Resolution Number 67-4-3-1337
RESOLUTION N0. 67-4-3-1
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO REQUESTING AMENDMENTS TO THE
STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE GAS TAXES
WITHIN LOCAL COMMUNITIES
WHEREAS, in the development of the streets and highways throughout the
State of California, much assistance has been received from the allocation of
gas tax fundsto local entities for the construction and maintenance of their
streets and roads; and
WHEREAS, such program, with the protections felt necessary to provide for
the uniformity and safety, should resolve itself into an administrative allocation
of tax funds back to the cities and counties from which they originated; and
WHEREAS, although the State Government has made every effort to provide a
smooth functioning system of such disbursement of gas tax funds, certain diffi-
culties of delay and cumbersomeness have crept into the system to the extent that
if allowed to continue will make the system entirely unworkable; and
WHEREAS, there undoubtedly are many other areas where proper amendment would
assist in the prompt and efficient administration of the Streets and Highways Code
as it pertains to the functions surrounding gas taxes and the construction of roads
by local entities, the City Council of the City of San Juan Capistrano would be
inclined to urge adoption of measures which would reduce the time and paperwork
levels which presently become more extensive.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of San Juan
Capistrano that the Legislature of the State of California be urged and it does
hereby urge and request the Legislature to amend the Streets and Highways Code
in the following particulars:
1. That the State be required, within a reasonable time, to establish and
announce to all entities within the State concerned with the building and maintenance
of roads precise and definite minimum standards within the field of road, street
and highway construction.
2. If such standards are not adopted, reduced to writing and so distributed
within six months of the effective date of the Legislation, then each city, county
or city and county, employing and constructing its roads under the supervision
of a registered civil engineer, shall design and construct its roads according to
its own minimum standards and the State shall allocate tax funds to such work
without the necessity of submitting plans or specifications for approval by the
State.
3. In the event such standards are established, the local entities shall
abide by the same and shall be subject to inspection by the State either to State
standards, where established, or to their own minimum standards where the State
has failed to act. Any work not living up to such standards shall not be entitled
to the funds theretofore allocated to the project.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be forwareded to
Governor Reagan, the Chairman of the Committees before whom such legislation will
come, to all representatives in both houses representing Orange County, and to
the League of California Cities.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved an� ned`,�y me this 3rd day of
April, 1967.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO )
I, ERNEST A. THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano, hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution of the City
Council of saidCity numbered 67-4-3-1, adopted by the City Council of said City
on the 3rd day of April, 1967, and was so passed and adopted by the following
stated vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: BATHGATE, CHERMAK, OLIVARES and DURNFORD
NOES: COUNCILMEN: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: BUCHHEIM
and was thereafter on said day signed and approved by the Mayor of said City.
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