Local agency services: contracts: Counties of Napa and San Bernardino.

Under the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, a city or district may only provide new or extended services by contract or agreement outside of its jurisdictional boundary if it requests and receives written approval, as provided, from the local agency formation commission in the county in which the extension of service is proposed. The act establishes a pilot program under which the commissions in the Counties of Napa and San Bernardino, upon making specified determinations at a noticed public hearing, may authorize a city or district to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundary and outside its sphere of influence to support existing or planned uses involving public or private properties, as provided. Existing law requires the Napa and San Bernardino commissions to submit a report to the Legislature on their participation in the pilot program, as specified, before January 1, 2020, and repeals the pilot program as of January 1, 2021. This bill would reestablish the pilot program, which would remain in effect until January 1, 2026. The bill would impose a January 1, 2025, deadline for the Napa and San Bernardino commissions to report to the Legislature on the pilot program, and would require the contents of that report to include how many requests for extension of services were received under these provisions. The bill would require the Napa commission to include information on its decision to approve, deny, or approve with conditions any authorization for the City of St. Helena to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundary and sphere of influence. The bill would also authorize the Napa commission, until January 1, 2026, as part of the pilot program, to authorize the City of St. Helena to provide new or extended services outside its jurisdictional boundary and sphere of influence to specified property parcels, subject to approval at a noticed public hearing in which the Napa commission makes all of specified determinations concerning the extension of services. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Napa and San Bernardino. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.