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IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SUBJECT: Need for Amendments to )
SB 709 (Chapter 1211, ) RESOLUTION NO. 88/23
Statutes of 1987) )
WHEREAS SB 709 was amended on the last night of the 1987
Legislative Session to include provisions requiring that counties
which contain "no and low property tax cities" -transfer to those
cities a portion of the county' s share of the roperty tax"hand
WHEREAS the no and low property tax city provisions discriminate
unfairly against counties which have such cities within their
borders compared to counties which do not; and
WHEREAS many no and low property tax cities do not provide the
full range of municipal services provided by other cities which
are not no and low property tax cities; and
WHEREAS the transfers of property tax revenue to no and low
property tax cities required by SB 709 will eventually exceed the
revenue received from the Trial Court Funding Act to which these
amendments were attached; and
WHEREAS the only way under current law the county can avoid the
transfer of property tax revenue to the no and low property tax
cities is to refuse to opt-in to the Trial Court Funding Act; and
WHEREAS the County has made as its highest priority for
legislative action in 1988 the repeal or substantial amendment of
the no and low property tax city provisions of SB 709;
NOW, THEREFOR, BE IT BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF
CONTRA COSTA RESOLVED that it indicate to the County Supervisors
Association of California its grave concern regarding the no and
low property tax city provisions of SB 709 and the need to have
those provisions repealed or substantially amended to relieve the
county of the financial burden caused by these amendments; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors indicates
that in the absence of such a repeal or substantial amendment to
the no and low property tax provisions of SB 709 the Board of
Supervisors has grave reservations about the prudence and fiscal
wisdom of opting in to the Trial Court Funding Act; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors directs the
County Administrator to transmit a copy of this Resolution to the
County Supervisors Association of California; the firm of
Jackson/Barish and Associates; the Honorable Marian Bergeson,
Chair, Senate Local Government Committee; the Honorable Willie
Brown, Jr. , Speaker of the Assembly; the Honorable David Roberti,
President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the members of this
County' s legislative delegation.
I hereby certify that this Is a true and correct copy of
an action taken and entered on the minutes of the
Board of Supervi ors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: %ff,
PHIL B CHELOR, Cle�the Board
of Supervisors and County Administrator
By �,�r -��J�1 i , Deputy
RESOLUTION NO . 88/23