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Home My WebLink AboutClallam County Board of Commissionershl l.rARK OZAS, Distict 7, chair RAilDf TOHNSOIY, Distict 2 EILL PEACH, Diset 3 Filet A72 10 July 2018 City of Port Angeles City Council 321 E 5th Street Port Angeles, WA 98352 Board of Clallam County Commissioners JL t 6 20lB OF PORT A ITY R 223 East 4dt Street Suite 4 Port Arlgeles. WA 98352-3015 36It,4Lr.Z2i3 Fax: 360.417.2493 Emails commissioners@@.€lallam.wa.us City of Sequim City Council 152 W. Cedar Street Sequim, WA 98382 Dear Port Angeles and Sequim City Council Members: This is a very difficult letter to write to all of you. We believed that during our joint meetings there was a very good exchange of ideas about our issues of concern and we had hoped the feeling of a true partnership was mutual. We now understand tiat you are not interested in creating a joint committee to renegotiate the existing agreements to more fairly make adjustments, for all parties. as conditions may warrant, so we have no choice except to give you formal notice of our intent to terminate the Agreement, effective luly 10, 2019, per Section 6 (B): "Either pfty may terminate this Agrement, pnor to i6 expimaon, for cause, by providing the other party at least one year pior witten nouce and complyng with the provisions of Chapter 3.50 RCW. Such notice shall state the grounds for the termination and the speific plan of the City for providing criminal justice functions as rqutd by RCW 39.34.180 Grounds: Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1783, approved by the legislature on March 27,2078 and in effect starting )une 7, 20L8, materially changes the ability of all courE to assess and collect Legal Financial Obligations (LFO's) from convicted defendants who are. at the time of sentencing. indigent as defined in RCW 10.101.010 (3) (a) through (c). We are certain to see a significant reduction in the collection of fines and court fee revenues in our combined DistricvMunicapal court, as, historically, the great majority of all convicted defendants have met the definition of Indigent, per the RCW. Our Agreement was intended to save total cosLs (net of revenues) for each city, while breaking even (net of new costs less new revenues) for the county. We achieved that result by having the county receive two streams of revenue from the cities, that, when combined would closely approximate the additional costs the county would have in providing these services to the cities. Each of these two revenue streams was determined by estimating the average. annual collections of the local (cities) share of all relevant fines and fees collected on or after Jan 1, 2016, which would be retained by the county, together with a fixed, annual dollar amount (with COLA's), from each city, that made up the difference between the county's new costs and the average city collection of fees and fines. The new legislation (f783), in 2018, was an unforeseeable event that will materially, and negatively affect the collection of the local share of all fees and fines which was the basis for determining the fixed amounts agreed to. U Jim torr6, Jn @antf Administator Re: Interlocal Agreement Regarding Criminal lustice Services (Agreement) xoop'luaue5"6v pf,opelul seJu$S arusnf leuluruJ ulnbag pue sala8uy uod\glgaJOOg uro{\acuepuodsa.uo3lcrlqndl:1 xaD AIf, ',asaau-)auzn) ueJP) JOlDuno]'asstuer uopueJ€ JOIDUnOJ'Salels JaJtUUar rolDuno] 'qel qo€ rolDuno3 'lalllN pal ro^eN Andac 'Ield alepuef, ro^el^l 'qlturs stuuao :ulnbas Jo AIf saldof XaD AD 'uaseDaua^ laluuaf JAqUaUl!f,UnO3'UuMeM-UaUrOlqls la6pun laqulaullDunoJ,ueJohl rlJlt raqulaurl!f, unof '[0apuaH leeq]th| laquJaulDuno]'ppry auaql Jaquraul!f,uno]'qrua4 a1r6 ro^ehl AndaO '.raya6 a1q| JoAeN 'q)nJg tssts :sala6uv Uod Jo AIf, saldof, l8 qof ^pu 'serzO )JPW INoISSINNOI l-NnOf, H\rt't\fl f vo8 'A1a.tatur5 'saqD aql lq pe6Jeql esoql ;;e :og lua6rpul aql Jo esuaJap pup '6uun>sold '6urpe['sarrruas pno] leduunu rcJ suolstlold a^qeualp Joj pbpnq pue a.reda:d ol saqttr aql roJ auJ[ Jo lunouJe alenbepe ue aq q peleldualuoc spM arqou s,rea^ auo Jo lueuiarnbeJ s;uauaer6v aql leql a a eq aM 'sn q1M s.tau1,ted aru1 se luautaat6e a qeledm] e a;aaua6 o1 laqp6o1 yonn og 'poued bunten real auo srqg 6ur.rnp nor( qIM aleqo6au ol llunyoddo aql euollaM plnoM aA Z e6,ed