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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 04211987 - 1.58 /" TO- BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: Phil Batchelor Contra County Administrator Costa DATE' April 14, 1987 County SUBJECT: Legislation: Assembly Bill 404 (Chandler) SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(-S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATION• Adopt a position in support of AB 404 which would give the Board of Supervisors the option of excluding the fee for the maintenance of the law library from the maximum civil filing fee otherwise provided for in law and imposing the fee in addition to that maximum, or to include the law library fee within the existing maximum fee. BACKGROUND: Under existing law, the Board of Supervisors is authorized to impose a civil filing fee of up to $12. 00 for specified filings in civil actions for support of the law library. Existing law, however, specifies the maximum civil filing fee which can be established under various circumstances. Also under current law certain fees can be exempted from the maximum civil filing fee. These include the .fee to support conciliation court programs and the fee for automation and conversion of court records to micrographics. AB 404 has been introduced by Assemblyman Chandler. AB 404 would add the law library fee to the list of fees which may be excluded from the maximum civil filing fee. This would allow the Board of Supervisors the discretion of either including the law library fee within the statutory maximum, or excluding the law library fee from the statutory maximum and imposing it in addition to the statutory maximum. The law library trustees and the Municipal Court recommend that the Board of Supervisors support AB 404 and this office concurs with that recommendation. It is estimated that imposing the law library fee on top of the maximum civil filing fee would generate $200,000 of additional revenue annually in the Superior Court and $120,000 of additional revenue annually in the Municipal Court. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _ YES SIGNATURE: X_ RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE X APPROVE OTHER S I GNATURE(S 1: le ACTION OF BOARD ON April 21 , 1987 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE XUNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES; NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. County Administrator Assemblyman Chandl9ArTESTED APR 2 11987 cc: County Clerk - Roy Chiesa, W.C.-Danville Muni Ct. PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF George Roemer, CJ Programs SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Jackson/Barish & Associates /-�"Ai�- D. J. Smith Associates BY (,DEPUTY M382/7-83 CSAC Director