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9A L�G t�J'RAPS UP� fram page 11 . . . . , ` , . TELECaM from page 1 a p . m » . . . m . . Page 12 graffiti management and removal. The bill aiso Passage of the measure occurred days expands Meflo-Roos districts ta inciude programs fiollowing an August 28 San Francisco Chronicle ta create incentives or to subsidize constructian, article which reported that during April, May and rehabilitation or acquisition of housing for lower June of this year, telephone companies reported income households. Staff: Dan Carrigg; Status: spending nearly$20 million trying to secure Governor's Desk; Position: Support. passage ofAB 2987. The bill continued to be lobbied intensively, right up to its passage by the AB 1602(Laird).As part af the 2004-2005 AssembEy on the final night of fhe sessian. budget agreement, a Vehicle License Fee{VLF)— Praperty Tax swap was enacted. During the Some Key lmprovements Achieved discussions on this proposal, it was recognized that there w�re some outstanding issues tha# While the League and California cities support could not be resolved by the compietion of the competition in video and teiecommunications budget. BA 1602(Laird} is designed to resolve services, we have consistently opposed AB 2987 some of those issues.AB 1602 addresses fhe because of concerns that the measure facks immediate fiscal inequities that occurred for sufficient protections for communities. Together communities that were in the process of incorpo- with California cities and consumer and commu- rating or annexing at the time the law changed. nity groups, we worked iong and hard to educate Staff: Dan Carrigg; St.atus: Governor's Desk; fegislators about our concerns, and ultimately did Position: Support. achieve improvements in the bill. SB 1374 (Cedillo}. This measure will extend These include protecting local control over the sunset date of 2008 on existing law that allows rights-of-way; ensuring that local agencies will cities to continue in their tax discovery efforts by receive franchise fees tataling five percent o#a allowing the Franchise Tax Board (FTB}to share provider's gross revenues; requiring build-out to taxpayer information. The State and Local Govern- any low income areas contained in a service ment Tax Sharing Program has helped many cities provider's franchise area; and increased protec- to identify businesses that are not paying local tion for existing PEG and I-Net services. (See taxes—resulting in millions of dollars recauped. alsa"AB 2987: PEG/l-NetAmendments.") 4ver 95 citias are currently participa#ing in the program. 1 74 wiii extend the program untif VVe remain opposed to the bifl, however, and Decernber 31, 2011. Staff: Dan Carrigg; Status: will ask for a VETO from the Governor. Our Governor's Desk; Position: Support. concerns continue to be those identified in our legislative FloorAfert{distributed last week to all SB 1317 (Torlakson). This measure would cities). These are the issues that we wiil ask a(locate new property tax revenue related to newly Gov. Schwarzenegger to consider when he constructed generation, substation facilities and receives the bill. They include ongoing concerns transmission iines by a lacation-based method. about providers' abifity to "cherry-pick" customers; 1 1 would not change the allocation of prop- customer service enforcement questions; the erty taxes for existing electric generation and ability of cable companies to unilaterally abrogate transmission line facilities. The �eague has local franchise agreements; the future ability of standing policy that supports direct, or situs-based communities to establish PEG and I-Net services; allocation of sales and property taxes based on the and creation of a new state bureaucracy. fact that situs-based allocation targets revenues #o where the impact occurs. Staff: Dan Carrigg; We also have many practical questions abouf Status: Governor's Desk; Position: Support. how implementation will occur, particularly given that more than 300 amendments were taken in the final week of session—amendmenfs which Coniinued on Page 13 PAGE 12 • PRIORITY FOCUS Visit the League's Official Website--www.caci#ies,org September 1, 2006 - Issue#3S