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RESOLUTION NO. Z Oct -S I
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF HUNTINGTON BEACH SUPPORTING A STATEWIDE
BALLOT INITIATIVE TO REQUIRE VOTER APPROVAL
BEFORE STATE GOVERNMENT MAY TAKE LOCAL TAX FUNDS
WHEREAS, state government annually seizes over$800 million in municipal property
tax funds (ERAF) statewide, costing cities over$6.9 billion in lost revenues over the past 12
years and seriously reducing resources available for local public safety and other services; and
In adopting the state budget this year the Legislature and Governor appropriated local
vehicle license fee backfill and redevelopment property tax funds that are needed to finance
critical municipal services such as public safety,parks, street maintenance, housing and
economic development; and
The deficit financing plan in the state budget depends on a Iocal property and sales tax
swap that leaves City services vulnerable if the state's economic condition fails to improve; and
The adopted state budget assumes an ongoing structural budget deficit of at least$8
billion, putting City resources and services at risk in future years to additional state revenue
raids; and
It is abundantly clear that state leaders will continue to use local tax funds to balance the
state budget unless the voters limit the power of the Legislature and Governor to do so; and
The voters of California are the best judges of whether local tax funds should be diverted,
confiscated, shifted or otherwise taken to finance an ever-expanding state government; and
The General Assembly of Voting Delegates of the League of California Cities ("League")
at its September 10, 2003 meeting voted to sponsor a statewide ballot initiative to empower the
voters to limit the ability of state government to confiscate local tax funds to fund state
government; and
The League has requested that cities offer support for a November 2004 ballot initiative
that will allow voters to decided whether state government may appropriate local tax funds to
fund state government operations and responsibilities,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON
BEACH does hereby resolve as follows:
1. That the City hereby expresses its strong support for a statewide ballot initiative
to allow voters to decide whether local tax funds may be taken, confiscated, shifted, diverted or
otherwise used to fund state government operations and responsibilities; and
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2. That the City Council and staff are authorized to provide j=nartial infarnaational
materials on the initiative as may be lawfully provided by the City's represehUtrves:-No public
funds shall be used to campaign for or against the initiative; and
3. That the residents of the City are encouraged to become well informed on the
initiative and its possible impacts on the critical local services on which they rely; and
4. That the City Administrator is hereby directed to send a copy of this resolution to
the Executive Director of the League.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 3rd day of November 12003,
Mayor
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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City Clerk AF /-'City Attorney
REVIEWED AND APPROVED: INITIATED AND/APPROVED:
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City Admin4?trator
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, CONNIE BROCKWAY, the duly elected, qualified 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 seven; that the foregoing resolution
was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the
members of said City Council at an regular meeting thereof held on the 3'd
day of November, 2003 by the following vote:
AYES: Sullivan, Coerper, Green, Boardman, Cook, Houchen, Hardy
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
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City Clerk and ex-officio elerk of the
City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, California