Resolution No. 4891
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RESOLUTION NO. 4891
A RESOLUTION ()FTHE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF VERNON EXPRESSING ITS OPPOSITION TO ASSEMBLY
BILL 2660 AND URGING THE MEMBERS OF THE
LEGISLATURE TO REJECT SAID BILL
WHEREAS, the Goverrting Bcard of the South Coast Air
Qu.ality Management District, consists of ten members, nine of
which are city council persons or supervisors in the four
southland counties of'LosAngeles, Orange, San Bernardino and
Riverside; and
WHEREAS, city council representatives are accountable
to the electorate and the City Selection Connnittees of the
four counties that appoint them to serve cn the District Board;
and
WHEREAS, board of supervisors members are accountable
to the electorate and the cther members of each of the,boards
cf supervisors that appoints them to serve cnthe District
Board; and
WHEREAS, this system of locally elected cfficials
directing a lccal agency has resulted in the development of a
highly respected air quality manage1l1entprogram and a gcverning
bOard which is responsible to the area's ,needs; and
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 2660, introduced by Assemb].ynum
Mel 'Levine, seeks to usurp this historical authority of locally
elected officials by altering the compo'siticn of the District
Board to include fourunelected pclitical appcintees chosen in
Sacrament,o, thus proposing that accountability to. Sacramento is
better than accountability to the pecple of this community; and
WHEREAS,this bill would affect only the South Coast Ai
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1 Quality Management District~-andnone of the other more than
2 forty lccal air polluticn contrcl districts in California-"
3 making this a transparent special interest attempt to weaken
4 the District's acccuntability and its air quality program
5 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
GTHE CITY OF VERNON AS FOLLOWS:
7 SECTION 1: That the City Ccuncil of the City cfVernon
8 expresses its strong cppositicn to Assembly Bill 2660 and urges
9 the members of the Legisla.ture to reject this undemocratic
10 prcposal.
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SECTION 2: That the City Clerk of the City of Vernon
12 is hereby directed to transmit a copy cf this Resolution to each
13 legislative representative of the City of Vernon.
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SECTION 3: That the City Clerk of the City of Vernon
15 shall certify to the passage of this Resolution and thereupon
16 and thereafter the same shall be ,in full force and effect.
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APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 8th day of April, 1982.
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BRUCE V. MALKENHORST, City Clerk
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1 STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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2 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
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4 I, BRUCE V. MALKENHORST, City Clerk cf the City of
5 Vernon, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution, being
6 Resolution No .4891
, was duly adopted by the City Council
7 of the City of Vernon, and was approved by the Mayor of said
8 City at an adjourned meeting of the City Council held on ThursdaYr
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April 8
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BRUCE V. MALKENHORST, City Clerk
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