HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - No. 507In the Board of Trustees
of the City of Lodi, California.
RESOLUTION E2. 507.
In the Matter of Assembly Bill No. 917 Now
Pending in the Legislature of the State of
California.
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board ofTrutees of the City of
Lodi, California:
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That this Board hereby opposes the adoLDtion of the anend-
ment proposed to be made to Section 876 of .the Municipal Cor-
poration Act by Assembly Bill No. 917 now in the hands of the
Committee on Municipal Cor-oorationst whereby certain restrict-
ions would be placed upon he depositing of public moneys and
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extra duties posed upon the Treasurer that are superfluous
and unnecessary,
This Board finds that the :resent Section 876 of the Mun-
icipal Corporation Act is satis:actory, complete and definite
and that the addition of the duty of making a monthly report
in such extended detail as proposed would be a duplication of
matters already the duty of the City Clerk and reported quart-
erly by him. Moreover, such a report from the Treasurer would
be =possible to check without requiring a similar one from
the City Clerk by which to verify his statement of expendit-
ures. In practice, a report in such detail entailing aours of
labor would never be read but would be "received and ordered
filed" by the Board of Trustees with but a cursor g examinat-
ion. It is no protection adding no element of safety to the
present system.
Also, the provision of the said proposed amendment where-
by the Treasurer would be compelled to keep segregated. the
mone
ys received from the operation of municipally owned public
services would be burdensome in the extreme and could not be
carried out without amending Section 878 of the Municipal Cor-
poration Act so as to require the Clerk or other receiving
officer to segregate these moneys when making orders to col-
lecting officers to -Day over their collections to the Treas-
urer, otherwise the Creasurer could not identify the source
of the funds. The words "service given by public utilities
owned by the City" are too general and might well be inter-
preted as to cover sewer, stimm drain and other services
common in all cities although this is not the evident intent
of the proposed act.
The segregation of these moneys would be a step backward
in accounting, each employee's wages and all material used
jointly by the City proper and its utilities would have to be
paid from separate funds entailing needless labor and expense.
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Therefore, in consideration of the fore oing and of
the known fact that this bill is the outgrowth of petty
bickerings in one City in this State, this Board finds that
the amendment proposed is unnecessary and superfluous and
that sixth class cities would be hampered in the ownership
of public utilities whose funds could be applied only to
their operation and extension.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this Resolution
duly signed and attested be forwarded to the Honorable Bradford
S. Crittenden, Assemblyman from this District and a copy to
the Honorable Frank S. Boggs, State Senator.
Attest:-
Approved:-
President of the Board of
Trustees of the City of Lodi.
City Clerk of the City of Lodi.
Certified to be a true and correct copy of Resolution No.
507 of the Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi as passed and
adopted by unanimous vote of said Board on Monday, the seventh
day of March, A. D. 1927.
City Clerkof the City of Lodi
and ex -officio Clerk of the Board
of Trustees of said City.
March 7th..1927.
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Iodising, Calif
Fub,22,1927
To The City Clerk and aU
Department Heads of the
Cities of California*
Gentlemen:
Briofly,,bofore ftaking the request I have to ask of you,
let r.:o explain ray reaoon' •••
For uonths.,enem±os of public ownership have exerted every
possible effort to :liscredit'tho success of our municipally oen od
electric distributing u7stmti.hich has earned a net profit,annu .fly,
of beets een 30 and 4:0 thousand doliaro .thio pw•ofit having been used
for much needed perm:Inont public improvementsTheir last effort
was to pass aii ordinance requiring all moneys 1!eoeived from this
,system to be placed in a sop1rcite fund and 11!.•ohibiti.ng it3 being
used for any other iaurpo:ic than f::.r the mailtalnanco and operation
of the system Tho people liber' ll r sign,Jd a rof .... ondu_ i petition
t:hich ha:, c , .n ed tli�.�' ordir:i• non becoming ef±c,ctivo,.It iu now
a aront that vtoi.e r, seeking t) accomplish their err
s
IBJ i..l iJ kl l:f. the 1 oc,.t. u:.i.t1u. V to pass '?.sucAll y il1. Z..L E , :: J.l 1 , :: hili
contains ;3a':)sH7.1ti..i17.y the provi sion.s of tho ordinance thi:.t has
been hold i'-_ or_.. _ia._ r:,:.a.go by our people :>
If 7)a:;3e3 Assembly bill 110 ,917 will not only embarrass
our city but i3k0 i0o pevont every city which now uses the
profits from a :y pibI'.cly owned utility fpr public purposes
from
doing so 7nJ. wI'. hinL ol. those which may in future do so,
201 cho;.'i, Joaco1=s I sincerely ash ,y:)U.on behalf ..f _.
people of Rede 1.n . to use every effort to defeat the passage of
this measu2: e and that you immediately ask your senator and
assemblyman to vote against its pas;:iagvo
Host sincerely and urgently yours;
Clerk of the Wity of Redding,
March lOth.. 191
Honorable Bradford S. Crittenden.
California'State Assembly.
Sacramento, Calif.
My Dear Mr. Crittenden:
Herewith find a copy of a resolution adopted by
the Board of Trustees of this City at their last regular
meeting recording their opposition to Assembly Bill
No. 917 now pending.
'le would respectfully ask that you oppose the
paxsage of this bill as inimical to the imeresto of
all sixth class cities in this State, for, though the
amendment proposed seems rather harmless, it would be
a source of possible litigation and harrasoment to
them in the administration of public utilities.
Very respectfully yours.
J. F. BLAKELY
City Clerk
March 10 - 1927
Honorable Frank S. Boggs,
State Senate,
Sacramento, California.
My Dear Mr. Boggs:
Herewith find a copy of a resolution adopted by
the Board of Trustees of this City at their last regular
meeting recording their opposition to Assembly Bill
No. 917 now pending in the Assembly.
Should the consideration of this bill or a similar
measure come before the Senate.,we would respectfully ask
that you oppose the passage of the same for, although
the measure is on its face rather innocaus, it is fraught
with endless possibilities for this City to be entangled
in litigation conceriiig funds acquired from the oper-
ation of its utilities.
Very respectfully yours,
J. F. BLAKELY
City Clerk.