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CITY OF
San Bernardino
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
W. R "BOB' HOLCOMB
MAYOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact
Velarde,
Assistant
Person: Lorraine
Mayor's Executive
(714)384-5051
Dated: October 5, 1990
stating that action by the state Legislature "will
potentially throw the budget of virtually every city in San
Bernardino County out of Balance," Mayors of nearly every
local city have invited the area's state Senators and
Assemblymen to a joint public discussion of SB 2557 to ask
for their firm commitment to vote for its repeal. The
invitation followed a meeting at San Bernardino city Hall,
attended by the Mayors and representatives of ten cities.
This measure, passed in response to the State budget
crisis, gives counties the power to force cities to pay very
substantial fees for every prisoner, arrested by City police
and delivered to county jail. Counties were given this power
in order to make up for funds which the State government took
away from them.
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"Since cities have no other place to put their
prisoners, every city in the county will be forced to cut
back on already lean services to fund these fees," the Mayors
indicated in their letter.
It continued, "The Legislature's action in this regard
is outrageous. In effect, you have passed on to cities who
have spent 13 austere years reducing staff and services to
deal with Proposition l3...problems which should have been
solved in Sacramento."
As SB 2557 is retroactive to July 1, 1990, when it takes
effect in January of 1991, City budgets which were balanced
for the year, will have to be slashed to make up for millions
of dollars in unexpected monies which must be paid to the
County.
The meeting will be held Wednesday, October lOth, at
11:00 a.m. during a a break in the SANBAG meeting at the
Feldheym Library, 555 West 6th Street, San Bernardino.
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