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Board adopts 2025–26 state and federal legislative platforms, emphasizing homelessness, water and unfunded mandates
Summary
San Joaquin County approved revised state and federal legislative platforms for 2025–26 that emphasize water reliability, flood protection, homelessness funding, opposition to unfunded mandates, and workforce recruitment supports.
San Joaquin County on March 25 approved updated state and federal legislative platforms for 2025–26, which staff said will guide county advocacy during the new two‑year legislative cycle.
Hillary Crowley, the county’s legislative officer and public information officer, outlined a streamlined platform that focuses advocacy on priority areas including unsheltered homelessness, workforce recruitment and retention for hard‑to‑fill classifications, flood protection and levee funding, water‑reliability and groundwater sustainability, and opposition to unfunded mandates. Crowley said the platforms are intentionally higher‑level playbooks to allow county advocates to act quickly on bills, budget items and regulatory actions.
The state platform adds language opposing advancement of a single‑tunnel Delta conveyance proposal and asks for funding for local levee rehabilitation, while the federal platform includes requests for engineering and construction funds for levee work and clarifies federal support needs for roads and bridges and the Richard A. Pittman Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic.
Crowley noted the county will continue to rely on outside lobbyists and firms for state and federal representation and offered to bring midyear updates and adjustments annually. The board approved the platforms 5‑0.
