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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA RESOLUTION NO. 91-118 RESOLUTION DECLARING FISCAL INTERDEPENDENCY OF CITIES, COUNTIES AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF THE BAY AREA WHEREAS, the City Council recognizes the fiscal interdependence of all levels of government, federal, state and local, including cities, counties and school districts; and WHEREAS, Council recognizes that interdependency at the local level is frustrated by fiscal policies and problems as well as Constitutional and legislative obstacles at the federal and state level; and WHEREAS, Council recognizes that the State and all local governments -- cities, counties and school districts -- continue to experience growing financial difficulties magnified by increasing needs and demands for service and enormous demographic changes; and WHEREAS, Council, therefore, submits that cities, counties and school districts are interdependent because: a. they frequently serve the same people, often at the same time; b. they share many of the same revenue sources such as property tax, sales tax and other state controlled revenues; when one jurisdiction gains, another frequently loses; c. they have the same constituency; 100 percent of the people live in a county and a school district, and the vast majority also live in a city; d. they provide many services in common that might be more effectively performed by working cooperatively: purchasing, building maintenance, legal advice, public information, disaster and emergency planning, recreation programs and facilities, youth and senior citizens' services, building inspection, law enforcement, signal maintenance, personnel, payroll, labor relations, employee benefits, training and staff development, data processing, communications , energy conservation, leasing of buildings or property, vehicle maintenance and corporation yards; e. they often make decisions that impact each other;