LAFCo budget, workplan top Monday meeting agenda

FAIRFIELD – The Solano Local Agency Formation Commission on Monday will conduct a public hearing and consider the 2025-26 budget and workplan. The commissioners meet at 10 a.m.

in the Solano County Board of Supervisors chamber on the first floor of the government building, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. The commission will open the meeting and then adjourn into a closed session to complete a performance evaluation and to negotiate a contract for Executive Director Rich Seithel.



The open session items follow. The commission also received a 20-page letter from the Solano Group of the Sierra Club opposing proposed annexations of California Forever properties into Suisun City and Rio Vista. "We have always been proud to hail from Solano County whose Orderly Growth Initiative showed the rest of California how growth can be accommodated while minimizing sprawl.

This approach was copied by Napa County to preserve their wine industry by preventing McMansions on 'Wine Country Estates.' It has been echoed in Ventura County, an area in the path of the Los Angeles sprawl pressure," states the letter signed by Jim DeKloe, vice chairman of the Solano Group of the Sierra Club. "This echoes the approach of the Greenbelt Alliance of encouraging growth within city limits and excluding development outside.

Many of us serve as housing advocates and others of us advocate for industrial development within existing cities ...

We lament that the twin threats of California Forever and now Suisun City’s sprawl proposal threaten to trigger a renewed growth war. We lament that Suisun City has placed Rio Vista into the position that they are in. We do not want Solano County to gain a reputation of being 'anti-growth,' a reputation that could stymy infill development.

" It adds, "Ultimately this issue will come to the Local Agency Formation Commission. We have full confidence that LAFCO will enforce its standards and, in the absence of a new General Plan or changes in the sphere of influence, deny annexations outside of the current SOI.".