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RESOLUTION NO. 976.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA
REQUESTING FROM THE DEPART:':ENT OF PUBLIC rIORKS OF THE STATE OF
CALIFCRNIA AN EXTEIlSION OF TIME IN WHICH TO COI.1PLETE CERTAIN nORK
PROVIDED TO BE DONE IN A CERTAIN AGREEI,iEllT EXECUTED BY THE CITY OF
ARCADIA ON NOVE,JBER 15, 1938 AND EXECUTED BY THE DEPART"IENT OF PUBLIC
WORKS OF THE STATE OF CALIFOR~IA ON NOVEMBER 18, 1938.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES RESOLVE AS
FOLLO\iS:
SECTION 1. ~1HEREAS, the Director of Finance of the State
of California did on the 16th day of November, 1938, authorize in
writing the expenditure of the sum of not to exceed Nine Thousand
(~9,000.OO) Dollars from the emerGency fund provided for in item
189 of the 1937, Budget Act ( Statutes of 1937, p. 423) for the
following purposesj (a) for the construction of a swale crossing on
Valnett Avenue over Santa Anita Wash between Eighth and Tenth Avenues,
and (b) for the repair and rehabilitation of bank protection works
in and along Sierra Madre Wash between Grand View Avenue and Santa
Anita Avenue, and
VffiKREAS, that certain agreement made and entered into between
the City of Arcadia and the Department of Public Worka of the state
of California on or about the 18th day of November, 1938, and approved
by said Director of Finance, provides in part that said work might be
performed, wholly or in part, in conjunction with a Works Administ~ation
Project, subject to the ap"roval of said Department of Public Works, and
\VHEREAS, pursuant to said agreement the repair and rehabilitation
of bank protection works in and along Sierra Madre Wash between Grand
View Avenue and Santa Anita Avenue was included in a Works Administration
Project whioh was heretofore approved by the Department of Public
Works and by the Los Angeles Office of Works Progress Administration
b~t that the Office of the Works Project Administration in Washington
D.C. has as a oondition of it's approval, demanded that the City of
Arcadia furnish money towards said job in an amount greater than the
City was able to provide, and
WHEREAS, arrangements have now been made between the City
of Arcadia and the Los Angeles County Flood Control whereby the
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entire Sierra Madre Wash Project will be sponsored by the Los Angeles
County Flood Control; that by so doing any money in addition to the
unexpended portion authorized from the emergency fund will be supplied
to the Works Project Administration by the Los Angeles County Flood
Control, and
ViHEREAS, arrangements have been practically completed to
begin work on the Project forthwith, and
\'lIfEREAS, the time for completion of the work under the
agreement between the City and the Department of Public Works expires
on July 16, 1939, and
\1.ffZREAS, this Council believes that all of said work will
be completed within a period of six (6) months from July 15, 1939,
NmJ, THER~ORE, it is hereby ordered that the Mayor and
City Clerk be and they are hereby autborized for and on behalf of the
City of Arcadia to make written application to the Department of Public
Works for an extension of six (6) months from and after the 15th day
of July, 1939, in which to complete said ~ork provided for in said
Agreement.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy Of this Resolution be
forwarded with said application for extension.
SECTIO~.
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 meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia held
on the ~day of July, 1939, by the affirmative vote of at least
three Councilmen" to-wit:
AYES: Councilmen Bolz, Griffitts, Leeper and Perkins
NOES: None
ABSENT: NOlle
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SiGned and approved this 5th day of
July, , 1939.
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ATTEST: ..r
./ AJ-~ i 1X;::ct- ~
./ City 'Clerk '
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