CC RESOLUTION 2471II.9Z
RESOLUTION NO. 2471
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, PETITION-
ING THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY
OF LOS ANGELES TO ASSIGN THE HIGHEST POSSI-
BLE PRIORITY TO CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW
COURT BUILDING.
WHEREAS, the City of E1 Segundo is situated in the Inglewood
Judicial District, and the E1 Segundo police officers testify in the Inglewood
Municipal Court in criminal cases and the citizens of El Segundo are also
served by that court in civil cases; and
WHEREAS, there are only fifty -four seats available to the
public in each courtroom in the courthouse and there are approximately
175 to 200 persons present at Master Calendar call to be seated in the fifty -
four seats; and
WHEREAS, it is sometimes necessary for a person to push
and work his way through the congestion of persons to the front of the court-
room when his name is called; and
WHEREAS, there are a number of parties and witnesses who
can not get inside the door to the Master Calendar courtroom to hear the
call of the case and they have, on occasion, waited outside the courtroom
for hours after their cases have been continued or otherwise disposed of,
which, in the case of police witnesses, results in a waste of taxpayers,
funds in terms of pay for unnecessary time spent in court; and
WHEREAS, the two "holding cells" in the courthouse were
each designed to hold a maximum of twenty -five persons, and the male
"holding cell" has had as many as seventy persons confined therein, creating
a condition which could result in charges of inhuman treatment of prisoners;
and
WHEREAS, the Inglewood Fire Department has, on October 18,
1972, served official written notice that the fire exits from the second floor
of the courthouse are inadequate; that a serious fire hazard exists; and has
also served notice of intended legal action to close off sections of the court
building; and
WHEREAS, the County of Los Angeles will this month remodel
an existing room on the second floor of the courthouse into an additional
courtroom and this will add to the congestion and the hazard that already
exists due to inadequate fire exits; and
WHEREAS, citizens appearing on traffic citations or civil
cases are sometimes crowded together with persons appearing on criminal
charges and there is no way under present overcrowded conditions to
guarantee the safety of all persons present in case of an emergency; and
WHEREAS, the criminal case load of the Inglewood Municipal
Court has risen significantly again this year;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the Board of Supervisors of the County of
Los Angeles be petitioned and it is hereby petitioned to assign the highest
possible priority to the construction of the planned new court building.
SECTION 2. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage
and adoption of this resolution; shall enter the same in the book of original
resolutions of said City; and shall make a minute of the passage and adoption
thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council of said City, in
the minutes of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 12th day of March,
1973.
ATTEST:
Mayor of the City of E1 Segundo, California.
JANE D. HOUGH
City Clerk
BY:
eputy
(SEAL)
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, )
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, JANE D. HOUGH,
City Clerk of the
City of E1 Segundo, California, 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. 2471
was duly passed and adopted by the said City 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 12th day of March , 1973
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen McGill, Morgan, Nagel, Stephens
and Mayor Balmer
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City
this 19th day of
(SEAL)
March
197 3
JANE D. HOUGH
City Clerk of e City o egun o
California
By
eputy