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TO• •BOARD OF SUPERVISORS -
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Phil Batchelor, County Administrator
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January 4, 1988 "''� "J
SUBJECT:
Priorities for 1988 Legislative Program
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATIONS) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION
Adopt the following priorities for achieving the Board' s 1988
Legislative Program.
BACKGROUND
In adopting the Board' s 1988 Legislative Program on December 15,
1987 , the Board requested that the County Administrator -return .
with recommended priorities for achieving the 1988 Legislative.
Program. The proposals which form the Board' s 1988 Legislative
Program are divided into several categories, depending on who
will be working on them and the amount of effort which will be
placed on achieving the Board' s priorities.
A. High Priority - Substantial Lobbyist Effort Involved:
1. Insure prompt passage of legislation similar to SB 349
of the 1987 Session which would allow . a surcharge on
non-parking violations to support the Courthouse
Construction Fund. These provisions of SB 349 were
inadvertently chaptered out by SB 1148. Senator.
Bergeson has promised to - reintroduce identical
provisions as soon as the Legislature reconvenes.
2. Amendments to the no + low property tax city provisions
of SB 709 to repeal or substantially modify the
provisions..
3 . Amendment to and passage of AB 145 and AB 558 regarding
the homeless and pilot projects on more effective use
of funds for foster care designed to keep children in
their own homes.
4 : Oppose any efforts to include existing fire districts
in procedures enacted pursuant to SB 515 of 1987 which
makes it easier to change the governing board of a fire
district.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: xx YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
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ACTION OF BOARD ON January 12, 1904 e,11PROVED AS RECiW,4ML.NDED X OTHER X
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED BY THE BOARD that .the County Administrator is
REQUESTED to prepare a letter to Assemblyman Lloyd Connelly outlining
the Board' s recommendations relative to long term care.
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 January. 12 ,. 19 88
cc: County Administrator ' PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
• County. Counsel' SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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5. Legislation to exempt from the two-year limit on
processing assessment appeals those where the amount at
issue exceeds $10 million.
6. Working with all of the members of the Bay Area
legislative delegation, and the Deukmejian
Administration, to seek a consensus on toll bridge
legislation that would:
• Authorize bonding for the second span of the
Benicia-Martinez Bridge,
• Authorize bonding for replacement of the old span
of the Carquinez Bridge,
• Work to maximize the amount of highway bridge
approaches that can be funded by the toll
authorization bill in the I-680 corridor on both
sides of the Benicia-Martinez Bridge,
• Develop some funding base for efforts on
transportation system management activities, high
occupancy vehicle (HOV) activities, and transit
capital expenditures related to the various bridge
corridors that Contra Costa County residents
commute on daily.
7 . Work with our State legislative delegation to leverage
BART and other entities in the Bay Area toward the
funding of extension projects in the County. Based on
the inadequate compromise developed by BART in relation
to San Mateo County extensions, we will be working hard
to put the North Concord Station and other Contra Costa
County BART priorities into a higher priority position
relative to Federal and state funds than is now the
case apparent in the San Mateo proposal.
8 . Continue to work toward a workable program for the
early design and construction of State Route 4 over the
Willow Pass into a full freeway segment. We were
successful this year in getting State Route 4 into the
State Transportation Improvement Program, allowing
Caltrans and the County to begin necessary
environmental clearances for lowering the Willow Pass,
widening the highway, and including a transit
right-of-way for the eventual BART extension.
9 . In regard to the North Richmond Bypass, continue to
work to insure timely completion of the Atlas Road
Interchange, and consideration of State Route 93 as
soon as possible for inclusion in the State
Transportation Improvement Program.
B. High Priority - No Lobbyist Involvement Anticipated:
1 . Municipal Court Pay and Staffing Bill including
consolidation of the administration of the Municipal
Courts and the Marshal/Sheriff consolidation.
2. Package of Long-Term Care legislation ( items 22-31 of
1988 Legislative Program) .
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C. High Priority - CSAC Will Be Expected to Take Lead:
1. Amendments to SB 709 to clarify the Trial Court Funding
provisions of the law.
2. Legislation to restore the Board of Supervisors'
ability to place special tax measures on the ballot.
(The County lobbyist will be used on this measure if
CSAC does pick up on it immediately. )
3 . Provide a stable source of revenue for local
governments.
4. Provide for a transfer of state revenue to meet local
government needs prior to rebating further revenue to
the taxpayers.
5 . Strengthen the requirement that the state fully fund
mandates it places on local government.
D. Medium Priority - Lobbyist Effort Involved:
1. Redevelopment Agency pass-though to other taxing
districts, particularly fire services. (Legislation
unlikely in 1988 but Senate Local Government Committee
will undertake a major study of this and related
distribution of the property tax anticipating possible
legislation in 1989 . )
2. Legislation to clarify that when a previously
"dependent" special district becomes "independent" its
contribution to the SDAF is frozen at the level of
contribution made during the last full fiscal year the
"dependent" district was in existence rather than being
frozen at the 1983-84 level.
3 . Legislation to establish a pilot project in Contra
Costa County to intensify the enforcement of vehicle
registration laws, focusing on out-of-state vehicles
but including expired California registrations.
4. Legislation to insure that if the IT facility in
Martinez is modernized it will still be required to pay
the 10% hazardous waste tax.
5. Legislation to permit the release of AIDS test results
to the Probation Department and Superior Court where
the minor is a ward of the court.
6 . Exempt the Contra Costa Health Plan from the provisions
of the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975
since it is already regulated by the State Department
of Health Services.
7 . Research legislation recently passed for Orange County
that allows the use of developer fees for planning and
administration purposes, in order to see if such
legislation would be suitable for Contra Costa County
to sponsor.
8 . Continue to coordinate with other concerned cities and
counties about a possible solution to the funding of
the pickup and disposal of abandoned vehicles.
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E. Medium Priority - No Lobbyist Involvement Anticipated:
1. Support legislation designed to increase funding to
Veterans Service Officers (AB 148) .
2. Provide rate increases for community living facilities
for developmentally disabled persons similar to AB 150
which was vetoed in 1987.
F. Low Priority:
1 . Change the split of sales tax revenue and fines and
forfeitures between the cities and the County in cases
of new incorporations unless AB 709 is amended to
relieve the County of the transfer of property taxes.
2 . Authorize the Board of Supervisors to order an audit of
a special district at the special district' s expense
when complaints appear to justify such action.
cc: County Administrator
Jackson/Barish & Associates
Department Heads (via CAO)
Legislative Delegation (via CAO)