Recommendation to, subject to prior review and consideration by the State Legislative Committee, approve the recommendations of the State Legislative Committee from their March 6, 2018 meeting regarding SB 827 (Weiner) and AB 2191 (O'Donnell).
Who a code enforcement. Motion carries. Thank you. Item 18. Communication from Councilman Austin Chair State Legislation Committee Recommendation to approve the recommendations of the State Legislative Committee from their March six meeting regarding SB. 827. And AB 21910. Unicorn. Thank you. Kathryn Austin, do you want to give a brief report? Yes. So the state lands committee met earlier today. We brought back an item that was originally on the the council agenda a few weeks ago, A.B. 827, which is viewed as a an affront. To local control on many levels. We we held off on a decision a few weeks ago at the request of the author. That. He was going to make amendments to to the bill. And he asked us to hold off on voting until those amendments were made. Those amendments. Went into print. Actually yesterday. And they don't look like the anything that that the city of. Long Beach can support at this time for for many reasons. Primarily, it infringed upon our local control. And so the. State led committee took a vote this afternoon to officially oppose. HB, SB 87. As well as instruct or a lobbyist in Sacramento to to watch that bill very, very carefully. And make sure that. They articulate our strong opposition. And so with that, I would ask that the city council support. The recommendation of the state large committee on that bill. And there was another bill. Regarding researching. O'Donnell's bill to research shark activities along our beach. Beaches right now, which is very important. As well. Just so we love a unanimous council support of our state ledge committee's recommendation. Catherine Bongiorni. And your second. I just want to say that I really appreciate the process. I know that oftentimes things come to council where amendments are expected and there. Can be a rush to approve or reject or support or don't support. And so I really appreciate that the council took the time to send it to State Ledge and that we went through the process and opened the door so that we could at least have some possibility of support from the state. It's unfortunate that Senator Wiener wasn't able to make any recommendations that met our needs, but I really want to encourage this Council to stick to processes that go through committee for all state and federal legislative items. And I really appreciate Councilmember Austin, the chair of the committee, for his work in supporting this process that I felt very passionate about. So strong opposition to these bills. Thank you, Councilmember. Super. Now. I just like to weigh in and thank Councilman. Austin Alcala for his leadership on this. I think we learned so much more about Sacramento going through this process and it was very helpful. So thanks for leading this round. Is there any public comment on this state large item saying that please cast your vote? Exactly, because I'm sorry, the motion carries. Thank you. With that, we're going to go ahead and do the any second public comment period.