HomeMy WebLinkAboutSB 556 (Oppose)Carol Herrera
Mayor
Steve Tye
Mayor Pro Tem
Ling -Ling Chang
Council Member
Nancy A. Lyons
Council Member
Jack Tanaka
Council Member
August 18, 2014
City of Diamond Bar
21810 Copley Drive . Diamond Bar, CA 91 765-41 78
The Honorable Alex Padilla
Member, California State Senate
State Capitol Building, Room 4038
Sacramento, CA 95814
Via FAX: (916) 651-4920
(909) 839-7000 • Fax (909) 861-3117
www.DiamondBarCA.gov
RB: SB 556 (Padilla) Public Sector Contracting. (as amended August 7, 2014)
Notice of Opposition
Dear Senator Padilla:
The City of Diamond Bar respectfully opposes your SB 556, which would require costly,
unnecessary and overly burdensome, uniform and vehicle requirements on service providers
that contract with public agencies.
The City of Diamond Bar relies on our contract services to maximize resources while providing
high quality and critical police, fire and emergency medical services. SB 556 makes it illegal
for a Contractor that is a non-governmental entity and performs labor or services relating to
public health or safety for a public agency, to wear a uniform bearing a logo of the public agency
or display on a vehicle unless an identifying disclosure statement is also displayed.
These additional uniform and logo requirements would drive contractor costs and impact service
delivery. California Ambulance Association (CAA) states in opposition: "The potential costs to
private providers would be superfluous as there is no documentation of uniforms or ambulance
appearance posing any risk to patient or public safety." On September 30, 2012, Governor
Brown vetoed similar legislation (AB 2389; Lowenthal) stating there is no solution being
offered by changing uniform and logo requirements and that "it may spawn confusion and some
costs "
The City is further concerned that SB 556 fails to more narrowly define which services would
be included under "public health and safety". This would pose grave administrative and fiscal
problems for counties, cities, and special districts that contract for the services in addition to
police, fire, and medical providers, which may be affected by the overreaching aspects of SB
556.
Overall, SB 556 would raise significant issues as described above. For these reasons, the City
of Diamond Bar opposes SB 556.
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Carol
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Mayor
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cc: Bob Huff, California State Senator, 29' District
Curt Hagman, California State Assembly, 55`x' Assembly District
City Council
Camille Wagner, Deputy Legislative Secretary, Governor's Office (FAX: 916-445-4341)
Jennifer Quan, League of California Cities, Regional Public Affairs Manager