Planning and Development

Recommendations 3

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  The Amador County Board of Supervisors amends County Ordinance, Chapter 2.94 to formally grant Technical Advisory Committee membership status to a representative of the Amador Water Agency and allow that member voting status on the committee.
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  To conform to the spirit of the Ralph M. Brown Act and avoid the appearance of impropriety, the Technical Advisory Committee should publish and/or post a summary of their meeting minutes and the agenda items addressed therein, including the date of the meeting and attendees, within a reasonable time following its meetings; not to exceed 15 days. 3.1.8 Pertinent References, Documents and Materials Amador County Code http://www.codepublishing.com/CA/amadorcounty.html Amador County Web site: Meeting Agendas and Minutes http://www.co.amador.ca.us/agenda_minutes/2004/tac.htm 2005/2006 Grand Jury Final Report 11 Ralph M. Brown Act [Government Code sections 54950 – 54963] text may be found at http://www.cfac.org/Law/BrownAct/Text/ba_text.html click the link at the top of the page for the full text. Referenced Penal Code 925 may be found at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html by checking the penal code checkbox and typing in the search box 925 then clicking on “Search”. Click on penal code section 925 to read the full text. 3.2 Local Agency Formation Commission (“LAFCO”) 3.2.1 Introduction The Cortese-Knox Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 (“Act”) establishes procedures for local government changes of organization, including city incorporations, annexations to a city or special district, and city and special district consolidations. Local Agency Formation Commissions (LAFCOs) have numerous powers under the Act, but those of primary concern are the power to act on local agency boundary changes and to adopt spheres of influence for local agencies. Among the purposes of LAFCOs are the discouragement of urban sprawl and the encouragement of the orderly formation and development of local agencies. 3.2.2
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  Amador County and the incorporated cities provide funding (at the 50/10 ratio specified by state law) to implement the establishment of LAFCO. 3.2.8 Pertinent References, Documents and Materials In order to answer the publics’ questions about LAFCOs and their reason for how they are formed, their being, their powers, etc., the Grand Jury has appended “Time to Draw the Line - A Citizen’s Guide to LAFCOs”, is also available on line at http://www.calafco.org/docs/TimetoDrawLine_03.pdf Updates to the above “guide” can be found at the California Legislature Senate Committee on Local Government website at http://www.sen.ca.gov/locgov/LAFCOGUIDEUPDATE2003.doc “Final Plan for Allocation of Regional Housing Needs for Central Sierra Counties” Copies may be requested at cfpc@mlode.com. This is the Central Sierra Planning Council. 2005/2006 Grand Jury Final Report 14 “The California Planners Book of Lists 2005". This is the reference work for information related to the planning process. It contains the who, what, where, when and how to find information as well as survey information as to the attitudes and progress each county has made. This may be found at http://www.calpin.ca.gov/Archives/pdf/2005bol.pdf Documents such as: • Amador County Approved Tentative Subdivision Map Applications • Amador County Tentative Subdivision Map Applications • Amador County LAFCO Web site can be found at http://amador.co.ca.gov The Guide to Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Government Reorganization Act, (a complete text of the Law with helpful indexing) of 2000 through 2004, may be found at http://www.calafco.org/ckh.htm Current State of California LAFCO Review for Amador County may be found at http://www.calpin.ca.gov/information by checking the County button, radio button, type Amador in the field space and then click the “view” button. The CALAFCO Site provides links to all County LAFCO websites. www.calafco.org/resources.htm California State Assembly Bill AB2838 California Government Code 56000