1971/06/21 City Council Resolution (3)RESOLUTION NO. 71-69
RZSOLUTION CONCERNING REDISTRIBUTION
OF SALES TAX REVE1JUES ON THE
BASIS OF POPULATION
WHEREAS, Statutory authority to levy a sales tax was
authorized the cities of California in 1948 to provide said cities
with new revenues and to relieve the property owner of greater
tax burden; and
WHEREAS, said authority was revised in 1955 under the I
Bradley-Burns uniform local Sales and Use Tax Law solely to
provide statewide uniformity in administration of the tax; and
WhEREAS, new trends of citizen mobility and marketing concepts
have resulted in the conversion to large regional commercial
facilities to serve several communities from a central location
versus provision of smaller facilities for each community, and
WHEREAS, said trends have made the present method of sales
tax distribution obsolete, benefiting only those property owners
living in communities with regional facilities; and
�FHEREAS, the resulting intensity of competition between
cities to attract new commercial and economic development has made
it difficult to institute much needed concepts of regional planning
and cooperative governiment among local agencies; and
WHEREAS, the state legislature is being asked to burden
residents with new taxes while existing practices are clearly
inequitable;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVEIJ0, that the City Council of the
City of Rohnert Park does join other California Cities in urging
the state legislature to institute reform. in the distribution of
sales tax revenue through a per capita formula.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be
sent to Senator Randolph Collier, Assemblyman William Bagley,
The League of California Cities, the City of Woodlake, the City
of Baldwin Park, and other interested parties.
DULY AND REGULARLY ADOPTED this 21st day of June, 1971.
AYES: (5) Councilmen Buchanan, Roberts, Rogers,
Smith, and Hopkins
NOES- (0) None
ABSENT: (0) None A I
ATTEST:
De.,—,-"uty C* y Cler
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