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Legislative Review Committee Agenda
Meeting Notes
August 11, 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Commons Conference Room
Present: Ross Cunniff, Councilmember; Ray Martinez, Councilmember; Gino
Campana, Councilmember; Carrie Daggett, City Attorney; Dan Weinheimer,
Legislative Policy Manager
Absent: Wendy Williams, Assistant City Manager
Guests: Kevin Jones, Chamber of Commerce
The meeting came to order at 4:03 pm.
Councilmember Cunniff moved approval of the minutes from the July 28, 2015
meetings, Councilmember Martinez seconded. Minutes were adopted without
amendment.
Dan presented an update on Council-Legislator communication
recommendations made at the last LRC meeting. He shared that all state
legislators would be present at the September 22 – LRC intends to use this
meeting to discuss the upcoming 2016 session and bills that legislators intend to
offer. Also staff is coordinating a tour of Halligan Reservoir and discussion of
water issues for state legislators on September 21.
LRC then discussed 2016 legislative priorities – the goal of this discussion was
to review past priority themes and begin to rewrite the legislative priorities and
policy agenda documents.
Priority topics discussed include:
x URA
x Oil and Gas
x Broadband reform
x Trains
x Marijuana
x Resilience and Climate Action Plan implementation
x Transportation
x Water
x Homelessness/poverty
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LRC will review the legislative policy agenda at its next meeting and staff will
begin drafting 2016 priorities language based on discussion.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 pm.