SECTIONS 51900-51903 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 51900-51903

51900. The Legislature finds and declares that the County of
Sacramento, due to the small number of incorporated cities within the
county, the large unincorporated urban area of the county, the
comparative compactness and physical uniformity of the county, and
the absence of competing municipal interests, is uniquely suited for
a program of local government reorganization to be voted on by the
electorate of the county.
The Legislature further finds and declares that the County of
Sacramento contains over 127 separate governmental entities,
including special districts, which often perform duplicatory or
specialized functions and which proliferate taxing and spending
agencies of government, and diffuse responsibility for programs and
actions in response to urban problems of the county.

51901. It is further found and declared that local government must
be responsive and its elected officials readily accountable to the
needs of the people; it must be visible and representative in order
to permit greater participation in governmental affairs by the
public; and elected and appointed officials should have more clearly
defined areas of responsibility and authority, so that the people may
have more success in seeking action and redress from their
government.

51902. It is further found and declared that in order to strengthen
and make more efficient and responsive the overall administrative
process of local government, administrative and executive authority
in Sacramento County should be clearly defined and responsibility
established under a single general purpose government, subject to
approval of the electorate.

51903. The Legislature finds that a general statute cannot be made
applicable to this matter because of the facts and circumstances
peculiar to the local governmental jurisdictions within the County of
Sacramento. Therefore, the provisions of this chapter shall be
applicable only to the County of Sacramento and the incorporated
cities and special districts within the County of Sacramento, and are
intended to implement, for the County of Sacramento and the cities
and special districts within the county, the provisions of Article XI
of the California Constitution providing for consolidation of a
county with cities within the county.