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RESOLUTION NO. 98-07
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF UKIAH
OPPOSING THE PROPOSED "GOVERNMENT COST SAVINGS AND
TAXPAYERS PROTECTION AMENDMENT"
WHEREAS, 1. Every day billions of dollars of critical building, engineering
and design projects from seismic retrofitting to flood control to schools and hospitals
are underway; and
2. State, regional, and local governments are currently allowed the
flexibility to contract with private firms, on a competitive basis, to design these
projects; and
3. This process allows government the essential flexibility to use private
firms to deliver a project on time and cost effectively; and
4. The so-called "Government Cost Savings and Taxpayers Protection
Amendment" completely changes the process by giving the state bureaucracy a
virtual monopoly on designing every State funded project; and
5. 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; and
6. Virtually every school and hospital has been designed by private firms,
not state government; and
7. The proposed initiative eliminates local control and forces communities
to rely on the out-of-town state bureaucracy for their design work; and
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8. Local governments would not be able to hold the state bureaucracy
accountable; and
9. The initiative gives one state politician enormous power to decide who
receives tens of thousands of design and building projects worth billions of dollars;
and
10. 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; and
1 1. 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; and
1 2. Taxpayers would pick up the tab for billions of extra costs for projects,
lost jobs and more state employees to evaluate projects.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
Ukiah opposes the so-called "Government Cost Savings and Taxpayers Protection
Amendment" that will cost our cities, counties, special districts and economy
millions.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this 16th day of July, 1997, by the following roll
call vote:
AYES:
Councilmembers Ashiku, Kelly, Mastin, and Mayor Malone.
NOES' None.
ABSTAIN'
ABSENT:
ATTEST:
None.
Councilmember Chavez.
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Shori~n Malone
Magor
Col'~een B. Henderson
City Clerk
B:I\RES1
FED.UP
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