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Council discusses state legislative agenda: protect municipal authority, consider targeted policy goals
Summary
Councilors and their legislative team discussed principles and possible policy goals for a state legislative agenda, emphasizing protecting municipal revenue and authority, coordinating with Wake County and leveraging executive branch relationships.
City staff and the council’s contract lobbyist led a workshop session on drafting a Raleigh state legislative agenda, stressing guiding principles to shape specific policy goals over the next biennium.
The presentation, led by Demetria Jones and contract government-relations counsel Philip Eiseley, reviewed how a legislative agenda frames policy themes and measurable goals for advocacy at the state level. Staff highlighted the need to prioritize a small number of attainable items, align timing with the two‑year legislative biennium and consider both defense (opposing undesirable bills) and offense…
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