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RESOLUTON NO. 978
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
TUSTIN URGING CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS IN SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA ON THE SUBJECT OF NARCOTICS TRAFFIC
BETWEEN MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA
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WHEREAS, the distribution and use of narcotics and dangerous
drugs by minors has become an extremely serious problem in California
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WHEREAS, there is evidence to indicate that the California-
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Mexico border should be closed to unchaperoned minors; .,~
WHEREAS, the situation is of particular concern to those .cities
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in the southern part of the state which are in close proximity to the
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Mexico border, such as the City of Tustin;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the
City of Tustin expresses its support of the Resolution adopted by the
League of. California Cities by urging the.United States Congress to
conduct hearings in Southern California to develop measures to remedy the
problem of traffic in narcotics and dangerous drugs between Mexico and
California;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the United States Congress in
conducting such hearings is urged to specifically investigate the traffic
in narcotics by minors and to consider the establishment of specific
California-Mexico border controls in oooperation with the Mexican
Government as would assist in the elminination of this source of the problem;
BE IT FIIRTHER REgOLVED that the City Clerk is directed to
send copies of this Resolution to the' League of California Cities, all
cities in Orange County, the Board of Supervisors of Orange County, to
United States Se'nator George Murphy and Senator Alan Cranston,
to Congressmen James B. Utt and Richard Hannah, to State Senators John Bo·
Schmitz and James Whetmore, to Assemblyman Robert Badham and to Governor
Ronald Reagan.
ADOPTED this 20th day of January, 1969
ATTEST:
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Mayor
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF TUSTIN
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RUTH C. POE, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the
City of Tustin, California, does hereby certify that the whole number of
~he members of the City Council of the City of Tustin is five; that'the
above and foregoing Resolution No. 978 was duly and regularly in-
troduced, read, passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council
held on the 20th day of January, 1969, by the following vote:
NOES: '. cOUNCIIREN NONE
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ABSENT: COUNCII/~EN NONE
City Cle~k~..City o'f Tustin, California