FROM: James D. Herberg, General Manager
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ASSEMBLY BILL POSITIONS: AB 59 (GABRIEL) OPPOSE; AB 339 (LEE) - OPPOSE AS AMENDED; AB 361 (RIVAS) AND AB 622 (BLOOM) - SUPPORT
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GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION
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RECOMMENDATION:
Approve position letters as amended for:
AB 59 Mitigation Fee Act: fees: notice and timelines. (Gabriel) - Oppose
AB 339 State and local government: open meetings. (Lee) - Oppose as Amended
AB 361 Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences. (Rivas) - Support
AB 622 Washing machines: microfiber filtration. (Bloom) - Support
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BACKGROUND
AB 59 (Gabriel)-Oppose
AB 59 would make it more difficult for the Orange County Sanitation District (OC San) to sustainably plan for future infrastructure and public service projects due to the increase in potential liability and legal costs that would emerge. AB 59 would repeal Government Code ?66022, which establishes a 120-day statute of limitations for legal challenges to new or increased connection fees or capacity charges. AB 59 also requires a protest to be filed within 90 days after the imposition of the connection fee or capacity charge on the applicant and an action to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the imposition of the fees to be filed within 180 days after delivery of a specified notice by the local agency.
AB 339 (Lee)-Oppose as Amended
If passed, AB 339 would require that OC San provide translation services at its meetings to all languages that are spoken by at least 5 percent of the population of its jurisdiction. OC San represents 2.6 million people in central and northwest Orange County. Our vast and diverse population would most likely result in an untenable cost to provide translation services in an unknown number of languages. Also, the bill does not address how local public agencies would know which languages are spoken by 5 percent of the population, who do not also speak English.
Additionally, AB 339 would require OC Sa...
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