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8A Page 1 0 Building Sustainable Communities Reception Invite your legislator to join you and your colleagues at a special legislative reception at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento on Wednesday evening, scheduled from 5:30-7 p.m. "Building Sustainable Communities" is the reception's theme. This theme provides ttie framework for the League's 2008 strategic priorities and the event will reinforce how protection of local revenues, effective allocation of infrastructure bonds, maintaining local flexibility on local greenhouse gas reduction strategies, and defeating the flawed Proposition 98 are vital to the success of California's 478 cities. Make plans to attend now! For more information about the 2008 Legislative Action Days, please visit www.cacities.ora/events. Leverage Prop. 42 Gasoline Sales Tax for Road Repairs The lack of funds for local street and road maintenance in California has caused a rapid escalation of costs with many billions of dollars in deferred maintenance statewide. Leveraging Proposition 42 gasoline sales tax can generate immediate and substantial funding for critical road maintenance projects while mitigating the impact of a state suspension of the revenue. Your city's Prop. 42 funds can be pledged to revenue bonds issued by California Communities, the statewide joint power authority (JPA) sponsored by the League. The bonds are secured solely by Prop. 42 gaso]]ne sales taxes without impacting the city's general fund. Now is the time to stop the rapid escalation of road repair costs by joining the California Communities Prop. 42 Funding Program. The sooner your city issues Prop. 42 Bonds and commences the repair of deteriorating roads, the lower your road repair costs will be. Representatives from the League and California Communities are available to help you learn how to raise as much as ten times your annual Prop. 42 allocation, while retaining approximately 35 percent of your annual Prop. 42 revenues. Contact Dan Harrison with the League at (916) 658-8267 (dharrison@cacities.org). Contact Terrence Murphy with California Communities at (925) 933-9229 ext. 223 (tmurohv@cacommunities.org). Sustainable Cities Feature: Guest Article by Robert Rlvinius Building Green in Your Community is Achievable with California Green Builder California Green Builder (CGB) is the state's most successful green building program. Easy to understand with quantifiable results, CGB is helping California's cities and homebuilders lead the way on resource conservation. CGB is officially.recognized as an environmentally-friendly green building design program by the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Energy Commission. The program's rigorous standards require increased energy efficiency, reduced construction waste, water conservation, and protection of our timber resources. Specifically, CGB requires that builders: . Save at least 20,000 gallons of water per year over a typical production home; . Exceed California's Title 24 energy efficiency standards by 15 to 20 percent; . Divert at least 50 percent of construction waste from landfills: and . Use engineered wood products from a certified sustainable source. Homebuilders, working with engineers, scientists and conservation specialists, created CGB as a program that generates quantifiable resource conservation, while being more practical than other, more complicated programs. To date, 1,759 CGB certified homes have been completed, with 5