HomeMy WebLinkAbout61-087RESOLUTION NO. 6147 OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, OPPOSING ADOPTION
OF SENATE BILL 694
WHEREAS, this Council believes that the very liberal pro-
visions of the State Employees' Retirement System should not be
unreasonably enlarged and firmly believes that this Act should not
be further amended to increase the preference provisions for fire-
men and policemen, referred to as "local safety members"; that many
provisions of the Act provide special benefits to said "local safety
members" which cannot be justified upon any reasonable basis; that
such special benefits are largely the result of the very effective
firemen's lobby, assisted to some extent by the lobbying of peace
officer organizations; that disability retirement for injury incurred
in public employment should be no different for safety members than
for any other employee, and the same cannot be justified upon any
basis; that the majority of disability retirements are unrelated to
the employment of the retired member, and a grant for life regardless
of the amount of recovery and the return of earning ability amounts
to a gift of public funds in some cases for a clever presentation of
some facts and a tutored concealment of others.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Santa Aha
expresses its opposition to Senate Bill 694 as unreasonable, illogi-
cal and a special preference to a part of the public employees group
represented by special lobbies and has a trend to illogically
favor safety members over all other employees in an area where the
type of employment is wholly unrelated to the result sought, and
suggests that not only should this area be no further enlarged, but
that the conclusive presumption that certain ailments suffered by
firemen and policemen are necessarily the result of their employment
should be removed from the Act as conclusions which cannot be in
fact supported.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa
Ana at its adjourned regular meeting held on the 23rd day of March,
1961.
ATTEST:
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, MARION SUTTNER,
do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of
the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the foregoing Resolution
was regularly introduced to said Council at its adjourned regular
meeting held on the 23rd day of March, 1961, and was at said meeting
regularly passed and adopted by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES, COUNCILMEN: Ro~alE. Hubbard, Dale H. Heinl~, A. A. Hall
NOES, COUNCILMEN:
ABSENT, COUNCILMEN:
NOTV0~NG~ ¢0UNOILMEN :
None
None
Stanley C. Gould, Jr., Bob Brewer
C~LERK OF THE COUNCIL
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