HomeMy WebLinkAbout94-18 - Legislative Advocacy Agenda for 1994RESOLUTION NO. 94 -18
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT
BEACH APPROVING A LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY AGENDA FOR 1994.
•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 1994:
1. Local Government Finance
(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 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.
2. Regional Governance /Growth Management
(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.
3. Labor Relations
(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.
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(d) Oppose any measure which would grant public employees the right to
strike.
(e) Oppose measures which make disciplinary proceedings for police
officers similar to criminal proceedings rendering it impossible to prove an
• administrative violation.
(f) Support measures to reform current workers compensation formulas to
rely on higher thresholds for compensability or a proportionate exposure
formula.
(g) 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.
(h) Oppose workers compensation reform which would exclude police
officers, firefighters, and others with life- threatening jobs from the increased
proof stress threshold.
4. Tort Reform
(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.
5. Transportation
(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.
(c) Support measures which would afford local agencies greater
discretionary authority to expend available transportation funds.
6. Land Use Planning
(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.
7. Environment
(a) Support measures which would increase water supply and improve
0 water quality in this region.
(b) Support measures which would increase funding for desalination and
water reuse technologies.
(c) Support measures which would promote and provide for the use of
reclaimed water.
(d) Support measures which permit the sale, lease, exchange or transfer of
surplus water within the State.
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(e) Pursue relief of mandates and address issues of no market for
recyclables.
• (f) Support legislation which limits local government liability as a third party
in Superfund cleanup litigation.
(g) Support measures providing funds or other capabilities to maintain and
protect the ocean, beaches, harbor and bay.
8. Airport
(a) Support measures promoting the ability of local airport operators to
impose aircraft noise controls.
(b) Support legislative and executive actions which preserve or extend the
JWA Settlement Agreement.
(c) Support legislative and executive actions which promote the use of
USMCAS, El Toro as an additional commercial airport.
ADOPTED this 11 th day of April 1994.
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