Special districts: consolidation and reorganization.

The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 requires a local agency formation commission to approve, without an election, a consolidation or reorganization of 2 or more local agencies, if a majority of the members of each of the legislative bodies of the agencies adopt substantially similar resolutions of application making proposals either for the consolidation of districts or for the reorganization of all or any part of the districts into a single local agency, as specified. The Community Services District Law authorizes the organization of a community services district for various purposes, including, among others, the collection, treatment, or disposal of sewage, wastewater, recycled water, and stormwater, providing fire protection services, and providing public library services. This bill would, until January 1, 2018, authorize the local agency formation commission to approve or conditionally approve an expedited reorganization of specified districts into a community services district, with the same powers, duties, responsibilities, obligations, liabilities, and jurisdiction of the district proposed to be dissolved, unless the governing body of the district proposed to be dissolved files a resolution of objection with the commission, as specified. The bill would also, until January 1, 2018, authorize the El Dorado County Local Agency Formation Commission to approve, disapprove, or conditionally approve an accelerated reorganization of the Tahoe Paradise Resort Improvement District under specified circumstances, and would declare the need for a special statute addressing that reorganization.