HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC RESO 2001 - 139RESOLUTION NO. 2001 — .139
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY OPPOSING
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE REGIONAL
GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY COMMISSION
WHEREAS, the City Council of National City has reviewed the work and
recommendations of the Regional Government Efficiency Commission ("RGEC"); and
WHEREAS, the concept of RGEC directly conflicts with California's
longstanding tradition of local control; and
WHEREAS, the RGEC plan creates a new level of regional government
founded upon a questionable premise, with an independent board, bureaucracy and attendant
costs; and
WHEREAS, the RGEC recommendation fails to address the most significant
problem confronting regional planning and infrastructure, which is the lack of funding for
transportation infrastructure and operations; and
WHEREAS, a new layer of government will not solve the problems of
infrastructure funding, construction, and operation; and
WHEREAS, the existing system of regional government has adopted
comprehensive, far-sighted and equitable plans for transportation which will meet the region's
needs well into the future; and
WHEREAS, SANDAG and the region's transit districts are effectively building
the projects identified in those plans, within the constraints of existing funding; and
WHEREAS, a new layer of government proposed by RGEC would neither
eliminate parochialism nor provide a more effective process for the development of regional
plans that incorporate and balance all local interests.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IS RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
National City as follows:
1. That the Legislature reject all RGEC plans and recommendations.
2. That, should the Legislature seek to impose regional governance on San
Diego County over local objections, SANDAG's recommendations to RGEC
for inclusion in the latter's proposal to the Legislature be adopted in full,
with the exception of bifurcating the planning and operating functions of
local transit.
Resolution No. 2001 -139
September 4, 2001
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PASSED and ADOPTED this 4th day of September, 2001
ATTEST:
Mic u ael R. Dall ; , City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
74Agm:
George H. Eiser, 111
City Attorney
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George aters, Mayor