CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR AND NOTICE OF ELECTION FOR LAFCO REGULAR AND ALTERNATE SPECIAL DISTRICT MEMBERS

This is a Call for Nominations of one Regular and one Alternate Special District Member to serve as the special district members on LAFCO.  It is recommended that an Item be placed on your Board’s Agenda. If a presiding officer of each district has not already been appointed, please do so. However, if a presiding officer is unable to participate, a district board may appoint one of its members as an alternate to participate in the presiding officer’s place, a copy of the meeting minutes showing the appointment needs to be presented along with your nomination form by the due date. 

A Nomination Form is attached and must be filled out and signed by the presiding officer of a district or, if that person is unable to participate, then by his or her alternate as designated by the district board. (See GC § 56332.)   Nominations are requested by no later than January 4, 2024. 

Nominations for the one LAFCO Regular and one Alternate Special District Member.  The current term of office of the current Regular Special District Member and the Alternate Special District Member ends on March 1, 2024. The term of office shall be four years or until the appointment and qualification of his or her successor. The new term of office ends on March 1, 2028.

Notice: There will be no election if pursuant to Government Code section 56332(c)(2), “[at] the end of the nomination period, if only one candidate is nominated for a vacant seat, that candidate shall be deemed appointed” to the Commission.

Nominations for one Regular Special District Member and one Alternate Special District Member should be submitted to the LAFCO Executive Officer, at the following address, or emailed by January 4, 2024 Nomination Forms are attached to this notice.

Santa Barbara Local Agency Formation Commission
105 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara CA  93101
Email Address: lafco@sblafco.org

Please contact the LAFCO office if you have any questions.

Mike Prater
Executive Officer
Santa Barbara LAFCO
105 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA. 93101
t. (805) 568-3391 f. (805) 568-2249
www.sblafco.org