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RESOLUTION NO. 99- 38
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
IN SUPPORT OF ACA 16, AB 1448, AND THE
FAIR COMPETITION AND TAXPAYER SAVINGS ACT
WHEREAS, California's population growth has resulted in the demand for more
than $90 billion worth of highway, school, prison, flood control, and other
infrastructure improvement projects; and
WHEREAS, the need for the State and local governments to contract with the
private sector for architectural and engineering services has never been greater;
and
WHEREAS, a series of lawsuits by the Professional Engineers in California
Government (PECG) has effectively blocked the State from contracting with private
sector engineers and architects; and
WHEREAS, in an attempt to allow the State and local governments to once
again contract with the private sector for these services, advocates have prepared
the "Fair Competition and Taxpayer Savings Act "; and
WHEREAS, the Act is contained in Assembly Constitutional Amendment 16
(Cox, 1999), Assembly Bill 1448 (Cox, 1999), and may be proposed as an initiative
constitutional amendment should either ACA 16 or AB 1448 fail to pass the
Legislature; and
WHEREAS, the Act changes California's law and amends the California
Constitution to expressly allow the State and local governments to contract with
private companies for architectural and design services; and
WHEREAS, the Act is consistent with the City's 1999 Legislative Platform
which directs the City to support efforts to de- bureaucratize the State
transportation process; and
WHEREAS, the Act will save California's taxpayers' money and save revenue at
the City of Newport Beach by encouraging competition between the State employees
and the private sector; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that the City
hereby SUPPORTS the Fair Competition and Taxpayer Savings Act, both as an
initiative constitutional amendment and a legislative constitutional amendment
combined with a proposed change to the California Government Code.
ADOPTED this 14th day of June, 19994YOR
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ATTEST:
• STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } as.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, LAVONNE M. HARKLESS, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 99 -38, was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the
City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 14th
day of June, 1999, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Adams, Glover, Debay, Ridgeway, Noyes, Mayor O'Neil
Noes: None
Absent: Thomson
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
• official seal of said City this 15th day of June, 1999.
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City Clerk of the City of
Newport Beach, California