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RESOLUTION NO. 932
A RESOLUTION OF TIIE CITY COU1!CIL OF THE CITY OF ARC"DIA,
CAL lFURIHA, REQUESTING THE BOARD OF SUPB!tVISORS OF LOS ANGELES
COUUTY TO ORDER EXCAVATION OF A CHANNEL IN SANTA ANITA WASE FOR THE
PURPOSE OF CONTROLLING FUTURE STORM ~ATERS FOR THE PROTECTION OF
PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA.
THE CITY COmWIL OF THE CITY OF i1RCiillIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
~ION I. Whereas, the storm of March 2, 1938 destroyed
a c;reat portio::l of the flood control protection work then in place
along the charr:lel of Santa Anita Wash in Arcadia, Monrovia and
Los Angeles County territory, causing said channel to be widened
to a width of seven hundred (700) feet and more in many places,
whereby many rllsidences, gara[l;es and chicken-houses were washed
away by said flood, and
WherE.as, it is believed that unless the condition of said
wash is corrected, additional damage will be cf'.llsed to property
alone said wash during the rains this coming saAson, and
Whereas, more than two hundred (200) of said property
owners along said Santa Anita Wash in Arcadia, Monrovia and Los
Angeles County territory have signed a petition requesting the
Poard of Supervisors of Los Angeles County to provide some type
of temporary protection work along said drainage course.
~he City Council of the City of Arcadia, California,
bereby requests the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County to
provide for the defining of a water course in said wash by the
excavation of a channel that will control the storm waters this
coming season, Ilnd that in addition thereto said Board of Supervisors
arrange for the construction of a permanent channel along said wash
from the mounta~ns to the Rio Rondo River, said permanent channel
to be arran~ed for and constructed as soon as said work may con-
veniently be dO!:le.
SECTION II. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this Resolution.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was adopted
at a regular ml~etine of the City Council of the Ci ty o~ Arcadia, held
on the 16th d~T of August, 1938, by the affirmative vote o~ at least
three councilmnn, to-wit:
AYES: Councilmen, Bo1z, Griffitts, Malin, Murphy and Niday
NOES: None
ABSE~'T: None
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And siGned und approved this l6tb day of Au~st, 1938.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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