HomeMy WebLinkAbout76-034RESOLUTION NO. 76-34
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF SANTA ANA EXPRESSING ITS
CONCERN REGARDING THE METHODS OF
OPERATION OF FAMILY CARE HOMES AND
GROUP HOMES IN THE CITY, AND URGING
THE LEGISLATURE TO AMEND THE STATUTES
APPLICABLE THERETO.
WHEREAS, this Council has been informed that operators
of state-authorized, certified or licensed family care homes or
group homes serving six or fewer mentally disordered or other-
wise handicapped persons or dependent and neglected children
are operating facilities consisting of more than one adjacent
residential properties in the City; and
WHEREAS, such facilities amount, in the opinion of this
Council, to single businesses, having common ownership, control,
and management, and often single kitchen locations; and
WHEREAS, in the opinion of this Council such facilities
effectively evade the stated policy of the Legislature to dis-
burse patients of such homes in order to provide so far as
possible, normal residential surroundings to such patients, and
therefore, amount to a re-institutionalization of such patients
to the detriment of such patients, the neighborhoods in which
such facilities are located, and the City as a whole.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Santa Ana, as follows:
1. That this Council expresses to the Legislature its
concern over the manner in which state-authorized, certified,
or licensed family care homes and group homes are allowed to
operate, as specified above.
2. That this Council does hereby urge the Legislature
to amend Section 5116 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and
other law as deemed applicable by the Legislature, so as to re-
quire disbursement of such homes throughout residential neighbor-
hoods, and eliminate concentration thereof on adjacent parcels
of residential property.
3. That a sample draft of such amendment is attached
hereto as "Exhibit A" and is urged upon the Legislature for
adoption as a means to bring an end to the harmful concentra-
tions of such homes in the City.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Santa Ana at its adjourned regular meeting held on the 22nd
day of March , 1976.
ATTEST:
RESOLUTION NO. 76- 34
PAGE TWO
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, FLORENCE I. MALONE, do hereby certify that I am the
Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the fore-
going Resolution was introduced to said Council at its adjourned
regular meeting held on the 22nd day of March , 1976,
and was at said meeting passed an--d~opted by the following vote,
to wit:
AYES,
NOES,
ABSENT,
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCILMEN:
Bricken, Ward, Ortiz,
Evans, Brandt
None
Garthe
Yamamoto,
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
KEITH L.
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