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INTRODUCED BY COUNC I JNAN C. .z ASTON RO THW.ELL
RESOLUTION NO. 1Z
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TIE TOWN Oto
LOS ALTOS HILLS:
WHEREAS Louise Fowle Carter and John M. Towle, heirs
and children of that beloved and revered pioneer, the late
Arthur E. Powle, have carried out the express wish of their
father and have offered to the Town of Los Altos Hills a site
on Freaont Avenue in the Town of Los Altos Hills, at a location
deemed convenient, for a City Hall site, and
WHEREAS Ina S. Dawson and her husband, C. Earl Dawson,
have offered to the Town of Los Altos Hills the sump of 0.5,000
to be used in the construction of a Town Hall on the site as
aforesaid with any surplus thereof to be used in equipment for
the same, and
bdHAREAS William Simrell, Arc'aitect, has offered free
of charge a design for such Town Hall which is approved by the
respective donors hereinbefore stated, and has offered free of
ch^r ;e to provide Plans and Specifications for the construction
and upon which a c.ntract therefore may be based, and
WREREAS the City Council of the Town of Los Sates
Hills in deeply appreciative of the civic nindness and generous
spirit prompting each of those offers and isaware of the great
benefit which will cone in the enjoyment and convenience of such
a Town Mall for all of the residents of the Town of Los Altos
Hine.
NOW TRii.R:.:iOR ; BE IT ciES;:,L`JED by the City Council of
the Town of Los Altos Hills that upon behalf of itself and of
all the residents of the Town. of Los Altos Hills that the City
Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills express most sincere
thanks to the res )ective doeors and hereby directs that a suit-
able plaque be obtained saemorializins the -•rants which make the
Town Hall possible at this time, and
That the City Council on behalf of the Town of Los
Altos .:.ills and for the Town of Los Altos Hills formally accepts
the offer of Louise Towle Carter and John M. Fowle for donation
of the land for a Town Hall site on Fremont Avenue in the Town
of Los Altos :ills and directs that when a deed therefor is
tendered to the Town of Los Altos Hills that it be accepted and
placed of record by the oeficIols of the Town of Los Altos Hills,
and
That the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills
on behalf of the Town of Los Altos Hille end e'er the Town of
Los Altos Hills formally accepts the offered gift of Ina S. and
C. Earl Dawson of a:'lfteen Thousand Dollars (;;15,000.00) to be
used for the construction of such Town Hall with any surplus
therefrom to be used in equipment I thereof* that such sum be de-
posited in a Special and entitled City Hall Find and be . drawn
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,upon onl7 for• the purpose of paying for the. construction‘ of
- the Town Hall. or equipment thereof,:' and
' That the City Council. of ".the Town of ,os altos. Hills ,
accepts each• of the gifts--of land and money With the conditions
upon which each. such gift is respectively offered; naively' that
the land and .buildingshall . forever be used only for a public
' use without-monetary profit to anyone or any use not deemed in. .
the interest and for tho welfare of the residents. of the''Town
.of Los Altos Hills; that if not so used for a public use and "
for the general welfare 'then" such l; id. and the, building; thereon ' ,
shall upon the petition of any ten residents ' of the Towel of '
,- Los Altos Hills or of any successor .politiclsubdivision of
- the State of•:-Cal ifornia, .in the area to the: Court of competent
- jurisdiction be forfeited- to a Trust to be established by such .-
Coil' t to accept title to -such. property ,and maintain aria operate .
. . the same for a public use; end : :
That the City Council:, of the Town of Los' Altos Hills
' approve of the design as . submitted by William.=Simrell, •Architect,
and commissions him without charge to prepare Plans 'and Specifi
cations for the -structure of the Town' Hall of the Town of Los
.. Altos Hills and from which bids, for the ,construction thereof may -
' be let and .contract prepared. " •
' : The ,foregoing mesolution was unanimously .adopted, at a
' regular" meeting of the City ,Council of the Town; of Los. Altos
Hind on the 5th day of y , .1956, .by the following vote: "
AYES:: • Bledsoe,, Dungan, , Fowle end Rothwell -
NOES: None '
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SENT: beat
0T1 r( May or - • ,
- ATTE3 i`: ; .: / - • .. . .: .•
• Ity Clerk , ' • ' ... ' .
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