TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Executive Office
MEETING DATE: April 22, 2025
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Darcie Antle
PHONE:
707-463-4441
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Kelly Hansen
PHONE:
707-463-4441
ITEM TYPE: Consent Agenda
TIME ALLOCATED FOR ITEM: N/A
AGENDA TITLE:
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Ratification of Letter of Opposition for Assembly Bill 470 (McKinnor) - Telephone Corporations: Carriers of Last Resort
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RECOMMENDED ACTION/MOTION:
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Ratify letter of opposition for Assembly Bill 470 (McKinnor) - telephone corporations: carriers of last resort.
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PREVIOUS BOARD/BOARD COMMITTEE ACTIONS:
The Board of Supervisors regularly issues support letters that align with the 2025 Legislative Platform. These letters advocate for adequate and ongoing federal and state funding, timely distribution of resources, increased local authority, and flexibility in administering and providing services.
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
Assembly Bill 470 would require a telephone corporation seeking to relinquish its carrier of last resort designation for an eligible area, as defined, to provide a notice to the Public Utilities Commission, as described, and would require the telephone corporation's carrier of last resort designation for the eligible area to be relinquished upon the submission of the notice. The bill would require the telephone corporation to modify its tariff for basic local exchange telephone service, as specified, and would require that the modified tariff be effective upon the submission of the notice. The bill would require the telephone corporation to administer and pay for a customer challenge process for customers who inform the telephone corporation that no alternative voice service, as defined, is available at their location, as specified. The bill would require the commission, as part of a specified rulemaking, to establish a transition plan that a telephone corporation would be required to follow before its carrier of last resort designation is relinq...
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