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RESOLUTION NO. 1185
WHEREAS. the City Council of the City of Seal Beach,
State of California, finds that the Senate Reapportionment Initia-
tive 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 'ederal
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 tvo 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 responfive to urban
problems and the needs of cities, and that many of California's
ablest members of the State Senate are fram less heavily-populated
vities 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 districts, particularly
in view of the fact that tinder our existing system of legislative
apportionment this State has reached a measure of greatness unmatched
by any of our sist!r states;
now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City ot Seal Beach,
~tate 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.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF SEAL BEACH )
I, F. W. HICKMAN, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk ot the City
Council of the City of Seal Beach, do hereby certify to the passage and
adoption of the foregoing Resolution at a regular meeting thereof held
on the 6th day of August, 1962, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Councilmen: Nescher, Anderson, Leonard, Gemmill
Councilmen: None
Councilmen: Gibbs
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