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RESOLUTION NO. 2440
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA OPPOSING
ATTEMPT TO ALTER THE METHOD OF LEVY-
ING, COLLECTING AND DISTRIBUTING THE UNI-
FORM SALES AND USE TAX UNDER THE BRADLEY -
BURNS UNIFORM LOCAL SALES AND USE TAX LAW.
WHEREAS, evolvement of the Bradley -Burns Uniform Local
Sales and Use Tax Law has resulted in the levying throughout the State of
California of a uniform one -cent local sales and use tax under said Law,
by agreement between the governing bodies of the cities and of the boards
of supervisors of each respective County in the State, thereby eliminating
the duplication of local and sales use taxes and simplifying and expediting
the collection of such local sales and use tax by the State of California
along with the State sales and use tax; and
WHEREAS, many cities have made moral and legal commit-
ments for the expenditure of local sales and use tax revenues upon the pre-
mise that their right and authority to levy, collect and expend the same
would not be abrogated or impaired; and
WHEREAS, local agencies of government that receive substantial
amounts of local sales and use tax revenues do so not by accident, but by rea-
son of long -range planning in making adequate provision for the businesses
that generate such revenues, and have in many instances irretrievably
spent large sums of money to provide services to such businesses and to
create a favorable business atmosphere to entice business and customers
alike to do business within their communities; and
WHEREAS, distribution of revenue on a per capita basis does not
allow for the cost of providing municipal services to industrial and commer-
cial areas which by their nature require higher levels of some services than
do residential areas of corresponding size; and
WHEREAS, this City Council is of the opinion that any change in
the State sales tax distribution formula would adversely and unjustly deprive
its citizenry of tax revenues due it;
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NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE, DETERMINE
AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That this City Council vigorously opposes any and
all efforts to alter the law providing for the levy, collection and distribution
of the local sales and use taxes as a direct and outright violation of the prin-
ciple of Home Rule, and for the further reason that such attempts will neces-
sarily result in gross inequity and financial hardship to many cities.
SECTION 2. That copies of this Resolution be sent to all cities
in the County of Los Angeles and to the League of California Cities.
SECTION 3. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this resolution, shall enter the same in the book of original reso-
lutions of said City, and shall make a minute of the passage and adoption
thereof in the records of the proceedings 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 24th day of April, 1972.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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Mayor of the City of El Segundo, California.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, JANE D. HOUGH, , City Clerk of the
City of E1 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. 2440
was duly 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 regular meeting of the said Council
held on the 24th day of April , 197 2
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen McGill, Morgan, Nagel, Stephens and
Mayor Balmer;
NOES: Councilmen None;
ABSENT: Councilmen None.
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City
this 28th day of April , 197 2
;i yerrk of e City o Segundo
California
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