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RESOLUTION NO. 90-134
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA, SUPPORTING THE REPEAL OF SB
2557, STATE BUDGET ACTIONS
WHEREAS, after the longest budget stalemate in California's
history, the Governor and California Legislature finally enacte~
a 1990/91 budget package that shifts state and county costs to
cities, and diverts city revenues to finance si. ate/county
responsibilities; and
WHEREAS, counties are an administrative arm of the state with
responsibilities for carrying out state programs, while cities
are in a different business of providing local municipal services
which are determined locally and have no responsibility or
authority for administering state or county programs; and
WHEREAS, the Governor and California Legislature have shifted
state and county financial responsibilities to cities; and
WHEREAS, all 457 cities in California balanced their budgets
only to find their budgets were subsequently thrown out of
balance by cost shifts and revenue losses designed to balance
the budget of the state; and
WHEREAS, the actions in the State budget package were enacted
by passage of SB 2557, which (1) directed counties to charge
cities, school districts and special districts for the county
function of administering the property tax; (2) authorized
counties to charge cities for booking prisoners arrested by city
employees; and (3) allowed counties to retain property tax
revenues that should otherwise go to 90 "No and Low Tax C4~'~es''',
and
WHEREAS, these shifts of city revenues to counties ~.;ere
specifically enacted to replace cuts in state revenue for
counties that should have funded state resFonsibilities carried
out by counties; and
WHEREAS, the Governor and California Legislature have aveided
theSr financial responsibilities by enacting measures that are
poor public policy, which rob from one local governnent to
finance another, and result in no real solution to the continuing
financial problems facing all levels of government in California;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Tustin
support the repeal of SB 2557 and the protection of cities from
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the state budget process; and support alternatives that will
provide adequate long-term funding for cities and counties.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Tustin City
Council held on the 15th day of October, 1990.
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Richard B. Edgar, Mayor /
Mary E. W~..nn, City, Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF TUSTIN )
CERTIFICATION FOR RESOLUTION NO. 90-134
Mary E. Wynn, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council
of the City of Tustin, California, does hereby certify that the
whole number of the members of the City Council of the City of
Tustin is five; that the above and foregoing was duly and
regularly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City
Council held on the 15th day of October, 1990, by the following
vote:
COUNCILMEMBER AYES:
COUNCILMEMBER NOES:
COUNCILMEMBER ABSTAINED:
COUNCILMEMBER ABSENT:
Edgar, Pontious, Potts, Prescott
None
None
Puckett
Mary E. Wynn.;~City Cle.~k