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City of City of San Leandro 2018 State Legislative Platform & Policy Guidelines Page 5 of 6 <br /> <br />• Training Mandates. Support common sense reforms to various statewide training requirements. <br />Oppose new unfunded mandates that would require unnecessary and/or unreasonable training <br />requirements for local agency staff, including but not limited to proposed mandates that were <br />included in AB 2873 (Thurmond, 2016). <br />• Utility User Taxes. Support legislation or regulations that would provide cities with the flexibility <br />and authority to collect or increase Utility User Taxes (UUTs). Oppose any proposals that seek to <br />limit or restrict the City’s use of UUTs. <br />• Workers’ Compensation & Disability Retirement Reform. Support efforts to reform the state <br />workers’ compensation program and similar efforts regarding disability payments to control costs <br />and to reduce potential abuse, while balancing important worker protections. <br />• Senate Bill 1. Support efforts to protect and maintain the local funding of streets and roads under <br />SB1. Advocate for funding for local or regional projects benefitting San Leandro residents. <br />• Proposition 13 Reform. Monitor efforts to reform Proposition 13, including the protection of local <br />revenues and ensuring that property tax revenues keep pace with the inflation in costs to provide <br />basic public services. Monitor efforts to create a “split-roll” taxation system that would allow <br />commercial properties to be taxed a current market rates. <br /> <br />2. Policy Priorities for Ongoing Monitoring or Advocacy <br />Monitor legislative activity and/or or advocate on behalf of the City of San Leandro's interests in the <br />following broad policy areas: <br />• Public Safety <br />o This includes policy topics such as disaster preparedness, proposals to <br />provide local law enforcement with additional support, school resource <br />officers or joint use efforts with school districts, prevention and intervention <br />funding for at-risk youth, 911 call centers, public safety answering points <br />(PSAPs), POST mandates, AB 109 Realignment implementation, stolen <br />vehicles, mental illness counseling services, juvenile justice programs, <br />technology enhancements and support, crisis intervention and suicide <br />prevention, new training opportunities, or other related programs. <br />• Transportation <br />o This includes policy topics such as goods movement, safe routes to school <br />funding, local road repair, regional transportation funds, street signs, curb <br />paintings, and other efforts to support regional transportation programs. <br />• Economic Development <br />o This includes policy topics such as redevelopment dissolution, measures <br />providing for new tax increment financing opportunities, infrastructure <br />financing districts, efforts to encourage local job creation, new business <br />investment, and other related topics. <br />• Infrastructure <br />o This includes policy topics such as funding for roads, sewers, storm drains, <br />and other public works, engineering, or maintenance responsibilities. <br />• Health & Human Services <br />o This includes general policy topics related health and human services matters <br />effecting the residents of San Leandro and could include: safety net services, <br />homelessness and hunger, childcare, and community health facilities, among <br />others <br />• Housing and Land Use <br />522