HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 1997-18537 RESOLUTION NO. 18537
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA
VISTA ADOPTING THE 1997 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM AND
LEGISLATIVE WORK PROGRAM
WHEREAf, CounGil Poli6y 300-01, dated January 1 ~)87, provides for the adoption of
a City Legislative Program; and
WHEREAS, the Legislative Program represents the City Council's position on items
likely to be acted upon by the State Legislative, Congress, or administrative agencies; and,
WHEREAS, by adopting a Legislative Program at the beginning of each two-year
legislative session and amending it at mid-term, Chula Vista can take a proactive role in
sponsoring, supporting, or opposing bills related to the City's various legislative priorities; and
WHEREAS, an updated 1997 Legislative Program and Work Program to guide staff and
our legislative consultant throughout the 1997/98 session are recommended for adoption by
the Legislative Committee.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Chula Vista
does hereby adopt the 1997 Legislative Program in the form set forth in Exhibit "A".
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council does hereby adopt the 1997
Legislative Work Program in the form set forth in Exhibit "B".
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that staff and the Legislative Committee are hereby
authorized to implement these programs.
Presented by Approved as to form by
~rri; ' / ' " M. Kaheny ~
Assistant City Manager y
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EXHIBIT A
PROPOSED 1997 CHULA VISTA LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
h LEGISLATION WHICH CAN BE ACTED UPON DIRECTLY BY STAFF WITH
CONCURRENCE OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
A. Bayfront - Redevelopment.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Provide funding for urban waterfront restoration projects and the
enhancement of the waterfront within the southern San Diego Bay.
b. Provide additional funding for the Chula Vista Nature Center from the
Environmental License Plate (ELP) Fund or other state/federal/regional
SOUrCeS.
c. Amend the State Community Development law so as to allow a
jurisdiction to combine tax increment from all projects for use in a
specific project.
d. Adjust Redevelopment Agency members pay (more than (~30 per
meeting, up to 4 times per month).
e. Seek Port District-State Lands Commission reorganization of tidelands
boundaries in cooperation with Rohr and bayfront developers in an effort
to make better use of land available for development.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Discontinue State supplemental subvention for redevelopment agencies.
b. Further control tax increments in redevelopment projects.
B. Fiscal Support - Home Rule.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Permit retention and control by local governments of a greater portion
of revenue generated by Federal, State, and local taxes, fees and fines
(e.g. vehicle code fines).
b. Require the Federal government and State to reimburse local
governments for all mandated cost or regulatory actions or which allow
cities to cease performance of unfunded mandates.
c. Retain maximum flexibility in the administration of Article XIIIB, XIIIC
and XIIID of the state constitution (XIIIB: the Gann Initiative--local
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expenditures are limited by population growth and CPI factors; XIIIC &
D: Proposition 218) and to clarify/facilitate the application of Proposition
218 without placing an undue fiscal or administrative burden on local
government.
d. Expand local autonomy or the home rule authority to govern municipal
affairs.
e. Enhance the quality of urban life by funding the creation, improvement,
or expansion of parks, libraries, community services and infrastructure,
such as roads, flood control, etc..
f. Provide state/federal funding for construction or renovation of public
buildings such as community centers, libraries, civic center, etc,
g. Expand the sales tax base to include mail order sales/home shopping
sources.
h. Provide that cities and school districts can issue general obligation debt
with a majority vote instead of the current 2/3 vote requirement.
i. Adjust the unitary tax roll procedures so that the jurisdiction in which
'!' major utility projects are constructed receives substantially more fiscal
benefit than is currently provided for.
j. Provide for fiscal reform in the form of greater reliability, certainty, and
equitability of state funding for local governments.
k. Reallocate sales and property taxes to the benefit of local governments,
specifically via actions of the California Constitutional Review
Commission, League of California Cities Resolution #23 (1995), and
potential reform of Proposition 172 (public safety '~ cent sales tax)
formulas (e.g. SB 8 (1996)) or Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund
property tax takeaways.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Restrict or allocate the use of Transient Occupancy Tax revenues.
b. Exempt residential users from the Utility Users' Tax.
c. Reallocate fines and forfeitures to the detriment of cities.
d. Repeal Gas Tax exemption for local agencies.
,r' e. Reallocate sales and property tax revenue to the detriment of cities.
f. Limit cities' authority to enact or impose mobilehome or residential rent
control.
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g. Limit cities' authority to enact and assess fees to recover the full cost
of providing user-specific services or to recover the full costs of
assessment district maintenance.
h. Infringe on home rule authority to act on local budget and fiscal matters
or other municipal affairs.
i. Overhaul the California Public Records Act in a way that would: restrict
cities' control of the means of access to information assets (e.g.
computer databases, proprietary software), limit cost recovery for
providing such access, or violate the privacy of the parties from whom
the data was collected.
C. General Government.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Subject the State Legislature to the same requirements for public
meetings, advance agenda, etc. as currently imposed on cities through
the Brown Act.
b. Eliminate the State's requirement which mandates Project Committee
and/or Boards & Commissions members to complete a financial T'
disclosure statement. "
c. Free the sample ballot of campaign rhetoric and distortion.
d. Limit to 1% the amount of administrative costs the Board of Equalization
may charge to administer local sales taxes such as San Diego's '~ cent
sales taxes for transportation and justice facility construction.
e. Facilitate increases in Open Space District assessments by an amount
not to exceed the Consumer Price Index (CPI) or higher if increased
costs are beyond the control of local governments (e.g. imposed by
water districts).
f. Select Chula Vista as the site of a new University of California campus.
g. Locate freeway signage for the ARCO Training Center along Interstate
5.
h. Provide funding for Chula Vista SMARTCommunity program, alternative
fuels programs, talecenter programs, and other technology-based
projects. (NOTE: Although most outside funding will likely continue to be from grant
or city funding sources, some "demonstration project" hardware purchases may be
possible through special legislation. State Petroleum Violation Escrow Account (PVEA)
funding remains a possibility, but no funds were distributed in 1996, thus allowing: 1)
increased accumulation of funds, estimated at 920-30 million; and 2) increased leverage
for the Governor and state budget negotiations in dividing funds among local districts.)
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2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Mandate district elections in all cities and/or school districts.
b. Limit: imposition of franchise fees, taxes, or other compensation for use
of public right-of-way; local rate regulation; operational oversight; or
right-of-way controls on cable television operators and other
telecommunications providers and utilities.
c. Bail out Orange County's investment crisis with taxpayer funds.
d. Impose border crossing fees on the U.S./Mexico international border.
D. Housing & Community Development.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Exclude redevelopment agencies from competitive bidding statutes and
fair market value restrictions for resale of public properties to permit
joint development of public facilities by private developers upon findings
of public benefit.
b. Extend the following three Federal Low-Income Housing Programs:
(1) Mortgage Credit Certificate Program for low/moderate income
home buyers;
(2) Tax Credits for low income housing programs; and,
(3) Continue funding for HUD HOME and HOPE Programs.
c. Change Federal banking regulations to exempt banks from having to
count financing or Letters of Credit for low income housing in their risk
capital limit calculations.
d. Finance and develop additional state Veterans home(s) and site such a
home in Chula Vista.
e. Provide additional or enhanced state/federal or other assistance to first-
time homebuyers.
f. Support principles for housing element reform legislation as
recommended by the SANDAG Housing Element Advisory Committee
and approved by the SANDAG Board.
g. Prevent the loss of affordable housing units through federal funding for
acquisition of at-risk units by non-profit agencies; and special section 8
subsidies for affected low-income tenants. NOTE: City has worked with South
Bay Community Services and with this region's Congressional delegation to support this
effort in 1996. Federal funding was appropriated in 1996 but continued support is needed
to maintain funding in future years.
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2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Grant the State or Federal government approval or veto authority in the
implementation of local redevelopment and rehabilitation projects.
b. Prohibit any state agency from making subventions, financing, insurance
or any other kind of assistance, available to any city or county which
has in effect any rent control measure.
E. Economic Development.
Support efforts to:
a. Enhance California's overall business climate.
b. Provide funding, programmatic support or other assistance to the Border
Environmental Commerce Alliance, Border Environmental Technology Resource
Center, and Border Environmental Business Cluster, and to the Chula Vista High
Tech/Biotech Zone Western Regional Bioprocessing Center, proposed contract
biotech pharmaceutical pilot manufacturing facility, and other Chula Vista
economic development initiatives.
c. Continue or enhance funding of:
(1) California Trade and Commerce Agency
(2) California Defense Adjustment Matching Grant program
(3) U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration
(EDA)
(4) U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Economic Development
Initiative and other business assistance programs
(5) Export assistance, defense conversion, technology transfer, business
incubators, job training and other economic development programs for
which Chula Vista businesses would qualify and secure such funding for
Chula Vista projects and/or businesses.
d. Create or enhance targeted business assistance programs (such as state
Enterprise Zones or federal Empowerment Zones) with eligibility criteria that
would include Chula Vista.
e. Create or enhance programs which support international cross-border
commerce,
f. Increase the flexibility of the use of HUD Community Development Block Grant
funds as they relate to general economic development projects and programs.
g. Increase flexibility of the California redevelopment laws as they relate to general
economic development programs.
h. Continue authorization for the Community Reinvestment Act and additional
legislation to maintain accountability for lenders as relates to their small
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businesses development programs. (NOTE: Congress is likely to reintroduce the notion
of eliminating many of the CRA local investment criteria in 1997.)
F. Land Use Planning.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Strengthen local government's powers and capacity to prepare, adopt
and implement fiscal plans and programs for orderly growth,
development, beautification, and conservation of their planning areas.
b. Are consistent with the doctrine of "home rule" and the local exercise
of police powers, through the planning and zoning processes, over local
land use.
c. Expand the land use, conservation, and growth management policies of
municipalities to the unincorporated territories within their spheres of
influence.
d. Broaden local government's power to require developers and subdividers
to provide the on-site and off-site facilities and infrastructure needed by
their projects.
e. Maximize the authority of the City to exercise local control over general
plan decisions.
f. Require special districts to adopt facility master plans which are
consistent with City and County general plans and growth management
programs, and to adopt five year capital improvement programs and
financing plans which are consistent with their facility master plans.
g. Permit processing/provide funding for a Master EIR for
biomedical/biotech industrial development in Chula Vista.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Abridge local government's ability to effectively plan, or regulate local
land use including: amendments to the laws governing the local agency
formation (LAFCO); legislation which would financially overburden local
governments in their efforts to amend planning policy, regulate land use
through removal of incompatible developments, redevelop blighted
areas, or annex territories which are within the spheres of influence.
b. Site a regional or bFnational airport in the Otay Mesa area.
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1. Support efforts to:
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a. Require an environmental impact report (EIR) for large projects/utility
mergers.
b. Obtain funding for wetlands and riparian habitat acquisition and
restoration, and funding for acquisition of land needed for multi-species
habitat conservation planning.
c. Fund planning and land acquisition for Natural Community Conservation
plans created by AB 2172 (Kelley) (1991 ).
d, Obtain funding for a comprehensive environmental management
planning effort for San Diego Bay.
e. Prohibiting the granting of new leases for oil and gas development in
state-owned coastal waters off of San Diego County.
f. Encourage the installation of water conserving fixtures in existing
residences and businesses.
g. Obtain funding for water conservation to include the construction of
reclaimed water distribution systems, and fixture and irrigation system
renovation and retrofit. T"
h. Develop an ongoing, reliable statewide funding source to acquire,
develop and/or maintain open space, greenbelts, rivers, streams and
trails.
i. Expand and utilize existing landfills in the county.
j. Encourage post*consumer recycled products use in manufacturing,
residential and business applications through incentives, educations,
promotions, etc.
k. Enact truth in labeling rules which identify a product's regional
recyclability, and its post-consumer recycled content.
I, Require "disposal warning" labeling on household hazardous materials,
which reduce the use of toxic materials, and which promote nontoxic
alternatives to present materials.
m. Require minimum content standards for use of recycled materials in
manufacturing processes.
n. Provide funding for environmental enterprise incentives, specifically
Recycling Market Development Zones (RMDZ). (NOTE: with this year'e
reauthorization (SB 1535, city eupported), the RMDZ program hae been extended through T
2006. Staff is currently working with the City of San Diego on a potential RMDZ ~
partnership.
o. Continue authorization for bottle bill legislation, such as AB 1467, Ch.
1259, Statutes of 1993 and SB 1178, Ch. 624, Statutes of 1995,
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providing state payments to agencies which operate curbside recycling
programs. {NOTE: State support under this law helps subsidize the City's curbside
recycling program. SB 1178 extends various provisions through 1/1/99, but the form of
the bottle bill program and its support for local curbside recycling programs is a continuing
issue.)
p. Expand the bottle bill or other advance disposal fees to provide recycling
incentives and funding for other materials, such as liquor and fruit juice
bottles and used motor oil. {NOTE: Additional bottle bill designations and deposits
would increase recovery of recyclebias and assist in cost recovery of curbside collection.}
q. Eliminate plastic and glass processing or handling fees. (NOTE: These fees
ere assessed to manufacturers rather than consumers and thus do not provide an incentive
for consumers to recycle. None of this funding supports local curbside programs.)
r. Enact a statewide landfill ban on designated recyclables. (NOTE: Such a
ban would encourage development of new feedstock capacity and strengthen/stabilize
long term markets.)
S. Reauthorize the Federal Water Resources Act, including provisions to
raise the reimbursement limit and provide reimbursement for
Construction expenditures. (NOTE: With arevised reimbursement limit, ChulaVista
could be eligible for up to an additional ~5 million for further improvements along the
'T ' Telegraph Canyon Creek flood control channel.)
t. Modify the Clean Water Act to give the City of San Diego an exemption
rather than a waiver from the requirement of upgrading the Point Loma
treatment plant to a secondary treatment facility or providing reclaimed
water. (NOTE: Existing mandates carry a potential cost of $1.7 + billion to San Diego
County-- approximately t~130 million to Chula Vista. Reclaimed water would add a cost
of ~10 per residence per month. An exemption from these requirements wouid provide
greater/more lasting cost protection than a waiver. Congressman Bilbray plans to
introduce an amendment to the Clean Water Act in 1997.)
u. Limit environmental mitigation requirements for construction and
maintenance of drainage facilities in urban areas especially in developed
neighborhoods. (NOTE: At present, the City may be required to purchase mitigation
land amounting to as much as four times the project size. With projects in developed
neighborhoods, mitigation requirements can require more complex drainage improvements
and the dedication of larger portions of the property owner's lot.)
V. Repeal AB 3158, Ch. 1706, Statutes of 1990 (Fish and Game fees)
(NOTE: This law requires all project applicants and public agencies subject to CEQA to pay
the Department of Fish and Game a filing fee of $1 ,250 for projects requiring negative
declarations and $850 for those requiring Environmental Impact Reports. Although the
Department has ceased collection of the fees due to a recent court decision, the fees are
still on the books.)
w. Grant local agencies authority to file appeals with the State Water
."T~' Quality Control Board (SWQCB) concerning actions by a Regional Water
Quality Control Board (RWQCB).
x. In any proposals for utility restructuring, 1)preserve local agency
flexibility to be an active participant in aggregating or serving local
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energy needs, and 2) encourage the implementation of residential rate
relief. {NOTE: The California Public Utilities Commission and Legislature have approved
a significant restructuring of the electric utility industry effective 1/1/98. Cities such as
Palm Springs and other groups such as the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)
have been exploring the concept of acting as a "utility aggregator" and playing a more
active role in the wake of the deregulation to come. Although no such action is
recommended for Chula Vista as yet, it is important that local interests be considered and
home rule flexibility preserved as the new industry rules are written. City staff and
SANDAG continue to evaluate aggregation opportunities and potential
legislative/regulatory actions.)
y. Provide information on "source of power generation" to allow consumer
choice or incentives to purchase renewable energy. (NOTE: In furtherance
of Chula Vista's commitment to development and commercialization of alternative fuels,
it is recommended the public be given the opportunity to choose their power sources in
a restructured utility industry based on environmental criteria, and that, if appropriate,
incentives be created for such choices.)
z. Advance the use of low and zero emission vehicles through market
incentives, credits, rebates, public/private partnerships and other
innovative solutions.
H. Public Employer-Employee Relations.
1. Support efforts to: ~
a. Protect the rights of cities to establish conditions of employment,
including hours, wages, employee benefits, the meet and confer
process, appeal procedures, and management rights.
b. Reform California Workers' Compensation Program to reduce public
costs and tighten restrictions.
c. Amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to ensure that executive,
administrative and professional employees still qualify as exempt.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Impose restrictions on the scope and authority of charter cities to
control their own health plans or retirement systems.
b. Mandate the inclusion of local government employees in the Social
Security System and/or Medicare.
c. Increase workers' compensation benefits without also making needed
reforms.
d. Mandate changes, impose limitations, and/or other benefit plans, wages, [""
hours, or working conditions which are properly determined through the
meeting and confer process.
e. Mandate mental health coverage in group health insurance plans.
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f. Reduce local control over public employee disputes and impose
regulations of an outside agency (such as PERS).
g. Prohibit an employer from testing an employee or applicant for
employment for illegal substances.
I. Public Liability.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Change the legal principal of "joint and several liability" to protect the
City against "deep pocket" liability.
b. Reinforce public entity design and discretionary act immunity.
c. Prohibit recovery by a plaintiff for injury where those injuries were
caused as a result of avoiding a police pursuit.
d. Enact tort liability reform. (NOTE: To minimize governmental financial exposure
from frivolous lawsuits, both the state legislature and Congress have introduced various
tort reform proposals. In particular, these proposals can provide protection to local law
enforcement and dispatch personnel.)
e. Expand the existing list of "hazardous activities" so that public entities
and public employers are not liable for injuries to any individual(s) who
participate in these activities (e.g. skateboarding, rollerblading).
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Further erode government immunity.
b. Force the City to accept risks it would not normally accept in the
ordinary course of business, such as in the case of mandating
acceptance of below-grade or low-grade sureties on performance bonds
or labor and materials bonds. (NOTE: Such mandates can result from special
interest legislation from insurance or financial industries.)
J. Public Safety.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Strengthen present State and Federal laws which give local governments
the power to further restrict or regulate prostitution.
b. Increase penalties for the manufacture or sale for profit of dangerous
drugs including but not limited to PCP, methamphetamine and narcotics.
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~ c. Prohibit the sale and brandishing of replica or facsimile firearms.
d. Toughen drunk driving laws, penalties or enhancements.
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e. Require notification be given to local law enforcement prior to the
release of a prisoner in that County/City.
f. Strengthen the City's ability to regulate the public display of material
which is harmful to minors.
g. Permit forfeiture of all assets of drug dealers which would then be
committed to drug enforcement programs.
h. Allow tagging (i.e. serialized identification) of beer kegs in an effort to
reduce under age consumption of alcoholic beverages.
i. Permit the staffing of Photo Radar posts by properly trained non-sworn
personnel.
j. Permit the issuance of a photo radar citation to trigger the arrest
warrant process.
k. Provide greater authority for police or other local agencies to control
graffiti, curfews, juvenile crime and alcoholic beverage control.
I. Provide funding for local police staffing, programs or equipment.
2. Oppose efforts to: "
a. Preempt local ordinances concerning Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
b. Overturn or reduce the funding for items contained in the federal Crime
Act of 1994.
K. Public Works/Transportation.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Enact clean-up legislation related to transportation funding.
b. Provide funding which would complete missing freeway links; emphasis
on SR-125 and 1-905. (NOTE: Private toll-road funding may provide a needed boost
to complete this transit corridor and take additional traffic off Chule Vista surface streets.
Construction of the Sweetwater segment of SR-125 has begun, It is in the City's
interests to ensure that completion of the project remain a high priority for the State.)
c. Fund local transportation projects.
d. Reduce municipal costs associated with CalTrans projects.
e. Allow local agencies flexibility in compliance with the Americans with
Disabilities Act to provide the greatest benefit to the local disabled
population, rather than committing scarce resources to achievement of
2% maximum sidewalk and driveway slopes.
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f. Revise speed limit laws to allow for radar enforcement of residential
street speed limits (e,g, at levels below the 85th percentlie as
determined by a traffic study).
g. Clarify certain provisions of Proposition 218, specifically:
(a) determine that Assessment Districts which have already been
formed by resolution, and for which hearings to approve the
construction of improvements were held prior to the passage of
Proposition 218 and for which work had been ordered to be done
prior to the passage of Proposition 218, are exempt from the
"second hearing" requirement of Proposition 218; and
(b) determine that future Assessment Districts formed under the
1911 Act and other Assessment Acts, that call for two hearings
by law, require a vote at the first hearing only. Currently, the
purpose of the first hearing is to form a district and order work
to be done, the purpose of the second hearing is to confirm the
assessment after work has been completed and final costs have
been determined.
h. Require Cultruns to allow cities an exemption from CalTrans' public work
'! project requirements if Caltrans is not meeting those same requirements.
i (NOTE: Chula Vista was required to spend approximately $100,000 dollars on a recent
signalization project in order to meet specific Cultruns' road-widening requirements when
Celtruns itself has not met these same standards on their own public works projects. This
recommendation is consistent with Council policy to oppose unfunded mandates.)
i. Amend PUC regulations to prohibit utilities from locating cables directly
into concrete sidewalks and require said cables to be placed 24"-36"
below sidewalk surfaces. (NOTE: Engineering staff reports a growing problem in
finding telephone cables embedded in the concrete sidewalks. Sidewalk reconstruction
becomes virtually impossible without damaging the cable lines.)
j. Exempt all city vehicles from the Biennial Inspection of Terminals
program requirements for drivers hours of service during emergencies,
similar to the exemption granted to gas and electric companies. (NOTE:
This program was intended to regulate the times which commercial truck drivers spend
on the road, but has no exemptions for city vehicles other than those operated by the Fire
Department. It unnecessarily restricts city public works vehicles and hampers local
governments' ability to respond to emergency situations such as flooding or earthquake
damages.)
2. Oppose Efforts to:
a. Further restrict development impact fees for roads, bridges, and public
facilities levied against developers of property.
b. Further restrict fees and assessments levied against individuals or
entities receiving a special benefit.
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L. Recreation.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Provide state/federal funding for City programs in: the arts; child care;
gang prevention and diversion, and drug prevention and intervention in
a community-based recreation setting.
M. Library.
Support efforts to:
1. Provide for continued funding of: the state Public Library Fund (PLF), California
Library Services Act (CLSA), Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA),
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), literacy programs, and library
construction end renovation, and access to new technologies.
II. LEGISLATIVE ITEMS REQUIRING FORMAL COUNCIL ACTION.
A. Bayfront - Redevelopment.
1. Support efforts to: I 'T"'
a. Consolidate control and administration of environmental regulations and
enforcement; presently in Department of Interior; Corps of Engineers;
Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOOA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
b. Coordinate Federal Coastal Zone Management Act, Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and State Coastal Zone Act, in an
effort to eliminate duplicate efforts.
c. Enhance business attraction and retention (Governor's Program of
Competitiveness).
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Reduce the number of San Diego Unified Port District Commissioners
and/or require commissioners to be elected members of the City Council
which they represent.
B. Environmental Protection.
1, Support efforts to:
a. Approve the coordination of State, Federal and local agency responses I T
to air quality control, energy, and environmental protection.
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b. Seek funds for facilities to capture and treat the flow of raw sewage
entering San Diego from Tijuana.
c. Encouragedevelopmentofenvironmentallysoundtechniquesfortreating
hazardous waste to reduce its volume and eliminate any toxicity.
d. Provide funding to study the water quality/toxic pollution in San Diego
Bay.
e. Encourage development of water resources facilities and make
improvements to the delta.
f. Obtain financial assistance at the federal level to construct new and
upgrade existing secondary treatment facilities in San Diego County.
2. Watch efforts to:
a. Favor/require utilities to allow "wheeling" (delivery of electricity, gas or
water purchased from other sources) to major users or cities. (NOTE:
Wheeling could potentially allow for 1) greater water availability and
fewer constraints on local development and 2) more competitive, lower
cost utilities. Staff recommends a close watch be put on related
proposals such as Imperial Valley water transfers, CPUC free-market
restructuring, etc., with formal positions to be subject to further Council
input.
C. General Government.
1. Support efforts to:
a. Fund school facility construction programs.
b. Clarify the authority of school districts to impose facilities fees
established by Ch 887, Statutes of 1986 (AB 2926).
c. Authorize cities to establish special assessments for specified general
local services, subject to approval by the local electorate. (NOTE: Special
property assessment legislation is frequently introduced to provide additional options for
funding such items as police services and equipment, library services, and business district
improvements,}
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Impose greater restrictions on local government through amendment of
the Brown Act.
D. Housing and Community Development.
1. Support efforts to:
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a. Develop Federal and State participation and financial support for creative
programs to provide adequate housing for the elderly, handicapped, and
low-income persons throughout the community.
b. Maintain and create tax incentives for private revitalization of existing
commercial, industrial and housing resources where such assistance
benefits the City.
E. Public Safety.
1. Support efforts to increase municipal funding for the removal of abandoned
vehicles.
2. Oppose efforts to:
a. Change/remove date and/or shift, to the employer, the burden of proof
related to firefighter cancer presumption.
b. Shift to the employer, the burden of proof related to Public Safety AIDS
presumption.
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PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Chula Vista,
California, this 7th day of January, 1997, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers: Moot, Rindone, Salas, and Horton
NAYES: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers: Padilia
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers: None
~rton, May/~'~or
ATTEST:
~. X, uthelet, City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO ) ss.
CITY OF CHULA VISTA )
I, Beverly A. Authelet, City Clerk of the City of Chula Vista, California, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Resolution No. 18537 was duly passed, approved, and adopted by the City
Council at a regular meeting of the Chula Vista City Council held on the 7th day of January,
1997.
Executed this 7th day of January, 1997.
~Authelet, City Clerk