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Phil Batchelor,
FROM: County Administrator
4i) Costa
DATE: July 2, 1985 County
SUBJECT: Parking Ticket Processing Transferred from County to San
Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) for Bay
Municipal Court District
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors approves the transfer of
parking ticket processing to the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit
District (BART) for BART parking violations within the Bay Municipal Court
District and authorizes the Chairwoman to execute said agreement.
BACKGROUND
On September 12, 1984 the Board of Supervisors approved the execution of
contracts between the County and the Datacom Systems, Inc. , and between
the County and all incorporated cities within the Bay Municipal Court for -
Datacom to provide services to assist in the collection of parking
citations within the Bay Municipal Court District. The approval of
contracting for processing of parking tickets within the Bay Municipal
Court District was to remedy the large backlog in unprocessed parking
citations. The cities within the Bay Municipal Court District mutually
agreed to retain Datacom Systems, Inc. to provide for an automated parking
citation processing system to assist in the collection of parking
citations. Each city respectively also agreed to fund the cost of the
Datacom contract for collection of parking collections within each city.
Instead of funding their respective costs of the Datacom contract for
processing of BART parking citations within the Bay Municipal Court
District and pursuant to Penal Code Section .1463( 3) , BART has requested the
transfer of parking ticket processing from the County to BART. The Bay
Municipal Court Judges have approved of this request.
The parking ticket processing agreement between the County and BART
provides that in the event a parking ticket issued by BART is contested in
Bay Municipal Court, the County shall receive all bails, fines and
forfeitures related to the contested ticket. In addition, BART agrees to
pay the County treasurer $1.50 for each bail violation deposit collected
which is not filed in court to the Jail Construction Fund. Payment is to
be made on a monthly basis.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: - --�
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
UNANIMOUS (ABSENTryf--- ) I 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 SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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T�„ ATTESTED � i-000& / (�
PHIL"BATCHIOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
M3e2/7-ee BY DEPUTY
2.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
The approval of this agreement has a slight financial impact. On a monthly
average, BART issues 85 parking citations within the Bay Municipal Court
District. The present distribution of parking ticket fines is BART 86% and
the County 140. Therefore, on an average $7 parking ticket, the County
would lose approximately $83 per month on the average. However, this
impact would be reduced since the court would retain 1000 of all revenues
from all contested fines.
IMPACT OF ADVERSE ACTION
If the Board does not approve the parking ticket processing transfer from
the County to BART, BART parking citations issued within the Bay Municipal
Court District will not be processed since the processing of all parking
citations within the Bay Municipal Court District are under contract with
Datacom and BART has elected to assume responsibility for processing of its
parking tickets instead of funding its respective cost of the County
contract.