HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 0964RESOLUTION NO. % 6'�
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
CITY OF AZUSA RECOMMENDING AND URGING THE DEFEAT OF SENATE
BILLS NOS. 736, 737 AND 738.
The Board of Trustees of the City of Azusa do
resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, certain measures have been introduced in
the Senate of the State of California, known as Senate Bills
Nos. 736-737-738, providing for drastic and serious charges
in the now existing flood control laws; and
WHEREAS,these measures would seriously cripple the
power and authority of the Flood Control District of the
County of Los Angeles in its flood control program, hamper-
ing and harassing them to such an extent that necessary pro-
tection of life and property would be gravely menaced;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of
Trustees of the City of Azusa believe and respectively urge
the Honorable Senators and Assemblymen of the State of Cali-
fornia to take all steps necessary to defeat the said measures,
for the following particular reasons:
(a) SENATE BILL 170. 736
The present tax levy of 10V is barely adequate
to provide the necessary -funds to carry on -this -im-
portant work. The majority taxpayers of Los Angeles
County are not protesting the present levy of 10�
as excessive. To reduce it to 05� would be to court
disaster, because it would be impossible to'carry
on the.work with this levy.
(b) SENATE BILL NO. 737
Due to the fact that a large percentage of our
voters are not intimately familiar with flood con-
trol work and the vital part it plays in the economic
welfare of our state, it would many times be exceed-
ingly difficult to pass a flood control bond issue,
no matter how seriously needed, by a two-thirds majority.
The present law providing for an ordinary majority is
more satisfactory and desirable, as without it scarcely
no progress could be made along flood control lines.
(c) SENATE BILL NO. 738
This measure would tend to create chaos and con-
fusion in the administration_ and control of flood con-
trol work. After the voters had exercised their man-
date and their best judgment in voting bonds their de-
cision could be overthrown and the results of the first
election. nullified. This would tend to make flood con-
trol bond issues a political tool or football to kick
about from pillar to post, and is, we think, a grave
blow to constituted authority, as it violates the prin-
ciples of good government. The delay and expense in-
curred thru repeated special elections is, of course,
so apparent as to need no comment.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution
was duly adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of
Azusa at a - meeting held 2"'L . 7
by the following vote of the Board:
AYES:
Eurau�.
NOES:
ABSENT: r✓�_ `
Approved this
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City Clerk of the City of Azusa.
day of
President of the Board of Trustees
of the City of Azusa.
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