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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Costa
DATE: May 14 , 1985 ""u' "J
SUBJECT: Legislation: AB 2538 (Ferguson)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Adopt a position of opposition to AB 2538 by Assemblyman
Ferguson which would repeal existing provisions of law relating
to certain fees imposed by local agencies and would limit the
amount of all fees imposed to the actual cost of providing
services.
BACKGROUND:
Existing law limits the amount of certain fees imposed by local
agencies to the amount reasonably required to provide the
service for which the fee is charged. Existing law already
requires local agencies to hold a public meeting prior to
levying a new fee, or prior to approving an increase in an
existing fee.
AB 2538 would repeal those provisions and would limit the
amount of any fee imposed by a local agency, other than taxes,
special assessments, or utility charges , to the amount actually
incurred in furnishing the service. AB 2538 also requires that
any fee adopted by a local agency on or after July 1 , 1978 must
be re-adopted, revised, or modified in accordance with this
bill on or before January 1, 1987.
This bill would substantially impair the ability of the Board
of Supervisors to impose fees, and would make it impossible for
a fee to exceed the amount of the service for which it is
provided. As such, this bill moves in exactly the opposite
direction from that supported by the Board of Supervisors in
their legislative program, which urged additional discretion
for the Board of Supervisors to impose and increase user fees.
The bill, therefore, should be opposed by the Board of
Supervisors.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
X RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON May 21 , 1985APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISOATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED /9 LJ S
County Auditor Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
Assemblyman Gil Ferguson rvisors and County Administratu
Assemblyman Dominic Cortese, Chairman
Local Govt. Committee
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