Good morning.

I'm going to call this meeting to order.

This is the legislative committee.

Call the role.

I just say that.

On um September 25th, we are at 450.

I'm sorry, 1250.

We are at 1150.

Would help that go as a meeting.

I'll call the roll.

Donald handling.

Anna Brawley.

Janice Park.

And then also in the room, I know we have uh Ms.

Silvers.

Are there any members on the phone at this point?

Martinez is still on the line.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Martinez.

And all in uh we can announce any other members.

And I'll also note um so this is a transitional meeting.

Um, so we have a new chair of the legislative committee, Miss Janice Park.

Um, and uh I am uh kind of helping with support.

So uh we'll kind of be jumping back and forth, but just to note that as well.

No unfinished business and our new business.

Um we will review the committee purpose statement, which is that the assembly legislative committee provides guidance to the assembly and the administration and recommendations regarding the municipalities federal, state, and local legislative priorities.

The committee prepares recommendations for the municipality's six-year capital program and budget priorities, as well as potential statute changes and collaborates with the administration to create the anchorage list legislative program submitted annually to the state legislature.

The committee also serves as a forum for review and deliberation of statute changes and other legislation and policies that affect impact the municipality and inquiry as a whole.

So for new business.

The chair recognizes Ms.

Brawley.

Thank you.

Uh just briefly I'll note um so I think this uh item reviewing the purpose statement or or the mission statement is gonna be on several of our committee meet uh agendas, so not necessarily because they'll change, but just to note we did make some changes to our committees, and of course it's always useful for um for us to look back and kind of see what the intent of these uh various committees are.

So again, I'll just note um I think that's a discussion to have with this committee if there are uh substantive changes that we would want to make, um, but otherwise just pointing folks to that and and showing that the scope of this committee is both the um uh the uh legislative program, which we'll be talking about today, and then generally a place to discuss uh pending legislation or things that would affect us um at the local level.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Um so I want to give a brief overview before we move on.

Um so most of today's meeting, I think the intent is to discuss the upcoming legislative program, but in order to do that, want to remind folks um of again the purpose of this committee.

And I'll also note there has been um pretty much a full turnover of leadership over the last few years.

And so we're also uh kind of restarting this committee uh as we move into one of our core functions, which is the legislative program.

So just very briefly, I'll describe the legislative committee as existed for a long time.

Um it has uh in the it really, I think it's always been charged with developing the legislative program, not meaning that that we the committee members decide everything that's in it, but that we go through the process uh because in code, we are required to introduce a legislative program before the budget is approved and pass that uh legislative program before September or sorry, before December 10th.

And so there's a very specific timeline in code.

Uh the legislative program is not um specifically defined in terms of its format.

So we'll come back to kind of what it has looked like and what we would want it to look like now.

Uh but just in general, that is and has been the core function of this committee.

Uh in 2023, uh I was a prior chair of this committee, and we also really expanded its uh scope and function to meet uh not just during the fall to develop this program, but also to meet semi-regularly during legislative state legislative session to discuss uh what was going on uh during session, you know, things uh whether it was folks bringing resolutions of support for uh state bills that were moving through.

We heard from our lobbyist um at the state level what was going on with the budget and and other issues.

So that's kind of been the function of this committee.

I think right now um currently I'm serving as vice chair with the intent of stepping down uh after the conclusion of this year's program and bringing on new leadership there.

And uh and then having um Ms.

Park be uh chair and maybe either another uh vice chair or another co-chair uh at that time, but really making sure that we have that overlap.

Uh I was not participating in this committee because I was conflicted out with a prior uh job that I had.

And then um member Johnson, who has been the chair or vice chair of the committee um for most of the same time frame, uh also is conflicted out right now.

So so putting all of that on the record just to say um that we are just taking a few minutes to remind folks what this committee does, what it's for, and um what our job ahead is.

So um so I'll turn it back to the chair and see if there's any questions or additional comments on that.

Are there any questions?

Yeah, we can move on there.

Okay.

Uh I'm sorry.