I sent this report to the Senate Rules Committee and every Senator whose email I could find.
If you're concerned about how cities are being misrepresented, I encourage you to share it with your CA state senator too, many can only be reached through contact forms limited to constituents.

2. Most treated it as a routine, procedural task, often delegated to the unelected City Manager.

3. In several cases, Cal Cities initiated the opposition and walked staff through it, raising serious concerns about the influence this lobbying group holds over local governments.

To summarize:

1. No city council voted to oppose SB 79. In every case, the mayor (just one councilmember among several) signed off unilaterally. None of these cities have a mayor with executive authority, so this is concerning