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RESOLUTION NO, 1085.
<br />WHEREAS, the construction of the Pat Mayse Dam and Reservoir on
<br />Sanders Creek, in Lamar County, Texas, has been recommended as a
<br />feasible project by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, the
<br />District and Division Offices thereof, the Texas Water Commission, and the
<br />Governor of the State of Texas, and authorized during the Session of the
<br />87th Congress in the 1962 Flood Control Act; and,
<br />WHEREAS, the President of the United States has placed in the Budget
<br />for the fiscal year 1965, the sum of $300, 000, 00 for final engineering; and,
<br />WHEREAS, the Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District Office, have stated
<br />that their total capabilities for the fiscal year 1965 would be an additional
<br />$700, 000. 00 to begin construction work; and,
<br />W HER EAS, the ma jor plant of C ampbell Soup Go mpany, which i s now
<br />being constructed, will be completed and using water by November lst of
<br />1964, and their r equirernents will be in exc es s, within two year s, of the
<br />ability of the City of Paris, with its present water supply, to furnis4 and,
<br />WHEREAS, the City of Paris and Lamar County, Texas, have been
<br />declared depressed areas by the Congress of the United States, because of
<br />their extremely high level of chronic unemployment; and,
<br />WHEREAS, the 800 or more employees that will be used by the
<br />Campbell Soup Company will alleviate this depressed condition for the en-
<br />tire County of Lamar; and,
<br />WHEREAS, the City of Paris, by Resolution No. 951, adopted by the
<br />City Council of the City of Paris, on January 25, 1961, clearly states the
<br />ability and willingness of the City of Paris to pay the costs of the con-
<br />struction of the Pat Mayse Dam and Reservoir allocated for municipal
<br />water storage; NOW, THEREFORE,
<br />BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS,
<br />That the City of Paris does hereby earnestly petition and request the
<br />Congress of the United States to appropriate the $300, 000. 00 contained in
<br />the President of the United States' Budget for the fiscal year 1965, plus
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