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special fund expenditures. Including many of the governor's priorities such as healthcare for undocumented immigrants, homeless funding and some of the highest education levels in California's history. Specific to Santa Ana one of the main pieces in the budget that has been worked on over the last several months was funding for homeless and housing. TPA worked very closely with your big 13 City colleagues to secure $650 million dollars in one-time funds to help local agencies address the homeless crisis. The $650 million dollars is broken out into four categories; $190 million for counties, $175 million for local continuums of care, $10 million to be allocated on a later dates and most importantly $275 million for the big 13 cities. 8. League of California Cities Updates (verbal) — (Strategic Plan No. 1 through 7) — Tony Cardenas A. League of California Cities Memo — Material provides an analysis regarding legislation AB101 and S13102. The bills include $2.5 Billion brand-new dollars going directly towards housing infrastructure and homelessness. 9. Review and Take a Position on Legislative Bills — (Strategic Plan No. 1 through 7) — Nicole Houston, City Manager's Office Nicole Houston from the City Manager's Office shared the Legislative bill review process. Currently the City Manager's Office and the Mayor and City Council receive a monthly report from H&K and TPA. This report includes a matrix that outlines all of the bills that are currently being tracked, along with the description and the current status of each bill. From this report the Mayor and Council have an opportunity to identify bills to take action on. Additionally, the City receives notifications from both our Federal and State advocates as each bill becomes available for action. If the bills are in line with our legislative platform, a letter of support or opposition is requested from the Mayor. If it is not, it is to be taken to this committee. Lastly, Councilmember Penaloza discussed a bill related to the needle exchange program. Staff was directed to bring a resolution or ordinance to a future City Council meeting opposing needle exchange programs within the City. MOTION: Staff to research and provide recommendations to City Council in the next two to three months, regarding options for opposing a needle exchange program. MOTION: Penaloza SECOND: Iglesias VOTE: AYES: Solorio, Jose NOES: None (0) 10. Review and Discussion of Code of Conduct and Ethics Policy and Review status of Policy Regarding Ethics Complaints — (Strategic Plan No. 1 through 7) — Kristine Ridge, City Manager City Manager, Kristine Ridge stated that there was an Ad Hoc committee created by Council to write this values based policy, which was approved in June 2008. She also Legislative Affairs, Ethics, Transparency and Communications Council Committee Special Meeting Minutes A9