Resolution 2656
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RESOLUTION NO. 2656
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
OPPOSING THE SO-CALLED
"GOVERNMENT COST SAVINGS AND TAXPAYERS PROTECTION AMENDMENT"
THAT WILL COST OUR CITIES, COUNTIES, SPECIAL DISTRICTS
AND ECONOMY MILLIONS
WHEREAS, every day billions ot dollars of critical building, engineering, and design
projects are underway from seismic retrofitting to flood control to water and wastewater
9 treatment facilities; and
10 WHEREAS, State, regional and local governments are currently allowed the
11 flexibility to contract with private firms, on a competitive basis, to design these projects,
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13 WHEREAS, this process allows government the essential flexibility to use private
firms to deliver a project on time and cost effectively; and
WHEREAS, the so-called "Government Cost Savings and Taxpayers Protection
Amendment" completely changes the process by giving the state bureaucracy a virtual
monopoly on designing every project, and
WHEREAS, this will thereby force cities, counties, schools, special districts,
regional governments and even many private businesses to use the state bureaucracy to
design roads, parks, hospitals, health clinics, schools, water and wastewater treatment
facilities, flood control walls and other critical structures - including all engineering,
design, geological and environmental work; and
WHEREAS, virtually every water and wastewater treatment facility has been
designed by private firms, not state government; and
WHEREAS, the proposed initiative eliminates local control and forces communities
to rely on the out-ot-town state bureaucracy for their design work; and
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3 WHEREAS, local governments would not be able to hold the state bureaucracy
4 accountable; and
5 WHEREAS, the initiative gives one state politician enormous power to decide who
6 gets tens of thousands of design and building projects worth billions of dollars; and
7 WHEREAS, the state controller would have to analyze tens of thousands of
8 proposed contracts per year costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not
9 millions, in additional expenses; and
10 WHEREAS, to meet potential workload demands, hundreds, if not thousands, of
11 state employees would need to be employed and paid, even if no projects were underway;
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13 WHEREAS, taxpayers would pick up the tab for billions in extra costs for projects,
lost jobs and more state employees to evaluate projects; and
WHEREAS, this could mean more delays on important projects such as the Bay
Bridge retrofit and the Alameda Rail Corridor in Los Angeles County.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors opposes the so-called
"Government Cost Savings and Taxpayers Protection Amendment" that will cost our
cities, counties, special districts and economy millions.
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution
was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe
Public Utility District at a regular meeting duly held on the 5th day of June, 1997, by the
23 following vote:
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3 AYES: Directors W~llace, Jones, Strohm, Mason, Mosbacher
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4 NOES: None
5 ABSENT: None
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ATTEST:
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Clerk of ~rd/ Executive Secretary
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Christopher H. Strohm, Board President
South Tahoe Public Utility District