CC RESOLUTION 4905RESOLUTION NO. 4905
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL
SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, SUPPORTING THE LOS ANGELES AIR
FORCE BASE AND THE SPACE AND MISSILE SYSTEMS CENTER.
The City Council of the City of El Segundo does resolve as follows:
The Los Angeles Air Force Base ( LAAFB) and the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC)
are critical assets to the aerospace industry and the nation's ability to design the military
technology necessary to adequately provide for our national defense. The biggest asset to our
country's safety, possessed by the LAAFB and SMC, is its unmatched skilled workforce based in
Los Angeles. This brain trust, consisting of 5,879 directly employed military, civilian, and
contractor workers and 11,776 indirectly employed, has made its home in Los Angeles and
would be unlikely to migrate anywhere else if either the LAAFB or SMC moved some of its
operations. This localized, highly skilled workforce is essential to the success of the LAAFB
and the SMC, and has time and again proven itself crucial to the defense of the United States of
America.
The SMC has provided the nation with highly sophisticated intelligence gathering infrastructure
that has significantly contributed to the U.S. military's advancement in missions such as
Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom where SMC is noted as having added
"unimaginable speed and precision to American military operations" through the use of space -
based surveillance, communications, navigation and meteorology.
As national defense continues to rely more on intelligence gathering, the role SMC has played in
developing, acquiring, fielding and sustaining our military space systems cannot be overstated.
SMC has proven to be a critical infrastructure asset to our national defense both in the past as
well as for the foreseeable future.
LAAFB's and SMC's location also bolsters its strategic importance to our national defense due
to the following factors:
• Los Angeles County remains the top location for aerospace and defense in the nation —
home to major prime contractor operations, such as Northrop Grumman, Lockheed
Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and Honeywell, as well as Aerospace Corporation which is
physically connected to LAAFB and home to more small and mid -sized companies in the
aerospace and defense supply chain than anywhere else in the nation.
• Los Angeles County also graduates more engineers than any other region and has
developed sophisticated programs at community colleges and universities to meet the
needs of the aerospace and defense industry well into the future.
• The proximity to a significantly large aerospace and defense ecosystem of companies
coupled with an unmatched skilled workforce available only in L.A. provide the LAAFB
with unparalleled built -in benefits to advance its mission.
Los Angeles provides vital talent and connections to the largest aerospace manufacturing base in
the country to the LAAFB and SMC, which can be found nowhere else. Similarly, the Los
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Angeles Air Force base is a Los Angeles icon, keeping our region connected to the armed forces
and the women and men who keep our country safe.
History has shown us that we must be forever vigilant so that this incredible asset to our national
security and regional economy is not threatened by closure or relocation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of El Segundo, California as
follows:
4F.r.TION 1
A. The City of El Segundo City Council is in full support of the motion made by
Supervisor Don Knabe on February 3, 2015. Where a letter signed by the five
current Los Angeles Board of Supervisors was sent to Secretary Chuck Hagel and
Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James expressing their firm support for
the Los Angeles Air Force Base and stating that any relocation attempt of the
Space and Missile Systems Center would be detrimental to national defense and
the mission of the Los Angeles Air Force Base.
B. El Segundo City Council is in full support of the Mayors' of Los Angeles County
letter sent to Secretary Chuck Hagel and Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee
James expressing their firm support for the Los Angeles Air Force base and
stating that any relocation attempt of the Space and Missile Systems Center would
be detrimental to national defense and the mission of the Los Angeles Air Force
Base.
C. For our residents and the community at large who are professionally connected to
the aerospace community centered by the Los Angeles Air Force Base and Space
and Missile Systems Center, the El Segundo City Council strongly supports
retaining the facility in El Segundo, California.
RESOLUTION NO. 4905 PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 17th day of February,
2015.
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Mark D. 1lerislc.
, Attorney
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CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
I, Tracy Weaver, 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. 4905 was duly passed and adopted by said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor,
and attested to by the City Clerk, all at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 17th day of
February, 2015, and the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Fuentes, Mayor Pro Tern Jacobson, Council Member Atkinson, Council
Member Fellhauer, Council Member Dugan
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
NOT PARTICIPATING:
WITNESS MY HAND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY this 8t' day of December, 2015.
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r•.�y Weaver, City Clerk
lo 'the City of El Segundo,
California
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