COUNTYWIDE OVERSIGHT BOARD
Meeting Date: February 20, 2025
Subject: ADOPT Resolution No. 2025-19 to approve and finalize dissolution ending SA for the Pinole Successor Agency Pursuant to Section 34187 of the California Health and Safety Code
Submitted For: COUNTYWIDE OVERSIGHT BOARD
Department: DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT
Presenter: Deidre Hodgers || OVERSIGHT BOARD SECRETARY
Contact: Deidre Hodgers | (925) 655-2892
Recommendation(s):
ADOPT Resolution No. 2025-19 to approve and finalize dissolution ending SA for the Pinole Successor Agency Pursuant to Section 34187 of the California Health and Safety Code.
Background, History and Update:
On February 1, 2012, the State of California dissolved all redevelopment agencies, including the redevelopment agencies located in the County of Contra Costa, by operation of law pursuant to California Health and Safety code (“HSC”) Section 34161 et seq. (the “Redevelopment Dissolution Law”). The Redevelopment Dissolution Law created successor agencies to the dissolved redevelopment agencies and require them to expeditiously wind down the affairs of each former redevelopment agency (RDA), while continuing to meet the former RDA’s enforceable obligations, overseeing completion of redevelopment projects, and disposing of the assets and properties of the former RDA.
The Redevelopment Dissolution Law also created an oversight board to approve specified actions of each successor agency. In 2018, in accordance with HSC Section 34179 (j), the seventeen (17) oversight boards then in place in the County of Contra Costa consolidated into one (1) Countywide Oversight Board, commencing on and after July 1, 2018. The primary purpose of the Countywide Oversight Board is to oversee the existing Successor Agencies in the County and their dissolution process.
Under HSC Section 34187(b), when all enforceable obligations have been retired or paid off, all real property has been disposed of pursuant to HSC Sections 34181 or 34191.4, and all outstanding litigation has been resolved, a successor agency shall, within 30 days of meeting these criteria, submit to its oversight board a request, with a copy of the request to the county auditor-controller, to formally dissolve the successor agency. The oversight board shall approve the request within 30 days and shall submit the request to the Department of Finance (“DOF”).
On September 9, 2024, in accordance with HSC Section 34187(b), the Countywide Oversight Board adopted a resolution approving the formal dissolution request from the Pinole Successor Agency. The Oversight Board submitted its resolution to the DOF, and the DOF provided its approval letter dated February 11, 2025.
Under HSC Section 34187(e), following the DOF’s approval of a formal request to dissolve, a successor agency is required to: (1) Dispose of all remaining assets and transfer the proceeds from the disposition of those assets to the county auditor-controller for distribution to the affected taxing entities pursuant to HSC Section 34183; and (2) Notify the oversight board that the successor agency has complied with step one. Upon receipt of the notice, the oversight board is required to verify that all obligations have been retired or paid off, all outstanding litigation has been resolved, and all remaining assets have been disposed of with any proceeds remitted to the county auditor-controller for distribution to the affected taxing entities.
On August 20, 2025, the Contra Costa County Department of Conservation and Development, as the designee for the County Auditor-Controller’s Office, in its capacity as the staff of the Countywide Oversight Board, received the required notice from the Pinole Successor Agency. We verified that all obligations contained in the Last and Final Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule, approved by DOF on March 1, 2024, were paid off; that there is no outstanding litigation; and that there are no remaining assets nor any remaining proceeds to be distributed. Thus, staff recommends approval of this Final Resolution to finalize and complete the dissolution of the Pinole Successor Agency, in accordance with HSC Section 34187.