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RESOLUTION NO. 97-C170
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA
JOINING WITH NUMEROUS LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL BODIES
IN OPPOSING PROPOSED BALLOT INITIATIVE ON
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING CONTRACTS
WHEREAS, A proposed ballot initiative, an effort by the Professional Engineers in
California Government (PECG), an organization which is spending a great deal of money
to put this measure on the June, 1998, ballot, seeking to foist on our public a rigged public
works bidding system to block private sector competition by locking it into the California
Constitution, and
WHEREAS, Erosion of local control by big government bureaucrats is a subtle
process which, if not noticed, wends an unobtrusive path through our local controls,
insidiously removing any power left to local government and transferring it to another layer
of government far removed from those who recognize and can deal with the needs of their
jurisdiction, and
WHEREAS, Additionally, removing from local area private enterprise the investment
of the efforts by those individuals and organizations for the benefit of our local economy,
does much to cause further deterioration of our power to regulate and direct the
appropriate choices for expenditure of public funds.
NOW THEREFORE The City Council of the City of Azusa, hereby resolves to join
with numerous local governmental bodies in order to defeat this flawed effort to create
another layer of bureaucratic "big brothers" by fashioning a Public Works Czar in the office
of the State Controller in Sacramento, all with the end to destroy local control in the
operation of our public works
D this 15th day of December, 1997.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution '97,-C170was duly adopted by
the City Council of the City of Azusa at a regular meeting, thereof, held on the 15th day of
December, 1997, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: HARDISON, STANFORD, ROCHA, BEEBE, MADRID
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS:
CLERK