647 / 78.5% Yes votes ...... 177 / 21.5% No votes

See Also: Index of all Measures

Dated: August 21, 1998

PATRICK K. FAULKNER
County Counsel

Measure K both authorizes continuation of the paramedic assessment and sets the maximum assessment amount at $53.00 per year. The actual annual rate will be determined by the actual costs for service and set by the Board of Supervisors following budget hearings and negotiations with the City of San Rafael. The annual assessment is calculated by dividing the costs of paramedic services by the number of households served. Over the past four years, this charge has not exceeded $45.00.

In order to account for future cost increases, this measure provides the authority to increase the assessment to a maximum of $53.00 per year per dwelling unit. Remember, this is only a maximum amount to account for any possible increase in costs over the next four years. Under the rules of Proposition 4, the appropriations limit to accommodate this tax must be voted on by the people every four years. Since the last vote, 4 years ago, San Rafael provides 3 paramedic units instead of one, and 2 of the paramedic units is stationed in Terra Linda which means much faster response time to Lucas Valley.

If this measure does not pass, the City of San Rafael will terminate paramedic service to our community.

We urge a "YES" vote on Measure K to maintain this vital service to our Lucas Valley Community.

s/ Bob Schellenberg, President

Lucas Valley Home Owners Association

s/ Richard Everett, Secretary

Lucas Valley Home Owners Association

s/ Carla Hudson

s/ Margaret Mc Cann

s/ Ron Marinoff, Past President

Lucas Valley Home Owners Association

(No arguments against Measure K were submitted)

AN ORDINANCE OF THE MARIN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 3189 INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF THE SPECIAL TAX FOR PARAMEDIC SERVICES IN COUNTY SERVICE AREA 13

THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF MARIN AND COUNTY SERVICE AREA 13 DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

Ordinance No. 3189 is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION I. Authority, Purpose and Intent. This ordinance is adopted pursuant to Article 3.5 of Chapter 1, Part 1, Division 1, Title V (Sections 50075, et seq.) of the California Government Code, and it is the purpose and intent of this ordinance to impose a special tax on property within this Area for purposes of funding paramedic services.

SECTION II. Upon enactment of this ordinance as hereinafter provided, a special tax for the purposes outlined in Section I hereof in an amount not to exceed $53.00 per year for each living unit, and not to exceed seven (7) cents per square foot with a flat tax limit of $500.00 for each one (1) cent per square foot levied for each non-residential structure.

SECTION III. Tax Rate. The Board shall determine annually, based upon a budget recommended to it, whether the basic rate shall be revised to reflect changes in charges and costs. If the Board determines that the basic tax rate shall be revised to a rate lower than set forth in Section II hereof, it shall so revise said rate by resolution passed by a simple majority of the Board.

SECTION IV. Method of Collection. The special tax imposed by this ordinance for the purposes outlined in Section I is due from every person who owns a living unit or non-residential structures within this Area as reflected upon the rolls of the County Assessor at the same time ad valorem tax is due and is to be collected in the same manner. The Marin County Tax Collector shall collect the tax and any penalty or interest due hereunder. The full amount due under this ordinance shall constitute a debt to the Area.

An action for the collection of any tax due hereunder may be commenced in the name of the Area in any court having jurisdiction of the cause.

SECTION V. Delinquencies. To any amount of the tax created by this ordinance which becomes delinquent, the Marin County Tax Collector shall add a penalty in an amount equal to any penalties owing for delinquencies in the ad valorem property tax. The tax and penalty shall bear interest at the same rate as the rate for unpaid ad valorem property tax until paid.

SECTION VI. Severance Clause. If any section of this ordinance is held invalid or unenforceable by any court and such judgment becomes final, then that section may be amended by a majority vote of this Board to conform with the judgment of such court, provided such amendment is consistent with the purpose and intent of this ordinance.

If any section, subsection, sentence, phrase or clause of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this ordinance. The people of County Service Area 13 hereby declare that they would have adopted this ordinance, and each section, subsection, sentence, phrase or clause thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, phrases or clauses may be declared invalid.

SECTION VII. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective not later than thirty (30) days after its adoption by the Board of Supervisors, but shall not take effect unless and until it is approved by two-thirds of the voters voting upon this ordinance at an election to be held on November 3, 1998.

PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors County Service Area 13 held on this 28th day of July, 1998 by the following vote:

AYES: SUPERVISORS Harry J. Moore, Harold C. Brown, Jr., Annette Rose, John B. Kress, President
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: SUPERVISOR Steve Kinsey

s/ John B. Kress
PRESIDENT, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

ATTEST:
s/ Martin Nichols
CLERK