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LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION COMMISSION OF NAPA COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF AMERICAN CANYON SERVICE REVIEW REPORT LAFCO of Napa County Regular LAFCO Meeting Daniel Schwarz, Executive Officer 4:00PM, Thursday, Apr. 10, 2003 Keene Simonds, Analyst Board of Supervisors Chambers Kathy Mabry, Commission Secretary rd 1195 Third Avenue, 3 Floor Napa, CA 1804 Soscol Avenue, Suite 205A Napa, CA 94559 (707) 259-8645 INTRODUCTION On January 1, 2001, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act became the governing law of LAFCOs. One change brought by this Act was the creation of a new LAFCO function, the service review. Government Code §56430 states that prior to any review or update of a sphere of influence, the Commission shall conduct a service review – a comprehensive evaluation of the ability of the agency to provide service within its existing jurisdiction and within its sphere. Government Code §56425(f) states that the Commission shall update all spheres every five years, meaning that the Commission must also conduct service reviews on a five year cycle. Each of the 58 LAFCOs may adopt their own approach to fulfilling the service review and sphere update requirements. To fulfill these responsibilities, the Commission adopted a schedule for service reviews and sphere updates to begin in late 2001 and end in late 2005. In developing this schedule, LAFCO of Napa County determined that the complex assignment before it must be accomplishe