The requested action will result in a current year transfer of approximately $262,228 from the CSA P-6 Zone CAB Fund to the Sheriff's General Fund operating budget to support the extended police services to the Bay Point community through fiscal year 2009/10.

History: In 1983, the Board of Supervisors formed CSA P-6 as a means to provide funding for zones to be established therein to maintain and extend police protection services to the unincorporated area of the County, except the Kensington Community Services District. As originally applied to new developments in East County in 1989, four zones were formed for each of four new major subdivisions in Oakley and Bay Point. An election was held in each of the zones to approve a special tax ordinance adopted by the Board of Supervisors for each of the zones. When the special tax for police services was approved by voters of each zone by mail ballot, each zone was assigned its own fund number, and revenue collected from tax levies were placed in individual zone accounts maintained by the County Auditor.  
  
In 1992, the Board of Supervisors began to form new zones in CSA P-6 for each new major and minor subdivision in the unincorporated area of the County. Each special tax election, which approved a special tax for police protection services in each new zone, resulted in the creation of a new fund for each zone. In 1996, the Board of Supervisors approved a modification to the ordinance imposing a one-time fee of $1000 on minor subdivisions, instead of forming a new P-6 Zone and requiring a special tax election. In 1998, with 52 zones in CSA P-6 and 52 corresponding zone funds, it became very cumbersome and time consuming to account for and withdraw monies from each of the zone funds to provide police protection services throughout the zones on CSA P-6.

In May, 1998 the Board of Supervisors approved the creation of the Centralized Administrative Base Fund, to which revenues collected by levies in CSA P-6 special tax zones are transferred annually. Allocation of P-6 zone funds has historically been prescribed by a County Counsel interpretation of the original ordinance that established the zones in 1983. That interpretation held that funds generated in the respective zones could only be used to benefit the zone of origin. It was determined that a program of County wide application that had the effect of enhancing law enforcement in all of the zones met the intent of the original ordinance. Thus the air unit is in part financed through allocation of P-6 funds.

Currently, there are 110 zones, composed of a total of 5322 parcels in CSA P-6. These zones currently generate approximately $1.14 million per year, due substantially to the burgeoning new development in East County. It is also important to note that until this fiscal year, the annual revenue for the entire CAB Fund has not exceeded $560,000 for all 110 zones.

Proposal:

The current projection of P-6 zone revenues for FY 2009/2010 in the Bay Point community are: $147,181.00 (Zones 0200-0210). The balance of the funding required for this program will come from accumulated Bay Point P-6 zone funds.

The Office of the Sheriff proposes to expend those funds in the Bay Point community as follows:  
  

  
Note: This proposal assumes a fully weighted Deputy Sheriff position. It is likely that the actual position assigned with not reach this maximum projection.