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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Contra
FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
Costa
DATE: September 9, 1985 County
SUBJECT:
Fire Service Issues
SPECIFIC-REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1 . Remove as a referral to our Committee and, instead, refer to
the County Administrator to incorporate in the study
currently underway on the fire districts ' five-year plans,
the County Administrator' s Report of January 31 , 1984 on
fire service workshop.
2 . Remove as a referral to our Committee and, instead, refer to
the County Administrator to incorporate in the study
currently underway on the fire districts ' five-year plans,
the Planning Department' s status report of February 17 , 1984
f on implementation of the Fire Protection Plan component of
the County General Plan.
3 . Remove as a referral to our Committee the letter from the
Bethel Island Fire Department on fees. A vehicle is in
place to implement administrative fees. A hearing is being
held September 10 on plan-checking fees. Recommendations
are being made to the Board on the desirability of a General
Plan amendment and ordinance to implement a development fee
to mitigate the impact of developments on fire facilities.
4 . Request the Fire Chiefs ' Association to meet with the
Director of Community Development and Public Works Director
regarding fire district input to conditions on approval of
development applications and report to our Committee on
October 28 , 1985 . This report should include the specific
referral of a resolution from the Moraga Fire District
expressing their concern regarding road width variances
which have been granted and the concerns expressed to the
Board by Supervisor Torlakson December 18 , 1984 on behalf of
the fire districts in East County that their recommendations
I for conditions are not being given sufficient weight. The
Building Industry Association is to be invited to attend
these meetings.
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CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR - X REC ATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE �.—.�- - IT ER
SIGNATURE(S) Tom Torlakson m 5owers
ACTION OF BOARD ON September 10, 177= APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED x OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
x UNANIMOUS (ABSENT TTT ) I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Cc: County Administrator ATTESTED /O
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Fire Protection Districts PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Fire Chief ' s Association SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Director of Community Development.
Public Works Director
M362/7.88 _ DEPUTY
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5. Reiterate the previous order of the Board that the County
Administrator' s Office schedule quarterly meetings of the
Board of Supervisors with the Fire District Commissioners
and Fire Chiefs and work with the Fire Chiefs ' . Association
to develop agendas for these meetings, using initially the
items referenced in the report of the County Administrator' s
Office to our Committee dated August 26, 1985 on the
subject: Committee Review of Fire District Issues and
remove as a referral to our Committee the March 5, 1985
referral referenced by the Clerk of the Board as: "Review
Feasibility of Board of Commissioners of Fire Protection
Districts relative to Special District Augmentation Funds;
also, review implications relative to acquiring revenue to
fund required fire facilities" since this matter will be
covered in the current study of the fire districts '
five-year plans.
6 . Leave on referral to our Committee the June 25, 1985 item
regarding Fire Protection Districts ' Five-Year Plan review
and request the County Administrator and Mr. Robert Nyman to
report to our Committee approximately monthly on progress
made in the study of these plans.
7 . Direct the County Administrator' s Office to meet with the
Fire Chiefs to work through the issue of whether fire
districts will be allowed to keep any additional revenue
they generate, particularly in terms of development fees and
plan-checking fees from cities and how cities can be given
some assurance that if a city raises revenue for a
particular item, such as a fire station or piece of
equipment, that the County will not provide a similar item
to a fire district for another city when that city has not
raised revenue to provide the item. (In other words, will a
fire district whose cities provide such revenue be penalized
by reducing the allocation of Special District Augmentation
Funds to that district and giving those funds to a district
whose cities have not provided such revenue?)
BACKGROUND:
Our Committee has had on referral a number of issues relating to
the fire service. On August 26, 1985, and again on September 9,
we reviewed many of these issues and have prepared the above
recommendations which are designed to remove referrals from our
Committee and to ensure that appropriate County staff are
continuing to resolve the numerous issues confronting the fire
districts and the Board of Supervisors.
Mr. Robert Nyman, the consultant working with the County
Administrator and the Fire Districts, reported to our Committee
that he has begun work with the Riverview Fire Protection
District and will be starting work with the Consolidated Fire
District. It is already apparent to Mr. Nyman that the needs and
problems of the fire districts vary considerably from district to
district and, therefore, his recommendations and the methods
which will have to be used to resolve each district' s problems
must be individually tailored to the situation confronting that
district.
Our Committee believes that substantial progress has been made in
addressing fire service issues and that the above referrals and
recommendations will further that progress.
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1. Fire services issues/Internal Operatior
report
2 . C/A report on workshops referred
3 . Same as 1
4 . Planning report on fire protection
I referred,
5 . Same as 1
6 . Fire Chiefs to meet with Community
fDevelop.
7. Same as 1
8 . Fire Chiefs to meet with C/A
regarding fees .
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