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<br />8A <br />Page 9 <br /> <br />AS 1496 is not dead and will resurface in Jan. 2008. It is important to continue letting <br />Assembly Member Swanson and his colleagues know how detrimental AS 1496 is to <br />local governments. <br /> <br />Prior Update <br /> <br />The June 22 issue of Priority Focus featured the summaries of the following League-opposed <br />workers' compensation bills: <br /> <br />. AS 419 (Lieber) <br />. AS 607 (Hancock) <br />. AS 1636 (Mendoza) <br />. AS 1073 (Nava) <br /> <br />Visit www.cacities.orQ/er for the original story covering these bills, and why the League is in <br />opposition. <br /> <br />For more information on all workers' compensation legislation, look up the measures at <br />www.cacities.org/billsearch, www.assemblv.ca.gov or www.senate.ca.Qov. If you have questions, <br />please contact League Legislative Representative P. Anthony Thomas at (916) 658-8279. <br /> <br />'Resolutions' Continued from Page 1... <br /> <br />The four policy committees to which the resolutions have been assigned-Community Services, <br />Administrative Services, Public Safety, and Housing, Community and Economic Development-will <br />consider them on Wednesday, Sept. 5. Following this action, the resolutions will be considered by the <br />League's General Resolutions Committee on Friday, Sept. 7. The League General Assembly is <br />scheduled to vote on the resolutions referred to it during its morning meeting on Saturday, Sept. 6. <br /> <br />The league encourages each city council to consider the resolutions and to determine a city position <br />so that your voting delegate can represent your city's position on each. A resolutions packet was <br />distributed to all cities this week and is also posted on the League's Web site at <br />www.cacities.orglresolutions. <br /> <br />Cities should also remember to designate voting delegates and two alternates so that their cities may <br />vote on the resolutions at the General Assembly. Information about voting delegates is also available <br />at www.cacities.orQ/resolutions. <br /> <br />Storm Water Fee Constitutional Amendment Goes to Senate Floor <br /> <br />Senate Constitutional Amendment (SCA) 12. introduced by Sen. Tom TorIakson, D-Antioch, on <br />May 21, has passed out of the Senate local Government and Elections Reapportionment and <br />Constitutional Amendments Committees. The measure is now awaiting a vote on the Senate <br />Floor. <br /> <br />If signed into law. this League-supported measure would allow fees for storm water and urban <br />runoff management to work in the same way as fees for garbage collection, sewer treatment, and <br />water. <br /> <br />Some cities are faced with using scarce general fund money to support these important water <br />quality programs in light of the restrictions placed upon them by Proposition 218. Existing law <br />(established by Prop. 218) requires local voter approval of certain property related fees. Prop. <br />216 exempts certain types of fees, such as those for water, sewer and garbage, from the voter <br />approval requirement of Prop. 218. <br /> <br />The League supports SeA 12 (to view the League's letter of support, look up SCA 12 at <br />www.cacities.orQ/billsearch) and co-sponsored a similar measure to SeA 12 in 2002 (ACA 10 <br />[Harman]). <br /> <br />3 <br />