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TO- BOARD OF SUPERVISORS I. 0. 3
FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE Contra
February 27, 1989 Costa
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Proposed Increase in the Excise
SUBJECT: Tax on Alcoholic Beverages
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATIONS) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1 . Acknowledge receipt of this report from our Committee and
authorize us to continue to provide oversight over efforts
to enact legislation to increase the excise tax on alcoholic
beverages or to qualify an initiative for the ballot in
1990 .
2 . Request the Health Services Director to provide a further
status report to our Committee on this subject as events
warrant.
BACKGROUND:
On November 29, 1989, the Board of Supervisors referred to our
Committee the efforts which are underway to either enact
legislation this year to increase the excise tax on alcoholic
beverages, or to qualify an initiative measure on the ballot in
1990 .
We met with the Health Services Director on this subject on
February 27, 1989. He reported that Assemblyman Connelly has
scheduled a series of meetings designed, apparently, to qualify
an initiative measure for the ballot in 1990 which would increase
the excise tax on wine by 60 cents per gallon. Other tax
increases for beer and distilled spirits may also be proposed.
Other efforts are being initiated to increase the tax on wine by
5 cents per gallon. The wine industry is, apparently, agreeable
to at least discussing such an increase. Other elements of the
alcoholic beverage industry are opposed to any legislative
efforts to increase the excise tax on their products.
Any effort to qualify or campaign for an initiative effort to
implement substantial increases in the excise tax on alcoholic
beverages will be met with stiff opposition from the industry.
CONTINUED ON ATTACT YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMM ATI N OF LINTY ADMI ISTRATOR _ X ECO MMENDATION OF BOARD SCOOMMj"MMIITTEE
X AP OVE OT
SIGNATURE(S : Tom Powers Sunne Wright McPeak
ACTION OF BOARD ON March 7, 1989 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I 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 SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED
Health Services Director
Alcohol Program Administrator PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Susan Clnelll , Bi-Bett Corp. SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
BY ,DEPUTY
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A coalition on environmental groups, health care organizations
and the Cowell Foundation have pledged money for surveys and
efforts to' qualify the initiative for the ballot.
Our Committee is interested in continuing to follow these efforts
and be aware of what plans are underway. It is still too early
to tell exactly which of, these efforts has the greatest
possibility of success, but we will. keep the. Board advised as we
receive further status reports from the Health Services Director.