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1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />DST 264021 <br />Booking Fees <br />rate of $159.72 for each booking and other processing (hereinafter referred to as <br />"booking"), so long as CITIES AND TOWNS agreed to apply all realized savings to <br />expenditures for public safety, as referred to in California Government Code section <br />29950 and defined in the "ORDER" identified in the Settlement Agreements, performed <br />by the COUNTY in connection with arrests made within the jurisdictional boundaries of <br />CITIES AND TOWNS after February 10, 2001. This rate was to remain in effect unless <br />COUNTY's actual costs incurred for booking, as referred to in California Government <br />Code section 29550, and as defined by "the ORDER" identified in the Settlement <br />Agreements, increased by twenty-five percent (25%) or more over the COUNTY's <br />actual costs as of February 10, 2001, or in the event that the State of California's <br />reimbursement for booking fees incurred by the CITIES AND TOWNS within the County <br />of San Bernardino was reduced by twenty-five (25%) or more, in which alternative <br />event a new booking fee was to be negotiated by COUNTY and CITIES AND TOWNS. <br />In November of 2004 Senate Bill 1102 was enacted into law. This legislation <br />amended California Government Code section 29550 to reduce the amount of booking <br />fees that can be collected by counties beginning in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-06 to fees no <br />greater than one-half of actual administrative costs, including overhead costs permitted <br />according to federal Circular A87 standards, and in no event greater than the fee <br />charged by a county to cities on January 1, 2004. Effective FY 2005-06, this legislation <br />also repealed all state reimbursement to cities for payments to counties for booking <br />fees. <br />Based on the above legislative changes, in March of 2005 the COUNTY <br />performed an updated cost study employing the same methodology that was used wher <br />earlier agreements between CITIES AND TOWNS and COUNTY were executed, and <br />taking into account increased salary and benefit costs, and a dramatic rise in the <br />number of bookings compared with previous years. Based on the results of this study, <br />COUNTY calculated that current costs per booking were $192.92, which would have <br />allowed COUNTY to impose a new fee for each booking in the amount of $96.46, which <br />Settlement Agreement <br />Page 2 <br />