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TELEPHONE ALL PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Discounts cannot be combined. CONTINUING EDUCATION OF THE BAR < CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 6549Z 2019 Annual Conference, City Attorneys’ Track Papers Table of Contents Page I. MCLE Information ..................................................................................................iii II. Program ............................................................................................................................. 1 III. Program Materials a. Cities on the Ballot: What, When & How of Speech? ..........................................6 Christina Cameron, Partner, Devaney Pate Morris & Cameron, LLP Robert “Perl” Perlmutter, Partner, Shute Mihaly & Weinberger, LLP Richard Romero, Partner, Devaney Pate Morris & Cameron, LLP b. The New Food Economy: Sidewalk Vending & Microenterprise Home Kitchens ........................................................................................................... 22 Kathy Shin, Associate, Best Best & Krieger Matthew Summers, City Attorney, Ojai, Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, PC c. California Public Records Act Update ............................................................... 54 Jolie Houston, Assistant City Attorney, Gilroy, Partner, Berliner Cohen d. Mind Your [RF] Ps & Qs ..................................................................................... 84 Christine Crowl, Partner, Jarvis, Fay & Gibson, LLP Clare Gibson, Senior Partner, Jarvis, Fay & Gibson, LLP e. General Municipal Litigation Update ................................................................ 98 Javan N. Rad, Chief Assistant City Attorney, Pasadena f. Everything You Need to Know about SB 1421 and AB 748 ............................ 121 Howard Jordan, Consultant, Management Strategies Group Steven Shaw, Partner, Sloan Sakai Yeung & Wong LLP Walter Tibbet, Consultant, Management Strategies Group g. Municipal Tort and Civil Rights Litigation Update .......................................... 139 Timothy T. Coates, Managing Partner, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland h. Is Your City's Website ADA Compliant? What You Should Know! .................. 155 Stephanie Gutierrez, Associate Attorney, Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP Traci Park, Partner, Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP i III. Program Materials (continued) i. Land Use and CEQA Litigation Update ............................................................ 218 Bill Ihrke, City Attorney, La Quinta, Partner, Rutan & Tucker LLP j. Discretion - The Gateway To And Limitation On CEQA .................................. 218 Stephen Velyvis, Partner, Burke Williams & Sorensen, LLP k. Labor and Employment Litigation Update ...................................................... 238 Suzanne Solomon, Partner, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore l. Newest Developments in Workplace Drug and Alcohol Laws.. ...................... 256 Burke Dunphy, Partner, Sloan Sakai Yeung & Wong LLP Madeline Miller, Senior Counsel, Sloan Sakai Yeung & Wong LLP m. CalPERS’ Employee Grab: The View From the Trenches ................................ 278 Arthur Hartinger, Partner, Renne Public Law Group n. Rent Control: Tenant Protection and Anti-Displacement Policies, Technically Speaking .......................................................................................................... 287 Karen Tiedemann, Partner, Goldfarb & Lipman LLP Thomas Webber, Partner, Attorney, Goldfarb & Lipman LLP o. Redevelopment 2.0: Existing Laws, Pending Legislation and Legal Theory .... 321 Christopher Lynch, Attorney, Jones Hall, A Professional Law Corporation Jim Morales, Deputy Director/General Counsel, Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure, acting as the Successor Agency to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency p. Walking the Tightrope: Addressing Mental Illnesses & Disabilities ............... 373 Jennifer Rosner, Partner, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore III. Speakers Biographies .................................................................................... 401 ii MCLE Information The League of California Cities® is a State Bar-certified minimum continuing legal education (MCLE) provider. This activity is approved for 10.5 hours of MCLE credit, including 1 hour of Competence Issues sub-field credit. Registration Check-In MCLE credit is being tracked through your registration for the conference and the receipt of your conference materials. At the time that you receive your conference materials, you will be required to verify your State Bar number and this will serve as proof of your attendance. Certificate of Attendance Certificates of attendance are available on the materials table at the back of the City Attorneys’ session room until the conclusion of the conference. Please make sure you pick up your attendance certificate. You only need one attendance certificate for all of the City Attorney