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TOWN COUNCIL
MEETING
INFORMATION
TOWN OF MARANA
MEETING DATE:
April 18, 2006
AGENDA ITEM: K. 1
TO: MAYOR AND COUNCIL
FROM: Michael A. Reuwsaat, Town Manager
SUBJECT: State Le2islative Issues: Discussion/Direction/Action regarding all
pending bills before the Legislature
DISCUSSION
This item is scheduled for each regular council Meeting in order to provide an opportunity to
discuss any legislative item that might arise during the current session of the State Legislature.
Periodically, an oral report may be given to supplement the Legislative Bulletins.
ATTACHMENTS
Legislative Bulletins, Issues 12 and 13, including action alerts on HB 2381 (impact fees and
construction sales tax) and HB 2740 (liquor law changes).
RECOMMENDATION
Upon the request of Council, staff will be pleased to provide recommendations on specific
legislative issues.
SUGGESTED MOTION
Mayor and Council's pleasure.
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IN THIS
ISSUE
Impact Fee Legislation Continues
To Move. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1
Bill Eminent Domain Discussions
Continue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Liquor Bill Passes With Promises
Of More Compromise. . . . . . . 2
Bill Mandating Fall Elections For
Large Cities Get Final Read . . . 2
Blue Stake Marking Preemption
Passes Senate Committee .... 2
Early Ballot Voter 10 Bill
Resurrected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Budget Discussion Begin To Get
Serious .................. 3
Last Minute Amendment Kills
VL T Bill .......... . . . . . . . . 3
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Cities AND Tovvns
Legislative Bulletin is published by the
League of Arizona Cities and Towns.
FOlWard your comments or suggestions to:
League of Arizona Cities & Towns
1820 West Washingtoo Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
Phone: 602-258-5786
Fax: 602-253-3874
Email: league@mg.state.az.us
Internet: www.azleague.org
LEG IS LA liVE BU LLEll N
Issue No. 12
March 31, 2006
* ACTION ALERT *
IMPACT FEE LEGISLATION CONTINUES TO MOVE
HB2381, which makes many changes to how municipalities can charge and use impact
fees, passed out of the Senate Government Accountability and Reform Committee on
Wednesday with a 3-2 vote despite the opposition of many cities from across the State. The
bill was further amended to address some of our concerns that have been debated in our
many discussions with the Homebuilders Association of Central Arizona but there are still
portions of the bill that are unclear and unacceptable at this time. In particular, the bill
continues to place restrictions on the use of local construction sales tax.
While progress had been made on the development fee aspects of the bill which deals
predominantly with the transparency of the development fee process and reporting
requirements, there are fundamental disagreements on the limitations that the bill would
place on construction sales tax. While there is still a chance that the bill could be amended
on the floor to address these concerns, possibly deleting the construction sales tax language
altogether, it is highly likely that the proponents of this legislation will not compromise on
sales tax unless they believe such a change is needed to pass the bill which is all the more
reason to let your Senators know of your opposition to the bill.
ACTION REOUESTED:
Please contact your Senators and ask them to oppose HB2381. We have tried in good
faith to reach a compromise and have been unable to do so. As currently drafted, the
bill creates additional mandates on development fees and places significant restrictions
on the use of construction sales tax.
* ACTION ALERT *
EMINENT DOMAIN DISCUSSIONS CONTINUE
After the failure of HCR2031 last week, the many stakeholders opposing broad changes to
eminent domain laws and the regulatory takings language gained some traction in their
discussions with leadership. HCR2031 failed last week with a 26-29 vote and the deadline
to reconsider this resolution has passed. As such, the ongoing discussions are focusing
around the SCR1019, which is very similar to the HCR that failed last week.
The House committee on Federal Mandates and Property Rights passed SCR1 019 out of
its committee on Monday with a 4-2 vote. Much of the testimony dealt with the effects the
regulatory takings language will have on Arizona's military installations. Many legislators are
unsettled by those provisions in the bill and by the lack of compromise on the issue by the
sponsor of the bill. This resolution passed out of committee with the understanding that
more changes would be made for the floor.
The League, many cities and stakeholders continue to meet with leadership and the sponsor
to remove the regulatory language and ensure that the eminent domain language focuses
on redevelopment rather than general condemnation. We have also proposed that this
language be added to statute with a bill rather than by a voter-approved resolution. Voter
protected statutes are very hard to change if needed and the legislature should retain the
authority to make changes as needed.
In addition, Rep. Farnsworth's eminent domain bill is still
moving outside of the eminent domain compromise
discussions. HB2736 expands the court's ability to award
fees and other expenses and the property owner's ability to
receive appraisals at the government's cost in
condemnation actions and prohibits a governmental entity
from selling or leasing property condemned for ten years.
This bill will greatly limit municipal ability to condemn
when necessary and will result in substantial expenses to
the taxpayer when eminent domain is exercised. HB 2736
also impacts all condemnation actions not just
redevelopment.
Action Requested:
Please continue to talk with your legislators and ask
them to oppose SCR1019 in its current form and to
support the passage of the League's reform proposal.
* ACTION ALERT *
LIQUOR BILL PASSES WITH
PROMISES OF MORE COMPROMISE
The Senate Commerce and Economic Development
Committee passed HB2740, which allows restaurants to
operate indefinitely with food sales below the current 40%
requirement. Overall, this bill works to encourage
businesses to circumvent current liquor laws. With this bill,
there wi II be no incentive to mai ntai n proper food sales and
bar establishments will be encouraged to obtain a
restaurant license and operate as a bar until they are
notified of an audit, at which time they can use the
provisions of this bill to avoid the high costs and stricter
laws of obtaining and using a bar liquor license.
The bill was amended to address some of our concerns.
The language allowing restaurants to obtain a bar license
and be grandfathered from the distance restrictions to
schools and churches was removed. However, restaurants
with sub-par food sales within those distance requirements
may continue to operate in noncompliance under their
restaurant license at the discretion of the Liquor
Department.
The amendment also tightened up floor space requirements
for these establishments to maintain their restaurant license
with lower food sales and extends the city council review
period from 60 to 90 days.
The stakeholders pushing this bill have agreed to work with
the League and the neighborhood associations to address
additional concerns with this bill that will be addressed with
a floor amendment. The League will continue to represent
municipal interests regarding liquor laws and will oppose
the bill in its current form.
Action Requested:
Please contact your Senators and request that they
oppose HB2740.
BILL MANDATING FALL ELECTIONS
FOR LARGE CITIES GET FINAL READ
SB1041 , which was amended by the House Judiciary
Committee to require cities or towns over 175,000 to hold
candidate elections on the fall election cycle, was further
amended in conference committee this week. The bill's
sponsor, Sen. Waring, refused the House changes and the
conference committee accepted the House changes and
further amended the bill to clarify when the officials elected
under this change will begin their term of office. The
League and affected cities worked to have this election
mandate language removed but those attempts were
unsuccessful.
Both houses final read the bill on Thursday. The Senate
passed it 29-0, as did the House with a 57-0 vote. The bill
now goes to the Governor, who is expected to sign it due
to the comprehensive election reforms contained in the rest
of the bill.
BLUE STAKE MARKING PREEMPTION
PASSES SENATE COMMITTEE
HB2708, the Homebuilders Association of Central
Arizona's bill that prohibits cities from using sewer c1ean-
outs to mark the location of sewer lateral lines, passed out
of the Senate Commerce and Economic Development
Committee on Wednesday with a 5-2 vote.
The Homebuilders are claiming that the cost of the
additional clean-outs is excessive and they are not intended
to be location devices, particularly when cheaper means
such as tracing wire or above-ground monuments can be
used. Homebuilders also claim that clean-outs cause
installation problems for infrastructure that is installed
above the sewer lines. However, clean-outs are quite
possibly the most reliable locator device available and were
recommended by the Maricopa Association of
Government's Specs Committee as the marking method of
choice in the region.
This decision was made relatively quickly as the Legislature
mandated last session thata marking method be in place by
the end of the year. The Legislature placed a significant
additional burden on cities and towns this last year to
improve the marking process in the name of public safety.
Now the Legislature is scaling back our ability to effectively
implement the new marking requirements. The bill now
moves on to consideration in the Senate Rules Committee.
lEGISLATIVE BULLETIN
PAGE 2
March 31, 2006
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EARLY BALLOT VOTER 10 BILL
RESURRECTED
The House Appropriations (P) Committee will hear a strike-
everything amendment to SB1 067 on Wednesday. While
the exact language is not posted yet, we expect that it will
be similar to an earlier proposed bill that required voters
mailing an early ballot to send in a copy of their picture
identification with the ballot. The expected language will
also likely require the early ballot board to check each copy
of identification against the envelope and make a
determination as to whether the vote should be counted.
This language will create problems for both the voters and
the election officials. Individuals who have difficulties
leaving their residence to vote will face the same challenges
getting copies of their identification. In addition there are
concerns of identity theft associated with mailing a
photocopy of a drivers license or other official
identification.
The League will look over the language once it's posted and
address any concerns that will affect municipal elections
and citizen's ability to vote.
BUDGET DISCUSSIONS BEGIN TO
GET SERIOUS
The Legislature has begun its efforts to get a budget
together for the next fiscal year. There are many individual
bills that we have been following that have received some
support so far. These bills will be debated during the
budget discussion and only a few will move forward. Each
house will create a budget that encompasses these topics.
It is not clear yet whether both houses are in agreement on
a budget or if each will produce its own version. Both
houses have to agree on the same version before it can be
sent to the Governor for consideration.
Property and income tax cuts are two popular concepts that
have had many different and conflicting bills run addressing
those issues. The many bills that address these issues will
be considered and factored into the budget. Some of these
bills work to limit property valuation, some work to limit
the rate that can be charged, some require elections to
increase your property tax collection, and many other ways
of regulating municipal property tax collections.
The League has been involved in many discussions with
Legislator's working on the budget discussion to encourage
responsible property tax legislation that does not tie the
hands of city officials to develop budgets appropriate for
their area.
There are bills this session that deal with state shared
revenue reductions that could become part of the budget
discussions as well. The League has maintained strong
opposition to any decrease in state shared revenue for any
city and has advocated for an increase in small city funding
this session.
There are also several proposals that repay monies
borrowed by the Legislature from HURF to supplement the
General Fund the past few sessions. This money is vital to
cities to address the growing need to maintain streets and
add new transportation infrastructure to address the
additional demands created by our quickly growing
population. The League and many cities have worked hard
this session to stress the importance of these repayments
and we look forward to seeing them in the budget, given
the huge expected surplus of state revenue.
LAST MINUTE AMENDMENT KILLS
VL T BILL
A surprise amendment in House Transportation on
Thursday would have shifted the cost of a Vehicle License
Tax exemption for senior citizens to cities and towns. The
bill already had municipalities carrying three-fourths of the
cost and the amendment sponsored by Rep. McClure
shifted that last quarter to the cities as well.
The League is sympathetic to the idea of exemptions for
seniors with low, fixed incomes if the cost of the
exemptions, estimated at $4-6 million for the first year,
would be borne equally among the beneficiaries of the
VL T. This type of exemption could also be included in the
budget for the State to fund, given the estimated $1 billion
surplus for the next fiscal year. To push this mandate off on
the cities by removing a portion of their state shared
revenues is inappropriate and would have impacted all
cities, especially those working within tight financial
constraints already.
The House Transportation Committee killed SBl149 with
a 0-8 vote.
LEGISlATIVE BULLETIN
PAGE 3
March 31, 2006
IN THIS
ISSUE
Impact Fee Legislation Expected
To Move Next Week. . . . . . . . 1
Liquor Bill Passes With Promises
Of More Compromise. . . . . . . 1
Eminent Domain Discussions
Continue with Leadership. . . . 1
Inclusionary Zoning Bill Passes
The House ............... 2
Website Posting Requirements
Bill Passes The House ....... 2
Healthcare Reform Bill
Continues To Move. . . . . . . . . 2
Local Construction Codes Bill
Passes The Senate . . . . . . . . . . 2
Prostitution Bill Passes The
House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Parking Enforcement Bill Fails In
The House ............... 2
HB 2381 Development Fees
League Of A:Z. Cities & Towns
Opposes HB2740 Liquor;
Restaurant License for Grills
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CItIeS AND Towns
Legislative Bulletin is published by the
League of Arizona Cities and Towns.
Fotward your comments or suggestions to:
League of Arizona Cities & Towns
1820 West Washington Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
Phone: 602-258-5786
Fax: 602-253-3874
Email: league@mg.state.az.us
Internet: www.azleague.org
LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN
Issue No. 13
April 7, 2006
* ACTION ALERT *
IMPACT FEE LEGISLATION EXPECTED TO MOVE NEXT
WEEK
HB2381, which makes many changes to how municipalities can charge and use impact fees and
construction sales tax, is expected to be heard on the Senate floor late next week.
The League's fact sheet on this bill is included in this week's bulletin. Please use it for talking
points when speaking with your Senators on this issue.
ACTION REQUESTED:
Please contact your Senators and ask them to oppose HB2381. We have tried in good faith
to reach a compromise and have been unable to do so. As currently drafted, the bill creates
additional mandates on development fees and places significant restrictions on the use of
construction sales tax
* ACTION ALERT *
LIQUOR BILL PASSES WITH PROMISES OF MORE
COMPROMISE
HB2740, which allows restaurants to operate indefinitely with food sales below the current 40%
requirement, waits to be heard on the Senate floor. It is expected that this will occur late next
week.
The stakeholders pushing this bill have agreed to work with the League and the neighborhood
associations to address additional concerns with this bill that will be addressed with a floor
amendment. The League will continue to represent municipal interests regarding liquor laws
and will oppose the bill in its current form.
After two neighborhood meetings this past week, there appears to be no agreement reached and
many neighborhood groups still have concerns about the impacts this bill will have on their
neighborhoods. This bill makes too many changes to liquor laws without time to analyze the
consequences.
The League's fact sheet is included in this bulletin. Please use it for talking points to speak with
your Senators.
ACTION REQUESTED:
Please contact your Senators and request that they oppose HB2740.
EMINENT DOMAIN DISCUSSIONS CONTINUE WITH
LEADERSHIP
Efforts to adopt a compromise package rather than all of the numerous bills and resolutions that
have been introduced on the issue continues to make headway. Senator Tim Bee has agreed
to move forward language that will exclude regulatory takings as well as restrictions that have
been proposed for traditional condemnation authority and focus the reform efforts on
redevelopment authority. Also, the reform will come in the way of a statutory change rather
than placing the issue on the ballot. A ballot measure would not put the issue to rest and any
needed future modifications would be very difficult to accomplish.
Moving the reform effort in this direction has received
widespread support from rank and file members of both
chambers.
While additional safeguards will be provided to property
owners creating a more cumbersome process for cities and
towns, the reforms will not preempt the ability of
municipalities to condemn for slum and blight in addition to
keeping the process for traditional uses, such as road
construction, intact. Removing the regulatory takings
provisions is also significant as they would have severely
crippled planning and zoning authority including the land use
laws that have been adopted to protect the mission viability of
Arizona's military bases. We anticipate action on our
compromise package next week and will keep you updated.
INClUSIONARY ZONING Bill
PASSES THE HOUSE
5B1497 passed third read in the House this week with a 37-19
vote. This bill prohibits a city or town from requiring
developers to build a certain number of homes at certain
pricing levels often referred to as inclusionary zoning. While
incentivizing affordable housing construction, such as
providing developers with tax credits, is typically the preferred
method, incentives may not always be enough to address
housing problems. It is bad public policy to start limiting the
means of addressing affordable housing issues with the
dramatic population growth and rapidly escalating housing
prices that we are experiencing in Arizona. The League
continues to be part of the Governor's Affordable Housing
Task Force to help develop other strategies for creating
affordable living options for city residents and opposes this
preemption.
WEBSITE POSTING REQUIREMENTS
Bill PASSES THE HOUSE
5B1209 passed on third read on Thursday with a 43-14 vote.
This bill requires any city with a website to post notice of
meetings, as well as all meeting minutes within two days of
approval. In addition to the bill placing a mandate on what
should be decided at the local level, the League was
particularly concerned about the potential burden on smaller
cities that maintain relatively static websites limited to basic
information about their city.
The bill was amended in COW to exempt cities under 25,000
to address our concern that mandates regarding the posting of
information within certain timelines will discourage smaller
municipalities from creating or maintaining websites. The
emergence of websites has provided cities and towns with an
additional means to disseminate information to the public and
smaller cities need to be able to utilize that tool without
mandates on the information made available.
While the small city and town exemption is currently in the
bill, there is the potential for action to remove it. If the Senate
opts not to accept the House changes to the bill, it would
likely go to a conference committee where additional changes,
including the deletion of the exemption, could occur. We will
keep you updated on future developments.
HEALTH CARE REFORM Bill
CONTINUES TO MOVE
5B1351 is our League Resolution to encourage medical care
reforms in order to recruit and retain doctors in Arizona. This
bill creates a higher burden of proof if a patient wants to sue
for malpractice, which should reduce doctor's insurance costs
and overall health care costs. This bill passed the House
Committee of the Whole on Wednesday and now waits for a
third read vote.
lOCAL CONSTRUCTION CODES
Bill PASSES THE SENATE
HB2136 clarifies that cities and towns may use Construction
Manager at Risk (CM@Risk), Design Build and Job Ordering
Contracting for bond-financed capital projects. These
financial tools are already used by many cities and towns and
can help reduce the costs of constructing facilities and
infrastructure. This bill passed Senate third Read on Tuesday
with a 30-0 vote. The sponsor recommended that the House
concur with the changes to the bill made in the Senate. This
bill now will be final read in both houses before being sent to
the Governor.
PROSTITUTION Bill PASSES THE
HOUSE
5B1260, which permits city attorneys to initiate abatement
proceedings for a nuisance related to lewdness or prostitution,
passed the House this week with a 57-0 vote on third Read.
This bill will help cities better address the problem of
prostitution houses in their neighborhoods and on their streets.
PARKING ENFORCEMENT Bill FAilS
IN THE HOUSE
5B1269, is a League resolution that allows cities and towns to
contract with private companies to enforce city parking laws.
It will free up local law enforcement to focus on other duties
that better serve the citizens of your city or town. This
practice is already commonly used by many cities to enforce
disabled parking. The bill, which has already cleared the
Senate 25-3, failed its House third read with a 28-29 vote on
Thursday. Some members stated that they were confused by
the explanation of the bill a member gave on the floor and will
change their vote now that they understand the provisions of
the bill. There is expected to be a motion to reconsider the
bill on Monday and that reconsideration vote should happen
sometime next week.
LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN
April 7,2006
PAGE 2
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Cities AND Towns
1820 vv. Washington Street -Phoenix, AZ 85007 -Phone: (602) 258-5786-Fa)(: (602) 253-3874
Emai1: league@mg.state.az.us - Website: \vww.a71eague.org
HB2381: Development Fees
LEAGUE POSITION: The League is opposed to HB2381, municipal planning; fees disclosure
because of the new restrictions and mandates the bill would place on the collection and use of
development fees and the impractical restrictions placed on the use of local sales tax.
BACKGROUND: Impact fees are assessed on new development under the principle that new
growth should pay its own way and not burden existing homeowners. Cities and towns assess and
use impact fees as vital growth management tools to pay for new public infrastructure required when
new development occurs. The League and its member cities have worked with the homebuilders to
address specific concerns regarding the use of development fees. However, this bill in its current
form makes unacceptable comprehensive and fundamental changes to the way impact fees are
determined and used. The homebuilders introduced this language as a strike everything amendment
more than a month into the session-without allowing adequate time for cities and towns to evaluate
the effect of this legislation on their own local communities. There is legitimate concern regarding
possible unintended consequences affecting both sides-cities as well as homebuilders-due to the
complexity of these maior changes. While progress has been made on several concepts, there are
other significant areas where fundamental disagreements exist.
ISSUE: The bill mandates that a developer receive reimbursement for infrastructure if future
developments receive beneficial use of the improvements financed with the original development's
impact fees. While such a credit plan might be appropriate in some circumstances, it should not be a
one-size-fits-all mandate imposed on every future development fee. This would encourage urban
sprawl and leapfrog development since developers would be assured of eventually being reimbursed
for extending infrastructure far beyond current neighborhoods. Also, under this bill, it is the
developers that would be reimbursed, not the new homebuyers who are actually paying the fees.
The bill also restricts the use of any revenue raised from differential construction sales tax rates to
be spent only on infrastructure projects specific to the new development. While impact fees are
currently dedicated to supporting new development, local sales tax is primarily a revenue source for
local operating budgets. Such a restriction on the use of sales tax giye homebuilders a special status
not provided to any other class of taxpayer. Other restrictions in the bill place arbitrary limits on
how much of the sales tax revenue can be used on regional projects-such as a freeway widening-
and place an outright ban on the funding of light rail projects.
PLEASE OPPOSE HB2381. The bill makes too many major changes too fast, without knowing
the impact on new Arizona homebuyers or current residents. It mandates substantial changes to the
development fee process, rewards homebuilders for promoting urban sprawl and places far too many
restrictions on the use of development fees and local sales tax.
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League of Arizona
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1820 W. Washington Street- Phoenix, AZ 85007. Phone: (602) 258-5786 - Fax: (602) 253-3874
Email: league@mg.state.az.us-Website:wl-\.W.azleague.org
The League of AZ Cities and Towns OPPOSES
HB2740: liquor; restaurant license for grills
The League is opposed to HB2740 due to its impacts on neighborhoods and municipal ability to
ensure public safety and quality of life. This bill contradicts efforts by the neighborhoods, cities and
the Liquor Department to eliminate bars operating under the disguise of a restaurant.
Overall, this bill works to encourage businesses to circumvent current liquor laws. With this
bill, there will be no incentive to maintain proper food sales and "bar" establishments will be
encouraged to obtain a restaurant license and operate as a bar until they are notified of an audit, at
which time they can use the provisions of this bill to avoid the high costs and stricter laws of
obtaining and using a bar liquor license.
· This bill does not address the stated issue regarding restaurants that barely fail an audit
due to slightly low food sales (in the high 30% range). The League is amenable to giving
these kinds of businesses a limited time frame to increase their food sales to the
acceptable level of 40%. Instead this bill allows establishments with food sales as low as
30% to operate indefinitely with sub par food sales within the restaurant license
classification.
· As amended in CED, this bill still allows the holder of a restaurant license to operate at
30% food sales within the currently required 300ft distance requirements from
churches, schools, playgrounds, etc.
· "Restaurants" approved by the Director and the local jurisdiction at 39% could then
operate at 30% with no penalties and potentially could operate at less than the 30% with
no chance of another audit for at least 1 year.
· This bill should not apply retroactively to businesses that have already failed an audit. If
enacted, this bill should not apply to businesses not currently in compliance with the law
that want to change the rules for their benefit.
This bill creates a new "class" of liquor license within an existing class, and therefore many
new loopholes for business owners to go around the strict bar license laws. These laws and
penalties regarding operation and location of these establishments are strict for a reason. The
additional "bar" establishments will have negative impact the neighborhoods surrounding
them.
PLEASE CONSIDER THE IMPACTS THESE ESTABLISHMENTS WILL HAVE ON
NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE ADDITIONAL BURDEN ON LAW ENFORCEMENT. WE
ASK THAT YOU OPPOSE HB2740.
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