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Health and Human Services Agency recommending the Board receive and file special tax reports for County Service Area 3 and County Service Area 7, specific to the County of El Dorado ambulance services for Fiscal Year 2016/17.
FUNDING: Special tax and penalties.
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION:
Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board accept the attached special tax reports for County Service Area (CSA) No. 3 and CSA No. 7 for Fiscal Year 2016-17 as this action satisfies the requirements as set forth in California Government Code (GC) Section 50075, et seq.
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
GC Section 25210 et seq., also known as the County Service Area Law, established the authority and method for counties to finance and provide needed public facilities and services. Accordingly, CSA No. 3 and No. 7 were established to help ensure appropriate and needed ambulance services in the areas of South Lake Tahoe (CSA No. 3) and the western slope of El Dorado County (CSA No. 7).
CSA No. 3 was established on January 21, 1963 for the purpose of providing extended services, namely mosquito abatement, via Resolution No. 9-63. In 1982, the Board of Supervisors amended the authority of CSA No. 3, through Resolution No. 210-82, to include extended ambulance services to be provided within the unincorporated area of CSA No. 3.
The creation of CSA No. 7 was approved by County voters via an election on November 2, 1976 and was formally established by the Board of Supervisors on December 7, 1976 through Resolution No. 316-76. A special tax to fund fire-based advanced life support ambulance services within CSA No. 7 was created through Resolution 172-97, adopted on July 22, 1997, and approved by County voters on November 4, 1997.
GC Sections 50075 through 50077.5 were enacted to earn voters' confidence and support of special taxes by demonstrating to the voters that local agencies spend these funds on the intended facilities and services. To accompl...
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