County of El Dorado - File #: 23-1015

• File #: 23-1015
• Version: 1
• Type: Agenda Item
• Status: Approved
• File created: 6/27/2023
• In control: Board of Supervisors
• On agenda: 6/27/2023
• Final action: 6/27/2023
• Title: Treasurer-Tax Collector Department, Revenue Recovery Division, recommending the Board discharge the relevant departments and department heads from further accountability to collect the debts listed on the attached Discharge of Accountability Summary by Department in the amount of $730,349.69, pursuant to Government Code Sections 25257 through 25259. Some of these debts date as far back as 1999, and are uncollectible due to expiration of statute of limitations, death or bankruptcy, and consequently are unlikely to be collected. FUNDING: N/A

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/27/2023	1	Board of Supervisors	Approved	Pass

Title
Treasurer-Tax Collector Department, Revenue Recovery Division, recommending the Board discharge the relevant departments and department heads from further accountability to collect the debts listed on the attached Discharge of Accountability Summary by Department in the amount of $730,349.69, pursuant to Government Code Sections 25257 through 25259. Some of these debts date as far back as 1999, and are uncollectible due to expiration of statute of limitations, death or bankruptcy, and consequently are unlikely to be collected.

FUNDING: N/A
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Treasurer-Tax Collector Department, Revenue Recovery Division, requesting authorization to approve immediate discharge of the debts summarized in Attachment A and detailed in Attachment B. The debts listed total $730,349.69 and include monies owed to a number of County departments.

Pursuant to Board Policy B-4 (Attachment C), dated July 26, 2022, the Revenue Recovery Division is the agency responsible for collecting most of the delinquent debt owed to County departments. Government Code Sections 25257 through 25259 (Attachment D) governs the discharge of accountability of debts due and payable to the County. The law allows the Board of Supervisors to make an order discharging the department, officer, or employee from further accountability and if appropriate may direct the County Auditor-Controller to adjust any charge against the department, officer or employee in the like amount.

When County debts are determined to be uncollectible because the amount owed is too small to justify the cost of collection, the debtor is deceased, the statute of limitations to collect the debt has expired, or the debt was discharged in bankruptcy proceedings, the debt is included on the annual application for discharge. The last countywide discharge of accountability was approved by the Board of Supervisors on October 13, 2020. This proposed discharge represents countywide accounts that have been referr...