TO: Napa County Legislative Subcommittee
FROM: Ryan J. Alsop, County Executive Officer
REPORT BY: Andrew M. Mize, Legislative & Policy Analyst
SUBJECT: 2025 Legislative & Regulatory Platform: First Draft
RECOMMENDATION
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Receive a presentation by staff of the first draft of the 2025 Legislative & Regulatory Platform.
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BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
In the 2024 session of the state and federal legislatures, the Board took positions on legislative and regulatory items within the following subject categories:
-Vehicle license fee statutory reform;
-Brown Act reform;
-Funding for federal, state, and local wildfire suppression efforts;
-Fire suppression cost share agreements;
-Smoke taint;
-CEQA reform;
-Bay Area housing bonds;
-Insurer modeling requirements;
-AT&T’s carrier of last resort petition;
-Carrier of last resort statutory amendments;
-Childcare voucher reimbursements;
-Funding for Adult Protective Services - staff training programs;
-Funding for CalWorks - county supportive services;
-Funding for Child Welfare Services - caregiver approval services;
-Local public health authority;
-Local public health funding;
-Community Corrections Partnerships;
-Juvenile Justice Coordinating Councils; and
-Local Emergency Management Services Agencies.
The 2025 platform accounts for these issues, which are considered to be ongoing priorities. It also accounts for other topics identified by your Board, Department heads, and other key stakeholders as anticipated points of focus for the state and federal legislatures in 2025. These include, but are not limited to, funding resulting from the climate change ballot measure, reform in California’s property insurance market, gun violence prevention, and ongoing advocacy for restoration of a recurring appropriation to local California libraries. Other topics that were identified as potential points of focus in 2024 did not emerge as priorities and no advocacy was required.
Lists of carryover topics, additions, and deletions are included as attachments to this item, in addition to the draft and redline of the 2025 platform.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The proposed action is not a project as defined by 14 California Code of Regulations 15378 (State CEQA Guidelines) and therefore CEQA is not applicable.