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RESOLUTION N0. 3555
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL O? THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA
OPPOSING AB2334 AND AB17iv AMENDING THE BRO?^?N ACT
AND LEGISLATION RESTRICTING NE44S MEDIA COVERAGE
OF LEGISLATIVE MEETINGS
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista hereby
resolves as follows:
?4HEREAS, The Assembly Ccmmittee on Governmental
Organization will hold a public hearing on December 11, 1964, at
10:00 a.m. in Room 1122 of the State Building, Los Angeles, California
to consider proposed legislation relating to open meetings and news
coverage of public agencies, and
WHEREAS, the City Ccuncil of the City of Chula Vista
fully respects the right of the public to complete information
regarding the conduct of the people's business and has always adhered
to the policy of open and public meetings of the Council and Committees
with full disclosure to the public of the deliberations and actions
of said bodies, and
WHEREAS, the present provision of the Government Code
of the State of California regulating open '.meetings of local agencies
is considered more than adequate to insure complete disclosure to
the press and to the public of governmental operations, and
WHEREAS, the proposed legislation. contained in AB2334
would add nothing to the guarantee of these rights but would seriously
hamper the conduct of the public business and the work of Committees
by requiring that all meetings, whether or not composed of a quorum ,
of the members of the body, be open and public, and
WHEREAS, the amendment to the Government Code contained
in AB1716 permitting the broadcast and telecast of proceedings of
all meetings and hearings of all state, county, and municipal legis-
lative and administrative agencies subject to the provisions of the
Open Meeting Act does not in any way further secure said rights but
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would rather result ir, the destruction of the dignity and decorum
of legislative meetings and would subvert the basic purposes of all
legislatures,
D]OW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Chula Vista that t}:is Council does hereby strenuously
oppose and object to the amendments being considered by the Committee
on Goverimental Organization as an ur.iust and unnecessary interference
with the proper conduct of the public business and detrimental to
the public interest.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council of the City of
Chula Vista does hereby urge said Assembly Committee to recommend
against the proposed amendments in the interests of sound governmental
operation and the rights of the people to a full and efficient service
of their legislative representatives,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk of the City
of Chula Vista be, and he is hereby authorized anal directed to
forward a certified copy of this resolution tc Assemblyman Milton Marks,
Chairr::.an of the Assembly Commi'~tee cn Governmental Organization in
Interi_r.t~;eetina at Room 1122, State Building, Los Angeles, California,
Decembar i1, 1964 at 10:00 a.m.
Presented by
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Approved as to j orm
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Gcor-ge D. Lindberg
City Attorney
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ADOPTED AND ,APPROVED by the CITY COUNCIL of the
Cli`l OF CNiJLA VISTA, CALIFORNIA, ibis $thday of December
1964 by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES; COUNCILMEN McMains McAllister Sparling McCorquodale Anderson
N.AYES: COUNCILMEN None _ _
ASSENT: COUNCILMEN None
Mayor of the City o~ChWa Vista ~ -
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STATE OF C.ALiFORNIA
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO ss.
Ci-iY OF CHULA VISTA
i, KENNETH P. CAMPBELL, City Clerk of the City cf Chula
Vista, California, DO HEREC3Y CERTIFY that the above and foregoing
is a full, true and correct copy. or`
and that the same has not been amended or repealed
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City Clerk
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