CC RESOLUTION 4375RESOLUTION NO. 4375
A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR THE
LOS ANGELES PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND
SECURITY % CENT SALES TAX INITIATIVE
The City Council resolves as follows:
Section 1: The City Council finds and declares as follows:
A. Public Safety services are critically important to the security and
well -being of El Segundo and to the overall revitalization of Los
Angeles County's economic base;
B. The current economic condition of the State of California threatens
the stability of revenue sources needed to continue local
government funding for these needed services;
C. The protection of the public safety is the first responsibility of local
government and local officials have a responsibility to develop the
means necessary to ensure that responsibility is met;
D. The "Los Angeles County Public Safety and Homeland Security '/2
Cent Sales Tax' represents a legitimate method of providing and
sustaining funding necessary for the provision of public safety
services;
E. Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy D. Baca has committed publicly
that a portion of the additional revenues that would be realized
upon voter passage of the measure toward the development of a
truly inter - operable public safety communications system in Los
Angeles County;
F. The potential funding provided by the measure is sufficiently flexible
to be of tangible benefit to the El Segundo community.
Section 2: The City of El Segundo believes that the importance of
guaranteeing stable sources of revenue for the provision of public safety services
is sufficiently important to make the difficult decision to support a '/2 cent increase
in the sales tax currently levied in Los Angeles County.
Section 3: The City of El Segundo supports the "Los Angeles County Public
Safety and Homeland Security '/z Cent Sales Tax Initiative," as currently
proposed by Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy D. Baca.
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 6: This Resolution will take effect immediately upon adoption.
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Mayo Mike Gordon
ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby
certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five;
that the foregoing Resolution No. 4375 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 6th
day of April 2004, and the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: Gordon, Jacobs, Gaines, McDowell
NOES: Wernick
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk
APPROVED
Mark D. Hen
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Karl H. Berger, As tan City