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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Contra
Costa
DATE: March 12, 1986 C0Ugy
SUBJECT: . Legislation: Senate Bill 1740
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) ,OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a position of support for SB 1740 (Petris) if the bill is
amended to include Contra Costa County.
BACKGROUND: o
Current law authorizes the Board of Supervisors of San Diego
County to establish administrative assessments in the municipal
courts to cover the cost of recording and maintaining a record of
convictions for Vehicle Code violations and for the cost of
notifying the Department of Motor Vehicles of the attachment or
restriction' of a defendant' s driver' s license or automobile
registration. In addition, current law authorizes San Diego
County to establish a fee for the processing of Accounts
Receivable.
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Senator Petris has introduced SB 1740 which would extend this
authorization to the County of Alameda.
In conversations with Senator Petris ' staff, Roy Chiesa,
Clerk-Administrator of the Walnut Creek--Danville Municipal
Court, was advised that the Senator had received calls from a
number of counties indicating their desire to be included in the
bill. It is, therefore, apparently Senator Petris' intent to
amend SB 1740 to allow all counties to be included upon the
adoption of; an implementing resolution by the board of
supervisors
Mr. Chiesa has discussed. this matter with Judge Minney, the
Presiding Judge of the Walnut Creek--Danville Municipal Court,
who concurs that the Board of Supervisors should seek to have
Contra Costa County included in the authority provided for in SB
1740. We have not been able to make an actual assessment of the
additional revenue which might be generated from the County's
being authorized to impose these administrative assessments, but
it appears that it would be *substantial. We are, therefore,
recommending that the Board support SB 1740, providing the bill
is amended to either apply to all counties, or at least to
include Contra Costa County.
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ACTION OF BOARD ON March 8, 1986 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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cc: County Administrator ATTESTED
Clerk-Administrators--Muni Courts —
Senator Nicholas Petris PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Kathy Snodgrass, Jackson/Garish
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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