2022 BIA Bay Area Legislative Update with CBIA - May 12

The BIA Bay Area Education Committee hosts a Legislative Update with guest speakers from our local Building Industry Association Bay Area (BIA BA) and California Building Industry Association (CBIA). Our own Lisa Vorderbrueggen (East Bay) and Pat Sausedo (South Bay) will provide some updates on local election highlights and redistricting, how some jurisdictions are using reach codes to push full electrification, and get a briefing on what BIA is doing to hold Hollister accountable. CBIA's Chris Ochoa and Michael Gunning will follow with a discussion and update at the state level. They will discuss school facilities and surplus budgets, are level three fees a reality? Get the update on fire management regulations. Find out what is happening with housing bills which were intended to increase production, but are they? What?s happening with drought and construction water? And finally we will get an EV update. Join us for what promises to help us prepare for our future developments! This event will be recorded and available behind the BIA Bay Area firewall for member viewing.
		Lisa Vorderbrueggen Director of Governmental Affairs, East Bay BIA\|Bay Area Lisa leads BIA\|Bay Area?s governmental affairs advocacy efforts in Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties. She joined the association in March 2014 after a 25-year journalism career. As a reporter, editor and political columnist for the Bay Area News Group and the Contra Costa Times, she covered everything from city council elections to transportation sales tax campaigns to major land-use initiatives, and was instrumental in the production of dozens of televised candidate round-tables for more than a decade. A fifth-generation Oregonian, Vorderbrueggen earned her journalism degree at the University of Nevada-Reno and began her career at the Nevada Appeal in Carson City, Nev. She also worked as a national correspondent in Washington, D.C., for the Las Vegas Journal and was the Carson City Bureau Chief for the Reno Gazette-Journal. Her work has been recognized by the Nevada and California press associations and she appeared in two Emmy-award winning documentaries about the construction of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge.
		Pat Sausedo South Bay Governmental Affairs, BIA\|Bay Area Sausedo Consulting Pat is half of Sausedo Consulting Company along with Dennis MartinShe has a terrific track record of working and helping South Bay home builders provide quality homes and neighborhoods. As a former San Jose City councilmember and vice mayor, Pat shepherded the planning and development of two of the biggest projects in the city?s history: Silver Creek Planned Residential Community and the Evergreen Specific Plan. For 25 years, Pat has also been the executive director for NAIOP Silicon Valley, the Commercial Real Estate Association, and spent three years at the helm of public affairs for the San Jose/Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Pat serves on the board of Recovery Café San Jose. Residents of the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose.
		Michael Gunning Senior Vice President of Legislative Affairs, CBIA In his role as lead advocate for CBIA, Michael represents the membership before the California State Legislature, the Governor?s Office, and other state agencies to advocate for intelligent, constructive policies that bolster the homebuilding industry and increase homeownership opportunities. Mr. Gunning is a veteran of housing finance, insurance and community development policy in California. With over two decades of experience working with the Legislature, he currently serves as a gubernatorial appointee to the California Housing Financing Agency.
		Chris Ochoa CBIA?s Senior Counsel for Codes, Regulatory and Legislative Affairs, CBIA Chris has more than twenty-five years of experience as an attorney and lobbyist navigating the national and state building code adoption process in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. As a practicing attorney and legislative advocate, Chris represents the CBIA before state boards and commissions, and at the State Legislature. Chris also represents the CBIA on several state and national working groups and advisory committees, including the CA State Fire Marshal?s Wildfire Mitigation Advisory Committee and Wildland Urban Interface Task Group, the California Fire Safe Council, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Climate Change Task Force and Codes and Standards Sub-Committee, and the California Building Standards Commission?s Building and Fire Code Advisory Committee.