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Challenge Awards Judging Enters Home Stretch

David Liebler

Aug. 30, 2018

The wait is almost over as final decisions regarding the 2018 CSAC Challenge Awards will be made next week. CSAC will inform the award-winning counties the week of Sept. 10, as well as spotlight the top programs on our website.

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Progress on Fire Prevention and Utility Liability Discussion

Cara Martinson Nick Cronenwett

Aug. 23, 2018

Conference Committee Co-Chair Senator Bill Dodd announced last week that changes to the existing inverse condemnation law were off the negotiating table after intense lobbying by CSAC and its coalition partners. The Committee, which was formed to tackle the issues of wildfire preparedness, response, and liability, continues its work this week with an anticipated hearing to discuss an emerging deal.

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Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources Legislative Update

Cara Martinson Nick Cronenwett

Aug. 23, 2018

AENR Legislative Update:

SB 1215 (Hertzberg): CSAC recently took an oppose position on this bill. The bill would allow California’s regional water boards to mandate the provision of sanitary sewer services by special districts and local governments to disadvantaged communities without giving adequate consideration to community needs and the expensive realities of designing, building and operating sewer systems.

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California Health Care Foundation Reviews Drug Medi-Cal Implementation Strategies

Jolie Onodera Justin Garrett Roshena Duree

Aug. 23, 2018

The California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) has released a whitepaper on Medi-Cal Moves Addiction Treatment into the Mainstream, which outlines the experiences of four counties that opted into the Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System (DMC-ODS) waiver model.

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Key Bills Remain in Play Following Major Fiscal Deadline

Aug. 16, 2018

The fate of more than 600 bills was determined this afternoon as the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees took up their respective “suspense files,” consisting of legislative proposals that have significant fiscal impacts to the State. The idea is that Committee Members examine the total cost of the proposed laws all at once, rather than in a piecemeal fashion.

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New Report: Lack of Safety Features on Roads Costs California Drivers $61 Billion Each Year

Kiana Valentine

New localized data says the lack of safety features on roads and bridges costs California drivers $61 billion each year – as much as $2,995 per driver in some areas – due to California’s outdated roads, bridges and transportation infrastructure, currently under threat of further deterioration by Prop 6, the effort to repeal SB 1 – the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.

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Conference Committee Turns Its Attention to Wildfire Liability Law

August 9, 2018

The Joint Legislative Conference Committee on Wildfire Preparedness and Response held its third hearing today, focusing on inverse condemnation and utility wildfire liability. The four-hour hearing at the State Capitol was packed with representatives from the various parties advocating on both sides of the issue.

Napa County Supervisor Diane Dillon testified on behalf of CSAC, expressing strong concern over any proposed changes to constitutionally-protected utility liability laws.

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Health and Human Services News Briefs

Jolie Onodera Justin Garrett Roshena Duree

August 9, 2018

HHS Policy Committee Meeting

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Small Cell Deployment Fight Takes National Stage

Kiana Valentine Mark Neuburger

August 9, 2018

Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee – Senator John Thune (R-SD) – introduced a bill in July regarding small cell deployment. As introduced S 3157 – Streamlining the Rapid Evolution and Modernization of Leading-edge Infrastructure Necessary to Enhance (STREAMLINE) Small Cell Deployment Act – would impose restrictions on local government authority to regulate the deployment of wireless communications infrastructure while limiting the ability of localities to raise revenues. 

Specifically, the bill would:

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Legislature to Reconvene for Final Month of Session

It’s crunch time for the California State Legislature as Summer Recess comes to a close and only four weeks remain in the legislative calendar. Lawmakers have until August 31 to send any bills to the Governor, which oftentimes will prompt last-minute amendments, crowded hallways, and of course late night floor sessions.

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Proposition 6 Threatens More Than Safe Roads, Bridges

New regional reports released by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) quantify the monumental regional economic impact of crucial local transportation projects endangered by Proposition 6.

Proposition 6 eliminates more than $5 billion annually in existing transportation funds and jeopardizes funding supporting more than 6,500 bridge and road safety, transportation and public transit improvement projects currently underway throughout California.

Across California, Prop 6 threatens:

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“No Changes to Utility Liability Law,” Supervisors Testify Before Legislative Wildfire Committee

County Supervisors Diane Dillon, Napa County, and Carre Brown, Mendocino County, testified Wednesday in front of the Wildfire Preparedness and Response Legislative Conference Committee in a packed hearing room at the State Capitol. They, along with numerous other individuals, urged legislators not to make any changes to utility liability law in order to protect future fire survivors and local communities.

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Public Safety Joins No on Prop 6 Coalition

Leading public safety organizations representing California firefighters, highway patrolmen and emergency responders voiced strong opposition to Proposition 6, the ballot measure that would make the state’s bridges and roads less safe and jeopardize public safety.

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Federal Recap: From Nashville to Capitol Hill

Joe Krahn

July 19, 2018

NACo’s 83rd Annual Conference and Exposition – hosted by Davidson County/Nashville, Tennessee – brought together more than 3,000 county officials and staff from across the country.  The conference, which ran from July 13-16, provided a valuable opportunity for county officials to network, as well as share information and best practices with their colleagues from every corner of the United States.

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State Ends Fiscal Year Above Budget Expectations

Dorothy Johnson Tracy Sullivan

Department of Finance (DOF) reports a total of $136 billion in general fund cash for 2017-18. That’s $1.5 billion higher than the 2018 Budget Act forecast. June alone brought in $1.6 billion of unanticipated revenue, mainly in personal income and corporation taxes representative of second quarter returns. These results offset disappointing sales tax revenues, which fell behind fiscal year budget estimates by $380 million, or 1.5%.

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Nomination Window Opens for CalPERS Award for Excellence

CalPERS is now accepting nominations for the Spotlight on Excellence Award to recognize the efforts of public servants that often go unnoticed, even as they work diligently behind the scenes to educate, protect, and keep Californians safe and healthy through providing essential services and infrastructure.

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California County Officials Appointed to NACo Leadership Positions

National Association of Counties (NACo) President Greg Cox has appointed a significant number of California County representatives to serve as Chairs and Vice Chairs for Committees, Advisory Boards and Subcommittees, providing our counties with a strong voice at the federal level.  A total of 13 California Counties are represented in these positions.

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Managing Lands in a Changing Climate Symposium Planned

The University of California, Davis and the California Department of Conservation will hold a day-long symposium on Monday, September 10, titled “Managing Lands in a Changing Climate to Improve Agricultural Resiliency, Food Security and Health”. The event is affiliated with the Global Climate Action Summit event which runs from September 12-14 in San Francisco.    

The symposium has four goals:

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Join CSAC for Our Upcoming Webinar on Homelessness

CSAC will hold our next webinar titled “New Homelessness Funding: Thinking it Through,” next Wednesday, July 25.

The recently enacted state budget provides more than $700 million to help local governments and entities combat homelessness. Local governments must navigate the requirements for existing and new programs all within a matter of months. Decision makers will need to determine how to fold these new funding opportunities into local efforts that are already underway.

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SCOTUS Rules on Janus Case

Jennifer B. Henning

June 28, 2018

As expected, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling this week in one of the most anticipated cases of the Court’s term—Janus v. AFSCME. The Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that public employees cannot be required to pay fees, sometimes called “fair share” or “agency” fees, that cover a labor organization’s costs to negotiate a contract that applies to all public employees.

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