CC - Item 4F - Authorization To Attend Annual League Of CA Cities Conference, October 2-5, 2002, Long BeachD
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR
AND MEMBERS
ROSEMEAD CITY COUNCIL
FROM: BILL OWE, CITY MANAGER
DATE: NL 2002
RE: AUTHORIZATION TO ATTEND ANNUAL LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA
CITIES CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 2-5,2002, LONG BEACH
Attached for your consideration is information regarding the aforementioned conference. This
year's conference includes sessions on Homeland Security, Brown Act, Land Use, Proposition
218 Update, Public/Private Redevelopment, and a Housing Element Update. The Council and
staff have attended this conference in the past and it has proven to be of benefit to the City.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the Rosemead City Council authorize the attendance of any Council
Member, the City Attorney, the City Manager and staff designee.
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YOUTH PROGRAM
There will be a youth leadership component at the confer-
ence. Invite several young leaders of high school age in
your city to join you at the conference and benefit from
learning about the many issues with which you are
involved. While the youth are welcome at all sessions,
several sessions will be directed especially to them. They
will have the chance to learn what other cities are doing to
engage young people, and they will have the chance to
develop an action plan to share when they return home.
Special announcements were mailed to each mayor and _
city manager, with detailed information about how to
include youth in your citv's delegation to the conference.
For a copy of this information, click on the Annual Conference
section of the League's website at www.cocities.org/ac
25TH ANNUAL EXPO
sit the Expo Thursday and Friday and meet with repre-
sentatives from over 275 private firms, non-profit organi-
zations and public agencies providing products and servic-
es for solutions to the issues YOU face! The Expo is a
one-stop-shopping experience where the products and
services relate to all areas of your city and can make a dif-
ference in your community. With 320 booths, the Expo '
promises to be a vital resource to supplement the confer-
ence sessions. 'eriew a list of current exhibitors at wmw.caci-
ties.org/expo.
EXPO SCHEDULE (tentativeexpohours)
Thursday, October 3
12:00 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Complimentary Delegate Luncheon
Afternoon Beverage Break
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Afternoon Beverage Break
Exhibitor Prize Drawings -
Please visit wm~%cacities.org/expo for updates.
"City Staff Free Expo Admission" will be Thursday,
October 3, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Friday,
October 4, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. This is an opporm-
nkv for city staff members not attending or registered for
the conference to take advantage of the resources of the
Expo. Your staff can pick up a FREE PASS to the Expo
Floor at the League Expo Desk located in the Exposition
Hall of the Long Beach Convention Center. For more
information, contact JUlia X illianis, Exposition Manager,
916/658-8237.'.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM TOPICS (nbcamrhange)
Department Sessions
THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 10:45-NOON
(These program topics are in addition to each department's annual
business meeting.)
Mayors and Council Members: Leadership and Advocacy id Your
Community
City Attorneys: General Municipal Litigation Update
City Managers: (No program; strategic business only)
City Clerks: Do's & Taboos in International Business Etiquette
Employee Relations Officers: Retirement Issues in the Coming Decade
Fire Chiefs: The Fire Chiefs Role in Building Grassroots Support
Fiscal Officers: The California State Economy: Where Are We Headed
and How Soon
Planners: New Approaches to Housing: Changing Options
and Attitudes to Meet Evolving Needs -
Police Chiefs: Attorney General's All-Zone Meeting
The Police Chief-Manager Relationship
Public Works Officers: Reauthorization of TEA-21
Parks, Recreation & Community Services: The Future of Community
Services (part of the continuing series during the conference)
(Note: The conference schedule may be modified to accommodate
the major gubernatorial candidates who have been invited to
address the conference.)
This year the conference structure includes a number of concurrent
"keynote programs" followed by "keynote focus sessions." This format
allows the Larger sessions to provide an update and essential overview
on several major issues facing cities. The following focus sessions will
address the implications of those issues from different perspectives rel-
evant to various city functions. This format is designed to allow for
more in-depth discussion and engagement of all attendees.
The Future of Community Services:
Working Together To Meet Critical Needs
Legal Track
The Annual Conference offers a special opportunity for city attorneys
and others interested in municipal law to keep current and compe-
tent. These sessions will provide briefing on the Latest Legal develop-
ments that affects cities, while providing continuing legal education
credit. The city attorneys have structured their program to provide
several topics that complement conference macro sessions. These and
other sessions, such as the Council-Manger Form of Government, may
also be of interest to non-city attorneys. (These sessions are not
structured as keynote and focus sessions.)
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Topics;
1. General Municipal Litigation Update (Thurs. 10:45 a.m.)
2. Personnel and Land Use Litigation Updates (Thurs. 1:45 p.m.)
City Attorneys will provide summaries of recent cases and their
impact on cities. -
3. Council-Manager Form of Government (Thurs. 3:45 p.m.)
- A Historical Perspective on Governance, and panel discussing
the City Attorney and City Manager relationship
4. Homeland Security (Fri. 8:45 a.m.) .
- Dealing with Disruptive Members of the Public
- Physical Security and Elected Officials
- The Brown Act and Open Government
5. Fiscal Issues (Fri. 10:15 a.m.) .
- Franchise Fees at Risk
Proposition 218 Update
- Debt Limit
6. Land Use (Fri. 1:30 p.m.)
- Developments in Building Code Law
- Do's and Don'ts of Major Public/Private Redevelopment and
Public Contract Projects
- Intergovernmental Immunities
- Housing Element Update
Litigation Update, Substance Abuse
and Stress Management (Fri. 3:30 p.m.)
- Tort and Civil Rights Litigation Update
- Recognizing the Signs of Substance Abuse in Others
- Stress Management
Thursday morning through Friday afternoon
In this special series of sessions, beginning with the Parks,
Recreation and Community Services Department meeting on Thursday
morning, city officials will have an opportunity to work with commu-
nity services groups to find common ground and develop strategies
for working together to form the city of tomorrow. This series of ses-
sions and focused workshop discussions will, constitute a "conference
within a conference" and Lead to a plan for both immediate city
actions and future community services workshops. Sessions will dis-
cuss what individual professions under the community services
umbrella will be facing, how these professions can collaborate and
adapt to meet future needs, and how collectively they can become a
powerful force in engaging residents to participate more knowledge,
ably, responsibly and effectively in their community.
Keeping the Money LOCAL: Building the Support
Thursday 1:45 p.m. . -
With the State's extremely tight budget condition, aLl local agencies
are in jeopardy of having their money cut. But public financing is
difficult for the public to grasp. If we are to help the public under-
stand their options and their implications, and maintain control over
their own ability to govern themselves, we must take careful and
deliberate action - NOW!
This Macro Session will provide an essential framework by which to
consider what steps cities can take to retain and stabilize their fiscal
condition; the overall economic conditions impacting cities; the
political context that is driving the State's fiscal decisions; and what
is likely to occur in the months and years ahead. This session will set
the stage for the following Focus Sessions that will explore implica-
tions and actions for aLL city departments.
Focus Sessions: Thursday 3:45o.m.
A. Nurturing the Grassroots: Strategies for Building Support
B. Telling Your Department's Story
C. Effectively Communicating Difficult-to-Understand Information
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM TOPICS (ul;r tv ciavrge)
Public Confidence and Ethics
Thursday, 1:45 p.m.. "
Over the past year,, the League's non-profit research arm, the Institute
for Local Self Government, has been exploring the issue of public
confidence and public official ethics. This session. brings together
leading thinkers on the issue of public ethics and its effect on public
agencies' ability to solve community problems. What happens when
the public perceives public officials as either ethical or unethical?
What are some of the variables that affect that perception? Is ethics
about complying with ethical laws, or something more?
Cities and Homeland Security
Friday 8:45 a.m.
Generally, no level of government is better positioned to provide secu-
rity at home than cities. No other level of government is as close to
the people, nor as much in contact with so many people. Traditionally,
cities have been "out of the loop" regarding threats to security. With
a new interest in homeland security, cities must play a new role. This
session will provide an essential overview of what the Federal and
State levels are planning to enhance security, and how cities can fit
into and influence that effort.
Focus Sessions (in seauencel:
A. Exploring Ethical Dilemmas Faced By Local Officials
(Thurs. 3:45 p.m.)
B. Developing a City Code of Ethics and Values
(Fn. 10:15 a.m.)
C. Ethics and Political Campaigns (Fri. 1:30 p.m.)
D. Ethics and the Law (Fri. 3:30 p.m.)
The Tech Savvy City
Thursday, 1:45 p.m.
Increasingly cities are tapping the benefits of technology to better
serve their residents. Cities are gaining from new technological devel-
opments almost daily. This session will provide an overview of the
wide range of technology applications and stretch your imagination
about some of the things that will benefit your city. It will set the
stage for the focus sessions that will address tech developments in.
specific areas..
Focus Sessions:
A. Tech Developments in Public Safety (Thurs. 3:45 p.m.)
B. Tech Developments in Planning and Public Works
(Thurs. 3:45 p.m.)
C. Tech Developments in Administration (Thurs. 3:45 p.m.)
D. Tech Developments in Issue and Constituent
Tracking (Fri. 10:15 a.m.)
Engaging the Future: Youth Involvement
in Your City
Thursday, 1:45 p.m.
Continuing the League's support for involving the youth of your cities,
this portion of the conference will be appealing to both members of
cities youth delegations attending the conference and city officials
themselves. This macro session will consider the diverse and changing
needs of our young people, how cities can help these needs get met,
and how young people themselves can participate in meeting these
needs. This is also a great way for the youth delegation to meet each
other so they can more easily work together in the days ahead.
Be sure to bring a delegation of youth from your city to introduce
them to the issues that affect their city and their future. It can be a
life-changing experience for them, and connect them to their commu-
nity for the rest of their lives.
Focus Sessions (in seauencel:
A. Successful Youth Programs (Thurs. 3:45 p.m.)
B. Local Government Curricula (Fri. 10:15 a.m.)
C. City-School Partnerships (Fri. 3:30 p.m.)
D. Planning Your Future: Applying Your Learning (Sat.8:30 a.m.)
Focus Sessions:
A. Policies and Programs to Advance Security: Dealing With
Disruptive Members of the Public; Physical Security and Elected
Officials; The Brown Act and Open Government
(Legal Session, Fri. 8:45 a.m.)
B. Roles for Other City Departments (Fri. 10:15 a.m.)
C. Roles for Local Public Safety Agencies (Fri. 10:15 a.m.)
Symposium on the Future
of Local Government Finance
Friday 8:45 a.m.
What trends will shape the way cities pay for the services and
infrastructure on which California's future depends? The League of
California Cities has asked the Institute for Local Self Government to
address this question in a symposium that will be part of the Annual
Conference Program. The Institute for Local Self Government is the
research arm of the League. The symposium focuses on the future of
the sales tax in California, one the most important revenue sources
for law enforcement, fire protection and other vital local services.
The symposium will begin by addressing:
Meeting Service Needs through Revenue Diversification
Many cities around the nation are exploring revenue diversification as
a way to preserve funding for important local services in a slowing
economy. What revenue diversification opportunities exist for
California cities? What policy changes are needed to enable cities to
take advantage of these opportunities? This session offers practical
perspectives on revenue diversification as a tong-term response to
the challenge of fiscal constraints.
Focus Sessions (in sequence):
A. The Sales Tax Chase: Myth and Reality (Fri. 10:15 a.m.)
B. Sales Tax and E-Commerce (Fri. 1:30 p.m.)
C. National Sales Tax Reform (Fri. 3:30 p.m.)
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM TOPICS (n,rca ra cbnngc,
The Future of Our Environment
Council-Staff Relations for Effective Leadership
Friday 8:45 a.m
There are numerous competing forces and issues facing cities that
make city environmental policies, plans and programs difficult to
accomplish. Various public agencies have conflicting requirements.
Economic forces often seem contrary to environmental advocates.
Even research and experience are not always consistent. As city Lead-
ers you are faced with competing values on which to base your deci-
sions and actions.
This session will frame these competing issues and values in a way
that can help you in guiding your city's policies and programs. It will
consider real and emerging issues to help you engage your residents
and local interest groups in productive dialogue with the chance of
leading to agreement. Follow up focus sessions will address specific
issues facing cities today. ' .
Focus Sessions:
A. NPDES and Water Quality Issues:
What's a City to Do?(Fri. 10:15 a.m.)
B. Balancing Development, Agriculture, Open Space, and
. Environmental Interests (Fri. 10:15 a.m.)
C. Environmental Justice: Developing with a Clean Environment
for All (Fri. 10:15 a.m.)
D. Legal Issues: Green Building Ordinances; Public/Private
Development Projects; Intergovernmental Immunities
(Legal session, Fri. 1:30 p.m.)
HELP! Who's Going to Do The Work?
Friday, 1:30 p.m.
Employers, be they private or public, who do not change to accommo-
date the evolving workforce will find themselves without an adequate
workforce. People's work styles and ethics are not what they used to
be. People's cultural background and behaviors lead to different val-
ues and actions. And in the next few years we can expect an inordi-
nate number of retirements among senior, experienced, employees
that will drain our workforce of much talent in all municipal depart-
ments. We will be forced to do things differently.
This session will describe these changes and their implications for
cities and for our communities. How will the population of our cities
change? What work will be available in our cities? What will the pub-
lic expect of city hall? Learn about the future of your city.
Focus Sessions: Friday 330 p.m.
A. Implications for City Hall: Public Safety and Outside Services
B. Implications for City Hall: Internal Support Services
C. Implications for Your Community: Changes in Employers,
Workforce, Education, and Residents
D. Substance Abuse and Stress Management
Recognizing the Signs of Substance Abuse in Others
Stress Management (Legal Session, Fri. 3:30 p.m.)
Friday, 1:30 p.m.
No organization, public or private, can function well in the public
interest if its leaders are not prepared and do not understand their
proper roles and the legal and ethical requirements of their positions
and actions.
A key to a trustworthy and well-functioning organization is a leader-
ship team that works well together, respecting each other (though
not necessarily always agreeing), and focusing on the greater public
good. This session will set the stage for focus discussion by providing
some useful guidelines and some relevant case studies.
Focus Sessions
A. Council-Manager Form of Government
A Historical Perspective on Governance City Attorney and City
Manager relationship (Legal session, Thurs. 3:45 p.m.)
B. The Elements of a Good Team: Criteria For Selection and
Evaluation of Top Staff (Fri. 3:30 p.m.)
C. Understanding Roles and Relations in the Council-Manager
System (Sat. 8:30 a.m.)
Providing Housing for Californians
Friday 1:30 p.m.
Studies indicate over 500,000 people will be added to California's
population each year for the next decade - over five million people!
Most will live in our cities. Not only will our infrastructure be
strained, our housing supply simply won't handle that increase unless
we begin acting now. Powerful advocates are pressing us on all sides
to respond in diverse ways to meet this housing crisis. Can we meet
these needs with methods of the past? Do we need to develop new
alternatives for design, construction, financing? What about the
famous "jobs-housing balance" idea is that realistic? Or do we need
to develop new attitudes in the marketplace?
This session will provide solid insights on the demographics behind
these numbers, and introduce the implications for cities. This infor-
mation will lay the foundation for the focus sessions.
Focus Sessions: .
A. Who Should Be In Charge? Crafting Processes
to Provide Housing (Fri 3:30p.m.)
B. Latino Caucus Session: Providing Affordable
and Farm Worker Housing (Fri 3:30p.m.)
C. Helping Provide Housing with the Statewide Community
Infrastructure Program (Fri 3:30p.m.)
D.- Housing Element Update (Legal Session, Fri. 1:30 p.m.)
IV. CONSENT CALENDAR
CC-A APPROVAL OF UNDERTAKING AGREEMENT FOR PARCEL MAP 26446 -
7637-7641 GRAVES AVENUE
CC-B EXTENSION OF AGREEMENT WITH MARIPOSA LANDSCAPES
CC-C RENEWAL OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY COUNCIL OF
GOVERNMENTS
CC-D AUTHORIZATION TO REJECT CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY FROM
MICHAEL AND LINDA DUNLAP-
CC-E ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROSEMEAD REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR .
FISCAL YEAR 2000-01
Oftm!~sC-r AUTHORIZATION TO ATTEND ANNUAL LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES
CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 2-5,2002, LONG BEACH
MOTION BY COUNCILMAN IMPERIAL, SECOND BY COUNCILMAN TAYLOR that the
Council approve the aforementioned items on the Consent Calendar. Vote resulted:
Yes:
Imperial, Taylor, Clark, Vasquez
No:
None
Absent:
Bruesch
Abstain:
None
Shhe Mayor declared said motion duly carried and.so.ordered.
V. MATTERS FOR DISCUSSION AND ACTION - None
VI. STATUS REPORTS - None
VI. MATTERS FROM OFFICIALS
A. RESOLUTION NO. 2002-30 - RELATIVE TO THE EXTRADITION OF
CRIMINALS
The following Resolution was presented to the-Council for adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 2002-30
CCMIN:7-09-02
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