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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso. 1979-071 Urging Passage of Senate Bill S813 & House Bill HR3299, Providing for teh Exclusion of Approximately 600 Acres in the Giddy Giddy Gulch ARea from the Mt. Shasta Wilderness Proposal :. � �. - • ! RESOLUTION NO. ;�9-7/ A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDDZNG URGING PASSAGE OF SENATE BILL SH13 AND HOUSE BILL HR3299 , PROVIDIIQG FOR THE EXCLUSION OF APPROXIMATELY 600 ACRES ZCI THE GIDDY GIDDY GULCH AREA FROM THE MT. SHASTA WILDERNESS PROPOSAL. S9HEREAS, there is now pending before the Congress of the United States a proposal which includes , among other things, the establishment of an expanded wilderness area upon the slopes of Mt. Shasta in Siskiyou County, California, and wHEREAS, the former ski resort operator on Mt. Shasta, whose facilities were destroyed by bad weather, after many months of public hearings and study and public discussion, has proposed to construct new facilities on the mountain , provided he can obtain a location which includes a small portion (600 acres) of the pro- posed expansion of the Mt. Shasta wilderness Area , and there are thousands of California and Southern Oregon citizens to whom Mt. Shasta is a preferred •location ,for a ski resort, due to the energy shortage and other transportation and time factors , and �. WHEREAS , the construction of such a ski resort would be a boost to tne 1oc.a1 economy of �Siskiyou and Shasta County, NO�Q, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Redding , for the reasons set forth above , supports Senate Bill 5813 and House Bill HR3299 , providing that the expansion of the Mt. Shasta Wilderness Area proposed by the U. S. Forest Service be modified to exclude approximately 600 acres within the Giddy Giddy Gulch area, in order that a financially viable and operationally safe ski resort may be built by the former ski resort owner and operator. � BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk be and she � � hereby is instructed to mail fortnwith to Senator S . I . Hayakawa � � -1- _ � �. � � '� Senator Alan Cranston , Congressman Harold T. "Bizz" Johnson , and Secretary of Agriculture Robert Berglund, certified copies of this ' Resolution , so that it may be reaffirmed to our representatives in , Congress that the City supports the passage of these bills and wishes the deletion of apProximately, 600 acres in the Giddy Giddy Gulch area from the proposed expansion of the Mt . Shasta Wilderness Area. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was intro- duced and read at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Redding on the 7th . day of May , 1979 , and was duly adopted at said meeting by the following vote : ��YES : COUNCILMEN: FU1tOt1, Gdl'd, Kirkpatrick, Pugh, and Demsher NOES: COUNCILMEN : NOn2 ABSENT : COUNCILMEN : None ATTEST: �iQ ---�\_y�-�---�—� • DONALD M. DEMSHER 7'�/_f.'n/.G' . �m Dlayor of the City of Redding MII;DR�E �L. BRAYTON,� ity Clerk By� �'f'�:�L�C��1�� �;f , Deputy FORM APPROVED : G7 i ��u. ARL D. MURPHY, City A rney . � � , � . ', �' . < � �� , c . . , _2_ .