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RESOLUTION NO. 61-103 OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO SENATE BILL 789 AND DECLARING THAT STATE AID FOR LIBRARIES IS NEITHER NECESSARy NOR DESIRABLE WHERF2%S, there is now under consideration in Sacramento Senate Bill No. 789, which would create a California Public Library Board in the Department of Education and appropriate $2,800,000.00 from the already overtaxed General Fund for the purpose of making grants to library systems throughout the State of California, under formulas therein contained, in cash on a per capita basis and for the purpose of making book grants to said systems; and WHEREAS, this Senate Bill is similar to Assembly Bill No. 1985, introduced at a special session in 1960, without some of the most ob- jectionable features of said Assembly Bill; and WHEREAS, it is believed that expression from local agencies may assist the State Legislators in arriving at their final vote on this Bill. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the City Council of the City of Santa Ana, California, hereby declares its strong opposition to the provisions, purposes, intent and pattern of Senate Bill No. 789 and to all parts of said Bill, and states as follows: 1. That the creation of new State boards to funnel money from the State General Fund is, in nearly every case, undesirable, unnecessary and a waste of the State funds so used. 2. That special interest lobbying by well-organized small groups should not result in special interest spending of large amounts of money, which, in every case, not withstanding the language expressing no control of. local libraries con- tained in this Bill, results in control of local institu- tions receiving State aid. 3.That need for State aid in the library field does not exist. -1-