Good afternoon and welcome to the Almight County Board of Supervisors Personnel Administration and Legislation Committee for Monday, July the 13th, 2026.

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Supervisor Perdonado Pass.

Supervisor TAM.

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Thank you very much.

We will start with the legislative update from the federal government side.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

You've got Emily DeSilva here and Curtis Erdman as well.

I know when we spoke last week, we told you that both the House and Senate were in recess for the last two weeks.

So they are both coming back today following that recess.

And one quick item I wanted to bring up.

I know we talked about this last week as well, but the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, that bipartisan housing legislation did become law this weekend.

President Trump, as we talked about last week, chose not to sign uh nor to veto the bill out of protest regarding the Save Act stalling in the Senate, but it did um it did become law over the weekend.

Um I guess you know the big news, and I know y'all have seen it, but it's uh the passing of Senator Lindsay Graham and then of course Senator Mitch McConnell being gone.

Um all of that uh or those two things, um, and no return date announced for Mitch McConnell, uh just has the Senate Republicans operating uh two votes short, 51 to 47.

And so the narrow margin does have immediate consequences for close votes across the agenda.

Um it was just announced uh at four o'clock Eastern that um the governor of South Carolina will appoint um Senator Graham's sister to fill the seat through the current term, and I just heard that could be as soon as Wednesday.

So there could be some delays earlier in the week, but it's our understanding that she will um uh was nominations and attorney general nominee Todd Delanch needs unified Republican support on the Judiciary Committee where Democrats plan united opposition so um and Senator Graham was among one of his strongest backers.

Um that will likely be delayed until um his sister is seated as uh the senator for for the remainder of the term.

But again, we expect that to be on Wednesday.

I think the bigger issue is um Senator McConnell's absence and how that plays out with appropriations.

And I know we had talked to a good bit about that um last week uh in that Senate Appropriations Committee is unable to mark up its appropriations bills with him gone, and of course he chairs defense appropriations.

So we'll see how that kind of plays out.

It was our understanding that Senator Collins, the chair of the full committee, would end up uh simply posting all of the appropriations bills.

Uh they would just simply be drafts uh as opposed to actually marking up uh in committee and then trying to work out um differences with the house uh in the fall, really after the midterms.

Um, in terms of the House floor, uh kind of switching gears from the Senate.

If you recall, House Republican leaders have not passed a rule in three weeks due to the conservative blockade led by Representative Luna over the Save Act.

And basically, as we talked about last week, the House has been able to pass it.

It's um, you know, the Senate, where there just are not the votes to move it.

Nothing appears to have changed over the recess, but leadership will attempt for a third time this week to move a rule covering national security state appropriations, um, a veterans package, uh, and a couple other bills.

Uh, President Trump did meet with Speaker Johnson at the White House at 3 o'clock today, so there may be a plan moving forward uh to kind of break that impasse.

Um, in terms of appropriations, again, if they're able to break that impasse, uh, they will pass uh national security state on the House floor.

And then we expect the House to take up several other bills before they leave for the August recess.

Um, again, you know, we don't see them reaching uh final deals on any bills until after the midterms.

The bigger piece right now is the defense supplemental.

And I know we mentioned last week that OMB did send up a request to Congress seeking 67 billion in near term supplemental funding for the Iran conflict and has warned that it needs the money by August.

So the vehicle for that, the legislative vehicle remains unsettled.

Uh Speaker Johnson favors moving the funding through reconciliation, while Leader Thune has preferred a standalone measure passed with Democratic support.

Um both paths face some challenges.

Uh Democratic support for additional war funding has eroded since further since uh strikes resumed this weekend.

Uh, and the reconciliation process is unlikely to deliver funds uh on the timeline the Pentagon is saying that it needs, since there are only eight House legislative days before the August recess.

So I think we need to see, you know, once the House and Senate come back this week and see kind of how things can get uh kind of unlocked on the House floor and start to move.

But I mean, there is some concern that that bills are piling up and there it will be difficult to get much done uh before the August recess.

As of now, the House is supposed to be in session, I think these next two weeks.

The Senate uh is supposed to be in session for an additional third week.

Um, but again, with a number of issues that need to be taken up, primarily FY27 approbes and then the supplemental.

So that's kind of state of play.

Again, I think once we see uh members come back and the various conferences have their meetings early this week, we'll see if they're able to kind of unstick a few things and start to move.

Um happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, Emily.

Uh we had some technical issues.

I think you froze just for a few seconds when you were talking about um Senator Graham being a strongest backer.

We weren't sure what was the what he was the strongest backer of.

Oh, um I think I was uh talking about uh Todd Blanch, his nomination uh for attorney general in the judiciary committee.

And so he was gonna, you know, help move that along.

Um, again, because uh the governor announced um his replacement just today, I think things are gonna move faster than we originally anticipated.

And so um I think as soon as Wednesday, um his sister could could uh fill the seat, and so things can can proceed in committees um in the Senate.

Uh, of course, they're still missing Mitch McConnell, but as far as the Judiciary Committee and getting that nomination out of committee, that should be able to move now.

Okay, thank you very much.

Uh Supervisor Putin out of asked questions or comments.

Um, that was a thorough report.

I don't think I have any questions.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um, the only comment I'm going to make is to echo what uh Supervisor Miley, who chairs the health committee said this morning.

Uh, when we're looking at HUD funding, we're looking at $4.3 billion for the entire nation.

And we just talked about $67 billion for the Iran war.

Our priorities are not where they're supposed to be nationally.

But that's a comment for another day.

Um are there any other public comments on our federal legislative update?

There are no public comments.

Okay.

There's been uh requests from the Alameda County Health Department on opposing two rulemakings in EPA.

One is to extend the compliance deadline for PFOS maximum contaminant levels, and the other is the rescission of a regulatory determination and removal of related provisions related to four PFAS substances, and these substances are of great concern, puts it clearly in the groundwater levels that we're seeing in some of the tri-valley um testing.

So the opposition is around the concern of lack of attention and compliance, and there's opposition from our health department.

Do we have concurrence on opposing these two rules?

Yes, I do concur.

I definitely appreciate the work of our health agency and uh looking at the PFAS issue.

So I will happily make a motion to move these uh two opposition positions to the full board.

I'll second.

Supervisor Bortunato Bounds.

Supervisor Town.

Aye.

Motion pass.

Thank you.

And thank you, Emily, again for your thorough report.

We will move to the state legislative update uh from full moon strategies.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Vanessa Flores here with full moon strategies to deliver the state legislative report.

Business has been quiet in Sacramento this past week as the California state legislature is currently on its month-long summer recess.

Once the legislature returns on August 3rd, lawmakers will have until August 31st a complete action on all remaining legislation.

On the topic of budget news and revenue generating propositions, Governor Gavin Newsom signed several budget bills this past week, including Senate Bill 177, also known as the Fair Share from Big Corporations Act, which would require the Department of Finance to present on or before March 1st of 2027 one or more options to the legislature for holding the state's largest corporations accountable for the taxpayer costs of their employees enrolled in the medical program.

Lawmakers continue to express interest and revenue measures to address the state's structural budget shortfall.

The enacted budget largely avoids many of the cuts caused by HR1 by delaying spending rather than cutting ongoing spending to address increased costs.

In addition to the bit the fair share from big corporations act, proposition two will appear on the ballot.

Prop two, also known as the Safe for California Future Act, would allow the state to deposit up to 20% of its general fund tax revenue into its rainy day fund each year instead of the current 10%.

The state would also spend some tax or the state could also spend some tax revenue to pay down its 20 billion federal unemployment insurance debt.

There will also be Prop 3, which would provide permanent funding for schools health care by extending existing tax on high incomes rates apply to personal income over 360,000 for single filers, 721,000 for joint filers, and 490 for head of households.

It also allocates 89% of tax revenues to K-12 schools and 11% to community colleges.

It would also allow local school boards to decide how revenues are spent and would increase general fund revenues available for education, health care, budget reserves, and other programs.

The tax would generate between 5 billion to 15 billion each year for K-12 schools and community colleges and is set to expire in 2031.

Lastly, we'll tax which impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on the assets of roughly 200 California billionaires payable over five years.

90% of the revenue would go to health care for low-income Californians and 10% to education and food assistance programs.

As mentioned earlier, the legislature will reconvene on August 3rd, and when they do, it'll be busy as committee hearings resume.

The Senate Appropriations Committee will be considering over 500 measures, and the assembly appropriations committee will be considering over 300 measures.

Lawmakers will have until August 14th to hear and report fiscal bills to the floor.

And with that, that includes our presentation.

Thank you.

Do you have any comments or questions?

Yes, just a quick question and a comment.

I think that you cut out when you were describing the wealth tax.

What proposition number is that one assigned?

Proposition 40, the billionaires tax.

Is that the one?

4-0.

Yes.

440.

Thank you.

Um I appreciate the report.

I wanted to just mention that assemblymember Bonta had introduced AB 40, the community first coal review act recently.

That was um partly in response to Trump allocating 75 million for the proposed West Oakland coal export terminal.

Given how quick how close we are to the end of the legislative cycle, I wanted to share that my office, given that we represent West Oakland, we did send a support letter for that bill.

West Oakland has been very, very impacted by pollution and other environmental and health issues, which are very well documented and coal also is very very well documented in terms of the science in terms of harming people's health.

And so I think that the bill is very important to make sure that we are looking at the current science, looking at uh the current health information, and making sure that we are doing what we can to protect the health of our communities.

So just wanted to share that.

We didn't have enough time to bring it through PAL, but just wanted to share that with the committee.

Do we know the status of that legislation?

Um it is moving forward.

Um just a second.

Um it's in it's on the Senate side now.

I don't know if full moon knows exactly where it is or if my staff knows exactly where it is.

Is it on the floor at the Senate yet?

Currently in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Thank you.

Yes.

And it's set for a hearing on August 3rd.

You're welcome.

August 3rd.

Yes.

Um, thank you.

I know that this legislation was considered at the um Berea Air Districts uh policy and legislation committee.

Uh at that time, there was no uh specificity on the role of the airboard because it was talking about looking at um uh redoing the uh CEQA analysis because uh of the need for updated information and uh maybe we will hear it more at our next meeting at the air board and uh hopefully we can take a position at that time as well.

Um, so I don't have any other questions or comments.

So do we have any public comments on the state legislative update portion?

There are no public comments.

Okay.

So we have a request from Supplybank.org and the East Bay Municipal Utility to support assemblymember Bonta's um appropriation requests for $10 million in state funding to advance phase one of the Oakport campus project in East Oakland.

And this project would essentially become a climate resilient infrastructure and emergency response oversight or sort of like an emergency services structure.

That would be housed in one location in responding to potential disasters.

And I understand we have a representative today that would like to speak on that request.

Hi, good afternoon.

Good to see you both and staff.

My name's Benito Delgado Olson.

I'm the executive director of Supply Bank.org.

We're the nonprofit developer of the Oakport project.

I know you're both familiar with it because you've both participated in many of the successes we've had to date, but just to restate for the record, this is one of many phases of the project.

This is a phase that really looks at the critical industrial infrastructure, i.e.

a state-of-the-art warehouse and distribution center for both supply bank for us to house emergency response supplies that we use during times of crises, but also for our ongoing programs, many of which you've participated in here in the counties for basic material needs, school supplies, diapers, hygiene, things like that.

For our partners at the water utility, EB MUD, this will do a whole host of wonderful things.

Uh, some of which you've just articulated in terms of uh their longtime stance as a leader and things like disaster assistance and mutual aid for other water agencies, but it will also support their day-to-day operations throughout the county for things like catastrophic breaks or accidents or localized emergencies.

It also uh builds their uh job training programs for the locals that are part of uh their pipe replacement teams.

Uh and really just uh a tip of the hat to them, the county, the city, uh which is also supporting this effort, uh, it's been uh a big collaboration and there's much more work ahead.

This 10 million dollar proposal, which is being led by our assembly member, really focuses on the dollars that we can't identify through standing grant programs.

Uh we have applied for many grants, uh, we've been awarded some, some are pending, there's others that are scheduled in the future, uh, but that's where this number came from, and that's what it's for.

The only other detail I would offer just because I know it's important uh in this budget climate that we're in, is the dollars that are being targeted, which are articulated and I believe in the assembly members' letter, are uh GGRF and Prop 4 and not general funds so we're not seeking to compete with um the dollars that fund all of the critical services that the county and others provide.

So uh other than that, I would just share that if there are any uh highly technical questions.

Uh Jennifer Galehouse and Griselda Chavez from EEC, which are our contract lobbyists and our capital team are on the line as well.

Uh, and I'm also happy to answer any questions and just thank you for the opportunity to support the item.

Thank you.

Um, so this is a request uh through my office to send a letter of support uh for this appropriation by assemblymember Banta's office, and we'll uh send a request to the full board for authorization to send a letter.

So do I have concurrence on having the full board send a letter of support for this appropriation for the Oakport campus project?

Yes, I'm happy to make a motion to move this to the full board.

Okay, I will second the motion.

Supervisor Bortunato Bass.

Aye.

Supervisor Tam?

Aye.

Motion passed.

Thank you.

Thank you for your presentation.

And do we have any public comments on items that are not on today's agenda?

There are no comments.

Okay, thank you.

This meeting stands adjourned.