CC RESOLUTION 19499G65
RESOLUTION NO. 1949
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, URGING
THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPER-
VISORS TO ADOPT A POLICY ESTABLISHING
A MORE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF HIGHWAY
USERS TAX FUNDS RECEIVED BY THE COUNTY
AND THE CITIES WITHIN THE COUNTY.
WHEREAS, two cents of the total six cents of the
State levied highway users taxes is subvented to counties
and cities in the State, of which one and three eighths of
one cent is allocated by statute to counties and five
eighths of one cent is allocated by statute to cities; and
WHEREAS, it was the intention of the State Legisla-
ture in setting the 1 -3/8 - 5/8 cent distribution ratio to
assist both cities and counties in meeting construction and
maintenance needs for rural and urban streets and roads
according to statewide needs; and
WHEREAS, the 1 -3/8 - 5/8 cent ratio may be equitable
in the predominantly rural counties of the State in proportion
to the street mileage, assessed valuation and population of
incorporated and unincorporated areas within those counties,
but the ratio of distribution as it relates to street and
road problems in urban counties such as Los Angeles is mani-
festly inequitable; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles
County recognized in the year 1939 the greater needs of urban
street systems in Los Angeles County as compared to other
areas of the State and adopted a policy then, and again in
the years 1947 and 19520 of providing annual financial assist-
ance which only partially recognizes the relative greater need
for the construction of streets within cities; and
WHEREAS, the urban- rural, incorporated - unincorporated
character of the County has changed substantially since the
principles on which financial assistance for street con-
struction were based in 1939, 1947, and 1952 so that the
County has become more urban and the number of cities has
increased from 46 to 70 so that the proportionate mileage
of streets and roads, assessed valuation and population in
the unincorporated and incorporated areas of the County are
as follows:
Unincorporated Incorporated
Streets and roads 26% 74% (source: 1958 survey
and CAO incorporation
reports)
Assessed valuation 15% 85% (source: 1959 Tax Payers'
Guide and CAO incor-
poration reports)
Population 1$% 82% (source: Preliminary 1960
census figures as com-
piled by the County
Regional Planning Com-
mission 610/60)
WHEREAS, cities within Los Angeles County receive
only 53 percent of the total highway users taxes subvented to
the County and cities within the County (including present
financial assistance to cities from the County of Los Angeles)
even though 74 percent of the lineal street and road mileage
is in cities and a considerably greater percentage of the
total traffic lanes, street surface, and traffic flow is with-
in cities;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors
of the Los Angeles County Division of the League of California
Cities that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is urged
to further recognize the street construction and maintenance
needs of the cities and 82 percent of the entire population
within the County who reside in cities by establishing a policy
of apportioning annually to cities within the County of Los
Angeles a sum which shall be determined in the following manner:
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(a) For computation purposes, the sum of all of the
gas tax money received by the County and all of
the gas tax money received by the cities directly
from the State shall be divided between the unin-
corporated areas of the County as one unit and all
of the cities as another unit solely on the res-
pective proportion of each unit's street and road
mileage to the total street and road mileage within
the County.
(b) After deducting the allocation to be made to the
unincorporated area from the gas tax money received
by the County, the remainder shall constitute the
net city share.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that 25 percent of the net
city share shall be reserved, appropriated and expended annually
on highways and streets in cities which are of general County
interest, selected at the discretion of the Board of Supervisors.
The remaining 75 percent of the net city share shall
be distributed among the incorporated cities within the County
according to the following formula:
(1) 85 percent of the total amount to be distributed among
cities on the basis of the relationship which the popu-
lation of each city bears to the total incorporated
population.
(2) 15 percent of the total amount to be distributed among
cities on the basis of the relationship
mileage of each city bears to the total
in the entire incorporated area.
That the City Clerk shall certify to th
adoption of this resolution; shall enter the same
original resolutions of said city; and shall make
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which the street
street mileage
B passage and
in the book of
a minute of
the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the pro-
ceedings of the City Council of said city in the minutes of
the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted.
Passed, approved and adopted this 30th day of Janu-
ary, 1961.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
Mayor -of the City of E1 Segundo,
California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO }
I, Eunice U. Creason , City Clerk of
the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole number
of members of the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing
Resolution , being
Resolution No. 19+9 , was
passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the
Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a n
adjourned regular meeting of the said Council held on the 30th
day of January , 196_x,
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYESr Councilmen Frederick, Tandy and Mayor Baker;
NOES: Councilmen None;
ABSENT: enlincilmen Go-rd.. ....
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 31st
day of January, , 1961
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City Clerk of the City of E Segundo,
California
(SEAL)