Remarks by Angela Curro
201 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 9
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“And when you have fund balances, we have to go through a process whether it's a... Because a CSA, a county service area, is a special district under a LAFCO umbrella. Correct. A CFD, a community fiscal... A community facility's district, even though it has the word district, it's not a real district under LAFCO. It has no LAFCO authority. So right now, I want to stick with CSAs. I don't even want to get into the CFDs. And the reason I want to stick with the CSAs is because there's a process from conception to dissolving, and it goes through a LAFCO process. It does. And LAFCO has in 2026,…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. You can't do that. And that's the problem. I really need a legal opinion on what the process is to help you solve these inactive CSAs. And were they really inactivated properly? Because if you go back through the LAFCO process, I will tell you a lot of this stuff back prior to 2010 was a handshake. Oh, you guys don't want any more? Okay, we'll stop. But there's no documentation. we need to ensure the documentation i have gone to the recorder's office i have pulled up stacks and stacks of recordings that go back to the 60s and i will tell…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“I apologize. Don't worry. Your mind and mine are right in the same spot.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah. I want to step in here because this is my next point. My next point is we're sitting on inactive. I'm still on page 11. We're sitting on inactive Prop 13 1%. We're no longer collecting that 1% for those CSAs. Is that true or not true? I'm seeing the auditor. Can you please come up? You're saying we are still collecting.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“but these are inactives, if you look at this list, these are inactives that are not part of Prop 218, because there's a separate list of Prop 218 inactives, like the development I live in, and that is...”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“And I get that, Joe Paul. There's five of them, and they are active, and they are receiving that. But we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine that we're hearing are not receiving the 1% collected.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“But is an apportionment going to these people? No.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay, they're not Prop 13. They were due to the realignment, so the heading is wrong. I get that. But they still have a fund balance, and this is the taxpayer's money. It is not our money. And we can't use it. And if we're holding it and not going through the process of dissolving them and figuring out what the legal process is through county council and LAFCO, then they should be earning interest on the money that we're holding of their taxpayer dollars. And the opposite of that is if they are in deficit. They should be paying interest on that deficit, and that deficit needs to have a…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“Totally agree. And that's step one. Step one, we need to know the legal process of dissolving them. We need a memorandum of understanding or whatever legal document needs to be done to be able to get this off of our balance sheet because we don't need to be dealing with this if they're dissolved. Right?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“And there may need to be a negotiation with them and the county because we have to admit as a county, we have not done our fiduciary requirement of serving these CSAs. And we have to look at the history of the CSA and come up either with a reduction, a payoff, a payment plan. I get it because I've talked to these people. They're very, very angry people, especially the ones that didn't know. because they weren't getting like a fiscal statement and didn't know that they were in the hole. So I think there's a give and take, but I don't want to get into the weeds of those. I want to get on to, so…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“Well, I don't care how they collect it. We collect 1%. Let's make sure we.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“That's what I wanted to ask. That was my next question.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“And I'm going to take this one step further. If they weren't able to pay off, we could do a Prop 218 to get them up to paying off. And we may have to understand the history a little there. It could have been some of our fault. I don't know. Who knows? I don't want to say it's just... I think we need to have history to understand this. I don't want to blame this on residents because I don't feel residents have enough information. But when it comes to the other CSAs, if that CSA... Bonnie View gets paid out, do they still want those services? So we have to sit down with them and ask them if…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“Unless they did a Prop 218 increasing their fee. Exactly. Right.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“But we have to have conversations with these CSAs before we just arbitrarily say, you're no longer going to have landscape services. You're no longer going to have street sweeping. You're no longer going to have the lights on your streets. We can't arbitrarily do it. We have to have the communication. And I'd really like council to be the one to help with the process of that so that there's a little legal backing to what we're doing.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“But we can't at the same time look at these. And every time that I've been on this board every year, I have gone to the former public works director and said, look, you're showing in your budget a negative opportunity. on a CSA. I want a complete fund balance to ensure that we are not taking any money out of the general fund and subsidizing these CSAs. And so that, after looking at this, it looks like there's a fund balance, but I don't know. I'm assuming there's no money that's gone into these accounts that comes anywhere from the general fund. I'm hoping that can be We have not subsidized,…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“My next question, because CSA 22, which is Cielo Vista, is showing no number. And I thought there was a issue with their wastewater and the cost of the services we were providing of their wastewater. So I was looking at the bar chart. So it does. So that doesn't show on the fund balance as a negative. When you look at the Prop 218 bar chart, it's not there. So... These are the things that we need to come up with a plan on how we're going to address them. I don't want to belabor this because I think I've made my point. The problem is that if they are a 218 and they, for some reason, there is a…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I know 218 is homeowners. So I want to make sure we understand that on Prop 13, I have a feeling it is registered voters, not landowners. So that may be another issue because that means it goes on the ballot.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“I don't think it was annexed. That was the problem.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah. And so this is that'll be Ridgemark will be a sidebar because it's way too complicated for this meeting.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“They're set in stone, but we could do a 218 on top of them if they wanted us to maintain the services. So I just want to make sure that we understand we have processes we need to go through, and the Prop 218 voting process of a landowner has to be paid for by the landowners. And so the election costs, because we've done these, I've done these, you have to go through. It's not hard. It's not that expensive. We just need to get the process rolling and bring the process back because we are not going to be able to maintain the services and we're going to have to make decisions on what we're…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“Oh, so they only get that little percent each year?”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. But it said varies on yours. And one of your slides, it said it was an increase on there of 2.1%. So that was CSAs, 2.875, the CSAs. So I got confused. Can they go up to 2.875 or 72? Or is it only up to 2%? I want to make sure that we're not increasing beyond what our legal capability is.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“And this is a great report because it shows you the map of the CSA, it gives you the financials. It's these five that are part of Prop 13 and the AB8, AB9, whatever number. Those are the ones that don't get this level of a report and this is the level of report we need for those. Okay, real quick. I talked about the LAFCO process of the public. Oh, in these CSAs that are still there, we're the board of directors for these CSAs. Is there any ability to either form an ad hoc on some of these larger CSAs like Ridgemark where they can advise the board of some of the things? Because if we're going…”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026
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“A special project, not an ongoing cost? Yes.”
Board of Supervisors · Sep 14, 2026