HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 1942-637 RESOLUTION NO. 637
RESOLUTION REQUESTING INVESTIGATION OF FACTS .SURROUNDING
AUTHORIZATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF RECREATIONAL BUILDING
IN THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA, COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA.
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WHEREAS, during the month of October, 1941, the Federal
Security Agency of the United States of America through Wayne A.
Neal, its Field Recreation Representative, requested the City of
Chula Vista to grant to the United States Government the use of a
portion of a public .park within said city for the purpose of con-
structing thereon a building to be used as a recreational center,
and .-
WHEREAS, at the time of making of such request, it was
orally represented to the members of the City Council of said
City that said building to be so constructed was to be operated
by the United Service Men' s Organization, and it was represented .
to the members of said Council that an agreement for the operation
of said building by said organization had been completed at the
time of the making of said request, and
WHEREAS, pursuant to said request and by resolution dated
the 16th day of October, 1941, said City did authorize the execution
of an agreement granting the United States Government the use of said
property for the purpose requested, and
WHEREAS, pursuant to said agreement and subsequent thereto
a building costing in excess of $43,000.00 was erected on said pro-
perty, and
WHEREAS, subsequent to the completion of said building, the
City Council of said city was informed that the United Service Men' s
Organization at no time had agreed to undertake the operation of said
building and had in fact refused to undertake said operation, and
WHEREAS, said building has with the exception of a short
period of time when it was used as. quarters for soldiers of the
United States Army remained idle and unused, and
WHEREAS, said City of Chula Vista has been requested by
said Federal Security Agency to enter into a management contract by
which it would undertake to operate said building, and
WHEREAS, said City of Chula Vista has refused to enter into
such a contract for the reason that there is not at the present time
nor has there been at any time a need for such a building in said
City, there are no members of the armed forces of the United States
Government quartered within a considerable distance of the City of
Chula Vista, and there are no funds budgeted for the operation of
said building, and
WHEREAS, the members of the City Council of said City of
Chula Vista have at all times and do now consider the construction
of said building to have been a needless waste of public monies.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Chula Vista, California, as follows:
That the United States Government through its proper agencies
conduct, a complete investigation into all facts surrounding the auth-
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orizing and construction of said building to the end that needless
expenditures of public monies may be prevented in the future.
PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
• CITY OF CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA, the 13th day of April, 1942, by
the following vote, to wit: -
AYES: Councilmen `4erins Dupree, Burnside, Howe.
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen Timnons
APPROVED:
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