HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 049-1962RESOLUTION NO.
WHEREAS, The City Council of the City of
BURLINGAME
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 dis-
tricts, particularly in view of the fact that under our exist-
ing system of legislative apportionment this State has reached
a measure of greatness unmatched by any of our sister states;
now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the City Council of the City of
BURLINGAME
State of California, does hereby
officially go on record as being unconditionally opposed to
said Proposition No. 23, the State Senate Reapportionment
Initiative Constitutional Amendment that will be submitted to
the voters of the ,State on November 6, 1962.
MAYOR
I, Herbert K. White, do hereaby certifyPtatthe foregdn g
Resolution was introduced and adopted at a rmeeting of the
Burlingame City Council held on the 20th of August, 1962, and
adopted by the following Roll Call vote:
Ayes: Councilmen: Johnson -Lorenz
Noes: Councilmen: Martin
Absent Councilmen: Crosby -Morgan
HERBERT K. WHITE
City Clerk