HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 01011967 - 67-870 IN TRE BOAR:) OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Requesting )
Inclusion of Funds for Local �
Libraries in the State indget RES LUTIOU p0. 67/870
for Fiscal Year 1968--1969. }
WHEREAS the 1963 Legislature of the State of California
recognized the great need for improved public library- services and
passed the :Public Library Development .pct to provide a. plan for
shared state and local support to libraries; and
WHEREAS the fi.nancial support of this Act encouraged expan-
sion of library services throughout Contra Costa County and generated
great citizen satisfaction; and
'WHEREAS the 1966 ;,.legislature of the State of California
amended the Public Library Development Act to increasethe ratio of
state to local public library expenditures on a graduated scale, and
WHEREAS the amended .pct authorized approximately $3,900,000
in 1967-1968 and $50600$000 in 1968-1969 for state support to public
libraries; and
WHEREAS the 1967-1968 state budget includes $800,000 rather
than the authorized $3,900*000 which amount is inadequate to implement
the agreed. upon Plans of Service; and
WHEREAS failure of the state to appropriate the full mount
authorized for 1968--1.969 will result in abandonment of improved services
or greater expenditure of local tax funds;
BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa
County requests the Honorable Ronald Reagan, Governor, State of
California, to place 402600, 300 in the 1968-1969 budget in order that
the library program may ccntinve to provide the services required by
an informed public.
x AS ED AND ADOPTED this 21st day of November, 1967, by the
following vote of the Beard
AYES: supervisors James P . Kenny, Alfred M. Dias,
Fames E. Moriarty, Thomas John Coll,
Edmund A. Linstheid.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
RESOLUTION No. 67/870