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April 3, 2006
11:00 am
City Hall, Room 288
Draft Meeting Minutes
Members Present
Mayor’s Office (Chair) – Amiee Albertson
Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s Office – David Owen
Supervisor Alioto-Pier’s Office – Sarah Ballard
City Attorney’s Office – MaryJane Winslow
Treasurer’s Office – David Augustine
Assessor’s Office – Craig Dziedzic
Controller’s Office – Peg Stevenson
Other Attendees
Bill Sifferman – Juvenile Probation Department
Allen Smith – Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families
Linda Tulett – Elections Commission
Jennifer Matz - Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Marcia Rosen – San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Scott Boule – Department of Public Health
Suzanne Arena – San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
AGENDA
I. ROLL CALL
II. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
Action item: The Committee voted to approve the minutes of the March 6, 2006 meeting of the State Legislation Committee.
III. PROPOSED LEGISLATION
A. AB 2615 (Tran): to provide probation officers access to information identifying sexual assault victims when preparing a pre-sentencing report.
Position taken: Support
B. SB 1210 (Torlakson): to restrict use of eminent domain.
Action: Oppose
C. SB 638 (Torlakson): to improve distribution of funding for after school programs.
Position taken: Support
D. HR 29 (Houston ): to support location of the National Biological Foundry in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Position taken: Support
E. SB 1374 (Cedillo): to reauthorize state law that allows the Franchise Tax Board to provide cities data about businesses filing within their jurisdiction.
Position taken: Support
F. AB 821 (Ridley-Thomas): to establish a voter outreach program to potential voters that are incarcerated for a non-felony conviction or who are recently off parole.
Position taken: Support
G. AB 1634 (McCarthy): to appropriate state funds to reimburse counties for the cost of the November 2005 special election.
Position taken: Support
H. SB 1661 (Cox): to add an additional two-year extension of the January 1, 2013, deadline for hospitals to perform seismic retrofit if the hospital is under construction and has made a good faith effort to comply with the 2013 deadline.
Position taken: Support
I. SB 1500 (Speier): to create a statewide campaign designed to deter the abuse of methamphetamine in California.
Position taken: Support
J. AB 2573 (Leno): to authorize the City and County of San Francisco to use Hetch Hetchy Water and Power solar generation to supply electricity to qualifying remote new load (in other words, new city developments.) The bill also removes the cap on solar projects size as well as the cap on the amount of solar that Hetch Hetchy Water and Power can provide with the City and County of San Francisco.
Position taken: Support
K. AB 2659 (Ruskin): to prohibit the use of state funds, personnel, or resources on behalf of a feasibility study or review relating to the restoration of the Hetch Hethcy Valley until the Legislative Analyst determines that certain levee work, capital improvements projects, and evaluations have been completed.
Position taken: Tabled
L. AB 1953 (Chan): to revise the term “lead free” to mean not more than 0.2% lead when used with respect to solder and flux and not more than .25% lead when used with respect to pipes and pipe fittings, and fixtures.
Position taken: Support
M. AB 2778 (Lieber): to require the California Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, to administer, until January 1, 2017, a self-generation incentive program for distributed generation resources in the same form that exists on January 1, 2004.
Position taken: Support
N. SB 1251 (Alquist): to require the Department of Water Resources to convene a task force to prepare a comprehensive statewide flood and stormwater management plan and financing strategy for implementing that plan.
Position taken: Support
IV. SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
Discussion item: members of the Committee did not suggest future agenda items.
V. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Discussion item: there were no members of the public who wished to comment.
VI. ADJOURNMENT
