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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Res 3180 1982-06-28 I I I, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, RESOLUTION NUMBER ~,,~(? A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH, CALIFORNIA, A CHARTER CITY, REQUESTING THE STATE TO FUND CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE COSTS OF THE 911 EMERGENCY TELEPHONE SYSTEM. Assembly Bill 515, adopted in 1912, established a one-number emergency telephone system throughout the State of California, designated as 911, and required that the system be fully operational by December 31,1982; and Senate Bill 1180, signed into law September 28, 1979, mandated a users tax of one-half of one percent be collected on the telephone billing to each residential or centrex subscriber, which would provide sufficient funding for the installation and servicing of the system; and the City of Seal Beach has now complied with the State's mandate and provided the necessary telephone equipment, for what is deemed an adequate emergency telephone service for the citizens of Seal Beach; and the State of California is paying for the installation of all the emergency telephone equipment except that equipment classified as incremental cost equipment; and the City of Seal Beach has, after due consideration for the life saving capabilities and investigative abilities, vis-a-vis the needs of its citizens, installed an automatic locations indicator which is classified as incremental cost equipment; and sufficient funds have been and are now being collected to cover the costs of the automatic location indicator, if the funds were not loaned to other State accounts, and if the interest accruing to the funds was continued in credit to the Emergency Telephone Users Tax account; and the State of California has borrowed 20 million dollars from the users tax account as well as diverting all interest accrued since 1979 from the monies in the account and placing all of the same in the State General Fund. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Seal Beach does hereby petition that the funds borrowed from the Emergency Telephone Users Tax account and all interest accruing to that account be placed back into that account: and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Seal Beach requests that the incremental costs incurred by the City of Seal Beach, for the instal- lation and monthly servicing of the automatic locating equipment, be refunded to the City of Seal Beach by the State of California from the Emergency Telephone Users Tax account. PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Cq~cil California, at a meeting th eof on the lf~ by the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ATTEST: Counci'members CO,,,"_bm ~ Counc i 1 members