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RESOLUTION NO. 79-14
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA, EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO THE
CONCEPT OF BUSING SCHOOL CHILDREN TO ACHIEVE
RACIAL INTEGRATION EXCEPT WHERE CAUSED BY
INTENTIONAL ACTION BY A SCHOOL BOARD.
!i'I-IEI',I!AS, recent discussions centered around tl~e rac'ial integration.
plan of tl~e Los Angeles County School District have suot, estedoo even larger
scale, multi-county bus'lng of children to supposedly accomplish tl~e purpose
of racial i~tegration; and
W}.IF. REAS, such large scale busing is destructive of the following'
a. Education of the children involved,
b. Safety of the cl~ildren exposed to the busing process,
c. Integrity of County boundaries,
e. Integrity of the Community School concept,
f After school ~tctivities and co~nrnunity youth acti~rites buildino
on the common geograpltic residence of tl~e students,
g. Edt~cation responsive and responsible to the local citizenry,
h. W!~e social developme~t of the children themselves,
i. q~'..e broad based publ. i.c support for racial equality a~d justice
AND ?,'~i£REAS, the artificially contrived integration of scl~ools is a
wasteful exercise in futfli'ty which flies.in the face of logic and o~he'r,
n}ore posit i.'.'-:._ :.:,.=th od s... of achlevi::e,o racial eqt~al ity, o~}portt~ni.t:y, and j t~s'tice
suct~ as'
NO":..'," Ti';"-::2EFORE, the City Cottncil of the City of Tustin does hereby
resolve as follows'
a. :...:.-.:.?~1 opportun:ity in emp~ oyn~er~t,
c. Ec~a?.l opportunity in advm~ced education,
d. E '-anced remedial educa, ti. on and training opportunities
except :¢here racial segregation has occt~rred by intentional action of a
sch6ol district board, as being destructive of the edttcational, safety,
social, political, anti racial equality process of the community, state and
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nation.
1. The City Counci. 1 rejects the concept o:g large scale or 'forced busing,
3. The City Council urges all other cities and other interested
persons to urge the si~ailar sttpport of their legislative representatives.
4. The City Clerk is directed to distribute copies of this resolution
to Assembly~::an Bruce Nestande, Asseml.)lym~ Richard Robinson, Assemblywoman
Marian Bergeson, Senator ,John V. Briggs, Senator John Schmitz, and all cities
in Orange County.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of tl~e City Council of the
City of Tustin, Califom~ia, held on the 5th day of February, 1979.
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2. Ti~e City Council urges each of our State l,egislators to support
and promulgate legislation preventing such destructive and derisive
proposals or actions.
STATE OF CALIFOR~NIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF TUSTIN )
RUTH C. POE, City Clerk and e×-of~icio 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 Resolution No. 79.14 was duly and regularly
introduced, passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the' City Council
held on the 5th day of February , 1979, by the following-
vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABS- ~,T
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COD~-{CIIP~N' WELSH, SCHUSTER, SHARP , SALT:~'~ PR~.u.~I,, KENNEDY
COU%'~C IL'~N - NONE
COU%[C ILf-~N: NONE
RU2?{ C. POE, City Cle~City of Tustin, ~a~[a