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RESOLUTION NO. 60- 36 EXPKESSING OPPOSITION TO STATE ASSEMBLY BILL 198~ AND DECLARING TltAT STATE AID FOR LIBRARIES IS NEITHER NECESSARY NOR DESIRABLE. WHEREAS, there is now under consideration by the Education Committee, Assembly Bill 198~, which would provide certain finan- cial grouts or aid from State funds to library systems which com- ply with min%mum standards and requirements~ and ~hich Bill creates a Public Librarykid Board for the administration of the provisions of said bill; and WHEREAS, it is believed that expression from local agencies may assist the Education Committee in arriving at its recommendation, and may assist the State Lagislators in their f~nal vote on this question; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOL~-ED: That the City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares its finn oppo,sition to the pro- purposes, intent and pattern of Assembly Bill 198~, and that: The creation of new State visions, declares 1. local agency spending for the purpose of Boards to supervise and regulate cont~oling the result and effect of such spending, even through the use of rewards for con- formity, should forever be opposed by the people of the State. 2. That any new State expenditure imposed on top of Cali- fornia,s already depleted State Treasury must be opposed unless i'ts urgent necessity compels agreement among all the citizens and the divergent groups and organizations of the State. At a time when our new State Administration is seeking more taxes for more spending as a s~stem of bal~cing our State budget we must instinctively react against any new grants or gifts of public funds that may justify a request for even more taxes and further spending. 3. We must express opposition to any system of State control of purely local agencies, even a system of bonuses or rewards for approved behavior, fifthly believing t~at only matters of compelling State-wide interest need be regulated from the State Legislature.