DATE:
June 10, 2026
08
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 2026-27 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, performs surveillance and testing of vectors that can cause human disease, and educates members of the public on actions to protect themselves from vectors. Each year, DEHQ has a goal to ensure the incidence of locally acquired West Nile virus remains below one case per 100,000 people, which was achieved in 2025. To help support this goal last year, VCP dedicated significant resources responding to elevated levels of West Nile virus in mosquitoes to help prevent the spread of illness to residents. Additionally, VCP continues to help prevent the spread of new and emerging vector-borne diseases like dengue, which surged globally in 2024, and resulted in the County's first three cases of dengue being transmitted locally by mosquitoes.
The services performed by VCP are funded 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 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 ...
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