HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 5625-1971RESOLUTION NO. 5625
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
A RESOLUTION EXFRESSING
0~OSITION TO ASSEMBLY
BILL 1805
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of South
San Francisco that the Council hereby expresses opposition to
Assembly Bill 1805 for the following reasons:
1. Local governments should be allowed to determine
salaries and fringe benefits of its employees. If the State
mandates such a retirement system for safety employees, it
will be only a matter of time when miscellaneous employees
will demand the same fringe benefits at substantial cost to
the local taxpayers or the taxpayers of the State of California.
2. The unnecessary added cost will place an undue and
unfair burden on the local taxpayer or the State of California,
should the State fund the proposed program of earlier retirement.
3. The proposed legislation is not in the best interests
of the citizens of the City of South San Francisco or the
citizens of the State because:
a. It is the opinion of this Council that few
would object to having employees retire at an appro-
priate age, but to mandate retirement at fifty or
even allow the option would meet with objection and
not be supported by the majority of the people of
the State of California.
b. The Act would flood the labor market with
those who retire at fifty and worsen our unemploy-
ment situation.
c. There is no bona fide reason to end careers
in public service at fifty years of age.
d. The experienced personnel would be put to
pasture when it is not necessary to do so, causing lo-
cal jurisdictions to lose hundreds of thousands of
dollars of taxpayers' money which was spent to train
and educate the employees.
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3. (continued)
e. The loss of experienced personnel alone
would cause a tremendous hardship to local jurisdictions.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Council respectfully
requests the Committee to recommend against this unnecessary
legislation and allow local government to handle its own
affairs.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was
regularly introduced and adopted by the City Council of
the City of South San Francisco at a
held on the ~6th day of August
by the following vote:
regul ar
meeting
, 19 71
AYES, COUNCILMEN
NOES, "
ABSENT "
Patrick E. Ahern, Frank J. Bertucelli, William A.
Borba, F. Frank Mammini and Warren Steinkamp
None
None
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