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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator ! a Cost
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County
DATE: April 28, 1994
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SUBJECT: LEGISLATION: SB 1648 (Dills)
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RE PROPERTY TAX ALLOCATIONS TO LIBRARIES
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
ADOPT a position in SUPPORT of SB 1648 by Senator Ralph Dills,
which would prevent any future transfers of property tax revenue
away from libraries in order to increase the amount of property tax
revenue allocated to another jurisdiction.
BACKGROUND:
As the Board of Supervisors is well aware, massive cuts have been-
made
eenmade in the County Library in the past two fiscal years as a result
of the transfer of property tax revenue away from counties and
special districts in order to assist in balancing the -State' s
deficit. The abolishment of the Special District Augmentation Fund
last summer, which had been a major source of revenue to this
County' s Library, further exacerbated the Library' s financial
problems and resulted in major staff reductions and significant
reductions in the level .of service being provided to the public.
Senator Ralph Dills has introduced SB 1648 in an effort to prevent
any further reductions of this type. SB 16,48 would direct the
Auditor-Controller, in allocating property taxes, not to reduce the
amount allocated to the Library for the purpose of increasing the
amount of property tax which is allocated to another jurisdiction.
In other words, it effectively would exempt libraries from any
further effort to grab property tax revenue in order to bail out
the State! While SB 1648 admittedly would not do anything to
restore . any of the property tax revenue which has been lost over
the past two fiscal years, it would insure that this erosion does
not continue.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: ,(
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE `r
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S): _
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ACTION OF BOARD ON May 3, 1994 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.
ATTESTED l�
Contact: PHIL BATCHEL R.CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
CC: County Administrator SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Auditor-Controller
County Librarian
Les Spahnn: Heim, Noack & Spahnn BY — DEPUTY
(via CAO)
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The County Librarian requests that the Board support SB 1648 . In
view of the Board' s support for other measures which would provide
a financing mechanism for libraries and the fact that the Board
included the funding of libraries as a major issue in its 1994
Legislative Program, it appears that it would be appropriate for
the Board of Supervisors to support SB 1648 .
SB 1648 is scheduled to be heard in the Senate Local Government
Committee on Wednesday, May 4, 1994 .