law EDA Roseland small business– sewer expansion $700,000
2024 Highlights (cont.)
Proposed 2025
Federal Priorities
6 • To provide sufficient federal funding and federal agency resources to support natural disaster mitigation, rebuilding and recovery efforts, including: Building Resilient
Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Program, the
Community Wildfire Defense Grants (CWDG), and regional
vegetation management initiatives.
• Support federal legislation that permanently authorizes the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster
Recovery (CDBG-DR) program and allows the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development to provide direct
allocations to local governments.
• Advocate for continued funding and improvement of the Integrated Public Alert Warning System.
Wildfire Prevention & Resiliency
7 • Ensure Congress funds highway and transit formula and discretionary programs authorized under the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
• Support funding to address the backlog of deferred
pavement rehabilitation.
• Support funding for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure; Vision Zero programs and project implementation; and
funding for public transit that invests in public transit programs such as fleet electrification.
• Support the promotion of active transportation, complete street implementation, Safe Routes to School.
Surface Transportation
8 • Support federal legislation and regulatory efforts that invest in water, sewer, and stormwater infrastructure
programs such as the Inflation Reduction Act, Water
Resources Development Act and Clean Water and Drinking
Water State Revolving Funds.
• To enact mitigation measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit the effects of climate change and
enhance local and regional planning for climate resilience, including wildfire mitigation and water conservation.
Water and Energy Resiliency
9 • To support the thoughtful and practical approach to assessing and mitigating the associated risks to public health and the environment relating to
unregulated contaminants such as Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFAS).
• To advocate for funding and support to continue the
operation of the diversion facilities at the Potter Valley Project to protect water supply resiliency and fisheries.
Water and Energy Resiliency
10 • Support the City’s long-standing commitment to
implementing environmental programs and proactive work
towards improving energy efficiency and reducing
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
• Support funding sources for climate change mitigation and adaptation, including, the Energy Efficiency and
Conservation Block Grant program and the Inflation
Reduction Act.
• Advocate for funding to convert the City’s municipal
vehicle fleet to a zero-emission fleet, including charging infrastructure and implementing the conversion.
Climate Change and
Sustainability
11 • Increase funding and federal incentives to address affordable housing and homelessness, including support
for Continuum of Care, Emergency Food and Shelter,
Housing Choice Vouchers, permanent supportive housing,
down payment assistance and programs investing in
helping our most vulnerable residents, such as the Housing for All Act of 2023.
• Extend and expand federal Housing Credits for affordable housing developments, such as the Affordable Housing
Credit Improvement Act of 2023.
Housing, Homelessness and
Economic Development
12 • Advocate for increased funding for the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership program, which supports investments
in parks and other outdoor recreation services within the City’s urban core for underserved areas.
Housing, Homelessness and
Economic Development
13 • Advocate for federal funding and legislation that supports public safety and emergency response operations.
• Advocate funding for community violence and gun
violence prevention programs and initiatives, including policies related to ghost guns, investments in mentorship and violence interrupters
• Seek funding for public safety infrastructure, including a regional community safety training center, regional
communications infrastructure such as new radio tower
sites, and regional crime lab.
Public Safety
14 • Support federal funding for programs like the Student, T eachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School
Violence Act, which support and assist county, local,
territorial, and tribal jurisdictions in improving efforts to reduce violent crime in and around schools.
Public Safety
15 • To support access to early childhood education and childcare, workforce development programs for youth and funding for teachers and educators.
• To advocate for policies and legislation that reduce child poverty, including the extension and increase of the child tax credit.
• To support funding to the Child and Adult Care Food
Program (CACFP), Summer Food Service programs and
Community Food Systems to promote the use of local
foods in the National Lunch programs for children.
Education, Families and Children
16 The Communications & Intergovernmental
Relations Office recommends that the
Council, by resolution, adopt the City’s
2025 Federal Legislative Platform.
Recommendation
Questions?