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Regular 7.
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| LAFCO |
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| Information |
| SUBJECT |
| Provide direction to staff on whether LAFCo should convene a Shared Services Workshop in February 2020 with the elected officials and executive staff from the four cities and Yolo County |
| RECOMMENDED ACTION |
| Staff recommends instead of holding a Shared Service Workshop, the Commission direct staff to have a more focused discussion with the city/county managers to obtain agency input on LAFCo's efforts and any refinements to the JPA service reviews and the Web Transparency Scorecard. Staff can then integrate the input received into LAFCo's Work Plan for 2020 which will be discussed and adopted by the Commission. This same approach was done in 2019. |
| FISCAL IMPACT |
| None. |
| REASONS FOR RECOMMENDED ACTION |
| At the April 28, 2016 LAFCo meeting regarding an agenda item to consider and adopt the Yolo LAFCo Shared Services Strategic Plan (Attachment B), the Commission directed staff to revise Goal 7 of the Plan to reflect that the shared services workshops will occur on an "as needed" basis as determined by the Commission at its December meetings. |
| BACKGROUND |
The intent of the Shared Services Workshop is to obtain input from all the cities and Yolo County on LAFCo's shared services priorities, since all the cities do not sit on LAFCo at any one time and to also include input from the agency managers. The February 2017 Workshop brought pivotal changes to our Shared Services Program with implementation of the Yolo Local Government Accountability and Transparency Program (Attachment A) reviewed at our September LAFCo meeting and adopted unanimously by all the cities and Yolo County in October and November 2017.
In order to achieve the shared goals of oversight, accountability, transparency, and shared services, the outcomes of the Shared Services Workshop included two new special projects for LAFCo:
- Conducting Municipal Service Reviews (MSRs) of selected types of JPAs (which occur once every five years on a schedule adopted by the Commission); and
- Completing a Web Transparency Scorecard for the County, cities, JPAs and special districts (modeled after one completed by the Marin County Grand Jury in 2015/16).
This evolution and refinement of our shared services program came to fruition in 2019. Consequently, last year instead of holding a Shared Service Workshop, the Commission directed staff to have a more focused discussion with the city/county managers to obtain agency input on LAFCo's efforts and any adjustments to the JPA service reviews and the Web Transparency Scorecard. Staff then integrated the input received into LAFCo's Work Plan for 2019 which was discussed and adopted by the Commission.
Staff recommends this approach again for 2020. |
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