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Advocacy Search Legislative issue areas by clicking on the topic areas Welcome to AWC’s online library of Legislative Bulletinand Cityvoice news articles and other listed below. Find Legislative updates. Bulletinarticles, Cityvaice articles, and other updates. FJE.’ ‘f'“i:..)( ‘. Luglolatlvn Issues Preparations for the 2017 legislative session. From the Government Relations Director Even as summer arrives, there is more going on in preparation for the start of the 2017 legislative Budget & ?nance session on January 10 than you might think. When legislators return and statewide ofiice holders Energy settle in, there willbe much at stake for cities large and small - such as slate-shared revenues, programs that help or hinder maintaining our infrastructure, and allowing cities to make choices to Environment & land use keep their communities safe, strong and vibrant. Check out some "snapshots" of what's in play. Federal state revenues are on the rise, but that doesn't mean there's enough to go around —An updated state revenue forecast was released last week and projected there will be just over $300 General government million more oorning in by next June than originally forecast. Modest growth in our economy is Housing projected, and a strong real estate market and continued consumer spending plays a large part in that. However, when looking at an overall state general fund budget of more than $38 billion, this Human services small uptick doesn't come close to meeting demands. Infrastructure Also last week the states budget director infonned state agencies preparing budget requests for the Marijuana 201 ‘M 9 Operating and Capital budgets to essentially ask for no more than they currently get, and to focus on ways to save and stretch those resources. In his letter dated June 10. the budget director Open government noted that both state agencies and their local partners (that includes cities) “should otherwise expect Personnel to manage within current projected state resources. Competition for available resources willbe intense.” Public safety 5. criminal justice

Legislators continue to grapple with K-12 funding — A bipartisan Joint Education Funding Task Transportation Force continues to meet in attempt to find common ground to address the Mccleary K-12funding gap that has been front and center the last several years. While continuing to be held in contempt by the state Supreme Court, legislators are trying to ?nd ways to raise or reallocate somewhere around $3.5 billionto adequately fund teacher salaries. We're following their conversations closely. New revenue options for them can help or hinder cities, and ifthey start toying with state property taxes, it could get very complicated and dicey.

Legislative and statewide candidates are out and about and it's a great time to catch them — Just over 300 people have ?led for 98 House seats and 26 of the 49 Senate seals. Competi?ve races for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Auditor.Attorney General, and others are also in play, along with US. Senator and all 10 US. Congressional seam.The August 2

primary willnarrow competitive races to the top two e regardless of party affiliation. AWC conducted a legislative candidate questionnaire and received over 100 responses. They‘re posted online here for your iniorrnation. We thanked all candidates who responded, and for those who haven't, there's a great opportunity for you to engage them around town and to use the blank questionnaire on our website to have a conversation. More than likely, theyll answer questions if asked in person.

Numerous task forces and working groups are delving in to city Issues — AWC is actively engaged on your behalf in a wide variety of these efforts, many of which have reports or recommendations due to the next Legislature by year's end. Among them are those dealing with the use of deadly force in community policing, ways to centralize and simplify administration of city business licenses and B80 taxes (see a separate article on this topic), evaluating ways to unify databases of rail crossings to identify those most in need of improvements to address safety and traffic congestion, and evaluating a potential merger of the LEOFF 1 and teachers‘ pension systems, We're also involved in discussions about allocation of new federal transportation dollars (again see a separate article on this topic), ways to re-engage the state to help fund key local infrastnrcture, address lingering public records requests issues, removal of fish passage barriers, and the list goes on.

Fourth edition of AWc's Strong cities Pocket Guide about to be released — This next edition is at the printer and willbe distributed shortly. This pocket-sized resource is full of new and time-tested ideas on how to work with legislators, media, and your community to help make and keep your city strong.

Gearing up to hear more what you care about — As you read this, we're joining over 500 city ofiicials in Everett for AWC’s Annual Conference. We’l| be listening to what they care about and how we can help them. We're asking our Board of Directors for some direction on a range of topics and http://www.awcnet.org/Advocacy/Newsandupdates/Legislativelssues/Tabld/677/ArtMID/1 6/20/2016 Preparations for the 2017 legislative session. Page 2 of 2

will be gearing up for the ?rst meeting of an updated AWC Legislative Committee. The Committee‘: job will be to share their views of what's needed and help us prepare to go back to our Board in late September where they'll adopt legislative priorities for the 2017 session. Alter that. we'll be hitting the road and traveling around mestate to hear from you and talk about how to keep cities strong. More to come and happy summer!

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r\dV0Ca"Y Search Legislative issue areas by clicking on the Welcome to AWC's online library of Legislative Bulletin and Cityvoice news articles and other topic areas listed below. Find updates. Legislative Bulletinarticles, Cityvaice articles, and other updates. wce_.5.:-’.. ( ~.“,:'-TA‘..li-‘Cl L .1 It Laglslntlvo mun Questions about cities posed to all legislative candidates From the Government Reia?ons Director As AWC did two years ago during elections for the State Legislature, we're asking each of the 301 Budget & finance candidates who have ?led to run for the Legislature to answer ?ve key questions about keeping Energy cities strong. The ?ling deadline for 98 House and 24 Senate seats closed at 5 pm on May 20, and on May 23, we are emailing each candidate a brief survey that we hope they respond to. We are Environment & land use also sending a mailed copy. and we‘ve asked for responses back by June 10. As responses come in.we'll post them on our website. Federal We've asked about their views on (1) state—shared revenues; (2) basic infrastructure funding; (3) General govemment homelessness, affordable housing and mental health services; (4) public records; and (5) local Housing control. Our goals for this survey are to help educate candidates on our key issues and to provide city of?cials with questions to pose to candidates in advance of the August primary and November Human services Q?nelal9l9°“°l"- Infrastructure when we did a similar survey two years ago, we had a 45 percent return rate and received Marijuana responses from 25 percent of those who won their elections. One lesson learned is that incumbents are less likelyto respond to the survey in writing but willoften respond when asked the questions OPE"Q0‘/emment directly by one or more city ofticials. don't see Ifyou your candidates‘ responses online, go ask them Personnel and have a conversation about what is important to each of you.

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An early glimpse at the races

There is a battle shaping up for control of both the House and Senate. Currently, there are 50 Democrats and 48 Republicans in the House, and 25 Republicans and 24 Democrats in the Senate, although one Democrat caucuses and votes with the Republicans. Conventional wisdom in an unconventional election year assumes the House willstay in the hands of the Democrats and the Senate in the hands of the Republicans. There are several so-called battleground legislative districts where either party in either chamber could pick up or lose seats. Ofthe 98 House seats, 14 are open because incumbents aren't running. A few of these have '?ip" potential as do a small handful of races with incumbents. in the Senate, six of the 24 seats in contention don't have incumbents. Most, if not all, are expected to be ?lled by House members running to ?ll an empty seat. A handful of Senate races with incumbents are also competitive,

What is at stake for cities?

This election cycle also includes numerous statewide of?oes. As for what happens in Olympia, Key among them is the Governor's race. Again, conventional wisdom in an unconventional year assumes Governor lnslee willbe elected for a second term. Whoever ends up ?lling the Capitol in January 2017 willhave their hands full. it'll be at least a 105 day session during which theyll debate hundreds of bills and must adopt a two-year operating and capital budget. Dominating the session willbe how to fullyfund K-12 education and where to ?nd the money to do that. With estimates of needing $3 billion or so more than they have now in order to accomplish fullfunding, we'll llkeiy?nd cities defending critical ?scal resources and asking for ?nancial support for key investments at a time when legislators and the Governor willbe looking under every rock for funds to meet their priorities. So once again, it's important that city officials and community members who value what cities do to engage in a constructive dialogue with every serious legislative candidate seeking to represent your interests. The best time to do that begins now.

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We asked all candidates who filed to run for state legislative positions to answer ?ve questions about issues that are important to cities. These questions are relevant to strengthening the partnership between cities and the state. The survey willhelp city of?cials understand legislative candidate perspectives on city issues. ifyou don't see the candidate from your district, follow up with them to make sure they plan to complete the survey. Ifthey decline to respond to the questionnaire, ask ifthey can meet in person to answer the questions. Find the blank survey here.

Ifyou choose to support candidates in your private capacity, as is allowed by law, you may want to consider holding your endorsements untilyou've received satisfactory answers from candidates about what they have done or willdo to maintain a strong city-state partnership. A note about city officials’involvement with elections: As e nonpro?t‘, nonpartisan oryanlza?on, AWC does not endorse. However, city o?icials may engage in political activity in their private capacity. City officials are encouraged to read and understand the Publlc Disclosure Commission’: guidelines prior to endorsing a candidate or supporting or opposing a ballot measure.

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2016 Legislative Candidate Survey

Candidate name: Legislative district:

You are a candidate for: House Senate

Ifyou are a House of Representatives candidate, which position are your running for? Position 1 Position 2

Local government background Have you ever been elected to a local government position, or sewed on a local government board, committee, or as staff? Yes No

Ifyes, in what capaciy?

1. State-shared local revenues When the state encounters budget problems, legislative budget leaders have taken revenues historically shared with cities to help balance the books. In recent years, cuts and diversions have been enacted, while unfunded mandates and other local government cost drivers have not been addressed. Examples include: 0 Changes in liquor tax and profit distributions that have resulted in a loss of nearly $200 millionin funds that supported essential local services, such as public safety; 0 Sweeping and diverting over $1 billion in local utilitytaxes, real estate taxes, and project loan repayments from the nationally-acclaimed Public Works Trust Fund that helps keep local infrastructure operating; and 0 Targeted reductions to historical state/city partnerships like the fireman's pension insurance program and training fees to attend the basic law enforcement academy.

Do you support or oppose the State Legislature continuing to use locally-shared revenues or revenues intended for capital projects in order to balance the state’s operating budget? Support Oppose

Briefly describe one or more actions that you would take to ensure your views on these issues are accounted for blgur caucus and in a final budget.

awcnet 360.753.4137 - 800.562.8981 2. Basic infrastructure ?nancing Cities face many challenges when repairing and updating critical infrastructure such as drinking water and sewer systems. Historically, the revolving loan fund called the Public Works Trust Fund had been a significant source for ?nancing infrastructure. As the state wrestled first with a recession and then with the McCleary education funding challenges, legislators have turned time and again to diverting these funds and leaving nothing in their place. In 2016, the Governor vetoed a provision showing intent to again divert resources in the 2017-19 biennium.

Would you support or oppose a budget that diverted more resources from the infrastructure account to address state general fund obligations? Support Oppose Do you believe that it is part of the state’s obligation to help fund critical local infrastructure, especially when taxes and fees raised to do so in 1985 continue to be levied? Yes No if gnu have agy ideas regarding local infrastructure financing,please share them.

3. Homelessness, affordable housing, and mental health Across the state, housing costs are rising and affordability issues are impacting homebuyers and renters, as well as exacerbating the already critical homelessness problems in many communities. Mental health services are stretched thin and cities, while not normally in the business of providing these particular social services, find themselves increasingly trying to help citizens and keep their communities safe and secure. Cities have a strong desire to work together with the state, counties, business, nonprofit, and faith communities to help address these challenges. We continue to seek financing, regulatory and funding tools to do so.

Which of the following are priorities for you? Choose all that apply. Helping to end homelessness Ensuring adequate mental health services for those in need Providing tools to help control the spiraling cost of housing

Please elaborate on what you siggest doing to address one or more of these issues.

4. Public records The Public Records Act (PRA) is a cornerstone of our commitment to open and transparent government. Cities have invested significant resources in complying with the law. Now, 40+ years after its adoption, the PRA is being tested in ways never imagined by changes in technology and requestors who take advantage of the law. Cities have been seeking ways to protect the law from abusive requestors and update itfor changing technology. However, there is strong opposition to any changes that may be perceived as lessening transparency.

Would you support a change to the PRAto address abusive requestors? Yes No Unsure Would you support a change to the PRAto allow a reasonable charge for providing electronic copies of records? Yes No

Do you have other ideas on how to address the issues around public records and how to respond to the changi_ngnature of public records requests? 5. Local control Cities are struggling with a wide variety of challenges including but not limited to financing services and infrastructure for the public, an unprecedented expansion of homelessness, and reconciling a fundamental transparency responsibility with new and emerging technologies. Cities are best able to meet the challenges of today when they have the ability to be nimble and flexible as they determine the best way to respond to these ressures for their own individual communities.

Washington cities operate under the State Constitution and statutes that provide them all the powers they need to do what they want — unless expressly denied by actions of the Legislature. The relationship between the state and cities functions best as a partnership where major policy issues are approached by the state with careful consideration of the varied conditions among the states 281 cities, and an appreciation of the importance of retaining local flexibility to tailor policies to reflect local needs and circumstances. Still, at times, cities have to respond to state legislation they believe undermines the principle of “local control” over important issues such as land use, housing, ?nance, infrastructure, elections, labor relations, and other issues that directly affect cities.

Local control is a good thing that needs to be respected. Agree Disagree

Ifyou don’t agree that local control should be OR Ifyou agree that local control should be preserved in all situations, please describe one respected, please describe how you would argue or more specific issue areas or situations in for the value of local discretion in the face of which the state should preempt local control. colleagues who want to see state preemption.

Please return your response by the end of the day on Friday, June 10 by email to candidatesun/[email protected], by fax to (360) 753-0149, or via U.S. mail to AWC Candidate survey, 1076 Franklin Street SE, Olympia WA 98501-1346.

Ifyou have any questions, please contact Government Relations Director Dave Williams at [email protected]. Thank you for your participation.