CA AB2558

Board of supervisors prohibited from consolidating elective offices with appointed offices, or separating consolidated offices, except through an election process complying with specified procedures.

Director of finance office establishment requires voters to decide both whether the office should be created and whether it will be elective or appointed, with specific ballot language required.

Any person appointed or elected to the combined office of auditor-controller-treasurer-tax collector-director of finance must meet qualifications set forth in Sections 26945 or 27000.7.

If auditor-controller is appointive, a resolution creating the controller office may be repealed by board of supervisors with three-fifths vote; if elective, may be repealed by voters at any primary or general election.

Nonsubstantive changes to provisions allowing boards of supervisors in Mendocino, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, Trinity, and Tulare counties to consolidate auditor-controller and treasurer-tax collector offices into an elected position.