Highlights from the Spring 2018 ABAG General Assembly

Nearly 150 attendees from local governments throughout the nine county San Francisco Bay Area attended the ABAG Spring 2018 General Assembly and Business Meeting on May 31, 2018.

The General Assembly brings together ABAG’s member towns, cities and counties once a year to review and approve the Association’s budget and work program for the coming fiscal year, as well as to discuss urgent policy issues facing the region.

The overarching theme of this year’s program was resilience. Major topics covered included recovery lessons from the North Bay Wildfires, adaptation strategies for floods and sea level rise, earthquake preparedness, and energy programs.

The 2018 General Assembly agenda is available online and key materials, handouts and presentations are available on ABAG’s website:

• Speaker Biographies
• State of the Association Presentation

 

• Bay Area Applications and Regional Endorsements for SB 1 Competitive Programs (FY2018–2021) Handout
• Plenary Speaker Presentation — Jeremy Nowak, author of The New Localism
  • More information about the book is available at https://www.brookings.edu/book/the-new-localism/

 

• Wildfire Handout

• Wildfire: Lessons for Recovery
• 2018 Fire Relief & Recovery Legislative Package Overview 

 

• Flood/Sea Level Rise Handout
  • Introduction
  • Resilient South City: South San Francisco, San Mateo County
  • Stakeholder/Community Engagement Process Overview

 

• Earthquake Handout
  • Haywired

 

• Energy Programs Handout
  • Community Choice Partners
  • Silicon Valley Clean Energy

Representatives from 59 cities and five counties, sufficient to meet quorum requirements, attended the Business Meeting portion of the program, which gave approval to ABAG’s annual general budget and updated its bylaws. Video of this meeting can be viewed online.