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Regular 10.
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| LAFCO |
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| Information |
| SUBJECT |
| Consider revising the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021/22 Annual Work Plan to prioritize the Municipal Services Review (MSR) for the Fire Protection Districts (FPDs) ahead of the MSR for the County Service Areas (CSAs). |
| RECOMMENDED ACTION |
| Accommodate Yolo County's request to prioritize the MSR for the FPDs and revise the FY 2021/22 Annual Work Plan accordingly. |
| FISCAL IMPACT |
| A change in MSR priorities would create some additional work for staff, but it would not impact LAFCo's budget. |
| REASONS FOR RECOMMENDED ACTION |
LAFCo determines and adopts its MSR review schedule in its Annual Work Plan (Attachment A). A change to the MSR schedule and priorities requires Commission approval. At the request of Vice Chair Saylor, and approved by Chair Woods, this item has been placed on the agenda to consider moving the MSR for the 15 FPDs to the top of the Annual Work Plan.
Per the adopted Work Plan, staff is currently working on the MSR for the County Service Areas (CSAs) which was scheduled for completion FY 20/21, and is tentatively scheduled for a public hearing September 2021 (this MSR is late due to the pandemic disruption backlog). Meanwhile, there are significant issues involving FPDs that might benefit from the analysis that could be contained in the FPDs' MSR:
- The FPDs are collectively petitioning Yolo County to give them a portion of the Proposition 172 Local Public Safety Protection and Improvement Act half-cent sales tax revenue approved by CA voters in 1993 to fill the county gaps created by the state's Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) shift (more background information on Proposition 172 is included as Attachment B). These conversations have been going on for several years, but have recently become more pressing; and
- Chronic missed calls by Elkhorn and Robbins FPDs impacting other departments via mutual aid agreements, and lack of a Fire Chief in Knights Landing.
The hope is that LAFCo's MSR will help provide additional information to help the affected local agencies resolve these issues. Hence, the request to advance the FPDs MSR on the Annual Work Plan. |
| BACKGROUND |
Regarding the work status on the MSR for the CSAs in process, staff has already provided a kick off presentation to each of the four CSAs with active Citizens Advisory Committees (CACs) at their regular meetings and begun compiling financial information. We are roughly 80% complete on the administrative draft MSR for the El Macero CSA and 20% on the other six CSAs. There would be some redundancy and additional staff time involved in stopping and restarting this project in 6-9 months.
Otherwise, staff does not see a significant negative consequence with shifting work to the FPDs MSR and delaying the CSAs. The County is considering initiating a process to convert the Wild Wings CSA into a CSD, but this is continuing on a separate track outside of LAFCo's MSR process. El Macero and North Davis Meadows both have ongoing litigation issues that may be somewhat informed by LAFCo's MSR, but not resolved by it. There are no significant issues with the remaining CSAs that staff is aware of yet.
While its true the MSR will provide detailed information regarding each FPDs funding and potential issues which will inform the County-FPD conversation, it will not address Proposition 172 funding directly, nor answer this question for the Board of Supervisors. |
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