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WPM:n~ 3-18-76 RESOLUTION NO. 76-35 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA OPPOSING SENATE BILL 1500 CSONG) COURT REORGANIZATION WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1500 (Song) has been introduced to the California State Senate; and WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1500 is presently before and being considered by the Senate Conunittee on Judiciary; and WHEREAS, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Senator Song, is author of Senate Bill 1500; and WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1500 has already received public support of the Administration; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana finds satisfactory the existing law of the State of California govern- ing the organization of the lower state courts; and WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1500, if enacted, would substan- tially alter the present organization of the judiciary in that it: eliminates municipal courts, creating only a "single trial court" of general jurisidiction for the entire state, 2. removes from the county to the state, the financial support of the judicial system, and e diverts city revenue derived from Vehicle Code fines and forfeitures presently allocated to cities under Section 1463 of the California Penal Code to the state to support the new organization. Such division of city revenues amounts to approximately $30,000,000.00 state- wide, $2,000.000.00 from the other cities of Orange County and $340,000.00 from the City of Santa Ana alone; and WHEREAS, the purpose of the present law embodied in Sec- tion 1463 of the California Penal Code as adopted in 1949 was that when the cities gave up control of their own, then existing, city and municipal court system, they would not lose any of the revenue derived therefrom; and WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1500, if enacted, would be a sub- stantial detriment to city government: 1. financially through diversion of the afore- mentioned funds and 2. politically through interference with local govern- mental policies and spending by indirect methods.