HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 1183 RESOLUTION NO. 1183
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON
BEACH PROTESTING THE PROPOSED 4�o STATE
SALES TAX
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does
resolve as follows:
1 WHEREAS , there has been presented for consideration a
proposal of the County Supervisors Association, supported by
the California Retail Merchants Association, to provide for
a 4% State Sales Tax with 3% to go to the State, 3/4 of 1% of
the amount collected within the incorporated cities to the
cities, 1/4 of lj' collected within the cities to the counties
and 1% collected within the unincorporated areas to the
counties; and
11HEREAS1 it is contended that such a sales tax plan
would bring desirable unifor7 ity to sales tax collection
methods and procedures as well as provide revenues to county
government; and
WHEREAS, presently the unincorporated areas of many
counties have both a property and sales tax advantage over the
cities within said counties:
NO4 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Hunting-
ton Beach actively opposes this proposal of the County Super-
visors Association for the following reasons:
1. This proposal would, in effect, force a local sales
tax upon the City of Huntington Beach, which it does not now
have nor does it desire to have .
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2. This proposal would deprive cities of hard-won
local autonomy over a strictly local revenue source .
3. This proposal would constitute an invasion of
heretofore exclusive state and municipal taxing; areas and
could lead to any number of additional county taxes on
business operations within cities.
4. This proposal would accentuate rather than reduce
the problem of financing urban communities in unincorporated
areas to the further disadvantabe of the cities.
5. This proposal would place additional city funds
and taxing Dower at county disposal, whereas we believe that
as the population of a county grows, local self-government
as represented by municipalities should expand and increase,
while remote , non=municipal government as represented by
counties should be held in check.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any desired or essential
uniformity in sales tax methods and procedures can best be
accomplished by voluntary action between cities; and
1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Huntington
Beach would interpose no objection to either a special county
property tax or a county sales tax in unincorporated areas
only for the purpose of raising any additional funds they
may need; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this city vigorously
opposes the aforementioned proposal of the County Supervisors
Association, and the City Clerk be and he is hereby instruc-
ted to send a copy of this resolution to other"incorporated
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cities of the State, the Honorable Earl Warren, Governor of
the State of California; members of the State Senate and
Assembly and to the League of California Cities.
PASSED AM ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, California, this 15th day of September,
1952.
ayor
ATTEST :
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City Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
County of Orange ) ss
City of Huntington Beach )
I, JOHN L. HENRICKSEN, the duly elected, qualified
and acting City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and
ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby
certify that the whole number of members of the City Council
of the City of Huntington Beach is five; that the foregoing
resolution was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of
more than a majority of all the members of said City Council
at a regular meeting thereof held on the 15th day of
September, 1952, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen:
Talbertf Langenbeck, LeBardt Seabridge.
NOES: Councilmen:
None.
ABSENT : Councilmen:
Wood.
Cit Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
Of e City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California .