HomeMy WebLinkAbout65-87 - Urging Flashing Red Lights on Buses with ChildrenRESOLUTION N0. 65-87
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA
URGING THE REQUIREMENT OF FLASHING RED LIGHTS AS PROTECTIVE
MEASURES FOR MINORS TRANSPORTED BY BUSES OTHER THAN COMMON
CARRIERS OR SCHOOL BUSES.
WHEREAS, buses transporting minor children, and particularly church -
operated Sunday School buses, are presently operating in the City of Costa
Mesa and many other cities and discharging minor children, who are required
to cross streets without proper safeguard by flashing red lights; and
WHEREAS, the increase of traffic in this City has created a hazard that
is taking a growing toll of death and injury of minors so transported; and
WHEREAS, this City Council deems it necessary that immediate steps be
taken to provide this protection;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Costa
Mesa that Commissioner Bradford Crittenden of the State of California Highway
Patrol is hereby urged to recommend that the State Legislature enact pro-
tective regulations providing for the use of flashing red lights by buses,
other than common carriers or school buses, which are transporting minor
children.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa
is hereby directed to transmit certified copies of this Resolution to Commis-
sioner Crittenden, the Governor of the State of California, and the representa-
tives of this City in the State Legislature.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 4th day of October, 1965.
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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 of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the
above and foregoing Resolution No. 65-87 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 4th day of October, 1965.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa, this 5th day of October, 1965.
City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa