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Agenda Item: 7
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
AGENDA REPORT
CONSENT CALENDAR
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CITY MANAGER APPROVAL: 1 A4920
DATE:
April 27, 2021
SUBJECT:
STATE LEGISLATION: ASSEMBLY BILL 418
DEPARTMENT:
City Manager's Office
PRESENTER:
Masis Hagobian
RECOMMENDED ACTION
City Council adopt the City Council Legislative Committee recommendation to support
Assembly Bill 418 (Valladares) and transmit position statements to Assembly Member
Valladares, Santa Clarita's state legislative delegation, appropriate legislative committees,
Governor Newsom, League of California Cities, and other stakeholder organizations.
Authored by Assembly Member Suzette Valladares (R-38-Santa Clarita), Assembly Bill 418
establishes the Community Power Resiliency Program, pursuant to any future appropriation by
the legislature, to support local preparedness and mitigation efforts in response to power de-
energization events.
Administered by the Governor's Office of Emergency Services (CalOES), the Community
Power Resiliency Grant program was funded at approximately $75 million through the 2019
Budget Act and $50 million through the 2020 Budget Act. However, the Governor's 2021-22
Budget Proposal does not include any funding to the program.
Eligible uses of the grant funds include the procurement of generators and generator connections,
portable vehicle -mounted charging stations, and equipping resource centers with back-up
electrical support during power de-energization events.
At the February 23, 2021, Regular meeting, the City Council supported a budget request to fund
the Community Power Resiliency Grant program in the 2021-22 state budget, upon the
recommendation of the City Council Legislative Committee. The office of Assembly Member
Valladares asked the City to support the state budget request.
Additionally, the recommendation to support Assembly Bill 418 is consistent with the City of
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Santa Clarita 2021 Executive and Legislative Platform. Specifically, Component 3 under the
"State" section advises that the City Council, "Support legislation, regulatory proposals, or
administrative actions to accelerate the development and implementation of enhanced electrical
utility infrastructure, including undergrounding of utility equipment, that ensures reliable utility
service and public safety and prevents the use of public safety power shutoffs."
Assembly Bill 418 unanimously passed the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management
(7-0) on April 5, 2021, and was referred to the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy.
Notable supporters include the Association of California Water Agencies and Rural County
Representatives of California.
There was no registered opposition on file at the time this report was developed.
The City Council Legislative Committee met on April 8, 2021, and recommends that the City
Council adopt a "support" position on Assembly Bill 418.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION
1. Adopt an "oppose" position on Assembly Bill 418
2. Adopt a "neutral" position on Assembly Bill 418
3. Take no action on Assembly Bill 418
4. Refer Assembly Bill 418 back to the Legislative Committee
5. Other direction, as provided by the City Council
FISCAL IMPACT
The resources required to implement the recommended action are contained within the City of
Santa Clarita's adopted FY 2020-21 budget.
ATTACHMENTS
Assembly Bill 418 - Bill Text
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AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 8, 2021
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE-2021-22 REGULAR SESSION
ASSEMBLY BILL No. 418
Introduced by Assembly Member Valladares
February 4, 2021
An act to add Article 16.7 (commencing with Section 8654.15) to
Chapter 7 of Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to
emergency services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 418, as amended, Valladares. Emergency services: grant program.
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act establishes the
Office of Emergency Services in the office of the Governor and provides
that the office is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster
response services for natural, technological, or manmade disasters and
emergencies.
This bill would establish the Community Power Resiliency Program
(program), to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services, to
support local
offiees, food sterne reserves, GGI�qD 19 testing sites, and traffie signals
attd street lamps. governments'efforts to improve energy resiliency in
response to deenergization events and to mitigate the loss of electricity
occurring from any other event, as provided. The bill would authorize
the office to allocate specified sums, pursuant to an appropriation by
the Legislature, to local governments, special districts, and tribes for
various purposes relating to power resiliency, and would require those
entities apply ing for f6itdiiig certain entities, in order to be eligible for
funding, to either describe the portion of their emergency plan that
includes power outages or pfavide an attestation confirm that power
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outages will be included when the entity revises any portion of their
emergency plan. Cities, special districts and tribes would be eligible,
under the provisions of this bill, to apply for competitive grants, while
counties would be allocated a noncompetitive amount-4a�ei-
population and required to spend at least 50% of fiffids in priority areas.
to be divided between all counties based upon population. The bill
would require the office to provide an annual report to certain
committees of the Legislature detailing specified information, and to
monitor, track, and report to the Legislature information regarding
speck projects. The bill would authorize the office to retain up to 3%
of the total appropriation and would require the office to administer the
program.
The bill would specify that the Legislature intends to enact future
legislation to transfer $100,000,000 from the General Fund to the Office
of Emergency Services for the program.
The bill would specify sums-whieh that would be allocated to the
entities if the Legislature enacts future legislation to allocate only
$50,000,000 to the office for the program.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State -mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
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8 8654.15. (a) (+j The Community Power Resiliency Program
9 is hereby established, to be administered by the office, to support
10 local government efforts to improve energy resiliency in response
11 to deenergization events by electrical corporations or local publicly
12 owned electric Fries utilities and to mitigate the loss of
13 electricity occurring from any other event.
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15 (b) The office shall also provide competitive and noncompetitive
16 grant funding through the program to local governments, special
17 districts, and tribes to plan and deploy energy resiliency projects
18 that maintain energy services during a deenergization event
19 or other power outage.
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21 8654.16. (a) The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any
22 future appropriation by the Legislature, to counties on a
23 noncompetitive basis, to be divided between all counties based
24 upon the population. Counties shall use
25 allaeatiatt to stippart eommunity power resiliettey for one or more
26 ofthe following priority ttreas. grantfunds to improve local power
27 resilience to ensure that local operations and critical facilities
28 and infrastructure can continue to operate during a deenergization
29 event or other power outage.
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33 (4) GEWID 19 testing sites-.
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35 (b) The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any future
36 appropriation by the Legislature, to cities on a competitive basis.
37 Cities shall be eligible for grants of up to three hundred thousand
38 dollars ($300,000). The office shall give preference points to cities
39 that did not receive a grant award from the 2019 Community Power
40 Resiliency appropriation or the 2020 Community Power Resiliency
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8 (c) The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any future
9 appropriation by the Legislature, to special districts on a
10 competitive basis. Special districts shall be eligible to apply for
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15 ($300, 000) to improve the energy resiliency of a critical facility
16 or infrastructure operated by the special district.
17 (d) The office shall allocate funds, pursuant to any future
18 appropriation by the Legislature, to California federally recognized
19 tribes on a competitive basis. Tribes are eligible to apply for grants
20 of up to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) without
21 specification of prioritization of funding. The office shall give
22 preference points to tribes that did not receive a grant award from
23 the 2019 Community Power Resiliency appropriation or the 2020
24 Community Power Resiliency appropriation.
25 (e) Before being eligible to
26 receive funding, all entities who are required to have an emergency
27 plan shall do either of the following:
28 (1) Describe the portion of their emergency plan that includes
29 power outages, whether resulting from power shutoff events or
30 for any other reason.
31 (2) Provide an attest_ti -Confirm that power outages, whether
32 resulting from power-slut-e€€shutoff •events or for any other reason,
33 will be included the next time the local or tribal government revises
34 any portion of its emergency plan.
35 (t) The office shall provide an annual report to the Assembly
36 Committee on Emergency Management and the Senate Committee
37 on Governmental Organization detailing, at a minimum, all of the
38 following:
39 (1) The number of applications received under this program to
40 date.
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1 (2) The total amount requested by eligible entities to date.
2 (3) How the eligible entities invested grants under this program.
3 (4) The effectiveness and performance metrics used in carrying
4 out this program.
5 (g) (1) The office shall monitor, track, and report to the
6 Legislature speck projects, per established protocols, to ensure
7 timely and effective utilization of allocated funds and staff
8 resources for the purpose of building resiliency to public safety
9 power shutoff events or other power outages.
10 (2) The office shall submit the report to the Legislature required
11 by this chapter in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government
12 Code.
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14 8654.17. The office shall r may retain up to 3 percent
15 of any appropriation to administer the program, including the
16 competitive grant resource allocation, approval determination, and
17 procedures for allocating preference points.
18 SEC. 2. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future
19 legislation to transfer--489 one hundred million dollars
20 ($100,000,000) to the office to support the Community Power
21 Resiliency Program as described in Section 1 of this act. If the
22 Legislature transfers-100 one hundred million dollars
23 ($100,000,000) to the office, the office shall allocate the funds
24 based on Section 1 of this act and the following:
25 (a) Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) to counties.
26 (b) Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) to cities.
27 (c) Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) to special districts.
28 (d) Seven million dollars ($7,000,000) to tribes.
29 SEC. 3. If the Legislature enacts future legislation to transfer
30 39 fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) to the office to support the
31 Community Power Resiliency Program as described in Section 1
32 of this act, the office shall allocate the funds based on Section 1
33 of this act and the following:
34 (a) Twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) to counties.
35 (b) Thirteen million dollars ($13,000,000) to cities.
36 (c) Thirteen million dollars ($13,000,000) to special districts.
37 (d) Two and one half illia million five hundred thousand
38 dollars ($2,500,000) to tribes.
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