CC RESOLUTION 49.,.. • f i • . 7 •
AND GIVING NOTICE OF n MICIPAL ZIRC-
TION TO BE a° e• IN SAID CITY ON • W u:r
SUBMITTING MY OF MARCH, A.D. 1923, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
• TIM qUALIFIRD VOTERS Of SLID CITY,
A CERTAIN PROPOSITION RESPECTING TER MICE TO BE
PAID FOR EXISTING WATER W SYSTE113 WITHIN THE
SAID C3!PY IN THE EVENT THE SAID BOAR BEALL SHE
PIT TO ACqUI99 TER
WARREAS, at an election heretofore duly and
regularly oalled and held in the City of E1 Segundo, California,
certain municipal improvement bonds were authorized to be issued
for the purpose of acquiring and aonstructing a municipal water
works system for said city;
AND WHUZAS, the Board of Trustees of said city, be-
fore the said election and before the authorising of said bonds,
announced that no portion of the proceeds of such bonds would be
expended for all or any part of the plant or equipment of any
existing public utility furnishing water to the said city or its
inhabitants, unless the question of the amount of the purchase
price to be paid therefor was first submitted to the voters of
said city at an election to be called for that purpose and the
approval of a majority of such voters obtained thereto;
AND WHEREAS, the said board has now ascertained the
figures at which the respective plants of the El Segundo Water
Company and the Sausal Redondo Water Company (oorparationsfurnish-
ing water to said city and its inhabitants) may be acquired;
HOW THEREFORE, the Board of Trustees of the City of
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El Segundo, California to resolve, declare, determine and
order as follows:
SECTION 1. That a special municipal election
shall be, and the same is hereby called and ordered to be,
held in the said City of E1 Segundo on Monday, the 12th day
of March, A.D., 1923, for the purpose of submitting to the
qualified voters of said city the question hereinafter stated,
v&ioh said question is, and the same shall appear on the ballots
to be used at said election as follows, to -wit:
Shall the City of El
..
:Segundo, California, acquire
,
:tba existing plants ani water
,
:distributing systems of the
,
:El Segaa4o water Company and
:of the Sausal Redondo Water
,
:Company, as set forth in the
Yes
:report of Messrs Olmsted and
:Gillelen, engineers, dated the
,
:the 6th doW of November, 1922,
:(now on file in the office of
:the City Clerk in the City Hall
:of said city, and open to pub -
:lic inspection) including all
:additions and betterments made
,
:since the date of said report,
: &-xd also including the real
:estate described at the bottom
:
:of thia ballgt , for the sum of
,
:not to exceed $71,000 total,
No
:being not to exceed $62,000 for
.
:the plant, land and equipment
:of the El Segundo Water Company,
:and not to exceed $9,000 for the
,
:plant, land and equipment of the
:Sausal Redondo Water Company?
The land of the El Segundo Water Compmy, above
referred to is located in said City of E1 Segundo, and is
described as follows:
Lots 21, 22 and 23, Block 10, sheet 1, E1 Se-
gundo, as recorded in Map Book 18, page 69,
Records of Los Angeles County.
Lots 3, 4 aznl 5, Block 34, sheet R, El Segundo,
as recorded in Map Book 229 pages 54 and 559 Re-
cords of Los Angeles County.
A portion of rat 3, Block 95, sheet 3, E1 Se-
gundo, as recorded in Map Book 20, pages 22 and
23, Records of Los Angeles County.
2-
The lend of the Sausal Redondo Water Company
above referred to, is located in said City of E1 Segundo
and is described as follows:-
lot 10, Block 3, Tract 1685
That certain parcel of real - estate located
in Section 11, Township 3, South, Range 15,
West, S.B. B & M beginning at the Northwest
corner of Lot 10, Block 3 of Tract 1685;
thence South 89 degrees, 58 Minutes, 10 Seconds
West, along the South line of Pine Avenue and
the westerly prolongation thereof 254.28 feet;
thence South 0 degrees, 1 Minute, 50 Seconds,
East, 73.40 feet to the point of beginning;
thence from said point of beginning South, 0
Degrees, 1 Minute, 50 Seconds, East, 42 feet;
thence South 89 Degrees, 58 Minutes, 10 Seconds,
West, 62 feet.
thence North 0 Degrees, 1 Minute, 50 Seconds,
West, 42 feet;
thence North 89 Degrees, 58 Minutes, 10 Seconds,
East, 62 feet to the point of beginning.
SECTION 2. That the ballot to be used at said
election shall be both as to form and as to matter contained
therein, such as mW be required by law to be used thereat.
SECTION 3. That for the purpose of holding said
special municipal election, there shall be two voting pre -
oincts within the said City, consisting oC a consolidation
of the regular voting precincts established for holding
general state and county elections as follows: -
Voting Precinct "A" shall be ]mown as such and shall
include all of the territory in the City of El Segundo, Cali -
fornis, vdthin the exterior boundaries of El Segundo Precinct
No. 1, as the same were fixed by the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Los Angeles, California., on the 29th day of
December, 19 a, and now being of record in Book 78 -A of the
minutes of the said Board of Supervisors, reference to the same
being hereby expressly made for a more particular description
of said precinct, and the said exterior boundaries forming the
exterior boundaries of the territory included within said El
Segundo Precinct No. 1 shall be and constitute, and same are
hereby designated as the exterior boundaries of said Voting
Precinct "A ".
That the polling place in said Voting Precinct "A"
shall be in the basement of'the Methodist Church, on the north-
east oorner of Mariposa Avenue and Main Street, within the said
City, and the Board of Election to conduct the said election in
said Voting Precinct "A" shall be, and the same is hereby appoint-
ed as follows:
Inspector: Thomas Levi Tuck
Judge: Frederick M. Daley
Clerks: Mrs. Norma H. Stephens, Mrs. Viola Thurston.
Consolidated Voting Precinct "B" skull be knom
as such and shall include all of the territory in the City
of E1 Segundo, California, within the exterior boundaries
of E1 Segundo City Prinoinot No. 2 and El Segundo City
Precinct No. 3, as the some were fired by the Board of
Supervisors of the County of Los Angelas, California, on
the 29th day of December, 1921, an& now being of record in
Book 78 -A of the minutes of the said Board of Supervisors,
reference to the same being hereby expressly made for a more
particular description of said preoinetv,aad the said exterior
boundaries forming the exterior boundaries of the territory
included within said E1 Segundo City Precincts Nos 2 and 3
shall be and constitute, and the same are hereby designated
as the exterior boundaries of said Consolidated Voting Precinct
"B ", said E1 Segundo City Precincts Nos. 2 and 3 being hereby
consolidated for the purpose of holding said election.
That the pow ing place in said Consolidated Voting
Precinct "B" shall be in the Council Chamber of the City Hall
of the City of E1 Segundo, California, at the northwest corner
of Franklin Avenue and Richmond Street, within said City, and
the Board of Election to oonduot the election in said Consoli-
dated Voting Precinct "B" shall be, and the same is hereby ap-
pointed as follows:
Inspector: William H. Lennon
Judge: John Fitzgerald
Clerks: Mrs. Effie R. Magee and Mrs. Ethel Palmer.
All of the persons hereinbefore naned are hereby ap-
pointed as such officers respectively, an& their compensation
is hereby fixed at the sum of Bight Dollars ($8.00) each for
said election.
SECTION 4. That at said special municipal election
the polls shall be opened at 6:00 o*olock A. M. of the day of
said election and sh&3.1 be Impt open until 7:00 otclook P.1a,
of the said day shem the polls shall be closed, except as
provided in Section 3,164 of the Political Code of the State
of Californis.
SECTION 5: Said proposition shall appear on the
ballots to be used at said election in the words and figures
as the same is set forth in Section 1 of this Resolution and
in addition to other matters required to be stated in said
ballots, there shall appear thereon the folloidng:
"INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS:
To vote on a question or proposition, stamp a
arose (%) in the voting square after the word
"YES" or after the worst "NO"; all marks, except
the arose (a), are forbidden. An distinguish-
ing marks or erasurea are forbidden and make
the ballot void. If you wrongly stamp, tear
or deface this ballot, return it to the inspec-
tor of election and obtain another."
SECTION 6: If an elector shall stamp a cross (%)
after the printed work "YES", his vote shall be counted in
favor of the said question or proposition, and as consenting
to the payment for said existing systems of a sum of money
not exceeding the amount specified in said proposition or
question. If he shall stamp a cross (Z) in the voting square
after the printed ward "NO ", his vote shalt be counted against
arrvd
the adoption of the said proposition or question,^as not con-
senting to the payment for said existing systems of a sum up
to the amount specified in said proposition or question. If a
majority of the qualified electors voting on said proposition
or question shah, vote in favor thereof, such proposition or
question shall be deemed to have carried, and said Board of
Trustees will thereby be authorized to pay a sum of money out of
the proceeds of said improvement bonds above referred to up to
bat not exceeding said sum of $71,000 for said existing water
plants and eVatems.
SECTION 7: That in all other respects except as
herein specified, the said special municipal election shall
be oonducted in the manner required by the resolutions and
ordinances of the said City of E1 Segundo, relating to elec-
tions and the laws of the State of Cali Fcrnia, relating
thereto, as far as the sago® mq7 be applicable.
SECTION 8: The City Clerk obs:ll oertiiyr to the
passage and adoption of thi s Resolution; shall enter the same
in the Book of Resolutions of the City of El Segundo; shall
make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records
of the Board of Trustees of said City in the minutes of the
meeting at vhioh the as= is so passed and adopted; shall cause
the Resolution to be publiEhed by two consecutive insertions
before the date of said election in the El Segundo Herald, a
weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed, published
arYd circulated within the said City, which is hereby designated
for that purpose; and he shall conspicuously post a printed
copy of said Resolution at least one week next preceding the
date of said election in three public places within the said
9ity, to -wit, one copy thereof on the bulletin board near the
main entrance to the City Hall in said City; one copy thereof
on the bulletin board at the United States Post Office in said
City; and one copy thereof on the bulletin board at the main
entrance to the refinery of the Standard Oil Company in said
City.
This Resolution shall take effect immediately.
Passed, appxvved and adopted this 20th day of Feb-
ruary, 1923. r�
rres enf pro em or the Board
of Trustees of the City of El
(VAZ) Segundo, California.
ATTEST: "
GIZ7
STATE OF CAMPORNIA )
COUNTY OF LAS A1gMUM � 33
CITY OF EL SEGUNM )))
I, VICTOR D. MOCL=j City Clerk of this City
of El 3eguado, California, do bereby oertify that the
foregoing Resolution, being Resolution Bo. 49 was passed
and adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of E1
Segundo, CaliSsrnia, signed by the President of saia Board,
and attested by the City Clerk, all at a regular meeting
of the said Board, held on the 20th day of ?0ruArT,A.D.,
1923, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the
follovdng vote:
A733: TRMTEFS Binder, 3ueger and imilev
NMS- TRUSTEES None
ABSENT: MMTEES Trustees 3rvson and Davis