Kaplan, Rebecca $$$ From: Dertyck, Erica Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 6:46 PM Subject: FW: UPDATED MAR: State backtracks, says Oakland can go without acting police chief Importance: High | know many of you were following this story today. Wanted to make sure you have the update. Best, Erica Etica Terry Deryck | Director of Communications | Office of Mayor Libby Schaaf | ity of Oakland | One Frank H. Ogawa Ptaza | 3 Flor | Oakland, (CA 94612 | Ofice: 510-238-7072 | Cel: 510-435-4345 | Emal:edertyck@oaklandnet.com After a day of confusion, state officials backed down late Monday on an assertion that MayorLibby Schaaf’ plan to have the Oakland Police Department function without an acting police chief violated California law. Officials at the state Police Officers Standards and Training agency, or POST, had said earlier Monday that Oakland’s plan to have police commanders report to City Administrator Sabrina Landreth was illegal. They cited both California government code and a state attorney general's opinion backing their argument that the city needed to name an acting chief to head the department, which is embroiled in multiple scandals and has gone through three chiefs in less than two weeks. Acting Assistant Chief David Downing is in charge of day-to-day decisions for the Police Department, Schaaf’s office said, while Landreth is overseeing administrative and personnel decisions. Late Monday, POST conceded it had made its argument before the city attorney’s office cited more recent federal case law, from 2011, exempting charter cities such as Oakland from the requirement.Ralph Brown, a spokesman for POST, confirmed that it appeared Oakland was correct after all in determining that, as a charter city, it was exempt from state law requiring general law cities to name an acting police chief. According to the 2011 case law, charter cities have the authority “to constitute, regulate and govern police departments” — meaning Landreth can run Oakland’s police administrative and personnel matters. “Acting Assistant Chief of Police David Downing is the highest-ranking member of the Police Department and is the City’s POST designee in charge of tactical and operational matters,” mayoral spokeswoman Erica Terry Derryck said in a statement late Monday. Schaaf had said Friday that police commanders would be reporting to Landreth. At the same time, she said Assistant Chief Paul Figueroa, whom she had installed as acting chief just two days before, had backed out of the job, gone on leave and said he wanted to return to the force as a captain. The mayor wouldn't explain Figueroa’s decision but said it had nothing to do with a scandal in which several officers are under suspicion of having sex with a teenage sex worker. She also said Figueroa wasn’t connected to another investigation, this one involving racist text messages that Schaaf says several African American officers sent. Separately, an Oakland homicide cop is under investigation for allegedly having his then- girlfriend help him write his reports. The sex scandal resulted in Chief Sean Whent's resignation June 9. His interim replacement, BART Assistant Police Chief Ben Fairow, was fired Wednesday. Schaaf wouldn't say why, but his old boss at BART, Police Chief Kenton Rainey, said Fairow had admitted to an extramarital affair more than a decade earlier, when he worked for the Oakland Police Department.Kaplan, Rebecca Heidi Kettler Monday, June 20, 2016 6:20 PM To: ‘Anna Gee (Miley's Asst.; Anne ©; Calvin Fong (Bates' Scheduler) (cfong@cityofberkeley.info); Carole Groom; Charles Burress ; Cynthia Patton; Dave Hudson; David Canepa (dicanepa07@gmail.com); Dawn Argula; Eileen Ng; Frances Hsieh (Avalos); Jeremy Pollock (Avalos); Joe Gordon; John Gioia; John. Avalos@sigov.org; Juda Tolmasoff; Karen Mitchoff (karen.mitchoff@ bos.cccounty.us); Karen Smith (Hudson's Exec. Asst); Leah Doyle-Stevens (Haggerty); Lisa Chow; Nate Miley Supervisor; Kaplan, Rebecca; Richard ‘Alexander; scott haggerty@acgov.org; Thao, Sheng; Sonia Bustamante (for Gioia); Tom Bates (thates @cityofberkeley info) ce: Vanessa Johnson; Maricela Martinez; Marjorie Villanueva Subject: BAAQMD - Mobile Source Committee Meeting Agenda Packet - 06/30/16 Attachments: msc_agenda_063016 pdf Dear members and staff of the Mobile Source Committee: Attached is the PDF version of the June 30, 2016 Mobile Source Committee Meeting Agenda Packet. ‘The June 30, 2016 agenda packet can also be accessed through the Air District’s website: wv /about-the- ‘To access the packet from the website, please click on the 6/30/16 Mobile Source Committee Meeting “Committee Agenda” download link. ‘Thank you, Heidi Kettler Executive Secretary Bay Area Air Quality Management District 939 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 Phone: 415.749.4782 www.baagmd.gov The Air District is Moving in Late Spring 2016! Our new mailing address and location will be: ‘The Bay Area Air Quality Management District 375 Beale Street, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94105 My email address and phone number will remain the same. We look forward to seeing you at our new location along with our regional partners, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments In the meantime, it's business as usual at our current location on Ells Street in San Francisco. 3Kaplan, Rebecca From: Watson, Johnna A, Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 5:03 PM To: OPD Media Subject: OPD Statement ‘The Oakland Police Department internal Affairs Division has placed a member of the department on administrative leave. This investigation is separate and unrelated to the ongoing investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by members of the department. ‘The Oakland Police Department is committed to transparency. However, a complete investigative process requires confidentiality in order to maintain the integrity of the investigation. For this reason, only those preliminary details that do not compromise the investigation can be released at this time ‘The Oakland Police Department holds all employees accountable for their actions both on and off duty. The Oakland Police Department will not tolerate misconduct of any kind from its employees. Ensuring internal investigations are swift, fair, and objective is our priority. Officer Johnna Watson Public Information Officer Office of the Chief of Police Oakland Police Department (510) 238-7230 © Hi @ nixleCity of OAKLAND California Media Contact: Erica Terry Derryck (610) 238-7072 edertyck@oaklandnet.com Derryck, Erica ‘Monday, June 20, 2016 4:51 PM STATEMENT FROM MAYOR LIBBY SCHAAF RE: Misinformation on Oakland Police Department Leadership and POST Requirements News from: Office of the Mayor Libby Schaaf FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 20, 2016 STATEMENT FROM MAYOR LIBBY SCHAAF RE: Misinformation on Oakland Police Department Leadership and POST Requirements “The leadership arrangement of the Oakland Police Department announced on Friday is proper, complies with POST regulations and remains in effect. As was stated Friday, “tactical and operational decisions will remain with the ‘OPD commanders as they always have. Administrative and personnel decisions will come directly to the City Administrator.” As such, Acting Assistant Chief of Police David Downing is the highest ranking member of the Police Department and is the City’s POST designee in charge of tactical and operational matters. Mayor Schaaf made reference to his role at the Friday press conference. The administrative duties of the Oakland Police Department rest with the City Administrator Sabrina Landreth as was also announced on Friday.” “Confusion was caused today when a POST Public Information Officer cited government code section 38630(a) in a statement to The San Francisco Chronicle. This section applies only to general law cities and not to charter cities. In a charter city like Oakland it is the City Charter that provides the legal structure of governance and assigns functional oversight of all City departments, including the police department, to the City Administrator.” ‘tHEKaplan, Rebecca From: Thao, Sheng Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 4:04 PM To: Kaplan, Rebecca Subject: RE: From a reporter, California Sunday Hi, How much time do you need for the interview? Also, will be recorded on video? If so, please factor in time you'll need for set-up as well. Best, ‘Sheng Thao Office of Councilmember At-Large Rebecca Kaplan Chief of Stat City of Oakland 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 243 » Oakland, CA 94612 (0) 510-298-7008 - (d) 510-238-7082 - (e) sthao@oaklandnetcom ‘Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 3:34 PM To: Thao, Sheng ‘Subject: FW: From a reporter, California Sunday Scheduling request From: Alex Halperin [mailto:alexhalperin@amail,com] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 3:10 PM To: Kaplan, Rebecca Subject: From a reporter, California Sunday Dear Council Member Kaplan, I'ma reporter writing a story for California Sunday magazine about the cannabis ‘wondering if we can set up a time to speak. I'll be in Oakland all week. Thanks in advance for your consideration, Alex Halperin ‘Alex Halperin @alexhalperin Weed Week newsletter: hitosyAvww facebook, comWeedWeekNews!Kaplan, Rebecca ae From: Kaplan, Rebecca Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 3:34 PM Reynolds, Chantal R; Thao, Sheng KaplanforOakland@ gmail.com FY te: police chief rulesKaplan, Rebecca From: Thao, Sheng Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 3:32 PM To: Schlenk, Sarah; Cappio, Claudia; Daniel, Christine Ce: Rebecca Kaplan; Kaplan, Rebecca Subject: Re: TOT revenue Importance: High Hiall, This emailis in regards to TOT revenue, under the mid-cycle budget | do not see the $350K from short term residential ‘TOT tax that was supposed to go towards affordable housing. If someone can please email us back with details regarding these funds that would be greatly appreciated, Best, Sheng Thao Office of Councilmember At-Large Rebecca Kaplan, Chief of Staff City of Oakland 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Suite 243 + Oakland, CA 94612 (0) 510-238-7008 - (d) 510-238-7082 -(e) sthao@oaklandnet.com 10Kaplan, Rebecca From: Gay Plair Cobb Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 2:02 PM To: Sawicki, Mark Ce: Reid, Larry; McElhaney, Lynette; Kaplan, Rebecca; Campbell Washington, Annie; Cappio, Claudia; Richard de Jauregui Subject: RE: June 21 City Council Agenda --- WDB 16-17 Budget Importance: High Hi Mark, Appreciate your response. Hope that the following helps to clarify our continuing concern regarding yout proposed funding for the Neighborhood One Stop Career Centers. Here goes: There is not $1.4M remaining unspent in program cost funding from 2015-2016 funding. This figure fails to account for the remaining month of the fiscal year, and for invoices currently pending with your office, The vast majority of the so-called unspent $1.4M funds are, in any event, training funds which cannot be used to cover program costs. The funding you have set forth for the West Oakland and East Oakland Neighborhood One Stop Career Centers for 2015-2016 does not reflect the cost of operating those centers. Please remember that Neighborhood One Stops sustained a massive 22% cut in the current year (2015-2016) compared to the state WIOA allotment cut to Oakland of only 1%. The cost of operating the Neighborhood One Stops was set by the City in 2013-2014 at $270,000 for the West and Central and $150,000 in the East. Even those figures represented a significant underfunding of the Neighborhood One Stops based on their volume of services as well as the cost of inflation. (The original award to PIC for the operation of the East Oakland Center was $150,000 and this was based on significant resource sharing available in the Fast, resources which evaporated in 2014-2015, due to changes in the County-sponsored services at Eastmont ‘Town Center.) I think it would be useful to compare City funding for the Job Resource Center with the amount proposed for the Neighborhood One Stops —especially in West Oakland, as both facilities are similarly situated. As currently proposed by City staff, the Comprehensive One Stop Career Center will not get a 18% increase in funding in 2016-2017. This statement has been quite misleading to the WDB and the City Council. Actual funding in 15/16 is $1.15m; proposed funding for 16/17 is $1.035m (a 9% reduction.) It seems that you have not taken into account our current year funding for Rapid Response activities which are required of the Comprehensive One Stop operator. nPlease let me know if any of this is unclear or if you need additional information. Thanks, gpc Gay Plair Cobb Chief Executive Officer Oakland Private Industry Council, Inc. 1212 Broadway, Suite 100 Oakland, California 94612 Tel: 510 768 4411 Fax: 510 839 3766 From: Sawicki, Mark [mailto:MSawicki@oaklandnet.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 6:22 PM To: Gay Plair Cobb Ce: Reid, Larry; McElhaney, Lynette; Kaplan, Rebecca; Campbell Washington, Annie; Cappio, Claudia; Richard de Jauregui Subject: RE: June 21 City Council Agenda —- WDB 16-17 Budget Gay - Lappreciate your email sharing your concerns about the recommended additional funding for the neighborhood centers. I just wanted to clarify some of the information that was presented at CED and in the supplemental report, and how we got to the recommendation. The $1.4M figure mentioned at CED on 6/14 is not “available carry forward” This is the total amount of funding that was awarded in contracts for FY 15-16 but remains unspent by the providers, based on invoices received to date. Portions of that total amount are specifically related to operating costs of the neighborhood centers as noted below; other portions of the unspent funds are for direct client training and support services, and are not available for operations. The contract for the West Oakland center provided $210,000 for operations for FY 15-16, Approximately 38% of those funds remain. The premise of the recommendation was that by providing $130,000 of additional funds, together with the remaining 15-16 funds, there would be $210,000 available going into the next fiscal year. The East Oakland center was provided $139,000 for operations for FY 15-16 and approximately 51% remains unspent. Unlike the West Center, however, the East Oakland center was included for funding of $150,000 for operations in the RFP proposal that received a contract award for Comprehensive services for 16-17. The total budgeted award for Comprehensive is 13% greater than the prior year funding, 2‘We also did not recommend additional funding for Unity Council, for similar reasons. Although the FY 16-17 contract award to Unity Council for the new Sector Access Point was less than they were awarded last year for their career center, they also have approximately 35% of last year’s funding unspent. Thope this helps Sincerely, Mark Sawicki Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 3:48 PM To: Sawicki, Mark Ce: Reid, Larry; McElhaney, Lynette; Kaplan, Rebecca; Campbell Washington, Annie; Cappio, Claudia; Richard de Jauregui Subject: June 21 City Council Agenda Importance: High WDB 16-17 Budget Hello Mark, In reviewing your staff report for the 6/21/16 City Council meeting, we are unclear as to your recommended allocation of $130,000 to operate the West Oakland Career Center for the upcoming FY 16/17, The actual, minimal cost for 12 months of operation is $270,000 (based upon the original award under the City’s neighborhood one stop REP strategy.) ‘You are correct that we (PIC) provided for the East Oakland site in our Comprehensive proposal, but that represents significant underfunding, and was the best we could do with the funds that were made available in the recent RFP. To be fully and properly funded to perform the necessary services, an additional $100,000 is required, ‘You mentioned at the 6/14 CED Committee meeting that $1.4 mil. was available in carry forward funds to potentially support the neighborhood centers, That was good news, however, this does not appear to be reflected in your supplemental report. Please let us know if you have questions or need further information. Many thanks, spe Gay Plair Cobb Chief Executive Officer Oakland Private Industry Council, Inc. 1212 Broadway, Suite 100 Onkland, California 94612 Tel: 510 768 4411 3Fax: 510 839 3766 4Kaplan, Rebecca From: Michael McBride Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 11:08 AM To: Harriett Hubbard Ce: Office of the Mayor; Gallo, Noel; Brooks, Desley; Reid, Larry; Kaplan, Rebecca; Campbell Washington, Annie; ity Administrator's Office; Kalb, Dan Subject: Re: Suggesting that Jeffrey Blackwell should be Oakland's new Police Chief I enthusiastically concur. Chief Blackwell is an excellent police executive and would be an excellent candidate in my view. We do have a relationship through our national organizing work as well. Anything we can do to help convene community leaders for such a conversation around his or other future candidates would be a strategic and mutual interest we share. We would gladly offer our support to bring people together for an inclusive process. Thank you for the suggestion and for reaching out. CHILD SAFETY DAY Your Honor, My name is Harriett Hubbard. | am the Executive Director of Child Safety Day, a community education tool created in 2007 with the help of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The reason for this email is that | have been reading about what is happening with the Oakland Police Department and would like to help you find the right Police Chief. Based on what you said in a recent press conference my suggestion to you is that you contact former Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell. Blackwell and | met a couple of years ago. | asked him to come to St. Louis to lead a police training workshop. He was amazing! MO-IL officers immediately left his class and started incredible ‘community policing programs. The Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department; a suburb of St. Louis created and launched a free summer day camp for kids between the ages of 8-14 in less than 120 days. The creation of this day camp can be directly attributed to Jeffrey Blackwell Blackwell recently contributed to another Child Safety Day POST Training class a few months ago. MO-IL officers begged me to bring him back. They wanted more. They wanted to know how to establish stronger and deeper collaborative relationships with the people they served. You see, 15Blackwell has helped our officers heal after the Ferguson riots stemming from the shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr. He has taught our officers about authentic community engagement and racial bias. The superlatives about Jeffrey Blackwell are endless. Know that he is a contributor to the President's 21° Century Task Force report. While he was Cincinnati's Police Chief, Blackwell got the nod from U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch for having the best community policing model in the country. About 9 months ago, Blackwell was terminated despite fierce community support and a significantly lower crime rate than when he walked in the door. His firing brought protests. Click this link to see what the community had to say about him, So, as you search for a chief to lead your police department, consider Blackwell. Reach him at 614- 365-0245. Feel free to contact me for additional information. Sincerely, Harriett Hubbard Blessings, Pestor Mike Rey. Michael McBride « Director of Urban Strategies, LIVE FREE Campaign PICO National Network + Unlocking the Power of People ww. piconetwork.org » mmebride@piconetwork.ora wow livefreeusa. org 1950 Addison St, Suite 107 cai ia CA. 94704 16Kaplan, Rebecca Kaplan, Rebecca Monday, June 20, 2016 10:47 AM Landreth, Sabrina; Cappio, Claudia; Daniel, Christine Fw Suggesting that Jeffrey Blackwell should be Oakland's new Police Chief From: Harriett Hubbard Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 10:14 AM To: Office of the Mayor Ce: Gallo, Noe|; Brooks, Desley; Reid, Larry; Kaplan, Rebecca; Campbell Washington, Annie; City Administrator's Office; Kalb, Dan; mmebride@piconetwork.org ‘Subject: Suggesting that Jeffrey Blackwell should be Oakland's new Police Chief CHILD SAFETY DAY My name is Harriett Hubbard, | am the Executive Director of Child Safety Day, a community education tool created in 2007 with the help of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The reason for this email is that | have been reading about what is happening with the Oakland Police Department and would like to help you find the right Police Chief. Based on what you said in a recent press conference my suggestion to you is that you contact former Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell Blackwell and | met a couple of years ago. | asked him to come to St. Louis to lead a police training workshop. He was amazing! MO-IL officers immediately left his class and started incredible community policing programs. The Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department; a suburb of St. Louis created and launched a free summer day camp for kids between the ages of 8-14 in less than 120 days. The creation of this day camp can be directly attributed to Jeffrey Blackwell. Blackwell recently contributed to another Child Safety Day POST Training class a few months ago. MO-IL officers begged me to bring him back. They wanted more. They wanted to know how to establish stronger and deeper collaborative relationships with the people they served. You see, Blackwell has helped our officers heal after the Eerauson riots stemming from the shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr. He has taught our officers about authentic community engagement and racial bias, The superlatives about Jeffrey Blackwell are endless. Know that he is a contributor to the President's 21% Century Task Forée report. While he was Cincinnati's Police Chief, Blackwell got the nod from U.S. Attomey General Loretta Lynch for having the best community policing model in the country. About 9 months ago, Blackwell was terminated despite fierce community support and a significantly lower crime rate than when he walked in the door. His firing brought protests. Click this link to see what the community had to say about him. So, a8 you search for a chief to lead your police department, consider Blackwell. Reach him at 614-365-0245. Feel free to contact me for additional information. Sincerely, ”Harriett Hubbard 18Kaplan, Rebecca From: Harriett Hubbard Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 10:14 AM To: Office of the Mayor Ce: Gallo, Noel; Brooks, Desley; Reid, Larry; Kaplan, Rebecca; Campbell Washington, Annie; ity Administrator's Office; Kalb, Dan; mmcbride@ piconetwork.org Subject: ‘Suggesting that Jeffrey Blackwell should be Oakland's new Police Chief ‘Your Honor, My name is Harriett Hubbard. | am the Executive Director of Child Safety Day, a community education tool created in 2007 with the help of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The reason for this email is that | have been reading about what is happening with the Oakland Police Department and would like to help you find the right Police Chief. Based on what you said in a recent press conference my suggestion to you is that you contact former Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell, Blackwell and | met a couple of years ago. | asked him to come to St. Louis to lead a police training workshop. He was amazing! MO-IL officers immediately left his class and started incredible community policing programs. ‘The Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department; a suburb of St. Louis created and launched a free summer day camp for kids between the ages of 8-14 in less than 120 days. The creation of this day camp can be directly attributed to Jeffrey Blackwell. Blackwell recently contributed to another Child Safety Day POST Training class a few months ago. MO-IL officers begged me to bring him back. They wanted more. They wanted to know how to establish stronger and deeper collaborative relationships with the people they served. You see, Blackwell has helped our officers heal after the Ferauson riots stemming from the shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr. He has taught our officers about authentic community engagement and racial bias. The supertatives about Jeffrey Blackwell are endless. Know that he is a contributor to the President's 21% Century Task Force report. While he was Cincinnati's Police Chief, Blackwell got the nod from U.S. Attomey General Loretta Lynch for having the best community policing model in the country. About 9 months ago, Blackwell was terminated despite fierce community support and a significantly lower crime rate than when he walked in the door. His firing brought protests. Click this link to see what the community had to say about him. So, as you search for a chief to lead your police department, consider Blackwell. Reach him at 614-365-0245. Feel free to contact me for additional information. Sincerely, 19Kaplan, Rebecca From: Marqusee, Alexander 6. Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 8:31 AM To: DL - City Council Subject: FW: Weekly Update for June 17/Gut and Amend/Bill to review/Transient Occupancy Taxes and Air B18 Attachments: sb_133_bill_20160610_amended_asm_v98,pdf Fv From: Niccolo De Luca [mailto:ndeluca@townsendpa.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 12:28 PM To: Schaaf, Libby; Nosakhare, Shereda; Moss, Tomiquia; McElhaney, Lynette; Marqusee, Alexander G.; Parker, Barbara; Iilgen, Richard; Landreth, Sabrina; Cappio, Claudia; Daniel, Christine; Hom, Stephanie; Schlenk, Sarah; Segarra, Jonathan Ce: Alex Gibbs; James Peterson; Laura Kroeger ‘Subject: Weekly Update for June 17/Gut and Amend/Bill to review/Transient Occupancy Taxes and Air BnB Team Oakland, As you know it’s been a busy week with the State budget. As we await the Governor's signature, we wanted to bring one bill to your attention for review and possible action. Its Senate Bill 133 - Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) and it’s a gut and amend for short-term online vacation rentals On one hand, the bill makes some good changes since the last version including the shift from an “opt out” system to an “opt in” for both platforms and local agencies to participate, and a few other changes that have been requested. One the other hand, there are stil problems which are listed below. The Association of Counties is taking the lead on this and if we decide to engage we would work with them. Issues that have been raised that impact local government include: + Alloniine vacation rental platforms, regardless if in a participating jurisdiction, are insulated from providing certain data to the city or county where they operate (Section 7283.69). «SB 133 does not adequately protect the collection of the full rate of TOT (Section 7283.61) nor other local assessments often applied to lodging, such as business improvementttourism district assessments. + The bill is silent on the preservation of existing local authority to regulate existing land use, zoning, and health and safety ordinances for short-term vacation rentals. (Note tax protections in Section 7283.67) + SB 133 does not adequately address commercial online operators (such as Expedia) that also list through online vacation rental platforms since definition of “unit” is not explicit. + Definitions of "personally identifiable information” and “Identifiable transaction records’ overly broad and would create carve out for online vacation rental platforms not afforded to other businesses that must remit tax information to cities and counties. With that, your input please. This Week in Washington... The mood in Washington was somber but combative this week in the wake of the terrorist attack in Orlando. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy (CT) took to the Senate floor to filibuster for greater gun control, and Republicans scrambled to stay ahead of the latest anti-immigrant proclamations by their presumptive presidential candidate, Donald Trump. The filibuster gambit appeared to bear fruit as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is allowing several gun control amendments (by both parties) to receive votes next week, as part of the debate on the FY2017 Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill. However, it is unclear whether there are enough votes for any of the four proposed amendments (two Republican, two aDemorat) to reach the 60-vote threshold for cloture. Despite the Hill's heavy focus on terrorism and gun control, other business did move forward as several appropriations bills were voted out of full committee (more details below), and the Senate passed its $602 billion 2017 Defense Authorization bil. Appropriations Update After the typically popular FY2017 Energy & Water bill suffered an embarrassing defeat on the House floor, GOP leadership was able to get back on track by shepherding the FY2017 Legislative Branch spending bill through the House without controversy. The bill includes raises for House staff, although not for Members of Congress. The House also passed its FY2017 Defense spending bill, which has drawn veto threats from the White House for shifting money within accounts to fund more aircraft. Separately, the House and Senate continue to confer regarding the FY2017 Military-Construction & Veterans Affairs appropriations bill, and Zika funding; negotiators are optimistic that a final agreement can be reached by next week, Pee eee oo Appropriations Bill ie Funding Level een) “Agticulture-FDA Committee at $21.3 | Passed Committee at ‘None $21.25 billon CommarceJuslios- | Passed Commiliee at $60) Passed Committee at | Imminent. This s he bill Science billion '$56.3 billion ‘on which two Republicans ‘and two Democrats have proposed gun control ‘amendments. Defense Passed Committee $6757 | Passed Committee at Passed House billion $574.5 billion Energy & Water Passed Committee at $374] Passed Committee at} — Falled House vole, billion 37.5 billion Passed Senate. Financial Senices | Passed Subcommittee at | Passed Commitee at ‘None $21.7 billion $22.4 billion Homeland Seourty | Markup scheduled for June 22, | Passed Committee at $48 None 2016. billion TnteriorEnvionment | Passed Commillee at $32 | Passed Commiliee at $32 None billion billion Tabor HHS No Action To-Date Passed Commilles at None Education $162 billion Tegislative Branch | Passed Committee at $0.48 | Passed Committee at $3 Passed House billion billion Iilitary Construction- [Passed Committee at $616 | Passed Committee at $03 Passed House; VA, billion billion Passed Senate ‘State Foreign No Action To-Date No Action To-Date None Operations: Transportaion-HUD | Passed Committee at $582 | Passed Committee at Passed Senate billion $56.4 billion Looking Ahead... Congress stays busy next week: on Monday, the Senate is likely to take procedural votes on gun control measures offered by Senators Grassley (R-IA), Murphy (D-CT), Comyn (R-TX), and Feinstein (D-CA). On the House side, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has laid out a schedule that includes floor consideration of the FY2017 Financial Services & General Government appropriations bill. As in years past, the White House has voiced its displeasure at the bill, which makes further cuts to IRS funding and blocks various Dodd-Frank regulations, Racing Against the Clock Time is dwindling for Congress to act on spending bills and other priorities. The House will be in session four days next week, and has the following week off. The Senate has nine legislative days left before it takes off for the July 4” holiday. Both chambers will recess for the final two weeks of July to accommodate each party's political convention, and then Congress will take its annual summer recess for the month of 2August. Given the small number of legislative days left on the calendar prior to the end of the government's 2016 Fiscal Year on September 30, lawmakers and their staff have been hinting at the possibility of a Continuing Resolution to keep the government open and funded through at least the first part of the new Fiscal Year and possibly until after the general election in November. ND. From: Niccolo De Luca Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 8:10 PM To: 'Schaaf, Libby’ ; 'Nosakhare, Shereda' ; ‘tmoss@oaklandnet.com' ; ‘Lynette McElhanney (Lmcelhaney@oaklandnet.com)' ; 'Marqusee, Alexander G. {AMarqusee@oaklandnet.com)' ; ‘Barbara Parker (BParker@oaklandcityattorney.org)’ ; 'llgen, Richard! ; slandreth@oaklandnet.com' ; ‘ccappio@oaklandnet.com’ ; 'cdaniel@oaklandnet.com' ; 'shom@oaklandnet.com’ ; ‘Schlenk, Sarah <$Schlenk@oaklandnet.com>; ‘Segarra, Jonathan (|Segarra@oaklandnet.com)' Ce: Alex Gibbs ; James Peterson Subject: Another State Budget Update/Status of By Right Proposal Team Oakland, Both houses successfully passed the main budget bill and some trailer bills. Once the Governor signs, | will alert you and give you a breakdown of all the good (as there is a lot of potential in the budget for Oakland). The By Right discussion will "take a few weeks, at least” per a high ranking Assembly Member | just got off the phone with. With that, more to come and good night. ND. From: Niccolo De Luca Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:45 PM To: 'Schaaf, Libby’ ; 'Nosakhare, Shereda' ; ‘tmoss@oaklandnet.com' ; ‘Lynette McElhanney (Lmcelhaney@oaklandnet.com)" ; 'Marqusee, Alexander G. (AMarqusee@oaklandnet.com)' ; ‘Barbara Parker (BParker@oaklandcityattorney.org)' ;'llgen, Richard! ; 'slandreth@oaklandnet.com’ ; 'ccappio@oaklandnet.com' ; 'edaniel@oaklandnet.com’ ; 'shom@oaklandnet.com’ ; ‘Schlenk, Sarah’ <$Schlenk@oaklandnet.com>; ‘Segarra, Jonathan (Segarra@oaklandnet,com)' Ce: Alex Gibbs ; James Peterson <|peterson@townsendpa.com> Subject: State Budget Update/Status of By Right Proposal Quick update on the budget and subsequent by right discussion. Both the Senate and Assembly are scheduled for session today at 3 pm to discuss the budget. The actual budget bill is SB 826 and is 752 pages. If you would like a copy | can send to you. We expect both houses to pass the budget then send to the Governor who could use his blue pen to remove certain items.Regarding the by right proposal, as you know we have been spending a lot of time discussing this with the Governor's office and his Administration proposing changes to meet our specific needs. The by right proposal, Which has $400 million tied to it, is going to be taken out of the budget discussions and addressed on its own The Governor's office has said they want to resolve discussions by the end of June, however the Legislature (both houses) has said they aren't comfortable with that and see discussions rolling into August. With that, more to come and stay tuned. Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2016 8:45 PM To: 'Schaaf, Libby’ ; 'Nosakhare, Shereda’ ; 'tmoss@oaklandnet.com’ ; ‘Lynette McElhanney (Lmcelhaney@oaklandnet.com)' ; ‘Marqusee, Alexander G, (AMarqusee@oaklandnet.com)' ; ‘Barbara Parker (BParker@oaklandcityattorney.ore)’ ; 'slandreth@oaklandnet.com’ ; 'ccapplo@oaklandnet.com! ; 'cdaniel@oaklandnet.com’ ; 'shom@oaklandnet.com' ; Schlenk, Sarah ; Segarra, Jonathan (JSegarra@oaklandnet.com) lex Gibbs ; James Peterson Subject: Weekly update/June 9, 2016 ‘Team Oakland, Currently watching the State Budget Conference Committee (there are some great things in the budget for Oakland) but won't be sending a weekly update. Why you ask? We are 100 percent focused on the budget right now and there are a lot of moving pieces and parts. More to come, please let me know if you have any specific questions. Thanks. ND From: Niccolo De Luca Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 4:36 PM To: ‘Schaaf, Libby’ ; Nosakhare, Shereda ; tmoss@oaklandnet.com; Lynette McEthanney (Lmcelhaney@oaklandnet.com) ; Marqusee, Alexander G. (AMarqusee@oaklandnet.com) ; Barbara Parker (BParker@oaklandcityattorney.org) ;Illgen, Richard ; slandreth@oaklandnet.com; ccappio@oaklandnet.com; cdaniel@oaklandnet.com; shom@oaklandnet.com; Schlenk, Sarah ; Segarra, Jonathan (JSegarra@oaklandnet.com) Ce: Alex Gibbs ; James Peterson Subject: Weekly update/June 6, 2016 ‘Team Oakland, Well today officially marks a huge legislative deadline, the house of origin deadline. That means if a bill hasn't gotten out of its house of origin by today, then it's not moving forward this year. ‘The Senate wrapped up yesterday afternoon and the Assembly last night a bit before 10 pm. Below is a list of the various bills we have either discussed, briefed you on, or highlighted over the course of the legislative session that are still active. m4Last night at the Budget Conference Committee Senator Leno, the Senate Budget chair, expressed his concern that the ‘by right’ matter is being discussed in the context of the budget, and not through the Legislature as it's a policy discussion. | have heard from various sources if this topic is taken out of the budget, then the affordable housing package falls apart. Needless to say next week is crucial and a week from today ‘we will have a better sense of what's coming and what's going. After you peruse the list below, let me know which ones you would like more information on and we can discuss next steps. Election related ‘AB 278 (Hemandez) Municipal elections. AB 2220 (Cooper) Elections in cities: by or from district. SB 1288 (Leno) Elections: local voting methods Environment SB 1277 (Hancock) California Environmental Quality Act: supplemental environmental impact report: City of Oakland: coal shipment. SB 1279 (Hancock) California Transportation Commission: funding prohibition: coal shipment Health care costs for cities SB 1010 (Hemandez) Health care: prescription drug costs Housing ‘AB 45 (Mullin) Household hazardous waste ‘AB 2031 (Bonta) Local government: affordable housing: financing ‘AB 2052 (Mullin) inclusionary Zoning ‘AB 2299 (Bloom) Land use: housing: 2nd units. ‘AB 2392 (Nazarian) Seismic Safety Tax Credit ‘AB 2406 (Thurmond) Housing: junior accessory dwelling units ‘AB 2441 (Thumond) Workforce Housing in High Cost Areas/Pilot Program ‘AB 2501 (Bloom) Housing: density bonuses. ‘AB 2693 (Dababneh) Financing requirements: property improvements (PACE Program) ‘AB 2817 (Chiu) Taxes: credits: low-income housing: allocation increase SB 820 (Hertzberg) Hazardous materials: California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004 SB 873 (Beall) Income taxes: insurance taxes: credits: low-income housing: sale of credit. ‘SB 1000 (Leyva) Land use: general plans: environmental justice SB 1069 (Wieckowski) Land use: zoning. Parks/Open Space ‘AB 2444 (Garcia) California Parks, Water, Climate, and Coastal Protection and Outdoor Access For All Act of 2016. Public Records ‘AB 2257 (Maienschein) Local agency meetings: agenda: online posting ‘AB 2311 (Brown) Emergency services: access and functional needs in emergencies ‘AB 2611 (Low) The California Public Records Act: exemptions ‘AB 2853 (Gatto) Public records Public Safety ‘AB 1674 (Santiago) Gun Sales ‘AB 1695 (Bonta) The Stop Illegal Gun Sales Act ‘AB 1869 (Melendez) Theft: firearms ‘AB 2320 (Calderon) Drones ‘AB 2498 (Bonta) Human trafficking 2%SB 420 (Huff) Prostitution ‘SB 807 (Gaines) Unmanned aircraft systems ‘SB 868 (Jackson) State Remote Piloted Aircraft Act ‘SB 880 (Hall) Firearms: assault weapons ‘SB 1407 (De Le6n ) Firearms: identifying information ‘SB 1446 (Hancock ) Firearms: magazine capacity Public works contracts ‘SB 885 (Wolk) Construction contracts: indemnity ‘SB 1170 (Wieckowski) Public contracts: water pollution prevention plans: delegation ‘Transportation ‘AB 650 (Low) Public U ‘AB 2586 (Gatto) Parking ‘AB 2602 (Gatto) Disabled Parking Placards ities Commission: regulation of taxicabs. SB 998 (Wieckowski) Vehicles: mass transit guideways SB 1051 (Hancock) Vehicles: parking enforcement: video image evidence This Week in Washington... Both chambers of Congress were in recess this week, but electoral politics continued to play out on the Hill as House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced is support for Republican Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. Soon after the endorsement Ryan found himself disagreeing publically with Trump over comments he made about the federal judge overseeing a civil lawsuit against Trump University, citing his Mexican heritage as an “inherent conflict of interest.” Democrats quickly pounced on Ryan's endorsement, seeking to tie Trump’s incendiary comments to House Republican ideology. Grant Alerts [ Agency | Grant : (Grant '$$" | Deadline ee aie eh i a i R HHS a A241 month ee Ls $5 million | Aug 1, ing Program | period to implement, enhance, and/or 2016 Special ‘support a framework or model to Population promote the effective transition from Demonstration | homeless youth to self-sufficient Project: LGBTQ | young adults. The target populations Runaway and | are LGBTQ youth experiencing Homeless homelessness between the ages of 16 to 21 and young adults who have left foster care after the age of 18 up to age 21. HHS | Preferred Cities | The twin goals ofthe PC Program | $155 | Aug 7, (PC) Proaram | are: the successful resettlement and | million | 2016 integration of especially vulnerable refugees (and other Office of Refugee Resettlement client populations); and the enhancement of refugee service providers’ capacity to serve such populations at new or established PC locations. Dept. of | Office of Purpose of Program: The American | $1.7 Jul 15, 2%Ed Innovation and | History and Civies Academies milion | 2016 Improvement | Program (Academies Program) (Ol); American | supports the establishment of: (1) History and _| Presidential Academies for the Civics Teaching of American History and Academies | Civics that offer workshops for both Program CFDA. | veteran and new teachers to strengthen their knowledge of American history and civics (Presidential Academies); and (2) Congressional Academies for Students of American History and Civics that provide high school students with opportunities to develop a broader and deeper understanding of these subjects (Congressional Academies). HHS | Residential | Office of Refugee Resettlementis | $135 | Aug 1, (Long Term | announcing this funding opportunity | million | 2016 Foster Care) | announcement (FOA) to seek long- Services for _| term foster care providers. Long term Unaccompanied | foster care providers are required to Children be licensed in the state in which they are located to provide foster care services and are required to meet the needs of UC by providing quality care in a community setting HHS |Residential __[ ORR is announcing this funding 35 Aug 7, Therapeutic) | opportunity announcement (FOA) for | million | 2016 Services for _| therapeutic residential care providers Unaccompanied | including but not limited to: psychiatric Alien Children | treatment facilities; therapeutic shelter Igroup home services specializing in the care of children with conduct and behavioral issues. HHS | Residential | ORR is announcing this funding $8 milion | Aug 7, (Secure) opportunity announcement (FOA) to 2016 Services for __| seek secure care providers. Unaccompanied Alien Children HAS | Residential | ORR is announcing this funding $30 ‘Aug 7, Staff Secure) | opportunity announcement (FOA) to | million | 2016 Services for _| seek Staff Secure care providers. Unaccompanied Alien Children Department of Health and Human Services HHS | Residential | ORRis announcing this funding $580 | Aug, ‘Shelter) opportunity announcement (FOA) to | million | 2016 Services for _| seek shelter, to include group homes Unaccompanied | and transitional foster care, care Children providers. 2Looking Ahea‘ Both chambers will resume a busy schedule next week, with the Senate looking to pass its Defense Authorization bill and House Republicans continue seeking a strategy to prevent Democratic appropriations amendments aimed at requiring protections for LGBT employees of federal contractors. The House is also expected to move forward with a bill to assist Puerto Rico in restructuring its $72 billion debt; it remains unclear whether there are enough votes to pass the legislation, despite its support from both Speaker Ryan and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). On the appropriations front, the House and Senate are prepared to begin a conference negotiation on legislation to fund the President's Zika request. The conference will also include Military-Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations, and may include Transportation-HUD appropriations although that remains unclear. On Tuesday, the Senate Appropriations Labor-HHS Subcommittee will markup its FY2017 bill, which may set the stage for a battle regarding the White House's recent executive action regarding transgender access to school bathrooms. With that, please let me know if you have any questions or need additional information. ND From: Niccolo De Luca Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 1:00 PM Tot ‘Schaaf, Libby’ 'Nosakhare, Shereda'; ‘tmoss@oakiandnet.com’; ‘Lynette Mctlhanney (Lmcelhaney@oakfandnet.com)'; ‘Marqusee, Alexander G, (AMarqusee@oaklandnet.com); ‘Barbara Parker (BParker@oakandcityattorney.org); ‘Tigen, Richard’; ‘slandreth@oaklandnet.com’; ‘ccapplo@oaklandnet.com; ‘cdaniel@oaklandnet.com’; shom@oakiandnet.com; ‘Bawa, kiran (KBawa@oaklandnet.com)’; Segarra, Jonathan (JSegarra@oaklandnet.com) Ce: Alex Gibbs; James Peterson Subject: Weekly update/May 27, 2016 Team Oakland, Here is your weekly legislative update... Today the Senate and Assembly Appropriation Committees will meet to determine the fate of hundreds of bills. ‘As you know, today is the last day for bills marked ‘fiscal’ to get out of their respective Appropriation comimittees and then move to the floor. Side bar, next Friday is the deadline for bills to move out of their house of origin so that’s going to be intense too. It's going to take the weekend to sort through the bills that are moving and the bills that are on hold, so this update is less on legislation and more on the budget. State Budget This week the Assembly and Senate Budget Subcommittees have finished their hearings on the various proposals within the budget. Next Wednesday marks the first meeting of the Assembly/Senate Budget Conference Committee and we are expecting committee members to be named over the weekend (once the Appropriation Committees wrap up). Most of the larger items (transportation infrastructure plan, housing, cap and trade, etc.) will be ironed out in negotiations between the Administration and legislative leadership, and we don't anticipate there will be too much movement on those items next week, Regarding the Governor's ‘by right’ housing proposal, | have a meeting set next week with his staff to get more ‘specific information. Once | do | will follow up with you and we can discuss next steps and strategy. 8Below are some highlights on the Assembly version of the budget ...I am working on the same thing from the Senate. Their proposal includes: + $334.5 millon for drought response; + $1.1 billion in Affordable Housing investments such as © $650 million in new funds for a variety of affordable housing purposes, © $237 million embraced in the Governor's May Revision to use Prop 63 funds to address housing issues for the mentally ill, © $200 milion continued commitment of Cap and Trade funds for affordable housing purposes, ‘+ Allocate $3 Million for the Brace and Bolt Program; and + Creates a seismic safety revolving loan program for retrofitting buildings (more on that at the bottom of this email. Cap and Trade The Assembly Cap and Trade expenditure plan recognizes that details for Cap and Trade will be subject to negotiation in the final budget package. Therefore, the following focus includes a greater emphasis on ‘+ Clean Vehicle Rebates; + Energy Efficiency; + Transportation and Transit; ‘+ Redirect $100 million to the Active Transportation program for bike and ped improves; and + Identify certain grade separation projects for funding within the one-time $400 million for Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program funding, For a longer, detailed list please let me know. ‘Transportation funding proposal The Assembly is proposing to shift the Governor's proposed transportation funding and reform package back to the policy process and remove those provisions from the budget package. That isn't a good sign that the needed 2/3" votes are accounted for. Public safety related ‘The Assembly is proposing to: ‘+ Provide $10 milion to support grants for community groups providing services (including housing) to human trafficking victims; Include $20 million for municipal police departments to increase positive outcomes between city police and the homeless community, persons with mental health needs, and high-risk youth populations; + Authorize $50 million in grants to provide 1-time resources to community providers focused on homelessness, human trafficking, and domestic violence; + Include a $20 milion grant program for local governments experiencing spikes in violent crime to promote safer communities; + Provide $5 million to purchase naloxone kits for nonprofits and governmental entities (law enforcementifrst responders) to be used to reduce the rate of fatal drug overdose caused by prescription analgesics and other drugs; and ‘+ Approve $2 million to reimburse local law enforcement agencies for specified costs associated with outfitting officers with body cameras Seismic safety ‘We wanted to update you our efforts to create a seismic funding program via the State budget._As you well know, earthquakes are to California what hurricanes are to the Gulf Coast, capable of wrecking complete and total disaster, only there is no waming system for earthquakes. The San Andreas Fault which stretches more than 800 miles is long overdue for an eruption and would impact the Bay Area, the coastal region, Souther California, and the Central Valley. For the last few months we have been working with Assembly Member Adrin Nazarian to create a new funding program to give residential and commercial property owners the opportunity to access state funds for the specific use of retrofitting their buildings. This includes addressing ‘soft stories’, anchoring the foundation, bracing cripple walls, and other CIP related upgrades. 2»The goals of this effort are threefold; 1. Help retain the existing housing stock, especially at a time of high pressure on housing; 2. Avoid displacement of tenants, especially the ones living in older housing; and 3. Protect the health and safety of our residents, We have succeeded in getting the Assembly to propose a $20 million dollar appropriations initial seed money ‘and sustain the expansion of the program as loan repayments are made. Specifically the funding will be in the State Treasurer's Office in the CalCAP program which encourages banks and other financial institutions to make loans that fall outside of most banks’ conventional underwriting standards. Essentially, this program will help property owners without much capital or access to capital to make these much needed improvements. However our work continues as we need to secure support in the Senate and then the Govemor. Thanks to CM Kalb and the Mayor's office for all of your work on this! This Week in Washington...Both chambers of Congress maintained their busy schedules this week, as lawmakers prepared to head home for the Memorial Day recess. Making headlines today in Washington is the House's failed attempt to pass its $37.4 billion Energy & Water appropriations bill. In a continuation of last ‘week's controversy over LGBT amendments, the bill failed on a vote of 112-305, with 130 Republicans joining 175 Democrats. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) accused Democrats of sabotaging the bill by successfully pursuing an amendment to uphold an executive order barring federal funds for contractors without LGBT protections for their workers, but then opposing the overall bill. The House was able to pass its Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016 (S. 2012) on a vote of 241-178 However, the bipartisan Senate-passed version was first amended by adding dozens of House-passed bills relating to energy, natural resources and lands, many of which are highly controversial. Speaker Ryan and Minority Leader Pelosi (D-CA) named House Conferees for the bill. If the controversial House additions survive the conference, Senate passage is unlikely. fense Bills Moving Forward Senate Leader McConnell (R-KY) has indicated that the Senate will consider the Defense Authorization bill after it returns from recess, on June 6", with the intention of moving to the Defense Appropriations bill shortly after. Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has said that Democrats will oppose this plan if funding for defense programs is increased without also allowing for an increase in non-defense discretionary programs. Appropriations Process In response to two weeks of difficult LGBT votes for moderate Republicans, Speaker Ryan and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) are considering rule changes that would make it more difficult to propose floor amendments to spending bills. This is the first crack in Ryan’s promise for “open amendment” processes for spending bills on the House floor. On the Democratic side, Appropriations Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY) says she expects an Omnibus or Continuing Resolution to carry spending forward into the new Fiscal Year, given Republican difficulties in passing the Energy & Water bill Budget Initiatives Both chambers also continue their quest to reform the budgeting process. The House Budget Committee held its first hearing aimed at revamping the 1974 Congressional Budget Act. On the Senate side, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced a bill to require that the President draft a separate annual budget for regulations. Sen. Lee's legislation would introduce caps for regulatory spending Senate Appropriations The Senate Appropriations Committee easily passed its $574.5 billion Defense Appropriations bil, setting-up a fight with the House regarding the Overseas Contingency Operations (CO) ‘war fund” account. The House bill siphons money away from the OCO to fund base requirements, and would leave the account empty by April 2017. The White House has issued a veto threat of the House’s bill, 0The Homeland Security Subcommittee also passed its $48.1 billion spending bill, including a $215 bump for the Transportation Security Agency. The TSA has been in the headlines recently for disrupting air travel with long security lines. House Appropriations The full appropriations committee passed its Commerce-Justice-Science FY2017 spending bill, as well as its FY2017 Transportation-HUD spending bill. Both bills received small bump-ups in spending, with the CJS bill ‘coming in $56 billion, and Transportation-HUD at $58.1 billion The Financial Services subcommittee approved its $21.7 billion FY2017 spending bill, recommending $236 million in cuts to the IRS despite audit rates having reached historic lows. The bill also prevents funds from being used to implement the Affordable Care Act, a provision that will almost certainly draw a veto threat from the President. The Interior-Environment subcommittee also approved its FY 2017 spending bill, including controversial policy riders to block the Administration from implementing greenhouse-gas rules for power plants and methane rules for oil and gas plants, and the clean water rule. Grant Alerts ei Te Partnerships in | The purpose of this funding opportunity $1.5 million ‘Employment ‘announcement is to encourage state Systems Change | partnerships and systems change efforts that ‘will ultimately contribute to 4) the development Cf polices that support competitive employment in integrated settings as the fist and desired ‘outcome for youth and young adults with developmental disabilties including intellectual disebilties. HHS | Sexual Risk “To fund projects to implement sexual risk ‘Sornilion | July 25 ‘Avoidance avoidance education that teaches participants Education Program | how to voluntarily refrain from non-martal sexual activity FAS | Home Sudyand — | To safely release unaccompanied children (UC) | $27 milion | July 25 Post Release to sponsors living in the Unifed States, ‘Services for Children HHS] Quaity “The purpose ofthis funding opportunity 325 million | July 22 Improvement ‘announcement is to award a 5-year cooperative Center on Child | agreement to establish one Quality Wetfare Involved | Improvement Center (QIC) to develop, ‘Children and implement and support innovative collaborative Families ‘mode's, policies, procedures and interventions Experiencing targeted toward improving the safely, Domestic Violence | permanency and well-being for famiies that fit the criteria, HAS | Alzheimers © provide grants to public and private entites | §9.8milion | July 26 Disease. = | that are working within existing, dementia- Specialized capable, long term services and supports ‘Supportive systems and are committed to serving Services populations with the most need and living with or at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (ra related dementia (ADRD) and thelr caregivers. Looking Ahead. Prior to recess, the House moved to setup a conference with the Senate regarding Zika funding. Both chambers are in recess next week, and will return the week of June 6", With that, please let me know if you have any questions. 31Niccolo De Luca Senior Director of Norther California Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. ©; 510-835-9050 M: 510-681-7306 ndeluca@townsendpa.com www.townsendpa.com Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 3:08 PM 'Schaaf, Libby’; 'Nosakhare, Shereda’; 'tmoss@oaklandnet.com’; ‘Lynette McElhanney (Lmcelhaney@oakiandnet.com)'; 'Marqusee, Alexander G. (AMarqusee@oaklancinet.com)’; "Barbara Parker (BParker@oaklandcltyattorney.0rg);‘Ilgen, Richardt ‘slandreth@oaklandnet.com’; ‘ccappio@oaklandnet.com’; ‘cdaniel@oaklandnet.com’; 'shom@oaklandnet.com’; ‘Bawa, Kiran (KBawa@oaklandnet.com)'; Segarra, Jonathan (JSegarra@oaklandnet.com) Cc: Alex Gibbs; James Peterson ‘Subject: Weekly Update/May 20th Team Oakland, Here is your weekly update with additional details on the Governor's May Revise. Having had more time to digest the Governor's proposal, the information below builds off of last week's update and was compiled from discussions with Capitol staffers, association groups, and other advocates. May Revise ‘As background, the Governor continues to push for increasing the state’s Rainy Day Fund and avoid new ‘ongoing commitments. The operative word is “ongoing” which has different definitions in the Capitol. Per the Administration, the state's top two revenue sources (income tax and sales tax) will be $1.9 billion lower estimated. Since the tax estimates are down, the state's requirement to the Rainy Day Fund has also declined by almost $1.3 billion, Programs looking at budget increases (Transportation, Cap and Trade and Medicinal Cannabis) Many are cautiously optimistic since the Governor has not backed off of his transportation proposal. His ten- year $36 billion transportation plan from the January budget proposal remains in the May Revision. Under the Governor's current proposal, at least $3 billion in new funding annually would go to local streets and roads along with an equal investment in state highway infrastructure. The May Revision includes additional funding to help the state and local governments deal with the tree mortality crisis and for the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. Some more good news, there has not been any proposed changes to the cap and trade allocation plan, which includes $3.1 billion in funding for programs that reduce GHG emissions, including a new local climate program for disadvantaged communities, increased spending for investments in waste management, and increases to the forestry sector. If you would like more on the Emergency Drought Response funding, just say the word and | can send you a helpful chart. Now that the State has an approved regulatory system for medicinal cannabis, the program needs staff to implement the soon to be drafted regulations. The May Revision proposes $5.9 million for the Department of Consumer Affairs for eight positions and extemal contract costs for the development, implementation and maintenance of an IT solution that will support the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation. The May Revision also includes a one-time allocation of $2.0 million for the Department of Food and Agriculture's IT related needs including project management and support services of the licensing and track and trace solutions. If you would like more information on the regulation process, just say the word. Redevelopment Dissolution 32The Administration continues to implement changes related to the unwinding of redevelopment agencies. The May Revision estimates that counties will receive $710 million in general purpose revenues in 2015-16 and 2016-17, combined. Homelessness/Mental Health The Governor openly supports the Senate's “No Place Like Home” proposal which seeks to finance up to $2 billion worth of bonds (from Proposition 63). Counties would apply for bond funding to build or retrofit supportive housing for those who are mentally ill and chronically homeless. The funding would be available on a competitive basis. I's not yet clear how cities would come into play on this, though | have heard there is a desire to have cities and counties work together on funding applications. Affordable housing/addressing the State's housing crisis Workforce housing/affordable housing is one of the hottest topics in the Capitol. Many were wondering what the Governor would do budget wise. The Governor highlighted the fact that local land use decisions have contributed to low inventories in the state. The Administration claims that discretionary local permitting and review processes have become longer and in turn increased the cost of housing production. In addition, the existing land use decision making process is often used by interest groups to stop housing projects. ‘According to the 2014 Affordable Housing Cost Study by the California Department of Housing and Community Development, local opposition to affordable housing projects increased costs by 5 percent. ‘The May Revision proposes to continue existing state investments into programs designed to meet the state's affordable housing goals such as the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program, which is anticipated to receive approximately $400 million in 2016-17 from cap and trade auction proceeds. Governor Brown proposes legislation that would require ministerial "by-tight” land use entitlement provisions for multi-family infill housing development that includes an affordable housing component. Under this proposal, a local government could not require a conditional use permit, planned unit development permit, or other discretionary local review or approval for qualifying multifamily housing developments that include a specified Percentage of affordable units. The Governor asserts that this will streamline processes and capture associated savings. He also offered support for a number of other legislative proposals currently being contemplated by the Legistature: ‘+ AB 2299 (Bloom) which would mandate, rather than authorize, that local agencies provide by ordinance for the creation of second units in single family and multifamily residential zones. ‘+ AB 2501 (Bloom) which would significantly modify density bonus law. + SB 1069 (Wieckowski) which would further restrict a local agency's ability to impose requirements on second units, which are renamed here as “accessory dwelling units. Sales and Use Tax Projections The May Revision projects ‘sales and use tax receipts to the General Fund will decrease by $27 million in 2014-15, $218 million in 2015-16, and $215 million in 2016-17. While the forecast assumes a growth rate for taxable sales, the revenue collected will decline due to the Proposition 30 sales tax sunset that ocours midway through the 2016-17 fiscal year. Property Tax Projections The May Revision estimates that statewide property tax revenue will increase by 5.9 percent in 2015-16 and 6.2 percent in 2016-17. These projections are slightly higher than the January estimates. Firearm safety This was quite a week for firearm safety...First Assembly members are not backing off from an aggressive package of gun control bills, dismissing concerns that it could conflict with Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom's ballot initiative. ‘As you may recall, a few weeks back Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leén, sent Newsom a letter warning the lieutenant governor's ballot measure restricting ammunition purchases amounted to an “all-or-nothing strategy.” The letter said Newsom's measure would “provide aid to gun-control opponents by giving cover to 33reluctant legislators who would rather side-step this important issue in lieu of a ballot initiative.” (Some Democrats worry that a gun control measure on the ballot will drive Republican turnout.) The Assembly package include measures that would limit people to buying one long gun a month, expand the of people who can get a restraining order barring gun ownership, broaden a ban on assault weapons and regulate components that can be used to build homemade guns. On the Senate side, they passed 11 bills this week. The elements include licenses for ammunition sales, background checks at the point of purchase, expanding the state's assault weapons ban to include firearms that can quickly be reloaded, prohibit the possession of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, require owners to report when their firearms are stolen, and establish registration for homemade firearms. Drought Here is more information on the drought and actions by the State. At their May 18 meeting, the State Water Resources Control Board took actions to significantly modify their emergency water conservation regulations, allowing for greater local control. In brief, the board took the following actions: + Water agencies will now be required to self-certify that they have water supplies to meet customer demands for three additional dry years using 2013-2014 as the baseline year. + Water agencies will be required to determine the level of conservation necessary to meet the three-year dry year supply requirement based off their self-certification and implement conservation measures necessary to meet the anticipated shortfall + The SWRCB will continue to require water districts to report water use on a monthly basis. + Urban water suppliers and wholesale suppliers must submit the data and calculations used to determine their water supply assessments by June 22. + Water waste prohibitions previously adopted by the board, such as outdoor landscaping runoff and hosing down sidewalks and driveways, will remain in place. The new regulations will take effect June 1 and remain in effect through January 2017. The SWRCB may intervene again in the future to renew mandatory conservation if water conservation statewide fails to meet state conservation goals. ‘Additional information on the Board's action is available here: PRESS RELEASE: http:/mww.waterboards.ca.govipress_room/press_releases/2016/pr051816_waterconsrea.pdf FACT SHEET: http://www. waterboards.ca.goviwater_isst TE servation _portalld jeet/fs051816_mediaem erarea.pdi This Week in Washington... Both chambers of Congress made strides on appropriations bills this week, with the House passing its $81.6 billion Military Construction-VA bill and the Senate passing a “minibus” containing its $83.03 billion Military Construction-VA bill plus its $56.47 billion Transportation-HUD bill. Sparks flew in the House as Republicans worked to defeat an attempt to protect LGBT contractors from discrimination, an effort that required last-minute whipping by GOP leadership. The fight over LGBT rights was seen by many as a spillover from the debate on the House Defense Reauthorization bill, which also passed this week. The Defense Reauthorization bill contained a ‘religious liberty’ provision that would allow federal contractors to discriminate against LGBT employees. The White House has listed this provision as one of the reasons that the President is threatening to veto the bil. Medical Marijuana & Veterans ‘The House approved an amendment to its Miltary-Construction VA bill that would allow veterans to access medical marijuana, via VA medical providers, in states where medical marijuana is legal. Zika Funding Veto Threat Both the House & Senate Military Construction-VA bills contained funding to address the Zika crisis $622.1 million in the House bill, and $1.1 billion in the Senate bill. The House bill prompted a veto threat from the 4White House, primarily because it would offset spending for the Zika virus by drawing from existing monies allocated to fight the Ebola virus. Cor }OP Budget Negotiatior Despite appropriators having moved on without a budget, GOP leadership remains dedicated to finding a way to unite their party behind a FY2017 Budget Resolution. The newest strategy involves passing a $1.04 trilion budget (favored by the Freedom Caucus), with a "trigger" provision that would increase the budget to $1.07 trilion (legislated in the Boehner-Obama deal) if the House passes at least 10 spending bills. In order to incentivize passage of appropriations bills, appropriators would include conservative policy riders that could ‘overshadow higher top-line numbers. Senate Appropriations The Senate Appropriations Committee kept busy, this week, approving a $4.4 billion Legislative Branch Appropriations bill that continues a freeze on senators’ paychecks. The Committee also approved $21.3 billion for the Agriculture Appropriations bill, a $250 million cut from the current fiscal year, containing a provision that allows convenience stores to continue participating in the food stamp program. The bill also seeks to delay the implementation of a FDA rule requiring nutrition labeling on chain restaurant menus. The Senate has yet to schedule floor time to consider this appropriations bill House Appropriations House Appropriations also approved its legislative branch bill which, among other things, provides raises for House staff members. Separately, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wl) and Labor, Health & Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) are working to include a rider in the Labor-HHS appropriations bill that would prevent the Department of Labor from using appropriated funds to implement the Obama Administration’s new overtime rule. The GOP argues that the new rule, which would increase the the overtime salary threshold from $23,660 to $47,476 and affects an estimated 4.2 million workers, would result in job losses. The Appropriations Tansportation-HUD subcommittee also approved its FY2017 Transportation-HUD bill at $58.2 billion; $19.2 billion of that funding is for the Department of Transportation, a $640 million increase above the current fiscal year. Moving forward, Democrats are looking to remove provisions that would delay implementation of a federal rule limiting truck drivers to 70-hour maximum work weeks and pre-empting state laws that entitle truckers to rest and meal breaks. The provision has drawn a veto threat from the White House. Grant Alerts. 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NEA | NEAResearch | Seeks to suppor a series of ransdisciplinary | $180,000 | July 12 abs research partnerships, grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, to produce and report empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and non-arts sectors alike. Looking Ahead... Both chambers will stay busy in their final week before the Memorial Day recess, as the Senate begins consideration of its Defense Authorization bill. On Tuesday, Senate Appropriations subcommittees look to mark-up both the Defense Appropriations bill, and the Homeland Security Appropriations bill. The Senate also plans to reauthorize legislation that established the national registry for sex offenders, and possibly tackle a rewrite of the Toxic Substances Control Act. On the House side, GOP leadership hopes to consider their Energy & Water appropriations bill on the House floor, and Speaker Ryan will try once again to convince his skeptical caucus about the merits of a bill to assist Puerto Rico with its $70+ billion debt. Separately, the House Appropriations committee is expected to markup its Transportation-HUD and Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bills, With that, please let me know if there are any questions or matters for follow up. Niccolo De Luca Senior Director of Northern California Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. : 510-835-9050 M: 510-681-7306 ndeluca@townsendpa.com www.townsendpa.com Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 12:50 PM To: 'Schaaf, Libby’; ‘Nosakhare, Sereda’; 'tmoss@oaklandnet.com ‘Lynette McEIhanney (Lmcethaney@oaklandnet.com)'; ‘Marqusee, Alexander G, (AMarqusee@oaklandnet.com); ‘Barbara Parker (BParker@oaklandcityattorney.ora)’; ‘lligen, Richard’; 'slandreth@oaklandnet.com'; ‘ccappio@oaklandnet.com’;‘cdaniel@oakiancnet.com ‘shom@caklandnet.com’; ‘Bawa, Kiran (KBawa@oaklandnet.com);; Segarra, Jonathan (JSegarra@oaklandnet,com) Ce: Alex Gibbs Subject: Weekly Update/Friday the 13th (May Revise, the Drought and Ballot Measures) Team Oakland, This is a long update, but filled with lots of pertinent information on the Budget, the Drought, some legislation and ballot measures, So here we go... 1. May Revise This morning, the Governor presented his highly anticipated revised budget proposal in a press conference. In his opening statement, Governor Brown shared that California has done remarkably well and that the State is moving toward a balanced budget. However, ‘like anything else," this momentum cannot last and the surging tide of revenue is beginning to tum. Rather, we only have so much funding and thus, new programs cannot be sustained unless approved by the taxpayers. 36The Governor then referred to several charts that joined him on stage. First he referenced “Unpredictable Capital Gains,” noting that the chart starts in the 1970s and then ends in the present, with many ups and downs, akin to a “rollercoaster.” According to the Governor, this is due to the globalizing economy and the redistribution of wealth, In order to counteract this, the State has taxed those with the highest incomes. Despite these increased taxes, it has led to much economic uncertainty. Therefore, the State must continue to put money away in anticipation of inevitable economic downturns. The Governor said that he recognizes the State is still on a "high’ so to speak, and when this happens, many people cannot understand why we do not invest more money into new programs. However, this is always fleeting. The Governor echoed his previous sentiments that we must save more and although new programs continue to be sought, he does not intend to ‘spend money the State cannot afford. Given the Govemor's tone today, itis no surprise that the May Revise did not contain any new major general fund spending proposals. In total, the May Revise proposes $122.2 billion in General Fund expenditures, which is approximately $450 million less than was proposed in the Governor's January budget. The May Revise also anticipates that the State will collect nearly $1.9 billion less in revenue than was included in the January Budget proposal. The majority of the revenue loss is addressed in the May Revise through lowered required budget reserves (reduction of budget reserves by $1.6 billion). The May Revise does continue to advocate for several of the initiatives that the Governor put forth in his January Budget; most notably, the May Revise still anticipates funding from a comprehensive transportation infrastructure funding plan, as well as a comprehensive spending plan for Cap and Trade funding. Both of these proposals will need review by the Legislature and are likely to be significantly altered before they sent to the Governor for his consideration. Based on the politics within the Legislature, itis likely that a ‘comprehensive Cap and Trade funding proposal can be included as part of the budget, but a transportation funding proposal is unlikely to come together over the next month in time to be included as part of the budget. While the May Revise does not contain any significant new programs, and has an emphasis on fiscal restraint, the Governor did put forth some new proposals today worth noting. «The Governor's May Revise endorses the plan put forth by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin DeLeon for @ $2 billion bond (from a portion of future Prop 63 revenue) to be used to develop and administer homelessness and affordable housing programs, with particular focus on chronic homelessness. The May Revise proposes first year funding from the bond proceeds of $267 million. + Ina further effort to reduce the costs of housing by accelerating the time that it takes to build, the Administration is proposing trailer bill language that would require ministerial “by-right" land use entitlement provisions for multifamily infil housing developments that include an affordable housing component. Under the proposal, a local government could not require a conditional use permit, planned unit development permit or other discretionary review or approval for qualifying developments, provided they are consistent with general plan and zoning requirements and are subject to mitigating measures to address environmental harm, where appropriate. Under the proposal, a qualifying project would be one that contains at least a 10% affordability component, if located in a transit priority area, or otherwise must have a 20% affordability component ifn an urban area. * The May Revise reflects the availability of federal funds for trade corridor improvements over the next five years. The federal Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act provides California with $562 million over the next five years for highway, transit, safety and rail programs, as well as the ability to compete for a portion of the $900 million available for Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects. The May Revise contains language that would make state and federal resources available for the 40% match that is required for the federal programs. The California Transportation Commission will allocate half of the funding to corridor-based projects proposed by local agencies and half to projects of statewide significance proposed by Caltrans. 3The Legislature will now kick into high gear to hold Budget Committee hearings to discuss the components of the Governor's revised budget. Over the coming weeks, the Senate and Assembly will holding numerous hearings to consider the Governor's proposals, as well as to develop proposals of their own. This process will culminate with a budget conference committee between the Senate and Assembly to hash out the final details of the budget, as well as a number of closed door meetings between the Governor and Legislative Leadership. The Legislature will ultimately approve the budget and a series of trailer bills on June 15" in order to meet their constitutional obligation. We will continue to keep you updated over the coming weeks as the Legislature and Administration finalize the budget. 2, The Drought This week the Governor issued the attached water conservation Executive Order Monday. Some highlights: Use Water More Wisely ‘+ SWRCB shall adjust emergency water conservation regulations through January 2017 that recognize the differing water supply conditions across the State. + SWRCB shall develop, by January 2017, a proposal that builds off the mandatory 25% conservation regulations, in the event of continued drought. ‘+ DWR shall work with SWRCB to develop new water use targets as part of a permanent framework for urban water agencies. DWR and SWRCB must consult with stakeholders and issue a proposed draft framework by January 10, 2017. © Targets should build upon existing state law that requires the state to achieve a 20% urban water usage by 2020. © Targets shall be customized to unique conditions of each water agency and shall generate more statewide conservation than existing requirements. © Shall be based on strengthened standards for: * Indoor residential per capita use * Outdoor irrigation = Commercial, industrial, and institutional water use = Water lost through leaks Eliminate Water Waste ‘+ SWRCB shall permanently prohibit the following practices: © Hosing off sidewalks, driveways, and other hardscapes © Washing automobiles without a hose with a shut-off nozzle © Using non-recirculated water in a fountain or decorative feature © Watering lawns in a manner that causes runoff within 48 hours after measureable precipitation © Irrigating ornamental turf on public street medians * SWRCB and DWR shall direct actions to minimize water system leaks. Loans from the State Revolving Fund shall be used to prioritize projects that reduce leaks and water system losses. ‘* Accelerated data collection for urban and agricultural water suppliers. © The California Energy Commission shall certify water conservation and water loss detection and control technologies Strengthen Local Drought Resilience DWR shall strengthen requirements for urban Water Shortage Contingency Plans to include adequate actions to respond to drought lasting at least five years. The updated requirements shall also create common statewide standards. 38© DWR shall work with urban water suppliers, local governments, and other stakeholders to update requirements for Water Shortage Contingency Plans. © Updated requirements shall be publically released by January 10,-2017. © DWR shall work with areas not covered by Water Shortage Contingency Plans for improved drought planning. Improve Agricultural Water Use Efficiency and Drought Planning ‘ DWR shall work with CDFA to update requirements for Agricultural Water Management Plans. + DWR shall permanently require water suppliers with over 10,000 irrigated acres of land to complete an Agricultural Water Management Plan. + DWRand CDFA shall work with water suppliers, local governments and stakeholders to update requirements for Agricultural Water Management Plans. © The updated requirements shall be publically released by January 10, 2017. 3. Local Government related legislation This is a running tab from the past few updates. ‘AB 2267 (Maienschein) Local Agency Meetings: Agenda: Online Posting - UPDATE This bill has been amended to remove the most harmful provisions to cities. Now just the legislative body of a public organization will have to post their agendas, (ie: city councils as opposed to sub committees) and implementation has been delayed until 2019 to allow agencies to get into compliance. Furthermore if your City already posts agendas online you are exempt from the bill. The bill is sponsored by Grassroots Lab, which wants agendas to be searchable, making their business of local government research that much easier. AB 2586 (Gatto) “Parking Bill of Rights”- UPDATE The California Restaurant Association has weighed in opposition saying the bill could hurt valet operations outside of their establishments forcing the author to pull the bill for the time being. CRA and LOCC are trying to get the author to make the bill solely an extension of SB 61 which just allowed for individuals to park at broken meters without having to pay, which is set to sunset this year. But in any case the bill is likely to be significantly amended prior to its next hearing, 4, Summary of November Qualified Ballot Measures This is intended to serve as an overview of the qualified statewide ballot measures scheduled for the November 2016 Election. One measure is on the June 7, 2016, election ballot and eight measures are on the November 8, 2016, ballot. For reference, the Parker Initiative recording recreational use of cannabis and the Newsom gun initiative have not yet qualified as they are having their signatures verified and should be done in about a month. The ballot measures qualified for the June 7, 2016 are: ‘+ Legislative constitutional amendment for the suspension of legislators. The ballot measures qualified for the November election are: * Adult film actors and required condom use. * Statewide voter approval for revenue bonds. * Statewide bond program for school facilities. * Referendum overturning the ban on plastic bag use. * Increasing the voting requirement for legislature to place fees on hospitals. © Repeals Prop 227 of 1998, thus allowing for bilingual education in public schools, * Pricing standards for State prescription drug purchases. * Increases the minimum hourly wage to $16 by 2021 Ss 39‘The amendment would prohibit a suspended legislator from exercising any of the rights, privileges, duties, or powers of his or her office, or from utilizing any resources of the legislature while the suspension is in effect. Additionally, the suspended member could have his or her salary and benefits forfeited during the suspension period if such a provision is included in the suspension resolution. A two-thirds vote would be required to end the suspension unless a Suspension termination date was included in the original suspension vote. + Support: Arguments in support state that this would allow lawmakers the authority to police their own, which is the right next step to holding all lawmakers accountable for serving the public interest. ‘© The League of Women Voters California. © California Forward. + Opposition: Opponents argue that this amendment would result in California citizens having to face years of taxation without representation while their representatives sit in indefinite periods of suspension. Additionally, this would allow the majority party to use suspension as a tool for political retribution to punish members who question authority. © State Senator Joel Anderson (R-38) + Fiscal Impact: © No information available. Adult Films—Condoms. Health Requi : Requires performers in adult films to use condoms during filming of sexual intercourse. Requires producers of ‘adult films to pay for performer vaccinations, testing, and medical examinations related to sexually transmitted infections. Requires producers to obtain state health license at beginning of filming and to post condom requirement at film sites. Imposes liability on producers for violations, on certain distributors, on performers if they have a financial interest in the violating film, and on talent agents who knowingly refer performers to noncompiying producers. Permits state, performers, or any state resident to enforce violations. © Support: Arguments in support state this protects the health and safety of performers working in the industry. © For Adult Industry Responsibility © AIDS Healthcare Foundation. ‘+ Opposition: Arguments in opposition note that regulations like the ones contained in this initiative would force porn production out of the state or underground. © The Free Speech Coalition—a trade organization representing the pornography industry. + Fiscal Impact: As a result of such industry responses to the law, tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars of annual economic activity and hundreds of full and part-time adult film industry jobs likely would be: © (1) Eliminated from the California economy or (2) “driven underground’ in the California economy, thereby evading state and local regulation and, potentially, taxation ‘© Some adult film industry employees and contractors may (1) move out of California following the relocation of parts of their industry out of the state, (2) find new jobs, or (3) become unemployed. In total, these changes likely would reduce annual state and local tax revenue by millions or tens of millions of dollars per year. © There is also expected to be enforcement costs to state agencies. Revenue Bonds—Statewide Voter Approval. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. This initiative would require statewide voter approval before any revenue bonds can be issued or sold by the state for projects that are financed, owned, operated, or managed by the state or any joint agency created by or including the state, if the bond amount exceeds $2 billion. Prohibits dividing projects into multiple separate projects to avoid statewide voter approval requirement. This initiative has the ability to affect many large-scale state projects, including transportation projects, college facilities projects, and the proposed Delta tunnels project. © Support: Arguments in support state that his measure aims to address issues of state debt and limiting future debt. ‘© Dean Cortopassi—a businessman and farmer from the Stockton area who is responsible for putting forward the initiative. ‘* Opposition: Arguments in opposition claim that the measure is misleading, as taxpayers or the State General fund does not repay revenue bonds, but rather revenue generated by a financed project. ry)© California Chamber of Commerce. © State Building and Construction Trades Council © Governor Jerry Brown, as well as a number of elected officials and interest groups. © Fiscal Impact: © It is estimated that some existing state debts would be paid down faster, resulting in long-term savings for the state. © In addition, there would be changes in the level of state budget reserves, which would depend on the economy and future decisions by the Governor and the Legislature. Reserves kept by some school districts would be smaller. School Bonds—Funding for K-12 and Community College Facilities. Statutory Amendment Authorizes $9 billion in general obligation bonds: $3 billion for new construction and $3 billion for modernization of K-12 public school facilities; $1 billion for charter schools and vocational education facilities; and $2 billion for California Community Colleges facilities. Bars amendment to existing authority to levy developer fees to fund school facilities, until new construction bond proceeds are spent or December 31, 2020, whichever is earlier. Bars amendment to existing State Allocation Board process for allocating school construction funding, as to these bonds. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds © Support: Arguments in support state investments made through the bond will provide for career technical education facilities to provide job training for many Californians and veterans who face challenges in completing their education and re-entering the workforce. © Californians for Quality Schools. © California Building Industry Association. © Opposition: Arguments in opposition state that this is blunderbuss effort that promotes sprawl and squanders money that would be far better spent in low-income communities © Governor Jerry Brown * Fiscal Impact: (© The cost to the state of issuing these bonds would depend on the timing of the bond sales, the interest rates in effect at the time they are sold, and the time over which they are repaid. © The state would likely issue these bonds over a period of about five years and make principal and interest payments from the state's General Fund over a period of about 35 years. fo If the bonds were sold at an average interest rate of 5 percent, the cost would be $17.6 billion to pay off both principal ($9 billion) and interest ($8.6 billion). ‘© Under these assumptions, the average payment would be about $500 million per year, Annual debt service payments would ramp up in the initial few years, peak at $585 million per year, and ramp down in the final few years. Referendum— Overturn Ban on Single-Use Plastic Bag This petition will place on the statewide ballot a challenge to a state law— Senate Bill 270 previously approved by the Legislature and the Governor. The challenged law must then be approved by a majority of voters at the next statewide election to go into effect. The law prohibits grocery and certain other retail stores from providing single-use bags but permits sale of recycled paper bags and reusable bags. Seeing as this measure is a veto referendum; this means that a "yes" vote would be a vote to uphold or ratify the contested legislation, while a no" vote is a vote to overturn Senate Bill 270. * Support for “yes” vote: Supporters of the plastic bag ban argue that out-of-state plastic companies who are not invested in protecting California's environment fund the campaign fighting the ban. They say the ban will help protect the environment without hurting low-income consumers or decreasing job creation. © California vs. Big Plastic leads the campaign in support of the statute. * Opposition to “yes” vote: Opposition claims that this particular piece of legislation seeks to ban a 100 percent recyclable product and put fees on consumers for other bag alternatives. ‘© The campaign attempting to overturn the measure through a "no" vote is being led by the ‘American Progressive Bag Alliance. © Fiscal Impact: 4“© According to the Office of Senate Floor Analyses, this would create a $2 million special fund appropriation to Cal Recycle to establish a loan program for reusable plastic bag manufacturing machinery and facilities conversion and worker training, © Significant one-time costs and ongoing costs to CalRecycle, potentially in the $1 million to $1.4 mmillion range to oversee and implement the program. © $500,000 or more for evaluation, bag testing, and data compiling requirements. al Medi-Cal Matching Funds. Ini Fees on Hospitals—F ‘Amendment, Increases required vote to two-thirds for the Legislature to amend a certain existing law that imposes fees on hospitals (for purpose of obtaining federal Medi-Cal matching funds) and that directs those fees and federal matching funds to hospital-provided Medi-Cal health care services, to uncompensated care provided by hospitals to uninsured patients, and to children’s health coverage. Eliminates law's ending date. Declares that laws fee proceeds shall not be considered revenues for purposes of applying state spending limit or determining required education funding. ‘© Support: Arguments in support state that this is the only way to ensure that the fees contributed by hospitals are used for their intended purpose is through a voter-approved ballot initiative. This will prohibit the Legislature and Administration from diverting the money for non-health care purposes. © The California Hospital Association developed the initiative. © Solano County Supervisors. * Opposition: Opponents argue that several other ballot measures have already been filed with the Attorney General's office, which would potentially put billions of dollars at the disposal of hospital executives with little accountability around access, affordability, and quality. © Service Employees International Union. © United Health Care Workers West. * Fiscal Impact: ‘© For each year, the exact amount of fiscal benefits to state and local governments would depend on the total amount of fee revenue collected, the amount of quality assurance payments made to hospitals, and the resulting calculation of net benefit. © As these factors are currently, unknown and their estimation subject to some uncertainty. We estimate that the General Fund offset for children’s coverage would be around $500 milion during the last six months of 2016-17, reach more than $1 billion by 2019-20, and grow between 5 to 10 percent annually thereafter. © Will also eliminate quality assurance payments to state and local public hospitals would be ‘around $80 million during the last six months of 2016-17, reach around $250 million by 2019-20, and grow between 5 percent to 10 percent annually thereafter. ‘SB 1174 (Chapter 753, Statutes of 2014), Lara. English language education The measure would repeal the sheltered English immersion requirement and waiver provisions required by Proposition 227, and instead require that school districts and county offices of education shall provide English leamers with a structured English immersion program. ‘© Support: Arguments in support assert that public perception has changed on the value of multilingual education programs, given the diversity of California, the vast body of research on the benefits of language-immersion programs, and the growing popularity of these schools. © State Senator Ricardo Lara (0-33). © Califomia Teachers Association, California Language Teachers Association, National Association ‘of Social Workers, as well a number of other elected officials, school districts, and organizations. © Opposition: Opponents criticize the legislative referral and argued the proposal is ridiculous considering the fact that the academic performance of over a million immigrant students roughly doubled in the four years following the passage of Proposition 227. © Ron Unz—developer of Proposition 227. © U.S. English Chairperson Mauro E. Mujica, U.S. + Fiscal Impact: 2© No information available. State Prescription Drug Purchases. Pricing Standards. Initiative Statu! Prohibits state agencies from paying more for a prescription drug than the lowest price paid for the same drug by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, an organization that falls under certain state laws regarding drug price negotiations. * Support: Arguments in support state that the initiative would lower drug prices and increase transparency in the pharmaceutical industry. © AIDS Healthcare Foundation is leading support for the measure and provided major funding for the Californians for the Californians for Lower Drug Prices campaign. * Opposition: Opponents argue that the initiative would be hard to implement and would drive up drug prices overall, reduce the availabilty of some drugs, and cost taxpayers millions of dollars in lawsuits triggered by the measure. ‘© Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America © Johnson & Johnson, Inc. © Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, © California Life Sciences Association. © Fiscal Impact: 6 Its the opinion of the Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance that the measure, that this may result in a substantial net change in state or local finances. © A reasonable estimate of the net impact of this proposed initiative measure cannot be prepared within the 50-day period from the date this proposed initiative was received, ‘Minimum Wage. Increases and Future Adjustments. ive Statul This measure increases the minimum wage to $11.00 per hour, effective January 1, 2017, and by $1.00 each of the next four years, to $15.00 per hour on January 1, 2021. However, this could be withdrawn due to the passage of Senate Bill 3— the Legislature's alternative $15 per hour minimum wage legislation that was signed into law on April 4, 2016. ‘+ Support: Arguments in support address this as a critical and fundamental step in addre: inequality. ‘© SEIU United Healthcare Workers West Controller. © Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. ‘+ Opposition: Arguments in opposition raise concerns that the higher minimum wage does economic damage to the very people that they are intending to be helping. ‘© The Employment Policies Institute. + Fiscal Impact: ‘© Change in annual state and local tax revenues potentially ranging from a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to a gain of more than $1 billion. ‘© Changes in state revenues would affect required state budget reserves, debt payments, and funding for schools and community colleges. Increase in state and local government spending totaling billions of dollars per year. 19 Income In the meantime, if you have any questions or need additional information, please let us know. Thanks! Niccolo De Luca Senior Director of Northern California Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. O: 510-835-9050 M: 510-681-7306 ndeluca@townsendpa.com www. townsendpa.com aKaplan, Rebecca From: Sent: To: Subject: Vice Mayor Annie Campbell Washington Monday, June 20, 2016 7:05 AM Keplan, Rebecca Addressing The Need For Police Accountability In Oakland Dear Friends, It has been a heartbreaking week for Oakland and the Oakland Police Department. We are deeply troubled by any alleged police misconduct, and it has been horrifying and sickening to lear about the sexual exploitation of a minor by individuals in the Police Department. We will never turn a blind eye to sexual exploitation of minors or sexual misconduct by police officers in the Oakland Police Department, It is disturbing to learn that some supervising officers within OPD knew of these abuses and yet remained silent. As a City Councilmember, | do not have the right to know about personnel investigations until they are closed, and so have been learning about them at the same time as the general public -- as they are leaked to the press. At the urging of many Oakland residents and in the interests of strengthening police accountability and fostering public confidence in our community's police department, the Oakland City Council is considering legislation to create a Police ‘Commission to provide additional citizen oversight of the Police Department. If passed by the City Council, this proposal will be placed on the November ballot for a vote by the public. The draft legislation can be found here. Councilmembers Guillen (District 2), Reid (District 7) and | proposed amendments to the legislation to strengthen it, which you can read here. All final documents will be posted online for the July 5th full City Council meeting when this legislation is considered. Please feel free to reach out and share your thoughts about this legislation and our proposed amendments. | welcome your input and feedback. In Service To Oakland, 45SUNDAY, JUNE 26th From 10am - 12pm at the Montclair Farmer's Market on LaSalle between Mountain and Moraga. Every last Sunday of the month. Staffed by Nayeli Maxson. SATURDAY, JULY 2nd From 10am - 12pm at The Hive in the Dimond District at 2139 MacArthur Blvd. Every first Saturday of the month. Staffed by Jamila English. SATURDAY, JULY 9th From 10am - 12pm at The Fairfax Freedom Farm Stand at 5316 Fairfax Avenue. Every second Saturday of the month. Staffed by Jamila English. ‘Thank you to the Golden State Warriors for an incredible season! It has been an inspiring ride and a season that we will never forget. See you next year! a Stella is a very sweet Terrier/Chihuahua mix who is about 5 years old. She's a calm and good-natured girl who gets along well with other small dogs, and is hoping to be friends with everyone she meets. She walks well on leash and will enjoy keeping you company on your daily walks or wherever you're going! Stella is a loving and affectionate girl who will make you very happy! If youre interested in meeting Stella, come meet her at Oakland Animal Services, 1101 29th ‘Avenue Oakland - we hope you can add this sweet girl to your family! 46a= Iam proud to have co-sponsored legislation, with City Attorney Barbara Parker and my colleagues City Councilmembers Abel Guillen and Rebecca Kaplan, to make it illegal for so-called crisis pregnancy centers to misrepresent themselves as medical clinics or objective health care counselors when in reality they are fronts for anti- abortion activists. What Are Crisis Pregnancy Centers? Inrecent years, it has become common for anti-choice activists to establish facilities -- often called crisis pregnancy centers or limited services pregnancy centers -- as a ruse to counsel women against abortion, instead of providing balanced counseling or medical services. aSome of these facilities are licensed to provide some medical services to pregnant women, and some openly acknowledge their anti-abortion mission. However, many are not licensed to provide medical treatment, and seek to mislead potential clients into believing that their facilities offer abortion services and unbiased counseling. The Need For Regulation This misleading of pregnant women seeking medical advice and/or care has the potential to be extremely harmful, as even slight delays can have serious impacts on a patient's health care options. Across our country, many efforts are focused on limiting women's reproductive health choices, however misleading pregnant women who are seeking health care is a particularly fraudulent and deplorable practice, and can cause serious harm. When a woman is misled into believing that a clinic offers services that it does not in fact offer, she loses time crucial to her decision-making process. Under these same circumstances a client may lose the option to choose a less invasive procedure, or her right to terminate the pregnancy at all. Crisis pregnancy centers often purchase “pay per click” ads on online search services such as Google for terms such as “abortion,” so that women searching for abortion services will see a link and advertisement for the center at the top of the results page. Many crisis pregnancy centers advertise on billboards, bus stops and the Internet. Some use logos or names that are similar to legitimate health care providers, leading to confusion about the nature of their services. The State of California recently recognized this problem and passed the Reproductive FACT Act. Proponents of the centers’ ability to mislead women seeking health care services have filed suit for their right to withhold information from. clients. In addition, cities including San Francisco have passed similar laws. Oakland Setting Example for the State and the Nation The City of Oakland respects the right of crisis pregnancy centers to counsel against abortion if they are honest about the services they provide - and don't provide. Under the proposed law, the centers will be prohibited from making false, misleading and/or deceptive statements in order to confuse women who are seeking critical health care services. This law will give the City Attorney the power to sue violators and collect civil penalties and attorney's fees, helping to put an end to these injustices against women. There's no excuse for lying to women seeking time-sensitive health care. Oakland is setting an example for the rest of the state and the country by taking proactive steps to protect women's health and hold crisis pregnancy centers accountable. Please join us in supporting this important legislation at 4pm on Tuesday, June 28th when this item comes to Life Enrichment Committee. ‘As your District 4 Councilmember, I find that great ideas for projects and initiatives come to me from District 4 neighbors... and the best ideas come directly from our 48young people! There are two kid-powered District 4 parks projects on the horizon that ! would like to share with you all and ask for your participation -- one in Brookdale Park and one in Montclair Park. Brookdale Park Project Our next Beautiful Oakland Schools event will take place at Brookdale Recreation Center and Discovery Center. Normally, we choose a school for a one-day volunteer project, but this event will spruce up a well-loved neighborhood recreation center. Brookdale Park includes a Recreation Center, separate Discovery Center and a Tot Lot. 20 years ago, the Brookdale Discovery Center was founded by Rich Bolecek. created a hands-on science workshop for kids, a sort of homemade, hand-me-down, mini-Exploratorium in a house that once was a boarded-up symbol of neighborhood blight in the Allendale neighborhood in District 4. Today, the Brookdale Discovery Center, Recreation and Tot Lot are all due for some love and attention. We are scheduling a Beautiful Oakland Schools event here -- a day-long service project day to significantly improve all of the spaces by painting, cleaning and rebuilding. In addition, I'm launching a fundraising campaign to make more significant capital improvements to the Tot Lot. This beautiful park, recreation center and student “maker” facility are incredible assets to the Brookdale, Allendale, Fairfax and ‘Melrose neighborhoods. Please let me know if you would like to be part of the effort to make significant capital improvements to these amenities. Montclair Park Project Please join us on Saturday, July 9th at 11am in Montclair Park to hear about plans to rebuild a mini skateboard park in Montclair Park--a [fy dream of middle and high schoolers that we are going to make a reality, with your help! ‘At our July 9th public meeting, welll share our plans and ideas and we'll kick off a fundraising campaign. All are welcome! Come and get inspired with our young people! We'll be meeting at the Montclair Park stagecoach play area. Special thank you to community members Mimi Rohr, Marie Brady, Keith "k- Dubs’ Williams, as well as to the incredible young people who have come to meet with city staff to get this project started. 49Earlier this month, 300 Oakland Promise Scholars received scholarships to go to college. There wasn't a dry eye in the house as we listened to a few of these Scholars talk about the challenges they have overcome to be here in this moment. We showered all of them with love and congratulations. We let them know that the entire City of Oakland is supporting them and will be there throughout their experience and ultimate graduation from college! Thank you to Rev. Jesse Jackson for being such a strong and outspoken supporter of our young people. We are holding these young people with all of our hearts and give them the expectation, skills and resources they need to succeed. Thank you to everyone articipating in this movement to make the Promise a Reality. Eo 50We recently marked another huge milestone in the Oakland Promise movement! We met with the first 20 Oakland Elementary Schools that applied and were accepted to be the pilot sites for launching the Kindergarten to College initiative in the 2016-17 school year. The Kindergartners at these 20 schools will have College Savings Accounts established in their names with initial deposits of $100 each. These 20 school sites have committed to rolling out a financial literacy curriculum and instilling the ‘expectation in each and every student that they are going to college. It is an honor to lead this transformational with City and OUSD partners to set high expectations for ALL of our students, right from the start. St—— — = Last week, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt of Stanford University spoke to the public about. her groundbreaking report on Oakland Police Department's Stop Data. 2“Transparency and data will set you free,” said Dr. Eberhardt. "I applaud the willingness of the Oakland Police Department to share its data and the department's interest in identifying new ways to build better ties between law enforcement and local residents.” The way in which the Oakland Police Department engaged Stanford for this independent study and the report recommendations offer a model for how police departments and law enforcement agencies across the country can examine their organizations and make changes to help track and mitigate disparities in policing to ensure more equitable outcomes and a better qualitative experience when police encounters do occur. While the report found no explicit bias, the researchers did find a number of significant disparities in experience by race. For example, African American men were more likely to be handcuffed during a stop (1 out of 4 times) than whites (1 ‘out of 15 times) even when no arrest was ultimately made; and Black men were arrested 1 out of every 6 times versus 1 out of 14 times for their white counterparts. The full independent report, executive summary and recommendations, as well as to view a video summarizing the findings from Stanford University can be found here.| was pleased to join Comcast OAKLAND in announcing and celebrating a solar project that will supply almost 80% of the Oakland Facility’s power needs. Comcast OAKLAND is ensuring that energy efficiency and sustainability are key ‘components to their success. Congratulations to Hank Fore, Regional Senior Vice President, and Comcast's Resource Conservation Council Team on their achievements since 2014, Comcast has initiated programs and projects to conserve energy and water, promote recycling and implement green technologies in their facilities and fleet. aBelow I-580, Sausal Creek is largely buried underground or hidden from view. But that doesn't mean that neighborhoods can't benefit from its presence. go Last December, the Friends of Sausal Creek (FOSC) received a grant of consulting services from Skeo Solutions, ‘a national planning firm focused on social and environmental equity. The goal is to create a Walkable Watershed Plan for neighborhoods along the creek from the 1-580 overpass to Fruitvale Bridge Park. Over the past six months, FOSC and Skeo have been working with the National Park Service Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program, the City, and the Unity Council, to collect input from community leaders and local students on community needs around pedestrian infrastructure, green space, creek access and restoration. In September, FOSC plans to host a public open house to get feedback on the draft Walkable Watershed Concept Plan. They anticipate that the plan will identify a wide variety of projects, small and large, short-term and long-term. If you are a neighbor or work in the watershed (or the adjacent watersheds) between 1-580 and the estuary, and you are interested in getting involved before the public open house, please contact Kimra at coordinator@sausalcreek.org. Learn more about the project here. We are proud to honor the service of Oakland's World War Il Veterans by organizing an Honor Flight to Washington, DC -- a trip for 26 WWII Veterans from Oakland to visit their memorial. The City of Oakland and the Bay Area Honor Flight Foundation are jointly sponsoring an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, DC for 26 World War Il community veterans and their escorts on September 8-10, 2016. If you know a WWII Veteran in the Oakland area, please contact us! We are searching for veterans now for this Honor Flight. For more information, please take a look at our Public Service Announcement here: 55