Alamo Incorporation Movement (AIM) and their funding source, Alamo Community Foundation (ACF), which raised $200,000 in tax free donations for LAFCO studies, are driven by one goal - creation of the Town of Alamo. Based on a 2006-07 financial analysis (CFA), more outdated than even a 2007-08 CFA would be, (in view of the Wall Street and global financial melt down) a misleading petition drive, and a three million dollar ($3,000,000) negotiated payoff to Contra Costa County, AIM and ACF have ramrodded this BAD DEAL through LAFCO and the Board of Supervisors to a vote on March 3, 2009. Do we really want to turn control over our private property rights to our neighbors who will be the new city government? Do we really want to meet our city council neighbors at Safeway who will represent the TOWN we may be suing to fight for these rights? If passed, "local control" means a contract city run by autocratic bureaucrats in partnership with Contra Costa County, the State of California, and the Federal Government, along with all mandates and liability that go with them.
RECONSIDERATION FILED BY ASL
09/24/2008 - Contra Costa County LAFCO
 NEW GROUNDS FOR
LAFCO RECONSIDERATION
Senate Bill No. 301
On September 27, 2008, the Governor of California filed with the Secretary of State SB301, thereby eliminating the time constraint, June 30, 2009, LAFCO used to justify its decision at the September 18 hearing. This bill deletes the requirement that a city be incorporated before July 1, 2009, in order to be allocated Vehicle License Fee (VLF) revenues.
Consultant Gary Thompson and LAFCO Executive Officer Lou AnnTexeira told Commissioners that CFA data was based on the town being incorporated prior to June 30, 2009, in order for the town to receive VLF revenues. This new information, not available at the time the commissioners voted, will allow commissioners more time to address their concerns about the economic data contained in the CFA, and request updating the financial data accordingly.
THE LAFCO DECISION FOR A VOTE
IN MARCH 2009
MUST BE RECONSIDERED
LAFCO RECONSIDERATION DEADLINE
is
5 p.m. OCTOBER 20, 2008
What LAFCO did not KNOW then, and should reconsider NOW:
- The current financial crisis is the greatest financial meltdown since The Great Depression of 1930. LAFCO should have the courage to reconsider its September 18 decision based on seriously flawed financial studies.
- The Commissioners' doubts, regarding the financial data in the old 2006-07 model to approve the 2009 Alamo Incorporation, were denied consideration.
- LAFCO could not have known the Petition signed by Alamo voters for a LAFCO study, submitted with Application No. LAFCO 07-27, was secured with verbally misleading information prior to obtaining the signatures.
- LAFCO could not have known that $200,000 would be raised by Alamo Community Foundation, which solicited tax-exempt funds, to meet the requirement of "private money" to pay for LAFCO's incorporation studies.
ALAMO INCORPORATION:
A Bailout for Contra Costa County on the backs of Alamo Taxpayers
When Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987, wrote the book entitled All Politics Are Local, he was not kidding. We all know fiscally irresponsible governments can always feed at the taxpayers' trough. Who did the LAFCO commissioners think they were fooling holding the charade of a hearing at Creekside Church on September 18? Certainly not speakers who had the courage to challenge its flawed "studies," and certainly not the enthusiastic audience who supported the speakers' sentiments with loud applause.
Alamo Spotlight is filing a Request for Reconsideration with the required check of $2500. A check written from a personal account. A check, which will not appear as a charitable deduction on any IRS tax form. The only goods and services the opposition forces need is a NO vote in March to save Alamo taxpayers from bailing out Contra Costa County from bankruptcy. |
