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BACKGROUND In 1993, the State of California decriminalized parking citations and transferred the processing of the citations from the court system to the agencies that issue parking citations, such as the City of Pleasanton. When Pleasanton began processing parking citations in 1993, the City amended its Master Fee Schedule to include parking violation penalties. The penalties have not been revised since their adoption. In 2008, the State Legislature enacted Senate Bill 1407 to provide, in part, for enhanced revenues to the State Court Facilities Construction Fund to finance immediate and critical needs construction and renovation projects of court facilities throughout the State. SB 1407 enables the State to issue up to $5 billion in revenue bonds to help pay for courthouse construction and renovation. Repayment costs are estimated at about $300 million annually. The State will obtain a significant share of the costs to finance the bonds by raising various penalties, including those for parking citations. These increases are passed to the issuing agencies, like the City of Pleasanton. Prior to SB 1407, state law required that Pleasanton remit to Alameda County $5.00 for each parking citation collected to finance state courthouse and criminal justice facility construction. SB 1407 increased the amount to $9.50. Proposed Penalty Increases SB 1407's adoption prompted staff to evaluate the parking penalties assessed by Pleasanton and other cities throughout Alameda County, including Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Dublin, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Newark, Oakland, Piedmont, San Leandro and Union City, as well as the Traffic Infraction Fixed Penalty Schedule found in the Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules (per California Rules of Court, Rule 4.102). Some of these cities have revised their parking citation penalties in response to SB 1407, others are in the process, and a few may not be taking any action. In six months, staff will again survey the cities to determine whether further revisions should be proposed. With a few exceptions described below, the proposed penalty for each violation is an average of the penalties assessed by the surveyed cities. The proposed penalties are included in the proposed resolution amending the Master Fee Schedule, attached as Attachment 1 to this agenda report. New Penalties and Penalties that Differ from County -wide Average Staff recommends adding to the Master Fee Schedule penalties for three hour parking, abandoned vehicles, parking in designated fire lanes, and maintaining vehicles with expired vehicle registrations, expired or missing license tabs, or missing license plates. Page 2 of 4