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M E M O R a N D U M Karen Moran Lafayette Erhard Mahnke Legislative Liaison Legislative Liaison 109 Caroline Street 60 Grove St. Burlington, VT 05401 Burlington, VT 05401 802/862-9251 (h) 802/660-9484 (wk) 802/373-3366 (cell) 802/233-2902 (cell) [email protected] 802/859-9540 (fx) [email protected] M E M O R A N D U M TO: Mayor Miro Weinberger City Council President Joan Shannon City Council Members FROM: Karen Lafayette & Erhard Mahnke, Legislative Liaisons DATE: July 26, 2013 RE: 2013 Burlington Legislative Report It was our pleasure to represent the City of Burlington’s interests in Montpelier again this year. Attached please find our report on the final status of bills and issues we followed for the City during the 2013 session. We hope that it provides a helpful retrospective. As in other years, 2013 saw the Legislature consider a large number of bills affecting Burlington. We worked with Mayor Weinberger, department heads, other City officials, Burlington representatives and Chittenden County senators on the issues identified in the report. Our work included preparing and giving testimony before various committees, as well as arranging and co-ordinating the testimony of City officials. We also performed research, produced and disseminated informational pieces, and held meetings and informal conversations with legislators and State officials. We alerted the Mayor and appropriate City staff to bills and other State House developments affecting Burlington’s interests, assessed their impact on the City, and kept close tabs on them as they moved through the Legislature. Our work was made easier by the support we enjoyed from Mayor Weinberger and his staff, as well as from department heads and other City officials, many of whom joined us on a number of occasions at the State House to testify before numerous committees on a wide array of issues and bills and for meetings convened with the legislative delegation. Our job was further made easier by the hard work and considerable skill of all our Burlington representatives and Chittenden County senators. We appreciate their efforts on behalf of the City. Many thanks also to Steven Jeffrey, Karen Horn and the rest of the dedicated staff at the Vermont League of Cities and Towns (VLCT, the League), with whom we worked closely throughout the session. The League’s excellent “2013 Legislative Wrap-Up” is available online and provides further detail on many issues covered in our report, as well as a number of issues of general interest to municipalities that we were not directly involved in. If you have questions or concerns, as always, please feel free to contact either of us via the email addresses or phone numbers listed above. As in past years, we will monitor off-season meetings of relevant legislative committees over the summer and fall. We welcome the opportunity to represent the City in Montpelier. Thank you. 2013 BURLINGTON LEGISLATIVE REVIEW July 2013 Prepared by: Karen Lafayette & Erhard Mahnke Legislative Liaisons TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary ..................................................................................................... 1 Burlington/Chittenden Delegation & Committee Assignments ................... 8 Chittenden County Senators & Committees .............................................................................................. 8 Burlington/Winooski Representatives & Committees ............................................................................... 8 Education......................................................................................................................... 9 Education Financing & Property Taxes (H.265/Act 52) .............................................................................. 9 Other Education Tax Related Changes (H.265/Act 52; H.538/Act 60) ....................................................11 Other Education Policy Related Changes .................................................................................................12 Pre-Kindergarten Access (H.270) .............................................................................................................12 Agency Fees (S.14/Act 37) ........................................................................................................................13 Economic Development ............................................................................................ 14 Tax Incremental Financing (S.37/Act 80) .................................................................................................14 Cloud Computing Tax ...............................................................................................................................17 Downtown Bill (H.377/Act 59) .................................................................................................................17 Appropriations & Capital Bills (H.530/Act 50; H.533/Act 51) ...................... 18 Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) ...........................................................................................................19 Community Justice Center & Offender Re-Entry Housing .......................................................................19 Chittenden Rapid Intervention Community Court Program ....................................................................20 Recovery Center/Turning Point Funding ..................................................................................................21 Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program ............................................................................................................21 Church Street Marketplace Outreach Program .......................................................................................22 Municipal & Regional Planning ................................................................................................................22 Capital Bill (H.533/Act 51) ........................................................................................................................23 Public Safety & Corrections ..................................................................................... 23 Criminal Investigation Records (S.148/Act 70) .........................................................................................23 Opioid Addiction & Methamphetamine Abuse (H.522/Act 75) ...............................................................25 Environmental Protection & Permitting ............................................................ 26 Act 138 Reports ........................................................................................................................................26 Shoreland Protection (H.526; H.223) .......................................................................................................27 Flood Hazard Areas (H.401/Act 16) ..........................................................................................................29 Local Government ...................................................................................................... 30 Public Records (H.54/Act 23) ...................................................................................................................30 Open Meetings (H.497; S.110) .................................................................................................................30 Technical Tax Bill (H.295/Act 73) ..............................................................................................................32 Transportation (H.510/Act 12) ............................................................................... 33 State Funding for Highways and Bridges ..................................................................................................33 Champlain Parkway ..................................................................................................................................33 Transportation Alternatives / Bike & Pedestrian Facilities Programs ......................................................34 Rail Funding ..............................................................................................................................................34 Gas and Diesel Tax and Assessment .........................................................................................................34 Affordable Housing .................................................................................................... 34 Vermont Housing & Conservation Board (H.530/Act 50) ........................................................................35 Homeless Shelters and Homelessness Prevention (H.530/Act 50) ..........................................................35 Other Housing Related Funding (H.530/Act 50) ......................................................................................36 Vermont Neighborhoods Reform (H.377/Act 59) ....................................................................................37 Energy ............................................................................................................................. 39 Siting of Electric Generation Plants (S.30/Act 38) ....................................................................................39 Thermal Efficiency (H.520/Act 89; H.216) ................................................................................................39 Other Energy/Utility Related Bills ............................................................................................................40 Health Care (H.107/Act 79; S.152/Act
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