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RESOLUTION NO. 107
';~EMEAS, the e~pansion and development of defense activities in the City
of Bremerton will have practically doubled the population of the City of
Bremerton by January 1, 1942, and have made it necessary to increase the
area of the city by approximately 263 acres of land, improved with housing
tm~ts for defense workers, and there are no funds available from taxation or
frc,~ other city revenues to expand the facilities of the Fire Department, to
furnish fire protection to said new added districts, end it is necessary in
o~der to furnish proper fire protection to the inhabitants of the City of
Br~,~erton, end particularly to the defense workers now occopying and who will
occupy the Eastpark and Westpark Projects, to erect and equip two additional
f~re stations, one in East Bremer~on, near the Eastpark Project, snd one in
~'est Bremerton near the ~¥estpark Project, and
~E~iAS the Federal Works Agency has invited the city of Bremerton to
for Federal Wunds for such Project,
NOW THE~EFO[{E, BE IT RESOLVED By the City Commission of the City of
9re~verton that application be immediately made to Federal Works Agency,
~ubllc Works Administration, Washington, D.C., for a Federal grant of
300,000.00 of which $100,000.00 shall be for the construction, and
50,000.00 for the equiFment of a f~re station at East Bremerton; and
$100,000.00 shall be for the construction and $50,000.00 for equipment of
a fire station at ,qest Bremerton.
PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, signed by the Mayor
and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage, this 6th day
of ;~ugust, 1941. ~ / ,.