HomeMy WebLinkAbout67-70 - Los Alamitos Undersea Warfare Center - SupportingRESOLUTION N0. 67-70
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA
URGING THE LOCATION OF A NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER AT
LOS ALAbIITOS.
WHEREAS, an Undersea Warfare Center has been proposed by the Department
of the Navy to increase the strength of the Nation's undersea forces by inte-
grating the Navy's scientific and engineering facilities in a single center
with responsibility for major warfare areas, systems development, and techno-
logical functions; and
WHEREAS, the United States is confronted with a serious challenge to
its naval superiority as a result of the massive effort being made by the
Soviet Union to develop the world's largest and most advanced undersea fleet;
and
WHEREAS, the Defense Department has recommended the location of this
Undersea Warfare Center at Los Alamitos in Orange County, California, because
of the large amount of available government land, the availability of
supporting industry, the proximity to closely related Navy installations,
and the early date by which the facility could be completed; and
WHEREAS, the proposed location offers the unique combination of a
favorable climate, a progressive business community, a large reservoir of
highly trained personnel, a wide variety of housing, excellent recreation
facilities, fine public schools, and a number of outstanding colleges and
universities;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Costa
Mesa, that the location of the Navy's Undersea Warfare Center at Los Alamitos,
California be, and the same is hereby urged and recommended; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this City Council does hereby assure the
Defense Department and the Board of Supervisors of Orange County of full cooper-
ation and support for their efforts to secure Congressional approval for and
early completion of this most important defense installation.
PASSED AND ADOPTED, this let day of June, 1967.
Mayor of the ?51tf
Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
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. 67-70 was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa at an adjourned regular
meeting held on the Est day of June, 1967.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa, this 2nd day of June, 1967.
City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa