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RESOlUTION NO. 6032
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, OPPOSING THE JUNE 1998
CALIFORNIA BALLOT 'INITIATlVE ENTITLED
"GOVERNMENT COST SAVINGS AND TAX PAYERS
PROTECTION AMENDMENT"
WHEREAS, Every day billions of dollars of critical building, engineering and design
projects are underway from seismic retrofitting to flood control to schools and hospitals;
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and
WHEREAS, State, regional, and local governments are currently allowed the.
flexilJility to contract with private firms, on a competitive basis, to design these projects;
and
WHEREAS, This process allows government the essential flexibility to use private
firms to deliver a project on time and cost effectively; and
WHEREAS, The so-called "Government Cost Savings and Taxpayers Protection
Amendrnent" completely changes the process by giving the state employees a virtual
monopoly on designing every project; and
WHEREAS, This will thereby force cities, counties, schools, special districts,
regional governments and even many private businesses to use the state employees to
design roads, parks, hospitals, health clinics, schools, water treatment facilities, flood
control walls and other critical structures to include all engineering design geological and
environmental work; and
WHEREAS, Virtually every school and hospital has been designed by private firms,
not state governments; and
WHEREAS, the proposed initiative eliminates local control and forces communities
to rely on the out-of-town state employees for their design work; and
WHEREAS, Local governments would not be able to hold the state accountable; and
WHEREAS, The state controller would have to analyze tens of thousands of
proposed contracts per year costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, it not
millions, in additional expenses; and
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WHEREAS, To meet potential workload demands, hundreds, if not thousands, of
state employees would need to be employed and paid, even if no projects were underway;
and
WHEREAS, Taxpayers would pick-up the tab for billions in extra costs for projects,
lost jobs and more state employees to.evaluate projects; and
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA,
CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY FIND, DETERMINE AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1, To oppose the "Government Cost Savings and Taxpayers Protection
Amendment" that will cost our cities, counties, special districts and economy millions.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution.
Passed, approved, and adopted this 3'd day of February 1998.
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Mayor of the City of Arcadia
ATTEST:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS:
CITY OF ARCADIA )
I, JUNE D. ALFORD, City Clerk of the City of Arcadia, hereby certify that the
foregoing Resolution.No. 6032 was passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of
Arcadia, signed by the Mayor and attested to by the City Clerk at a regular meeting of said
Council held on the 3rd day of February, 1998 and that said Resolution was adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmember Chang, Kovacic, Kuhn, Young and Harbicht
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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