To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Ori Tzvieli, Interim Health Services Director
Report Title: Hearing to Consider Adoption of Revised Fees for the Contra Costa County Health Services Department, Environmental Health Division
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. RECEIVE staff presentation regarding the adjustment of regulatory fees charged by the Contra Costa County Health Services Department, Environmental Health Division ("EH Division");
2. OPEN a public hearing on the proposed Resolution, which would adjust regulatory fees charged by the EH Division, effective June 24, 2025; RECEIVE and CONSIDER all oral and written testimony, public comments, and any objections to the Resolution; and CLOSE the hearing;
3. CONSIDER staff's presentation, all testimony, public comments, objections, the attached "Staff Report on the Determination and Apportionment of Certain Environmental Health Division Fees," dated June 24, 2025, (Attachment 1), the NBS "Contra Costa County Health Services, Environmental Health Division Fee Study," dated June 6, 2025, (Attachment 2), and all other testimony and materials presented to the Board prior to the close of the public hearing;
4. ADOPT the Resolution adjusting regulatory fees charged by the EH Division set forth in Attachment A to the Resolution, effective June 24, 2025; and
5. DIRECT the Interim Health Services Director, or designee, to reduce permit fees required to be paid by farmer's markets to those fee amounts in effect as of June 23, 2025, not to exceed $50,000 in any fiscal year and subject to funding availability in that fiscal year, in consideration for the farmer's markets' agreement to allow the Contra Costa Health Plan to perform marketing activities at the farmer's markets during the term of the permit.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Revenue from the adjusted Environmental Health Division Fees will recover the division's reasonable costs to administer its various regul...
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