73-ZRESOLHTION NO. 7~ -~
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA RELATING TO
THE FLORIDA STATE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING
ACT OF 1972, ITS COMPANION LEGISLATION, AND
REGIONAL GOVERNMENT.
WHEREAS, the Florida State Comprehensive Planning Act of 1972
authorized: (a) the establishment of particular geographical boundar-
ies within the State of Florida (ostensively for the purpose of state
agency planning) and, (b) the creation of the Division of State
Planning to coordinate these regions, and
WHEREAS~ the Governor and his administration have divided the
State of Florida into ten multi-county regions or "sub-states" in
which appointed regional councils and agents will assume authority
previously and properly reserved to elected municipal and county
officials, and will assume control and regulation over land, busi-
ness, developments, utilities, production, services, property and
people, which control and regulation has never been delegated to
any government by the people of Florida, and
WHEREAS, the Florida State Comprehensive Planning Act of 1972,
and its companion bill, the Florida Environmental Land and Water
Management Act of 1972, together with a funding bill to be introduced
in the 1973 legislative session to be known as the Florida State
Multi-County Planning Commission Act of 1973 will establish Regional
Government in the State of Florida, and
WHEREAS, the ten regional divisions of the State of Florida
and their respective regional councils correspond in function, and
regulation with the recent division of the Hnited States into ten
federal regions by virtue of Executive Order 11647 - Federal
Regional Councils promulgated by the President on February 12, 1972,
and
WHEREAS, the Federal Region - Sub-State regional government
system will seize the power and authority which properly belongs to
municipal and county governments and even to sovereign states, and
will bypass these traditional and constitutional governmental bodies,
and will usurp the rights and freedoms of individual citizens
guaranteed by the Constitution of the State of Florida and the
Constitution of the Hnited States of America,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Boynton Beach, Florida, that:
1. We urge the repeal of the F~rida State Comprehensive
Planning Act of 1972.
2. We urge the repeal of the Florida Environmental Land
a~ Water Management Act of 1972.
5. We urge the defeat of the Florida State Multi-County
Planning Commissions Act of 1973 and any other legislation intro-
duced to create, expand, implement, or fu~ regional government in
the State of Florida.
4. We request that a joint committee of Ge Florida House
of Representatives and the Florida Senate be created to conduct a
thorough investigation into regional government, a~ the constitu-
tionality of the actions of Ge federal agencies in relation thereto.
5. We urge every elected municipal official a~ every
county commissioner to join with us in respectfully requesting our
state legislators to take all necessary action to defeat regionalism
and re~rn government to the people through their properly elected
representatives.
6. We direct that a copy of this resolution be sent to every
Palm Beach County State Legislator, County Commission, County Sheriff
and Municipal Government in Palm Beach County.
PASSED AND A~PTED this ~'~ day of April, A.D. 1973.
CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA
Councilman ~ /~
Couneilman
ATTEST:
City Clerk::'
(CORP. SEAL)