DATE: April 13, 2021
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Margaret Mims, Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator
SUBJECT: Amendment to Master Schedule of Fees - Sheriff
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
1. Conduct first hearing to amend the Fresno County Master Schedule of Fees, Charges and Recovered Costs Ordinance by adding new Subsection 2611 (Public Records Act Fees) to Section 2600 - Sheriff; waive reading of the Ordinance in its entirety; and set second hearing for May 11, 2021;
2. Conduct first hearing to amend the Fresno County Master Schedule of Fees, Charges and Recovered Costs Ordinance by amending Subsection 3401 (Photocopy Charge (Paper to Paper)) of Section 3400 - Misc. Countywide Fees (by adding the Sheriff's Office to the list of certain departments excluded from this Countywide fee); waive reading of the Ordinance in its entirety; and set second hearing for May 11, 2021;
3. Designate County Counsel to prepare a fair and adequate summary of each of the proposed Ordinances; and
4. Direct the Clerk of the Board to post and publish the required summaries in accordance with Government Code Section 25124(b)(1).
REPORT
Approval of the recommended actions would revise the existing Master Schedule of Fees, Charges, and Recovered Costs based on the Sheriff's Office's costs for FY 2019-20.
The first recommended action, the recommended amendment adding new Subsection 2611 - Public Record Act Fees, is specific to the Sheriff's Office. Those rates will create certain new rates, depending on the type of record requested, the type of copy requested, and the requested media and manner of providing such type of copy. Such types of records or copies, as applicable, include paper, electronic, audio, video, dispatch audio tape, and photos, and the construction of certain records, depending on the type of records requested. Such rates will allow the Sheriff's Office to recover the duplication materials cost and certain operating costs. Such rates will also allow t...
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