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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981-04-07; City Council; 6554; Request to Take Action on LegislatureCITY Ol•' CAR.LSiil-.iJ J ~~LI AGENDJ\. BlLL NO. ~-"-'=-..... Lt.---•------ DATE: April 7, 1981 DEPARTMENT: CITY MANAGER Subject: REQUEST TO TAKE ACTION ON L,EGISLATION Statement of the Matter Initial:~_ Dept.na.·r~ C. Atty._\) C, Mgr. ~- The city staff requests the City Council to take action on the follo~ing bills being considered by the State Legislature: l. SB 65 (Bo~t~right) This bill would exempt police uars, ~ire engines and other emergency vehicl~s from auto emission requirements. It is estimated that 25,000 vehicles would be exempted statewide. The emission control equipment on emergency vehicles impair vehicle performance. The impact on air quality would be negligible. The Police and Fire Chief recommend that the city support SB 65. 2. AB 320 .(Herger) This bill would allow a public agency providing water for fire protection purposes to collect a charge for the cost of operation, installation, and maintenances of facilities related to supplying water for fire protection purposes. Existing law does not allow such charges to be initiate1. The. Utilities/Maintenance Director recommends that the city oppose AB 320. This bill would allow a shift in costs 'from a currently fee supported service to a non-fee supported service. In Carlsbad, with four different ugencies supplying water, we could have a different type charge levied by each agency. Fiscal Impact Specific costs impacts of the legislature have not yet been calculated. However, SB 65 should tend to reduce city costs and AB 320 would increase city costs. 'E.xhibits l. Letter dc:i.ted l?./30/80 from Senator Boatwright. 2. Memo from Utili:ties/1.iaintenance Director dated 3/26/81. Recommendation That Council by minute motion support SB 65 and oppose AB 320 and direct staff to send letters to appropriate legislators. Council 1\ction: 4-7-81 C · ouncil approved s~aff recommendation ' . 'I Dear Chief: CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE STAT& CAPITOi. SACRAMEflTO, CAl.lf'ORNIA ll~BI°' . December 30, 1980 I have enclosed a copy of my Senate Bill 65, which would exempt police cars, fire engines and other emergency vehicles from the Air Resources Board's emission require~ents. I think it's about time we let our emergency vehicles do the jobs they were meant to do. Instead, we have cars which can- not catch fleeing suspects and fire engines which cannot climb steep grades effectively or pwnp water to the maximum capacity. Emergency vc~hicles amount to 25,000 of the 18. 8 million vehicles currently registered in California (.0013, or 13/100 of one percent!). I would appreciate the support of your department in our efforts to enact SB 65. "Nruly DAN~. Senator, OEB/rb Enc: SB 65 \I I • \ l l ' r \ l I I I SENATE BILL No. 65 Introduced by S<>nator Boatwright December 11, 1980 An act to add Section 27156.2 to the Vehicle Code, relating to emergency vehicles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 65, as introduced, Boatwright. Emergency vehicles: pollution control devices. Existing law, with specified exceptions, prohibits any motor vehicle upon a highway in this state which is not equipped with motor vehicle pollution control devices specified by California law, other state law, or federal law. This bill would exempt authorized emergency vehicles, as specified, from requirements of California law for motor vehicle pollution control devices. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. The people of the State of California do enact as lo/lmvs: 1 SECTION 1. Section 27156.2 is added to the Vehicle 2 Code, to read: 3 27156.2. Notwithstanding any other provision of iaw, 4 any authorized emergency vehicle as defined in 5 paragraph 2, Section 165, excepting subdivision (g) 6 thereof, and Sections 165.3, 165.4, and 165.5, is exempt 7 from requirements imposed pursuant to California law 8 and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto for motor 9 vehicle pollution control devices. 0 311-100 llcprintcd 1-6-81 ~\t 99 40 :: March 26, 1981 MEMORANDUM TO: City Manager FROM: Director of Utilities & Maintenance SUBJECT: Recomnendation to Oppose AB320 (Herger) -81-056 Th2 Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) is sponsoring AB320 which will change current state law concerning charging O&M, capital and repair costs of a water system to the agency providing fire protection. Current law precludes such charges. AB320 would change the ,aw so that such charges as determined by the Water Agency board could be made. The City should oppose for the following reasons: 1. Water purveyors have the responsibility to provide service to the customer in quantities and quality to meet the customer's needs, regardless of the purpose for which the customer intends its' use -- this includes fire protection. 2. It is a shift of costs from a fee supportPd service to a non-fee supported service in most jurisdictions; i.e., shift to the general fund. 3. It can have the effect of increasing costs of fire service to certain areas of a jurisdiction which are ~1:r-veu by different water agencies, depending on the discretionary action of the Hater Board. In our particular case we could be levied different types of charges by four different agencies --City, CRMWD, San Marcos or Olivenhain. A brief sunmary of the bill is attached. q~~~ Director of Utilities & Maintenance RWG:pab cc: Assistant City Manager/Operations Fire Chief attach. March 6 has been extended 60 days. The program for the NWRA March 31 Federal WatP.r Seminar at the Capito, Holiday Inn is shaping up exceptionally well. A worthwhile program is in the offing and early response indicates a good attendance. We have invited the Secretary of the Interior to be our keynote speaker, and we remain hopeful that the key members of his water management team will be announced by that .nne so that they can meet with our group as well; specifically the Solicitor, the Ass1slant Secretary for Water and Power Resources and the Commissioner of Reclamation. Sen. James A·. MacClure (ID), chair- man of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Sen. Frank Murkowski (AK), chairman of the Sub- committee on Water an,;I Power Re- sources, have accepted our invitation. Major General Val HE>iberg, director of Civil Works of the COE, will be on the pro~ram. Rep. Morris K. Udall (AZ), chairman of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, and Rep. Don Clausen (CA), ranking minority member of the Public Works and Transportation Committee, have been invited. Gordon Nelson, coordinator of the Farm/Water Alliance, will chair a panel to bring us up to date on activities to obtain tho &nactment of legislation to modernize the 1902 Recl.:>mation Law. All in all, it will be a very worthwhile program. Hotel spce fn Washington is tight. This will be the last notice; get your reservations in as soon as pos<iible. NWRA Federal Water Seminar Registration-Reservation Form Name:------------------------------ Address: ----------------------------- City: ___________ state: __________ Zip: _______ _ Phone: Please reserve Single □, Double □ room for t:1e night(s) of: $50 Registration fee enclosed o Mail this form to National Water Resources Association 955 L'Enfant Plaza s w w h" t D.C. 20024 • • •• as ing on, nance, repair, alteration or replacement Sac t \ of f~ciliHes rel,ated to supplying wat~~/ ra men O for fire, protection purposes. / AB 618 (Frizzelle) was introduced. Scene The measure would terminate the Cal- ifornia Coastal Co1,lmission and its :3u~ho~itt for each city, county or local 1unsd1ct1on when its local coastal pro- Actions on Bills Of ACWA Interest Following actions were taken in the State Legislature on bills of interest to AC'NA's members: , / AB 320 (Herger), sponsored by ACWA •• was Introduced and assigned to th~ Local Government Committee. The bill ~o~ld authorize. a public agency pro- v1d111g water for fire protection purposes to fix and collect a charge to pay the cost of operation, installation, capital, main- tenance, repair, allocation or replace- f!lent of facilities an.:I permit the legisla- tive body of the agencv llxing such a charge to establish schedules varying the chl}rges in different localities within the agency depending on the cost of "peration, insta!lation, capital, mainti gram has been approved and certified and all implementing actions have become effective. AB 620 (Deddeh) was introduced. It would amend provisions of the Cal- ifornia Environmental Quality Act. It would declare that environmental impact reports be reviewed in a prompt fashion within specified time periods; authorize local agencies to adopt a map deline- ating urbfnized areas and to adopt a list of classes of projects determined not to have a significant effect on the environ- ment and_ which are exempt from the act: and provide that a public agency is not pre_cll!ded from giving a combined notice of various review periods and pub Ii~ hearings required with respect to a proiect. Local agencies also would be authorized to adopt reasonable limo limitations on the review of EIRs and negative declarations. AB 702 (Johnson) was introduced and assigned to the Energy and Natural Resources Commillee. The bill would 1 call a statewide election Sept. 8, 1981, for a vote on the referendum of SB 200, the water facilitias development mea- sure. The bill provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to reimburse local entities for the cost of the election by augmenting appropriations in the 1981 budget bill. AB 760 (Felando) was introduced, The measure would repeal the Warren- Alquist State Energy Resources Con- servation and Development Act that created the California Energy Commis- sion and enact the State Energy Re- sources Conservation and Development Act. The commission would be abr,lished and the power!. and duties of !he com• mission would generally be transferret.J to the Department of Energy created by the new act. The powers and duties d:aling with certification of power plant sites and related facilities would be transferred to the Energy Regulatory Commission, whic.h alsQ would be created by the new act. Functions dealing with building and insulation• standards would be transferred to the Department of Housing and Community