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FROM: PHIL- BATCHELOR, County Administrator Cela
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July 20, 1987 l llr
SUBJECT. LEGISLATION - SB251 (ROBBINS & KOPP)
SPECIFIC REQUESTS) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Reaffirm the Board' s support for SB251 by Senators 'Robbins & Kopp, but for
different reasons than was the basis for the Board' s original support
position on May 5, 1987 . As amended July 9, 1987 SB251 would provide for a
refund to counties, cities, schools and special districts of the amount
each jurisdiction paid in state sales and use tax for the 1986-87 fiscal
year.
BACKGROUND:
On May 5, 1987 the Board of Supervisors voted to support SB251. At that
point SB251 appropriated $33 . 8 million to counties, $25 million for the MIA
program, $5 million for Child Welfare Services and $3 .774 million for in
home supportive services for adults. On July 9, 1987 Senator Robbins
amended SB251 to remove all of these provisions and instead provide for a
one-time refund to local government .of the amount paid in state sales tax
for the .1986-87 fiscal year. This is a companion to Senator Kopp' s SB416
which exempts local governments from paying sales tax in the future. In
view ,of the fact that the Governor approved an $88.9 million block grant to
counties in the 1987-88 State Budget and has indicated that $25 million of
that should be seen as offsetting. the $25 million in MIA funds which the
Governor has vetoed from previous legislation there is every reason to
think he would have vetoed SB251 as long as it appropriated these MIA funds
again. The refund to the county of sales tax paid during the 1986-87
fiscal year has been estimated as being worth approximately $1 million
based on the fact that the County purchases roughly $20 million in sales
taxable services and supplies each year. Since the Board is already on
record in support of Senator Kopp' s SB416 it appears appropriate and
consistent to also support SB251.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT; YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
S I GNATURE(S 1:
ACTION OF BOARD ON 7i/28/87 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X � OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
July 28, 1987
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED
Senator Robbins PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Senator Kopp -UPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
BY
M382/7-83 ,DEPUTY
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