HomeMy WebLinkAboutAGENDA REPORT 1999 1201 CC REG ITEM 10ETO:
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CITY OF MOORPARK
AGENDA REPORT
Honorable City Council
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C111), OF MOORPARK, CALIFOR-l', L1
City Council Meeting
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BY:
John E. Nowak, Assistant City Manager c--�
19 November 1999 (Meeting of 12/01/99)
Consider Adoption of a Legislative Program for
the Year 2000.
BACKGROUND: The City Council annually adopts a legislative
program to serve a guideline for the City's response to
legislation proposed at the State or Federal levels.
DISCUSSION: The City Council annually reviews its
legislative program which identifies key issues of interest
to the City of Moorpark that may be covered by State or
Federal legislation. If legislation falls within the
adopted program, the Mayor is authorized to send a letter
indicating the City's position on the issue. If a
legislative matter does not directly fall within the
program, the Council Budget and Finance Committee would
review the issue and the Council would take action on the
City's position.
Staff is recommending some changes to the legislative
program. These include:
• Support actions that reduce fiscal impacts from Prop 218.
• Support constitutionally protected funding for local
government.
• Oppose restrictions or mandates on local government's
ability to negotiate with employee groups or to deal with
employee disputes.
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Meeting of 01 December 1999
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• Oppose mandatory social security tax on government
employees.
• Oppose restrictions on retentions that can be held on
public construction projects.
• Support technology and market incentives to improve air
quality.
• Support action reimbursing cities for revenue losses from
environmental decisions made without city participation.
• Support more flexibility for contracting services.
• Oppose cuts in CDBG programs, and support more
flexibility for non - entitlement cities' use of CDBG
funds.
• Support more funding for refurbishing and improving
parks.
• Support providing more time to implement playground
safety guidelines and /or provide more funds to upgrade
equipment.
• Support repealing county control over annexations and
incorporations.
• Oppose development agreements in a city's sphere of
influence that does not conform to city standards/
• Oppose actions that diminish redevelopment agencies'
authority or financing capabilities.
The proposed changes are in keeping with the Council's
prior positions on legislative matters.
The Council Budget and Finance Committee will review the
proposed legislative program on December 1. Any Committee
recommendations will be presented verbally at the Council
meeting.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends the City Council
adopt the Legislative Program for the Year 2000.
Attached: Legislative Program
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CITY OF MOORPARK
Legislative Program
2000
The following Legislative Program was developed to allow the City
to respond to State and Federal legislation in a proactive manner.
The Mayor (or Mayor Pro Tem in the Mayor's absence) is authorized
to sign correspondence expressing the City's position on pending
legislation r- elative - fie - consistent with the (Legislative p�,a-t�
statements een-t--a-ined-A Program and /or ce ncis:= wit
other positions approved by the City Council. The Ge�_ln el
Budget and Finance Committee will also periodically review
legislation for recommendation to the City Council.
Staff will monitor the League of California Cities' Legislative
Bulletins• and other sources to identify pending legislation that
may impact the City. Letters expressing the City's position will
be drafted for the Mayor's signature, and copies will be
distributed to each Councilmember. Pending legislation '= - -s -not
addressed by the Legislative Program, or staff recommendations that
deviate from the appi-� Legislative Program, will be agendized
for the Budget and Finance Committee's review and City Council
consideration.
LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM STATEMENTS
1. Local Government Finance
➢ Support legislation that limits cities' contributions to
the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) and
directs the repayment of past contributions.
➢ Oppose legislation that eliminates or restricts the
taxing authority of cities over development; weakens
existing Government Code Section 66000 fee authority; and
redefines any development tax, condition, or other
monetary charge as development fees.
➢ Support legislation requiring the State and Federal
governments to provide full cost reimbursement to cities
for all mandated programs and for all programs resulting
in revenue losses.
➢ Support legislation that safeguards existing City revenue
sources from preemption or seizure by the State or
County.
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➢ Oppose any change in revenue allocations that would
negatively affect the City of Moorpark, including but not
limited to the redistribution of sales tax, property tax,
transient occupancy tax and vehicle in -lieu fees.
➢ Oppose legislation that restricts or limits a city's
ability to use tax exempt debt for the purchase or
construction of public purpose improvements.
➢ Support measures =.,h eh that provide greater fiscal wei
independence to cities and result in greater stability
and predictability in local government budgeting.
➢ Support efforts =aihieh weaidthat provide greater
accountability on the part of counties for the
distribution of funds back to municipalities, including,
but not limited to, fines and forfeitures.
➢ Oppose any measure that wea-� makes local agencies more
dependent on the State for financial stability and policy
direction.
➢ Support efforts to reduce the fiscal impact of
Proposition 218 on cities.
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Support the establishment of a constitutionally protected
funding structure for local qovernment.
2. Labor Relations
➢ Oppose legislation that would restrict cities' a city's
ability to use theirits own employees on public works
projects when such projects have previously been
advertised for bid.
➢ Oppose any legislation that would grant employee benefits
that should be decided at the local bargaining table.
➢ Support legislation that would reform the Workers'
Compensation system to reduce employer cost through the
reduction of system abuse.
➢ Support legislation whiehthat limits the ability of
employees to receive workers' compensation benefits for
occupational injuries /illnesses ehthat result from
stress, disciplinary action, or performance evaluation
consultations.
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➢ Oppose legislation =re that expands or extends any
presumptions of occupational injury or illness.
➢ Oppose any measure that imposes compulsory and binding
interest arbitration.
➢ Oppose efforts that reduce local control over public
employee disputes or irrlpose reculatiors of an outside
agency on such disputes.
➢ Oppose a mandatory Social Security tax for public
employers and public employees.
3. Transportation
➢ Oppose legislation that redirects local transportation
funds away from cities.
➢ Support legislation that would provide additional
resources to cities to finance local transportation,
transportation facilities, and improvements.
➢ Support legislation that provides greater flexibility for
the use of local transportation funds.
➢ Support legislation that will help reduce non -local
commercial vehicle traffic on SR 118 through the City.
➢ Oppose legislation that limits and /or decreases the
existing amount of retention proceeds withheld from any
payment by a public entity to the contractor on a public
project.
4. Environment
➢ Support legislation that streamlines the State of
California's environmental review process.
➢ Support legislation that would eliminate unfunded
mandates such as the water course pollution prevention
programs.
➢ Support legislation that reduces or eliminates local
government's superfund liability.
➢ Support legislation to either consolidate or streamline
the Federal and State Clean Air Acts.
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➢ Support air quality efforts that emphasize use of
d`. %anCed �eC�3nvlOC�1eS and market incen-l:'eS, incl ldlna
use of alternative fuels and development of an
infrastructure for alternative fuel vehicles.
➢ Support legislation that ieimbur es _ties r
for �e evue
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losses stemming from environmental decisions m=ade without
city participation.
5. Waste Management
➢ Support legislation that provides cities with financial
assistance for programs designed to provide for the safe
disposal of solid, hazardous, and special waste.
➢ Support legislation that strengthens cities' ability to
direct municipal solid waste flow to designated solid
waste facilities.
➢ Support legislation that streamlines AB 939 tracking and
reporting requirements.
➢ Support legislation that would make grants available to
local agencies for programs that encourage the
recycling /reclaiming of resources.
➢ Support legislation that promotes source reduction
measures without creating an unfunded mandate.
➢ Oppose legislation that would restrict or limit local
government's ability to franchise refuse and recycling
collection services, to direct municipal solid waste flow
(flow control), or to contractually require haulers to
guarantee achievement of AB 939 goals.
➢ Support legislation that promotes and enhanees— recycling
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6. General Government
➢ Support legislation that ensures cities receive a
proportionate share of property taxes upon withdrawal
from a county library services district.
➢ Support legislation that provides financial assistance
for local public libraries without the imposition of new
taxes.
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➢ Support legislation that reinstates effective local
regulation of the cable television industry and o-�.her
deregulated utilities, including financial reimbursement
for use of pubic right -of -ways.
➢ Oppose legislation that restricts or weakens cities'
ability to regulate smoking areas.
➢ Support legislation limiting a City's liability
associated with hazardous recreational activities, such
as skateboarding and in -line skating.
➢ Oppose legislation that increases local government's
exposure to litigation.
➢ Support
max imum ___ local flexibility in contracting for
➢ Oppose efforts to cut funding for Community Deveiopriient
Block Grant (CDBG) Drograms.
➢ Support legislation to give non - entitlement cities the
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same rights as entitlement cities in CD--- BG program
administration.
➢ Support legislation that makes funds available to
refurbish and.impr_ove parks.
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Support legislation that either relaxes the time -line for
implementing the playground equipment safety guidelines
and /or provides funds to upgrade playground equipment.
Public Safety
➢ Support legislation that would provide cities with a
greater share of fines and forfeitures.
➢ Support legislation that would provide additional
resources for commercial truck safety inspections and the
enforcement of commercial truck vehicle codes.
➢ Oppose legislation that weidl weakens enforcement of, and
penalties for, commercial truck violations.
➢ Support legislation that would provide cities with
contract law enforcement a proportionate share of
Proposition 172 sales tax revenues for public safety.
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➢ Support legislation -t�7ethat increases local law
enforcement resources without increasing taxes.
➢ Support legislation that would provide a greater share of
seized assets to cities.
➢ Support legislation that -=-Id allows use of state and
federal public safety grants for maintenance efforts in
addition to service increases.
8. Land Use Planning
➢ Support legislation that reforms annexation law by
strengthening cities' authority over spheres of influence
and ensures that fair property tax agreements can be
obtained.
Support legislation that enhances local control and
diminishes litigation surrounding adult entertainment
facilities.
➢ Support legislation that strengthens local control to
prepare, adopt and implement fiscal plans for orderly
growth, development, beautification and conservation of
local planning areas, including, but not limited to,
regulatory authority over zoning, subdivisions,
annexations, and redevelopment areas.
Support efforts that are consistent with the doctrine of
"home rule" and the local exercise of police powers,
through planning and zoning processes, over local land
use.
➢ Oppose development agreements for undeveloped areas in
the cities' spheres of influence that do not conform to
city standards. — -
➢ Support legislation to repeal the counties' virtual e
authority over annexations and incorporations.
9. Housing
➢ Support legislation that addresses occupancy levels and
strengthens cities' ability to reduce overcrowding in
residential housing.
➢ Support efforts to develop Federal, State, and county
participation, financial support, and incentives for
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programs ehthat provide adequate, affordable housing
for the elderly, handicapped, and low- income persons
throughout the community.
➢ Oppose legislation that expands the Department of Housing
and Community Development's review role for local Housing
Elements.
➢ Support Housing Element reform legislation that provides
greater local control and flexibility, and that also
simplifies the process, improves its effectiveness, and
eliminates redundancy with other plans such as the
Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy.
10. Redevelopment
➢ Oppose legislation that further weakens a city
redevelopment agency's authority to use eminent domain.
➢ Oppose legislation that would prohibit or limit the
establishment of new redevelopment project areas and /or
the expansion of existing project areas.
➢ Oppose legislation that reduces the amount of gross tax
increment allocable to redevelopment agencies.
➢ Support legislation that reforms reporting requirements
for the Redevelopment Agencies by simplifying the process
and eliminating reporting confusion.
➢ Oppose legislation that �:cuTd adds restrictions and
procedural requirements regarding closed session
discussions on land acquisition, use of eminent domain,
and disposal of property.
➢ Oppose measures that would diminish the current authorit
or financing capabilities of redevelopment agencies.
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