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RESOLUTION NO. 205
WHEREAS, adequate parking space within convenient walking distance of the P~get
Sound Navy Yard is not now available to Navy Yard workers who must use private auto-
mobiles for transportation, and
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton has decided to install and operate parking
meters on streets in the business areas adjacent to the Puget Sound Navy Yard, which
will have the effect of barring workers' cars from the downtown areas and causing
further congestion of parked cars on the outskirts of the business section, and
WHEREAS, it is of vital importance that parking be provided for workers' cars
during all 24 hours of the day,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of City Commissioners that the
City of Bremerton provide off-street parking space for the said workers' automobiles
at a nominal rental, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Bremerton make application to the
Federal Government for a loan or grant for the purpose of securing funds for such
parking space and that a plan for a 500 car parking lot exclusively for Navy Yard
workers, already investigated and now recommended by the City of Bremerton's Civilian
Traffic Committee be adopted, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Commission and other proper city officers
be and they are hereby authorized to make application for such loan or grant to a
financial agency of the United States Government.
PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, signed by the R~ayor, and
attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage, this 8th day of April,
1942.
Mayo r
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