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RESOLUTION NO. 248 A RESOLUTION OF THE, CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA, URGING THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO APPBDPRIATE $90,000,000 OF STATE SURPLUS FUNDS TO CITIES AND COUNTIES TO ASSIST IN CONSTRUCTION OF ESSENTIA~ PUBLIC WORKS WHEREAS, the City of Redwood City has been advised by the Department of Public Health of the Sta.te of California. that immediate steps must be taken upon the termination of the present national emergency to provide adequate se"Jage treatment facili tie s in order to eliminate the present practice of dumping raw sewage in San Francisco Bay, and WHEREAS, the people of Redwood City have approved the issuance of bonds in the amount of $300,000 for the construction of a sewage treatment plant and intercepting sewers, and WHEREAS, cost estimates prepared by competent consulting engineers now engaged in the designing of said sewage treatment plant indicate that the total cost of an adequate sewage treatment plant with intercepting sewers and relief sewers may exceed the sum of $450,000, and WHEREAS, the City of Redwood City has no funds available for meeting this additional cost of approximately $150,000, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of RedwoOd City, California, that the Legislature of the Sta.te of California be urgen tly requested to approprla te the sum of approximately $90,000,000 out of existing State surplUS funds to be disbursed to c1ties and counties in proportion to their 1940 population and that the pro rata share of such funds which may be made available to the City of Redwood City will be used for a pur- pose l-tThich ls clearly in the interest of the State of California, to wit: To ass~st in the construction of an adequate sewage trea.tment plant ~Tl th intercepting and relief sewers. '. 1