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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 12181984 - 2.13 D. TO: BOARD OF SARVISORS Contra FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Costa DATE: December 12, 1984 oio Courly SUBJECT: Supplement to 1985 Legislative Program SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) A BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATION: Adopt the attached supplement to the County's Legislative Program for 1985; authorize the County Administrator to solicit authors for such measures, or to indicate the Board's support for such measures, and authorize County staff to indicate to legislators that the Board is on record with these identified positions. BACKGROUND: Since the Board's adoption of its 1985 Legislative Program on November 27, 1984, additional recommendations have been made by various county departments and this, therefore, should be viewed as a supplement to that adopted 1985 Legislative Program. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE _ APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S) xae46Z��L/ ACTION OF BOARD ON — DprPmh r 18, 1984 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER REQUESTED staff to prioritize approximately four or five proposals for discussion with the County' s Legislative Delegation on January 10, 1985 . VOTE OF SUPERVISORS _ UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) 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 SUPERVISOMS ON THE DATE SHOWN. rCounty Administrator (� CC: Legislative Delegation (via CAO) ATTESTED CSAC Phil Batchelor, Clerk. of th Board of Department Heads Supervisors and County administrator M36e/7.03 BY DEPUTY SUPPLEMENT TO 1985 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM (Numbering continuous from Adopted Legislative Program) 30. Sponsor .or support legislation which would tie the allocation of bond funds for new school construction to the extent to which a geographic area is meeting its goals for the provision of affordable housing. 31 . Sponsor or support legislation which authorizes counties to continue to retain up to 5% of the increased revenue from the supplemental property tax roll for administrative costs. 32. Sponsor or support legislation to either curtail legislation requiring interest on funds which would otherwise go to the county General Fund to be credited to special funds, or earmarked for special items or, at a minimum, permit the General Fund to retain a portion of such interest earnings for the administrative costs of counting and investing such funds. 33. Sponsor or support legislation which would permit microfilming redeemed warrants rather than requiring storage of the actual warrants for five years. 34. Sponsor or support legislation which would clarify provisions of Chapter 491 , Statutes of 1983, to ensure that counties are not required to levy an override tax to finance retirement system costs. There is, apparently, some confusion which can lead to an interpretation that counties may be required to reduce the base property tax in 1985 regardless of whether or not the county levies a retirement fund override thereby effectively forcing the county to levy such an override. 35. Sponsor or support legislation to require that unallocated Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds for 1984 be allocated in 1985-1986 so as to give priority to those agencies which were most severely impacted by reduction of CSBG funds in 1984 compared to 1983. 36. Sponsor or support legislation which would allow agencies to carry over to the following program year any funds saved as a result of containing costs up to 10% of the agency's budget. 37. Sponsor or support legislation which would require the California Depart- ment of Food and Agriculture to subvent to counties at least one-third of the cost of performing ongoing weights and measures functions. 38. Sponsor or support technical amendments to AB 830 (Chapter 1556, Statutes of 1984) which would encourage that criteria be included for allocation of funds for county hospital capital needs which would give priority to older, needier, "special project" hospitals. 00 261 Supplement to 1985 Legislative Program Page 2 39. Sponsor or support legislation similar to AB 3156 which was vetoed by the Governor which would have increased outpatient Medi-Cal reimbursements to county hospitals. 40. Sponsor or support legislation, if necessary, to clarify interpretations of the California Administrative Code so that combination medical/ psychiatric units for geriatric patients can be licensed as medical/surgical units rather than psychiatric units. 41 . Sponsor or support legislation requiring permit issuing agencies to supply the Assessor with standard format information within a specified time frame from issuance of a permit. 42. Sponsor or support legislation allowing the county to levy charges against various local governmental agencies for county government functions which benefit those agencies but are entirely funded by county General Fund money. 43. Sponsor or support legislation to prohibit the State from utilizing part of the vehicle license revenue to support the activities of the State Board of Equalization. 44. Sponsor or support legislation to change the assessment lien date from March 1 to January 1 annually. 45. Sponsor or support legislation allowing the documentary transfer tax to be computed on the full value of property transferred rather than the equity value and utilize the increased funds to defray the cost of maintaining ownership records. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY December 18, 1984 00 262 , i 7 SUPPT 5 j 1 . LEGISLATIVE P�(:�P� S JPPLEMENT TO 1..98., � 2 . ccc legislative prgm adpted