February 4, 2025
Item 13
Staff Presentation
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City of Vernon
Legislative Platform Adoption
Dane Hutchings, Founder + CEO California Public Policy Group CALIFORNIA PUBLIC POLICY GROUP • PUBLICPOLICYGROUP.COM
Session Overview
2025 Legislative State-of-Play
Highlights of Platform Statements
• Legislative Platform Background and
• Administrative Services
Purpose • Community Development
• Economic Development and Business
Partnerships
• Drafting Process • Governance and Transparency
• Public Health and Environmental Control
• Public Safety
• Energy, Environment, Utilities and Water
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2025 Legislative State-of-Play
23 New Assembly Members (out of 80)
Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez (D, Los Angeles, AD 54)
• Appropriations
Health
Public Safety
• Utilities and Energy
12 New State Senators (out of 40)
Senator María Elena Durazo (D, Los Angeles, SD 26)
• Local Government (Chair)
Budget and Fiscal Review
• Health
• Housing
• Judiciary
• PERS CPPG
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Note: Due to Term Limits and Decennial Redistricting the City of Vernon has a new State delegation 2025 Legislative State-of-Play
Small State Surplus—However, Southern California Wildfires Creates Uncertainty Hundreds of Measures Introduced Touching on Many Areas of Interest • Governmental Transparency
• Housing, Land Use and Planning
• Energy, Utilities, Water and Solid Waste
• Public Safety and EMS
Projected 2,000+ Individual Pieces Of Legislation To Be Introduced By February 21, 2025 Los Angeles Fires Likely to Dominate Legislative Narrative and Policy Response California Ability to Work With Washington D.C.
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Legislative Platform Background
and Purpose
Guiding Principles Advocacy Positions
Preserving Local Decision-Making Support
Maintain and Enhance Economic Relationships Support if Amended Oppose
Professional and Ethical Community Policing
Oppose unless amended
Protect Public Health
Neutral
Sustained Engagement
Sponsor
Watch (Internal)
• Support/Oppose in Concept (Internal)
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Legislative Platform Background
and Purpose
Allows the City to Have a Gameplan
Allows staff and legislative consultant to quickly triage and assess legislative matters upon introduction and as thousands of measures advance through the legislative process.
In 2023-24 legislative session there were 5,564 legislative and budgetary measures introduced. 2,628 having some level of impact on public agencies at time of introduction.
Provides Guidance/Direction To City Staff And State Legislative Consultants On How To Engage On Specific Pieces Of Legislation - Including Coalition Building
• This Is Especially Important During Key Legislative And Budget Deadlines. • Enables The City To Sponsor Legislation If Desired
• Helps In Securing Critical Amendments Early In The Process. • Allows for Immediate Engagement On Legislation Throughout The Legislative Process Creates A Helpful Guide For Communicating With Various Stakeholders.
Communicates the City's policies, priorities and positions to the public, State Legislature as well as to regional and state regulatory bodies.
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Drafting Process
CPPG Along With Staff from City Administrator's Office Held A Series Of "Deep Dive Meetings" in the fall of 2024 with key staff from each city department (60 Min Each) Meetings Focused Primarily On The Following:
• Polices that have an impact on departmental operations. • Assessing major issues/projects/ initiatives within the City that need to be considered or shared. • Major policy areas of importance that CPPG should be monitoring more closely. • Critical funding priorities for the City that CPPG should know more about. • How best CPPG can serve as the City's legislative advocacy firm.
CPPG Worked With City Administrators Office To Solicit Feedback, To Craft A Platform Based Staff Operational Need And Strategic Goals.
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Highlights Of Platform Statements
Note: Platform Statements In Their Entirety Can Be Found In Attachment 1 Clerk
• Support polices that maintain transparency, streamline administration of public records, elections and Brown Act Provisions. Clerk
• Oppose polices that impede our ability to conduct all-mailed ballot elections.
Finance
• Support legislation that addresses inequitable allocation of property taxes, enhances economic development and funding tools and addresses unfunded retirement liabilities.
Information Administrative
• Oppose legislation that imposes new unfunded state-mandated costs. Finance Technology Services
Human Resources
• Support legislation that preserves the collective bargaining process while opposing measures that would otherwise circumvent the process.
Information Technology
• Support advanced technological initiatives that promote operational efficiencies, Human public safety, economic development, and sustainability. Resources • Oppose measures that compromise agency data and critical systems.
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Highlights Of Platform Statements
Note: Platform Statements In Their Entirety Can Be Found In Attachment 1 Building Inspection
Support polices that promote public health and safety in building construction while protection local Building Inspection
enforcement.
Housing
• Support legislation that addresses promotes increased housing production at all levels, while retaining Transportation Housing local decision making. Support flexibility in RHNA and oppose legislation that reduces local control.
Land Use Community
• Oppose legislation that impedes on the City's ability to make decisions in adaptive reuse, CEQA, setbacks. Development Parks, Open Space and Recreation
• Support legislation that funds wellness, recreation, library and other quality of life programs. Public Works Land Use Public Works
• Support legislation and funding mechanisms that can help address the City's road maintenance and Parks, Open
Space and
sanitation infrastructure projects. Support efforts to address compliance with advance clean fleet rules.
Recreation
Transportation
• Protect transportation revenues, enhance key infrastructure projects and promotes multimodal transportation.
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Highlights Of Platform Statements
Note: Platform Statements In Their Entirety Can Be Found In Attachment 1 Health
Incorporating medical services to City's public health department. Recognize daytime population as a qualifying factor for state health department certification. Advocate for polices and funding for improved Health behavioral health outcomes.
Environmental Control
• Enhance local authority in regulating waste, promote cost-effective disposal of various types of waste, oppose financial burdens on the City for hazardous material management, and support air quality Public Health monitoring standards based on the best available science. and
Environmental
Environmental Remediation Sustainability
Control
Environmental
• Advocate for legislation and funding that equips local governments with the resources, authority, and Control partnerships necessary with state and federal agencies to efficiently identify, assess, remediate, and redevelop contaminated sites, ensuring public health protection, environmental safety, community revitalization, and economic benefits.
Sustainability
Environmental
• Support the development of reasonable policies, funding, and programs to protect the environment, reduce Remediation greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency, and promote renewable energy, while advocating for state and federal legislation that prioritizes environmental sustainability, incentivizes recycling and organics recovery, supports zero-emission vehicles and infrastructure, and allows for flexible standards to balance community needs and technological feasibility. CPPG
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Highlights Of Platform Statements
Note: Platform Statements In Their Entirety Can Be Found In Attachment 1 Public Safety
A comprehensive approach to enhancing public safety Retail Theft while supporting the well-being of peace officers and first responders. It advocates for legislation that funds training and wellness initiatives, including trauma intervention programs. Additionally, it promotes measures to address Public organized retail crime by increasing penalties for repeat Business Best
offenders and allowing for the aggregation of theft across Practices Watch Program
jurisdictions. Safety
Emergency
Operations
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Highlights Of Platform Statements
Note: Platform Statements In Their Entirety Can Be Found In Attachment 1 Energy
• Advocate for legislative support to transition to renewable and carbon-neutral energy Energy sources while maintaining grid reliability and cost-effectiveness. They emphasize flexibility in resource planning, financial incentives for clean energy projects, and the inclusion of hydropower and small modular reactors. Additionally, they support responsible power management to reduce wildfire risk and oppose resource-specific mandates that could impact market prices for energy. Energy, Environment,
Environment Water Environment
Utilities and
• Advocate for legislative and funding support to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Water develop hydrogen projects, and assist local governments in meeting energy and water conservation targets. They emphasize the importance of mandates that benefit the environment and ratepayers, timely procurement of electric fleet vehicles, and fuel diversity for reliable power during emergencies.
Utilities
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Highlights Of Platform Statements
Note: Platform Statements In Their Entirety Can Be Found In Attachment 1 Utilities
• Advocate for legislative and regulatory support to enhance cyber and physical security Energy
for utility assets, promote smart metering for conservation, and oppose untimely publication of excessive utility information. They also emphasize monitoring conservation legislation to ensure it considers community needs and industrial usage.
Water
Energy,
• Advocate for legislative and regulatory support to enhance water conservation and Environment, Water Environment
efficiency while preserving local agency authority. They emphasize maintaining local Utilities and control over drought-related decisions, providing tools for groundwater production, and securing funding for water infrastructure. The policies also support the Water Cont. "Beneficiary Pays Principle" for water infrastructure costs, oppose a statewide tax on water, and target source control for PFAS substances.
Utilities
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Questions / Thank You!
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