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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
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