HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 3964RESOLUTION NO. 3964
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA ENDORSING A CONFERENCE BETWEEN THE COUNTY
AND CITIES CONCERNING REFUSE COLLECTION AND
DISPOSAL.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does resolve as
follows:
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has
invited Mayors and members of City Councils to meet with it November
23 to consider consolidated collection and disposal of refuse and
a county ordinance effective January 1, 1960, to require scales at
all waste disposal facilities open to the public where a charge is
made; and
WHEREAS, the County's action in its supervision of the
Air Pollution Control District eliminated back yard incinerators
and open burning, and necessitated a comprehensive program by all
cities, at substantial cost, for collection and disposal of combustible
refuse; and
WHEREAS, the County of Los Angeles committed itself at the
time of institution of the ban to provide dump sites available to the
cities; and
WHEREAS#, the 66 cities in Los Angeles County account for
82 percent of the population and assessed valuation of the County;
and
WHEREAS, these cities are now handling refuse collection
and disposal under their home rule rights, some by municipal service
and some by private contract, or combinations thereof; and
WHEREAS, some cities choose to provide back yard collection
and others prefer curb collection; some cities elect to pay for the
service out of the general fund and others choose to levy special
charges; some cities desire to combine combustibles and non -com-
bustibles and others want to segregate these materials, and otherwise
tailor the service to the demands and pocketbooks of their citizens;
and
WHEREAS, members of the Board of Supervisors, composed as
it is of three former Mayors and two former Councilmen, have publicly
recognized the complete legal and practical right of the cities to
control their own refuse collection and disposal and other matters
of local concern; and
WHEREAS, along with these differences in local collection
and financing procedures there is recognition by the cities that
disposal especially is an area -wide problem; and
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles County Sanitation District re-
present the type of area -wide, metropolitan government agency that
has a governing board representing both cities and county, is now
in the field of refuse disposal, and has demonstrated a competency
of management, engineering and public relations over many years:
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
1. That the City Council of the City of Azusa heartily
endorses a conference between the Mayors and Councilmen and the Super-
visors on this subject, and accepts the invitation to meet with the
Supervisors on November 23;
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2. That full consideration be given to the fact that the
County Sanitation Districts are now operating two disposal sites,
have proceedings underway for two more, and are negotiating for a
fifth site, and that the Districts' governing board has direct
representation for cities;
3. That participation by any city in consolidated or
coordinated disposal or collection of refuse be entirely permissive,
and not mandatory, as to that city;
4. That the City of Azusa thank the Supervisors for
initiating this proposal, and for their recognition of the home rule
rights of cities;
5. That certified copies of this resolution be sent to
the County and the Sanitation Districts for their information.
6. That the City Clerk certify to the adoption of this
resolution.
Adopted and approved this 16th day of November , 1959.
Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly
adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 16th day of November , 1959, by the following
vote of the Council:
AYES: Councilmen: Paul, Johnson, Teasley, Memmesheimer
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: Ortuno
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