HomeMy Public PortalAboutResolution 63-263 City Council support requesting State Legislature to amend the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act to provide for local responsive representationRESOLUTION NO. 63 -263
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF TEMPLE CITY REQUESTING THE STATE
LEGISLATURE TO AMEND THE METROPOLITAN
TRANSIT AUTHORITY ACT TO PROVIDE FOR
LOCAL RESPONSIVE REPRESENTATION.
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority
Act created a special authority to operate in Los Angeles County
for the purpose of developing a mass rapid transit system; and
WHEREAS, the governing board of the Los Angeles Metropoli-
tan Transit Authority, also known as the MTA, of seven members
are appointed by the Governor of the State of California; and
WHEREAS, the governing board of the MTA has the power and
responsibility of acquiring property by purchase or condemnation
or otherwise, fixing rates, making and entering into contracts
for the purpose of acquiring, developing, maintaining and operat-
ing a mass rapid transit system; and
WHEREAS, the governing board of the MTA has the power to
establish and develop through local municipal entities the
routes of and the system of mass rapid transit; and
WHEREAS, in the performance of the foregoing the governing
board of the MTA has the power to issue Revenue Bonds for the
acquisition, construction and completion of such a system; and
WHEREAS, the vesting of such broad and exclusive powers in
a metropolitan agency dealing with the rights of local municipal
entities responsive to the electorate is not in keeping with our
democratic system and with the development of local home rule
in the State of California; and
WHEREAS, the governing board of the Metropolitan Transit
Authority should be responsible to the local electorate;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That the State Legislature amend the Metro •
politan Transit Authority Act to provide for local responsive
representation on the governing board of the Metropolitan Tran-
sit Authority either by providing for direct election by the
electorate of the members of the governing board or providing a
system of local representation by City Council appointment of
representative members.
Section 2. The City Clerk is directed to forward a
certified copy of this resolution to State Senator Thomas M. Rees
and State Assemblymen Alfred H. Song, John L. E. Collier and
Harvey Johnson.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 25th day of February
ATTEST:
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