1085 RES CONSTRUCTION OF PAT MAYSE DAM AND RESERVOIR HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED AS FEASIBLE PROJECTRESOLUTION NO, 1085.
WHEREAS, the construction of the Pat Mayse Dam and Reservoir on
Sanders Creek, in Lamar County, Texas, has been recommended as a
feasible project by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, the
District and Division Offices thereof, the Texas Water Commission, and the
Governor of the State of Texas, and authorized during the Session of the
87th Congress in the 1962 Flood Control Act; and,
WHEREAS, the President of the United States has placed in the Budget
for the fiscal year 1965, the sum of $300, 000, 00 for final engineering; and,
WHEREAS, the Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District Office, have stated
that their total capabilities for the fiscal year 1965 would be an additional
$700, 000. 00 to begin construction work; and,
W HER EAS, the ma jor plant of C ampbell Soup Go mpany, which i s now
being constructed, will be completed and using water by November lst of
1964, and their r equirernents will be in exc es s, within two year s, of the
ability of the City of Paris, with its present water supply, to furnis4 and,
WHEREAS, the City of Paris and Lamar County, Texas, have been
declared depressed areas by the Congress of the United States, because of
their extremely high level of chronic unemployment; and,
WHEREAS, the 800 or more employees that will be used by the
Campbell Soup Company will alleviate this depressed condition for the en-
tire County of Lamar; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Paris, by Resolution No. 951, adopted by the
City Council of the City of Paris, on January 25, 1961, clearly states the
ability and willingness of the City of Paris to pay the costs of the con-
struction of the Pat Mayse Dam and Reservoir allocated for municipal
water storage; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS,
That the City of Paris does hereby earnestly petition and request the
Congress of the United States to appropriate the $300, 000. 00 contained in
the President of the United States' Budget for the fiscal year 1965, plus
the $700, 000. 00 for first construction of the Pat Mayse Dam and Reservoir,
the latter sum being the total capabilities suggested by the Tulsa Office of
the Corps of Engineers for the fiscal year 1965, and these appropriations
will enable the City of Paris to meet its target date for the completion of
the Pat Mayse Dam and Reservoir in the year 1966.
Passed and adopted this 15th day of April, A. D, , 1964,
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City Clerk
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