Recommendation to respectfully request City Council approval of the 2019 State Legislative Agenda as recommended by the State Legislation Committee.
Okay. Thank you very much. Motion carries. Moving on to the next item, 32. Communication from Councilman Austin, Chair, State Legislature Committee recommendation to approve the 2019 state legislative agenda as recommended by the State Legislation Committee. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Yes, I'd like to turn it over to staff for staff report. Diana Chang. They are members of the City Council. Thank you for considering the proposed 2018. State legislative agenda this evening. This document. Is foundational to the work that the city conducts in Sacramento, advocating. For and against state legislative proposals impacting lawmakers, municipal authority over land use revenues, programs. And services as a part of the process to bring that item tonight. The 2018 state legislative agenda was circulated to all city departments, including. Harbor and Water. For their review and input on staff's recommended changes. The State Legislative Committee met to review these changes. On October. 23rd and also recommended a few changes of their own. To summarize, Staff. Is recommending the. Following changes to the 2019 state legislative agenda. We're recommending support for economic development consistent with our economic development blueprint, which was also. In the 2018 legislative agenda. We're recommending the recognition of ongoing development and implementation of state and local cannabis laws and regulations. We're recommending to continue support for partnerships with our local educational institutes where we have mutual interests. We're also recommending to continue supporting a sustainable and livable city through funding for complete street transportation initiatives, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and opportunities for funding to support affordable housing and staff is also recommending, in addition to that, a 419 state legislative agenda that adds language to highlight the city's opposition to legislation that would reduce the city's local land use authority, which is essential to providing housing as well as facilitating healthy communities. At the State Legislative Committee. Last month, the committee recommended to Ford Staff's recommended changes through the council's consideration tonight, as well as a few recommendations of their own. These include support for LGBT owned businesses where appropriate and the agenda support for streamlining the eminent domain process for motel acquisition. If the property owner agrees to utilizing the streamline process, if and only if the acquisition is for homeless, supportive or transitional or affordable housing. Support for policies and legislation that provides the city with tax increment for affordable housing and public infrastructure, benefiting affordable housing, and of course, support for policies, legislation, and grants that support the attainment of seismic complaints that community hospital. As you may be aware, there was an election last week. We will begin the 2019 state legislative session on January 7th with a new governor and several new members of the state legislature. One which is delegation will remain the same with the exception of the third Senate District, which will be vacant of Sarah. Lara is elected to state insurance commissioner. While the vote has not been certified yet, he is in the lead. The 2019 state legislative agenda, which is before you tonight, is an important document from which we will draw from to introduce the city's legislative priorities for the coming year to the state legislature. And with that, I am available for questions. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you. And I want to thank Ms.. Ting for her work and her staff. Our teams work to a to prepare this agenda, working with all of our city staff, but most importantly with the state led committee, the vice chair Gonzalez and Councilmember Richardson. I know we look forward to engaging with the legislature over the course of the next several months to impact legislation and to have input on legislation that that impacts our city. I think we've done a pretty good job with our our lobbyist up in Sacramento, but also with our our government relations team. So with that, I would ask for your support of the proposed let's say let's agenda. But Councilwoman Gonzales. Next. Excuse me, gentlemen. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Just wanted to chime in as a newest member of the state pledge team. Do we have? Yeah, we got one. As the newest member of the state ledge team wanted to say, I'm really excited to be a part of this, and it's a good agenda. And you know, we were able to integrate a few things on the first run. Good stuff. You know, the talk about bringing back some form or streamlining some form of redevelopment in our city, you know, new governor or fed legend, I know it's a part of his priority. So our agenda should reflect that and a number of other things, you know, with our state lead. Scuse me, I've been Fiddler's chair for a while. It's hard to make the transition a big, big difference between the Fed, feds and the state right now. Big, big difference. But ah, but a lot of good things here and I see a lot of good opportunity for us and and thanks a lot. Good agenda I supported. By now Councilwoman Gonzales. Yes. Thank you so much to Diana and my colleagues on the state legislative committee. I'm glad that we were able to add LGBT owned businesses, the Fair Education Act and support for environmental protections. I do have an item coming next week, but since we are formalizing the state legislative agenda, I did want to include the following support policies and legislation that are that are transgender, inclusive, and oppose efforts to remove or to redefine support and or funding for the transgender community. So I'd like to add that and. If I can get a friendly amendment from the, uh, approved from the king maker of the motion, can you. Can you repeat that? I'm sorry. Yes. I'd like to add support policies and legislation that are transgender, inclusive, and oppose efforts to remove or redefine support and or funding for the transgender community. Okay. I'm fine with that. Thank you. And thank you for your work. Okay. Thank you. Any public comment on this item? CNN. Please go ahead and do a roll call vote. Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilmember Pierce, Councilwoman Price, Councilmember Super Councilwoman Mongo. Councilwoman Mongo. She told you that these were would only get I. Vice Mayor Andrews. Councilman Austin. Councilmember Richardson. Yeah. Councilmember Austin? Yes. Excuse me. Thank you. Motion carries 34.