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RESOLUTION # 168
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE YORBA LINDA COUNTY WATER
DISTRICT
SUPPORTING PROPOSITION IA AND OPPOSING PROPOSITION 9, COMMONLY KNOWN
AS THE WATSON AMENDMENT
WHEREAS, there is and has been a dire need for restructuring
the tax system of California with less reliance on the property tax
and greater reliance on other taxes and revenues in order to spread
more equitably the cost of financing state and local government, and
WHEREAS, repeated efforts to bring about such restructuring of
the tax system have been without avail and such failure has brought
about the circulation and qualification of Initiative Proposition 9
on the November general election ballot with the avowed purpose of
forcing a major reduction in property taxes, and
WHEREAS, Proposition 9 contains totally unrealistic tax and
bonding limitations that would prevent many water agencies from
completing construction of water projects already under construction
as well as financing and construction facilities needed to meet future
water requirements, and
WHEREAS, the language of Proposition 9 is so ambiguous that a
chaotic condition would result if adopted until massive litigation
could obtain court determinations as to the meaning of the amendment,
and
WHEREAS, the Legislature and Governor have submitted to the
voters as Proposition lA a property tax relief program which will
provide some relief to home owners, renters, and business inventories,
but which is not adequate as a property tax relief program, now,
therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE YORBA LINDA
COUNTY WATER DISTRICT this day of October, 1968:
1. That Proposition lA be supported as an initial step toward
providing long overdue property tax relief.
2. That Proposition 9, the "Watson Amendment," be vigorously
opposed because it imposes unrealistic tax and debt limitations
which will prevent public agencies from financing and constructing
vitally needed facilities required to support the continued growth
of California and because of the fiscal chaos which will prevail
while the courts and the Legislature attempt to determine what the
highly ambiguous provisions of the amendment mean, and devise sol-
utions to problems when solutions are possible.
Dated: OCT 9 1969
Attest:
ecr ary
Passed and Adopted this 9th day of
Signed:
President
October' 68by the following
called vote: Ayes: Wagner, Hastings, Clodt, McGuire, Knauft
Noes: none
Absent: none