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with a greater focus on Road Usage Charges (RUC). The Senate Transportation Committee is developing guidelines for the development and implementation of a pilot program to study the potential for RUC as an alternative to the gas tax. • Infrastructure Financing Districts (IFDs). Support legislation that provides greater flexibility for local agencies to create enhanced infrastructure financing districts (EIFDs) to finance specified infrastructure projects and facilities. • Broadband infrastructure. Support legislation or funding opportunities that would expand public and private access to broadband, including the development of related infrastructure. • Shoreline development. Support legislative efforts or funding opportunities that would assist in the successful redevelopment of San Leandro's shoreline area. • Use of state highways. Support efforts that would facilitate the use of overweight trucks to transport goods from local San Leandro businesses to and from the Port of Oakland on routes that utilize state highways. • Transfer of state urban highways. Support efforts to create a streamlined process for the transfer of state urban highways to local agencies. East 14th Street and Davis Street are presently designated state highways; however, the current mechanism that would facilitate the transfer of these highways to the City does not provide sufficient financial commitments from the state prior to any transfer. Support efforts that would allow the state to reconstruct both roadways in advance of any transfer of rights-of-way to the City of San Leandro. • Disaster prevention and recovery. Seek additional funding, and expand the definition of programs eligible for grant funding, for disaster recovery and prevention. 2. State Legislative Priorities for Monitoring and Recommended Action Monitor legislative activity and/or or advocate on behalf of the City of San Leandro's interests in the following areas: • Public Safety o This includes policy topics such as disaster preparedness, proposals to provide local law enforcement with additional support, support for initiatives that support school resource officers or joint use efforts with cities for public safety, e-cigarettes and associated restrictions, funding for state mandates, prevention and intervention funding for at-risk youth, and other such topics. • Transportation o This includes policy topics such as goods movement, safe routes to school funding, local road repair, regional transportation funds, and other related topics. • Economic Development o This includes policy topics such as redevelopment dissolution, measures providing for new tax increment financing opportunities, infrastructure financing districts, efforts to encourage local job creation, and related topics. • Infrastructure o This includes policy topics such as funding for roads, sewers, storm drains, and other Engineering and Public Works responsibilities. • Housing and Land Use City of City of San Leandro 2015 State Legislative Platform and Policy Guidelines Page 3 of 5