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LAFCO counsel outlines options to change commission composition to add community voting seats
Summary
Legal counsel told the San Francisco LAFCO that statutory categories do not neatly fit the consolidated city-county and recommended treating San Francisco as a county with no cities to add a voting community member; commissioners expressed support and staff outlined short- and long-term steps.
Legal counsel Inder Khalsa told the Local Agency Formation Commission that San Francisco's consolidated city-and-county status does not fit neatly into the Corte se Knox Hertzberg Act categories and presented options for how LAFCO could change its commission composition.
Counsel said the original LAFCO formation used a statute that was later repealed and that the city's unique status led staff to consider three possible classifications under state law. "San Francisco…
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