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RESOLUTION NO.'/IA
A RESOLUTION BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS URGING THE
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES TO ENCOURAGE STATE SUPPORT OF THE SERVICE COSTS
OF SUPPORTING A COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
WHEREAS, the City of the Town of Los Altos Hills, a purely residential community
of 7200 residents, has within its corporate bounds, and occupying 122 acres or 10
per cent of its area, a school of higher learning known and designated as Foothill
College, a part of the Foothill Community College District, and
WHEREAS, persons engaged in academic and other pursuits on Foothill College campus
number over 10,000 persons, and
WHEREAS, citizens of the District in the cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los
Altos, Cupertino, Sunnyvale and parts of Santa Clara and San Jose are permitted
by law to attend Foothill College, and
WHEREAS, the Town of Los Altos Hills is legally bound to provide, without
recompense, external circulation facilities and police protection and internal
police and fire protection services to Foothill College, and
WHEREAS, such physical support and service requires a current expenditure of
approximately $35,000 annually for police, fire, road maintenance and other
environmental costs to be borne solely by the taxpayers of the Town of Los Altos
Hills, and
WHEREAS, the establishment of a large college within the boundaries of a very
small community without compensatory subventions from all that share college
facilities works an undue hardship upon that community, and
WHEREAS, there is no provision in law to ameliorate the budgeted cash demands
required of the service supporting community, without resorting to an increase
in property tax as the cost of service support continues to increase, and
WHEREAS, there is no statutory authorization for an incorporated city to require
a community college district to provide its own police and fire protection, or
to pay to the host city any of the costs in providing such protection, and
WHEREAS, a community college district may not contract with a county to provide
police protection on a regular and continuing basis, and
WHEREAS, it is only just and proper that those who benefit, enjoy, use or, other-
wise participate should share proportionately the total accrued and continuing
costs in the establishment and operation of any assessment district facilities,
particularly those devoted to education,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of the Town
of Los Altos Hills urges the League of California Cities to sponsor and support
legislation at the State level that would authorize any community college
district to levy a special tax, ata rate not to exceed one cent per $100.00 of
assessed valuation, for the purpose of paying the physical service support costs
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of such district to the host city, or cities, on a reasonable cost basis; and
that all such procedures as are necessary be established to insure that the
physical and environmental service support costs of each community college be
equitable and fairly distributed among all that are entitled to enjoy and share
in its facilities.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a full , true and correct copy of a
resolution duly passed and adopted by the City Council of the Town of Los Altos
Hills, California, at a regular adjourned meeting held on the 18th day of July,
1973.
ATTEST:
City Clerk