HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - No. 1776In the City Council
City of Lodi
Lodi, California
RESOLUTION NO. 1776
DECLARING THE INTENTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF LODI TO GIFT DEED LODI MUNI-
CIPAL LAKE PARK TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
WHEREAS, the City -owned aquatic park known as Lodi
Municipal Lake Park was established and developed for the
benefit and enjoyment of the people of the City of Lodi, and
WHEREAS, in more recent years, due to the heavy influx
of people to the State of California, the predominant number
of visitors to the Park are from places other than the City
of Lodi, and
WHEREAS, it has become an increasingly heavy burden
to the taxpayers of the City to operate and maintain the Park
for people other than the residents of the City of Lodi, and
WHEREAS, the State Division of Beaches and Parks through
the State Park Commission is authorized and invested with the
responsibility of providing recreation areas for the benefit
and enjoyment of the people of the State of California, and
WHEREAS, under authority of Chapter 1422, Statutes of
1945, there is appropriated *15,000,000 for acquisition of
land for beaches and parks and a condition of the appropriation
is that all State funds expended for such purposes must be
matched dollar for dollar either in cash or land value by
agencies or individuals other than the State of California,
and
WHEREAS the State Division of Beaches and Parka through
its staff and Park Commission has investigated and determined
Lodi Municipal Lake Park and adjacent land to be suitable for
State park purposes,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Lodi
through the City Council, in cooperation with the State Park
Commission of the State of California, has adopted this resolu-
tion to gift deed to the State of California the City -owned
Lodi Municipal Lake Park to be used as matched credit toward
an enlarged State park along the Mokelumne River and is so
doing requests the State Park Commission to proceid with the
establishment of a State park at this point at their very
earliest con'renience;
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Lodi is willing
to continue the operation of that portion of the project being
gift deeded for matching purposes until such time as the State
Legislature has appropriated or money has otherwise become
available for administration of the project.
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Certified to be a full, true and correct copy of
Resolution No. 1776 of the City Council of the
City of Lodi passed in adjourned meeting held
Wednesday, October 2$, 1953.