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Pat Crew

 Amador LAFCO Commissioners and Terms of Office (Updated as of May 2025)

Organizational Chart 2025

Office Current Appointee
County Member 
County Member  Logan Carnell
 County Member Alternate Dan Epperson 
 City Member  Chad Simmons
 City Member  Sandra Staples
 City Member Alternate  Jim Swift
 Public Member  Jim Vinciguerra
 Public Member Alternate Wayne Garibaldi

 

 LAFCO Officers:
 Patrick Crew, Chairman
 Jim Vinciguerra, Vice Chairman

 

The terms of office of each member of LAFCO shall be four years and until the appointment and qualification of his or her successor (GC §56334).

County members of LAFCO are appointed by the Board of Supervisors from their own membership (GC §56325).

The public member is appointed by the city and county members of LAFCO.

The city selection committee, composed of the mayor of each city in the county (GC §50270) appoints the city members, each of whom shall be a mayor or council member. The clerk of the county (Clerk to the Board of Supervisors) acts as permanent secretary and recording officer of the city selection committee (GC §56335 & §50276).

  • The mayors use a rotation plan to ensure fairness and allow each city to have representation for two years as alternate, then two years in city seat #2, followed by two years in city seat #1.
  • The rotation order is as follows: Amador City, Jackson, Sutter Creek, Ione, Plymouth. The biennial rotation is independent of the fixed four-year calendar terms assigned to each city position per statute.