CSD Will Continue to Post Agendas; Wasn't Being Paid Anyway

The will continue to post agendas for its meetings, even though the state no longer mandates that practice, General Manager Jeff Ramos said Tuesday.

The practice of public disclosure of meeting agendas became California law in the 1980s, and the state reimbursed local agencies for the labor required to prepare and post them because it was mandating the work. .

Ramos said that's a moot point, because the Cosumnes Community Services District hadn't been paid by the state in several years.

"We've been continuing to file the claims with them," Ramos said by phone. "The state still has that on the books and owes us money. It's just a matter of when the state [will] actually release the money."

He estimated the district might have received $30,000 in past years, but said that isn't a huge amount when compared to a $60 million budget.

Ramos said reimbursements for the state mandate of posting agendas is the only area where the state owes the district money.

"Being a special district we're kind of one of the lucky government agencies," he said. "We're really not affected by what the state does because most of our funding comes from property tax revenues."

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