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RESOLUTION NO. 64- 6
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
COUNTY OF BUTTE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE COUNTY SUPERVISORS
ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
REQUEST FOR CALL FOR SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE
SESSION AND ADOPTION OF THEIR 7-POINT •
WELFARE PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte is
concerned about the overall effects of AB 59, Chapter 510, Statutes
1963, in the County of Butte; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the County Supervisors
Association of California has urged that a special session of the
Legislature be called to consider Aidlo Families with Dependent
Children Unemployed Parent Program and Welfare cost sharings; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the County Supervisors
Association of California has adopted a 7-point 1964 County Welfare
Policy statement;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Supervisors
of, the County of Butte, State of California that it does hereby
approve and support the County Supervisors Association of California
request for call of a special session of the Legislature to consider
this matter and recommends that the Association's 7-point 1964
Welfare Policy statement serve as the objective of said special
session, said policy being as follows:
1. For 114 years, California counties have administered -
and have helped finance public welfare programs and
during all of these years have adhered constantly to
a philosophy of adequate care of the needy at levels
which can be soundly financed by taxation.
2. 1963 California social welfare legislation provided
the culmination of many years of regular liberalization
of both the coverage and the aid levels of public
welfare programs in California.
3. Included in the 1963 legislation was the controversial
extension of the state's child aid program to include
• unemployed families with both parents in the home,
which extension has not been and is not now recommended
by the majority of California counties or by the County
Supervisors Association of California.
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4. The sum total of public welfare programs not operating
or scheduled to become operative in California, constitutes
the most liberal public welfare program in the nation.
Neither the ability to continue financing this entire
program nor the social and economic desirability of its
many liberalized features has been proven.
5. It is certain that the share of total public welfare
costs required by the county to be placed upon the
property taxpayer was excessive in many counties prior
to the 1963 legislation and it appears certain that
this excessive burden will be increased even further
by the full effect of current welfare legislation.
6. The subject of proper sharing of public welfare costs by
the state and its counties is of utmost importance and
should receive the immediate attention of the California
Legislature at a 1964 Special Session.
7. California counties declare that they are dedicated to the
following two general welfare legislative aims:
A. To provide and to control reasonable and necessary
public welfare.
B. To oppose any legislation which has for its purpose
the extension of the present welfare programs to
the point where they cannot be supported, either
morally or financially.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution be sent
to the Honorable Edmund G. Brown, Governor, Stanley Pittman,
Senator, Harold Booth, Assemblyman, the County Supervisors Association
of California, and such further and other interested parties as
directed by the Chairman of this Board.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the County
of Butte, State of California by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Giles, Pryde, Steinegger and Chairman McKillop
NOES: None
ABSENT: Supervisor Alldredge
c Mc illop, Chairman of the
oard of Supervisors of the
. ounty of Butte, State of
California
ATTEST:
JESSIE ROGERS, County Clerk
and ex-officio clerk of the
Board of Supervisors
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