HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 3823*UO mZCSI NO. 4133
AlsoLt TIolt OW TNN COUNC11. OF It CITY OF PAL ALTO
MIMING T & MOLTS o9 mu G ma wagurtAL
*La4,Cm HELD c* MAY 11, 1965 IN TIE CITY OF PALO ALTO
WIMIXAS, on flay 11, 1965, a general municipal election was
duly held in the City of Palo Alto pursuant to the provisions
of Section 3 of Article III of the Charter of the City of Palo
Alto and Resolution No. Xa of the City Council adopted on
Merch 22, 1965 for the purpose of electing three councilmen es
members of the City Council of the City of Palo Alto for a full
term of six years and for the purpose of voting upon two pro-
positions amending the charter of the City of Palo Alto reading
as follows:
PROPOSITION 1
Shall Section 2 of Article III of the Charter of the
City of Palo Alto be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2. Commencing July 1 1971, said Council shall
be composed of nine members, each ° of who Obeli have bean
an elector in the City of Palo Alto for at least three
yearn next preceding his election. The members of said
Council shall be known as councilmen and their terms of
office shall be four years, commencing on the first day
of July next succeeding their election.
The members of the Council at the time this
section taken effect shall continue in office until the
expiration of their respective original teems. The term
of office of each member of the Council elected at the
general municipal election of May, 1964 and thereafter,
shall be four years.
Three members of the Council shell be elected at
the general municipal election of May, 1967. Five members
of the Council shall be :elected is the geaaral municipal
election of May, 1969. and a like number shall be elected
eves, fourth year thereafter. Four members of the Council
shall be elected at the general municipal election of
Nay4971, and a like number shall be elected every fourth
yeerthereafter.
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Shall the lollowin1 Artios VIII be added to the
Chortler -4f the City, of halts: •A.ttot, . .
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sec. 1. The ore of this dreiole is to provide for the
preservation of City Z nde wihiek eyes uiad or untended to be
used for. park, plsygraubd, recreatiOrrer eeneervation purposes,
Naito provide the 0leatolrate: an opportunity to pass upon
propOaels to discontinue or ahem'Ouchactual or intended
uses or to improve 'snob lands. This Article *ball be liberally
construed to effectuate its purposes.
Sec. 2. The mord '!park" as used in this Article snd in
the general laws hereinafter referred tro, shall in every care
tsw held to mean and include park, playground, recreation and
conservation lands and uses.
Sec. 3. Lands damned or controlled by the City which
are used or intended to be used for park purposes shall be
sold leased or Othereise.dt*posod of, or their use abandoned
or discontinued only ins accor4onea with the provisions of.this
Article. The general laws of the Sate of taalifotneia +NOOK -
sing mudicipal corporations to abaeden or discontinue the nee
of lands dedicated or placed in use ter paten purposes, eat ari-
sins►gg the sale or other disposition of such lands and pro-
viding procedures therefor and for matters relattnt thereto
(Government Code Art. 2 Oh. 9,raft 2 Div. 3, Tit a 4,
commencing et Section 36440, as said Arti@le existed on
January 1, 1965). shall be applicable to the City of Palo
Alto and to all lands °mod, used or held by it for park pur-
poses, and said laws shall govern and control exclusively in
respect thereto; provided, test nothing herein shall be'
construed to authorise the discontLnusace or abandonment of
the use of such lands or any change in the use thereof vbtch.
will cause the reversion of such lands to private ownership,
or cause the forfeiture of the ownership thereof in fee by
the City, or as authorizing any othsrwiss prohibited discon-
tinuance of the use of park lands acquired in any proceeding
wherein a local assessment based on bsnsfits was or shall be
levied to provide funds for such acquisition.
Sec. 4. Within three months after the effective date
of this Articl* the council shall by ordinance prepare a list
setting forth in separately mothered secttious the common name .
or other designation and the legal description of each site,
parani or area, of land awned or controlled by the City *hiach
is used or intended to be used for park purposes. faah section
shall be accompanied by a map or plat of the lead described,
and sold ordinance shall contain a statement that the lands
listed thereon are reserved for park, playground, recreation
or conservation purposes pursuant to this Article. Seid list
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shall include, but net necessarily be limited to•the
areas commonly Moan as Foot 140 Park, se Park
and the City -owned baylends, IlaiinWfarkdEenicipal
Col/Course, Palo,AlteLawallealisqldwantord1WAlto
Yacht Harbor, lltoson do Peze Attehell Phske :IClaasnor
Perk, Mower Park, Mayfield Peek, 1(sa Peers
Park, anerillo Park Stoakten Perk, sa 4.1. 4Lxk
Bowdece Pork, Cogswell Plasa, Eaton Par # Ilaiptoe Park
and Boll . Park. Press and after the affective date of
said ovd sxc. all the land' listed thereof shall be
conclusively presumed to be hold for uee for park
purposes and to be subject to the provisoes of this
Article. As additional lands are acquired or held by
the City for park purposes, they shall likewise by
ordinance end without delay Wadded to.aaid list end
subject to the provisions of to Article. Any such
ordnance may be proposed pneenialt to ales initiative
provisions of Article VI, S.ntiaa 2.
Sec. S. Before any substaetial building, construc-
tion, reconstruction or develepasaht is **Winced or approved
upon or with respect to any laid held by tie City for park
urpoase the council shall first cause to be prepared and
ordinance approve and adopt:.* plan therefor. The plan
a 11 be prepared in such menhir and with sufficient detail
and particularity to •bow, es applicable, ithe nature, func-
tion, size extent and g.nerel appearance of the proposed
project. Any change in the plat shall be prepared in the
sumo manner and adopted by ordinstece.
Sec. 6. Every lasts., license or permit or renewal
thereof *rented by the City with at to lend which is
held for perk purposes hae•ferth shall contain a. provision:,
requiring the lessee, licensee or ppeonittee, prior to the
commencement of any substeetiai bufldi , construction+,
reconstruction or developrent thereon to submit to the
council a Olen for ita.approvai and adoption in the manner
prescribed in Section S. To the extent that .the council
has reserved the power to approve such mattes in existing
leases, it shell require that the sama;proeedure be followed.
Sec, 7. Whenever in this Article action is required
to be token by ordinanee suc action shall he. subject to the
referendum provisions of Article VI,..Imctioos,3,..irreepective
of ehether such action wealth. oharaeterised as legislative,
administrative or otherwise. One os mars mectione of err
ordinance adopted pursuant to Saotion 4 of.tbis Article VIII
may be made subject to a referendum without.ineluding the
whole of such ordinance. "
W J3 AS, due and lapin notice of said general municipal
election was given es required by law; and
WEARZAS, on the 11th day of May, 1965, at .the hour of 7:00
o'clock in the morning of said day the palls mere 4Stlyr' and regularly
opened for said general municipal election in said City and
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said polls were continuously kept open for said parpase from
the time they were so opium( usatil 710E testes* in the afternoon
of said day and during said hours .of`said lit dry of Nsy, 1965,
a general municipal election was held is said City of Palo Alto
for the' purpose of electing said coemsilmem INte , aterpurpose
of voting on said measures in accordance with the charter of the
City of Palo Alto and said Resolution No. Sett; and
WMERIAR, on Nay 24th, 1965, the Council of the City of Palo
Alto met at their usual place of meeting and canvassed the returns
of said municipal election and declared, the results as follows,
to wit:
That the whole number of votes cast in the City at said
general municipal election, including votes cast upon absentee
ballots was 9.779
That the total number of votes given and cast at said general
municipal election including votes cast upon absentee ballots was
es follows:for the candidates for City Council:
REWARD V. ARBUCKLE 3,218
ReBBnT H. Ruin 3,627
JQ821'li *MICH 4,,139
ADRIAN A. FLAKOLL 40
scum PIDARSIIN 5, 358
MON D. NUR 301141•
LORRAINE M. VAN BATON 724
EDWARD f1ORTRIMOTO11 4,665
That the total number of votes given and cast at said general
municipal election upon Proposition 1, including votes cast upon
absentee ballots was 9.4111 , of which total number of votes
given and cast a,.145 were in .favorof said proposition and
1.473 against said proposition;
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That the total t oter of votes given and cast at said
tonere' municipal election upon Proposition 2, including votes
(oat epee sbeents. ballots wee 1091 , of which total
number of votes given and cut p 7.831 were in favor of
said proposition and 1.0814 molest egad proposition.
HOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto does
RESOLVE as follows:
MAIM 1, That a general municipal election was duly end
regularly held on Mey 11, 1985 in all things according to the
Charter of the City of Palo Alto, Resolution No. 3801 and the
election laws of the State of California.
1m That Enid Pearson, Syron D. Sher and Edward
Worthington being the three candidates receiving the highest
number of votee for the office of counsi1aan for a full six year
term were duly and regularly elected for a term of six years com-
mencing July 1, 1965 to serve as cotuamilnen of the City of Palo
Alto.
UMW a. That a majority of the qualified electors voting
in said general municipal election bavieg cast their ballots in
favor of said propositions 1 and 2 amending the charter of the
City of Palo Alto said amendments shall be deemed duly ratified
as provided in Section 8(i) of Article XI of the Constitution
of the State of California and shall be submitted to the State
Legislature for approval or rejection.
SECTION 4. The City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed
to prepare a resolution setting forth said charter amendments so
ratified to be certified by tba 2hayor and City Clerk for intro-
duction and passage as a Concurrent Resolution by the Legislature
of the State of California approving said amendments.
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The above and foregoing resolution to duly sad regularly
introduced and fa.a.d at a . regular seating of t o *moil of
#ht City of talo Alto as ltaaalsy$ the 24th day of gig►, .196S, by
the aoollo vote:
axgsz Arbuckle, Arnold, 5y b,., Cmaktsto k, Cooley.. Debit, Dias.
Mut, Aoddttri, ltobrs, Ave, 'firrod'w&Xd, yCvrend.
11001 Sone
AUNT: Saabs Porter.
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