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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Contra
FROM: v� Costa
Phil Batchelor, County Administrator V -
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DATE: May 7, 1990 �OST9 COUNT
SUBJECT: LEGISLATION: AB 2115 (Wright)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION-
Indicate that the Board of Supervisors is dropping its position
in OPPOSITION to AB 2115 by Assemblywoman Wright which would, as
amended April 17 , 1990, no longer address the issue of requiring
the County of Contra Costa to transfer $50 ,000 from its Trial
Court Block Grant to the Oakland Zoo.
BACKGROUND:
In 1988, as a part of approving the Trial Court Block Grant
Program, an amendment was slipped into the legislation at the
last minute to require that the State Controller withhold $50 ,000
from Contra Costa County' s Trial Court Block Grant each year and
transfer the money to the Oakland Zoo.
The Trial Court Block Grant included two companion bills. The
Oakland Zoo provision was in the first of the two bills to be
signed, which became Chapter 944 , Statutes of 1988. The second
of the two bills repealed and reenacted the chapter of the code
into which the Oakland Zoo provision had been placed. However,
the Oakland Zoo language was not repeated in the reenacted
portion of the second bill, which became Chapter 945, Statutes of
1988 . As a result, the requirement that $50 ,000 annually be
transferred from the County to the Oakland Zoo was, in fact,
repealed as soon as it was enacted. This was not discovered
until recently. The same "chaptering out" repealed a provision
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A RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE -OTHER
SIGNATURE(S): 2*,I� ze lt�l
ACTION OF BOARD ON May 4:5, 1=990 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
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: . ATTESTED MAY 15 1990
PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Please see Page 2. SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
BY zla DEPUTY
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placed in the bill by Ventura County to guarantee that Ventura
County would receive at least $5 million from the Trial Court
.Block Grant, despite the transfers to the "no and low" property
tax cities in Ventura County.
When it was discovered that both of these provisions had been
chaptered out, Assemblywoman Wright was asked to, amend into her
AB 2115 provisions reinstating both the provision relating to
Ventura County and the provision requiring the transfer from
Contra Costa County' s Trial Court Block Grant to the Oakland Zoo.
The Board of Supervisors had opposed the provision requiring this
transfer to the Oakland 'Zoo when- it occurred and continued to
oppose it in 1989. As a result of the opposition expressed by
the Board of Supervisors and the efforts of Senator Daniel
Boatwright this provision of the bill has been amended out of AB
2115. Instead, the bill, as amended April 17, - 1990, appropriates
$500 ,000 from the general fund for allocation to the Oakland Zoo.
It is, therefore, appropriate for the Board of Supervisors to
remove its opposition to AB 2115, while remaining opposed to any
efforts to reinstate this requirement in any other manner. It
is, therefore, recommended that , the Board of Supervisors remove
its opposition to passage' of AB 2115 .
cc: Senator Daniel Boatwright
Senator Nicholas Petris
Assemblyman Tom Bates
Assemblyman William P. Baker
Assemblyman Robert Campbell
Assemblyman Phil Isenberg
Assemblywoman Cathie Wright
County Administrator
Donald L. Bouchet, Auditor-Controller
Assistant Administrator-Finance
Les Spahnn, SRJ. Jackson, Barish & Associates