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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1238 .. RESOLUTION NO.l238 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA REQUESTING THE OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION TO ESTABLISH A WAR PRICE AND RATIONING BOARD IN THE CITY OF ARCAD IA . THE CITY COUK:IL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. VlliEREAS, the residents of the City of Arcadia are now required to attend to their respective rationing needs through War Price and Rationing Board No.5.12, which is located in the City of Monrovia, California, and WHEREAS, this Council has received froma large number of the residents of this City requests that a War Price and Rationing Board be located in the City of Arcadia for the convenience of its residents, in order to conserve the great loss of time now necessary to attend to rationing needs, as llell as to decrease automobile mileage being driven, and WHEREAS, the population of the City of Arcadia which is at least equal to that of the City of Monrovia, is supplemented by several thousand troops stationed at Camp Santa Anita, and whose rationing needs as well as those of their families living in this city, are now being handled through the Rationing Board located in the City of Monrovia, and WHEREAS, this Council is of the opinion that a Rationing Board centrally located in the City of Arcadia would greatly decrease automobile driving and loss of time from necessary work, and WHEREAS, the City of Aroadia has available a suitable building of sufficient size to house a War Price and Rationing Board at a convenient location in the City of Arcadia, which building would be available to the Office of Prioe Administration without cost to it for rent, light, heat and water, and WHEREAS, a sufficient number of qualified citizens of the City of Arcadia have assured this Council they are willing to devote the necessary time and effort free of charge to enable the Rationing Board to function in an efficient manner, provided, at least two full time paid employees are supplied by the Office of Price Administration to assist in the work of said Board, NOW, Th""EREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Office of Price -1- .. ~ Administration be and it is herebY requested to establish in the City of Arcadia a War Price and Rationing Board for the purpose of serving the residents of the City of Arcadia, BE IT FURTllliR RESOLVED, that in the event the Office of Price Administrat~on does establish a ~ar Price and Rationing Board as herein requested, that the City of Arcadia make available to such Board two thousand (2,000) square feet of that certain building looated on Wheeler Street immediately west of the Police and Fire Station of the City of Aroadia, without charge for rent, lights, gas or water. SECTtON 2. The City Clerk shall oertify to the adoption of this Resolution. a re~'I11 Ill' I he~eby oertify that the foregoing Resolution was adopted at __meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, held on the ~ day of April, 1943, by the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to-wit: AYES: Councilmen Adcock, Jones, Leeper, Nugent and Ormsby NOES: None ABSEWT: None ~.~f~~ - City le _ Signed and approved this 6th day of April . 1943. t- '/?14 ~')___~ . Mayor ATTEST: A>>-;1.( ~~ /' City C erk. -2-