35 of 1967 - A resolution resolving to enter into a contract with Salt Lake City Lines Inc. to acquire the transp Pr
Resolution No. 35
• By
MAYOR J. BRACKEN LEE
COMMISSIONER
• I
Resolving to enter into a contract with]
Salt Lake City Lines Inc. to acquire the
transportation system and all proper I
ties of Salt Lake City Lines, Inc. and
thereupon operate said system and
properties to provide the citizens of i
Salt Lake City with a mass trans- I
portation system.
Presented to the Board of Commissioner
AND PASSED
DEC6 1967
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CITY RECORDER
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'ROLL CALL
December 6
VOTING . Aye Nay Salt Lake City,Utah, 196
Barker. . . .
I move that the Resolution be adopted:)
Catmull . . .
Harrison . . . v
Holley . . . . -'/,/�'�` d`"-L4'- -y-�
Mr. Chairman .
RESOLUTION
Result . . . .
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WHEREAS, originally the mass transportation system in Salt Lake
City, and its environs consisted of an electric street railway system,
which system, for economic and other reasons, was gradually changed
from a street railway system to include trolley buses, and thereafter
to a system consisting entirely of street buses propelled by combustion
engines; and
WHEREAS, the Salt Lake City Lines, for many years, has been operating
said bus system; and
WHEREAS, said Salt Lake City Lines Inc. has indicated that the
continued operation of said system has become impossible because of
the increasing deficits incurred from failure of revenues to meet the
expenses of operation; and
WHEREAS, the employees of said Salt Lake City Lines Inc. have made
demand for increased wages and have voted to strike unless such demand
is met; and
WHEREAS, Salt Lake City Lines Inc. maintains that it cannot grant
an increase in wages and has no other alternative than to go out of
business and cease operating its bus line system; and, in such event
Salt Lake City will have lost the only mass transportation system
operating in said city; and
WHEREAS, there is no prospect whatever of any private enterprise
taking over and operating said bus line system; and
WHEREAS, the loss of such transportation system to the residents
of Salt Lake City would amount to a major catastrophe causing great
loss to the business community of the city and great handicap and
inconvenience to the residents of the city in moving about the city
and its environs; and
WHEREAS, said Salt Lake City Lines Inc. has indicated that it will
convey to Salt Lake City all of its bus lines property upon a fair and
equitable basis, under a lease and option to purchase arrangement within
the legal ability of the city to undertake;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE ZT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, that it does hereby find that the loss to Salt
Lake City of the mass transportation system no carried on by the Salt
Lake City Lines is imminent and will occur in the very near future, and
that the loss of such system will have a calamitous affect upon the
business community and upon the residents of Salt Lake City and should
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not be permitted to occur.
The board further finds that Salt Lake City is the only entity
capable of taking over and operating such system and thus prevent
the loss that would otherwise occur.
Be it further resolved that Salt Lake City intends forthwith to
enter into a satisfactory contract with Salt Lake City Lines Inc. to
acquire the transportation system and all proper ties of Salt Lake
City Lines Inc. and thereupon operate said system and properties to
provide the citizens of Salt Lake City with a mass transportation
system.
Be it further resolved that the City Attorney is hereby directed
to immediately commence negotiating an agreement with Salt Lake City
Lines Inc. for Salt Lake City to take over and operate the bus line
system and properties of said company.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah,
this 6th day of December, 1967. /
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