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Board reviews 2025 state and federal legislative priorities; asks lobbyists to add public safety and flood resiliency
Summary
County supervisors heard presentations from state and federal advocacy firms and discussed adding public safety, flood resiliency and roads to the county’s 2025 lobbying priorities. Firms emphasized uncertainty in federal funding and the need to align county priorities with state and federal opportunities.
Lake County supervisors discussed draft 2025 legislative priorities during their annual governance workshop and heard presentations from the county’s Sacramento and Washington, D.C. lobbyists, Nielsen Merksamer and Paragon Government Relations.
Jeff Neal of Nielsen Merksamer and Joe Cron of Paragon outlined likely themes for the year: affordability, wildfire response and resilience, broadband implementation, and the interplay between state and federal programs and funding. Both firms recommended keeping the priority lists brief and flexible so advocates can act quickly as bills and NOFAs…
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