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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1564 , fPI . r ;', - 'f' v RESOLUTION NO. 1564 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA REQUESTING PARTICIPATION BY THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE ACROSS THE SANTA ANITA WASH ON COLORADO BOULEVARD IN SAID CITY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. WHEREAS, Colorado Boulevard is a major high- way extending from San Fernando Boulevard in Glendale to Huntington Drive in Monrovia, a distance of approximately fifteen miles, and WHEREAS, said Colorado Boulevard is a main highway passing through the business districts of Pasadena and Monrovia, and WHEREAS, said Colorado Boulevard crosses the Santa Anita Wash in the City of Arcadia, which said wash carries a large amount of sand, rock and debris which is deposited on said boulevard thereby making said boulevard impassable during the rainy months of the year and during the times when the dam above Foothill Boulevard is being sluiced, as a result of which it becomes necessary iroftraffic on said Colorado Boulevard to be detoured for a considerable distance, and, WHEREAS, apart from the inconvenience caused to the residents of the City of Arcadia and others, it has been necessary for the City of Arcadia to expend each year a considerable sum of money in removing silt and debris on said Colorado Boulevard, a portion of which is deposited thereon as a direct result of sluicing and said debris from the Santa Anita Dam by the Los Angeles County Flood Control: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of fue County of Los Angeles be, and they are <J-'>O \~9 hereby, requested to participate with the City of Arcadia in the construction of a bridge over said Santa Anita Wash on Colorado Boulevard aforesaid and that for this purpose the Road Department of the County of Los Angeles be authorized and instructed to prepare appropriate plans and specifications therefor and an estimate of the cost of construction thereof together with a plan for the financing of the cost of said bridge. SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution. 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 21st day of January, 1947, by the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit: AYES: Councilmen Adcock, Leeper, Nugent, Ormsby and Russell NOES: None ABSENT_: None SIGNED A~m APPROVED this 21st day of January, 1947. 0,#~ Mayor of the City of Arcadia. ATTEST: ~ r; d?~' Ci ty Clerk , -2-