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2 <br />services, and prohibits more than 20% of their annual budget to be spent on <br />administrative expenses. This bill only applies to "nonprovider healthcare districts," <br />which must meet all of the following criteria: a) the district does not provide direct <br />health care services to consumers; b) the district has not received an allocation of real <br />property taxes in the past three years; c) the district has assets of $20 million or more; <br />d) the district is not located in a rural area that is typically underserved for health care <br />services; and, e) the district, in two or more consecutive years, has dedicated an <br />amount to community grants that is less than twice the total administrative costs and <br />overhead not directly associated with revenue-generating enterprises. The <br />parameters of this bill were established to address one healthcare district, Eden <br />Township Healthcare District, d.b.a. Eden Health District. <br />Our efforts included, but were not limited to, securing the author for the bill, helping <br />prepare background sheets, one-pagers, and draft support letters, briefing various <br />legislators and their staff, committee members and their staff, associations, impacted <br />advocates, and many others. In addition, we helped draft speaking points for the <br />Mayor’s testimony before Assembly and Senate Committees, worked with the bill’s <br />co-supporters, met on multiple occasions with the Governor’s office, and other various <br />efforts necessary to help get the bill signed into law. <br />AB 2471 (Quirk) -Health care districts: dissolution. The City of San Leandro was an <br />active supporter of this legislation, working closely with Assembly Member Quirk, his <br />office, and Alameda County (the official sponsor). This bill was held in the Senate <br />Governance Committee. <br />Our efforts included, but were not limited to, working with Assembly Member Quirk, <br />the author of the bill, and his staff on many day-to-day matters, briefing the various <br />legislators and their staff when the bill was in committee, supporting the Mayor and <br />Deputy City Manager of San Leandro, as well as the Mayor of Hayward who all <br />testified in various committees, helping draft speaking points, and working with <br />associations, impacted advocates, and many others. <br />Affordable Housing <br />With the dissolution of redevelopment agencies statewide, an ongoing source of <br />funding for affordable housing has been lacking. Another of TPA’s top priorities for the <br />City was to identify, support and push forward legislative proposals supporting and <br />encouraging affordable and work force housing. <br />The Assembly submitted a package of bills to provide funding for the construction of <br />affordable housing and, on behalf of the City of San Leandro, we were actively <br />involved in these bills, specifically: <br />o AB 2200 (Thurmond) Affordable Housing/teacher housing <br />o AB 2319 (Gordon) California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank <br />o AB 2441 (Thurmond) Housing: Workforce Housing Pilot Program <br />o AB 2475 (Gordon) Loan Program: California Infrastructure and Economic <br />Development Bank