HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 6157 RESOLUTION NO. 6157
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY
ADOPTING AN OPPOSED POSITION TO PROPOSITION 224, STATE-
FUNDED DESIGN AND ENGINEERING SERVICES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS:
WHEREAS, every day billions of dollars of critical building, engineering and
design projects are underway from seismic retrofitting to flood control to schools
and hospitals.
WHEREAS, state, regional and local governments are currently allowed the
flexibility to contract with private firms, on a competitive basis, to design these
projects.
WHEREAS, this process allows government the essential flexibility to use
private firms to deliver a project on time and cost effectively.
WHEREAS, the "Government Cost Savings and Taxpayers Protection
Amendment" completely changes the process by giving the state bureaucracy a
virtual monopoly on designing every project.
WHEREAS, this will thereby force cities, counties, schools, special districts,
regional governments and even many private business to use the state bureaucracy
to design roads, parks, hospitals, health clinics, schools, water treatment facilities,
flood control walls and other critical structures---including all engineering, design,
geological and environmental work.
WHEREAS, virtually every school and hospital has been designed by private
firms, not state government.
WHEREAS, the proposed initiative eliminates local control and forces
communities to rely on the out-of-town state bureaucracy for their design work.
WHEREAS, local governments would not be able to hold the state bureaucracy
accountable.
WHEREAS, the initiative gives one state politician enormous power to decide
who gets tens of thousands of design and building projects worth billions of dollars.
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WHEREAS, the state controller would have to analyze tens of thousands of
proposed contracts per year costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, if
not millions, in additional expenses.
WHEREAS, to meet potential workload demands, hundreds, if not thousands, of
state employees would need to be employed and paid, even if no projects were
underway.
WHEREAS, taxpayers would pick up the tab for billions in extra costs for
projects, lost jobs and more state employees to evaluate projects.
WHEREAS, this could mean more delays on important projects such as the Bay
Bridge retrofit and the Alameda Rail Corridor in Los Angeles County.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Downey, California, does
resolve as follows: To adopt an "opposed" position to Proposition 224.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 14th day of April 1998.
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Mayor, BARBARA J. RI 7 Y
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i, Clerk, JUDITH E. MC DONNELL
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted at a
regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Downey thereof held on the
14th , day of April , 1998, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: 5 Councilmembers McCarthy, �McCaughan, Lawrence, Brazelton, Riley
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NOES: 0 Councilmembers None
ABSTAINED: 0 Councilmembers None
ABSENT: U Councilmembers None
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