DATE:
June 04, 2025
03
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
NOTICED PUBLIC HEARING:
Title
PUBLIC HEARING AND CONFIRMATION OF LEVIES FOR MOSQUITO, VECTOR, AND DISEASE CONTROL BENEFIT ASSESSMENT, AND MOSQUITO ABATEMENT AND VECTOR CONTROL SERVICE CHARGE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025-26 AND RELATED CEQA EXEMPTION (DISTRICTS: ALL)
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OVERVIEW
The Department of Environmental Health and Quality (DEHQ) Vector Control Program (VCP) protects residents and visitors from health risks associated with vectors, such as mosquitoes, rodents, and ticks that can transmit diseases including West Nile virus, Zika, dengue, plague, hantavirus, Lyme disease, and tularemia. VCP conducts mosquito abatement throughout the San Diego region benefit assessment area, performs surveillance and testing of vectors that can cause human disease, and educates members of the public on actions to prevent vectors, protect themselves from vectors, and report vector breeding sources. Each year, DEHQ has a goal to ensure the incidence of locally acquired West Nile virus remains below one case per 100,000 persons, which was achieved in 2024. In 2024, VCP dedicated significant staff and resources to responding to the first-ever local transmissions of dengue in San Diego County, highlighting the urgency of addressing certain vector-borne diseases to help prevent the spread of illness.
The services performed by VCP are supported by the Mosquito, Vector, and Disease Control Benefit Assessment and the Mosquito Abatement and Vector Control Service Charge. According to California Proposition 218, approved by California voters in 1996, property owners may approve a benefit assessment through a mail ballot measure and, in subsequent years, the governing body may continue or adjust the levy on properties within the limitations set by the measure. The benefit assessment rate is evaluated annually and must be approved by the Board of Supervisors (Board). On June 26, 2024 (9), the Board approved the continuation of...
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