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RESOLUTION
No. 576
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE CITY OF HUNTI �'GTON BEACH
FAVORING CENTRALIZATION OF HEADS
OF ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AT STATE
CAPITAL.
The Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington
Beach do resolve as follows :
Whereas ; the people of the City of Sacramento did,
upon the 5th day of April, 1913, authorize a bond issue of
Seven Hundred Thousand ($700,000.00) flollars with which to
purchase the two blocks Ninth and Tenth, L to N streets,
in said City, and
WHEREAS, said blocks were thereafter purchased and
presented to the State of California upon which to erect
additional buildings for the purpose of housing state depart-
ments, and
WHEREAS, up to this time the people of said city
have remained passive upon the removal of state departments
from said city to other cities of the state because of short-
age of housing facilities, but
WHEREAS, the state has now caused to be erected
upon said lands deeded to the State two magnificent office
buildings and no shortage of housing facilities is now apparent
and
WHEREAS, because of the deeding of the two said
blocks of land to the state, the same has been removed from
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the tax rolls of said City, and
WHEREAS, it is the direct provision of the law
that Sacramento shall be the State Capital, and
WHER7AS, Senate Bills numbered from 778 to 780,
inclusive, and from 798 to 801, inclusive, provide for the
return to the State Capital of the departments, boards and
bureaus.,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council
of the City of Huntington Beach go on record as heartily in
favor of the passage of measures providing for centralization
of head offices and burueaus of State Departments at State
Capital of California, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Council use all
honest endeavors to bring about the passage of such measures,
and
E IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to every Assemblymen and State Senators re-
presenting. tnis llistrict in the State Legislature of Calif-
ornia, - with the request that such legislators aid in every
honorable way the passage of such measures.
Passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees of the
City of Huntington Beach, this 7th day of March, 1927.
CHAS. G. BOSTER
President of the board of Trustees
of the City of Huntington Beach.
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ATTEST.
OR FURR
City lerk and Ex-officio Clerk
of the City of Huntington Beach.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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COUNTY OF ORANGE
I, C. R. Furr, City Clerk and_ Ex--.officio Clerk of
the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was read to the
Board of Trustees of said City, at a regular meeting thereof,
held on the 7th day of Larch, 1927, and was by said Board of
Trustees passed and adopted by the following votes :
AYES Trustees MITCHL, SHANK, HARRIS, BOSTER
NOES Trustees NONE
Absent Trustees WHARTON
CR FURR
City Clerk and Ex- officio Ulerk
of the Board of Trustees of the
City of Huntington Beach, Orange
County, California.
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