I know many of you with cities that have strong UUT revenues have been following along and/or given assistance to the "birth" of the statewide UUT Technical Task Force. Many of the more recent communications have been coming from the LCC to cities who've expressed interest in the topic area. Just to ensure that information is flowing to those who need to know, I'm going to forward the following communication to CSMFO and CMTA members. I apologize in advance if you've seen this already, but those of us heavily involved with the Task Force believe very strongly for inclusion in our task force and deliberations. We heartily welcome your participation in our effort. The train has not left the station by any means. You'll be seeing an article in an upcoming Western City magazine on the need for uniformity in application of the UUT. In addition, the LCC is planning on having a panel discussion on the topic at their December seminar in San Diego. It will be on 12/8 from 10:45 to 12:15 and is entitled "Collaborative Negotiation: A New Model for Achieving Uniform Tax Application Among Cities." If you don't happen to be in the loop on this issue and want to find out more, please give me a buzz at (310) 253-5866. **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** ********************************************* The following is an update concerning establishment of the UUT Technical Task Force (UUTTTF). 1) This week, the League will be sending out in hard copy form the minutes of the Sept. 8, 2000 meeting that was held in conjunction with the League Annual Conference in Anaheim. The minutes will be sent to all California UUT cities and counties. The letter of transmittal will ask all UUT cities and counties to send via e-mail to Brian Cooley of the League the names and e-mail addresses of persons in each jurisdiction who are to receive future communications from the UUTTTF. We will use the e-mail list to transmit future UUTTTF communications in a timely manner. 2) Don Maynor will be creating an informal technical working group to develop draft recommendations concerning the application of existing UUT to wireless service packages, as discussed at the September 8th meeting. The plan is for the technical working group to submit its draft recommendations to an Executive Committee of the UUTTTF in the next two weeks. The Executive Committee will be formed shortly....see below. The Executive Committee will then review the draft recommendations of the technical working group and decide upon a suitable recommendation package for further distribution and review. The Executive Committee will then distribute the recommendation package to all UUT cities and counties, and affected industry representatives, via e-mail, for comments and/or questions. When the comments and questions have been processed and resolved, the Executive Committee will issue the recommendation package to all UUT cities and counties as recommended best practices, and to the wireless service providers for implementation. 3) It is proposed that from the core group of about fifty cities and counties that indicated at the July 31 and/or Sept 8, 2000 meetings that they wanted to be involved in forming the UUTTTF, persons self nominate to be a member of the UUTTTF's Executive Committee for one year. It is recommended that the Executive Committee be no more than fifteen members. If the nominations exceed fifteen, the League can assist in selecting a well-represented group. During this first year, the Executive Committee will: a) organize itself (e.g. establish officers, committees, etc.), b) prepare written by-laws and /or operating procedures, and c) begin to collaborate with various utilities to find mutually agreeable solutions to common problems associated with applying and/or implementing UUT's. If you wish to nominate yourself to be a member of the UUTTT's initial Executive Committee, please send an e-mail to Crystal Alexander at [EMAIL PROTECTED] no later than 5:00pm Sept. 29, 2000. Crystal will then follow through with all Executive Committee members to hold an initial organizing meeting or conference call. Crystal C. Alexander, CCMT Deputy City Treasurer, City of Culver City 9770 Culver Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.culvercity.org
