HomeMy WebLinkAbout61-085RESOLUTION NO. 61-85 OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA,
CALIFORNIA, OPPOSING ASSEMBLY CONSTITUTIONAL
A~NDMENT 23
BE IT RESOLVED by t.~h~.'~City' ~0~ncii of the City of Santa A~a
that said Council is unalterably opposed to Assembly Constitutional
Amendment 23 for the reason that the existing situation in the
state of the law in California does not indicate the need of remedial
legislation of this type; that the proposed Constitutional Amendment
is penal in its nature, depriving the effected employee and the em-
ploying agency, under the conditions outlined, of their rights to
bargain for the service of said employee, and this Council does not
believe that the State of California should legislate on either side
of the issue here considered.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That an attempt to place such a
legislative provision in the Constitution is illogical, irrational,
unnecessary and wholly undesirable. The State of California presently
has the worst State Constitution existing in these United States of
America, overburdened, cluttered and smothered in legislative pro-
visions which have no proper place in any governmental constitution,
and while this Council does not believe that public employees have a
right to participate in a strike against a political subdivision or
or a public agency,and does believe that such conduct should be
prohibited, it does not believe that any provisions regarding the
same should be incorporated in a state constitution and it does not
believe that penal provisions of three-year non-employment status
should be imposed by an employer who has engaged in such unlawful
and undesirable conduct, nor does it beleive that any public agency
in this State should be deprived of its right to offer employment to
any employee for any such reason.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: 'i~nat the Assembly should rather
consider the drafting and submission of a new Constitution for
adoption which would place most of the presently included provisions
in the legislative field where they belong.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa
Ana at its regular meeting held on the 20th day of March, 1961.
ATTEST:
~{K OF THE COUNCIL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
SS
I, MARION SUTTNER, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of
the Council of the City of Santa Ann; that the foregoing Resolution
was regularly introduced to said Council at its regular meetinghheld
on the 20th day of March, 1961, and was at said meeting regularly
passed and adopted by the following vote, to-wit:
Royal E. Hubbard, Stanley C, Gould,
Dale N. Heinly, Bob Brewer, A. A. Hall
AYES, COUNCILMEN:
NOES, COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
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