The Shasta Local Agency Formation Commission (Shasta LAFCO) meets on the first Thursday of alternate months at 9:00 a.m. in various public meeting locations in or around Redding, California. The scheduled meetings are February, April, June, August, October, December. Special meetings are called as needed. SHASTA LAFCO The Shasta Local Agency Formation Commission is a legislatively established commission responsible for coordinating logical and timely changes in local governmental boundaries, conducting special studies that review ways to reorganize, simplify, and streamline governmental structure, and preparing a sphere of influence for each city and special district within each county. The Shasta Local Agency Formation Commission was established in 1963. Shasta LAFCO's first five-member commission was made up of: two representatives from the Shasta County Board of Supervisors, one representative from the City Council of the City of Redding, one representative from the City Council of the City of Anderson, and a representative of the general public. With the 1993 incorporation of the City of Shasta Lake, the Mayor's Selection Committee agreed that the three cities in Shasta County would share the two city seats on the Commission on a rotational basis. In 1994 Shasta LAFCO was expanded to include two representatives from the independent special districts in Shasta County, thereby becoming a seven-member commission. From 1963 to mid-2000, the LAFCO office was located in a Shasta county department - first in the County Executive Office, then in the Office of Special Districts, then in the Community Services Department, then in the Public Works Department, and then back to the County Administrative Office. With the 1999 passage of the revised LAFCO statute, effective January 1, 2000, Shasta LAFCO approved a FY 2000/2001 budget that provided for independent LAFCO quarters and full-time staffing. Shasta County was created by an act of California's first legislature on February 18, 1850 as one of California's original 27 counties. Shasta County encompasses some 3,850 square miles, or approximately 2.46 million acres. The unincorporated population of approximately 68,000 lives in small towns and rural communities throughout the County, among them Cottonwood, Burney, Fall River Mills, McArthur, French Gulch, Palo Cedro, Millville, Shingletown, Castella, Lakehead, Manton, Old Station, Centerville, Shasta, Igo, Ono, and Mountain Gate. The California constitution provides that the Legislature shall prescribe a uniform procedure for incorporation of a city, provide for city powers and services, and establish regulations by which cities shall exercise their powers and provide services. The adjacent Cities of Anderson, Shasta Lake, and Redding are the only three incorporated urban areas in Shasta County. Whether independent or dependent, formation of a special district, as well as changes of organization and reorganization proposed by special districts is subject to LAFCO approval unless the principal act under which the district was formed specifically excludes LAFCO involvement. It is LAFCO's responsible to coordinate logical and timely changes in local governmental boundaries, conduct special studies that review ways to reorganize, simplify, and streamline governmental structure, and prepare a sphere of influence for each city and special district within the county. The Commission is directed toward seeing that services are provided efficiently and economically while agricultural and open-space lands are protected.