File #: 25-0625    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Approved
File created: 3/26/2025 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: 4/8/2025 Final action: 4/8/2025
Title: HEARING - Clerk of the Board requesting the Board consider the appeal received from Yuen Fai Tsang regarding the Sheriff's Office's decision to deny his Cardroom Employee Work Permit. FUNDING: N/A
Attachments: 1. A - Cardroom Permit Denial Letter, 2. B - Ordinance 4726, 3. C - Mr. Tsang's Appeal Letter, 4. D - Character Reference Letter

Title

HEARING - Clerk of the Board requesting the Board consider the appeal received from Yuen Fai Tsang regarding the Sheriff's Office's decision to deny his Cardroom Employee Work Permit.

 

FUNDING:  N/A

Body

DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND

El Dorado County Ordinance 4726 which pertains to the County Cardroom Ordinance Section 9.45.120 Application for Work Permit; Processing and Decision subsection (F) states the following: Denial of Permit; Appeal: The Sheriffs decision denying a work permit is final unless the applicant submits a notice of appeal of the decision within ten working days of its mailing to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. If a timely appeal is filed, the matter shall be placed on the agenda of the next available regular Board of Supervisors meeting. The Board of Supervisors shall consider the appeal in a public hearing and either direct the Sheriff to issue the work permit or deny the appeal and uphold the Sheriff’s decision.

 

The Sheriff's Office denied Mr. Tsang's Cardroom Employee Work Permit based on Section 9.45.130 Standards for Denial of Work Permit subsection (E) Character of Applicant. Mr. Tsang has timely filed his appeal and is requesting the Board grant his appeal and direct the Sheriff to issue his work permit.

 

ALTERNATIVES

It is the decision of the Board to determine whether the denial of the Cardroom Employee Work Permit should be upheld or reversed.

 

PRIOR BOARD ACTION

N/A

 

OTHER DEPARTMENT / AGENCY INVOLVEMENT

Sheriff's Office

 

CAO RECOMMENDATION / COMMENTS

Hear the appeal.

 

FINANCIAL IMPACT

N/A

 

CLERK OF THE BOARD FOLLOW UP ACTIONS

Notify the Sheriff and Appellant of the Board's decision.

 

STRATEGIC PLAN COMPONENT

N/A

 

CONTACT

Kim Dawson, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors