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Special Meeting of City Council
Council Chamber, City Hall
Huntington Beach, California
7:30 o'clock PpM.
Monday, March 30, 1953
Pursuant to call for a special meeting of City Councilmen,
original of vihich is attached hereto and made a part of these.
minutes, the City Council met in special session and was called
to order at 7:30 o'clock P.M. by Mayor Seabridge.
Councilmen present:
Councilmen absent:
Wood,
None
Talbert, Langenbeck, LeBard, Seabridge
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?uarch 27, 1953
CALL FOR SPECIAL 1rMTING OF CITY COUNCILP:jR%T
Roy Seabridge, P.7ayor
Vernon Langenbeck, Councilman
Harry LeBard, Councilman
Thomas Be Talbert, Councilman
Herbert A. Wood, Councilman
Gentlemen:
COUNCILMEN
ROY SEABRIDGE, Mayor
VERNON LANGENBECK, Councilman
HARRY R. LeBARD, Councilman
THOMAS B. TALBERT, Councilman
HERBERT A. WOOD, Councilman
OFFICIALS
I. L. HENRICKSEN, City Clerk and
Administrative Officer
W. M. CLEGG, Treasurer
C. A. BAUER, Attorney
H. A. OVERMYER, Engineer and
Superintendent of Streets
BEN H. DULANEY, Chief of Police
D. 0. HIGGINS, Fire Chief
You are hereby notified that a Special Meeting of the
City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California,
is called for and will be held in the Council Chamber of
the City Hall at the hour of 7:30 o'clock Poll*, Monday,
TMarch 30, 1953, for the purpose of discussing Civil Defense
organization, and certain proposed legislation at the
legislature in Sacramento regarding the City and County
Sales Tax Resolution.
Dated this 27th day of :larch, 1953•
AT TEST : Mayor o e i y of Hunti n n
Beach
City' Clerk
I hereby* certify that I received the above notice,
CALL FOR SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCI12E1, prior to
4:30 o'clock P.M., on Monday, March 30, 1953•
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Mayor Seabridge reported to the Council that the Civil
Defense Council of the City of Huntington Beach had recently
met and in their discussion and deliberation recommended that
something should be done to reactivate interest in the Civil •
Defense program for the City of Huntington Beach,
Mayor Seabridge stated that there has been some discussion
relative to making the Fire Chief of the City head of the
activities of Civil Defense - as he has more time to give to
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organization of Civil• Defense activities than other department
heads.
Dr,. Whittaker appeared before the Council and stated that
he has nothing more to offer relative to Civil Defense program
than other members are aware of at present.
City Engineer Overmyer, present director of Civil Defense
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for the City, outlined,.in detail, the program set up under the
ordinance and resolution of the Council to organize Civil Defense
programs for the City, and reviewed what had been done to the
present time.
Willis Warner, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors ofl
Orange County, addressed the City Council and outlined at con-
siderable length the present program of the Orange County Civil •
Defense Council and stated that they had come to the conclusion
that a program for Civil Defense could not be stimulated from
public interest and the County is now working on the premise that
the responsibility lies with local government and to recruit the
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personnell from the County employees and the school district
employees, to use them as the nucleus for Civil Defense organiza-
tion and supplement that with volunteers, and they have concluded that
in case of an emergency the problem would be what to do vL th excess
personnell and at present the County is proposing to use the Library •
set-ups to register displaced persons as a result of a disaster.
Mayor Seabridge stated that the first need of the local Civil
Defense organization would be to establish a Civil Defense head.
gi arters and asked that that be given some study for recommendation
at the next 6ouncil meeting, . •
Willis Warner further suggested that the local Civil Defense
organization should feel their way along and not go into it too
strong until they had found the pattern of organization that they
wish to follow, and thought that the suggestion that Fire Chief
Higgins take over the directorship of Civil Defense locally was a
good suggestion. •
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Mayor Se&bridge left the thought with the -Council members
in regards to making Higgins as the Director of Civil Defense for
the City of Huntington Beach, and to vwrk with the Building
Committee to pick out a suitable place for Civil Defense head-
quarters.
Mayor Seabridge and Councilman Wood related to the City
Council their eapperience at the meeting held at Salcramento
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relative to the City and County Sales Tax Legislation now before
the Legislature, and felt that the resolution that was presented
was of a high pressure nature and did not represent the feelings
or the opinions of the representatives of the Cities at that
meet ing.
• It was suggested that City Clerk Henricksen and City Attorney
Bauer draw up a resolution recommending to the Board of- Directors
of the California League of Cities that Executive Director Richard
Graves be removed due to his stand and attitude on the Sales Tax
Legislation, and °draw up another resolution opposing the City and
County Sales Tax Bill now before the Legislature and that copies
be directed to Assemblyman Lyons and Senator Murdy.
• Mayor Seabridge pointed out to the City Council that this
meeting was called merely to'discuss Civil Defense and sdles tax
l:e'gislation and no action could be taken and that they should do
some thinking on the matters discussed and be prepared to act 'at the
next regularmmeeting of the City Council.
The discussions at this meeting were transcribed on the Sound.
scriber Recorder.
On motion by Langenbeck seconded by Wood the special meeting of
the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach adjourned.
ATTEST:
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uiLzly ulerx ana ex-o1-.t-Jcio clerk
o the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California