California Government Code 16275 – Following the close of the public hearing, the governing body shall …
Following the close of the public hearing, the governing body shall distribute the funds in accordance with the following criteria:
(a) Public Safety Services:
Terms Used In California Government Code 16275
- County: includes city and county. See California Government Code 19
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- General fund reserves: means the general fund reserve balance as of July 1, 1978, that is not legally obligated. See California Government Code 16271
- Governing body: means the board of supervisors except that in the case of a subsidiary district "governing body" means the city council, and in the case of a multi-county district "governing body" means the governing body of the multi-county district itself. See California Government Code 16271
- Special district: includes a county service area, a maintenance district or area, an improvement district or improvement zone, or any other zone or area formed for the purpose of designating an area within which a property tax rate will be levied to pay for a service or improvement benefitting that area. See California Government Code 16271
- Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which the term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Government Code 10
(1) In distributing funds to districts which provide fire protection services, and any police protection district, county service area, or community services district which provides police protection services, exclusively, the governing body shall provide an amount sufficient to ensure that each district maintains the same level of protection as was actually provided during 1977-78.
(b) Other special district services:
(1) Districts with general fund reserves, as defined in Section 16271, of 5 percent or less of their total 1977-78 revenues shall be given priority over districts with general fund reserves in excess of 5 percent of their total 1977-78 revenues.
(2) Districts which have relied most heavily upon revenues derived from property taxation to finance the provision of a service shall be given priority over those districts which are less dependent upon revenues derived from property taxation.
(3) Districts which are not authorized to utilize nonproperty tax revenue sources, including but not limited to fees, rates and tolls to finance the provision of a service shall be given priority over districts which are authorized to utilize such nonproperty tax sources.
(4) In distributing funds to districts which provide more than one service, exclusive of fire and police protection services which are funded under the public safety services category, the board shall apply the criteria of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of this subdivision to each such service and shall make a distribution of funds to the district for each such service.
(5) Any distribution made pursuant to this section shall be reduced by one-third of the amount by which the district’s general fund reserves exceeds 5 percent of the district’s total 1977-78 revenues.
(Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 332.)