HomeMy WebLinkAbout69-103RESOLUTION N0. 69-~0,3
BOARA OF SUPERVISORS
COUNTY OF BUTTE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
RESOLUTION IN OPPOSITION TO THE
CALIFORNIA TAHOE REGIONAL PLANNING AGENCY
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WiTEREA5, the Board of Supervisors of Butte County has
opposed the formation of the Tahoe Regional Agency Government
from its inception; and
WHEREAS, the presumption-that local self-governing bodies
have failed to take the practical and necessary measures required
to preserve the unique splendor of Lake Tahoe is demonstrably false
and without merit; and
WHEREAS, the one-man one-vote standard universally appli-
cable to a governing body with legislative and taxing power is
ignored and neatly negated by a system of designation rather than
election so that members of the governing body are not directly
responsive. to an electorate within the Tahoe Basin; and
WHEREAS, the Agency is able to enact ordinances that must be
me.t as well as enforced by the local government at their expense
and the agency also has residual power to enforce its own ordinan-
ces without concurrence by the local governments; and
WHEREAS, the present financing arrangement is completly un-
(reasonable if not irrational, and Butte County property owners
(remote from the Tahoe Basin are now paying support in the form of
local property taxes such as may be demanded by this Regional
governing body, on which they have no adequate representation; and
WHEREAS, the imposition of an additional layer of property
taxes, mandated by the state, isolates the position shared by all
California counties concerning the already excessive demand on the
local property taxpayer; and
WHEREAS, any general application of the concept underlying
.this regional government would change our system of government so
completely as to amount to fundamental changes; and`
WHEREAS, this board has found the establishment of the Tahoe
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Regional Planning Agency presents an unacceptable situation with
issues involved which transcend local concern,
NOW, TH EREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED by the Board of
Supervisors of the County of Butte, State of California, that they
officially request the Government Efficiency Committee of the
California State Senate to approve Senate Bill No. ~9$, the basic
purpose of which is to repeal the California Tahoe Regional P7.ann-
ing Agency as it exists, and
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED that the board urges the said
committee to cause a full examinztion of the total impact of regi-
onal government on our representative system.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Butte, State of California, this 1$th day of June, 1969,
by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Dunaway, Reynolds and Chairman McKillop
NOES: Supervisor Howsden
ABSENT: Supervisor Maxon
to county Board of Supervisors
ATTEST:
CLARK A. NELSON, County Clerk
and ex-officio Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors
By ~`c ~ ~-e,ti.,