HomeMy WebLinkAbout1954-01-05; City Council; Resolution 83ELESOLUTION NO. 83 0
WHERBAS: Recreation, as such, rates well up in the brackets of
big business and beaches and parks are our largest recreation facilities
an& serve the greatest number of people, and
WHZREAS: The relaxation and recreation available from use of these
facilities is of inestimable value to health and happiness and
WHEREAS: There is no other place where such healthful recreation
is available in such unlimited measure to so my people at so little
expense, and
WHBWAS: There is no other place where such healthful recreation
is available in such unlimited measure to so many people at so little
expense and
WIIER8AS: Funds for acquiring and developing such beaches and parks
and for operating them were assured by provisions set forth in Section
6816 of the Public Resources Code of the State of California in the form
of oil royalty revenue from oil drilling in the state-owned tidelands,
and
WHEmAS: It seems altogether proper, right and logical that income
derived from the state tidelands should be invested in state beaches,
state inland parks and small boat harbors on coastal and river areas,
for the everlasting enjoyment and benefit of the people of the state,
and
WHEREAS: These revenues have been impounded since '1947 and aye
still not available, and
WHEBAS: These funds are very urgently needed for acquiring and
developing beach and park property and for operating beaches and parks
owned by the state,
NOM, THEREFORZ, be it resolved, and we do hereby resolve and re-
spectfully request that Assenblyman Stanley T. Tomlinson, Chairman of
the Comlttee on Impounded Funds from Tide and Submerged Lands, and his
commlttee members do find that the best interests of the State Eyld the
great majority of the people of the state lie in keeping the present
provisions of Section 6816 of the Public Resources Code intact to the
end that ''the remaining balame", as stated in Sub-section (C) of Section
6816, be distributed as follows:
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1. Thirty percent to the General Fund.
2. Twenty-three and one-third percent to
the State Beach Fund.
Forty-six and two-thirds percent to
the State Park Fund.
3.
PASSED, APPROVSD AHD ADOPTZD by the City Council of the City of
Carlsbad, California, this 5th day of January, 1954, by the follow%
vote :
AYZS: Councilmen Chase, Sutton, Castorena, Ede,
Ijiayor IkClellan .
NAYS: None.
ABSENT : None .
C. D. &YXJ~UAN. Masor of the
ATTEST :