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Home My WebLink About97-6 - Legislative Advocacy Agenda• RESOLUTION NO. 97- 6 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH APPROVING A LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY AGENDA FOR 1997. WHEREAS, the City Council historically has promoted various legislative actions important to the goals and functions of the City; and WHEREAS, such support typically requires a separate City Council action to approve individual items related to legislation; and WHEREAS, such individual approvals may delay important actions necessary to expedite the passage or defeat of legislative actions; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to efficiently and expeditiously pursue a legislative agenda critical to the goals and functions of the City. NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council that the Mayor, individual Council Members and the City Manager are authorized to make statements, write letters and approve expenditures necessary to support the following legislative actions during calendar year 1997. All correspondence • prepared on the City's behalf will be forwarded as an informational item to Council members. I. FINANCE 1. Objective: Seek new funding sources, protect existing revenues and pursue opportunities to mitigate the impact of the ever increasing cost of government upon the taxpayers and business community of Newport Beach. (a) Oppose any measure that would make cities more dependent on the State for financial stability and policy direction. (b) Support measures leading to a greater financial independence from the State and which would result in greater stability and predictability in local government budgeting. (c) Oppose measures which would impose state and federal mandated costs for which there is no guarantee of local reimbursement or offsetting benefits. (d) Support measures which ensure the retention of existing local legal revenue sources, including the city share of property tax, sales tax, vehicle license fees, etc. (e) Oppose measures which use population to distribute sales tax revenues. • (a) Support measures to reform California's tort system to curtail unreasonable liability exposure for public agencies and restore the ability of public agencies to obtain affordable insurance. 1 Res. 97 -6 • 11. REGIONAL GOVERNANCE AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT 1. Objective: Promote opportunities for regional cooperation that do not infringe on local areas of authority without offsetting financial benefit. (a) Support reform of existing state, regional, and local planning processes only if directly linked to reforms in the current revenue and tax structure of state and local governments. (b) Support proposals which provide funding for effective implementation of agreed upon goals. (c) Oppose measures that create or grant powers to sub - regional or regional bodies which would result in an infringement on clearly local concerns without offsetting fiscal benefit. M. LABOR RELATIONS 1. Objective: Take appropriate action on requirements that affect working conditions, benefits and rights of Newport Beach employees. (a) Oppose any measure which would impose compulsory and binding arbitration with respect to public employees. (b) Oppose any measure which imposes upon local government mandated employee benefits that are more properly decided at • the local bargaining table. (c) Oppose efforts which reduce local control over public employee disputes and impose regulations of an outside agency. (d) Oppose any measure which would grant public employees the right to strike. (e) Support measures to reform current worker's compensation formulas to rely on higher thresholds for compensability or a proportionate exposure formula. (f) Support workers compensation reform which curtails stress claims by stipulating that benefits can only be paid when it can be shown that a sudden and extraordinary job event was the predominant cause of the stress injury and would repeal the minimum rate law. (g) Oppose workers compensation reform which would exclude police officers, firefighters, and others with life- threatening jobs from the increased proof stress threshold. IV. TRANSPORTATION 1. Objective: Expand opportunities and remove obstacles for effective implementation of transportation policies, programs and services. (a) Support measures which would enhance the ability of local • agencies to finance local transportation facilities. (b) Oppose measures which would impose additional requirements for State and Federal review of projects that are predominantly of regional or local significance. 7 Res. 97 -6 • (c) Support measures which would afford local agencies greater discretionary authority to expend available transportation funds. VI. LAND USE PLANNING 1. Objective: Promote opportunities to protect and strengthen local land use authority, including zoning, incorporation, annexation, and community development. (a) Support efforts to strengthen the legal and fiscal capability of local agencies to prepare, adopt and implement plans for orderly growth, development, beautification and conservation of local planning areas, including but not limited to, regulatory authority over zoning, subdivisions, and annexations. (b) Support efforts which are consistent with the doctrine of "home rule" and the local exercise of police powers over local land use. (c) Oppose development agreements in cities' spheres of influence in undeveloped areas that do not conform to city standards. VII. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 1. Objective: Pursue effective and efficient measures to improve the environmental concerns, including water quality, solid waste, hazardous materials clean -up, and ocean, beaches and bay protection. • (a) Support measures which would increase water supply and improve water quality in this region. (b) Support measures which would increase funding for desalination and water reuse technologies. (c) Support measures which permit the sale, lease, exchange or transfer of surplus water within the State. (d) Support measures that maintain and enhance local authority and flexibility to regulate solid waste and recyclables. (e) Support legislation which limits local government liability as a third party in Superfund cleanup litigation. f) Support measures providing funds or other capabilities to maintain and protect the ocean, beaches, harbor and bay. (g) Pursue legislative and executive action which provides funds or services to enhance and protect the Upper Newport Bay. (h) Pursue legislative and executive action to continue the annual OCS moratorium and pursue the establishment of a permanent wildlife preserve off the Orange County coast. VIII. AIRPORT 1. Objective: Actively participate in the local and regional planning and operation of commercial airports in Orange County. • (a) Support measures promoting the ability of local airport operators to impose aircraft noise controls. (b) Support legislative and executive actions which preserve the JWA Settlement Agreement. 3 Res. 97 -6 (c) Support legislative and executive actions which promote the use • of USMCAS, El Toro as an additional commercial airport. u • ADOPTED this 27th day of January 1997. ATTEST: L�It�-11111U— M, 114 CITY CLERK MAY R 4 r �J • • STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE } as. CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH } I, LAVONNE M. HARKLESS, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 97 -6, was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 27th day of January, 1997, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: Ayes: O'Neil, Thomson, Edwards, Glover, Noyes, and Mayor Debay Noes: None Absent: Hedges Abstain: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said City this 29th day of January, 1997. 114_. IJ 1 • /�!1- l,'`7"j City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California