CC RESOLUTION 4328RESOLUTION NO. 4328
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING A STATEWIDE BALLOT INITIATIVE TO REQUIRE
VOTER APPROVAL BEFORE STATE GOVERNMENT
MAY TAKE LOCAL TAX FUNDS
The City Council resolves as follows:
Section 1: The City Council finds and declares as follows:
A. State government annually seizes over $800 million in city property tax
funds (ERAF) statewide, costing cities over $6.0 billion in lost revenues
over the past 12 years and seriously reducing resources available for local
public safety and other services; and
B. In adopting the state budget this year the Legislature and Governor
appropriated local vehicle license fee backfill and redevelopment property
tax funds that are needed to finance critical city services such as public
safety, parks, street maintenance, housing and economic development;
and
C. The deficit financing plan in the state budget depends on a local property
and sales tax swap that leaves city services vulnerable if the state's
economic condition fails to improve; and
D. The adopted state budget assumes an ongoing structural budget deficit of
at least $8 billion, putting city resources and services at risk in future years
to additional state revenue raids; and
E. It is clear that state leaders will continue to use local tax funds to balance
the state budget unless the voters limit the power of the Legislature and
Governor to do so; and
F. The General Assembly of Voting Delegates of the League of California
Cities at its September 10, 2003 meeting voted to sponsor a statewide
ballot initiative to empower the voters to limit the ability of state
government to confiscate local tax funds to fund state government; and
G. The league has requested that cities offer support for a November 2004
ballot initiative that will allow voters to decide whether state government
may appropriate local tax funds to fund state government operations and
responsibilities.
Section 2: The City Council of the City of El Segundo expresses its support for a
statewide ballot initiative to allow voters to decide whether local tax funds may be taken,
confiscated, shifted, diverted or otherwise used to fund state government operations
and responsibilities.
Section 3: The City Clerk is directed to send a copy of the Executive Director of the
League of California Cities.
Section 4: The City Clerk will certify to the passage and adoption of this Resolution;
shall enter the same in the book of original Resolutions of the City; and shall make a
record of proceedings of the City Council in the Minutes of the Meeting at which same is
passed and adopted.
Section 5: This Resolution will take effect immediately upon adoption.
ayor Mike Gordon
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, hereby certify
that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City is five; that the
foregoing Resolution No. _Ci3,Q was duly passed and adopted by said City
Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested to by the City
Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of said Council held on the stn day of
October , 2003, and the same was so passed and adopted by the following
roll call vote:
AYES: Gordon, Jacobs, Gaines, McDowell
NOES: None
ABSENT: Wernick
ABSTAIN: None
ATTEST:
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