HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES NO 2-48RESOLUTI0~NO. 2-48
WHEREAS, the 'City of Bakersfield is a municipal corporation
organized. and existing under the la~s of the State of Cslifornia v~ith
a metropolitan population of approximately eighty thousand and situated
in the center of a rich agricultural and industrial area; and
WHEREAS, there is an acute need for the immediate construction
of ISA~ELL.A DA~,~, which is designed to develop complete reservoir control
of the flood waters of the Kern River flowing through the center of
the aforementioned agricultural and industrial area, in order to prevent
damage amounting to several millions of dollars to valuable property
holdings both inside and immediately adjacent to the City of Bakersfield,
which at times of peak flow has been prevented only by the most extreme
efforts; and
V~iEREAS, in past years, valuable property has been damaged
and destroyed and lives have been lost in areas not immediately adjacent
to the City of Bakersfield as a result of disastrous floods of the
Kern River; and
WHEREAS, the acute need for the construction of said
DA~ has been amply demonstrated by investigations and reports of the
Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, and evidence taken at hearings before
the ~lood Control Committee of the House of Representatives and the
Senate Commerce Committee, andas the date of the next major i~ood
approaches, and the population of this coinunity continues to grow,
and as the property liable to damage and destruction by the flood waters
of the Kern River continues to mount, the arguments in support of the
immediste construction of IS.ABELL.a D~ become increasingly powerful; and
WHEREAS, the construction of IS.AB~L.a D.a~ was authorized by
the Flood Control I&ct of 1954·;I and
WHEREAS, there has been included in the proposed federsl
budget recently submitted by President Truman to the Congress of t+he
United States, an item calling for the exp.enditure of three million
dollars for the furtherance of this' badly needed project.
NOW, TP,~,REFORE, BE i~::RESOL'VED by the Council of-the City oi'
Bakersfield, County of Kern, State of California, that the Congress
of the bnited States is hereby urged to approve that item in the
proposed federal budget which calls for the expenditure of three million
dollars toward the further cons~uction of the tS,&BELL.~ D.~,: project~
in order that additional great losses of property .and possible further
loss of lives may be averted.
BE IT B~jRT~ER RESOLVED't~at a copy of this Resolution be
forwarded to the Honorable Alfred J. Elliott~ Congressman from the
Tenth Congressional District, and the Honorable Sheridan Downey and
the Honorable William F. Knowland~ Senators, of the State of California.
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I HEREBY CERTI~y that the foregoing Resolution was
passed and adopted by the Council of the city of Bakersfield
at a regular meeting thereof held on ~he 19th day of January,
1948, by the following vote:
· Cit~ C1
o Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersm=ield.
~IAYOR of the City of Bakersfield.
........ 'P '-~ and Santa ~ R~:i!~.vay Company
.;.:LEz~J,~S ~ the ~tchison~
on ~uSust!~ ] os.7 filed application l,Yo 296Z9 with the ~blic
Uti!ities Conm~ission o2 the State of Ca!ifornia~ for abolition
the "D" Street crossinZ' over its Bakersfield yard tracks in the
~itv of Bakersfield ~ and
"~'~'~'" said Commission by order dated i~ovember 2
autlqorized said atchison~ Topeka and .Santa Fe Rai.!way Company to
abolish said crossin,S by physicX ctosing~ the entire expense
remov~ of said crossing to be borne by said 2ai-!'t,~ay Company.
,u~_~s Council does hereby
give its consent to' the abolition of said crossing by physical
closing~ subjec% to the terms of the order of the ~tb!ic Utilities
Commission dated ],Yovember 23~
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~-t~ the foregoing'Resolution uas passed
I ~32~.IBY CERTIFY un~u
and adopted 3y the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regt!ar
meeting thereof held on the lOth day of January~ 19~8~ by the follow-
ing vote:
&YES: CARNAt(iS, CROSS, t~gEHN, RYbER, SENtON, VANDERLS, VERCAMMEVi
' ........... City C:!erk-and Ex-Officio C!erk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield.