HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES NO 05-70RESOLUTION N0. 5-70
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, ENDORSING PROPOSED
RESOLUTION TO BE ADOPTED BY THE KERN COUNTY
REGIONAL PLANNING ADVISORY COMMISSION RE:
HIRING AND FINANCING OF INDEPENDENT KCRPAC
STAFF.
WHEREAS, the majority of members of the Kern County
Regional Planning Advisory Commission (KCRPAC) favor the retention
of that Commission as the Area Wide Planning Organization (APO)
and the hiring of independent staff for the Commission; and
WHEREAS, the majority of members of the Kern County
Regional Planning Advisory Commission also favor financing the
staffing of the Commission from the County General Fund; and
WHEREAS, a draft of a Iproposed resolution prepared in
accordance with the discussion held by the Commission at its
January 6, 1970, meeting has been submitted to the City of
Bakersfield by its member, Councilman Robert Whittemore, for
endorsement as to content; and
WHEREAS, the substance of the 'proposed Commission
resolution compares favorably with the position of the City Council
of the City of Bakersfield on staffing of the KCRPAC Commission
taken at the December 8, 1969, meeting of the City Council;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD RESOLVES:
1. That the City Council of the City of Bakersfield
endorses and ratifies the proposals expressed in the draft of the
proposed "Resolution of KCRPAC Pertaining to the Hiring of an
Independent Staff and the Financing of Said Staff from the County's
~~i'~u~d"~'which resdi~tibh~"i~"~'cheduie~ tO be ado'Dt~d ~ the
Commission at its February 3, 1970, meeting.
2. That the draft of said pro'posed resolution dated
January 8, 1970, is attached and made a 'part of this City of
Bakersfield resolution.
3. That the City Clerk is instructed to forward a copy
of this resolution to the Kern County Regional Planning Advisory
Commission prior to that Commission's February 3, 1970 meeting.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was
passed and-adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 19th day of January, 1970, by
the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN BLEECKER, HEISEY, REES, RUCKER, STIERN, VETTER, WHI1TEMORE
NOES: COUNCILMEN:
ABSENT COUNCILMEN:
ABSTAINING COUNCILMEN:
CITY CLERK and Ex icio Cler~oof~ the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED this i9eh ~day o January, 1970
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APPROVED:
KERN COUNTY REGIONAL
PLANNING ADVISORY COMMISSION
RESOLUTION OF KC~lPAC PERTAINING TO
THE HIRING OF AN INDEPENDENT STAFF
AND THE FINANCING OF SAiD STAFF
FROM TIlE COUNTY'S GENERAL FUND.
WHEREAS, the Kern County Regional Planning Advisory Com-
mission (KCRPAC), at a regular meeting held January 6, 1970,
reviewed the newly enacted planning requirements of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); and
W}~REAS, the new planning requirements of HUD require
that the Area ~Vide Planning Organization (APO) have an independent
planning staff; and
~VHEREAS, the KCRPAC ~:eviewed a plan which proposed the
Board of SuperVisors as the official APO for the Area V~ide Planning
Jurisdiction ' (APJ) with the KCRPAC acting in an advisory capacity
~o the Board 0f Supervisors and the County Planning Department acting
as the technical planning staff to the Board; and
W~REAS, the majority of the cities neither approved or
disapproved said plan; and
W~REAS, after considerable discussion, it was the opinion
of the majority of the members present that KCRPAC, as organized,
should remain the APO for the APJ; and
W~REAS, it was also the opinion of the majority of members
that an independent staff be hired by KCRPAC and that said indepen-
dent staff be finance~ out of the County Genera]. Fund; and "
~V~REAS, the recon'm~endations. of KCRPAC are based on the
following findings:
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, 1. The Kern County Regional Planning Advisory Cornmiss.ion .~
(KCRPAC), as organized, is truly representative of all local govern-
ments within Kern County. KCRPAC, because of its membership, has
broad-knowledge of both areawide and local planning programs, goals,
and problems. The Board of Supervisors, on the other hand, has ·
broad knowledge of the unincorporated area of Kern County but lacks
the detail knowledge and understanding of the many planning programs,
goals, and problems of the eleven incorporated cities.
2. Kern County Cities would have no direct responsibility of
representation on the APO as an advisory connnission to the Board of
Supervisors.
3. The progressively important role that KCRPAC Will occupy
for local governments cannot be overemphasized.
4. An independent staff for KCRPAC would cost no more than
the adding of ~dditional staff to the Kern County Planning Department.
5. All residents of Kern County pay taxes to operate county
government. They will pay for additional planning staff regardless
whether KCRPAC, the Board of Supervisors, or any other agency is the
APO. ..'
.6. An advisory commission as proposed would still require
KCRPAC members to meet regularly, would add considerable more time
for the processing of applications, double the staff time in making
presentation to both KCRPAC and the Board of Supervisors, and require
substantial time from each member of the Board in reviewing and
evaluating each federal application.
7. The relegati6n of KCRPAC to an advisory agency to the
Board of Supervisors could, with the present Kern County Planning
Conunission, be incompatible.
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- 8. The Board'of Supervisors, who also acts as direct~rs-o~
many special districts within the County, could find themselves
acting upon application which they themselves initiated. Present
members of KCRPAC question whether that in situations of this
kind, serious problems as to conflict of interest would'arise.
9. It would be very difficult, if not impossible from a
practical point of view, to transfer this function from the Board
of Supervisors to a repyesentative basis after the County. of Kern
adds additional staff.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE KERN COUNTY REGIONAL
PLANNING ADVISORY COMMISSION that a recommendation be made to the
Board'of SUpervisors that the Kern County Regional Planning Advisory
Commission (KCRPAC), as. organiz,ed, remain the Area Wide Planning
Organization (APO) for the Area Wide Planning Jurisdiction (APJ);
that KCRPAC hi~e its own independent staff; and that the independent
staff be financed out of the~County's General Fund.
KERN COUNTY REGIONAL
PLANNING ADVISORY COMMISS ION
JAMES A. RILEY, Chairman
Dated:
January 8, 1970
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