HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES NO 4-33RESOLUTION NO. ·4-33
BE IT RESOLVEO BY TEE COUNCIL OF TEE CITY OF 'BAKERSFIELD,
as follows:
WHEREAS, the major portion of the State Highway funds de-
rived from the Gasoline Tax orig~inates within the cities of the
State, and ~
WHEREAS, the State law at present does not require that
any of such funds shall be retur, ned direct to cities for highway
purposes, and
WHEREA~, to'continue the present system of allocation
under the existing law deprives the motoring public of the fulleat
benefits of the tax paid by it, and
~TEEREAS, the League of California Municipalities has
caused to be introduced on January 26, 1933, Assembly Bill No. llV2
into the State Assembly - intended to remedy and amend said exist-
ing law,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Bakers-
field approve and recommend said Assembly Bill No. 1172 and further,
to apprise~ State Senator James I. Wagy and Assemblyman R. L. Turner
by sending to them certified copies of this reS01ut~ion,' fully en-
dorsing 'the League of California Municipalities' !'Five Point Program"
which reads as follows:
The County to receive one and one-half cent
of the present three Gent Gasoline Tax. The
present method of allocation on 'the basis of
automobile registration to be follo~ved.
In the Countiesi of the State, Gasoline Tax
money shall be distributed as follows:
(a) The County~ shall retain all funds aris-
ing from the rural registration of .the
c oun ty ....
(b) Of the balance, the Cobu-~ty .shall retain
fifty per Cent, and the remaining fifty
per cent shall be divided among the
cities on !the basis of their automobile
regis tration.
.(c)
Present proviSmonS relative to counties*
having less than thirty-five hundred re-
gistrations to be changed to increase
the quarterly guarantee fifty per cent,
or from $5,000 to $V,500.
Prior to expenditure of-sUch Gasoline Tax moneys,
the cities and county shall prepare a street and
highway plan which shall designate the traffic
thoroughfares upon iwhich such~money sh~ll be ex-
pended. The intent Of this provision being-that
Gasoline Tax money is to be expended on the basis
of traffic needs rS. gardless of political boundary
lines.
The Act shall provide authority for interchange of
Gasoline Tax moneys on the part of the cities and
county where such interchange is found necessary
or desirable in a cooperative plan to build and
maintain streets and highways included in the plan.
Legislation now effective relative to automobile
registration to be' amended making it mandatory for
the applicant to d~signate the domicile of his
motor vehicle. The intent of this legislation will
be to establish definitely the rural and municipal
registration within the County.
ooo
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield on the Vth
day of ~arch,.193~, by .the.following vote:
RYES: BEt{SON, BODEIt, CRRLOCK, HF_..RDEIt; .,lO~ItSOIt, I,,1RRT'[N, W'RLTEIIS
HOES: ...... ~ """"
City Cle f Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield.
APPROVED by me this Vth day of ~,,!arch, 1933.
~AYOR of the City of. Bakersfield.