(Jan. 24, 2018, 10:02 a.m.) -- No current Long Beach City Council members asked any questions or sought to learn publicly why the City they were elected to govern failed to oppose multiple 2017 Sacramento bills (including SB 35) that now impose Sacramento housing dictates and undercut local control. as the Council voted Councilman Austin (term-limited, mulling a possible state Senate run in 2019) and Councilwoman Stacy Mungo (seeking re-election in April 2018 with three April opponents) didn't mention this issue and instead commended city staff. To hear their comments, click here. Austin and Mungo are Mayor Garcia's-chosen members of Council's "state legislation committee" which in January 2017 approved and brought to the full Council for its approval in April 2017 the policies recited below. The Committee then failed to hold any meetings between Jan. 10, 2017 and Nov. 21, 2017 while the bills advanced through various votes to enactment in September 2017. [Scroll down for further.] |
To date, no LB Councilmember has sought a public explanation for exactly why the City (through non-elected city staff) remained "neutral" on the bills instead of opposing them. The bills were backed by Dem-leadership and supported by housing development interests but opposed by multiple CA cities as well as the League of CA Cities, citing loss of local decision making control. LB-area state Senators Ricardo Lara (D, LB-Huntington Park) and Janet Nguyen (D, SE-LB/west OC) and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (NLB-Lakewood-Paramount) supported the bills. Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell (D, LB-SP) voted against SB 35.
The LB City Council's 2017 adopted policies and its 2018 recited policies include: "Oppose legislation that preempts the City's existing control over local matters" with these actions:
City staff has now scheduled a
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