DATE: October 9, 2018
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RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE 2018-2022 SAN DIEGO UNIFIED PORT DISTRICT LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
In 2013, the District approved its first Legislative Platform. The Board-adopted Legislative Platform serves as a comprehensive set of guidelines for staff to analyze how legislative, budgetary, and regulatory ordinances and bills could affect the District and its operations when those ordinances and/or bills are introduced in the State Legislature or United States Congress.
The Legislative Platform:
1. Provides a Board-approved set of criteria for staff to utilize in evaluating legislative and regulatory matters, and in providing recommendations on those matters to the Board.
2. Provides a solid foundation of legislative guidelines to direct staff action in situations where legislative or regulatory proposals need to be responded to quickly and effectively.
3. Provides Board-approved legislative principles that are publicly available, give clear guidance for District staff action, and increase the transparency of the District's decisions.
4. Runs concurrently with the Board-approved COMPASS Strategic Plan for 2018- 2022.
The Legislative Platform contains ten policy statements on ten policy issues of interest to the District. District staff evaluates policy proposals according to the Board-approved Legislative Platform and input from District staff and the General Counsel's Office. When appropriate, District staff will publish a formal "support", "oppose", "support if amended," or "oppose unless amended" position based on reasoning consistent with the Legislative Platform. District staff also utilizes the Legislative Platform to make recommendations to the Board for sponsorship of legislation, which requires the adoption of a resolution by the Board of Port Commissioners. Staff does not utilize the legislative platform to take positions on voter-driven initiatives and propositions.
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