HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 082774A - Resolution To Enlarge City Council - East LBK Business Association - 08/27/1974Board of Directors
Bobby Williams, Chairman
C. B. Stubblefield
Harold Chatman
Alfred Caviei
R. J. Givens
Officers
T. J. Patterson, President
C. B. Stubblefield, Vice-Presl.ient
Mrs. Vicky Berry, Secretary
D. C. Kinner, Treasurer
Herman Booker, Parliamentarian
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East Lubbock Business Association
P. O. Box 1975-
Lubbock, Texas 79408
SUBJECT: "RESOLUTION TO ENLARGE CITY COUNCIL"
FROM: EAST LUBBOCK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (ELBA)
TO: THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS
DATE: AUGUST 22, 1974
BE IT RESOLVED ON THIS 30TH DAY OF JULY, 1974,
THE EAST LUBBOCK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (ELBA), IN CONJUNCTION
WITH THEIR STATED PURPOSE AND GOALS, WHICH STATES: "TO IM-
PROVE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN EAST LUBBOCK RESIDENTS AND THE
BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT: AND, SECONDLY, "TO
INSTILL AWARENESS OF THE PROBLEMS OF EAST LUBBOCK AND OF STEPS
THAT ALL LUBBOCK CITIZENS AND INSTITUTIONS CAN TAKE TO MAKE
EAST LUBBOCK A VIABLE AND CONTRIBUTING PART OF THE CITY. ALSO AS STATED IN ITS (ELBA)
PURPOSE THAT READS IN PART, "TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, AND CIVIC
RESPONSIBILITY, "DO HEREBY RECOMMEND TO THIS CITY COUNCIL THAT THEY CALL AN ELECTION
OF THE PEOPLE TO VOTE UPON THE ISSUE OF ENLARGEMENT OF THE CITY COUNCIL FROM FIVE (5)
TO SEVEN (7) MEMBERS, WITH RESIDENTIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NEW MEMBERS.
WE FURTHER RESOLVE THAT THOSE MEMBERS BE VOTED AT -LARGE BY THE ENTIRE CITY OF
LUBBOCK COMMUNITY.
IF THIS WOULD BECOME A CONSENSUS BY THE VOTERS OF LUBBOCK, WE WOULD RECOMMEND THAT
THE PRESENT MAYOR AND CITY CONCIL APPOINT THOSE PERSONS TO THE NEW POSITIONS.
THIS RESOLUTION IS THE FEELING OF THE EAST LUBBOCK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (ELBA) AS
VOTED UPON IN THEIR MEETING OF JULY 3010. 1974.
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