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Recommendation to respectfully request City Council approval of the 2015 Federal Legislative Agenda as recommended by the Federal Legislation Committee.
DISCUSSION
Each year the Long Beach City Council adopts a Federal Legislative Agenda, which outlines the City's federal legislative priorities for the coming year. This document provides policy direction to staff on federal issues, and allows the City to support, oppose or work with our federal legislative delegates to advance priorities adopted by the City Council. Unique to the proposed changes for 2015 is a new format for discussing the City's legislative agenda. A number of items have been reorganized and consolidated to streamline the agenda. The Committee approved organizing the agenda into five categories of legislative interest: (1) Economic Development, (2) Public Safety, (3) Support for Education, (4) Sustainable and Livable Cities, and (5) Local Control.
At the Federal Legislative Committee meeting on January 6, 2015, the Committee voted to adopt staff's recommended changes for the 2015 Federal Legislative Agenda and provided additional changes that are being forwarded to the City Council for consideration and adoption. The Committee's changes are described below:
Economic Development
City Council Directive: Minimum Wage
Add language to read, "Support efforts to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour."
City Council Directive: Paid Maternity Leave
Add language to read, "Support efforts to provide paid maternity leave to full-time employees. "
City Council Directive: Immigration Reform
Add language to read, "Support comprehensive immigration reform that will provide a dignified path to United States citizenship, strengthen the nation's workforce and the economy."
City Council Directive: Business Friendly Policies
Amend Item 13 to read, "Support legislation that creates a more competitive business environment for The Boeing Company, the aerospace industry overa...
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