Note these files were remove from valley votes website by Jeff Brain and are relocated by Charles Brink here for the publics information

This page contains data on issues and the process of creating a new Valley city independent of Los Angeles. The Process is controlled by the state through LAFCO under the Cortese-Knox Local Government Reorganization Act Of 1985.

The Next LAFCO hearings 2-27-02 on the CFA

Here is the link to the final CFA now only avertable in a large PDF

http://lalafco.org/Valley%20Final%20CFA.pdf

The 2-25-02 supplement is in regular form at

http://lalafco.org/Supplemental%20Valley%20report.htm

The most important are marked . Documents are in date order

11-28-01 LA County Councils 11-21-01opinion on transfer of Assets. This is the First of the "negotiations" documents we will be posting on the website

10-5-01 San Fernando Valley Proposal for Special Reorganization Draft Comprehensive Fiscal Analysis October 4, 2001

10-1-01 LA CAO's comments on the negotiations between LA City AND The Valley. Secession - "Mitigation Negotiations" between Secession Applicants (Both Valley and Harbor) and the City of Los Angeles

6-19-01 We just received through the courtesy of LA City an electronic copy of the City Attorneys report on legal issues on valley secession we are in the processes of creating a indexed internet file (HTM) here is the unofficial doc (186k) file and a link to the official scanned PDF file (3508k)

6-13-01 LA City's Response To LAFCO Regarding Valley Secession Proposal And Initial Fiscal Analysis This report was posted on LA City's Website in on nearly unusable PDF files seehttp://www.lacity.org/oars/lafco/6-2001/ for an index of the PDF files. We have started to convert them to usable internet files (HTML)

Opening page
Executive Summary

5-14-01 ValleyVote's response to the LAFCO Initial Fiscal Analysis.

3-31-01 The LAFCO Initial Fiscal Analysis. We are created a searchable and quick loading html file for our website of most of the report.

12-15-00 The City Of Los Angeles Geographic Revenue Analysis For Fiscal Year 1998-1999. Not on the LA city Website even though it was released to the media on 12-15-00.

5-5-00 Assembly bill AB 1960 to exempt splitting of a city from CEQA issues along with other changes. Click to get the latest on the bills status. Vetoed by the governor 9-13-00 after extensive changes which mandated LAFCO pay for all EIR's the require.

5-1-00 Here is ValleyVote's Vision of a New City as submitted to LAFCO

1-20-00 from the Commission on Local Governance for the 21st Century their final report
GROWTH WITHIN BOUNDS: Report of the Commission on Local Governance for the 21st Century.

10-26-99 Bidders Questions As Of October 18,1999 on Special Reorganization Request For Proposal Prospective

10-19-99 LAFCO's Bidders list and Changes in the RFP

9-22-99 LAFCO's rfp full title "Request For Proposals Comprehensive Fiscal Analysis Of The Proposed Special Reorganizations Of The San Fernando Valley Area And Harbor Area Of The City Of Los Angeles" and the instructions to the bidders.
8-24-99 This is an Electronic copy of Mayor Riordan's 8-24-99 letter to LAFCO
7-14-99 ValleyVote on the Selection Process and Criteria for the hiring of LAFCO Consultants
7-14-99 Applicant's Names submitted for LAFCO Notices by ValleyVote concerning the LAFCO Process
7-1-99 LA City's response to LAFCO and ValleyVote's request. Indexes and footnotes have been added. 7-9-99 Update we received this E-mail concerning our request for electronic copies of the attachments. "We've checked with the departments who are responsible for the various attachments and unfortunately almost none of them are available in electronic format. The only exception was an executive summary of one of the pension fund actuarial reports. If you would like, we can provide hard copies of the various documents for your group."

6-1-99 ValleyVote's Initial Identification of Needs for Data Collection as submitted to LAFCO. This is step 1 of the LAFCO processes.
3-19-99 Public Financial Management Preliminary Work Plan Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission Special Reorganization Study Preliminary Work Plan

2-25-99 LAFCO 7 step procedure concerning the Valley Secession
2-23-99Secession Study Cost Estimates by the Local Agency Formation Commission and Urban Research
LAFCO Municipal Secession Fiscal Analysis Scooping this is an electronic copy of the study and other information. Word (DOC) file

Letters

6-30-99 Opinion issued by county council concerning termination of Special Reorganization Subcommittee
6-23-99 Letter by Thomas E. Jackson attempting to terminate the subcommittee
4-15-99 Letter from Congressman Sherman and Mckeon requesting appropriation of 2 Million for LAFCO study
3-9-99 Opinion issued by county council concerning issues timing of 15 day period to add signatures.
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LAFCO Agendas

These are from the period before LAFCO Had a website here are their current agendas.

8-11-99 agenda
7-28-99 agenda
7-14-99 agenda
6-02-98 Subcommittee meeting
6-23-99 Subcommittee meeting was cancelled
5-26-99 agenda
4-7-99 Subcommittee meeting was cancelled
4-14-98 Subcommittee meeting
3-24-99 agenda and Minutes
3-10-99 agenda
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