Resolution 08866CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 8866
REAFFIRMING CITY COUNCIL'S OPPOSITION TO ENTRANCE
OF THE CONCORDE SST INTO THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY
AREA MARKET
WHEREAS, by its Resolution No. 8482 adopted on Febru-
ary 17, 1976, this Council expressed its opposition to the
entrance of the Concorde SST into the United States, the San
Francisco Bay Area market and particularly the Oakland
International Airport; and
WHEREAS, the Concorde SST is presently using Washington's
Dulles Airport and New York's Kennedy Airport; and
WHEREAS, the Carter administration in September, 1977,
announced eleven more United States cities where the Concorde
might operate, given local approval; and
WHEREAS, one of the cities named was San Francisco;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ALAMEDA that this Council reaffirms its great concern over,
and its strenuous opposition to, the entrance of the Concorde
SST into the San Francisco Bay Area and particularly at Oakland
International Airport.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Alameda solicits
the support of all Bay Area Communities in its stand opposing
the entrance of the Concorde into the San Francisco Bay Area.
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 7th day of February,
1978, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Beckam, Diament, Sherratt, and President Corica, (4).
NOES: None,
ABSENT: Councilman Tillman, (1).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 8th day of February, 1978.
City Clerk of the City of Alameda