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BA~t4- LEGISlATION from page 1 ......... CALIFORNIA PERFORMANCE Meetings and discussions are taking place to REVIEW HEARINGS develop the cleanup bill. There is no bill number as yet; we will let city officials know as a vehicle Riverside, August 13 at UC Riverside, has been identified. The intent is to draft the bill 10:00 to 3:00 p.m. Infrastructure - At this hearing as narrowly as possible, meaning it will deal with the topics to be discussed will include: Transpor- technical implementation issues and will not break tation: Hospital, Housing and School Construction; any new policy ground. While this is easily said, Water and Energy. the interpretation as to what is policy and what is merely "technical- can get blurred. Due to overwhelming interest other Resource While the final content has not been deter- and Environmental Protection issues will be the mined, the League along with the Califomia focus of a Commission hearing to be held on Redevelopment Association have raised the September 17,2004 in Fresno. following issues: San Diego, August 20 at UC San Diego, Modifications to the Cut Formula. Lan- 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Health and Human Ser- guage to implement the cuts to cities needs to be vices and Education, Training and Volunteerism altered to ensure that it follows the formula agreed to by local government, the governor and San Jose, August 27 at San Jose State the legislature. University, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. General City Borrowina Aaainst Prooertv Tax. Cities Government; Information Technology, Perfor- mance-based Management, Procurement and are seeking the authority to borrow against Personnel property taxes that must be repaid to local gov- ernment, if the state ever borrows local govern- Long Beach, September 10 at Cal State ment property taxes in the future. University, Long Beach, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Redevelopment Flexibility. Pursuant to the Corrections Reform (IRP) and Public Safety budget agreement with the Governor's office, the Fresno, September 17 at Cal State Unlver- cities are seeking the flexibility to permit a rede- velopment agency to pay a city's or county's slty, Fresno, 10:00 to 4:00 p.m. Resource Con- share of the cuts under the legislation proposed servation and Environmental Protection for fiscal years 2004-05 and 2005-06. The pay- ment by the RDA would be in the form of a loan. Location TBD, September 24, location TBD, 10:00 to 4:00 p.m. Government Reorgani- Redevelopment Borrowina. Language zation allowing a redevelopment agency to borrow funds under a pooled bonding arrangement to pay its NOTE: While each hearing will focus on a share of the cuts to RDA's was omitted from the specific topic or topics within CPR, the Commis- legislation and needs to be included in the sion will take public testimony at the end of each cleanup. day on any issues contained in the report. Redevelopment and Schools. Language is needed to ensure that there is no negative impact on statutory pass-through agreements between school districts and redevelopment agencies. It is our understanding that while this effort For more information 00 this and constitutes the ·omnibus· cleanup for the end of other Leap issues, visit the session, other issues may be included in WWW.cacities.org. other legislative proposals. We will keep you closely informed as this legislation develops during the final weeks of the session. PAGE 4/PRIORITY FOCUS Visit the League's OfFICial Web Site--www.cacities.org