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HomeMy WebLinkAbout99-38 - Supporting LegislationE • • 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 r ,yl 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. (Seal) • City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California