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City of City of San Leandro 2020 State Legislative Platform & Policy Guidelines Page 6 of 7
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<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 /> 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 at current market rates.
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<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, wildfire efforts,
<br />proposals to provide local law enforcement with additional support, school
<br />resource officers or joint use efforts with school districts, prevention and
<br />intervention funding for at-risk youth, 911 call centers, public safety answering
<br />points (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 to health and human services
<br />matters affecting the residents of San Leandro and could include: safety net
<br />services, homelessness and hunger, childcare, and community health
<br />facilities, among others.
<br /> Housing and Land Use
<br />o This includes policy topics such as creating new sources of funds for
<br />affordable housing, encouraging housing development for a range of income
<br />levels, and efforts to protect local authority or oppose unfunded mandates,
<br />and other similar topics.
<br /> Quality of Life
<br />o This includes policy topics such as the development of funding sources for
<br />parks, urban waterways, multi-lingual outreach, kindergarten readiness
<br />programs, project literacy, veterans, homework/technology centers, library
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