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Committee reviews staffpositions on housing, Brown Act, energy and tourism taxes; asks for clearer process
Summary
Staff outlined recommended positions on a slate of state bills (support for muralist exemption and Brown Act flexibility, oppose AB 306 moratorium on building-standard changes); committee asked staff to return with a clearer advocacy-process manual and to brief climate-related bills in greater depth.
City staff and the city's Sacramento lobby team briefed the Policy & Services Committee on April 8 about recommended positions on several state bills and on broader monitoring and advocacy priorities.
Carly Shelby, senior associate at Townsend Public Affairs, reviewed a set of bills the city is tracking and staff-recommended positions that align with the Council's legislative guidelines. Shelby said staff recommended early support for a muralist licensing exemption to keep artists out of state contractor licensing rules (Senate Bill 45056), and said the city endorsed Brown Act teleconferencing flexibility measures that would preserve or extend remote participation options for councils and advisory bodies. She also flagged a local-transient-occupancy-tax enforcement…
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