sanitation districts would be folded together as one member. Mill Valley would retain its membership, as would the Tamlapais Community Services District. The four sanitary districts still would have a vote in SASM, but it would be more proportionate to their populations, say consolidation proponents. It is unfair for a small sanitary district to have a full vote, equal to that of Mill Valley when Mill Valley represents almost half of SASM. The LAFCO board will tackle those issues as it wrestles with the consolidation process. Adding to the mix, the four sanitary districts are feeder districts, not responsible for wastewater treatment. And SASM doesn’t use the flow of wastewater from the districts to determine their cost at the treatment plant; it uses the number of residents in the districts, not the actual amount of wastewater flowing to the plant. The SASM board comprises seven regular members. Two members come from the Board of Supervisors, two from city councils, two from special districts, and one from the public. Supervisor Kate Sears, representing southern Marin, serves on LAFCO. Jeff Slavitz, a Tiburon councilmember also serves on the board. In dealing with possible political pressure on LAFCO board members Store Hours: ' '
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voters. That means just 65 voters could send the consolidation question to a protest vote for the entire SASM membership. In addition, under the Government Reorganization Act, if consolidation opponents can collect a majority of registered voters in any one of the four sanitary districts, “it terminates the entire proposal. We’re talking about the signatures of 323 people that will kill this� for a JPA agency that serves about 29,700 people. The Huffman legislation allows the Marin LAFCO to stop what consolidation proponents say would be a tyranny of the minority. Of course, many of those who live and work in the sanitary districts see this as an unfair infringement on their localcontrol rights. They also dispute the contention that consolidating SASM would save money and lead to a better-run system. In a response to the LAFCO report, the Alto and Homestead districts note that an informal poll showed that 59 percent of residents were opposed to consolidation even after reading reports that favored the move. The poll also showed that while 18 percent favored consolidation, 23 percent were undecided, “largely citing lack of information.� In a revamped SASM under the LAFCO consolidation plan, the four
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