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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 01141986 - 2.1 To, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Cl.Jl tra January 6, 1986 Costa DATE' CO '* SUBJECT: 1986 Legislative Program SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS: Adopt the following as the' Board' s 1986 Legislative Program and authorize the County Administrator to seek authors for and passage of these measures: 1 . Sponsor legislation to repeal Section 25521 of the Health and Safety Code as added by AB 2185 (Chapter 1167, Statutes of 1985) which purports to exempt businesses in Contra Costa County handling hazardous materials from the inventory reporting requirements of AB 2185. 2. Sponsor legislation which will allow the County to better control the solid wastestream in order to adequately carry out the County' s solid waste planning responsibilities. 3 . Sponsor legislation which will allow regulation of disposal fees at the dump site through the Solid Waste Management Plan, including both current and future dump sites. 4 . Support any legislation which may be introduced or sponsor legislation similar to SB 580 of the 1985 Session which would have allowed the County to continue reimbursing itself for the costs of administering the Supplemental Property Tax Roll, such legislation to be retroactive to July 1, 1985, if at all possible. 5. Sponsor legislation to add one Superior Court Department effective January 1, 1987 and two additional Superior Court Departments which would only become effective upon adoption of a Resolution by the Board of Supervisors. The creation of all three positions is to be contingent upon legislative designation of each additional Judgeship as imposing a State-mandated local program by requiring a higher level of service under an existing program. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: VES SIGNATURE' RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE X APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S): y _ ACTION OF BOARD ON January 14, 1986 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE XX 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. County Administrator Januar 14 19 86 cc: Legislative Delegation (via CAO) ATTESTED Y _ Clayton Jackson & Associates (via CAO) PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF CSAC (via CAO) SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR All County Departments BY �• Gt �� ,DEPUTY M382/7-83 Page 2 6. Sponsor a Municipal Court Pay and Staffing bill to the extent required to conform State law to changes in pay and staffing made by the Board of Supervisors. 7. Support any legislation which may be introduced, or sponsor legislation which for purposes of SB 300 (Chapter 1600, Statutes of 1985) redefines the term "reconstruction" and allows expenditure of funds for twelve months after date of receipt. 8 . Support any legislation which may be introduced, or sponsor legislation which provides for a pass-through of that portion of a Redevelopment Agency' s tax increment revenue which would have gone to a fire district if the Redevelopment Agency had not been established. 9. Sponsor control language in the 1986-87 Budget Act, or any appropriate "trailer bill" which will require that licensing fees paid by nursing homes pursuant to Item 4260-001-001 of the Budget Act and fines paid for citations issued pursuant to Chapter 2. 4, Division 2 (commencing with Section 1417) of the Health and Safety Code be credited to the Licensing Division of the State Department of Health Services in such a way as to provide incentives to collect such fees and fines and in order to assist in insuring that increased revenue is translated into additional inspection and licensing staff. 10. Sponsor legislation which will allow the County to charge fees to developers to recover the County' s costs for adopted General Plan amendments. 11. Concur in actions taken by the County Administrator to request the Chairman of the Senate Local Government Committee to include certain non-controversial amendments in legislation he will carry in 1986 as a Local Government "clean-up" bill. 12. Continue to aggressively oppose any effort to allocate a portion of the County' s property tax revenue to other public jurisdictions within the County without an assured, ongoing source of replacement revenue. 13 . Continue to oppose any efforts to undermine the Board' s ability to govern or determine the governing board of special districts within the County. 14. Direct the County Administrator to monitor efforts to fund AB 19 (Chapter 1607 , Statutes of 1985) and keep the Board apprised of developments. BACKGROUND: Nearly all of the portions of the recommended 1986 Legislative Program are restatements of positions the Board has already indicated it wishes reflected in its 1986 Legislative Program. This Legislative Program does not contain positions on bills, or general issues which the Board may wish to simply support or oppose during the Session except for items 12, 13 , and 14 which are of particular interest to this County. Other issues and positions on specific bills will be recommended to the Board as the Session proceeds. The positions recommended for Board action at this time include only those issues on which the Board should actively sponsor legislation. Because of the extremely tight Page 3 deadlines for introduction and passage of bills during this second year of the Session, these items, already represent a very heavy legislative program. A number of other items have been recommended by County departments for Board sponsorship. Most have not been included at this time in order to avoid diluting staff ' s efforts to achieve passage of the above recommended items. If other organizations sponsor these other items, the Board will be asked to support them. Those that are not introduced in the 1986 Session will be considered for Board sponsorship at the beginning of the 1987-88 Session when time permits more thorough consideration by the Legislature. The County' s contract lobbying firm will be involved in the above issues where their particular skills can be helpful and to the extent that their involvement is required.