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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 01311989 - IO.1 ro �' BOARD OF SUPERVISORS I. 0. 1 �_ Contra 1, -s __\_ FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE Costa n1 js - 40 ot January 23 , 1989 County�`o c• DATE: rrq-couK`- Funding for Solid Waste SUBJECT: Public Education Program SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS: 1 . Request the Director of Community Development to develop a program for solid waste public education, including what goals the program would seek to accomplish, how the goals would be achieved and the estimated cost of the program, and return it to the Board of Supervisors in time for consideration as a part of the hearings on the 1989-90 budget. 2 . If' the Board of Supervisors wishes to move more quickly on a solid waste public education program, as an alternative to Recommendation #1, refer this issue to the Finance Committee to attempt to identify an appropriate source of funds. 3 . Remove this item as a referral to our Committee. BACKGROUND: On January 10, 1989, the Board of Supervisors referred to our Committee the question of whether some of the funds which the County will realize from an increase in the bail schedule and which the County will be able to retain pursuant to Chapter 944, Statutes of 1988, should be dedicated to a solid waste public education program. Attached is a memo from the County Administrator ' s Office summarizing the background of this item and the issue involved in the use of bail schedule increases to fund the solid waste public education program. We were advised that the County Administrator ' s Office would prefer that new revenue sources, such as the bail schedule revenue, not ,be dedicated to a specific CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES SIGNATURE: y RECOMMENDATIO C Y ADMINISTRATOR X RECOMMENDATI NOF BOARD COMMITTEE _ n APP THER SIGNATURE S Tom Powers Sunne W. McPeak ACTION OF BOARD ON January 31 , 1989 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER X The Board APPROVED Recommendations #2 and #3 above. 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 SUPERVISOR N THE DATE SHOWN. County Administrator •�� /98 9 CC: ATTESTED Director, Community Development P IL BATCHELOR, ERK OF THE BOARD OF Assistant Administrator--Finance David Okita, Community Development SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR BY DEPUTY M382 (10/88) Page 2. program, at least until the Board of Supervisors can see all of the unfunded and underfunded priorities with which the Board is likely to be faced as it considers the 1989-90 budget. Supervisor Powers indicated that he does not believe that this revenue source should be dedicated to a solid waste public education program at this time and that, in any case, the matter should be considered either by the full Board at the time of budget hearings, or by the Finance Committee if the Board wanted to move on the public education program sooner than next summer. Staff from the Community Development Department indicated that staff are working through the County' s lobbyist in an effort to either obtain legislation which would permit the tipping fee at the dump site to be used for public education programs, or an opinion from Legislative Counsel that current law already allows the use of the tipping fee for this purpose. Our Committee generally agrees that the use of the tipping fee .for this purpose would be preferable to using discretionary revenue. By the time the Board considers the 1989-90 budget, we will have a better idea whether we will be able to use the tipping fee for this purpose. In the event we cannot use the tipping fee for this purpose, it may be appropriate to consider the use of other revenue sources. i i I I I I i i OFFICE OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR CONTRA COSTA COUNTY Administration Building Martinez, California To: Supervisor Tom Powers Date: Supervisor Sunne McPeak January 19, 1989 INTERNAL OPERATIONS From: Claude L. Van Marter Subject: Funding for Solid Waste Assistant Administrat Public Education Program On the agenda for your meeting January 23 , 1989 is a referral from the Board of Supervisors asking that your Committee determine whether an increase in the bail schedule for littering offenses can be dedicated to funding a solid waste public education program. The issue was deferred by the 1988 Internal Operations Committee until the decision was made regarding opting in to the Trial Court Funding Program since the availability of the first $100,000 in increased bail schedule proceeds was dependent on becoming an option county under Trial Court Funding. On January 10, 1989 , the Board of Supervisors agreed to become an option county under the Trial . Court Funding Act. It is now .necessary that the Board of Supervisors adopt a Resolution pursuant to Penal Code Section 1463 . 28 as added by ' AB 1197 (Chapter 944, Statutes of 1988) in order to retain up to $100 , 000 of the increase in the bail schedule. County Counsel has determined that once such a Resolution is adopted and providing the Municipal and Superior Courts agree to increase the bail schedule, the County will be authorized to retain 1000 of the increased bail schedule, up to $100, 000 per year. County Counsel has also indicated that all, or a portion, of this increased revenue can be dedicated by the Board of Supervisors to fund a solidwaste public education program. The Municipal and Superior Court Judges are meeting on February 7 to determine which bails will be increased. They have the Board' s request that the bail schedule for specified littering offenses be increased. Since the Municipal Court has already suggested that they would be agreeable to an increase in the bail schedule for specified littering offenses, it seems likely that these bails will be increased. Page 2 Because of the extraordinary complexity involved in distributing fine and forfeiture revenue, it is nearly impossible to account for the portion of fine and forfeiture revenue which is attributable to the increase in the bail schedule and, therefore, should be credited to the $100, 000 which the County can retain. This is a problem statewide which the Legislature apparently did not take into account in determining that counties could keep the increased revenue from an increase in the bail schedule. Roy Chiesa is currently working with the Auditor-Controller' s Office to select one or two specific offenses, the increase in the bail schedule from which is expected to equal at least $100,000 a year. By keeping track of a finite number of offenses, Mr. Chiesa believes it will be possible to account accurately for the $100,000 and insure that it is properly credited to the County General Fund. If it is your Committee' s intent to dedicate just the increased revenue from the increase in the bail schedule for the specified littering offenses to a solid waste public education program, we will try to work out those details with the Municipal Court and the Auditor-Controller so the Community Development Department will know on a periodic basis how much revenue has been generated from those specific offenses. If, however, it is your Committee ' s intent to simply dedicate some or all of the additional $100,000 to a solid waste public education program regardless of the source of the funds, that can be done fairly easily by simply having the Board of Supervisors direct this office to prepare the proper appropriation and revenue adjustments once we are sure that the Municipal and Superior Courts have agreed to an increase in the bail schedule and that the mechanism is in place to account for the $100 ,000 . CLVM:clg cc: Don Bouchet, Auditor-Controller Roy Chiesa, Municipal Court Administrator Kerry Harms-Taylor, Assistant Administrator--Finance Harvey Bragdon, Director, Community Development David Okita, Assistant Director, Community Development