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Mariposa LAFCO elects Manatre as 2025 chair; vice chair nomination tabled, minutes approved with abstentions
Summary
At its April 20 meeting the Mariposa County LAFCO elected Commissioner Manatre as chair for 2025, rescinded a vice-chair nomination for procedural reasons and tabled that selection, approved prior meeting minutes with abstentions, and directed staff to follow up on an ad hoc work-plan committee.
MARIPOSA, Calif. — The Mariposa County Local Agency Formation Commission on April 20 elected Commissioner Manatre as LAFCO chair for 2025, approved several sets of past minutes and tabled a vice chair nomination after commissioners learned an alternate member was ineligible.
Early in the meeting a motion to name Commissioner Manatre chair passed; commissioners voiced unanimous approval. A subsequent motion to name Commissioner Danette Toso vice chair was later rescinded when commissioners learned Toso was serving as an alternate and thus ineligible for the vice-chair role; the commission agreed by consensus to table that item until the next meeting while awaiting confirmation of whether the public member, Moose Mutlow, would continue in his seat.
The commission approved minutes from the Feb. 27, 2024 and May 10, 2023 meetings. The Feb. 27 minutes were approved 3 in favor, 1 abstention; similarly, the May 10 minutes were approved with 3 votes in favor and 1 abstention. Commissioners noted a minor correction in the Feb. 27 minutes (a missing word in item 3) and asked that future agendas include the Pledge of Allegiance per a prior request recorded in the minutes.
On a separate organizational item, commissioners discussed establishing a 2025–26 LAFCO work plan. Staff reminded the commission that an ad hoc committee had previously been created and that Commissioner Smallcomb and public member Moose Mutlow had been appointed; commissioners agreed staff would contact those members to use the existing ad hoc to draft a work plan and return it to the full commission later this summer for formal consideration.
No legislation or external approvals were required for these housekeeping items. Staff said they would follow up on the vice chair eligibility issue and return the nomination at the next meeting if the public-member seat status is resolved.
The meeting then proceeded to items on the recommended 2025–26 budget and CALAFCO participation, which commissioners deferred for decision pending additional information and a staff report after the June Central Region meeting.
