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9A Page 4 POLlCY COMM. from page 3 . . . .. . . .. . . . .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. . . .. .. .. . .. .. . . .. . . .. .. . . .. . .. .. .. The meeting's final speaker was Will Kempton, director of Caltrans. Kempton discussed the process of the Infrastructure Bond implementation, and transportation funding in the 2007 state bud- get. The TCPW Policy Committee will next meet in Ontario, at the Ontario Convention Center, on Friday, March 30. Housing, Community & Economic Development The League's Housing, Community & Eco- nomic Development (HCED) Policy Committee met on Friday, January 12, at the Sacramento Convention Center. Highlights included the com- mittee reviewing its goals and adopting a 2007 Work Program. Speakers at the meting featured Lynn Jacobs, director, State Department of Housing and Com- munity Development (HCD) and Tom Adams, president, California League of Conservation Voters. Jacobs' remarks to the committee cen- tered on her view of HCD and the department's relationship with local government. In addition, she discussed Prop. 1 C, the housing bond passed by voters last November, and HCD's plans to distrib- ute the funds quickly and efficiently. Jacobs also received an award at the meeting. The HCD director was recognized by the commit- tee with a Local Government Outreach Award for her efforts to be accessible to local agency offi- cials throughout the state. Following Jacobs was Tom Adams. Adams spoke to the committee about his experience chairing the "No on 90" campaign last year, and the continuing need for eminent domain reform in California. The HeED Policy Committee will next meet in Ontario, at the Ontario Convention Center, on Friday, March 30. Community Services The League's Community Services Policy Committee met on Thursday, January 11, at the League's office in Sacramento. Connie Busse, executive director for the City County School (CCS) Partnership and Steve Sanders, from the Institute for Local Government (ILG), visited the committee to discuss what their organizations are doing with respect to healthy lifestlyes. The committee also discussed how it plans to implement the 2006 Annual Conference Resolu- tion it helped to pass last year that dealt with healthy cities. During the meeting, a subcommit- tee was formed to work on a survey that will be distributed to aU cities to gather information on what cities are doing today. The survey will be distributed in February. In addition, the committee had a productive discussion on the implementation of the park bonds, specifically Prop. 84. The committee's recommendations will be brought to the Infra- structure Task Force meeting on Thursday, January 25. Finally, the committee thanked former League lobbyist Yvonne Hunter for her work during the past 17 years. Hunter is leaving the lobbying world to work with the Institute for Local Govern- ment as the Program Director for Cities for Healthy Kids. Revenue & Taxation The Revenue & Taxation Policy Committee met on Thursday, January 11, at the Sacramento Convention Center. Among the highlights from the meeting were presentations by League General Counsel Patrick Whitnell, Principal Fiscal and Policy Analyst Marianne O'Malley from the Legisla- tive Analysts Office (LAO), Assemblymember Roger Niello, and newly-elected State Controller John Chiang. Continued on Page 5 PAGE 4 . PRIORITY FOCUS January 19, 2007 . Issue #3 Visit the League's Official Website..www.cacities.org