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Extracted from Consolidated Report
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Findings 9 findings
F1
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Tehama LAFCo Commissioners and staff were unaware of who is on the Commission as regular members or alternates. This makes it difficult to have a cohesive, well-functioning Commission .
F2
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Tehama LAFCo does not have an updated set of written PPS which include procedural requirements of the CKH Act. The absence of an up-to-date policy document to guide LAFCo activities may result in a failure to properly execute responsibilities.
F3
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Funding splits for the annual Tehama LAFCo budget is not secured from the cities in Tehama County as required by the CKH Act, resulting in the full burden of Tehama LAFCo funding solely on the county.
F4
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Tehama LAFCo does not have a contract with county employees for LAFCo staffing as required by the CKH Act (GC §56380). The lack of a contract results in the inability for Tehama LAFCo to provide the appearance of autonomy from the County.
F5
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Tehama LAFCo has neither completed nor plans to complete at least one full round of SOI reviews and updates and accompanying MSRs (as called for by GC §§56425 and 56430 of the CKH Act) on all 33 special districts in Tehama County.
F6
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No information on special districts in Tehama County can be found through the Tehama LAFCo website resulting in members of the public having no consolidated electronic access to information on special districts in the County.
F7
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Having no formal LAFCo training, Tehama LAFCo Commissioners are not adequately prepared to fully implement the requirements of the CKH Act.
F8
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Tehama LAFCo does not hold regularly scheduled meetings resulting in lack of continuity of LAFCo business, LAFCo business being superseded by other Commissioner responsibilities and general loss of tracking of Commission appointments.
F9
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Some Tehama LAFCo Commissioners seem unaware of their legal requirement to cooperate with Tehama County Grand Jurors, resulting in unnecessary delays to Grand Jury timelines for completing interviews and writing reports.
Recommendations 12
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R1Page 29By April 1, 2023 Tehama LAFCo Commissioners and staff names should be listed and maintained on the Tehama LAFCo website to confirm Commission appointment. 26
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R2Page 30By April 1, 2023 Tehama LAFCo Commissioners and staff should implement a regular meeting schedule, at least quarterly, to help all participants remain aware of current issues, updated legal responsibilities and Commission appointments.
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R3Page 304 By April 1, 2023 Tehama LAFCo Commissioners and staff should revisit and redraft their PPS document to ensure they comply with the mandates, requirements and timelines of the CKH Act. Tehama LAFCo should define timelines and include criteria for when review and updates of SOIs and creation of accompanying MSRs are required to be completed.
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R4Page 30By April 1, 2023 Tehama LAFCo Commissioners should resume discussions to attempt to secure funding splits from the cities in Tehama County as required by the CKH Act.
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R5Page 30By April 1, 2023 Tehama LAFCo Commissioners should develop contracts annually with the County or others for Tehama LAFCo staffing consistent with GC §56380, such as the example provided in APPENDIX C.
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R6Page 30By April 1, 2023 Tehama LAFCo should develop annual work plans that outline schedules for the proactive reviews and updates of SOIs and production of MSRs, consistent with the CKH Act, as well as any other expected work in the given fiscal year. These work plans should put an emphasis on the completion of MSRs and SOI review and updates for special districts.
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R7Page 30By April 1, 2023 Tehama LAFCo should annually develop budgets and seek adequate funding to allow accomplishment of annual work plans called for in Recommendation 6. MSRs and SOIs should be scheduled and budgeted over time to reduce the burden of costs.
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R8Page 305 By April 1, 2023 Tehama LAFCo should have updated information on their webpage which provides a complete inventory (i.e., special district name, service(s) provided, contact information, etc.) of all the special districts in the County, as well as links to all updated SOIs and MSRs that have been completed and should reference the CKH Act.
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R9Page 30By April 1, 2023 Tehama LAFCo Commissioners should be required to have Grand Jury training and have subsequent refresher training at some interval to be determined.
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R10Page 30By July 1, 2023 Tehama LAFCo should develop checklists, such as those created in Yolo County, to document when MSR and SOI reviews are conducted and if SOI updates are found to be deemed necessary or not. The Grand Jury was presented in September 2022 with draft work products addressing R3 and parts of
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R11Page 31By October 18, 2023 Tehama LAFCo Commissioners and staff should begin attending Annual CALAFCO Conference Workshops. The 2023 conference will be held on October 18-23, 2023.
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R12Page 31By January 1, 2024 all Tehama LAFCo Commissioners and staff should receive formal training in the requirements of the CKH Act. . 28