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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator. Contra
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DATE: January 6, 1988coirty
SUBJECT: Legislation - SB 1725 (Bergeson)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION
Adopt a position in support of SB 1725 by Senator Marian Bergeson
which repeals the no .and low property tax city provisions of
SB 709 (Chapter 1211, Statutes of 1987) and in their place
appropriates $25 million to be allocated to the no and low
property tax cities.
BACKGROUND
As the Board is aware, SB 709 was amended on the last night of
the 1987 Legislative Session to include provisions which require
the county, over a ten-year period, to insure that each city in
the county is receiving the equivalent of 100 of the property
taxes generated within that city. Those cities which do not
currently receive 10% of the property tax are referred to as no
or low property tax: cities. These amendments, which were
attached to the Trial Court Funding bill, do not take into
account the fact that not all cities provide the same level of
services and that looking only at the level of property tax .
received by the city itself does not tell the whole story. In
addition the manner in which the amendments were introduced
precluded any careful analysis of their effect on counties and
provided no opportunity for public hearings.
The Board has made repeal or substantial amendment to these
provisions the highest priority on its 1988 Legislative Program.
Senator Marian Bergeson has introduced SB 1725 because of her
concern with the manner in which these amendments were attached
to SB 709 at the last minute. SB 1725 is co-authored by Senators
Ruben Ayala and Quentin Kopp and Assemblyman Jack O' Connell.
SB 1725 repeals the no and low property tax city provisions of
SB 709 to the extent that they require a transfer of property tax
revenue from the county to the no and low property tax cities and
instead appropriates $25 million for the 1988-89 fiscal year for
the no and low property tax cities.
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CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _ YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
V_APPROVE. OTHER r
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SIGNATURE1 :
ACTION OF BOARD ON January 12, 1788 APPROVED AS RECOMFIENDED OTHER
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 THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
ATTESTED A:?I l7 /94
PH BATCHELOR, CL RK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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In that SB 1725 carries out a major item in the Board' s 1988
Legislative Program, it deserves the Board' s support and we are
therefore recommending that the Board go on record in support of
SB 1725.
cc: County Administrator
Senator Bergeson
Jackson/Barish & Associates (Attn: Ralph Heim)
Auditor-Controller