HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 1978-9083RESOLUTION N0. 9083
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA
VISTA OPPOSING PROPOSITION 13 (JARVIS/GANP7 INITIATIVE)
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does hereby
resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Chula Vista
has carefully weighed the potential impact of Proposition 13,
the Jarvis/Gann Initiative, and has concluded that its adoption
will, in the long run, be detrimental to the interests of all
our citizens and beneficial immediately only to the interests of
business and commercial property owners, and
WHEREAS, this conclusion must be reached after a total
analysis of the impact of the amendment, although the City Council
concurs in the basic intent of Proposition to relieve what the
Council considers to be a crushing burden on the small property
taxpayer, to curtail the unwarranted spiraling increase in the
costs of local government, and to force the reevaluation of bureau-
cratic regulation and the acts of government on behalf of the people
on an ever increasing scale, and
WHEREAS, although the City of Chula Vista only relies
upon the property tax for less than one-quarter of its revenue
needs, it is apparent that the impact upon other public agencies
such as the school districts, which have a much greater reliance
upon property taxes, will create serious short term economic dis-
locations and long term unmeasurable effects upon basic social
institutions and the services they provide, and
WHEREAS, Proposition 13 is in reality a simplistic and
poorly expressed state of law attempting to deal with the reduc-
tion of property taxes and leaving the means of equitably distri-
buting drastically reduced revenues to the Legislature, thus
totally depriving local government agencies of the management
of their own affairs, and
WHEREAS, Proposition 13 has already created untold pro-
blems simply because of widespread concern over its effect such
as the contingency plans for layoff of public employees by many
agencies, the almost total collapse of the government bond market
in the State of California which, for example, has indefinitely
delayed the prospect of the development of the County Regional
Center in Chula Vista including an absolutely essential court
complex and which holds forth the possibility of the retention
of such regressive taxes as the business inventory tax and the
increase of the sales tax, an even more admittedly regressive
tax, and will absolutely mandate increases in the State income
tax, which now ranks among the highest in the nation, and
WHEREAS, it is evident that Proposition 13, without
resorting to any scare tactics, must be regarded as a proposal
for chaotic economic effects upon local government and certain
loss of control of economic destiny to state and federal levels
of government.
-1-
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council,
because of well-founded uncertainties and ill-founded certainties
occurring from the adoption of Proposition 13, does hereby oppose
the adoption of Proposition 13 and urges all citizens to very
carefully weigh the potential chaos and havoc that will be created
by the adoption of Proposition 13 as opposed to the more reasonable
and certain property tax relief that is afforded by the adoption of
Proposition 8.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council asks all
of the citizens of Chula Vista to join with the City Council in
rejecting Proposition 13 when they vote on .Tune 6 and to demand
instead that your City Council and all other governmental agencies
respect the clear signal for change that you will give them in
the adoption of Proposition 8 for a reduction in governmental
expenditures.
Presented and Approved as to form by
„~-
George D. Lindberg, City Attorn
ADOPTED AND APPROVED by the CITY COUNCIL of the CITY OF
CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA, this 25th day of April , 1978 ,
by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES: Councilmen Hyde, Scott, Egdahl, Hobel, Cox
NAPES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
ATTEST ~ ~,
Deputy City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO) ss.
CITY OF CHULA VISTA)
~I/~.~C ~
Mayor of the City of Ch Vista
I- , City Clerk of the
City of Chula Vista, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the above is
a full, true and correct copy of Resolution No. , and that the
same has not been amended or repealed. DATED
City Cler