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FROM: Phil Batchelor, C'ounty Administrator •,
Costa
County
DATE: January 21, 19 9 3 °pari
SUBJECT: AMEND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ' 1993 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM TO INCLUDE
SPONSORSHIP OF LEGISLATION TO AUTHORIZE THE IMPOSITION OF A BENEFIT
ASSESSMENT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND/OR LIBRARY SERVICES
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Amend the Board of Supervisors ' 1993 Legislative Program to add
item # 35, providing for the sponsorship of legislation to
authorize the imposition of a benefit assessment for law
enforcement and/or library services in Contra Costa County.
BACKGROUND:
As the Board of Supervisors is all too well aware, the budget. for
the 1993-94 fiscal year is likely to be the worst ever faced in
this County because of the elimination of the AB-8 property tax
buy-out and Special District Augmentation Fund. The Board is
already considering imposing a benefit assessment for fire service
to offset the probable loss of all of the Special District
Augmentation Fund. The other two major county-operated services .
which are funded at present from the Special District Augmentation
Fund are the library and the Sheriff 's patrol services .
Assemblyman Campbell has indicated a possible interest in assisting
the County and cities in the County by authoring legislation
patterned after the existing benefit assessment legislation for
fire service to permit the implementation of a benefit assessment
for law enforcement and/or library services.
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The legislation which is proposed would provide the County or any
of the cities with the authority to impose a benefit assessment,
after notice and hearing, for any law enforcement services . In
addition, the legislation would authorize the County to implement
a benefit assessment for library services . Initially, it is
suggested that the legislation be limited to Contra Costa County.
If other counties or cities wish to be included at a later date,
that can be considered by Assemblyman Campbell.
The legislation, consistent with the benefit assessment legislation
for the fire service, would require mailed notice to each affected
property owner, a public hearing, an opportunity for filing
protests, a requirement for an election if the owners of property
which represents more than 5% of the value of the revenue which
would be expected from the benefit assessment protest the
imposition of the benefit assessment, and all other procedural
protections which are afforded property owners under the existing
fire service benefit assessment legislation.'
It is, therefore, recommended that the Board of Supervisors amend
its 1993 Legislative Program to include sponsorship of such
legislation.
cc: County Administrator
County Counsel
Sheriff-Coroner
County Librarian
George Roemer, Senior Deputy County Administrator
Terry McGraw, Management Analyst-Special Districts
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