HomeMy WebLinkAbout90-101 - Senate Bill 2557RESOLUTION NO. 90 -101
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT
BEACH SUPPORTING THE REPEAL OF SB 2557
WHEREAS, after the longest budget stalemate in California's history, the
Governor and California Legislature finally enacted a 1990/91 budget package that
• shifts state and county costs to cities, and diverts city revenues to finance
state /county responsibilities; and
WHEREAS, counties are an administrative arm of the state with
responsibilities for carrying out state programs, while cities are in a different
business of providing local municipal services which are determined locally and
have no responsibility or authority for administering state or county programs;
and
WHEREAS, the Governor and California Legislature have shifted state and
county financial responsibilities to cities; and
WHEREAS, all 457 cities in California balanced their budgets only to find
their budgets were subsequently thrown out of balance by cost shifts and revenue
losses designed to balance the budget of the state; and
WHEREAS, the actions in the
State budget package were
enacted
by
passage
of SB 2557, which (1) directed counties to charge cities, school
districts
and
special
districts for the county function of
administering the property
tax; (2)
authorized
counties to charge cities for booking
prisoners arrested by city
employees;
and (3)
allowed counties to retain property tax revenues that should otherwise go
to
90 "No
and Low Tax Cities "; and
WHEREAS, these shifts of city revenues to counties were specifically enacted
to replace cuts in state revenue for counties that should have funded state
responsibilities carried out by counties; and
WHEREAS, the Governor and California Legislature have avoided their
financial responsibilities by enacting measures that are poor public policy, which
rob from one local government to finance another, and result in no real solution
to the continuing financial problems facing all levels of government in
California; now
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Newport Beach supports the
repeal of SB 2557 and the protection of cities from the state budget process; and
supports alternatives that will provide adequate long -term funding for cities and
counties.
ADOPTED this 22nd day of October , 1990.
ATTEST;
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