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RESOILTION N0. 62-107
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA
OPPOSING PROPOSITION NUMBER 23 ON THE NOVEMBER 6, 1962
BALLOT
WHEREAS, The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, State of California,
finds that the Senate Reapportionment Initiative Constitutional Amendment will
appear on the November 6, 1962, ballot as Proposition No. 23, and
WHEREAS, Said City Council finds that Proposition No. 23 would totally
destroy California's existing method of equitable legislative apportionment, which
is based on our traditional Federal system with its protective mechanism of checks
and balances, and would substitute therefor a system whereby representation in both
houses of the Legislature would be based on population, and
WHEREAS, Said City Council finds further that it is a widely -recognized
principle in our great nation that representation in the legislative branch of
government is equitably apportioned not according to population alone, but according
to two factors, to wit: population and territory, and
WHEREAS, It is a proven matter of record that our State Senate as
presently constituted has been keenly responsive to urban problems and the needs
{ of cities, and that many of California's ablest members of the State Senate are from
` less heavily -populated cities and rural areas, and
WHEREAS, There is imminent danger that under Proposition No. 23 control
of our State Government would be placed in the hands of political organizations in
a few heavily -populated counties, and
WHEREAS, There is no apparent justification for a change in the method
of apportionment of State Senate districts, particularly in view of the fact that
under our existing system of legislative apportionment this State has reached a
measure of greatness unmstched by any of our sister states; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, State of
California, does hereby officially go on record as being unconditionally opposed
to said Proposition No. 23, that State Senate Reapportionment Initiative Consti-
tutional
Amendment
that
will
be
submitted
to
the
voters
of
the
State
on November
6, 1962.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED, this 6th day of August, 1962.
Mayor of the City of osta Mesa
ATTEST:
City Cler1k of the City of Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA
I, C. K PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio
Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above
and foregoing Resolution No. 62-107 was duly and regulariy passed and adopted by
the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa at a regular meeting thereof held on the
6th day of August, 1962.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Seal of the City of Costa Mesa, this 7th day of August, 1962.
City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
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