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OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of the San 2
Francisco Bay Area Rapid RtSOLUTION NO.: 0 V
Transit District.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge
and Highway District has refused to cooperate in the development of
any additional facts concerning the adequacy of the Golden Gate
Bridge to support rapid transit facilities; and
WHEREAS, Marin County will be deprived of rapid transit
facilities at least for the foreseeable future if such facilities
are not installed on the Golden Gate Bridge; and
WHEREAS, the Beard of Supervisors of Contra Costa County
considers it of the utmost importance that Marin County be limed
with San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area by rapid transit
so as to provide a truly regional system; and
WHEREAS, the Beard of Directors of the San Francisco Bay
Area Rapid. Transit District, in the interest of developing all facts
concerning this important public issue, has petitioned the Boards of
Supervisors of the County of Marin and the City and County of San
Francisco to join with the Transit District in the convening of an
impartial Engineering Board. of Review to adjudicate the difference
of engineering opinion. concerning the adequacy of the Golden Gate
Bridge to accommodate rapid transit facilities;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors
of Contra Costa County does hereby endorse the recommendation of the
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District and respectfully urges
its acceptance by the Boards of Supervisors of the County of Marin
and the City and County of San Francisco; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of the
County of- Contra Costa, does..hereby respectfully urge that this is-
sue of great public concern be resolved with all possible speed to
the end that the Transit District can submit a general obligation
bond proposition to the electorate of the Bay Area in conjunction
with the State primary Election on June 5, 1962; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be
forwarded to the golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, the San
Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, and the Boards of Super-
visors of the County of Marin, City and County of San Francisco,
County of Alameda, and County of San Mateo .
RESOLUTION NO, 302
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 12th day of September, 1961, by
the following vote .of .the Board:
AYES: Supervisors James P. fenny, Mel F. Nielsen,
Thomas John Coll, Edmund A. Linscheid,
Joseph S. Silva.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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