CC RESOLUTION 195RESOLUTION NO. 145,,
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING
AND DIRECTING THS STREET SUPERINTENDENT OF
SAID CITY TO RENDER CERTAIN ASSISTANCE IN
SMOOTHING MINES FIELD NEAR THE CITY OF EL
SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, SO AS TO PERMIT OF THE
LANDING AT SAID FIELD OF THE FORD RELIABILITY
TOUR AIRPLANE SQUADRON, THEREBY ADVERTISING
AND PROMOTING THE SAID CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
AND ITS AFFAIRS.
WHEREAS, information has reached the City Council
of the City of E1 Segundo, California, to the effect that
a squadron of approximately one hundred airplanes will
presently tour the United States of America on an Air Craft
Reliability Tour, to -wit; The Ford Reliability Tour;
AND, WHEREAS, this Council is informed and be-
lieves that great publicity, advertising and promotion
advantages will be realized by those communities in or
near which said squadron will make its landings;
AND, WHEREAS, this Council is further advised
that such squadron will make a landing near the said City
of E1 Segundo, on that certain field which is commonly known
as "Mines Field ", provided that the surface of such field,
which is now fairly level, be farther smoothed so as to
provide safe landing places for a large number of airplanes;
AND, WHEREAS, this Council believes that the
landing of such squadron at said field would very materially
advertise said city and promote the public interest, welfare
and growth of the said city;
AND, WHEREAS, there remains unexpended in the
advertising and promotion fund of said city, as authorized
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by law, an amount heretofore unappropriated sufficient
to cover the cost of the work hereinafter referred to;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Street
Superintendent of the City of E1 Segundo, California, be
and he is hereby authorized and instructed to assist in
the smoothing of said field so as to provide safer land-
ing plaoes for airplanes thereon and that such street
superintendent shall use such of the equipment of such
city, in his department, as may be necessary to render
such assistance; that said official shall keep accurate
account of the cost of such assistance as rendered by
him, which said cost hereby authorized shall not exceed
the sum of � 200.00 unless by further order of
this council;
AND, BE IT k�URTHER RESOLVED, that said official
shall cause said work and assistance to be performed at
the earliest convenient time after written notification
from the Director, or persons in oharge of said Reliability
Tour that the said squadron will lend upon said Mines Field
in the event the assistanoe herein referred to be rendered;
That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage
and adoption of this resolution, shall cause the original
of the same to be entered in the Book of Resolutions of
the said City of E1 Segundo, and shall make a minute of
the passage and adoption thereof in the minutes of the
meeting at which the same is passed and adopted.
Passed, approved and adopted this 22nd day of
June , A. D., 1928.
Mayor of the City of El Segundo,
7X-47 ST: California.
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Cit Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ; SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I. Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the
City of E1 Segundo, Califo m ia, do hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of the
said city is five; that the foregoing resolution, being
Resolution No. 195 , was passed and adopted by the
said Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said
City and attested by the City Clerk of said city, all
at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the
22nd day of June , 1928, and that the same was
so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Gerow, Love and Binder.
NOES: Councilmen None ;
ABSENT: Councilmsn Krimmel and Selby.
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City Clerk of the City oY
E1 Segundo, California.
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