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8.A- Legislative Bill Action consistent with the city's general plan. PUBLIC SAFEI~ , Changes the notification period for specified public 5B 1489 (Perata). Vehicles. Speed Contests. SB hearings from 15 days to 21 days prior to the date of the hearing. 1489~ adds "reckless driving on a highway, reckless · Narrows the medium of publication of notice of driving on an off-street parking facility or exhibition of specified public hearings to a newspaper of general speed on a highway" to Section 23109(a} of the Vehicle circulation. Code (related to motor vehicle speed contests) to allow for confiscation of and a 30-day hold on a vehicle · Allows LAFCO to proceed with changes of organiza- involved in such dangerous activities commonly referred tion or reorganization that includes the detachment to as "sideshows." Staff: Natasha Fooman, Status: of a territomy from any city within 60 days after the date that the proposal is on LAFCO's meeting SenPubSfty, Position: Support. agenda. SB 1528 (Vincent). Shopping CarLs. SB 1528 requires · Makes tile requirement that LAFCO terminate any that shopping carts collected by a local government be change of organization or reorganization that reclaimed by the owner (or agent) within two (instead of includes the annexation of territo~J to any district three) business days following the date of notification, inapplicable if LAFCO receives a resolution in support and any cart claimed afterwards would be classified as an of the proposed change of organization or reorgani- zation from all districts to which the annexation of "occurrence" for the purposes of issuing fines. The intent of this bill is to make it more difficult for cart territory is proposed. owners and their agents to take advantage of the local · Requires that any specified conditions imposed on a change of organization or reorganization, constitute agency's collection services by picking up carts from a centralized location prior to the three-day limit. The the exclusive conditions for the change of organiza- tion or reorganization. League has learned that a variety of strategies are being utilized by cities to handle the nuisance created by · Provides that protest proceedings of the Act shell abandoned shopping carts, and therefore recognizes the prevail in the event of a conflict with the principal act of the district to be formed, challenge of legislating away the problem, but will continue to work with the author in an attempt to find · Deletes the requirement that the executive officer of an incentive for carl owners to retrieve carls that can be LAFCO must give mailed notice of protest hearings utilized if a city so chooses. Staff: Natasha Fooman, on a proposed annexation to a city of 75 acres or Status: SenLG;Hrg-4/24, Position: Support. less to each landowner within the affected territory. · Establishes which entities must hold elections SB 1549 (Battin). Indian Gaming. Improvements. As following certification of a petition by the executive officer of LAFCO, amended on April 16, SB 1549 creates the Indian Gaming Improvement Commission, which would be · Changes the entity that must hold elections for any resolution ordering a special reorganization, responsible for determining the eligibility of requests for appropriations of monies from the Indian Gaming Re argument made by the author is that the above Special Distribution Fund. The bill specifies that the changes are In response to a number of procedural Commission shall establish priorities for those requests issues that have been raised since the passage of major that will benefit the most residents of communities LAFCO reform legislation, AB 2838 (Hertzberg, 2000). impacted by tribal gaming. The League has requested the following three amendments: 1) include a local These problems are relatively minor and do not warrant separate bills. Staff: Dan Carrigg, Status: AsApps, Posi-government representative on the Commission; 2) tion: Review and Comment. provide a fire services (in addition to law enforcement) PAGE 8/PRIORITY FOCUS Visit the League's Official Web Site--www. cacities.org