HomeMy WebLinkAbout92-80 - Supporting Report Presented to South Coast Air Quality District ManagementRESOLUTION NO. 92-80
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, SUPPORTING THE FINAL
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMISSION ON AIR
QUALITY AND THE ECONOMY PRESENTED TO THE
SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
BOARD.
WHEREAS, in December, 1991, the South Coast Air Quality Management District Board
established a Special Commission on Air Quality and the Economy, with a broad-based
membership including representatives of local government, environmental groups, businesses,
organized labor, minority organizations, and concerned State and Federal agencies; and
WHEREAS, the Commission was directed to take public testimony throughout the air
basin and to then report on the impact of air quality regulations on the economy; and
WHEREAS, the Commission took public testimony at seven hearings throughout the air
basin, deliberated, and developed the conclusions and recommendations described in this report;
and
WHEREAS, the overall conclusion of the Commission is that significant numbers of the
regulated community - Federal and State agencies, schools, businesses, and individuals -
continue to perceive the District's programs as having an unnecessarily harsh economic impact
on their operations, and the Commission has identified and recommended methods of responding
to perceptions about the District's impact on jobs and businesses; and
WHEREAS, the Commission has not proposed fundamental changes in the District's
goals, but has made recommendations that, if implemented, would more directly involve the
regulated community in District programs, provide for more checks and balances in the
District's procedures, and mitigate economic hardships on smaller businesses; and
WHEREAS, the Commission feels its recommendations will result in policies that will
reduce the impacts of air quality regulations on the economy and ultimately increase the
effectiveness of the District in pursuing its air quality goals; and
WHEREAS, the Air Quality Management District Board considered the recommendations
of the Special Commission at its meeting of August 6, 1992.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
that the Air Quality Management District Board is hereby urged to adopt and implement with
dispatch the recommendations of the Special Commission, including reconsideration of those
recommendations of the Special Commission not yet adopted, including appointment of an
independent ombudsman and investigation of alternatives to Regulation XV.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 17th day of August, 1992.
ATTEST:
ity Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa
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Mayor Uf the City of Costa Mesa
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the City
of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 92-80 was duly and
regularly passed and adopted by the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the
17th day of August, 1992.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the City
of Costa Mesa this 18th day of August, 1992.
ity Clerk and ex -officio Clerk o e
City Council of the City of Costa Vesa
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