Amador County – Amador County Supervisors on Tuesday voted to send a letter of support for Assemblywoman Alyson Huber’s bill to try to revise state law to help Amador County and its cities regarding “Basic Aid” funding.

County Administrative Officer Chuck Iley said the Regional Council of Rural Counties (RCRC) was going to ask Sen. Ted Gaines to co-sign the bill, and Mono County’s Assembly member was also going to co-sign the bill, AB-1191, which would return funds that Basic Aid school districts drain from vehicle license fee and gas taxes that go to cities, and which are not replenished by the state.

Supervisor Vice Chairman Louis Boitano reported on the California State Association of Counties convention, saying that CSAC (SEE-SACK) would be backing a constitutional amendment to fund public safety and other programs. He said doing so would cause an increase in the fees that counties must pay, because public funds can’t be used to finance a public measure to promote the constitutional amendment.

Boitano said CSAC gets $3 million annually from the Finance Corporation and that money is used to pay part of counties’ membership fees. He said that money would be used on the constitutional campaign, which they think is going to take about $3 million. He said Amador County’s CSAC fees will go up from $14,000 to $19,000 a year.

Iley said some big counties are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in dues increases. Boitano said Los Angeles County now pays $327,000 in dues, and will pay $122,000 more.

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