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FROM:
Phil Batchelor, County Administrator .--�- Costa
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County
April 13 1994 .........'.
DATE: p s>d" U
SUBJECT: LEGISLATION: SB 1666 (Mello)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
ADOPT a position of SUPPORT for SB 1666 by Senator Mello, which
would allow any board of supervisors to transfer property tax funds
from enterprise special districts to a library and/or to the
enterprise special districts from which the property tax revenue
came.
BACKGROUND:
For the 1993-94 fiscal year, Senator Mello sponsored legislation
which required, only for that fiscal year, the Auditor of Santa
Cruz County to transfer the property tax revenue which would
otherwise have gone to enterprise special districts to a special
fund under the control of the Board of Supervisors . The Santa Cruz
County Board of Supervisors was then authorized to transfer some or
all of this property tax revenue to the County Library and/or back
to the enterprise special districts from which it came.
Senator Mello has introduced SB 1666 this year to do something
similar- for all counties on a permanent basis . As introduced, SB
1666 would authorize any board of supervisors to direct its county
auditor to transfer these property tax funds from the enterprise
special districts to a special fund. The board of supervisors
could then transfer some or all of this property tax revenue to any
special district in that county.
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
ATTESTED April 19 , 1994
Contact: PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
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It appears unlikely that Senator Mello can get the bill out of the
Senate Local Government Committee in this broad a form. It is our
understanding that the bill will therefore be amended before it is
heard in Committee on April 20, 1994 to allow transfers only to a
library fund or back to the enterprise special districts from which
the money came.
It its original form, SB 1666 would have solved this County' s
problem with trying to locate a funding source for the Sheriff ' s P-
6 district. However, even in the form to which we understand the
bill will be amended, its passage would continue to provide this
County will a funding source for the County Library. In view of
the Board' s past support for the Library and efforts to locate
funding for the Library, it appears appropriate for the Board to
indicate that it supports SB 1666 .
This support should not, however, be interpreted in any way as
undermining the Board's sponsorship of AB 1905 (Campbell) which
would do the same thing in this County for the P-6 district. The
two bills can be seen as parallel to each other, not as conflicting
with each other. Continuing sponsorship of AB 1905 and support of
SB 1666 appear to be compatible and consistent positions for the
Board to take.
cc: County Administrator
Auditor-Controller
County Librarian
County Counsel
Les Spahnn, Heim, Noack & Spahnn
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r SENATE BILL No. 1666
Introduced by Senator Mello
February 23, 1994
f An act to amend Section 97.09 of the Revenue and Taxation
Code, relating to local government finance.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1666, as introduced, Mello. Property tax revenues:
special allocation funds.
Existing property tax law requires the auditor for the
' County of Santa Cruz, for the 1993-94 fiscal year only, to
deposit those property tax revenues that would otherwise be
allocated to enterprise special districts into a Supplemental
Allocation Fund for allocation to enterprise special districts
and the County Library Fund.
This bill would authorize, rather than require, this
alternative allocation, without any limitation with respect to
fiscal years, and would extend this authorization to any county
in which the board of supervisors has adopted- a specified
resolution. This bill would, for purposes of this authorization,
�tgac exclude transit and hospital districts from classification as
enterprise special districts, and would also provide that all
special districts in a county, as opposed to only enterprise
special districts, may receive moneys from a Supplemental
Allocation Fund. It would also authorize the board of
supervisors of any county to which this alternative allocation
applies to adopt a resolution terminating that allocation.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
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SB 1666 — 2 —
The
2 —The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
1 SECTION 1. Section 97.09 of the Revenue and
2 Taxation Code is amended to read:
3 97.09. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
4 this chapter, in the Geenty of Santa any qualified
5 county, the auditor shall, for the 1993494 first fiscal year .
6 ei-Ay for which that county is a qualified county and for
7 each fiscal year thereafter for which that county remains
8 a qualified county, deposit those property tax revenues
9 that would otherwise be allocated to enterprise special
10 districts in a Supplemental Allocation Fund. The county
11 board of supervisors shall, for each fiscal year for which
12 that county is a qualified county, allocate any moneys
13 deposited in the fund for the 1993A Rseal ye only to
14 either special districts or the County Library
15 Fund.
16 (b) For purposes of this section:
17 (1) "Qualified county"means any county in which the
18 board of supervisors adopts, with the approval of a
19 majority of its membership, a resolution declaring that.
20 (A) Library services in the county will be severely
21 reduced in the absence of additional funding. l
22 (B) Nonenterprise special districts will, in the absence
23 of additional funding, be unable to deliver an adequate
24 level of services to the public.
n , tai , 25 (C) It is in the best interest of the county as a whole
26 that additional funding for library and other public
27 services be provided from a Supplemental Allocation
28 Fund as described in this section.
29 (2) "First fiscal year for which that county is' a
30 qualified county"means the fiscal year during which the
31 board adopts a resolution as described in paragraph (1)
32 or any other subsequent fiscal year designated in that
33 resolution.
34 (3) "Enterprise special district" does not include a
35 transit district or a local hospital district as described in
36 Division 23 (commencing with Section 32000) of the
37 Health and Safety Code.
38 (c) Any qualified county shall remain a qualified
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1 county unless the board of supervisors of that county
2 adopts, with the approval of majority ofits membership,
3 a resolution that rescinds any resolution adopted by that
4 board pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b). Any
5 resolution adopted pursuant to this subdivision shall be
6 operative commencing with the fiscal year during which
7 the board adopts that resolution if the board adopts that
8 resolution prior to the date upon which the auditor
9 commences property tax revenue allocations for that
10 fiscal year to enterprise special districts. If the board does
11 not adopt the resolution prior to that date, the resolution
12 shall be operative commencing with the first fiscal year
13 following the fiscal year during which the board adopts
14 the resolution.
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