BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:
Title
Consideration of Action Prohibiting Use of District Funds for Employee Travel to States Listed on the California State Attorney General's Website that Have Laws Discriminatory to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community, and Consideration of Rescission of Previously Adopted Resolution No. 10-42, Prohibiting Use of District Funds for Employee Travel to Arizona (Response to BMR-17-002).
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
A. Authorize the Interim Chief Executive Officer to order all District departments to prohibit use of District funds for employee travel to states identified by the California State Attorney General (AG) on the AG's website because these states have passed discriminatory laws against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community as described in California Government Code section 11139.8, except for the following purposes:
1. Enforcement of California law, including auditing and revenue collection;
2. Litigation;
3. To meet contractual obligations incurred before August 8, 2017;
4. To comply with requests by the federal government to appear before committees;
5. To participate in meetings or training required by a grant or required to maintain grant funding;
6. To complete job-required training necessary to maintain licensure or similar standards required for holding a position, in the event that comparable training cannot be obtained in California or a different state; or
7. For the protection of public health, welfare, or safety, or critical to the mission of the Santa Clara Valley Water District (District), as determined by the District; and
B. Rescind Board Resolution 10-42 adopted on May 25, 2010 that prohibited the use of District funds for official business and employee travel to Arizona, because the Arizona laws that were the subject of that Resolution, Senate Bill 1070 and House Bill 2162, which were discriminatory laws against immigration, have been struck down by ...
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