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In the Matter of Endorsing the Resolution No. 20031463
Budget Accountability Act
WHEREAS the two-thirds vote requirement to pass a state budget and related
taxes fails to keep spending in check, while at the same time promoting gridlock,
pork barrel legislation, and a lack of accountability that creates persistent late
budgets and large deficits; and,
WHEREAS partisan gridlock leads to huge deficits in weak economic times that
force the Governor and Legislature to make massive cuts in education, health
care, transportation, and other essential public services and raise billions of
dollars in taxes; and,
WHEREAS the Budget Accountability Act will enact a comprehensive reform of
the State budget process that will hold the Governor and the Legislature more
accountable to the People of California;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Contra Costa County Board of
Supervisors hereby endorses the Budget Accountability Act.
PASSER by majority vote of the Board Members present on this 12th day of
.August, 2003.
MARK DeSAULP ER.
Chair
District IV Supervisor
Witness my hand and the Seal of the Board of Supervisors
affhed on this 12m day of August 2003.
JOHN SWEETEN, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and
County A lnlstrator,r�
Deputy
Introduced by Supervisors John Gioia and Mark DeSaulnier