City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: FEBRUARY 27, 2017
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Consideration of a Final Update on the 2017 General Assembly Session.
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ISSUE: Update on the 2017 General Assembly Session.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council receive this report.
DISCUSSION: The 2017 General Assembly Session was adjourned on February 25. The Governor now has 30 days to review all the legislation that was passed, and recommend amendments or vetoes to bills as he deems appropriate. The Reconvened, or Veto, Session, where the General Assembly accepts or rejects his amendments and vetoes, will be held April 5.
Combined Sewer Overflow Legislation. On the next to last day of Session, the General Assembly passed CSO legislation that sets unreasonable dates for the City to correct its CSO problems. The bill seeks to require Alexandria to initiate construction on corrections to its four outfalls by July 1, 2023, and to complete all construction by July 1, 2025. Staff advised legislators, to no avail, that our engineering consultant had advised us that it would be impossible to complete this work by 2025. Staff (as well as members of our delegation) have been in touch with the Governor's office and advised the Governor's staff that the City would be asking the Governor to send amendments to the bill to be considered at the veto session on April 5.
City Package. The following is an update on actions taken regarding issues in the City's 2017 Legislative Package. Attachment 1 is a more detailed status report on City Package bills.
* As I noted in earlier reports, several bills attempted to loosen the laws allowing the issuance of driver's licenses for non-citizens; the only one still alive at the time of my past report (HB 2020) was defeated by the Senate.
* The House defeated ...
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