Recommendation to respectfully request City Council approval of the 2017 State Legislative Agenda as recommended by the State Legislation Committee.
What about 18? 18? Sorry, I skipped over that. 18. Key Item 18 is a communication from Councilman Alston, Chair of the State Legislation Committee, recommendation to request approval of the 2017 state legislative agenda as recommended by the State Legislation Committee. That's right. Yes. Well, the item is before you, I'd like to get a staff report from Diana Tang or Mr. City Manager. Mayor, members of the city council. The State Legislative Committee did meet on January 10th, 2017 and received and filed all of staff's recommended changes for the agenda for this year. Staff's changes were predominantly organizational in nature. Last year, the. Federal Legislative Committee chose to reorganize the agenda so that it would perhaps be. A little bit more accessible and easier. To read for the public. And so we made those same changes to the state agenda. We also added language to say that we would support legislation, policies and grants in addition to simply state legislative proposals. The committee at the time also asked staff to add in three new items. The first was related to minimum wage. There was a discussion related to the restaurant industry and discrepancies between tipped workers and untapped workers. So we went and did some research and came up with language to. Support legislation that minimizes wage disparities between. Tipped and untapped workers in the restaurant industry without impacting existing scheduled. Minimum wage increases. The committee also. Asked us to add in language related to. Grant funding for local governments as related to law enforcement and marijuana growers that may, may pop up in the city as a result of new state laws. And so funding to local governments to eradicate illegal growth of marijuana plants has been added to the agenda. The committee also asked us to add an item to support additional funding to local governments to support housing, animals and. Animal care shelters beyond three days. And so that change has been made as well. And so those are the only three changes. The committee requested. Beyond Staff's. Recommended changes which are in. The item before you. With that, I'm available to answer questions. Thank you, Miss Tang, for your very, very complete and brief report. I also want to recognize other members of the State Ledge Committee and thank council members Gonzalez and Mongo four for their work in helping to frame this agenda. I know there are a lot of other moving pieces going on in Sacramento right now. I think our state legenda is is one that is, I think, pretty comprehensive in really, really, I think embodies the the the the the the vibe and the the direction of our city council. And so I would ask for your approval. But before I do that, I'd just also like to just compliment Diana Tang for her tremendous work as our government relations director in Sacramento, but also her work in just keeping the council informed about changes going on in Sacramento, which we have a big one happening just this week. One of the our state legends over the last three years has been to push for a statewide fix. Our Highways and Roads campaign, which will, I'm happy to announce, should be voted on tomorrow by the state legislature, SB one and AB one. This council has supported those bills in concept over the last three years, and it will yield a tremendous amount of new resources to our city for infrastructure repairs to the tune of about $11 million a year. Is that correct? That is correct, yes. And so congratulations, city council, for your efforts in that regard. And so with that, I would ask for your your support and in adopting the state legenda. Thank you. Thank you very much and any public comment on this. Before I turn to Councilman Gonzalez, not Councilman Gonzalez. Great work, Diana, and thank you, Councilmember Austin and Councilmember Mongo, for your work on this as well. Okay, Councilman Mongo. Thanks to my colleagues for their collaboration. And then I just wanted to. Earlier today at EDF, we kind of started talking about some of the sales tax implications and some of the things that have changed. I know that I've mentioned it to Diana. Since our hour five 4:00 meeting. But specifically, I think that it's. Time that we start looking into legislation related to how the sales tax has changed its movement with the sale of solar. And so it used to be that. If you sell solar and you're a contractor where you sell. It, etc., but now. That they're selling it out of Costcos and Home Depots and the such. That transition has happened and we're going to have some more leakage in those areas if we don't address it. So I don't I'm not sure where we want to go on that, but I. Just want to throw it out there. So the next time we have. An item that the community and our staff could look into that for us and give us a little bit more background. Thank you. But great working with everyone. Team proud to be a new member of a state. Let's. Thank you. Vice Mayor Richardson. Just want to say good work to the committee and to Diana and $11 million for STS. Nothing wrong with that. Thank you. And congratulations to the whole committee. Count on us and a great job of winning the state, the state committee. And that vote tomorrow is very important to us. We've all been very involved. And if that happens, is, as we all expect it to, to go through that will be some immediate major highway construction money for us, for the city. So that'll be additional support. So thank you for that. There's a second. There's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. Councilmember Mongo. Bush and Kerry's.