HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 6682 RESOLUTION NO. 6682
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY
IN OPPOSITION TO ASSEMBLY BILL 1690 (ASSEMBLY MEMBER MARK
LENO) TO GRANT CITIES THE AUTHORITY TO TAX RESIDENTS'
PERSONAL INCOME
WHEREAS, existing law allows local fire protection services to be provided by, a fire
protection district, by a fire department or company organized in an unincorporated town, or by a
fire department established by a city or county; and
WHEREAS, existing law also provides that, with the exception of a business license tax,
a city, county, city and county, or any other local entity may not impose or collect a local income
tax; and
WHEREAS, the passage of Assembly Bill 1690 would authorize any city, county, or city
and county to form a public safety finance agency for the purposes of supplementing fire
protection or police or sheriff services, and finances needed for capital improvements; and
WHEREAS, any city, county, or city and county that formed a public safety finance
agency by ordinance pursuant to Section 55650 of the government Code may levy a general tax
upon the taxable income of any individual who is a resident of the city, county, or city and county
for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2004; and
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 1690 would also require that, in the case of a local
government that has both formed a public safety finance agency and adopted a local income tax,
that property tax revenue be annually assigned to the public safety finance agency, from the
forming local government, in an amount that is equal to 50 percent of the amount of revenues
estimated to be collected from the local income tax in the first 12 months of imposition and by
imposing new revenue allocation duties upon local officials, the bill would impose a state -
mandated local program; and
WHEREAS, never in California history has a city, county or other local agency been
granted the ability to tax personal income.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY,
CALIFORNIA, DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. To express its opposition to Assembly Bill 1690 and urge it not be passed
by the California State Legislature.
SECTION 2. That the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution and
forward copies to the State Revenue and Taxation Committee and Local Assembly and Senate
Members.
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APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 24th day of June, 2003.
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RICK TREJO, Mayor/
ATTEST:
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KATHLEEN L. NIMSTOKKE, City Clerk
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was adopted by the City Council of
the City of Downey at a regular meeting held on the 24th day June, 2003, by the following vote,
to wit:
AYES: 4 Council Members: Bayer, McCarthy, Perkins, Mayor Trejo
NOES: 0 Council Members: None
ABSENT: 1 Council Members: Cartozian
ABSTAIN: 0 Council Members: None
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KATHLEEN L. MIDSTOKKE, City Clerk