Nevada County draws prestigious statewide conference
Editor’s note: We were asked to distribute our FoodWineArt magazine at the CALAFCO conference in Squaw Valley last fall, and we look forward to doing it again.
The California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions (CALAFCO- http://www.calafco.org/) has announced it will hold its annual staff conference in Nevada County next year, April 15-17, 2015.
The annual CALAFCO Staff Conference is attended by up to 100 LAFCo staff members from every county in California. The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Express and at the Courtyard Suites in Grass Valley, with one evening banquet at the Miners Foundry in Nevada City. This is excellent news for Nevada County tourism venues, which will see business midweek during the pre-summer season.
Local Agency Formation Commissions (LAFCos) are local agencies established in every California County by the State legislature to encourage the orderly formation of local governmental agencies, ensure efficient public services, preserve agricultural and open space land resources, and to discourage urban sprawl.
Founded in 1971, CALAFCO is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting its membership with educational and technical resources, providing statewide coordination of LAFCo activities, serving as a resource to the Legislature and other bodies, and offering a structure for sharing information among the various LAFCos and other governmental agencies it serves.
Supervisor Hank Weston has served as Chair of the Nevada County LAFCo since June 2007. Grass Valley City Councilmember Lisa Swarthout, also a LAFCo Commissioner and current Chair of the Economic Resource Council (ERC), said the ERC Tourism Advisory Committee will be standing by to welcome and offer assistance to this group.
—Nevada County CEO Friday memo
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