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RESOLUTION NO. 75-20
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, EXPRESSING ITS OPPOSITION
TO SENATE BILL 275, THE "COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
ACT FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT."
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa favors the
existing law of the State of California (the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act) to
control public agency employer-employee relations, which Act provides
for meeting and conferring with recognized public employee organizations
in good faith in order to resolve any conflicts and to reach agreements
on matters of wages, hours, and working conditions; and
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 275, if enacted, would repeal the existing
system of public employer-employee labor relations and completely
disrupt public employer-employee relations at the local level; and
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 275 does not recognize the substantial
distinctions between public and private sector employers; and
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 275, if enacted, would remove the vital
decision-making power from the hands of locally elected officials and
relegate these decisions to non -elected persons, boards, and commissions,
who are not responsible or answerable to the public; and
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 275, if enacted, would impose upon local
government collective bargaining and binding arbitration systems which
do not take into consideration the fact that public employers are not
organized, nor do they operate under the same standards and for the same
purposes as a private employer; and
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 275, if enacted, would permit public em-
ployees the right to strike, which could seriously jeopardize the
health, safety, and general welfare of the taxpaying public who have a
right to rely on municipal services not being interrupted or curtailed;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
Costa Mesa does hereby express its adamant and unalterable opposition to
Senate Bill 275, which is in conflict with the existing laws concerning
employer-employee relations which have proven to be the most equitable
method of insuring the highest quality of public employment, while at
the same time protecting the rights of public employees and local
citizens.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk is hereby authorized ani
instructed to transmit certified copies of this Resolution to Senator
Dennis E. Carpenter, Assemblyman Robert H. Burke, the League of Calif-
ornia Cities, the Assembly Committee on Public Employees and Retirement,
the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization, and to all of the
cities in Orange County.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 4th day of March, 1975.
ATTEST:
Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
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. 75-20 was duly and regularly passed and adopted
by the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 4th
day of March, 1975.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa this 5th day of March, 1975.
City
Clerk and
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