Resolution 02507RESOLUTION NO. 2507
A RESOLUTION DECLARING THE NEED FOR A HOUSING AUTHORITY
IN THE CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA AS follows:
That the Council of the City of Alameda, a municipal corporation in
the County of Alameda, State of California, hereby determines, finds and declares,
in pursuance of the "Housing Authorities Law" of the State of California, that:
1. Insanitary and unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist
in the City of Alameda, California;
2. There is a shortage of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations
in the City of Alameda, California, available to persons of
low income at rentals they can afford;
3. There is need for a Housing Authority in the City of Alameda,
California;
4. The City Clerk promptly notify the Mayor of the City of Alameda,
California, of the adoption of this resolution;
5. The Mayor be and he hereby is directed to file in the office
of the City Clerk of the City of Alameda, California, the
necessary certificate of appointment of the Commissioners
of the Housing Authority, designating their terms of office
and designating the first Chairman of the Housing Authority,
pursuant to Section 5 of the "Housing Authorities Law" of
the State of California; and
6. Great necessity exists for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health and safety and this resolution is
hereby declared to be an urgency measure necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health and
safety and shall therefore go into immediate effect. A
statement of the facts constituting such necessity is as
follows:
Unemployment and the existence of unsafe, insanitary and
congested dwelling accommodations in said City of Alameda
and the existence therein of a shortage of safe and sani-
tary dwelling accommodations available at rates which
persons of low income can afford have produced an alarm-
ing economic and social condition in said city. The
immediate adoption of this resolution will enable housing
projects to be undertaken in this city and furnish employ-
ment to many persons now idle, and enable them to become
self - supporting, and will alleviate the aforesaid housing
conditions.
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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 6th day of August, 1940, by the following
vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Carrington, Godfrey, Maurer, Morris and President
Weichhart, (5) .
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the offi-
cial seal of said City this 7th day of August, 1940.
LOREI R. BEAT=
(SEAL) City Clerk of the City of Alameda.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy
of Resolution No. 2507, "A RESOLUTION DECLARING THE NEED FOR A HOUSING AUTHORITY
IN THE CITY OF ALALII DA, CALIFORNIA," introduced and adopted by the Council on
the 6th day of August, 1940.