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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1318
Author: Evans (D)
Amended: 7/7/05 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE : 9-0, 7/13/05
AYES: Kehoe, Cox, Ackerman, Kuehl, Machado, McClintock,
Perata, Soto, Torlakson
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 71-0, 4/7/05 (Passed on Consent) - See
last page for vote
SUBJECT : County officers: public administrators
SOURCE : Sonoma County Board of Supervisors
Solano County Board of Supervisors
DIGEST : This bill allows the Sonoma County Board of
Supervisors to convert the public administrators office
from an elected to an appointed position. It adds Sonoma
County to the list of counties that may appoint the same
person to the offices of public administrator and public
guardian. This bill allows the Sonoma County Board of
Supervisors to consolidate the offices of the
auditor-controller and the treasurer-tax collector. This
bill allows the Solano County Board of Supervisors to adopt
an ordinance to allow the Director of Transportation to
directly appoint the county surveyor.
ANALYSIS : Existing law requires voters to elect 10
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county officers, including the public administrator.
Counties can appoint several other officers, including the
public guardian. County supervisors can convert elected
offices into appointed offices with voter approval.
The Legislature has allowed six counties to convert the
public administrator's office from an elected to an
appointed position: Mendocino, Lake, Madera, Trinity,
Tuolumne, and Napa. The Legislature has also allowed two
counties to convert the public administrator's office from
an elected to an appointed position and consolidate the
offices of public administrator and public guardian:
Solano and Glenn.
Sonoma County's Board of Supervisors consolidated the
elected offices of the public administrator and the county
clerk in 1995. The Board also consolidated the appointed
offices of the public guardian and the public conservator
to create the head of the Human Services Department.
Sonoma County wants to convert the office of public
administrator from an elected to an appointed position as
well as formally consolidate the public guardian and the
public administrator.
This bill allows the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to
convert the public administrator's office from an elected
to an appointed position. This bill adds Sonoma County to
the list of counties that may appoint the same person to
the offices of public administrator and public guardian.
County boards of supervisors can consolidate the offices of
the auditor, controller, treasurer, tax collector, and
director of finance. Sonoma County has created the offices
of the Auditor-Controller and the Treasurer-Tax Collector
and wants to create one consolidated office of the
Auditor-Controller-Treasurer-Tax Collector, without the
inclusion of a director of finance. This bill allows the
Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to consolidate the
offices of the Auditor-Controller and the Treasurer-Tax
Collector.
State law requires a county board of supervisors to appoint
the county surveyor. Solano County wants the Director of
Transportation to appoint its county surveyor. This bill
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allows the Solano County Board of Supervisors to adopt an
ordinance to allow the Director of Transportation to
directly appoint the county surveyor.
Comments
Many county boards of supervisors believe they can improve
public service by consolidating county departments and
services. This bill gives the boards of supervisors in
Solano and Sonoma counties the flexibility to better manage
the concerns of their residents and organize themselves in
a way to do so.
SB 282 (Maldonado) passed the Senate Local Government
Committee on April 6. The bill allows Monterey County to
consolidate the offices of public administrator and public
guardian and also authorizes Lassen County to separate the
offices of the district attorney and public administrator
while combining the duties of the public administrator and
public guardian. AB 1318 contains double-jointing language
to avoid chaptering out SB 282.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 7/13/05)
Solano County Board of Supervisors (co-source)
Sonoma County Board of Supervisors (co-source)
OPPOSITION : (Verified 7/13/05)
California Land Surveyors Association
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Aghazarian, Arambula, Baca, Bass, Benoit, Berg,
Bermudez, Blakeslee, Bogh, Calderon, Canciamilla, Chan,
Chavez, Chu, Cogdill, Cohn, Coto, Daucher, De La Torre,
DeVore, Dymally, Emmerson, Evans, Garcia, Goldberg,
Hancock, Harman, Haynes, Jerome Horton, Shirley Horton,
Houston, Huff, Jones, Karnette, Keene, Klehs, Koretz, La
Malfa, Laird, Leno, Leslie, Levine, Liu, Matthews, Maze,
McCarthy, Montanez, Mullin, Nakanishi, Nava, Negrete
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McLeod, Niello, Oropeza, Parra, Pavley, Plescia, Sharon
Runner, Ruskin, Saldana, Salinas, Spitzer, Strickland,
Torrico, Tran, Vargas, Villines, Walters, Wolk, Wyland,
Yee, Nunez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Frommer, Gordon, La Suer, Lieber,
Mountjoy, Nation, Richman, Ridley-Thomas, Umberg
AGB:mel 7/18/05 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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