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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 05061986 - 1.33 TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Cwtra e. C DATE'. May 1, 1986 I 1 ourty SUBJECT: Legislation: Senate Bill 2363 SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AMID JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATION: Adopt a position of support for SB 2363 by Senator Bergeson if the bill is amended to add Contra Costa to its provisions. BACKGROUND: Existing law authorizes certain counties to establish a Courthouse Temporary Construction Fund to be funded by a penalty assessment of $1. 00 for every $10. 00 collected on non-parking offenses to be used for the rehabilitation, construction, and financing of courthouses. Existing law also authorizes certain counties to establish a county Criminal Justice Facility Temporary Construction Fund to be funded by penalty assessments of $1 . 00 for every $10. 00 collected on non-parking offenses, and a surcharge of $1 . 50 on each parking fine or forfeiture collected, with $1 .00 for each parking case filed to be deposited in the fund to be used for the construction of county criminal justice facilities. Senator Bergeson has introduced SB 2363 for Orange County. The bill would authorize Orange County to increase the penalty assessment collected for the county Courthouse Temporary Construction Fund and the county Criminal Justice Facility Temporary Construction. Fund from $1. 00 to $2 . 00 for every $10 . 00 collected for non-parking offenses, and to impose a $1 . 50 surcharge on fines and forfeitures collected for parking offenses, and to require $1. 50 for each parking case filed to be deposited in these funds. The Clerk-Administrator of the Walnut Creek-Danville Municipal Court estimates that if these provisions introduced for Orange County were applied in Contra Costa County, the revenue to the Temporary Courthouse and Criminal Justice Facility funds would be increased by approximately $1.1 million a year. Preliminary discussions with staff from the Orange County Administrator' s Office indicates they may not be opposed to amending the bill to add Contra Costa County to the provisions outlined above for Orange County. We are currently discussing CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _ YES SIGNATURE: X RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE X APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S): 6a�_.4 ` ACTION OF BOARD ON May h, 1.986 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED � OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS 1 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 ON THE DATE SHOWN. County Administrator cc: Roy Chiesa, WC-Danville Muni Court ATTESTED Senator Marian Bergeson PHIL BATCH OR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF Kathy Snodgrass, Jackson/Banish SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR BY M382/7-83 ,DEPUTY r Page 2 j with our lobbyist and the lobbyist from Orange County the feasibility of recommending such amendments. Because of the substantial revenue which would be produced, and the pressing need for construction and renovation of courthouse and jail facilities in this County, we believe that adding Contra Costa County to SB 2363 should be requested by the Board, and that the bill once so amended deserves the Board' s support.