REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Receive and File the Annual Review of New Laws Report and Approve 2025 Priority Advocacy Issues and Review Long-term Legislative Advocacy Positions (LAPs)
Report
BACKGROUND
The City's Intergovernmental Relations Program enables timely and effective advocacy of City interests on pending legislation and issues that significantly impact City business. The City can initiate advocacy based on any existing City policy. Every year, the Council adopts the City's advocacy platform that includes the priority advocacy issues for the year as well as long-term legislative advocacy positions (LAPs) found in each chapter of the Council Policy Manual. Long-term LAPs do not require annual Council adoption; however, any edits to those positions must be approved by Council. Other sources for City policies are found in the City Charter, Municipal Code, General Plan Elements, and the Council Policy Manual.
This report provides Council with the opportunity to review the 2025 Priority Issues, long-term LAPs and new laws passed in the 2024 calendar year that have a substantive service/operational impact to the City of Sunnyvale.
Additionally, as part of its efforts to improve the City's legislative advocacy efforts, Council approved funding for federal and state legislative and funding advocacy and associated grant support services in the Adopted FY 2024/25 budget.
EXISTING POLICY
Council Policy 7.4.14, Legislative Advocacy Positions
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The action being considered does not constitute a "project" within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15378 (a) as it has no potential for resulting in either a direct physical change in the environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment.
DISCUSSION
Annual Review of New Laws
The Annual Review of New Laws Report (Attachment 1) provides a summary by department of the subset of new State laws pas...
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