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work done by force account without advertising for bids and to purchase in
the open market materials and supplies when the estimated cost of the work
or the cost of the materials and supplies does not exceed $5,000.
This bill would instead make these provisions applicable to the Santa
ClaritaValley WaterAgency and would increase these cost and cost estimate
limits to $30,000.
Existing law requires, for any proposal involving the dissolution of the
Newhall County Water District, that the local agency formation commission
forward the change of organization or reorganization for confirmation by
the voters if the commission finds that a petition requesting that the proposal
be submitted for confirmation by the voters has been signed, as prescribed.
This bill would repeal that provision.
Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government
Reorganization Act of 2000 (act), provides the sole and exclusive authority
and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of
organization and reorganization for cities and districts.
This bill would require the agency to submit an application for conditions
addressing the creation of the agency to the Local Agency Formation
Commission for the County of Los Angeles, as specified, and require the
commission to prepare a written report, which may contain specific
conditions to which the agency would be subject and which the commission
deems appropriate under the act. The bill would require the agency to
reimburse the Local Agency Formation Commission for the County of Los
Angeles for all costs associated with the submittal, review, consideration,
preparation, and determination associated with the application for conditions
and the preparation of the written report.
By imposing duties on the agency and a county in connection with the
operation of the agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies
and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory
provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for
specified reasons.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
(a) Residents and businesses of the Santa Clarita Valley are served by
several separate retail water providers. It is an inherently fragmented
structure with noncontiguous service areas that has resulted in redundancies,
interagency conflict, and barriers to integrated regional water management.
Despite these challenges, the region’s water providers continue to provide
reliable and cost-effective water service.
(b) Castaic Lake WaterAgency was created pursuant to the Castaic Lake
Water District Law (Chapter 28 of the First Extraordinary Session of the

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