There is More to This Mess

I appreciate the response challenging where I got my information regarding what it will take to get cityhood on the ballot. At 2:52:52 to 2:53:02 in the County’s video recording of the August 28 CV MAC meeting, the LAFCO director clearly stated that there was a 25% threshold for an automatic cityhood.  Then at 2:53:15, the LAFCO Director does a tentative “oops” and says there is a 50% threshold!!!! And then in the Letter to the Editor of September 13, there is yet another explanation of threshold!!!! Confusing?  You bet. But, at least I did my homework before I wrote.

But, there is more to this mess - August 11, 2023 was supposed to be the cut-off date for letters to LAFCO. However, on August 28th, we learned that the cut-off had been changed without notice to September 11, 2023.  And no formal notice was scheduled to go out until September 10th. Added to that, on August 28th it was stated there is supposed to be a formal LAFCO cityhood hearing on November 9th. Where - who knows?  Time - who knows? The cityhood people do and we don't.  What the heck is going on here?

The following is the way for this to be fair to Castro Valley:

      1) Extend the response date to September 30 - I have previously written LAFCO demanding this!

      2) There was a Power Point presentation at the August 28th meeting that has not been made available to the public - presenting information not on the LAFCO formal documents. PUBLISH IT!!!

      3) Hold a formal hearing regarding cityhood HERE IN CASTRO VALLEY before November 9th

      4) I really don't know if the November 9th date is factually correct - this needs to be published! With time and location noted.

–Frank Mellon, Castro Valley