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RESOLUTION NO. 4776
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA
URGING THE MERGER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT
CITIES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY AND THE CALIFORNIA
CONTRACT CITIES ASSOCIATION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF
THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES AND THE LOS ANGELES
COUNTY DIVISION THEREOF.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does resolve as
follows:
WHEREAS, the purpose of the LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES
is the promotion of the general welfare of the cities of -this state
and the general improvement and facilitation of every branch of
municipal government and administration by the following cooperative
means:
(a) The fostering of conferences of city officials
and the maintenance of a central office of information
and research for the practical study of matters pertaining
to municipal government;
(b) The stimulation of greater interest and more
active civic consciousness among the people as to the
importance and significance of matters relating to municipal
government and administration;
(c) The publication and circulation of an official
magazine, or magazines, and other publications or special
reports on municipal government and administration of interest
to cities;
(d) Supporting necessary or desirable legislation
which will be beneficial to the municipalities of the state!
generally, and opposing legislation injurious thereto;
(e) The securing of harmony of action among cities
and other governmental agencies in matters that affect
the rights and liabilities of the cities of the state,
and transmitting to all levels of government the problems
of cities and the facts and experiences upon which to
formulate urban policies; and
WHEREAS, the purposes and functions of the LOS ANGELES
COUNTY DIVISION OF THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES are as follows:
(a) To promote interest in the problems of municipal
government and administration among the officers and employees
of cities within the Division; and
(b) To assist the officials of the LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA
CITIES in formulating policies and rendering service by
expressing to said League, through resolutions duly adopted,
the recommendations of the Division, provided that no action
be taken by the Division in.conflict with the general policy
of the LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES as duly adopted by the
Board of Directors of said League; and
WHEREAS, the CALIFORNIA CONTRACT CITIES ASSOCIATION was
formed in 1958 for the purpose of providing a new approach for
supplying municipal services to cities to be accomplished by
entering into contractual arrangements with the County of Los
Angeles, private contractors, and other cities and agencies, to
furnish the cities with all of the municipal services a city needs
or desires, as and when it needs or desires such services; and
`,i_,_ WHEREAS, the purposes of the ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT
CITIES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY are as follows:
(a) To protect, promote and maintain independence
and autonomy of the independent cities of Los Angeles
County;
(b) To provide opportunities for concerted action
and mutual aid in matters affecting the member cities;
(c) To promote friendship and exchange of ideas
among the member cities;
(d) To provide an organ for the dissemination of
knowledge and useful information among the membership;
all of which activities shall be in strict accordance with and
within the framework of the rules and regulations of the LEAGUE
OF CALIFORNIA CITIES and the LOS ANGELES COUNTY DIVISION OF THE
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES; and
WHEREAS, recent annual conferences of the ASSOCIATION
OF INDEPENDENT CITIES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY and the CALIFORNIA
CONTRACT CITIES ASSOCIATIONS have clearly and properly indicated
a strong mutual interest of all Los Angeles County cities in both
Associations, regardless of the individual city's membership in
one or the other of said Associations; and
WHEREAS, every city within Los Angeles County contracts
with another public agency and particularly with the County of
Los Angeles for the furnishing to such contracting city of at
least one and usually more than one municipal type of service;
and
WHEREAS, both the LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES and the
LOS ANGELES COUNTY DIVISION thereof exist.for the very purpose of
assisting and serving all cities of the State of California and
of the County of Los Angeles respectively; and
WHEREAS, the principal purpose of all cities is the
rendition of municipal services in the most efficient and econom-
ical manner; and
WHEREAS, the problems confronting all cities in their
performance of municipal functions vary only in degree rather than
in nature; and
WHEREAS, the threat common to all cities is the ever
increasing loss of the right of home rule that cities have
historically enjoyed; and
WHEREAS, it is essential to the very preservation of
city government that cities do not, in any way or for any reason,
align themselves one against another, thereby fostering and
furthering their own self-destruction; and
WHEREAS, it is the opinion of very many of the 76 cities
in
Los
Angeles County that all of the activities of the cities
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NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the City Council of
the Citv of Azusa. as follows:
SECTION 1. That the Board of Directors of'the LEAGUE
OF CALIFORNIA CITIES be requested to consider the feasibility,
practicability and effectiveness of the conduct by the LOS ANGELES
COUNTY DIVISION OF THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES of one annual
three-day seminar.regarding problems affecting cities in Los Angeles
County, in lieu of the annual'seminars heretofore conducted by each
of the aforesaid Associations.
SECTION 2. That the Azusa City Council hereby urges
and recommends.the merger of the ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT CITIES
OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY and of the CALIFORNIA CONTRACT CITIES ASSO-
CIATION within the framework of the LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES,
and that all matters of material concern to cities generally within
Los Angeles County be handled through the LOS ANGELES COUNTY DIVI-
SION OF THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES; that the ASSOCIATION.OF
INDEPENDENT CITIES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY and the CALIFORNIA CONTRACT
CITIES ASSOCIATION cease to function as separate organizations and
that they become sections of appropriate committees within the
structure of the LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this resolution and shall forward certified copies hereof to the
following:
1. The League of California -Cities;
2. The Los Angeles County Division of the League
of California Cities;
3. The President of the California Contract
Cities Association; and
4. The President of the Association of Independent
Cities of Los Angeles County.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 18th day of January, 1965.
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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 18th day of January, 1965, by the following
vote of the Council:
AYES: Councilmen: Rubio, Cooney, Jackson, McLees, Memmesheimer
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None
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