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RESOLUTION NO. 807
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS
ALTOS HILLS URGING DEFEAT OF SENATE BILL 1729 RE-
LATING TO A PROPOSED STATE SEISMIC SAFETY COMMISSION
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1729 would create a 15 member State Seismic
Safety Commission empowered to set goals and priorities in the public
and private sectors for earthquake hazard reduction and to accomplish
other listed objectives in the area of seismic safety, and
WHEREAS, creation of the Commission described above would result
in setting up a single purpose planning body whereas in the opinion
of the Town Council the actual need is for a comprehensive and
coordinated effort in the area of seismic safety with which the
Town of Los Altos Hills is particularly concerned by reason of its
topography and location along potentially active earthquake faults;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWNOFLOS ALTOS HILLS
does hereby go on record as being in opposition to Senate Bill 1729
and does hereby urge each State Legislator to vote against Senate
Bill 1729.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk.. of the Town of Los
Altos Hills is hereby directed to transmit a certified copy of this
Resolutionforthwith to the respective State Senator and State
Assemblyman for the respective districts from which the Town of
Los Altos Hills is situated.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing. Resolution was passed and
adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the Town of
Los Altos Hills held on the. 7th .day of August, 1974.
City Clerk