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Agenda Item - 6.a.


City of Garden Grove


INTER-DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM

To:Scott C. Stiles

From:Kingsley Okereke/Tom Schultz
Dept.:City Manager 

Dept.: Finance 
Subject:Introduction and first reading to consider adoption of an Ordinance for the Paramedic Tax Override Rate for Fiscal Year 2018-19. Date:6/12/2018
OBJECTIVE

For the City Council to adopt the Paramedic Tax Override Rate Ordinance for Fiscal Year 2018-19.  The proposed rate is unchanged from last year.

BACKGROUND

In June 1978, Garden Grove voters approved a property tax increase (override) to pay for emergency paramedic services.  The approved ballot measure established a property tax specifically to pay for a “mobile intensive care program” in an amount not to exceed 10 cents per $100 of assessed valuation.

 

City Council Resolution No. 4547-74, which authorized the ballot measure, stated the specific purpose for which the property tax was imposed; namely, to provide for (1) an emergency medical care system with a response time of five minutes; (2) to pay salaries; and (3) to purchase and maintain vehicles, radio, telemetry and intensive care equipment, and all necessary supplies. 

 

In June 2017, the City Council set the tax at 8 cents ($0.08) per one hundred ($100) of assessed valuation.

DISCUSSION

In order to maintain and pay for the paramedic emergency medical care services, it is necessary to continue to generate revenue through the use of an ad valorem tax override on the taxable property within the City of Garden Grove.  The proposed rate is unchanged from last year.

FINANCIAL IMPACT

The tax override as approved by the City Council is 8 cents per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation.  This will raise approximately $10.7 million that is required to provide the City’s Paramedic Services to the citizens of Garden Grove.  This will fully fund the City’s paramedic program estimated cost of $10.5 million, with the balance, (approximately $200,000) carried forward to fund FY 2019-20 costs.
RECOMMENDATION

It is recommended that the City Council:

 

  • Introduce and conduct the first reading of the attached Ordinance authorizing a property tax override of 8 cents per $100 of assessed value for Fiscal Year 2018-19 paramedic program.

 

 

By:  Ann Eifert, Budget Manager  




ATTACHMENTS:
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Ordinance5/29/2018OrdinanceOrdinance_Establishing_Paramedic_Services-FY_2018-19.doc