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Recommendation to respectfully request City Council approval of the 2018 State Legislative Agenda as recommended by the State Legislation Committee.
DISCUSSION
Each year the City Council adopts a State Legislative Agenda, which outlines the City's State legislative priorities for the coming year. This document provides policy direction to staff on State legislative issues, and allows the City to support, oppose or work with State elected officials on advancing priorities adopted by the City Council.
At the State Legislation Committee meeting on November 21, 2017, the Committee voted to forward staff's recommended changes for the 2018 State Legislative Agenda, along with 26 additional changes from the Committee to the City Council for consideration and adoption, The Committee's proposed changes are described below:
Economic Development City Council Directives
1. Grow and Strengthen our established industry clusters and emerging sectors.
Amend Item (e) by eliminating reference to Transient Occupancy Tax as the measure by which tourism is evaluated. Item (e) shall read "Support policies, legislation, and grants to increase tourism activity,"
Strike Item (I), previously Item (i), "Support legislation that minimizes wage discrepancies between tipped and untipped workers in the restaurant industry without impacting existing scheduled minimum wage increases,"
2. Increase access to economic opportunities in low-income communities to advance economic equity.
Amend Objective 2 to read "Increase access to economic opportunities in all communities to advance economic opportunity holistically,"
Amend item (c) by replacing the term "low-income" with "underserved" so that the language reads: "Support policies, legislation, and grants to increase ?investment in all business corridors with prioritization for underserved business corridors."
Amend item (f) by replacing the term "low-income" with "underserved" so that the language reads: "Support policies...
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