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Conference Room A: Monday, June 22nd meeting. I call this Monday, June
22nd.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): second meeting of the LRC2 order. Sorry
about that.
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Conference Room A: Okay, and I believe we do… oh, there we go. Yeah, we
have Paul and Jason here.
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Jason Gonsalves: I knew that.
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Paul Gonsalves: Boom!
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Conference Room A: All right. Guess we do a roll call. Yeah, go ahead.
Vice Chair Chow?
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Here? Chair Wong? Here?
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Conference Room A: Okay, that's it. I guess that's it. That's it.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Very good. All right, let's, I think, we
don't… let's see, let's go to… is there any public? We don't have the
public comment, is there? Let's see.
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Conference Room A: What do you ask? Proven minutes. Let's do the approval
minutes.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): nuts, so…
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Conference Room A: took the…
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): All right. Do a motion to approve the
minutes?
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Oh, motion made. All right, I second. Vice
Chair Chow?
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Aye. Chair Wong? Aye. Motion carries
unanimously. Cool. This portion of the meeting is now reserved for a
person wishing to address the committee on any matter within jurisdiction
of the committee and not on the agenda. Speakers are limited to 3 minutes
in most cases.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): cases, state law will prohibit the
Commission from making any decisions with respect to matters not on the
agenda. Do we have any oral communications, Clerk?
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): No speakers. No speakers, okay.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Okay, no speakers present, no speakers
online, we are good. Let's go to old business, then.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Subject to Sacramento Trip Overview? Yeah.
Yeah, I wanted to add it to the agenda as kind of an opportunity to
provide a more… a little bit of a.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Formal review of what happened on, a
couple weeks ago now.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Because I know, Vice Mayor, you did not
attend, and I want to give an opportunity for Jason and Paul to provide
information, right? Councilmember, you can also feel free to add stuff,
and also for the public, right? For them to also hear, how did it go,
what are some key takeaways? So I wanted to open it up the floor to
Jason, just to get us started on his thoughts.
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Jason Gonsalves: That sounds great. Thank you.
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Jason Gonsalves: for the opportunity, and I guess, first and foremost, I
think it was overall a great, productive trip.
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Jason Gonsalves: I think two key highlights probably were… was the
meeting with Assemblymember Lori Wilson. As you know, she's from the
Solano County area, chair of the Transportation Committee, and very
active and a leader amongst the, e-bike, legislative efforts that
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Jason Gonsalves: moving through Sacramento and getting a lot of attention
at the local level. And in addition, the meeting with, Assemblymember
Ahrens went very well. I think, Patrick, the Assemblymember, was as
engaged as
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Jason Gonsalves: I've seen him, in a number of meetings. He genuinely
wants to be helpful for the City of Cupertino. He seems to have
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Jason Gonsalves: really drilled… he drilled down into the inequities and
the property tax, as well as, you know, the sheriff's
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Jason Gonsalves: The proposed 40 plus or minus percent contract
increases, and, you know, again, said he would be reaching out to the
county and other stakeholders to be an ally for the city, and potentially
even put legislative pressure on him.
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Jason Gonsalves: If things don't proceed. So, overall, it was a series of
back-to-back meetings. Thank the Mayor and Councilmember Wong for
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Jason Gonsalves: making the trip, and I look forward to doing more of
them. So I don't know, Councilmember Wong, if there's anything I missed
as part of that.
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Jason Gonsalves: And the staff did a great job writing up a recap in the…
The background materials as well.
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Jason Gonsalves: So I'll stop there.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Yeah, I think the main point was that,
going in person actually is very impactful. And what we are seeing is the
fact that, when council members, when assembly members and senators, are,
in district.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): They tend to be more relaxed, they're here
to kind of engage, more on the relationship side, but when they're in
Sacramento, they…
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): They're serious, right? Their staff is
there, they're ready to get things done, they can assign tasks, they have
the ability to, you know, move roadblocks, and I think it is very
valuable, and I hope future…
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): councils take advantage of the opportunity
to go up more frequently, to be able to actually, you know, get
legislative action done, and also clear some hurdles when possible, and
also find some information and insights. I think it's very useful that
way. So, that's what I would add.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): So, did you also have, like, briefing
material, talking points for the…
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Two council members who attended.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): I think they used to have, like, talking
points for each person they meet. Yeah, so we… staff prep prepared.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): binders for people to take up there, and
so, Councilmember, you received the binder, right, with information on
who they were meeting and general topics. It had, like, our bills, and
then, so we had one for Ray, one for Mayor… Mayor Moore, and Tina, and,
Kirsten, who attended at the meeting. So, we gave them a hard copy
binders only, but we did provide a report attached to this agenda.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): That just has, general information, but it
doesn't have… It's only very high-level, yeah, it's just a very high-
level recap, yeah.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): It would be nice to have those, attached
to this agenda. Okay. Also, and I'm… I'm wondering, do you think…
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): It's worthwhile to have an info memo for
the entire council, Hmm. I don't know.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): I don't be useful.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): We'll just show what was done.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Are you elaborating on this recap and
adding more about what was discussed?
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Is that what you mean?
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): I don't know, because this is very high
level. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm curious, okay, what's actually in there?
Right, yeah. I don't really know you, I… yeah, I'm just…
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Kind of a summary, I think.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): I'm not requesting, because I don't really
know. Right.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Yeah, I mean.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): I think… I think that it would be helpful
for the other council members to hear what was said, you know, if we have
some of that. But I don't know how much note-taking… I didn't personally
go, so I don't know how much note-taking was actually… Some of the
things… A lot of it was very candid discussion.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Yeah, you might not want to share some of
the things, right? If they are doing something until it's
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): For certain, maybe you don't want to…
Right.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): I mean, I can elaborate a little bit more
by saying that, you know, certain things where we have concerns about,
right, things that have been within the city around how we look at taxes,
or how we look at share allocation, or what's important for wildfire
safety, what's important for other issues coming down the pike.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): with certain individuals around, like, e-
bikes, or e-bike regulations that are there. We looked at legislation
that legislators were taking, and we were meeting to see what the
viewpoints were. So, for example, let's take, you do legislation in e-
bikes.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): We could pass around local law, but if
something was coming down the line from the state level, we wanted to
know from the person that was writing the bill, and who has kind of
support, and it's already come out of committee, like, what those rules
were.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): And then maybe we don't have to write
those, or we can provide input, and that's an example of one of those.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Okay. And then I'll also add that at the
June 1st LRC meeting, when you guys met to discuss the June 9th, we did
attach the agenda for that day with the top three priorities of the
session. So that was already listed as an attachment at the last meeting.
And then also this update also serves as a record, right? Okay, yeah.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Great, yeah. Well, thank you for the
update. Any other questions?
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Other comments? Members of the public.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): I've joined her.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Okay, no one from there? No speakers.
Okay. No speakers? Okay. All right.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Okay, let's go to New Business Legislative
Update. Let's see the update we have from the bill tracking list, as well
as the positions from YIMBY and Cal Cities. So…
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): That over, I guess, Jason. Yeah.
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Jason Gonsalves: As you know, there's quite a few bills moving through
the legislative process. We have, as you noted, a
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Jason Gonsalves: put together a report on quite a few bills, that are
still moving. All legislation that is currently active, has passed out of
the House of Origin, so all Assembly bills have moved over to the Senate,
and all Senate bills over to the Assembly. And, you know, there's…
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Jason Gonsalves: some… I would note, and I know it's later on the agenda,
but for example, AB956, that the staff is recommending an opposed
position. It's sponsored by CalIMBY. It's not a criticism of CalIMBY, but
we're oftentimes, finding ourselves on the opposite side on those type of
land use policies.
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Jason Gonsalves: In addition, there's quite a bit in the e-bike space.
Our staff is recommending a support on SB1167. Again, I know I'm moving
down the agenda, but, those are two that are kind of highlighted from
this list of…
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Jason Gonsalves: You know, 100 plus bills.
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Jason Gonsalves: Good.
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Jason Gonsalves: 153 measures.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): And then, Jason, could you touch a little
bit more on the schedule, where we are with the session? I think we're…
are we, I know we're just before the recess, right? The summer recess?
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Jason Gonsalves: Thank you, Astrid, absolutely. Last week, and I should
back up just a bit, last week, they did, on June 15th.
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Jason Gonsalves: pass the framework of a $350 billion state general fund
budget. There's still ongoing negotiations, particularly in the
healthcare space, with the governor and legislative leaders, so we will
see trailer bills.
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Jason Gonsalves: But to Astrid's point, the legislature will adjourn for
summer recess on July 2nd.
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Jason Gonsalves: And they will return on August 2nd for the final push,
meaning, August 31st is signing die. So, constitutionally required
adjournment midnight on August 31st, with about 1,500 bills still yet to
move through the process. So, things will start really ramping up.
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Jason Gonsalves: between now and July 2nd, and then obviously post-August
2nd through the 31st. So we're down to the last…
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Jason Gonsalves: 5 weeks, plus or minus.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): There are also a number of bills we've
already taken positions on. So Jason, I don't know if you can go down the
list of those bills that we've considered and see where we are with
those. I think some have either died or are still moving forward, the
ones that we've already adopted positions on.
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Jason Gonsalves: You know, Esther, I don't have that list in front of me,
but
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Jason Gonsalves: I do know a few of them. 1751, the the… Housing for the
townhome.
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Jason Gonsalves: legislation is continuing to move through the process.
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Jason Gonsalves: Assemblymember Wilson's e-bike legislation is continuing
to move, but
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Jason Gonsalves: I apologize, I can pull the list up real quickly if
you'd like that.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Yeah, I think it would be important to go
into the highlights of some of the things that we were supporting to see
how far lay along, or if they're taken off the list. I think that
differential would be important.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Yeah, and I think, Paul, I think you had
sent me a report of all of those, so I don't know if you have it with
you?
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Paul Gonsalves: I'm working on pulling it up as we speak.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): I think one of our big ones was AB1751,
so…
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): The Missing Middle Town Home Ownership
Act. Yes.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Stuck there.
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Jason Gonsalves: And Cal Cities is opposed to it as well. It has been
moving through the process. It moved out of the Assembly 47 to 0 with 33
abstentions. So that… that bill is continuing to move.
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Jason Gonsalves: It is… it has been referred to the…
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Jason Gonsalves: Senate Housing Committee, with a date… hearing date of
June 24th. They'll be heard on Wednesday.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Yeah, it's coming up. So…
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): I had a question on AB1761, and I just
wanted to understand the implications of that. Who's backing this one, in
terms of getting data calculated properly? I've been reading a number of
recent reports that nobody understands the calculation of how
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): electric rates are set, and I think this
is trying to address that, but I just wanted to be sure I had the full
facts behind that.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): This is AB1761, Electricity Calculation
Methodology Data Disclosure.
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Jason Gonsalves: Yes, and that… you're absolutely right. The Alliance for
Retail Energy Markets, California Community Choice Association, CSAC, a
number of cities are supporting the bill. It's author-sponsored,
technically, but, it has a lot of, Cal Cities is supporting.
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Jason Gonsalves: The only opposition is from Southern California Edison,
or Edison International, and San Diego Gas and Electric.
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Jason Gonsalves: But it… it absolutely is trying to provide some clarity
in the general rate case proceedings and the CPUC process as it relates
to
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Jason Gonsalves: Utility rates.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): P.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Do you have a position on that?
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Vice Mayor?
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): I don't know, yeah. A lot of times, they
first have a bill to collect data, but then they'll have something that
follows up.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): And it depends on what they are following
up with.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Okay. Yeah.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): And then Paul and Jason, I just sent over…
re-sent over the document that Paul sent me with the list of the…
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Cupertino bills?
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): And I think those… if you can go through
high-level updates on those.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Yeah, and while you're at it, I'm looking
at AB1976. This is the Streets and Highways Pedestrian and Bicycle
Facilities. This is the one that says that, you know.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Limiting petition requirements for traffic
calming measures, that's in place, so…
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): I don't know if that affects us, I think
that's really trying to go after the charter cities, I just want to make
sure that's the case.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): It's, Wix.
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Jason Gonsalves: I'm sorry, what was the… what field number was that,
Councilmember Wong?
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): 1976 Streets and Highways Pedestrian and
Bicycle Facilities.
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Jason Gonsalves: Yeah, it really is targeting charter cities.
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Jason Gonsalves: in the bill, and, you know, it has some SEQA provisions,
but…
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Jason Gonsalves: I think it would also impact general law cities as well.
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Jason Gonsalves: The way I'm reading it.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Okay.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Are we supporting AB 2037, which is the
next one, which is Becker's bill, Wildfire Mitigation, Aging, and
Disability Grant Pilot Program?
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Jason Gonsalves: We do not have… the city has not adopted a position on
that bill, no.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): We could add it to the next meeting if we
want to. I think it would be.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): good to add that, given the fact that,
given our meeting with Senator Becker, and given the fact that wildfire
issues are aligned with our wildfire issues, I think that would be a good
one to kind of support.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): So, I want to see if there's a reason to
or not support, but let's put it on our list.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): So…
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Does 1976, is that on our list?
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Good question. So you are saying it will
affect, generalosity, too?
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Jason Gonsalves: Yeah, it's not a bill that we… the city, has adopted a
position on to date, but it's one we definitely
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Jason Gonsalves: Can't bring back and make a recommendation, depending on
the committee's direction.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): And it is on our bill tracking list, we
just don't have a position on it yet, so we're tracking it.
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Jason Gonsalves: Yes.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): I could take a position on that? We can
recommend it for the next meeting. Yeah.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): So, for the next meeting. I don't know.
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Jason Gonsalves: nose…
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): joys.
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Jason Gonsalves: cities have opposed, the bill thus far. Streets for All
is the sponsor, and the County of Fresno and
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Jason Gonsalves: Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, Are opposed,
which is kind of interesting.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): What's the purpose of this bill?
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): It feels like the state is again getting
to the nitty-gritty details that…
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Well, if the local government needs to
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): delay or reconsider something, there must
be good reasons, so why are they still getting into this again?
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): But who… who… what's the motivation for
that? I guess, who is pushing for that?
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Jason Gonsalves: The Streets for All organization is the sponsor, and
it's really seeking to prohibit local agencies from putting gates or
other devices, as they call them in the statute, that would prohibit
access to public roads, for
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Jason Gonsalves: constituents, Californians.
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Jason Gonsalves: So, you can't erect traffic control devices that don't
comply with the standards and specifications from the Department of
Transportation.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): trying to read that. Is that for folks
that want to put more bike lanes in, or is it for folks that want to stop
more bike lanes coming in?
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Jason Gonsalves: It's for folks that want to put more bike lanes in, and
it's prohibiting local agencies from
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Jason Gonsalves: Erecting gates and other devices to prohibit access on
public roads.
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Jason Gonsalves: That's just my question.
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Jason Gonsalves: Bike lanes.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): It's good to know.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): At the end of the meeting, when we get to
future agenda items, we can discuss then if we want to consider it then.
Okay, let's add that to the…
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): I'll add it to my notes. Share notes.
We'll forget. There's too many bills.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Expetition requirement for traffic calming
majors.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): So they don't like traffic coming majors.
I thought, these streets for All would want traffic calming majors.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): It's a weird field. I'm looking at that,
too.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): In the sense that it seems to be
conflicting on its own purpose, but something is off, probably in my
understanding of that.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): exempt pedestrian mall from CEQA?
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Oh.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): It just feels like it's for a very
specific project, likely someone is trying to… God.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Stick a bike lane in Fresno. Live for…
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Some mall somewhere, way back then, they
are trying… couldn't get it through the local government, and now they
are trying to get it through the state law, and trying to apply to
everyone. That kind of…
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Bad feeling about it.
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Jason Gonsalves: And it, it's…
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Jason Gonsalves: stems from an issue in Oakland, where Oaklandside, a
community-based nonprofit, published an article surrounding a
controversial bike lane, and the controversy led to the neighborhood and
city,
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Jason Gonsalves: installing diverters to force traffic off of public
roads, around this bike lane. So, it…
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Wouldn't that be good? To… protect the
bike lane from traffic. They are against that.
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Jason Gonsalves: Yeah, it's been a polarizing issue, according to the
analysis, and, they're saying that by
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Jason Gonsalves: prohibiting the bike lane, it created a public safety
issue for kids, elders.
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Jason Gonsalves: pedestrians, in essence. That said, it's… it's one issue
that's really
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Jason Gonsalves: Turning into a statewide law that.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): That's ridiculous. It's such a very
limited local issue.
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Jason Gonsalves: Yes.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): And I'll add that, though no cities seem
to have an opposed position, the league has an oppose unless amended
position. Oh, what's there?
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Like, I was just…
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): glancing through their letter now. Jason,
I don't know if you know more about what they would like to amend from
that?
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): But, I have the letter.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Yeah, it feels like just another…
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Fix one thing, but that's apply
everywhere.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Development Securities of… Okay.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Yeah, as we're looking through these,
let's see if there's any other ones that.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Oh, it's 1AB138 on the list?
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Yeah, of course. Okay.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): So.
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Conference Room A: Sweat.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): I'm… I heard about this, I'm not sure… so
it has to do with pension reform that somehow legislator…
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Reduced our liability to the pension, and
now they are trying to revert it.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): So, it would affect the city's financial…
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): it's for… it applies to public safety
officers. Likely not directly related to us, but indirectly it would
affect us.
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Jason Gonsalves: Yes, that's, Tina McKinner's, if I heard the bill number
right, 1383, and it's rolling back provisions of PEPRA, the Public
Employees Pension Reform Act, which was done under Jerry Brown, in 2013.
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Jason Gonsalves: And, it's… It's really going to lead to additional
pension costs For local agencies.
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Jason Gonsalves: Police and fire in particular.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): So did the league take a position on this?
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Jason Gonsalves: I believe the league is opposed.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Yes.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Cool.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Chair, if we could open the public comment
period?
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Let's open.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Public comment. Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): We have no speakers in person, and no
hands raised on Zoom. Oh, okay, sounds good.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Where's Jennifer? That's what I was
saying, yeah? I know.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): We hope she was here. She's on vacation.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): So…
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Alright.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Well, we got the legislative update. I
think we will move on if there's anything else.
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Jason Gonsalves: The only one thing I should note, just for your,
information and update, as of this morning, the governor's office and
legislative leadership
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Jason Gonsalves: has announced an agreement to propose on the November
ballot a nearly 11… about $11 billion housing bond for veterans and
affordable housing purposes.
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Jason Gonsalves: We sent out an update via email this morning, kind of
outlining what's being proposed, but that will likely be moving through
the legislature rather quickly in order to get it on the November ballot.
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Jason Gonsalves: So the voters will ultimately decide On the $11 billion.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Interesting. Okay. This is SB417, right?
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Jason Gonsalves: Yes.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Cheers.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): You guys are all getting the… their
updates on… via email? Okay, good. Yeah.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Yeah.
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Paul Gonsalves: And just for the date, it's the 25th, Thursday the 25th,
so this Thursday is the last day for them to qualify an initiative for
the ballot, so they'll be moving it very quickly this week.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): So, 1383, is that moving along? Does that
likely… no one oppose cities oppose it, but then they likely will get
support? The legislature?
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): We'll pass it.
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Jason Gonsalves: Given the public safety support, it's been moving rather
quickly, or swiftly, I should say. It passed out of the assembly 70-2.
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Jason Gonsalves: 8 abstentions. So, yes, there's quite a bit of You know,
given the…
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Jason Gonsalves: public safety union push. It has been moving Through the
legislative process.
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Paul Gonsalves: And it's scheduled to be heard on Wednesday in the Senate
Public Employees Committee and Labor Employee Committee.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Do we have a position on SB922? I think
that's an important one, given, the amount of trucks we have going up and
down Stevens Creek.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): And I was trying to figure out if it was
applicable to us, once this passed or not passed.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): That's the vehicles, local agency charges,
use of streets, or highways. I'll read it just for,
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Posterity here. The bill would narrow an
existing ban on local street or highway use charges to weight-based fees,
and would clarify that certain public service-related fees or surcharges
for street maintenance are not prohibited.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): It also states that local agencies may
impose or collect those charges, removes obsolete references, and makes
additional technical changes and findings.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): So, you could do a gross vehicle weight,
requirement on certain roads, given the fact that the damage up and down
that street would incur more damage to that local road, so that we could
actually collect and pay for those damages.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): For example, if you're going up and down
to a quarry, back, maybe.
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Paul Gonsalves: The bill has a ton of support from local governments,
probably 20 or so cities are in support of it. Opposition from the
California Building Industry Association and the California Taxpayers
Association.
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Jason Gonsalves: And it's really… it's in response to a case out of San
Bernardino against the City of Redlands, where they… the…
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Jason Gonsalves: court, Superior Court, ruled that, Redlands weight fees
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Jason Gonsalves: were in violation of 218 are unconstitutional, so this
bill reaffirms the ability for locals
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Jason Gonsalves: By addressing the… the court ruling and… and…
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Jason Gonsalves: Reestablishing the ability for locals to adopt such
fees.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Oh, they were charging the garbage trucks,
got it.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): the garbage truck. There's the garbage
truck.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): one. Yup, yup, yup. Okay, that makes
sense.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Fair enough.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): It's amazing what kind of local news you
get on Apple News these days, so…
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Okay.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Alright, anything else on your end?
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Hmm. Yeah, well… 100%.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): what's… this is the last one for me,
SB1172 and the Bradley Burns piece, tax sharing agreements? Where's that
coming from?
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Is it true?
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Jason Gonsalves: That's still…
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Limit the consultants from figuring out
how to get around this, or…
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Jason Gonsalves: That's exactly it. That bill's in response to some tax
attorneys, consultants, for example, Robert Zendejas.
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Jason Gonsalves: not a criticism of him personally, but, he structured an
agreement in Long Beach where they… they divert
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Jason Gonsalves: reimburse rebate to Roberts and Dejas a million dollars
a year for the life of the agreement. This bill seeks to put a cap on
those type of sales tax consulting agreements. There was one… a
consultant in the city of Fillmore many years ago that
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Jason Gonsalves: basically diverted, they set up sales offices for
Southwest Airlines, Robertson's Ready Mix, in a strip mall in Fillmore,
rebated 75% of the sales tax, the city got 25, the consultant got 75% of
the sales tax they diverted from other local agencies.
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Jason Gonsalves: So it's seeking to… Reign in some of those egregious
agreements, I'll call them.
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Jason Gonsalves: It basically says you can't take sales tax from a
neighboring community and give it to out-of-state consultants and
lucrative amounts.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Got it.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Alright, I understand that. Thank you.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): So…
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Alright, I guess we're.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): I'm good on this end. Let's, anything else
from staff?
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): to confirm from Paul or Jason, from the
current bills that we have positions on, which ones are still active, or…
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Just a general update.
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Jason Gonsalves: Absolutely. There's 6 measures.
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Jason Gonsalves: The… I'll just go through them very briefly. Ab1674,
that legislation has failed passage. That was Assemblymember Aaron's food
desert, legislation.
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Jason Gonsalves: he…
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): We support it.
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Jason Gonsalves: which we supported,
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Jason Gonsalves: Assemblymember Solace's AB1708, which was supported.
Unfortunately, the City of Los Angeles opposed the bill. That bill has
been held in appropriations, so it has failed.
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Jason Gonsalves: However, I've had conversations with the assembly
member. He is not giving up. We may see it as part of a budget trailer
bill, or he will be back at trying to open
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Jason Gonsalves: housing assistance funding for communities under 300,000
populations. So, that bill… I would say the bill's dead, but the author
isn't. He's…
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Jason Gonsalves: he's not giving up on it. Abc… and nor should he. It's,
you know, there's too many small cities that are not getting, you know,
you're getting mandates on housing, but you're not getting any of the
statewide up to half a billion dollars in housing assistance.
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Jason Gonsalves: funding.
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Jason Gonsalves: So that bill is likely to come back through the author.
AB 1751, we discussed the Middle Home Township Act, that bill the city
opposed. It continues to move through the legislature, it'll be up in
Senate Housing.
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Jason Gonsalves: It should face a tougher road in the Senate, as most
bills do in the second House.
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Jason Gonsalves: Ab1821, that legislation, It has to do with,
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Jason Gonsalves: California Public Records Act request, and trying to
make them reasonable, and not counting weekends, and providing 14 days.
The city had a…
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Jason Gonsalves: Has supported that, and that bill continues
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Jason Gonsalves: To move through the process.
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Jason Gonsalves: And then AB 2517, the city has a support position, and
that bill on…
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Jason Gonsalves: Fire hazard severity zones has failed passage.
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Jason Gonsalves: But again, may likely come back.
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Jason Gonsalves: And then lastly, SB501, regarding recycling of
batteries.
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Jason Gonsalves: The city… Has a support position on that bill, and… It
failed passage.
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Jason Gonsalves: I'm not mistaken.
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Jason Gonsalves: Oh my god.
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Jason Gonsalves: Oh, no, I'm sorry, it's in the… I'm sorry, it's in the
Assembly. It's pending in Assembly Environmental Safety Committee.
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Jason Gonsalves: So it continues to move, and the city does have the
support.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): And then on last week, Jason, the Council
adopted a support position on AB2346, so that's a new one that we have a
position on. It was just taken by the full council instead of the LRC.
And I think, Jason, correct me if I'm wrong, that same day, it was
slightly amended. Or maybe was it the next day after? Or something like
that?
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Jason Gonsalves: It was, like, the day after.
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Jason Gonsalves: And it took, class 1 bikes out of it, or Class
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Jason Gonsalves: two, I'm looking at the amendments, and one of the
Others, so it took some…
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Jason Gonsalves: Amendments that narrowed the scope, but it still has the
15 miles per hour.
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Jason Gonsalves: the primary, I think, impetus based on our meeting with
the author, as well as the city's support position, the reason for doing
so continues, as the bill is still helpful in the e-bike space, but it's
continuing to move as well.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Great, so there's still, like, a couple
that are still moving, two or three, I think, that we have, so…
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Jason Gonsalves: Yes.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): Alright, with that?
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): We'll close out this issue, and go to item
number 4, which is consider adopting a position on AB956, the Cork Silva
Accessory Dwelling Unit and Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit. Recommended
action, adopt an opposed position on 956 and authorize the mayor to send
letters to the state legislature. Let's take a look at the summary
report.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Yeah, we attached a summary report that
was provided by Jason and his team, so that is helpful there for the
public and anyone to view, but go ahead, Jason, I'll turn it over to you
to explain the bill.
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Jason Gonsalves: This author has been difficult, I guess, and…
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Jason Gonsalves: she's a friend, but I guess the good news is she's
nearing the end of her time in the Assembly. She's been kind of the
champion in the Assembly on SB79, you know, the transportation
legislation
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Jason Gonsalves: multi-stories around transit centers last year. She's
been supportive of SB9, the ADU by-right legislation that was carried by
former Pro Tem Tony Atkins. And, the point being is now she's back with…
and she's also the author on the
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Jason Gonsalves: townhome, legislation this year that the city has
opposed. Well, adding to that track record is this legislation, AB956,
and it's really building upon SB9, the by-right, ADU and Junior accessory
dwelling Unit legislation, and it's
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Jason Gonsalves: Seeking to, what they would call, clarify, but it's
restricting
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Jason Gonsalves: community, CCNRs and improvement districts and HOAs, in
essence, from restricting ADUs. So it's another effort to further, I
would say, erode your local
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Jason Gonsalves: land use authority, but also your local CIDs and HOAs
and
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Jason Gonsalves: Their ability to kind of govern their communities as
well.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Oh, great, that's a question. Any
clarifying questions?
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Vice Mayor?
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): So this one particular… it doesn't affect
the city directly, but it affects the HOAs, or those who have CCNR.
MPIDs, yeah.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): prevents, actually ADU, joint ADU.
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Jason Gonsalves: Yes.
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Jason Gonsalves: And I, and I should have noted, I apologize, the… Cal
cities, rural counties.
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Jason Gonsalves: organization, as well as CSAC, and…
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Jason Gonsalves: Others are opposed to the legislation.
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Jason Gonsalves: California YIMBY is in support, no surprise there, but…
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Jason Gonsalves: That's gonna… the support and opposition.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): They're sponsoring it.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): Yep. Right. Yep. Definitely supporting
this.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): Yes. Oh, yes.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): They're heavily supporting it. Okay. Any
other questions? A public comment, so, yeah.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): No speakers in person, and no hands raised
on Zoom.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): Alright, make a motion. Motion…
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): To… for the staff recommendation.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Motion to adopt an opposed position on
AB956 and authorize the mayor to send letters to the state legislature. I
will second that. Let's call for a vote.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Chair Chow? Aye. Chair Wong? Aye.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): Motion carries unanimously. Good, thank
you.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Alright, item number 5, consider adopting
a position on Senate Bill 61167 around electric bikes. Adopt a support
position, SB1167, authorize the mayor to send letters to the state
legislature. Let's go for the staff report.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): And before I hand it over to Jason, I'll
add, I think, I believe this is one that was mentioned during the future
agenda item discussion on June 1st.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): I think Vice Mayor, you maybe mentioned
this one, along with SB2346, the one we already adopted by Council. So,
both of them related to e-bikes. I wanted to add it here just because you
guys did request it, but we already have one, so it's totally up to you
guys if you do want to continue with this to adopt both.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): or if you think the 2346 one is, you know,
it's up to you guys if you want to do both, but, we can hear from Jason,
maybe… Oh, right? Yeah. Yeah.
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Jason Gonsalves: This bill, really, kind of.
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Jason Gonsalves: is building upon what Assemblymember Wilson is doing.
It's the Senate's version. It's…
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Jason Gonsalves: it's ensuring the definitions of Class 2 and 3 e-bikes.
It has prohibitions from false advertising and what they're calling
unfair competition. It has specifications for miles per hour and wattage
on the motors.
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Jason Gonsalves: And, in essence, you…
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Jason Gonsalves: You can't say it's a 150-watt motor and really have a
750-watt motor, so it's just really looking to put transparency on, and
requirements of accuracy on the labeling of e-bikes.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Yeah, I would make the case to support
both, because one is consumer protections on what is an e-bike and how
fast it goes, and that's 1167, and 2346 is about what happens when the
bikes are on the road, and how you define the regulations.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): a large list of supported organizations,
from, Attorney City School District.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Yeah. It's a pedestrian safety issue, and
a other biker issue, because the speeds… And so on one hand, the demand
side, if you have a bike that is going 40 miles an hour, but was said
would only go 15,
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Then there's safety issues for the rider,
and parents potentially might not know, though I think most are in on it.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): The second piece is, once they're there,
you have different designations for regulations based on the type of
bikes, which is the Wilson bill, which is why you would want to actually
find some level of regulation. And between those two bills, we could
probably
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): to support them and craft the city's
regulations, because I think they've been thoroughly considered. Yeah.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Okay.
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Jason Gonsalves: To the Vice Mayor's point, it does have statewide
support, law enforcement, local agencies,
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Jason Gonsalves: pedestrian safety, as… and there's no opposition
recorded on the… on the legislation, so I think Councilmember Wong makes
a good point about the consumer distinction versus the streets and
highway side.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Including the Streets for All
organization.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Oh, who is the co-source? What does that
mean, co-source?
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): What's a co-source on a bill mean?
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Jason Gonsalves: Essentially a co-sponsor.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): This house… is that different from co-
sponsor?
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Jason Gonsalves: They're essentially the same. Sometimes an author will
say it's a source, meaning they brought the idea to them versus
technically sponsoring, but
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Jason Gonsalves: I would say they're synonymous. Yes, they're the same.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): Okay? Okay, yeah.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Clerk, any.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): public comment.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): We have no speakers in person, and no
hands raised on Zoom.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): Okay, alright.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): So.
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Speaker 4 (Conference Room A): move to support the staff recommendation
to support the bill. Okay.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): I will second that. Let's still rock off
it.
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Speaker 1 (Conference Room A): Vice Chair Chow?
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): Chair Wong? Aye. Motion carries
unanimously. Okay.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Alright, do we have any staff and
committee reports?
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): Nothing additional. Okay, and let's talk
about future agenda setting. I think we have a few items on the
housekeeping list.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): So, based off our legislative update
discussion, I've written down AB 1976, potentially considering and
opposed unless amended, just, we can look at the league's
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): position and try to understand a little
bit more if we want to be more aligned. And Paul, I think you said there
are no opposition right now, so maybe an opposed and less amendment might
be a better strategic
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Place, or what do you guys think?
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Jason Gonsalves: I think that makes a lot of sense, to be aligned with
Cal Cities and their
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Jason Gonsalves: Position, and we'll gather On the amendments of what
they're asking for.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Yeah, we can look into it and, like, make
sure before we recommend that. And then we also have AB2037, which I
think we were leaning toward to support that. And SB922 also to
potentially support, so…
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Those are the three that I've written
down, and do you guys feel good about recommending those for the August
meeting?
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): I do. I also want to make a suggestion, to
the Goncalves team to also study the legislation tractor for the Contract
Cities Association as well, to see if there's anything there that we
should actually pull from as well.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): In future agenda-setting items. I think
there are a few in there that are actually fairly helpful to cities like
us, and I think it would be good to find some of those.
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Jason Gonsalves: Great suggestion. We work well with contract cities, and
they're very closely aligned, I think, on policies, very similar to
Cupertino. You know, most of their cities are small and medium-sized.
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Jason Gonsalves: agencies. It's a great suggestion.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): All right. Okay, yeah. Good? Okay. Yeah,
great.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): So, I will work on that and prepare that
for the August, I believe August 17th meeting, which will be after the
recess. And then, Jason, following that, if you can just remind us of the
schedule. So, August 31st is the deadline.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): This is the end of the session, is that
correct?
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Jason Gonsalves: That's correct. Signy die at midnight, meaning all bills
have to pass, so post-August 31st, we'll know what's heading to the
governor, and then we would be looking after August 31st for signature
request or, veto letters, aligned with the positions the city's taken.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Great, so August 17th will be kind of our
last meeting to meet during the session, before it ends.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): So if you guys do think of any other
bills, please feel free to email us, email Jason and Paul, and we'll keep
track of them, and then, take positions at our last meeting on the 17th.
And then we meet again in October, which is after the government's… the
governor signed everything, right? It's like a… like a wrap-up meeting,
is that correct, Jason?
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Jason Gonsalves: That's correct.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): Okay, great.
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Jason Gonsalves: We'll know the damage that was done, or the good news.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): Great. Great, alright.
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): I think we have a good plan for the next
meeting, and you guys can always let us know if anything comes up in
between then. Got it.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): And… I was gonna say… AB1997 and AB1887
are interesting. Just if there's not… those aren't on the list. I don't
think they were. These are coming from the contract cities. I just
remembered to look there, so…
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): You did 1997 and 1987?
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Speaker 3 (Conference Room A): Let's see…
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Jason Gonsalves: 1887.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): 1897, 1857, I can't see. 1857. I cannot
see. Argyle Curry, let me zoom this thing.
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Jason Gonsalves: It's… yep, it's 57.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): My contact's in backwards, I know that
now. Fine earlier, but, yes, so… Great.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): Alright, we'll look into those. Thank you.
Yeah, great.
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Speaker 2 (Conference Room A): All right, well, with that, I guess we'll
call this meeting to an end, so… Alright, thank you, everybody.
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Jason Gonsalves: Thank you.
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Speaker 5 (Conference Room A): Thanks, St. Paul. Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.