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1982-166 RESOLUTION NO. 82R-166 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM OPPOSING ASSEMBLY BILL 2660. - WHEREAS, the Governing Board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District consists of ten members, nine of which are city council persons or supervisors in the four southland counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside; and WHEREAS, city council representatives are accountable to the electorate and the City Selection Committees of the four counties that appoint them to serve on the District Board; and WHEREAS, board of supervisors members are accountable to the electorate and the other members of each of the boards of supervisors that appoints them to serve on the District Board; and WHEREAS, this system of locally elected officials directing a local agency has resulted in the development of a highly respected air quality management program and a governing board which is responsive to the area's needs; and WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 2660, introduced by Assemblyman Mel Levine, seeks to usurp this historical authority of locally elected officials by altering the composition of the District Board to include four unelected political appointees chosen in Sacramento, thus proposing that accountability to Sacramento is better than accountability to the people of this community; and WHEREAS, this bill would affect only the South Coast Air Quality Management District -- and none of the other more than forty local air pollution control districts in California making this a transparent special interest attempt to weaken the District1s accountability and its air quality program. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Anaheim expresses its strong opposition to AB 2660 and urges the members of the Legislature to reject this undemocratic proposal. THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Anaheim this 30t y of March, 1982. ATTEST: ~.~ ..J.,J . CLERK OF H CITY OF -, WPH: jh !Ill _ -'-"'.. ~ _ " STAT!: 01' CALIroRNIA a:lXJNI'Y CJF O~ ss. ctTY' OF ANNmIM I, LINDA D. OOBERl'S, City Clerk of the City of Anah~im, do hereby certify that tile foregoing Resolution No. 82R-166 was introduced. and adopted at a regular meeting provided by law, of the City Council of the! City of Anaheim held on the 3m day of March, 1982, by the following vote of the It'lE!lbers thereof: AYFS : CDUNCIL M:!MBERS: OVerhol t, Kaywood, Roth and Seynnur IDES: <DUNCIL ~: None AaSEltl': CDUNCIL MEMBERS: Bay AND I Fl:ImmR certify that the Mayor of the City ofl Anaheim signed said RHolutiDn No. 82R-l66 on the 30th day of March, 1982. IN WITNBSS WHEREX)F, I have hereunto set II!Y hand and affixed the seal of the C:tty .of1maheim this 30th day of March, 1982. ~~~~ CITY OF. 'I'J.'1t; TY ANAHEIM (~) I, LINDA D. OOBERI'S, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original of Resolution No. 82R-166, duly passed and adopted. by the ~im City Council on March 30, 1982. ~,,&~ ~ -, -.".- +-