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RESOLUTION NO. 3736
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
URGING THE MERGER OF THE ASSOCIATION
OF INDEPENDENT CITIES OF LOS ANGELES
COUNTY AND THE CALIFORNIA CONTRACT
CITIES ASSOCIATION WITHIN THE
FRAMEWORK OF THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA
CITIES AND THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY
DIVISION THEREOF.
WHEREAS, the purpose of the League of California Cities
is the promotion of the general welfare of the cities of this state
and the general improvement and facilitation of every branch of muni-
cipal government and administration by the following cooperative
means:
(a) The fostering of conferences of city officials and the
maintenance of a central office of information and research for the
practical study of matters pertaining to municipal government;
(b) The stimulation of greater interest and more active
civic consciousness among the people as to the importance and signlfi~
cance of matters relating to municipal government and administrationj
(c) The publication and circulation of an official maga-
zine, or magazines, and other publications or special reports on
municipal government and administration of interest to citiesj
(d) Supporting necessary or desirable legislation which
will be beneficial to the municipalities of the state generally, and
opposing legislation injurious theretoj
(e) The securing of harmony of action among cities and other
governmental agencies in matters that affect the rights and liabili-
ties of the cities of the state, and transmitting to all levels of
government the problems of cities and the facts and experiences upon
which to formulate urban policies; and,
WHEREAS, the purposes and functions of the Los Angeles County
Division of the League of California Cities are as follows:
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(a) To promote interest in the problems of municipal
government and administration among the officers and employees of
cities within the Division; and
(b) To assist the officials of the League of California
Cities in formulating policies and rendering service by expressing
to said League, through resolutions dUly adopted, the recommenda-
tions of the Division, provided that no action be taken by the
Division in conflict with the general policy of the League of Cali-
fornia Cities as duly adopted by the Board of Directors of said
League; and,
WHEREAS, the California Contract Cities Association
was formed in 1958 for the purpose of providing a new approach for
supplying municipal services to cities to be accomplished by en-
tering into contractual arrangements with the County of Los Angeles,
private contractors, and other cities and agencies, to furnish the
cities with all of the municipal services a city needs or desires,
as and when it needs or desires such services; and,
WHEREAS, the purposes of the Association of Independent
Cities of Los Angeles County are as follows:
(a) To protect, promote and maintain independence and
autonomy of the independent cities of Los Angeles County;
(b) To provide opportunities for concerted action and
mutual aid in matters affecting the member cities;
(c) To promote friendship and exchange of ideas among the
member cities;
(d) To provide an organ for the dissemination of knowledge
and useful information among the membership;
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all of which activities shall be in strict accordance with and within
the framework of the rules and regulations of the League of Cali-
fornia Cities and the Los Angeles County Division of the League of
California Cities; and,
WHEREAS, recent annual conferences of the Association of
Independent Cities of Los Angeles County and of the California Con-
tract Cities Associations have clearly and properly indicated a
strong mutual interest of all Los Angeles County cities in both
Associations, regardless of the individual city's membership in
one or othe other of said Associations; and,
WHEREAS, every city within Los Angeles County contracts
with another pUblic agency and particularly with the County of Los
Angeles for the furnishing to such contracting city of at least
one and usually more than one municipal type of service; and,
WHEREAS, both the League of California Cities and the
Los Angeles County Division thereof exist for the very purpose of
aSSisting and serving all cities of the State of California and
of the County of Los Angeles respectively; and,
WHEREAS, the principal purpose of all cities is the
rendition of municipal services in the most efficient and economi-
cal manner; and,
WHEREAS, the problems confronting all cities in their
performance of municipal functions vary only in degree rather than
in nature; and,
WHEREAS, the threat common to all cities is the ever in-
creasing loss of the right of home rule that cities have histori-
cally enjoyed; and,
WHEREAS, it is essential to the very preservation of city
government that cities do not, in any way or for any reason, align
themselves one against another, thereby fostering and furthering
their own self-destruction; and,
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WHEREAS, it is the opinion of very many of the 76 cities in
Los Angeles County that all of the activities of the cities should be
coordinated through the Los Angeles County Division of the League of
California Cities;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA,
CALIFORNIA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the Board of Directors of the League of
California Cities be requested to consider the feasibility, practi-
calbility and effectiveness of the conduct by the Los Angeles County
Division of the League of California Cities of one annual three-day
seminar regarding problems affecting cities in Los Angeles County,
in lieu of the annual seminars heretofore conducted by each of the
aforesaid Associations.
SECTION 2. That the City Council of the City of Arcadia
hereby urges and recommends the merger of the Association of Inde-
pendent Cities of Los Angeles County and of the California Contract
Cities Association within the framework of the League of California
Cities, and that all matters of material concern to cities generally
within Los Angeles County be handled through the Los Angeles County
Division of the League of California Cities; that the Association
of Independent Cities of Los Angeles County and the California Con-
tract Cities Association cease to function as separate organizations
and that they become sections of appropriate committees within the
structure of the League of California Cities.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this resolution and shall forward copies hereof to all cities
within the County of Los Angeles, ,to the League of California Cities,
to the Los Angeles County Division of the League of California
Cities, to the President of the California Contract Cities Association
and to the President of the Association of Independent Cities of Los
Angeles County.
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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
17th
day of
November
, 1964, by the affirmative
vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES:
Councilmen Balser, Considine, Forman, Reibold
and Turner
NOES:
None
ABSENT: None
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City Clerk of t e City of Arc'adia
SIGNED AND APPROVED this 17th
day of November , 1964.
J)ae ~~,
Mayor of the City of Arcadia
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City Clerk
(SEAL)
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