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Recommendation to receive and file a report on travel to Sacramento on March 14, 2018 to advocate on behalf of legislation and state issues of importance to Long Beach.
DISCUSSION
On March 14, 2018, I traveled to Sacramento for what was scheduled to a meeting of the State Legislative Committee with members of Long Beach's legislative delegation and other legislators. However, due to a last-minute cancellation, there was not a quorum of the committee present for the noticed meeting to take place.
However, with the City's Manager of Government Affairs, and our state lobbyist, I kept our meetings to discuss issues affecting Long Beach in the current legislative session. We met with Speaker Anthony Rendon, Assemblymembers Patrick O'Donnell and AI Muratsuchi, and Senators Steve Bradford, Janet Nguyen and Scott Wiener.
Among the issues discussed were the City's legislative priorities, including AB 2591 regarding Community Hospital, AB 2404 regarding the State Oil Abandonment Trust Fund Increase, AB 427 regarding the California Aerospace Commission, SERRF, and concerns about state legislation regarding housing and local land use.
AB 2591 (O'Donnell) - Community Hospital Seismic Compliance
AB 2591 (O'Donnell) seeks to extend the compliance deadline of January 1, 2020 for Community Hospital, inclusive of the eight basic services and psychiatric care. The purpose is to enable acute and psychiatric care services at Community Hospital to continue while a long-term solution for seismic compliance is developed and implemented. The City is in active conversations with new operators that could potentially continue all current services after the current operator MemorialCare vacates the facility, effective July 3, 2018.
Housing and Local Land Use
The City is concerned with numerous legislative proposals that would limit local land use authority related to accessory dwelling units, density bonuses, RHNA and linking SB 1 money to housing developments. Collective...
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