CC RESOLUTION 4412RESOLUTION NO. 4412
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO SUPPORTING LEGISLATION
AMENDING THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT TO
REQUIRE NOTICE PRIOR TO FILING LEGAL ACTION
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of El Segundo as follows:
SECTION 1 • The City Council finds and declares as follows:
A. The Americans with Disabilities Act gives civil rights protection to
individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals
on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion;
and
B. The Americans with Disabilities Act guarantees equal opportunity
for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations,
employment, transportation, state and local government services,
and telecommunications.
C. The City of El Segundo supports the goals of this landmark civil
rights law and the original intent of the Americans with Disabilities
Act because it provides equal access opportunities for all
Americans.
D. Legislation has been introduced by U.S. Congressman Mark Foley
(H.R. 728) that would amend the Americans with Disabilities Act to
require, as a precondition to commencing a civil action with respect
to a place of public accommodation or commercial facility, that an
opportunity be provided to correct alleged violations.
E. The City Council of the City of El Segundo supports the adoption of
legislation that would require notice prior to filing legal action for
violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act since it would
curtail litigation by providing a due process provision for property
owners so that they may be in full compliance with the Act.
SECTION 2• Upon passage, the City Clerk directed to certify a copy of the
resolution and forward same promptly, by mail, to the League of California Cities,
Central Coast Cities, and to the California Federal Legislative Delegation.
SEC_ T� The City Clerk is directed to certify the adoption of this Resolution;
record this Resolution in the book of the City's original resolutions; and make a
minute of the adoption of the Resolution in the City Council's records and the
minutes of this meeting.
SECTION 4: This resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption
and will remain effective unless repealed or superseded.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 18th day of
Kdlly McDowell,
Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO 1
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. 4412 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 18`h
day of January 2005, and the same was so passed and adopted by the following
roll call vote:
AYES: McDowell, Gaines, Boulgarides, Busch and Jacobson
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
ATTEST:
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Cindy Mortet6n,
City Clerk
APPROVED
Mark D. Hen
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Karl H. Berger
Assistant Citv