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RESOLUTION NO, 4183
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ARCADIA PROTESTING HIGH COUNTY TAX RATE AND
URGING THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY DIVISION OF THE
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES TO PERSUADE STATE
LEGISLATURE TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR STATE MANDATED
PROGRAMS ,
WHEREAS, the State requires the County of Los Angeles to
fund tremendously expensive welfare programs; and
WHEREAS, the property tax is the only means by which
the County can raise taxes for such programs; and
WHEREAS, such State mandated programs have caused property
taxes to reach an unreasonable level in the County of Los Angeles,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That when the State Legislature requires
County governments to carry out programs enacted by the State
Legislature, provisions should be made for paying the cost of such
programs from the State Treasury; that the City of Arcadia strongly
protests the unreasonably high County tax rate which is requ~red to
fund such programs,
SECTION 2, That the League of California Cities, Los
Angeles County Division, is requested to take action to persuade
the State Legislature to fully fund the cost of State mandated
programs from the State Treasury.
SECTION 3, The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this resolutior. and shall send a certified copy of this
resolution to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the Los
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Angeles County Division of the League of Californ~ Cities, and
a copy thereof to each State Senator and Assemblyman representing
the City of Arcadia requesting that they cooperate with the League
in this endeavor,
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 2nd
day of February, 1971, by the affirmative
vote of at least three Councilmen: to wit:
AYES:
Councilmen Arth, Considine, Hage, Helms and
Butterworth
NOES:
None
ABSEN'l': None
~u~~.~~
ity Clerk of ;lie i y of Arcadia
SIGNED AND APPROVED
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(SEAL)
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