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<br />9A <br />Page 5 <br /> <br />.Id\i~~ C~Wt 'liiS ~~t.*,*,~I4.Uft _ PoiJq i.~,-" tW .H~ (.tlllfl;'" GtliK <br /> <br />PRIORITY <br />FOCUS <br /> <br />l ~ (1,~r(!~51;:J r <br />~.~ i 1. ,) <br /> <br />IN THIS ISSUE: <br /> <br />January 30, 2009 <br />Issue #4-2009 <br /> <br />Page 7: Upcoming legislative Hearing to Address Group Homes <br />Page 8: 2009 League of California Cities Planners Institute, March 25 - 27 <br />League Forms Water Task Force <br />Page 9: Assembly Committee Appointments Announced <br />Helen Putnam Awards: Celebrating Excellence in City Government <br />Page 10: FInd a Bill, Legislators, Leg Committee, or Ask League leg Staff <br /> <br />FEDERAL ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE PASSED BY HOUSE <br />SENATE VERSION INTRODUCED <br /> <br />Wednesday afternoon the U.S. House of Representatives passed their version of the American <br />Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Act) (HR 1 htto:/Ifrwebaate.access.opo.aov/coi- <br />bin/aetdoc.cai?dbname=111 cone bills&docid=f:h1eh.txt.odf) by a vote of 244-188. The cost of <br />the package totals $819 billion, and consists of nearly $550 billion for upgrades to transportation, <br />infrastructure, construction, health care programs. education and housing assistance, and energy <br />efficiency projects. and $275 billion in personal and business tax credits. For more, see Page 2. <br /> <br />.................................... <br /> <br />NO BUDGET DEAL <br /> <br />There may be progress on the State budget, but it's not visible to the thousands of Capitol <br />watchers waiting for news that a deal is near. <br /> <br />"Big Five" discussions occurred several days this week. The pressure to reach a solution is <br />growing, as the state approaches the beginning of February - the month that State Controller <br />John Chiang identified as a time when he expects the state to run out of cash sufficient to pay all <br />its bills. Without a budget solution. Chiang has said that some vendors will receive IOU's instead <br />of actual payment, as he juggles the available funding to cover as many priority obligations as <br />possible. For more, see Page 5. <br /> <br />.................................... <br /> <br />AS 32 IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE <br /> <br />With the passage of the AB 32 Scoping Plan by the Califomia State Air Resources Board (ARB) <br />in December 2008 (see "Air Board Adopts Climate Change Scoping Plan" - Priority Focus, Dec. <br />12,2008) we now begin the two year process to implement the proposals outlined in the plan. <br />Yesterday. the ARB provided an updated timeline of those ideas for 2009 and beyond. For more, <br />see Page 6. <br />