Roseville staff propose platform updates on water, housing, energy and labor as council reviews 2025 advocacy priorities

Roseville's City Council used a Jan. 15 special workshop to review staff-proposed edits to the city's 2025 legislative platform, focusing on water-system rules tied to wildfires, validation requirements for lead-service-line inventories, library and ADA funding priorities, first-responder health programs and electric utility priorities including cost-containment and regional-market participation.

The platform sets the policy direction staff and the city's lobbyists use when seeking state and federal funding and when responding to proposed legislation. Deputy City Manager Megan Shai told council the platform guides advocacy year-round and that staff aims to return a final draft for council consideration in March.

Staff presented a set of targeted additions and clarifications across several platforms. In administrative services and critical-concerns sections, staff proposed that city advocacy on state ballot measures be brought back to full council for direction and that the platform explicitly clarify…