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Voting Alternate.
ANALYSIS:
At its annual business meeting, the League adopts policy resolutions on issues of
statewide importance that have direct bearing on municipal affairs and are of broad
municipal interest. This year's general assembly and business meeting will be held
during the annual conference on Wednesday, September 18 through 20, 2013 in
Sacramento. The City Council has appointed Councilmember Chavez as the City's
voting delegate and Councilmember Vizcarra as the alternate voting delegate.
The League's primary means for developing policy is through their Standing Policy
Committees and Board of Directors. Additionally, any city, elected or appointed city
official, or League Division, Department, or Policy Committee may submit a resolution
60 days before the business meeting. The deadline to submit resolutions for the 2013
conference was July 20, 2013. Resolutions signed by at least 48 delegates may be
introduced during the annual conference for issues that are developed after the July 20,
2013 deadline.
During the conference, the respective League Policy Committees and General
Resolutions Committee will consider making recommendations on the following two
Resolutions before they are voted on by the delegates in General Assembly. Below is
a brief summary of each of the resolutions:
1. Water Bond Funds.
Source: Los Angeles County Division
This resolution calls upon the Governor and the Legislature to work with the
League of California Cities to provide adequate funding and prioritization of
water bonds to assist local government in water conservation, ground water
recharge and reuse of stormwater and urban runoff programs.
Partnering with the State's Regional Water Quality Control Boards and the
State Water Resources Board through National Pollution Discharge
Elimination System (NPDS) permitting process and Total Maximum Daily
Load (TMDL) Programs, California's cities implement programs to capture,
infiltrate and treat stormwater and urban runoff with the use of low impact
development ordinances, green streets policies and other programs to
increase the local ground water supply.
However, as cities continue to see their costs triple in just the past year due
to the new NPDS permit and TMDL process, compliance with the NPDS
permit and TMDL programs will be expensive for local governments to fund
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over an extended period of time (e.g., failure to comply with Los Angeles
Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQBB) may result in an
estimated cost of penalties ranging anywhere from $3,000-$37,000 per day).
In addition, cities lack a stable, long-term, dedicated local funding source to
address this need and as a result, many cities are faced with the choice of
either removing existing services or finding new sources of revenue to fund
NPDES and TMDL programs.
2. Public Safety Policy Committee.
Source: Public Safety Policy Committee
This resolution calls upon the Governor and the Legislature to enter into
discussions with the League and California Police Chief's Association
representatives to identify and enact strategies that will ensure the success of
public safety realignment from a local municipal law enforcement perspective.
The resolution will allow the representatives to discuss the following:
• The need to fully fund municipal police departments with constitutionally
protected funding to appropriately address realignment issues facing
front-line law enforcement;
• Amend appropriate sections of AB 109 to change the criteria justifying
the release of non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offender inmates (N3)
to include their total criminal and mental history instead of only their last
criminal conviction;
• Establish a uniform definition of recidivism with the input of all
criminal justice stakeholders throughout the state;
• Enact legislation that will accommodate the option for city police officers
to make ten day flash incarcerations in city jails for probationers who
violate the conditions of their probations;
• Establish oversight procedures to encourage transparency and
accountability over the use of realignment funding;
• Implement the recommendations identified in the California Little Hoover
Commission Report #216 dated May 30, 2013;
• Provide for greater representation of city officials on the local
Community Corrections Partnerships. Currently AB 117 provides for only
one city official (a police chief) in the seven-member body, six of which
are aligned with the county in which the partnership has been
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established. As a result, there counties dominate the committees and
the subsequent distribution of realignment funds; and
• Provide, either administratively or legislatively, an effective statewide
data sharing mechanism allowing state and local law enforcement
agencies to rapidly and efficiently share offender information to assist in
tracking and monitoring the activities of AB 109 and other offenders.
Staff recommends that Council authorize the City's delegate to vote in support of the
resolutions included in the League of California Cities Annual Conference Resolutions
Packet (Attachment "A").
CONCLUSION:
The City Council is requested to approve and support the League's resolutions which
align with the City's practices for open and accountable government. Support of the
League resolutions does not commit cities to adopting or implementing any League
position in their local communities.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact to the current Fiscal Year (FY) 2013-14 City Budget.
A TT ACHMENT(S):
A. League of California Cities Annual Conference Resolutions Packet
B. Letter from the League to formally designate a Voting Delegate
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Annual Conference Voting Procedures
2013 Annual Conference
1. One City One Vote. Each member city has a right to cast one vote on matters pertaining to
League policy.
2. Designating a City Voting Representative. Prior to the Arnmal Conference, each city
council may designate a voting delegate and up to two alternates; these individuals are
identified on the Voting Delegate Form provided to the League Credentials Committee.
3. Registering with the Credentials Committee. The voting delegate, or alternates, may
pick up the city's voting card at the Voting Delegate Desk in the conference registration
area. Voting delegates and alternates must sign in at the Voting Delegate Desk, Here they
will receive a special sticker on their name badge and thus be admitted to the voting area at
the Business Meeting.
4. Signing Initiated Resolution Petitions. Only those individuals who are voting delegates
(or altemates), and who have picked up their city's voting card by providing a signature to
the Credentials Committee at the Voting Delegate Desk, may sign petitions to initiate a
resolution.
5. Voting. To cast the city's vote, a city official must have in his or her possession the city's
voting card and be registered with the Credentials Committee. The voting card may be
transferred freely between the voting delegate and alternates, but may not be transferred to
another city official who is neither a voting delegate or alternate.
6. Voting Area at Business Meeting. At the Business Meeting, individuals with a voting card
will sit in a designated area. Admission will be limited to those individuals with a special
sticker on their name badge identifying them as a voting delegate or alternate.
7. Resolving Disputes. In case of dispute, the Credentials Committee will detennine the
validity of signatures on petitioned resolutions and the right of a city official to vote at the
Business Meeting.