Is your special district located in a rural area serving a small-sized population? If so, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDARD) program may have funding available for your district. Those who attended CSDA’s Special Districts Legislative Days conference last...
A coalition of 70 local governments from across the nation called on Congressional leadership to move legislation to ensure fire agencies’ ability to use fire retardants to combat wildfire. Click here to read the House letter and here to read the Senate letter. The June...
CSDA’s sponsored bill, Assembly Bill 557 (Hart) , will be heard tomorrow morning, June 7, in the Senate Governance and Finance Committee. Provided that the bill passes out of that committee, it will next be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee — meaning AB 557 must pass both committees...
Little Hoover Commission report calls for delay of SB 1383 Organics Waste Implementation Last week, the Little Hoover Commission (LHC) voted 7-1 to approve a report on the implementation of Senate Bill 1383 (Lara of 2016) , which required local agencies providing solid waste collection...
Funding Now Available to Special Districts for Community Resilience Centers Program $98.6 million is now available for the first round of funding for California’s Community Resilience Centers (CRC) program managed by the California Strategic Growth Council (SGC). The program will fund...
On Friday, May 19, Governor Gavin Newsom announced new permitting and project reforms, called “Build More, Preserving Jobs” or “BUILD”. Details for his proposal are outlined below. The Governor has released Budget Trailer Bill Language (TBL) on ten proposals and is seeking passage in conjunction...
Comments from affected special districts and others in the public related to a proposed national drinking water standard for PFAS chemicals are due on or before May 30, 2023. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently held a virtual public hearing to review the proposed...
Last week, the California State Assembly took up Assembly Bill 557 (Hart) on the Assembly Floor, providing the chamber the first opportunity for its entire membership to vote on the legislation following its 8-0 passage out of the Assembly Local Government Committee. Assembly Members voted 78...
On Friday, May 12, Governor Newsom released the 2023-24 May Revision to his state budget proposal. When the Governor released his budget proposal in January there was a projected $22.5 billion deficit to the state budget. The May Revision also recorded an additional $9.3 billion revenue...
CSDA and the National Special Districts Coalition (NSDC) support H.R. 1586 (LaMalfa) and S. 796 (Lummis), the Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2023 to formalize an exemption to the Clean Water Act to ensure firefighting agencies can continue to use fire retardant to...