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TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: PHIL BATCHELOR C=II
County AdministratorCosta
DATE: October 12, 1987 CjO^
SUBJECT: REQUEST TO INCREASE COURT AUTOMATION FEES
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Approve request from the County Clerk and the Municipal Courts to introduce,
waive reading and fix for public. hearing, an ordinance. to increase court filing fees
for automation.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The recommended action would. have no financial impact on the County General Fund. It
would allow for ' the funding of critical automation projects for the courts, for which
funding would not otherwise be available.
REASONS. FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
Government Codes Sections 68090.7 and 26863 authorize a $1.00 municipal and superior court
filing fee "to pay the costs of automating the. . .court record keeping system or the
conversion of the court's document system to micrographics. . ." Government Code Sections
54985 and 54986 permit the County, by ordinance adopted by the Board of Supervisors after
noticed hearing, to. raise special fees to an amount not to exceed. "the amount reasonably.
necessary to cover the costs for which the fee is levied." The County Clerk, as the Clerk
of the Contra Costa County Superior Court • and. the Clerk-Administrator of the Walnut
Creek-Danville Municipal Court for the Municipal Courts in Contra Costa.' County have
requested the existing $1.00 automation fee be increased to -$4.00 for the Superior Court
and to $8.00 for, the Municipal Courts .to partially cover the automation costs of those
courts.
There is on file with the Clerk .of the Board of Supervisors, ' and available for public
inspection, data indicating the amount of .the. respective costs or estimated costs required
for automating the record keeping systems and converting to micrographics the document
systems of the Superior Court and of the Municipal Courts' in the County; and the revenue
sources anticipated to.pay for the costs of automation.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _. YES SIGNATURE:
_ RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADM,I NISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BO RD COMMITTEE _'
_ APPROVE . L OTHER
SIGNATURE S :
ACTION OF BOARD ON October 20, 1987 _ A'IPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER X
ACCEPTED report; INTRODUCED ordinance, WAIVED reading and FIXED November 3, 1987
at 10:30 A.M-. for hearing.
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES. 'NOES. AND ENTERED ON TIS MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: ' OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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CC: ATTESTED
County Clerk
Municipal Courts PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Superior Court Administrator SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
County Administrator
BY ,DEPUTY .
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