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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Item - 2023-04-18 - Number 8.3 - 2023 Legislative Session Update 8.3 Dt'1` E 4 COUNCIL REPORT cc) Subject: 2023 Legislative Session Update Meeting Date: April 18, 2023 Staff Member: Madison Thesing, Assistant to the City Manager Report Date: April 7, 2023 Department: City Manager's Office Action Required Advisory Board/Commission Recommendation ❑ Motion ❑ Approval ❑ Public Hearing ❑ Denial ❑ Ordinance ❑ None Forwarded ❑ Resolution ❑X Not Applicable ❑X Information Only Comments: ❑ Council Direction ❑ Consent Agenda Staff Recommendation: No Council Action is requested—informational only Recommended Language for Motion: No Council action is requested. Project/ Issue Relates To: 2023 Legislative Session Issue before Council (Highlight Policy Question): ❑Council Goals/Priorities ❑Adopted Master Plan(s) ❑X Not Applicable • ISSUE BEFORE COUNCIL Staff will provide an update the 2023 Legislative Session. BACKGROUND At the February 21, 2023 City Council meeting, staff presented an overview of the 2023 legislative session that is currently underway, as well as City Council approved the 2023 Legislative Priorities grounded in the City Council's goals and City-adopted Master Plans to guide staff in legislative efforts. At the March 21 City Council meeting, staff provided an update on the legislative session and the proposed approach to address bills related to housing and tolling. Respect. Excellence. Trust. Service. 503-635-0215 380 A AVENUE PO BOX 369 LAKE OSWEGO, OR 97034 WWW.LAKEOSWEGO.CITY Page 2 DISCUSSION The 2023 Legislative session is over 1/3 completed. During session, staff has been tracking various bills that either enhance or hinder the City Council and City operational goals. Legislation is moving to the next phase—bills were in the first assigned committee during that time they either passed, were amended to pass, or died in the committee. Last week, bills were required to move out of their first committee to meet the first major deadline. During the City Council, staff will provide an update on housing, tolling, and sustainability bills. FISCAL IMPACT No fiscal impact at this time, however, adopted legislative mandates can potentially impact future financial priorities, including consultant and administrative costs to implement changes to City code. ATTACHMENTS 1. City of Lake Oswego 2023 Legislative Priorities Respect. Excellence. Trust. Servi:.c:. 503-635-0215 380 A AVENUE PO BOX 369 LAKE OSWEGO,OR 97034 WWW.LAKEOSWEGO.CITY ATTACHMENT 1 /0` ',DT\ MEMORANDUM EGDta 2023 City of Lake Oswego Legislative Priorities City of Lake Oswego Legislative Principles The legislative principles are the overarching principles that guide our efforts at the Oregon State Legislature. The principles are the framework through which we address policies that transcend partisan politics or legislative sessions. • Preserve Home Rule Authority—The City of Lake Oswego aims to preserve home rule authority and local decision-making. Local control allows the City to act on behalf of the interests of the community based on context, needs, and objectives. Additionally, the City opposes efforts that pre-empt or limit local government authority. • Avoid Unfunded Mandates—The City of Lake Oswego opposes unfunded mandates and state-issued requirements that do not have dedicated funding or resources. • Leverage Regional and State Partnership—The City of Lake Oswego aims to leverage partnerships and coordination with outside agencies to achieve community goals. These partnerships support streamlined service delivery, fiscal responsibility, and a thoughtful approach to public services that cross jurisdiction boundaries without duplication or waste of resources. 2023 Legislative Priorities Legislative priorities are grounded by the adopted 2023 City Council goals, as well as previously adopted Master Plans that guide City operations and ongoing investments, such as the City's Comprehensive Plan,Transportation System Plan, and Sustainability and Climate Action Plan. Ensure a safe, secure, and prepared community Council Initiatives Legislative Priorities • Continue to oversee and guide the action • Monitor policies related to public safety plan to implement the recommendations and services, including statewide of the 2021 Community Dialog on standards and those that could preempt Policing, including increased reporting local decision making and public dialog about policing in Lake • Support legislative funding packages that Oswego address wildland-urban interface preparedness Respect. Excellence. Trust. Servic:c:. 503-675-3984 380 A AVENUE PO BOX 369 LAKE OSWEGO,OR 97034 WWW.LAKEOSWEGO.CITY Page 2 of 4 • Implement a sustainable business model • Support legislative funding, grants, or for the Fire Department that meets the opportunities to encourage community 21st century needs of Lake Oswego emergency preparedness • Create a process for externally-based community groups to connect and create a plan to support residents, especially seniors and people with disabilities, in the event of a disaster • Support business investment and job creation in Lake Oswego Council Initiatives Legislative Priorities • Ensure the North Anchor • Support policies and programs that invest redevelopment stays on track in workforce training in partnership with • Review the status of the City's Urban Oregon high school and higher education Renewal Areas, including the status of • Oppose legislative that directs or previous planning for Foothills preempts land use and conditions • Implement the initiatives in the 2022 Economic Development Strategy Foster a welcoming and inclusive community where all people have the opportunity to thrive and have equitable access to City services Council Initiatives Legislative Priorities • Guide the highest priority • Encourage legislative policies that recommendations of the DEI Advisory promote inclusion and equitable access Board: Develop relationships with to public programs, services, facilities and culturally specific community-based policies organizations; develop and implement • Monitor policies related to public inclusive community engagement contracting practices; and ensure COBID procurement process requirements are met Combat climate change and strengthen the community's resilience to climate impact Council Initiatives Legislative Priorities • Integrate climate action and resilience • Support legislation that advances local strategies into City projects, such as efforts to combat climate change with capital improvement planning, housing local authority, which includes opposing policy, and City facilities and fleet preemptions and state mandates decisions • Support legislation that provides direct • Update the Urban and Community Forest funding or grant opportunities to advance Plan using the findings of the 2022 State local efforts of the Urban Forest Report Page 3 of 4 Strengthen public trust in the City through continuous improvement, outstanding customer service, infrastructure investments, and fiscal stewardship Council Initiatives Legislative Priorities • Collaborate with the City of Portland to • Oppose legislation that limits or make a financially and environmentally interferes with the City's ability to collect responsible long-term investment in a local revenues sources wastewater treatment plant • Support legislative funding packages that • Lead the community visioning process for support infrastructure investments, the Lake Oswego Public Library; including highways, stormwater, implement a strategic plan based on the wastewater, and drinking water recommendations of the visioning process • Leverage Lake Oswego's position as the largest city in Clackamas County on regional bodies and with other groups such as the League of Oregon Cities and the Metropolitan Mayors Consortium • Conduct a long-term strategic review of the City's finances, including revenues, expenditures, and capital funding Invest in Lake Oswego's high-quality parks, natural areas, and recreational amenities Council Initiatives Legislative Priorities • Guide delivery of the LORAC and Golf • Encourage legislation that protects our Course Construction waterways and natural spaces, while • Develop a Funding Strategy for Rassekh encouraging investment in park Park, and construct the skate park acquisitions and improvements portion • Start the process to update the City's Parks Master Plan Improve transportation connections, mobility and safety for all travelers and all types of trips in Lake Oswego Council Initiatives Legislative Priorities • Continue construction of sidewalks and • Support legislative funding packages that pathways, focusing on safe routes to support transportation infrastructure schools investments. Transportation packages • Adopt a transportation framework plan should address multimodal needs and for Stafford/McVey promote local decision-making on needs • Support legislative direction that reexamines tolling projects and the tools available for funding infrastructure Page 4 of 4 projects, as well as encourage regionwide approaches for reducing congestion Conserve the community's character, sense of place, and quality of life by planning for change and growth Council Initiatives Legislative Priorities • Continue work on key housing initiatives, • Oppose policies or processes that allow the housing production strategy, guiding private development to guide Urban the HACC/Metro project on Boones Ferry Growth Boundaries expansion, or Road, and support for other non-profit requires City service delivery outside of led housing projects City-adopted Master Plans • Conduct a comprehensive review of the • Support Oregon Mayor's Association City's development codes and processes proposal to direct funding to local to make our processes more efficient and solutions for addressing housing and homelessness predictable and less expensive to reduce • Encourage policies to include local the cost of housing and commercial funding and grant opportunities to development address housing needs • Support policies that encourage local land use decision and local authority