HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 905 RESOLUTION NO, 905
1 A RESOLUTION URGING REDISTRIBUTION OF SALES
TAX REVENUES ON THE BASIS OF POPULATION
2 WHEREAS Statutory authority to levy a sales tax was authorized the cities
3 of California in 1948 to provide said cities with new revenues and to relieve the
property owner of greater tax burden; and
4 WHEREAS said authority was revised in 1955 under the Bradley-Burns uni-
5 form local Sales and Use Tax Law solely to provide statewide uniformity in ad-
ministration of the tax; and
6 WHEREAS new trends of citizen mobility and marketing concepts have re-
7 sulted in the conversion to large regional commercial facilities to serve sever-
al communities from a central location versus provision of smaller facilities
8 ; for each community; and
9 WHEREAS said trends have made the present method of sales tax distribu-
tion obsolete, benefitting only those property owners living in communities with
10 regional facilities; and 11 1,4HEREAS the resulting intensity of competition between cities to attract
new commercial and economic development has made it difficult to institute much-
12 needed concepts of regional planning and cooperative government among local
lagencies ; and
13 WHEREAS the state legislature is being asked to burden residents with new
14 taxes while existing practices are clearly inequitable;
15 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of San
Jacinto does join other California Cities in urging the state legislature to
16 institute reform in the distribution of sales tax revenue through a per capita
formula.
17 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to the
18 finance committees of the State Legislature, to the League of California Cities
to Assemblyman W. Craig Biddle and to State Senator Gordon Cologne.
19 MOVED, PASSED AND ADOPTED this 22nd day of June 1971
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LUCY MAY ALLEN , CITY CLERK
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25 CERTIFICATE
26 The foregoing is certified to be a true copy of a Resolution duly adopted
27 by the said City Council of the City of San Jacinto on thia ,date therein set fort
28 ILUCY MAY ALLEN, CITY CLERK
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