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Staff Report for 2016 Draft State Legislative Platform and Summary of 2015 State Legislative Activities
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
It is recommended that the City Council review and adopt the attached 2016 Draft State Legislative Platform and Summary of 2015 State Legislative Activities
BACKGROUND
On October 21, 2013, the City Council authorized the creation of a City Council Ad-Hoc Committee to provide guidance on the development of a state legislative platform as well as a process through which a consultant would be selected to provide state-level advocacy services on behalf of the City.
Following a competitive request-for-proposals and consultant selection process directly guided by the Ad-Hoc Committee, on February 18, 2014, the City Council unanimously authorized the City Manager to execute a 1-year consulting services agreement with Townsend Public Affairs (TPA) for state-level advocacy services. The scope of work for this agreement includes all aspects of state level advocacy, including legislative analysis, strategy and development, grants assistance, development of relationships with state law makers and agency staff, and other related work. Based upon the excellent services that were provided by TPA during the first year of its contract, on February 17, 2015, the City Council directed the City Manager to extend the City's contract for an additional year of services, through February 29, 2016.
Analysis
Over the past year, the Mayor, members of the City Council and City staff have worked closely with Townsend Public Affairs on a range of legislative initiatives at the state level. Now that the 2015 state legislative session has ended, staff requests that the City Council review and adopt the attached documents. The first attachment ("2015 State Legislative Activities Summary") provides a retrospective summary of various efforts and initiatives that took place on behalf of the City of San Leandro over the pas...
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