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Recommendation to respectfully request City Council approval of the 2019 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 Legislative Committee (Committee) meeting on October 23,2018, the Committee voted to forward staff's recommended changes for the 2018 State Legislative Agenda, along with fifteen additional changes from the Committee to the City Council for consideration and adoption. The Committee's changes are described below:
Proposed Legislative Agenda Changes ABOUT LONG BEACH
The Committee proposes to revise the third paragraph:
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana area ranked #2 in the nation for having the greatest number of Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual persons. Long Beach was one of only 25 cities nationwide to achieve a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's Municipal Equality Index.
The revised paragraph would state:
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana area ranked #2 in the nation for having the greatest number of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT) persons. Long Beach has consistently been one of the only cities nationwide to achieve a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's Municipal Equality Index.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Objectives
The Committee has no proposed changes.
Focus Statements
The Committee has no proposed changes.
City Council Directives
Objective 2. Increase access to economic opportunities in all to advance economic opportunity holistically.
The Committee proposes to amend Items (a), (b) and (d) to include 'LGBT-owned businesses' in addition to the language supporting minority-owned and women-own...
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