HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 09012004 - 70-717 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Proposed }
Federal Ceiling on Public }
Assistance Administrative } RESOLUTION N4. 74/717
Expenditures . }
�MEREA.S this Berard has heretofore opposed the imposition
of a f'eaoral budget coiling on administrative expenditures for
public assistance programs as proposed by the President of the
United Statins, and
WHEREAS such a limitation has again been proposed, although
at a higher percentage level, by the U. S. Senate Committee on
Appropriations; and
VMEREAS required administrative expenditures vary in pro--
portion to welfare case loads and standards and administrative
requirements and are not predictable from year to year in terms of
an arbitrary percentage ceiling; and
WHEREAS the imposition of the proposed ceiling will result
in an even more onerous burden upon property owners (who are already
very heavily taxed for public education, public protection, and
publicassistance purposes) if administrative subventions based upon
percentages are inadequate in terms of case loads and standards;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE
COUNTY' OF CONTRA COSTA, CALIFORNIA RESOLVED that it strongly apposes
the application of ceilings on public. assistance administrative
expenditures and urges Senators George Murpny and Alan Cranston and
Congressman Jerome R. Waldie to work vigorously in opposition to
said proposal, and
Bi'. IT BY THE BOARD FURTHER RESOLVED that an additional copy
of its Resolution No. 74/336 of June 9. 1974 be forwarded with this
resolution by the Clerk of the Beard to Senators Murphy and Cranston
and Congressman Waldie to emphasize the opposition of this Board to
aforesaid proposed' administrative expenditure ceilings.
PASSED and. ADOPTED this 27th day of October, 1970 by the
following vote of the Board;
AYES. Supervisors J. P. Kenny, A. M. Dias,
J. E. Moriarty, E., A. Linschaid,
T. J. Coll.
NOES. None.
ABSEXT: , None.
RESOLUTION NO. 70/717