Supervisors approve property tax exchange for healthcare district reorganization

San Diego County’s Local Agency Formation Commission is expected to discuss a reorganization of the Tri-City Healthcare District at their meeting, March 5, which will include removing Camp Pendleton from the healthcare district area and transferring the Fallbrook Healthcare District land within the city of Oceanside to the Tri-City Healthcare District.

If LAFCO approves the reorganization, property tax revenue currently paid to the Fallbrook Healthcare District would instead be sent to the Tri-City Healthcare District, and Feb. 14, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to approve a property tax exchange agreement for the Tri-City Healthcare District reorganization.

The Tri-City Healthcare District boundaries currently include most of the incorporated Oceanside, Carlsbad and Vista areas. The Tri-City Healthcare District currently includes 25,600.44 acres within Camp Pendleton. The healthcare district boundary within Camp Pendleton matches the boundary of the Oceanside Unified School District, but the healthcare district does not own or operate health care facilities on the base nor does it provide health care programs on Camp Pendleton or anticipate doing so in the future.

The Fallbrook Healthcare District includes 2,747.37 acres of territory within the Oceanside city limits. That territory would be detached from the Fallbrook district and annexed to the Tri-City district. The Fallbrook Healthcare District currently receives 0.02322049 percent of the base 1 percent property tax, and that percentage would be transferred to the Tri-City Healthcare District if the reorganization is approved.

The property tax transfer would take effect beginning in fiscal year 2019-2020.