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CITY OF COLTON AGENDA REPORT For Council Meeting of December 3, 1991 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council �� FROM: �- JACK H. STRATTON, CHIEF OF POLICE SUBJECT: Date: INCREASE BAIL FOR COLTON MUNICIPAL CODE 10-31-91 PARKING VIOLATIONS TO COVER MANDATED FEES PAYABLE TO THE SA BERNARDINO MUN3Ee3EP*L COURT BACKGROUND The Police Department needs to increase the fees for the Colton Municipal Code parking violations in an effort to recover part of the cost of labor, materials, and overhead involved in processing these services. DISCUSSION The Police Department issues Colton Municipal Code citations for parking violations. Each citation contains a bail amount for the particular parking violation. Normally there is one violation per parking citation. This bail amount is paid to the City of Colton to clear the citation by the violator. The money goes into the General Fund. The San Bernardino Municipal Court is entitled to receive certain fees for each parking violation. These fees apply whether the violator pays the bail to the City of Colton or appears in court and a fine is levied by a judge. The General Fund is reduced by this amount. Under past legislation, the Court has been applying $1.50 per violation. The $1.50 was split between the Temporary Courthouse Construction Fund and the Criminal Justice Construction Fund. Recent legislation, AB 2142, has increased these fees effective 11-30-91. In addition, the Court has noted that it was under -collecting the fees. The Court therefore will begin receiving an additional $3.50 per violation on 11-30-91. Neither of these fees, which now total $5.00 per citation, were taken into account when the City Council passed Resolution Number R-112-90 in October, 1990. Effective on 11-30-91, the City of Colton will be giving up $5.00 per violation to the Court. Attachments: Page 1 of -3 CENTRAL REddRPDbo.1_ FILE N0.'' __JL _3..........-....11-f,Z_