Resolution 09159CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 9159
COMMENDING THE ALAMEDA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ON
THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION AND OPENING OF AMELIA
EARRART SCHOOL
WHEREAS, the residents of Bay Farm Island have been
requesting a neighborhood school for more than forty years; and
WHEREAS, the Alameda Unified School District Master
Planning Committee of 1972 recommended building a school on Bay
Farm Island as soon as possible; and
WHEREAS, through the State Legislature funds were earmarked
for an Alameda School; and
WHEREAS, the population on Bay Fa
increasing over the past fifty years and
years away; and
sland has been rapidly
al build-out is still
WHEREAS, the State Legislature approved construction of the
school in April, 1974, with actual construction starting in April,
1978, and the dedication to take place on October 6, 1979; and
WHEREAS, the new Amelia Earhart School cost. over Two
Million Dollars to build and will serve five hundred and fifty
grades K-5 students on an eight-acre site
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ALAMEDA that the Alameda Unified School District is to be
commended on the successful completion and opening of Alameda's
newest school, the Amelia Earhart School.
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 2nd day of October, 1979,
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Diament, Sherratt, Stone, Tillman, and
President Corica, (5).
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 3rd day of October, 1979.
City Clerk of the