LEGISLATION AND LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES PRIORITY FOCUS BULLETINS Issues # 33 and 34 dated August 19 and 26 2005. Annual Conference October 5 8 2005 San Francisco STEPPING IT UP! LEAGUE ANNUAL CONFERENCE SET FOR OCTOBER 5 8 IN SAN FRANCISCO August 19 2005 Issue #33 2005 One year after the League s outstanding victory winning Proposition 1A on the statewide ballot the League of California Cities 2005 Annual Conference is back in San Francisco for the first time since 1997 with a theme of Stepping it Up. This is the conference you won t want to miss and can t afford to miss if you want to join in this effort to raise the level of achievements for California cities. For more see Page 6. LEAGUE EXPRESSES OPPOSITION OF S. 1504 TO FEINSTEIN AND BOXER The League of California Cities wrote to Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer this week expressing its opposition to S. 1504 the Broad band Investment and Consumer Choice Act. For more see Page 4. SENATE HEARING FOCUSES ON EMINENT DOMAIN The Senate Local Government Committee held an informational hearing on August 17 to examine how the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London affects California law. For more see Page 7. Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES COMMISSION ENGAGES IN STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS ICMA TO HOLD WEBCAST ON BRAC ILG RELEASES ETHICS LAW COMPLIANCE BEST PRACTICES GUIDE W2I DIGITAL CITIES CONVENTION SET FOR OCTOBER READY TO TAKE YOUR CITY DIGITAL? HOUSING RESOURCE CENTER CONTINUES TO EXPAND BILL SUMMARIES WANT MORE DETAILS ON BILLS? Visit the League of California Cities website at www.cacities.org/ billsearch. ICMA(cid:160)TO HOLD WEBCAST ON BRAC The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) will hold a webcast on base realignment and closure (BRAC) topics on Tues day September 13 at 11 a.m. PST. The webcast is sponsored in part by Lennar LNR and is for local government officials and others likely to be impacted by the 2005 BRAC round. The webcast is desi...
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