HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 1248-1947RESOLUTION # 1248
~tESOLUTION B
(CENTRAL FIRE DEPT. STATION BOND ISSUE)
!.~qEREAS. the central fire department station, now housed in the City Hall building of the Gity of
South San Francisco, is, by reason of the increase of population of said city and the consequent need for fire
department services, inadequate to meet the requirements of said city at the present time; ~nd
~{EREAS, at a special election held in said City of South San Francisco, on the 31st day of August
1945, the qualified electors of said City of South San Francisco authorized the incurring of a bonded indebtedness
of Ninety-Five Thousand Dollars ($95,000.00) for the object and purpose of acquiring, constructing and completing
by the City of South San Francisco, a municipal corporation, a central fire department station and acquiring the
necessary furniture and equipment for the same; and
WHEREAS bonds of said City of South San Francisco in said amount were actually issued; and
~WLEREAS, by reason of the regulations of the Government of the United States of~merica, it became
~impossible to procure all the materials necessary for the construction of such central fire department station, and
said central fire department station has not been constructed; and
~qEREAS the population of said City of South San Francisco has, since the 31st day of August, 19_&5,.
incresed by at least forty (40) p~rcent and a fire department substation, to be located in the portion of saidCity
of ~outh San Francisco west of E1 Camino Real is, in the opinion of the City Council, necessary for the protection
of said city, and the acquisition of an aerial service truck with equipment for the same and a new pumping engine
with equipment for the same are necessary for the protection of life and property in said City of South San Francisco;
and
~i'~EREAS said sum of Ninety-Five Thousand Dollars ($95,000.00) is insufficient to pay for the acquisition,
construction, and completion of said central fire department station and the acquisition of the land for such station
and the acquisition of the necessary furniture and equipment for the same, and for the acq~isitton,cconstruction and
completion of such substation and the acquisition of the land for such substation and the acquisition of the necessary
furniture and equipment for such substation and for the acquisition of such aerial service truck and the equipment for
the same, and the acquisition of a pumping engine and the equi~oment for the same;
.~F~OLVED by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco that said City Council does hereby
determine that public interest and necessity demand the acquisition, construction and completion by said City of South
San Frencisco, a municipal corporation, of the following municipal improvement, to wit: a central fire department
station in said City and a fire department sub-station west of E1 Camino Real in said city, together with lands,
buildings, furniture and equipment therefor, an aerial service truck, a pumpin~ engine and other fire fighting
equipment, works, property, structures and equipment for fire protection purposes of said City of Jouth ~an Francisco;
RESOLVED, further, that the acquisition, construction and completion of said municipal improvement are
necessary and convenient to carry., out the objects, purposee and p~wers of said city; and
RESOLVED, further, that cost of acquisition, construction and completion of said municipal improvement
is T~O HUNDRED EIGHTY-THOUSAND DOLLARS ($280,000.00) and the amount of money which said City of South San Francisco needs
for said municipal improvement, after deducting sa~id sum of Ninety-Five Thousand Dollars ($95,000.00) from
said total of Two Hundred Eighty Thousand Dollars ($280,000.00) to wit~ the sum of One Hundred Eighty-five
Thousand Dollars ($185,OOO.OO), is and ~ill be too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual income and
revenue of said city.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was introduced and adopted at a regular m~eting
.o.f the City Council of the City of South San Francisco, this 7th day of August, 19/,7~ by the followSng vote:
Ayes, Councilmen G. W. Holston, Leo Ferko, Adolph Sani, Emilio Cortesi
Noes, Councilmen None
Absent, Councilman Chas. K. Elder
ATTEST:
DANIEL J. HYLA~ND
City Clerk
The foregoing re~ lution is hereby approved, this 7th day of August, 19&7.
Mayor of the City of
South San Francisco.