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Resident tells council Porterville lacks authority over school zoning, cites California League of Cities guidance
Summary
During oral communications, a resident told the Porterville City Council that local governments have no authority over schools and pointed council members to guidance on the California League of Cities website and related case law.
During oral communications at the Porterville City Council meeting, resident Fernando Nooyi told the council the city lacks authority over schools and cited a document on the California League of Cities website.
"Basically, 1, zoning. Schools are a child of the state. You have no authority over them. Plain and simple. Anything you try to do is gonna be litigated," Nooyi said. He added that the document lists case law and that a later page contains the relevant government code text, saying, "There's lots of case law listed in this document. The second page ... group of pages is actually the government code that clarifies it."
Nooyi addressed the council during the oral communications portion of the meeting, which the mayor opened by noting that public comment on closed-session agenda items was limited to three minutes.
The council did not take any formal action on the issue during the public meeting; Nooyi directed council members to the California League of Cities materials for guidance and referenced case law and government-code text without citing specific sections during his remarks.
