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Resolution 01629RESOLUTION NO. 1629 REQUESTING GOVERNMENT OF3ICIALS TO CONNECT ITS TRACK WITH THE ALAMEDA BELT LINE RAILROAD TRACKS AT THE WESTERN TERMINUS OF INDUSTRIAL HIGHWAY AS ORIGINALLY PLANNED WHEREAS, the people of the City of Alameda have donated to the Unite& States Government eleven hundred (1100) acres of lane, more or less, to be used for the Purpose of the establishment of an army air base; and WHEREAS, the Alameda Belt Lin e was built by the people of the City of Alameda to serve industries during the World War period; and WHEREAS, the Oity of Alameda has sold to the Atohison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company and the Western Pacific Railroad Company the said Alameda Belt Line, with the provision that it may be recaptured whenever the Oity so desires; and WHEREAS, the Alameda Belt Line has made extensive preparations and purohased the neceseary right-of-way, and expended thousands of dollars in preparing the right-of-way for access to the Army air base site; and WHEREAS, to the early part of this year the Government layout Plan "A" Was presented, showing the proposed tracks to be installed by the Government on the eastern boundary of rte reservation to a connection with the Alameda Belt Line's extension; and WHEREAS, the City of Alameda and the Alameda Belt Line, feeling assured that the plan of traokage as Shown would be carried out, seoured the neeeesary legislation to instil the extension above mentioned; end wHr.17 , the Gouneil of the Oity of Alameda has recently examined e revised plan, whih ahows a conftection to the propsed warehouses and other buildinee of tho air base with the tracks of the Southern Pacific Qompany only, entirely eliminating the originally proposed oonnection with the Alameda Belt Line; and WHEREAS, the location of the buildings on the later plan are so plotted as to forever preclude a track connection with the Alameda Belt Line to serve the depot; and WHEREAS, officials of the War Department have advised the Oity of Alamda that a connection as originally proposed would not be made, claiming that the location of the Government owned tracks that would oonneet with the Almada Belt Line would create a hazard to flying operations, and have suggested thst the Alameda Belt Line build its track over privately owned property to a point in the vicinity of the northwest oornar of the air baee; and WHEREAS, the Oity of Alameda, after a careful etudy, cannot see where a hazard would exist, for the reason that the originally proposed layout of the Government owned tracks is located close to the eastern boundary of the reserva- tion and only a few feet from the suggested track layout as set forth by Honorable F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Seoretary of War; and WHEREAS, it is reasonable to assume that the reservation will be fenced, and that e traok properly constructed :on the eastern boundary line of the reserva- tion would in no wise create a hazard any more so than the proposed track adjacent to the eastern boundary line of the reservation on privately awned property; and WHEREAS, the Alameda Belt Line has, for many years, operated at a loss and has looked forward to the time when activities would start at the base, and the Alameda Belt Line given the opportunity to serve the same; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Counoil of the City of Alameda, that mild Connoil does most strenuously take exception to the position of the Government War Officiels in so changing the plans as to create additional expenditure in securing, if at all possible, rights-of=way over privately owned property. RESOLVED further that inasmuch as the City ofAlameda has donated to the United States Government this large acreage, it feels it is only right end proper that the officials of the War Department should recognize the spirit in which the transfer of this land was made and set aside the small strip of land, not exceeding seventeen (17) feet in width, for the purpose of installing Government owned tracks on its own property on the extreme eastern boundary of the reservation. RESOLVED further that Flan "A" be adopted, insofar as a con- nection with the Alameda Belt Line is concerned. SO]VD further that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Honorable Patriok J. Hurley, Secretary of War, Honorable F. Trubee Davison,, Assistant Secretary of War, Brigadier General L. H. Bash, Hon- orable Albert B. Carter, Honorable Florence S. Kahn, Honorable Hirem W. Johnson, Honorable Samuel M. Shortridge, Honorable Riohard J. Welch and Honorable Arthur M. Free. * * * I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 15th day of September, 1931, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Councilmen Brodereen, Leydecker, Murray, Scheer and Freeident Henning, C5). NOES: None. ABSENT: None. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said city this 16th day of September, 1931. (Seal of the Oity of Alameda) W. E. V4RCOE, Oity Clerk of the City ol'Alamida I hereby certify that the foregoing is a fUll, true and correct copy of "RESOLUTION NO. 1629 -; REQUESTING GOVERNMENT OFeICIALS TO CONNECT ITS TRACK WITH TEE ALAMEDA BELT LINE RAILROAD TRACES AT THE WESTERN TERMINUS OF INDUSTRIAL HIGHWAY AS ORIGINALLY PLANNED", pawed by the Council of the Pity of"Alamede in reguler meeting assembled on the 15th day of September, 1931.