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Emergency Medical Services, a division of the Chief Administrative Office, recommending the Board receive and file the annual written report of benefit assessments for the Zone of Benefit within County Service Area 3 for emergency medical ambulance services.
FUNDING: County Service Area 3 Benefit Assessment.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
County Service Area 3 (CSA 3), and a zone of benefit within CSA 3, were established through various Board of Supervisors (BOS) resolutions and pursuant to Title 3, Division 2, Part 2, Chapter 2.2 of California Government Code. Under California Government Code Section 25210.2, the County’s BOS acts as the governing authority of CSA 3.
The BOS adopted Resolution No. 9-63 on January 21, 1963, establishing CSA 3 for the purpose of providing extended services, namely, mosquito abatement. On August 10, 1982, the BOS amended the authority of the service area to include extended ambulance services to be provided within the unincorporated area of CSA 3, through Resolution No. 210-82. On March 24, 1987, the BOS adopted Resolution No. 68-87, being a Resolution of Intention, to provide extended ambulance services (now referred to as “pre-hospital emergency medical services”) in the incorporated area of CSA 3. The hearing associated with the Resolution of Intention 68-87 was held, the BOS considered all protests and determined that a fee be charged to each improved parcel within the unincorporated area of CSA 3.
The current benefit assessment was established in 1997 by the BOS, through a series of resolutions which established fixed benefit assessments on improved parcels within CSA 3 to support the provision of pre-hospital emergency medical services within CSA 3. In accordance with the provisions of Article XIII D of the California Constitution, the Fiscal Year 2026-27 assessments will be a continuation of the previously approved benefit assessment in the same amounts and, under California Government Code Section 53750 et seq....
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