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RESOLUTION NO. 3320
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
URGING THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS TO ADOPT A POLICY
ESTABLISHING A MORE EQUITABLE
DISTRIBUTION OF HIGHWAY USERS TAX
FUNDS RECEIVED BY THE COUNTY AND
THE CITIES WITHIN TijE COUNTY.
WHEREAS two cents of the total six cents of the State
levied highway users taxes is subvented to counties and cities in
the State, of which one and three eighths of one cent is allocated
by statute to counties and five eighths of one cent is allocated by
statute to cities, and;
WHEREAS it was the intention of the State Legislature in
setting the 1-3/8 - 5/8 cent distribution ratio to assist both
cities and counties in meeting construction and maintenance needs
for rural and urban streets and roads according to statewide needs,
and;
WHEREAS the 1-3/8 - 5/8 cent ratio may be equitable in
the predominantly rural counties of the State in proportion to the
street mileage, assessed valuation and population of incorporated
and unincorporated areas within those counties, but the ratio of
distribution as it relates to street and road problems in urban
counties such as Los Angeles is manifestly inequitable, and;
WHEREAS the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County
recognized in the year 1939 the greater needs of urban street sys-
~stems in Los Angeles County as compared to other areas of the State
and adopted a policy then, and again in the years 1947 and 1952, of
providing annual financial assistance which only partially recog-
nizes the relative greater need for the construction of streets
within cities, and;
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WHEREAS the urban-rural, incorporated-unincorporated
character of the County has changed substantially since the prin-
ciples on which financial assistance for street construction were
based in 1939, 1947, and 1952 so that the County has become more
urban and the number of cities has increased from 46 to 70 so that
the proportionate mileage of streets and roads, assessed valuation
and population in the unincorporated and incorporated areas of the
County are as follows:
Unincorporated Incorporated
Streets and roads 26 % 74 %
Assessed valuation 15 % 85 %
Population 18 % 82 %
WHEREAS cities within Los Angeles County receive only 53
percent of t~e total highway users taxes subvented to the County
and cities within the County (including present financial assistance
to cities from the County of Los Angeles) even though 74 percent of
the lineal street and road mileage is in cities and a considerably
greater percentage of the total traffic lanes, street surface, and
traffic flow is within cities;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA,
CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY DETERMINE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the Los Angeles County Board of Super-
visors is urged to further recognize the street construction and
maintenance needs of the cities and 82 percent of the entire popula-
tion within the County who reside in cities by establishing a policy
of apportioning annually to cities ,within the County of Los Angeles
a sum which shall be determined in the following manner:
a. For computation purposes, the, sum of all of the gas
tax money received by the County and all of the gas tax money re-
ceived by the cities directly from the State shall be totaled and
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divided between the unincorporated areas of the County as one unit
and all of the cities as another unit solely on the respective pro-
portion of each unit's street and road mileage to the total street
and road mileage within the County.
b. After deduoting from the aforesaid total sum the
allocation to be made to the unincorporated area from the gas tax
money received by the County and the cities' 5/8~ allocation re-
ceived directly from the State, the remainder shall constitute the
net city share.
SECTION 2. That twenty-five percent (25%) of the net
city share shall be reserved, appropriated and expended annually
on highways and streets in cities which are of general County in-
terest, selected at the discretion of the Board of Supervisors.
The remaining seventy-five percent (75%) of the net city share shall
be distributed among the incorporated cities within the County
according to the following formula:
a. Eighty-five percent (85%) of the total amount to be
distributed among cities on the basis of the relationship which the
population of each city bears to the total incorporated population.
b. Fifteen percent (15%) of the total amount to be dis-
tributed among cities on the basis of the relationship which the
street mileage of each city bears to the total street mileage in
the entire incorporated area.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this resolution and shall send a certified copy hereof to each
member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, on
the 6th day of December ,1960, by the affirmative vote of
at least three Councilmen, to wit:
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AYES: Councilmen Butterworth, Phillips, and Reibold
NOES: Councilman Camphouse
ABSENT: Councilman Balser
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$IGNED AND APPROVED this 6th day of December ,1960.
ATTEST:
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