HomeMy WebLinkAbout64-106 - World's Fair - Urging Investigation of PossibilityRESOLUTION N0. 64-106
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA
URGING THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ORANGE COUNTY TO INVESTIGATE
THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCATING THE CALIFORNIA WORLD'S FAIR IN
ORANGE COUNTY.
WHEREAS, the California World's Fair is a project of tremendous magnitude
and worldwide importance, nationally and internationally endorsed and recognized,
with great potential values and benefits; and
WHEREAS, Orange County, as the fastest-growing and most dynamic County in
the State of California -- indeed, in the United States -- is uniquely equipped
to act as host to this important project; and
WHEREAS, the successful production of the California World's Fair in Orange
County will provide tremendous immediate and long-term economic benefits and also
will project an image of Orange County as a vital and energetic area in which to
live and locate a business or industry, and will leave buildings and facilities
for permanent use in the County; and
WHEREAS, Orange County certainly is possessed of the facilities, the site,
the needed energy and the desire to host this project of national and international
significance; and
WHEREAS, successful management of the California World's Fair may only be
properly achieved through an effective union of leadership derivedfrom business,
government and local citizenry; and
WHEREAS, Orange County communities desire through a public agency to initiate
and promote development of a California World's Fair site in Orange County; and
WHEREAS, it is believed that more than one half the membership of the Board
of Directors of the California World's Fair non-profit corporation should be
Orange County representatives.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Costa
Mesa, that the board of Supervisors of Orange County be, and the same is hereby
urged to investigate
the possibility of
locating
the California World's Fair in
�Orange County; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa is
hereby directed to transmit a certified copy of this Resolution to the Board of
Supervisors of Orange County.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 2nd day of November, 1964, by the following roll
call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Pinkley, Jordan, Meyers, Wilson
NOES: COUNCILMEN: Barck
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
yor of the City of Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio
Clerk of the City Council ct the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the
above and foregoing Resolution No. 64-106 was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 2nd day of November, 1964.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa, this 4th day of November, 1964.
City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
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