Resolution 018992ESOLUTION NO. 1899.
AUTHORIZING CERTAIN PUBLIC WORES ON ALAMEDA
GOLF COURSE, APPROPRIATING FUNDS TBEFEFOR,
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS on the 4th day of January, 1035, due to extremely high tides in
an Francisco Bay, and to heavy storms, the levee on the north and east sides of
the Alosieda Municipal Golf Course was overflowed about twelve inches for a dis-
tanoe of approximately 200 feet, thereby causing a submersion by salt water of
three fairways on said golf course, and
WHEREAS the equinoctial tides in said San Franoisco Bay are now running
exceptionally high, and will increase so that the maximum high tide of the year
will occur during the first week of February, 1935, and.
WHEREAS storms are frequent at this time of the year, and
WHEREAS said levees are not sufficiently strange or high enough, to pro-
tect said golf course, and
WHEREAS there is grave and imminent danger that any such storm, in com-
bination with such high tides, or that either such high tides or storms ind-
ependently, will cause, at any moment, a break in said levee, and thereby per-
mit the salt waters of San Francisco Bay to overflow said golf course to such
an extent that all the fairways will be destroyed, thereby causing great and
irreparable damage and loss to the City of Alameda, and
WHEREAS public interest and necessity demand that said levees be immed-
iately fortified and raised sufficient to safeguard sale golf course from in-
undation by salt water,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF TEE CITY OF ALAMEDA that
an emergency such as contemplated by Sections 14 and 17 of Article II of the
Charter of the City of Alameda now exists, and the City Council of said City
hereby finds and determines that the facts constituting such emergency as
hereinbefore recited, do exist; that there is great and imminent danger that
the levees protecting said Alameda Golf Course will be overflowed and broken,
and said golf course inundated by salt water, to the great and irreparable
damage of the City, and that public interest and necessity demand that said levees
be immediately fortified and raised sufficiently to protect said golf course.
- RESOLVED further, that the City Manager be, and he is hereby authorized
and directed, to procure all necessary labor and materiels, by day labor or
contract, or both, to raise and strengthen said levees sufficiently to protect
said golf course.
RESOLVED further that the sum of 4,000.00 be, and the same is hereby
appropriated out of the general fund to defray the expenses of labor and mater-
ials for such repairs.
RESOLVED further that this resolution go into effect innediately upon its
passage, and that the provisions of Section 1? of Article II of the City Charter,
relating to advertising for bids and letting of contracts, be dispensed with
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution wee
duly and regularly introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda
in regular meeting assembled on the 15th day of January, 1935, by the following
vote to wit:
AYES; Councilmen Roebke, Morris, Tiedemann and President Murray, (4).
WOES: None,
ABSENT: Councilman Enchen, (1).
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official
seal of said City this 16th day of January, 1935.
D. ELLER DYER.
(((((SEAL OF TEE CITY))))) City Clerk of the City of Alameda.
OF ALAMEDA.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution is a full, true and correct
copy or "Resolution No. 1599, Authorizing Certain Public Works on Alameda Golf
Course, Appropriating Funds Therefor, and Declaring an Emergency", passed by
the Council of the City of Alameda in regalar meeting assembled on the 15th day
of January, 1935.
Clerk ef the City of A ianeda.