HomeMy WebLinkAbout306 RESOLUTION NO. 306
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton has advanced in population from approximately
fifteen thousand under the Federal census in the Year 1940 to the present population
estimated by Federal officials approximately fifty thousand, and which population will
be increased by approximately twenty thousand additional as soon as the Federally
sponsored Housing Units are taken into the city limits, and the population of Kitsap
Co~mty immediately beyond the corporate limits of the City of Bremerton has increased
proportionately, and
WHEREAS said increase in population has been due primarily to the influx of war
workers to work in the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton, Washington, the Ammunition
Depot near the city limits of Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, and the Keyport
Torpedo Station, at Keyport, Kitsap County, Washington, and
WHEREAS, the said increase in population has created many problems and particularly
f~nancial problems for the City of Bremerton, an(~ has greatly increased the amount of
money which it is necessary to expend for police protection, fire protection and other
necessary city. services, and
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton has embarked upon the program to furnish necessary
recreational facilities to its i~habitants and has budgeted large sums for recreational
purposes, but it now appears that the funds budgeted will be exhauste~ before the eu~
of the year 1943 and the present recreational programs are entirely inadequate to eurn-
ish the inhabitants of the Oity of Bremerton and particularly war workers in the said
United States plants which are all operating three eight-hour shifts with recreation
and recreati~onal facilities necessary to keep them in mental and physical health, an8
WHEREAS, the City has reached the end of its financial ability to raise funds for
recreational purposes,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Bremerton
that Mayor L. "Hum" Keen be and he is hereby authorized to represent the City of
Bremerton in preparing and executing, on behalf of the City of Bremerton, an application
to the Federal Government for Federal funds in the smun of $75,787.23, under the Lanhem
Act, to aid the City of Bremerton in its recreational program.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the said Mayor of the City of Bremerton is fully
authorized and empowere~ to execute any and all documents incident to such application
for funds, and necessary in order to comply with the requirements of the said Lsnham
Act.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, signed by the Mayor, an~ atteste
by the Oity Clerk in authentication of said passage, this 14th day of July, 1943.
Mayor
ATTEST:
~ity Clerk