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7. z--,41 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Counci From the City Manager November 4, 2002 Subject Resolution authorizing an extension of the San Mateo County Abandoned Vehicle Service Authority Fee. Recommendation The City Council authorize, by resolution, the extension of the Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Program until April 2012. Background In 1990, section 22710 was added to the California Vehicle Code to allow for the creation of county-based vehicle service authorities to facilitate the abatement of abandoned vehicles on public and private land. In 1991, the San Mateo County Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Service Authority was formed and imposed a one-dollar annual vehicle registration fee on vehicles registered to an owner with an address in the County of San Mateo. Vehicle registration fees are collected by the Department of Motor Vehicles and allocated to the County of San Mateo Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Program (AVAP) pursuant to Vehicle Code Section 9250.7. The fees are then allocated to participating AVAP entities through a formula based on population, geographic area, and percentage of vehicles abated during the prior year in relation to the total vehicles abated by the AVAP as a whole. The current AVAP entities are the Cities of Redwood City, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Daly City, East Palo Alto, Foster City, Half Moon Bay, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Pacifica, Portola Valley, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Mateo, South San Francisco, Woodside, and the unincorporated County of San Mateo. In FY01/02, the Redwood City Police Department abated 3136 vehicles, and received $73,238.68 in reimbursements, or $23.35 per vehicle through the AVAP. These funds have helped to support the department's efforts to remove abandoned vehicles from city streets. The statutory authority to collect the one-dollar vehicle registration fee expires in May 2003. Statutes were recently amended, however to allow service authorities to extend the vehicle registration fee every ten years, with the approval by two-thirds members of the County Board of Supervisors, and by a majority of the cities comprising a majority of the incorporated population of the County. The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors has recently approved this extension.