HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/28/1961The Los Angeles, Calif., County Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously
a crash study of a $404 million program proposed by Supervisor Kenneth Hahn
to provide community fallout shelters for the county's six million residents.
Hahn urged a special election so voters can show whether they want the pro-
gram and determine the method of financing - -a tax increase or special bond
issue. Under Hahn's plan, shelters would be built first at the 1,600 schools
in the county. A resolution endorsing the proposed county shelter program
was before a committee of the Los Angeles City Council for action.
Kalamazoo, a Michigan city of 82,000 people is providing an example of what
can be done on a community basis to prepare for nuclear war. Kalamazoo is
now signing formal contracts with private firms to work for the city if a
' big war should come. The idea is to organize in advance, so that people
and companies will be doing in a war emergency the jobs they are best fitted
to do. By early October, more than 30 firms had signed contracts, and negoti-
ations were under way with 60 others.
A priority school shelter construction program was urged by Rep. Chet Holifield,
chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, in a speech to a Jewish
women's conference in Los Angeles, Holifield said architectural designs to
reduce or eliminate the use of glass in school construction are available
"but they are gathering dust in some pige6n- hole." He said underground con-
struction of school auditoriums, gymnasiums and cafeterias is possible and
sensible, and would offer high level protection for children in case of need."
City Council and Staff discussed the possible renovation to the City Hall base-
ment in order to make it into an adequate and safe Disaster Control Center.
Councilman Graves was authorized to contact the Society of Professional
Engineers to accept their offer to cooperate in a study for adequacy of City
Hall Construction to be used as a Control Center.
Councilman Miller suggested that the basement Control Center be designed for
multi purpose use so that it could be used as office space prior to being
used as a Civil Defense Control Center, for expanding City operations.
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' The meeting adjourned at 9:45 P. M. on motion of Mayor Davidson, seconded by Council-
man Miller.
Approved this 4th day of December, 1961.
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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
November 28, 1961 - -- 6:30 P. M.
Anderson Hotel
Roll Call Present - Miss Margaret M. McNeil, R. L. Graves, Jr., Donald Q. Miller,
Gerald W. Shipsey, Clay P. Davidson
Planning Commission Present - Emmons Blake, Stanley Cole, George Johnson, Elizabeth
Law, Leonard Lenger, Kenneth Schwartz, Clell Whelchel.
City Staff Present
- R.
D.
Miller,
D.
F.
Romero,
W.
M.
Houser, J. W.
Abraham,
'F.
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L.
Skiles,
P.
G.
Beckey,
J.
W.
Fitzpatrick,
L. Wise
1. The City Council met in joint session with the City Planning Commission to study
and discuss the proposed subdivision Ordinance for the City of San Luis Obispo,
a precise element of the General Plan. The City Council and Planning Commission
discussed the ordinance section by section and-in general approved the ordinance
so that the Planning Commission could go to hearings on the matter early in
December.