2010-11-03 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MR. MATSUDA: What I should have asked is, is there any other kind of legal process other than taking them for judgement. Like I’m used to slapping on liens on some taxes or fees that are owed. I didn’t ask them but there probably is a, they’re resources is probably only the judgment action. And I think Bill’s suggestions of having them keep up with their registration fees, you had contractors, they have to pay up all their taxes first before they get renewed. And I think that would be the best way at this point, at this level to keep these individuals, these people, in business and current or so called current, with the county whether it be through a pay plan cause that would be the other alternative should they not be able to make the full payment current, they would have some kind of implement that’s what Molly was mentioning. That’s all I have to say. MR. TAKABA; And I’m not sure if the departments have set up some kind of delinquency rate that they can deal with. For instance in banking, you have loans that you make. An acceptable level of delinquency might be about three percent. At any given time, I don’t think we even know that, and I’m not sure, or if we track where. The question came up a couple of times today. I’m not sure if we actually track delinquency rates except Real Property I know and that’s part of the CAPHR grant. But we never really used that as a way to collect on delinquencies or how aggressive we get on collecting. We don’t look at that except maybe at the end of year when the CAPHR comes up we look at it, and could we do something about it if it’s going up. There are trends. Because a few years ago, I remember the delinquency rates for property tax collections was about 12%. And the property tax office really did a good job in trying to bring it down. Actually I think at a low, it may have gone down five percent or four percent. And with the economy today, I’m sure it’s higher than that. We don’t use that to manage things that we do. If delinquency on solid waste is at 10% then what is the acceptable level going to be? Should it be around four percent? So, what are we going to do to bring it down? We’re not using that as a tool to judge where we are or now aggressive we should be collecting. MS. NICHOLSON: So that would be a county wide policy or one that would vary from department to department? MR. TAKABA: Or if you track it for one. I’m not sure how we’re tracking it, who could be tracking it. MS. SAKO: They are. MR. TAKABA: But we track it, but do we have like a MS. NICHOLSON: A mechanism to take an action? MR. TAKABA: Something that we can say is acceptable in industry standard. MS. O’HARA: I’m curious since Deanna is still with us, maybe she can answer the question about the loan program for sewer hookup, the guarantee loan program. How much of that guarantee does the county have to have on hand? Or do we have any dollar amount that we have to keep in that percentage? 28