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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 691 RESOLUTION No. 691 The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California do resolve as follows: WHEREAS, there will appear upon the ballot at the Special : Election June 27th, a State measure known as Proposition No 2, entitled Unimployment Relief Bonds, which proposal authorizes the issuance and sale of $20,000,000 of self-liquidating bonds by the State, to be loaned to the counties and cities for unimployment relief, and WHEREAS, this measure should not be confused with ordinary bond issues retired from taxes as ordinary bond issues are, and will not be reflected in either the City, County or State tax rate, but will be retired, if not other- wise paid off, by permitting the State to withhold the money borrowed from the counties ' snare of the Gasoline Tax in ten annual installments beginning in the year 1937, and WHEREAS, there are over 900, 000 unimployed in California at this time who with their dependents number 1, 800,000 persons now receiving relief in some manner from cities. and counties, according to State statisticians, and WHEREAS, adoption of Proposition No 2 will relieve the tax-payers of the necessity of appropriating large sums for local relief, and 7,THEREAS, it is imperative that thie bond issue be approved if we are to continue to receive relief money from the Reoonstruction Finance Corporation, heeause of the ultimatum issued by that body unless California appropriated funds for relief of its destitute the Federal Government will refuse to continue appropriations, Now therefore be it RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does hereby endorse Proposition No 2, on the June 27th ballot and urges upon the citizens of this city and the State to exert every effort to obtain a unani- mous vote for the passage of Proposition No 2, as a means of relieving the tax-payers. Passed and adopted by the said City Council at a regular adjourned meettng thereof held on the 16th day of June, 1933. E. G. CONRAJ Mayor, ATTEST: C. R. FURR City Ulerk -2-