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Yuba
County has been utilizing County Service
Areas for over 20 years to provide services to County
residents and there are over 60 CSA's in the County. The
basic premise of a CSA is to fund a service that the County
would not otherwise be able to fund through traditional
sources (property tax, sales tax, fuel tax, etc.) by
creating a direct assessment that a property owner pays for
a particular service. The most common type of service and
associated assessment is for road and drainage maintenance
in new subdivisions, but there are others ranging from
lighting to fire protection. As the name implies a CSA is
administered by County Staff (traditionally Public Works)
under the direction of the County Board of Supervisors.
A CSA may be established to provide any one or more of the
following types of extended services within an
unincorporated area:
Extended police protection, structural fire protection,
local park, recreation, or parkway facilities and services,
extended library facilities and services, television
translator station facilities and services, low-power
television services; and any other governmental services,
referred as miscellaneous extended services, which the
County is authorized by law to perform, and which the County
does not also perform to the same extent on a County-wide
basis both within and outside city boundaries.
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