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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
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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.
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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
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Signed and approved this 6th
day of
April
. 1943.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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