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economic development and investment in lower income areas of California. Once the City <br />took an official support position, we personally delivered the City's letter and briefed the <br />Governor's staff as to why it's important to the City. Additionally we worked with the League <br />and other cities to help push this bill forward. Unfortunately, the Governor vetoed this bill <br />along with many other RDA related bills. <br />AB 1717 (Perea) Telecommunications — Support <br />This bill establishes a new point-of-sale system for collecting and remitting specified fees, <br />surcharges, and taxes applicable to prepaid mobile telephony services (MTS). The state's <br />current system for collecting taxes and fees is based on monthly bills. Customers pay 911 <br />fees and state and local fees to fund telephone service for low-income households, <br />broadband for underserved areas, and local government services. Everyone who uses <br />phone service pays a small monthly fee as part of their bill to help fund 911 and support <br />other important state and local programs. However, for the fastest growing segment of <br />wireless users, prepaid wireless services, there is no collection mechanism for customers <br />to pay these fees. Nearly 25% of all wireless customers are now prepaid customers. TPA <br />conveyed the City's position to the Governor's office and ensured the author's office was <br />aware of our efforts. The Governor signed this bill into law. <br />AB 2145 (Bradford) Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) -Oppose <br />This bill restricts the expansion of a CCA to a geographic area of three contiguous <br />counties, unless the CCA had already exceeded three counties prior to January 1, 2015; <br />requires CCA customer solicitations and consumer communications to include the electric <br />supply rates for that customer if he/she remains with the Investor Owned Utility (IOU) and <br />joins the CCA; and allows complaints under an expedited complaint procedure to be <br />submitted to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) regarding a CCA's alleged violations of <br />its statutory obligations. The City opposed this bill because it would thwart adopted <br />environmental goals, infringe upon local control and local decision making, and is similar to <br />a 2010 PGE funded ballot initiative that failed. TPA was an active member of the coalition <br />that fought this bill. Our efforts included briefing the entire East Bay legislative delegation <br />on the City's position, why the bill was harmful to the existing CCA process, and securing <br />additional members to join our fight. Additionally we testified in committee against the bill. <br />This bill was stalled in the Senate and did not make it to the Governor. <br />3. Monitored over 110 bills, which were identified as important to the legislative agenda of the <br />City of San Leandro. TPA sent weekly legislative updates and bill matrices to the City. <br />These updates included specific bills we were working on for the City along with bills we <br />suggested the City watch, support or oppose. The legislative categories included: Public <br />Safety, Planning, Housing and Land Use, Infrastructure, Environment, Energy and <br />Sustainability, Economic Development, Youth, Taxes and Local Government, <br />Constitutional changes, and Miscellaneous. Additionally, these weekly updates also <br />included information on the State Budget, upcoming funding opportunities, and other <br />legislative matters. <br />4. As soon as we were hired by the City, TPA assisted in securing funding from Caltrans, <br />specifically from the Partnership Planning for Sustainable Transportation program for the <br />Friends of the San Leandro Creek project. Our efforts included working closely with the <br />offices of Senator Corbett and Assembly Member Bonta to draft and secure support letters, <br />and then submit. The application was ultimately successful, resulting in a $200,000 grant <br />award. <br />5. TPA represented the City before a CalPERS (Public Employees Retirement System) board <br />meeting and testified against the $1.1 million dollar increase for fire fighters due to the <br />recent pension reform. In addition to testifying at the PERS meeting and briefing our East <br />Bay elected officials on our position, TPA set up a meeting with PERS, the City Manager <br />City of San Leandro 2014 State Legislative Summary Page 3 of 4 <br />