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ATTACHMENT "A" -COURT PROPOSAL Current Procedure for Processing Parking Citations Currently, a citation is issued for a-parking offense by the City of Pleasanton Police Department. The Police Department delivers the citation to the' court after first obtaining the register owner in- formation. The court enters the citation information into the court's computer system, and a courtesy notice is sent to the registered owner. The courtesy notice contains the bail information, and information on obtaining a court appearance date and time if desired. There is a Due Date on the courtesy notice which is 30 days after the citation is received by the court. If the citation is paid, or a court appearance scheduled, within the 30 day period and before the Due Date, the citation is completed. If there is no response to the court.from the defendant by the Due Date, the court generates another notice. This second notice informs the defendant that unless the matter is taken care of by the second Due Date, that the bail will be doubled and a hold will be placed on the vehicle registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The second Due Date is an additional 30 days in the f~ture. If there is no response to the second notice, the court does prepare a complaint to be signed by the District AttOrney and the Court, doubles the bail, and places the hold against the vehicle re- gistration with DMV. Any funds collected on these citations at any stage of the pro- ceedings are apportioned 17 % to the County, and 83 % to the City of Pleasanton . Proposal The Court is proposing that when the bail is doubled and the hold placed on the vehicle registration at DMV, that the baiI be increased by another $10.00, with all $10.00 being apportioned to the County. The proposal will not result in any lost revenue to the City. The proposal will result in added revenue to the County, revenue that is needed to offset the cost to the Court of processing these parking citations. As noted above, the court is mailing two notices to each defendant prior to a hold being placed on the registration and the bail being doubled. In addition, the court is creating a complaint before the action is taken. We are able to accomplish these tasks relatively easy due to our computer system. However, these tasks are the respon- sibility of the citing agency, and the added funds will assist in offsetting our costs for clerical time, computer costs and postage.