HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 05181961 - RES-101 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COS'T'A COUNTY, STATE OF CAZFCRNIA
In the Flatter of Resolution
requesting approval of the }
Public Housing Administration
for development of low rent RESOLUTION !U'4. � 01
housing project at Fort }
Chicago, Contra Costa County,
California.
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WHEREAS, the electorate of Port Chicago, Contra Costa
County, California, on Tnay 26, 1959, passed a referendum auth-
orizing the construction of twenty units of low rent public
housing in Fort Chicago; and
IMREAS, the need for adequate housing for low income
families in the Fort Chicago area was demonstrated by survey
which was conducted by the Housing Authority of the County of
Contra Costa; and
WHEREAS, there now exists a critical shortage of
housing for families of low income because of a forced evacu-
ation of the Knox Park Temporary housing Project because of
a danger due to faulty gas lines,
NOW34 T: EREFORE, BE IT :SOLVED by the Board of Super-
visors of the County of Contra Costa that the Public Housing
Administration be requested to authorize the development of
twenty units of low rent public housing at Port Chicago as re-
quested in the Application of the Housing Authority of the
County of Contra Costa.
BE IT FURTER RESCLVE'D that copies of this resolu-
tion be forwarded to the honorable Clair Engle, Senator; the
Honorable Thomas Kuchel, Senator; and the Honorable John F.
Baldwin, Congressman; and other interested officials and bodies.
PASSED AND ADOF IED this 18th day of May, 1961, by the
following vote `of the Board:
AYES: Supervisors James P. Kenny, Mel F. Nielsen,
Thomas John Coll, :Edmund 4. Linschei d,
Joseph S. Silva.
NO None.
ABSENT: None.