To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Hearing to Consider Adoption of the Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation Program and Related Fees
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. OPEN a public hearing on the proposed Resolution, which would establish Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation permit fees to the schedule of fees that fund the Environmental Health Division of the Contra Costa County Health Services Department; RECEIVE and CONSIDER all oral and written testimony; and CLOSE the hearing.
2. ADOPT the Resolution, establishing Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation permit fees to the schedule of fees set forth in Attachment A to the Resolution.
3. ADOPT Ordinance No. 2024-05, establishing a two-year pilot program for permitting Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations within Contra Costa County, which was introduced on May 14, 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Staff does not project a fiscal impact from the adoption of Resolution No. 2024- and adoption of Ordinance No. 2024-05.
The costs to administer the Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations program will initially be absorbed by the existing budget of the Contra Costa Health, Environmental Health Division (EHD) and supplemented by an upcoming Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations grant program allocated in the 2022 State budget. However, more funds will be needed to continue administering the program. For that reason, adoption of Resolution No. 2024- will create a source of revenue to fund this program. With the adoption of this Resolution, there is no impact to the County's general fund.
BACKGROUND:
On January 1, 2019, California Assembly Bill 626 (AB 626) went into effect and Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation was established as a new type of retail food facility that allows an individual to operate a restaurant in their private residence.
In October 2019, California Assembly Bill 377 (AB 377) mad...
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