HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 2012-70 - County Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Services FeeCITY OF PALM DESERT
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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Recommendation
STAFF REPORT
Adopt Resolution No. 2012- 70 Extending Abandoned Vehicle
Abatement Program
Pedro Rodriguez, Code Compliance Supervisor
November 15, 2012
Resolution 2012- 70
By Minute Motion, adopt Resolution No. 2012-70 extending the Abandoned
Vehicle Abatement Program until May 31, 2024.
Executive Summary
Acceptance of staff's recommendation will continue to allow the City of Palm Desert to
remove and dispose of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles, and
be reimbursed through the Riverside County Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Service
Authority for staff time and costs incurred by the City in the abatement of these
vehicles.
Background
In 1990, the California State Legislature enacted legislation allowing for the creation of
county -based vehicle service authorities, pursuant to the provisions of Vehicle Code
Section 22710. In June 1994, the Riverside County Abandoned Vehicle Abatement
Service Authority was formed and imposed a one -dollar vehicle registration fee on
vehicles registered to all owners with addresses in the County of Riverside.
From July 1997 to October 2012, the City of Palm Desert has received $712,809.45 in
disbursements from the Riverside County Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Service
Authority for code compliance officers' staff time in abating 8,139 abandoned, wrecked,
dismantled or inoperative vehicles within the City.
Adoption of Resolution No. 2012-7_
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November 15, 2012
Vehicle registration fees are collected by the Department of Motor Vehicles and
allocated to Riverside County Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Service Authority by the
State Controller pursuant to Vehicle Code Section 9250.7. Fees are then allocated to
24 participating entities on the basis of the size and population of each entity in relation
to the total size and population of Riverside County, and on the basis of a percentage of
the vehicles abated by each entity in relation to the total vehicles abated by the
Riverside County Abandoned Vehicle Service Authority as a whole. The current 24
entities are the County of Riverside, and the Cities of Banning, Beaumont, Blythe,
Calimesa, Canyon Lake, Cathedral City, Coachella, Corona, Desert Hot Springs,
Hemet, Indio, La Quinta, Lake Elsinore, Menifee, Moreno Valley, Murrieta, Norco, Palm
Desert, Palm Springs, Perris, Riverside, San Jacinto, and Temecula.
Since the inception of the program, the Riverside County Abandoned Vehicle
Abatement Service Authority has disbursed $22,952,216, to participating cities for
reimbursement of staff time in the abatement of approximately 146,561 abandoned,
wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicles. The current service authority program is
scheduled to sunset in May 2014. Senate Bill 106 (SB 106), chaptered on August 13,
2001, allows local agencies to extend the Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Service
Authority program every 10 years with the approval of the county and a majority of the
cities comprising a majority of the population of the incorporated areas.
A majority of the 24 participating cities are currently in the process of adopting their
respective resolutions approving the 10-year extension of the Service Authority.
Adoption of the attached resolution is the first step of this important program that is
necessary prior to submitting the Service Authority extension package to the Riverside
County Board of Supervisors for their review and approval.
Therefore, staff recommends that the City Council, by minute motion, adopt Resolution
No. 2012- extending the Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Program until May 14,
2024.
Submitted by:
Pedro Rodriguez
Code Compliance Supervisor
M. Wohlmuth, City Manager
Department Head:
Lauri Aylaian ;
Director of Community Development
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RESOLUTION NO. 2012- 70
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM DESERT,
AUTHORIZING THE EXTENSION OF THE SERVICE FEE COLLECTED ON
BEHALF OF THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY ABANDONED VEHICLE
ABATEMENT SERVICE AUTHORITY UNTIL MAY 2024
WHEREAS, the Riverside County Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Service
Authority was formed on or about June 1, 1994, pursuant to the provisions of California
Vehicle Code §§ 9950.7 and 22710 enacted by the Legislature in 1990 which authorize
the establishment of a service authority and imposition of a service fee on all registered
motor vehicles located within a county; and
WHEREAS, beginning in June 1994 and continuing to the present, the Riverside
County Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Service Authority has been the recipient of
service fees collected on its behalf by the California Department of Motor Vehicles; and
WHEREAS, the service fees received by the Riverside County Abandoned
Vehicle Abatement Service Authority are used to reimburse local governmental
agencies for a portion of their costs incurred as a result of the abatement, removal and
disposal as public nuisances of any abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative
vehicles or parts thereof; and
WHEREAS, the Riverside County Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Service
Authority apportions and distributes service fee proceeds to each member agency
according to the formula set forth in California Vehicle Code §§ 22710; and
WHEREAS, since the establishment of the Abandoned Vehicle Abatement
program in June 1994, it has disbursed $22,952,216 in service fee proceeds to member
agencies and caused the abetment of approximately 146,561 abandoned, wrecked,
dismantled, or inoperative vehicles located in various cities and the unincorporated area
of Riverside County; and
WHEREAS, the service fee collected as part of the Abandoned Vehicle
Abatement Service Authority program is set to expire in May 2014; and
WHEREAS, the Legislature recently amended California Vehicle Code § 9250.7
to allow for an extension of the service fee collected as part of the Abandoned Vehicle
Abatement program in increments of up to 10 years each if the board of supervisors of
the county, by a two-thirds vote, and a majority of the cities comprising a majority of the
population of the incorporated areas within the county adopt resolutions providing for
the extension of the service fee; and
WHEREAS, it is desirable to the City of Palm Desert to have the Abandoned
Vehicle Abatement program continue beyond its current termination date of May 2014.
RESOLUTION NO. 2012- 70
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED the City Council of the City of Palm
Desert, California approves the extension of the service fee collected on behalf of the
Riverside County Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Service Authority until May 14, 2024.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Palm Desert
City Council held on this
vote:
AYES:
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ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
day of , 2012, by the following
ROBERT A. SPIEGEL, MAYOR
ATTEST:
RACHELLE D. KLASSEN, CITY CLERK
CITY OF PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA