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Home My WebLink About2000-3 - Legislative Platform for 2000• r1 LJ • RESOLUTION NO. 2000- 3 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH APPROVING A LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM FOR 2000 WHEREAS, the City Council historically promotes legislative actions consistent with the goals and functions of the City of Newport Beach; and WHEREAS, such promotion once required separate City Council actions to approve individual letters of support or opposition related to specific pieces of legislation; and WHEREAS, this piece -by -piece approval can delay important actions necessary to assist in the passage or defeat of legislation; and WHEREAS, the City Council seeks to efficiently pursue legislation that reflects the goals of the City, NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that Mayor John E. Noyes is authorized to make statements and write letters necessary to support legislative actions consistent with the City's adopted 2000 Legislative Platform during Calendar Year 2000. If Mayor Noyes is unavailable to sign a City advocacy letter, he may designate the Mayor pro Tempore or the City Manager to sign and issue the letter in Mayor Noyes' absence. All correspondence prepared on the City's behalf will be forwarded as an informational item to Council members. Such correspondence shall be consistent with the attached Legislative Platform for the City: ADOPTED this llth day of January, 2000. ATTEST: LaVonne Harkless NEWPORT BEACH CITY CLERK MA OF NEWPORT BEACH 2000 Legislative Platform Page 2 City of Newport Beach 2000 Legislative Platform I — MUNICIPAL FINANCE. The City's objective is to protect existing revenue levels and to limit the cost of government upon the taxpayers of Newport Beach. Therefore, the City shall: (a) Oppose legislation that would make cities more dependent on the State for financial stability and policy direction. (b) Support legislation leading to greater financial independence from State government and which would result in greater predictability in local government budgeting. (c) Oppose legislation that would impose state and federal mandated costs for which there is no guarantee of local reimbursement or offsetting benefits. (d) In the absence of statewide fiscal reform, the City shall oppose legislation that reduces or eliminates existing local revenue sources, including the city share of property tax, sales and use tax, vehicle license fees, transient occupancy taxes, business license taxes, and State subventions to local governments. (e) As a hart of a comprehensive reform package the City will support changes in the State Local fiscal relationship if the changes maintain or improve revenues to local governments promote local discretion on land use decisions, and result in the long -term stability of local government revenue sources. (f) Support legislation that reforms California's tort system to curtail unreasonable liability • exposure for public agencies and restore the ability of public agencies to obtain affordable insurance. (g) Oppose any changes in State law that would limit the ability of charter cities to preserve the local revenue base. II -- REGIONAL GOVERNMENT. The City supports regional cooperation that does not infringe on local areas of authority without offsetting financial benefit. Therefore, the City shall: (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) Oppose legislation that creates or grants powers to sub - regional or regional bodies that would infringe on local concerns. III — LABOR RELATIONS. The City respects both the working conditions, benefits, and rights of Newport Beach employees and the conservative fiscal management principles of the community. Therefore, the City shall: (a) Oppose legislation that would impose compulsory and binding arbitration with respect to public employees. (b) Oppose legislation that imposes mandated employee benefits that are more properly decided at the local bargaining table. • (c) Oppose efforts that reduce local control over public employee disputes. (d) Oppose legislation that would grant public employees the right to strike. (e) Support legislation to reform worker's compensation formulas to rely on higher thresholds for compensability or a proportionate exposure formula. 2 2000 Legislative Platform Page 3 • (� 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 that would exclude police officers, firefighters, and others with life - threatening jobs from the increased proof stress threshold. IV - SURFACE TRANSPORTATION. The City supports expanded transportation systems, programs and services. Therefore, the City shall: (a) Support legislation that helps local agencies finance local transportation facilities. (b) Oppose legislation that requires additional State and Federal review of projects that are predominantly of regional or local significance. (c) Support legislation that gives local agencies greater discretion over transportation funds. V - PLANNING, ZONING, and LAFCO LAW. The City seeks to protect and strengthen the City's land use authority, including zoning, incorporation, annexation, and community development. Therefore, the City shall: (a) Support efforts to strengthen the legal and fiscal capability of the City to prepare, adopt and CI 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 that are consistent with the doctrine of "home rule" and the local exercise of • police powers over local land use, including expanding cities' ability to regulate the placement of neighborhood -based residential treatment centers and group homes. (c) Oppose development agreements in cities' spheres of influence in undeveloped areas that do not conform to city standards. (d) Support the existing right of the City of Newport Beach to annex areas within its Sphere of Influence. (e) Oppose efforts to change the Cortese -Knox Act (LAFCO Law) in any manner that would adversely impact the ability of recognized regional entities to plan for regional facilities, including aviation facilities. VI - BAY PROTECTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. The City supports effective measures to improve the environment, including water quality, solid waste, hazardous materials clean -up, and ocean, beaches and bay protection. (a) Support legislation and funding measures that would increase water supply and improve water quality in this region. (b) Support measures that permit the sale, lease, exchange or transfer of surplus water within the State. (c) Support measures that maintain and enhance local authority and flexibility to regulate solid waste and recyclable materials. (d) Support legislation that limits local government liability as a third party in Superfund cleanup litigation. (e) Support measures providing funds or other capabilities to maintain and protect the ocean, • beaches, harbor and bay. (f) Pursue legislative and executive action that provides long -term sources of funds and /or services to enhance and protect Newport Bay. CI 2000 Legislative Platform Page 4 (g) Pursue legislative and executive action to continue the annual Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) • offshore petroleum drilling moratorium and pursue the establishment of a permanent wildlife preserve off the Orange County Coast. • • VII—AVIATION. Asa neighbor to John Wayne Airport, the City is an active participant in the local and regional planning and operation of commercial airports in Orange County. The City shall: (a) Support measures promoting the ability of local airport operators to impose aircraft noise controls. (b) Support legislative and executive actions that preserve the John Wayne Airport (JWA) Settlement Agreement. (c) Support legislative and executive actions that promote the use of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) El Toro as Orange County's second commercial airport. It # # 15 • STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE 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. 2000 -3 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 I Ith day of January, 2000, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: Ayes: Thomson, Glover, Adams, Debay, Ridgeway, O'Neil, Mayor Noyes Noes: None Absent: None Abstain: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the • official seal of said City this 12th day of January, 2000. City Clerk Newport Beach, California (Seal) •