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RESOLUTION NO. 7056
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF AZUSA URGING THE IAS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION RE-
GARDING ITS USING MUNICIPAL PROPERTY TAX IN-
COME TO PROVIDE MUNICIPAL TYPE SERVICES TO
UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does hereby
resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, Los Angeles County currently spends an estimated
$50 to $60 million of the money it collects
annually in property taxes from all county resi-
dents to provide municipal type services exclu-
sively within its unincorporated communities; and
WHEREAS, the six million residents of cities inside the
county not only pay taxes to cover their own
municipal services but also pay most of the cost
for services which the county provides exclusively
to the one million residents of unincorporated
areas; and
WHEREAS, for more than three decades, this unjustifiable
tax burden has been arbitrarily and indiscrimi-
nately imposed by the Los Angeles County Board
of Supervisors, who refused repeated appeals
from the City of Los Angeles and other incor-
porated cities in the county to stop this con-
fiscatory -practice; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors failed to remedy this
situation even after passage in 1953 of the
County Service Area Law, enabling legislation
which other counties in the state used to reform
their taxing systems so as to tax residents of
unincorporated areas for municiapl type services
to unincorporated areas. On October 20, 1981, a
Superior Court judgement was issued in the City's
favor.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the
City of Azusa, urges in the strongest manner, the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors to take immediate action to comply
with the court decision, end this inequitable system of tax-
ation and not allow the matter to drag on through costly court
appeals, paid for by county taxpayers.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 7th day of December, 1981.
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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 7th day of December, 1981,
by the following vote of Council:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Decker, Fry, Cruz, Moses, Solem
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: Zone
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