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Chief Administrative Office, Parks Division, recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign the following:
1) Resolution 019-2023 authorizing and directing the Auditor-Controller to transfer the funds from the County Service Area 9 Insurance Reserve Account to the General Fund, Georgetown Divide Recreation District, and the Parks Division as directed on the Resolution, and to close the account after all funds have been transferred; and
2) A Fiscal Year 2022-23 Budget amendment to transfer $101,000 in funds from the County Service Area 9 Insurance Reserve Account to the General Fund ($65,000), Georgetown Divide Recreation District ($1000), and the Parks Division ($35,000) (4/5 vote required).
FUNDING: Parks Division Insurance Reserve.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
In the 1980s, the Board, by resolution, established the following recreation zones of benefit (ZOB): Mother Lode (Resolution 227-83), Ponderosa (Resolution 84-85), Pollock Pines/Camino (Resolution 85-85), Gold Trail (Resolution 86-85), Georgetown (Resolution 265-84), and ZOB #3 within CSA #3 (Resolution 367-86). In 1988, the Georgetown Recreation ZOB was dissolved by Resolution 413-88 and replaced with the newly-formed Georgetown Divide Recreation District, which is a separate legal entity from El Dorado County.
Historically the recreation zones incorrectly received funding from a share of the tax increment which should have been allocated to other local entities such as school, water, and fire districts.
On May 19, 1987, the Board approved discontinuing the practice of allocating tax increment revenues to the recreation zones effective Fiscal Year 1987-88, and transitioned the provision of recreation services from a zone of benefit model to directly by the County General Fund through the standard departmental model.
The meeting minutes from April 6, 1993, indicate the Board approved consolidation of the County Service Area Recreation Zones into one fund and authorized establ...
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