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Consent 7.
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| LAFCO |
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| Information |
| SUBJECT |
| Review and file CALAFCO legislative updates and letters of position for Assembly Bills 1729, 2156 and 2762 |
| RECOMMENDED ACTION |
| Review and file CALAFCO legislative updates and letters of position for Assembly Bills 1729, 2156 and 2762, approved by Legislative Subcommittee Members Matt Rexroad and Cecilia Aguiar-Curry. |
| FISCAL IMPACT |
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| REASONS FOR RECOMMENDED ACTION |
Commissioners Rexroad and Aquiar-Curry were appointed to a LAFCo Legislative Subcommittee on June 25, 2012, to review summary of legislation CALAFCO is tracking and file letters of support for Assembly Bills 1729, 2156 and 2762.
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| BACKGROUND |
When the CALAFCO Legislative Committee met on March 21, 2014 they took positions regarding several bills moving through the legislative process. CALAFCO Executive Director Pamela Miller asked that LAFCo's send letters of position on three of those bills which are listed below.
Yolo LAFCo's legislative subcommittee members Matt Rexroad and Cecilia Aguiar-Curry reviewed the bills and the draft letters of support. The subcommittee approved the letters of position for Assembly Bills 1729, 2156 and 2762 and those are attached for your review.
For more information on these bills and several others that CALAFCO is currently tracking, please see the May 2014 CALAFCO Quarterly in your Agenda packet.
AB 1729 (Logue) – CALAFCO Support – Williamson Act. As amended, appropriates $40M from General Fund in FY 14/15 for subvention payments to counties for Williamson Act contracts.
Support letters were sent to the Chair of the Assembly Local Government Commission (ALGC), Assembly member Mike Gatto, with a copy to the ALGC and Logue.
AB 2156 (Achadjian) – CALAFCO Support - LAFCo and JPAs. As amended, the bill introduces JPAs into C-K-H by naming JPAs as one of the entities LAFCo can request information from for studies, and includes JPA agreements as an item LAFCo may request from JPAs.
A support letter was sent to Assembly member Achadjian.
AB 2762 (ALGC) - CALAFCO Sponsor – C-K-H Omnibus bill. This bill contains a number of clean-up items to C-K-H, with several others approved by the leg committee to be added via an amendment prior to its scheduled hearing at the end of this month.
A support letter was sent to the ALGC. |
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