HomeMy WebLinkAbout0998 WHEREAS, there has been introduced in Congress, Senate
Bill 3246, which calls for private shipyards to get 75 per cent
of the navy's conversion, alterations and repair business, and
also calls for establishment of a commission which would work
toward eliminating all naval shipyards, and
WHEREAs, the City of Bremerton and its citizens and a
substantial part of Kitsap County are depend~ent for their
economic well being on the maintenance and operation of the
Puset Sound Naval Ohipyard, and
WHEREAS, if the foregoing bill was passed and put into
effect, the City of Bremerton would practically be destroyed
as a city, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Bremerton, that every effort possible be made to defeat Senate
Bill 3246 and that a copy of this resolution be sent to each
congressma~ representing the State of Washington, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Bremerton
solicit support for its position on this legisla$~Qn from
o~her organizations both private and governmental in the City
of Bremerton and Kitsap County.
PASSED by $~e City Council, signed by the Mayor and
attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage
this 19th day of March, 1958.
ATTEST:
~ H.'?. McGOWAN, City'Clerk