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| 2010 Executive Director's Updates |
 Executive Director's Legislative Update - September 2, 2010
The 2009-2010 Legislative Session came to an end Tuesday night with the usual flurry of votes on last-minute bills but with no approval of a State budget. Earlier in the day, both houses debated and voted on two budget proposals--one presented by the Democratic leadership and another presented by the Republicans. No one was surprised when neither proposal received the necessary two-thirds vote required. | AB 2531 Goes to Governor’s Desk – Send Support Letters Now! - August 27, 2010
| Exeuctive Director's Legislative Update - August 10, 2010
AB 2531 (Fuentes), which would give redevelopment agencies additional authority to assist industrial and manufacturing businesses, increase jobs, and improve energy efficiencies, could be voted on in the Senate as early as Thursday, August 12. | AB 2531 Moves Forward; Deadlines Drive Legislative Action…sort of
Senate Committee Moves AB 2531 & Green Economic Development Forward
The members of the Senate Local Government Committee voted, 3-2, on Wednesday to move AB 2531 (Fuentes) forward. | Executive Director's Legislative Update - June 22, 2010
AB 2531 (Fuentes) will be heard in the Senate Local Government Committee on Wednesday, June 30. Letters of support to the Committee must be received by Friday, June 25. By making this deadline, you can be assured the Committee members will know of your support for this legislation. |
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| 2009 Executive Director's Legislative Updates |
Executive Director's Legislative Update - December 23, 2009
Today, the coalition of public safety, local government, transportation, business, labor and public transit leaders announced the start of a signature-gathering effort to qualify the Local Taxpayer, Public Safety and Transportation Protection Act for the November 2010 ballot. The formal name of the coalition is Californians to Protect Local Taxpayers and Vital Services, and CRA is a member. | Exec Dir Leg Update Nov. 24, 2009 - SERAF Payment Timeline
A B 26 4x, State legislation enacted this past session to shift $2.05 billion from redevelopment agencies to county Supplemental Revenue Augmentation Funds (SERAF), requires agencies to take certain specified actions in advance of May 10, 2010, the date this fiscal year's payments are due. | Exec Dir Leg Update Nov. 17, 2009 - Amendment to LMIHF & SERAF Payment
On November 12, the Governor signed SB 68 (Steinberg) into law which modifies AB 26 4x by allowing agencies to use accumulated balances in their housing fund (and not just current year set-aside amounts) to make their SERAF payments, should that become necessary. The new law also requires the State Department of Finance to account for deleted properties in project areas when calculating SERAF payments. | Executive Director's Legislative Update - October 21, 2009
On October 20, the League of California Cities filed a ballot initiative with the Attorney General entitled the "Local Taxpayer, Public Safety, and Transportation Protection Act of 2010" that would amend the California Constitution to prevent the State Legislature and Governor from raiding local revenues to address the State's financial problems. | Executive Director's Legislative Update - October 20, 2009
CRA filed its lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court today challenging the constitutionality of ABX4-26, the State budget trailer bill authorizing the $2.05 billion raid of local redevelopment funds, including $1.7 billion in FY 2009-10 and another $350 million in FY 2010-11.
Joining CRA as named plaintiffs are two redevelopment agencies, the Union City Redevelopment Agency in Alameda County and the Fountain Valley Redevelopment Agency in Orange County, as representatives of all redevelopment agencies in the state. The Court will be asked to certify all redevelopment agencies as a class of plaintiffs in the lawsuit. | Executive Director's Legilsative Update - September 15, 2009
The State Legislature failed to pass the clean up bills, AB 182/SB 68 and AB 185/SB 67, CRA reported on last week. The 2009 legislative session ended at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 12, without the passage of the bills containing clean up language for the $2.05 billion take from redevelopment agencies, AB 26 4X, or the Proposition 1A securitization, AB 15 4X. | Executive Director's Legislative Update - September 9, 2009
Bills Introduced to Clean up Unconstitutional Legislation
During the final week of the regular legislative session, two "gut and amend" bills have surfaced to clean up AB 26 4x, the budget bill that takes $2.05 billion from redevelopment agencies. | Executive Director's Legislative Update - August 11, 2009
Help with CRA Lawsuit
As you know, CRA is seeking potential redevelopment agency plaintiffs to join us in our lawsuit against the State for taking $2.05 billion in local property tax funds. | Executive Director's Legislative Update - July 29, 2009
Black Friday - $2.05 Billion Take from Local Redevelopment Agencies
As you are painfully aware, the State Legislature voted last Friday to take $2.05 billion in redevelopment funds: $1.7 billion in FY 2009-10 and $350 million in FY 2010-11. The Governor signed the bill yesterday.
| Executive Director's Legislative Update - July 24, 2009
Legislature Approves Redevelopment Heist of $2.05 Billion; Governor Expected to Sign
Today, the State Legislature passed a devastating take of $2.05 billion in redevelopment funds as part of a 30-bill package that allegedly will close most of the State's current budget deficit. |
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| 2008 Executive Director's Updates |
Executive Director's Legislative Update - December 18, 2008
Legislative Update-December 18, 2008
Guidance for Resolving AB 1389 Pass-Through Payment Disputes
AB 1389, which was enacted near the end of last session as a budget trailer bill, requires each redevelopment agency to submit a report to its county auditor reporting the statutory pass-through payments made by the agency between July 1, 2003 and June 30, 2008. | McDonough Holland & Allen AB 1389 Memo
McDonough Holland & Allen AB 1389 Memo | Executive Director's Legislative Update - December 17, 2008
State ERAF Shift Causes Job Losses; Acts as Brake on Economy, Rather than Stimulus
As a follow-up to CRA's December 12 Legislative Update, we are providing to you estimates of jobs lost in California because of the State's action to take away $350 million from redevelopment agencies. | Executive Director's Legislative Update - December 16, 2008
Guidance for AB 1389 Pass-Through Payment Disputes
On January 14, CRA met with staff from the State Controller's Office to discuss their review of reports on statutory pass-through payments prepared by redevelopment agencies as required by AB 1389, and how to resolve the many disputes between agencies and county auditors over the statutory pass-through calculations. | Executive Director's Legislative Update - December 12, 2008
California Budget Crisis Presents New Threats to Redevelopment
On December 1, the new legislative session began, and on the same day Governor Schwarzenegger proclaimed a fiscal emergency under Proposition 58 and ordered the State Legislature into an extraordinary session to address the State's immediate budget crisis for 2008-09. | Executive Director's Legislative Update - Lawsuit Filed December 4, 2008
Today, the California Redevelopment Association and the City of Moreno Valley's Redevelopment Agency filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court seeking to block sections of budget trailer bill AB 1389, which was approved as part of the FY 2008-09 State budget and which authorizes a one-time raid of $350 million in redevelopment funds. The lawsuit seeks both to invalidate sections of AB 1389 and prohibit the State from forcing county auditors to divert redevelopment funds to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Funds (ERAF). |
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| 2007 Executive Director's Updates |
Executive Director's Legislative Update - December 19, 2007
Rumors Increase as State Budget Deficit Increases
Last week the State Department of Finance estimated California’s budget deficit next year to be $14 billion, up from the Legislative Analyst’s earlier forecast of a nearly $10 billion shortfall. | Executive Director's Legislative Update - November 16, 2007
To assist in educating others about the Homeowners Protection Act (HPA) measure, CRA has prepared two summaries of the initiative; one has more detail than the other. Click here to read them. These informational items can be shared with public sector colleagues. | Executive Director's Legislative Update - November 5, 2007
| Executive Director's Legislative Update - October 12, 2007
Since the California Legislature failed to pass our Eminent Domain Reform package, ACA 8 and AB 887, during the 2007 session, CRA and its many allies in a broad coalition have decided to proceed with collection of signatures to qualify our own eminent domain reform initiative for the June, 2008 statewide ballot. We have also decided to mount a campaign to defeat a deceptive and destructive initiative sponsored by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association expected to be on the June, 2008 ballot, as well. | Sample SB 103 Letter To Governor Sept 24
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