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COVID-19: Leniency Regarding Recreational Vehicle/Trailer Restrictive Covenants for Frontline Health Care & Essential Workers
As the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the health and well-being of people around the world, the Community Associations Institute California Legislative Action Committee (CAI-CLAC) encourages all board members, residents, managers, and business partners to lead with health and safety, compassion, flexibility, understanding, and business continuity in mind. CAI-CLAC is dedicated to building better communities, including each community association’s relationship with the greater community, and that mission is more important now than ever before.
In response to the pandemic, essential workers have been stepping up and are continuing to report to their jobs throughout our economy, including in health care facilities, grocery stores, infrastructure maintenance, delivery services, public transportation, government, and water utilities. The CAI-CLAC Executive Committee stands with these essential workers and encourages communities to consider relaxation of and temporary leniency regarding recreational vehicle/trailer restrictive covenants to permit essential workers and immediate family members exposed to COVID-19 to self-quarantine while remaining near their home and family.
CAI-CLAC Advocacy Update May 2020
The Legislature is scheduled to reconvene this month, albeit on different days. The Assembly will return May 4, 2020, and the Senate on May 11, 2020. The Governor is scheduled to release a new budget on May 14, 2020.
The Assembly will hold a policy committee hearing for the first three weeks of May. Policy committees will be allowed only one hearing and the Chair will decide how many bills will be heard. Some committees are restricting their hearings only to COVID-19 or Economic Recovery related bills, others are not. Public participation will be limited. All hearings will be webcast.
CAI-CLAC ANNOUNCES ITS ANNUAL LEGISLATIVE ACTION DAY SCHOLARSHIP
The Community Associations Institute’s California Legislative Action Committee’s (CAI-CLAC) all-volunteer board voted to establish The Duncan McPherson Memorial Scholarship in 2016. The scholarship is based on McPherson’s long-standing work with community associations and his support of CAI-CLAC. The scholarship provides financial support for an association homeowner or manager to attend the 2020 CAI-CLAC Legislative Days at the Capitol, held on Monday, March 30 and Tuesday, March 31, 2020 in Sacramento, CA.
6 Reasons Why Attending Advocacy Week is Important
Still looking for a reason to attend CAI-CLAC’s Legislative Days at the Capitol? We’ve got 6 reasons why you don’t want to miss this event!
2020 Legislation Update
October of last year marked the end of the legislative session in California and Halloween was a fitting backdrop for some of the year’s nightmarish results. While there was good mixed in with the bad, some of the legislation passed this year could turn out to be the most challenging ever to community associations, including SB 323 and AB 670. CAI’s California Legislative Action Committee (CAI-CLAC) fought hard and had great success in light of overwhelming political obstacles. Believe it or not, the horrific aspects of SB 323 would have been doubly dreadful if not for staunch opposition from CAI-CLAC.
The Importance of Homeowner Involvement
About three years ago, I joined our local CAI Channel Islands Chapter and began hearing about the value the California Legislative Action Committee (CAI-CLAC) brings to homeowners associations by representing their interests at the State Capitol in Sacramento. The more I heard, the more important I believed CAI-CLAC’s contributions to be.
2019 CAI-CLAC Annual Planning Meeting Recap
The 2019 CAI-CLAC Annual Planning Meeting (APM) brought together 56 CAI-CLAC Delegates, Liaisons, At-Large Delegates, Emeritus Members, as well as Chapter CED and LSC members from throughout California to discuss key issues facing community associations and our legislative priorities for 2020 and beyond.
Governor Newsom Signed SB 323
We are disappointed to announce that late last night, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 323 (Wieckowski). This means it will be effective on January 1, 2020. We worked hard to defeat SB 323 and I am proud of the work we’ve done. We came very close, especially on the Assembly Floor where the bill passed and was sent to the Governor with NO votes to spare. It would not have been so close without your hard work at the grassroots level, nor would the bill be as it is written now. Believe it or not, SB 323 was even worse when it was first in print and our opposition forced the bill to be amended to account for the problems we pointed out. While we’re disappointed in the outcome, we were very successful in reducing the bill’s negative implications. Your efforts, in the form of phone calls, letters, e-mails, social media messaging, and in-person visits with legislators, made a big difference – and nearly made all the difference.
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