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Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing, and adopt resolution amending the Master Fee and Charges Schedule. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On September 14, 2010, the City Council approved an amended Master Fee and Charges Schedule that included proposed fee adjustments for Fiscal Year 2011. Subsequently, the California legislature enacted Senate Bills 856 and 857 (SB 856 and SB 857), which added additional fees to Enterprise Zone Voucher applications and a surcharge to all parking citations issued by cities, respectively. Attachment A lists the proposed parking citation amounts necessary to implement the surcharge, as well as the proposed Enterprise Zone Voucher Application fee amounts necessary to implement the increase.
On October 19, 2010, the Governor signed SB 857, which states that cities shall collect an additional $3.00 for each parking citation and remit it to the State to be deposited in the Trial Court Trust Fund until July 1, 2013. The effective date for the surcharge is 60 days after the Budget Act of 2010 was enacted by the State of California (State) or December 7, 2010.
The SB 857 surcharge brings the total collected on each parking citation for the State and County Courts to $12.50 or an average of 23 percent of each citation amount. Of this amount, $5.00 is sent to the County of Los Angeles for the Court House Construction Fund and the Criminal Justice Facilities Construction Fund. The remainder, $7.50, goes to the State for the Immediate & Critical Needs Facilities Construction Fund - Parking Penalty, State Court Facilities Construction Fund - Parking Penalty and the Trial Court Trust Fund.
The governor also signed SB 856, which states that agencies administering local economic development areas such as Enterprise Zones shall collect an additional $5.00 for each tax credit application-in this case, the Hiring Tax Credit Voucher application. Through policy guidance received on Novem...
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