MEETING DATE: 4/11/2017
DEPARTMENT: COUNTY ADMINISTRATION OFFICE
DEPT HEAD/DIRECTOR: R. Espinosa
AGENDA ITEM PREPARER: Chase Graves
SBC DEPT FILE NUMBER: 943.1
SUBJECT:
COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE - R. ESPINOSA
Approve letter in support of legislation that would provide the option for San Benito County to consolidate the offices of Auditor-Controller and Treasurer-Tax Collector and authorize the Chairman to sign the letter of support.
SBC FILE NUMBER: 608
AGENDA SECTION:
CONSENT AGENDA
BACKGROUND/SUMMARY:
Last legislative year the San Benito County Board of Supervisors discussed pursing the cost-saving and effective reconsolidation of the elected offices of Auditor-Controller and Treasurer-Tax Collector. San Benito County staff has worked with staff at the State Capitol Legislative Office to add San Benito County to legislation that currently allows the counties of Mendocino, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, Trinity, and Tulare to consolidate the aforementioned elected offices.
This legislation would not automatically consolidate the offices of Auditor-Controller and Treasurer-Tax Collector, rather, the legislation would allow the San Benito County Board of Supervisors to consolidate the offices if/when they make the decision to do so. If San Benito County is not added to this legislation it would be approximately five years before the County could again pursue the possibility of consolidating the offices as a result of the election cycle.
If the Board of Supervisors decided to consolidate these offices, the County of San Benito would benefit from an estimated County General Fund savings of over two-hundred-thousand dollars. Given the always present budgetary constraints the County is faced with, it is important that the County have the ability to consolidate these offices.
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