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RESOLUTION NO. 4433
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ARCADIA REQUESTING THE LOS
ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
PROVIDE A MORE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION FOR
THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY REGION IN THE PRO-
POSED !i[l\STER PLAN FOR HEALTH SERVICES,
PHASE IIA-l: I,ONG RANGE SERVICE AND
FACILITY NEEDS.
IrHEREAS, Los Angeles County Health Department statistics
show that the San Gabriel Valley Health Region includes ,20 per cent
of the population, 20 per cent of the area, 20 per cent of the
taxpayers, 20 per cent of the patients and 18 per cent of the
indigent families of Los Angeles County ("}!ASTER PLAN FOR HEALTH
SERVICES, PHASE IIA: Study of Health Care Needs"); and
WHEREAS, there are no County hospitals in this reg10n
and very inadequate County ambulatory health facilities; and
WHEREAS, this region has only 375, or less than two per
cent, of the total Health Department employees numbering 24,000
for the County Qf Los Angeles; and
WHEREAS, the County budget proposed for 1974-1975 allows
only two per cent of the total health budget for the San Gabriel
Valley; and
WHEREAS, the proposed ten-year capital improvements plan
of $411,400,000 as set forth in "MASTER PLAN FOR HEALTH SERVICES,
PHASE 'IIA-l: Long Range Service and Facility Needs" by the County
of Los Angeles Department of Health Services is primarily for
Central Los Angeles and does not specify any improvements for
the San Gabriel Valley (except for recent verbal assurances of
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perhaps $10,000,000 or far less than three per cent); and
WHEREAS, the San Gabriel Valley Health Region has been
identified as the area of highest need for health services based
upon fifteen variables as listed in "COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, SHORT
DOYLE PLAN FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, 1974-75/1974-79"; and
WHEREAS, "The Los Angeles County Health Services Planning
Committee Report on the Study of HEALTH SERVICES in the County of
Loi Angeles" states "see to it that all needed health services
are provided in all areas of the County" (Bauer Report);
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA
RESOLVES AS ,FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1,. That the COUI)ty Board of Supervisors be
respectfully requested not to approve such a budget of health
funds until a more equitable distribution is made to this area.
SECTION 2. That the "MASTER PLAN FOR HEALTH SERVICES,
PHASE IIA-l: Long Range Service and Facility Needs" not be approved
until an equitable provision be made for the indigent ambulatory
and hospital patients of the San Gabriel Valley Region.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk is directed to forward a
certified copy of this resolution to every member of the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this resolution.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was
adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Arcadia held on the 4th day of June , 1974/ by the affirmative
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vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit:
ATTEST:
AYES: Councilmen Gilb, Helms, Lauber, Saelid
and Scott
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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City Clerk of the City of Arcad1a
SIGNED AND APPROVED this 4th day of June ,1974.
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Mayor of the C1ty of Ar
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City ,Clerk
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