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RESOLUTION NO. 6147 OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, OPPOSING ADOPTION OF SENATE BILL 694 WHEREAS, this Council believes that the very liberal pro- visions of the State Employees' Retirement System should not be unreasonably enlarged and firmly believes that this Act should not be further amended to increase the preference provisions for fire- men and policemen, referred to as "local safety members"; that many provisions of the Act provide special benefits to said "local safety members" which cannot be justified upon any reasonable basis; that such special benefits are largely the result of the very effective firemen's lobby, assisted to some extent by the lobbying of peace officer organizations; that disability retirement for injury incurred in public employment should be no different for safety members than for any other employee, and the same cannot be justified upon any basis; that the majority of disability retirements are unrelated to the employment of the retired member, and a grant for life regardless of the amount of recovery and the return of earning ability amounts to a gift of public funds in some cases for a clever presentation of some facts and a tutored concealment of others. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Santa Aha expresses its opposition to Senate Bill 694 as unreasonable, illogi- cal and a special preference to a part of the public employees group represented by special lobbies and has a trend to illogically favor safety members over all other employees in an area where the type of employment is wholly unrelated to the result sought, and suggests that not only should this area be no further enlarged, but that the conclusive presumption that certain ailments suffered by firemen and policemen are necessarily the result of their employment should be removed from the Act as conclusions which cannot be in fact supported. -1-