1953-2182RESOLUTION NO. 218
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF TrE CITY
OF ANAHEIN CALLING A SPECIAL ELECTION ON THE
7TH DAY OF AUGUST 19 53
IN CERTAIN TERRITORY IN THE COUNTY OF ORANGE
CONTIGUOUS TO THE CITY OF ANAHEIM PROPOSED TO
BE ANNEXED TO SAID CITY OF ANAHEIM PROVIDING
FOR THE HOLDING OF "UCH ELECTION AND SUB-
MITTING TO Ti-E ELECTORS R- SIDING IN SUCH
TERRITORY THE QUESTION WHETHER SUCH TERRITORY
SHALL BE ANNEXED TO, INCORPORATED IN, AND
MADE A PART OF SAID CITY OF ANAHEIM, AND THE
PROPERTY IN SUCH TERRITORY BE, AFTER SUCH
ANNEXATION, SUBJECT TO TAXATION EC,UALLY WITH
PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF ANAHEIM TO PAY
ITS PRO RATA PORTION, BASED UPON ASSESSED
VALUATION, OF ALL THE BONDED INDEBTEDNESS OF
SAID CITY OF ANAHEIM OUTSTANDING ON THE 9TH
DAY OF JtJNE 19 53 OR
THERETOFORE AUTHORIZED: DESCRIBING SAID
TERRITORY AND DESIGNATING IT BY THE NAME OF
BALL ROAD ANNEXATION NO. 2,
ESTABLISHII \TG AN ELECTION PRECINCT AND POLL-
ING PLACE IN SAID TERRITORY, APPOINTING THE
OFFICERS OF ELECTION FOR SAID SPECIAL ELECT-
ION AND PROVIDING FOR T-E PUBLICATION OF
I4CTICE OF SUCH ELECTION.
!THEREAS, the City Council of the City of Anaheim did on
the 9th day of June 19 53 receive a written
petition asking that certain new territory described in said
petition be annexed to the City of Anaheim; and
WHEREAS, said territory so proposed to be annexed to
said City of Anaheim is situated in the County of Orange, State
of California, and is contiguous to the City of Anaheim, and said
petition contains a description of said territory in words and
figures as hereinafter in this resolution described; and
WHEREAS, said petition is signed by not less than one
fourth of the qualified electors residing within the territory
hereinafter described, as shown by the County Registration of
Voters; and
WHEREAS, said new territory proposed to be annexed to
said City of Anaheim does not form a part of any municipal corpor-
ation, and more than twelve (12) qualified electors resided within
the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed at the
time of the filing of said petition for said annexation, and said
electors are bona fide residents of said new territory and said
territory is inhabited; and
WHEREAS, on the 9th day of June 19 53,
the City Council of the City of Anaheim did adopt its Resolution
No. 2168 declaring its intention to call a special election and
fixing a date thereof, and giving at least fifty (50) days notice
thereof, and of its intention to submit the question of annexation
to the electors residing in the territory described in said
written petition, which resolution did specifically describe the
boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed, and designate
the territory by the name of BALL ROAD AN NEXATIO T NO. 2
by which it hould be referred to
upon the ballots used at the election, and did contain a notice
of the day, hour and place where any person owning real property
within said territory could appear before the legislative body of
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the City of Anaheim and show cause why such territory should not
be annexed to the City, and the City Council did find and deter-
mine that the proponents who filed said petition for annexation
had done and performed all of the things required to be done and
performed by the Annexation Act of 1913 (Title IV, Division 2,
Part 2, Chapter 1, Articles 1 to 4, inclusive, of the Government
Code of the State of California) and did further find that all
of the provisions of said Annexation Act of 1913, as amended, re-
quired to be complied with before the adoption of said resolution
had been complied with prior to the adoption thereof, which re-
solution was duly published once a week for two weeks prior to the
hearing in a newspaper of general circulation published in the
City of Anaheim, there being no newspaper of general circulation
published in the territory proposed to be annexed.
WHEREAS, said City Council did, pursuant to its Reso-
lution No. 2168 hold a public meeting and hearing on the 30th
day of June 19 53 at the hour of 8:00 o'clock
P.M. in the City Council Chamber of the City Hall of the City of
Anaheim, the date fixed in said resolution as the day, hour and
place when and where any and all persons owning real property
within the boundaries of the territory so proposed to be annexed
and having any objections to the proposed annexation, might appear
before the City Council of the City of Anaheim and show cause
why such territory should not be so annexed, which said Resolution
did notify all persons having any objections to such proposed
annexation to appear on said date at said hour and place to show
cause, if any they had, why such territory should not be annexed,
and further notifying such persons that any protests against the
calling of an election to submit to the electors residing within
said territory the question of annexation to the City of Anaheim,
and any protests against the annexation of said territory to the
City of Anaheim must be in writing and filed with the City Clerk
of the City of Anaheim not later than the hour and date set forth
in such resolution for the hearing of objections to said election
and the annexation of said territory to the City of Anaheim,
which said resolution was duly published once a week for two
successive weeks prior to the date fixed for the hearing of pro-
tests and objections to said election and annexation of said
territory to the City of Anaheim, in the Anaheim Bulletin, a news-
paper of general circulation published and circulated in the City
of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California; and
WHEREAS, at said public hearing held on the 30th day of
June 19 53 the City Council of the City of
Anaheim did hold a hearing to hear all written protests thereto-
fore filed objecting to the calling of said special election or
the annexation of said territory hereinafter described to the City
of Anaheim, and the City Council does hereby find that written
protests were not made by the owners of a majority of the separate
parcels of property within the territory proposed to be annexed;
and
WHEREAS, said petition contains a request that the City
Council of the City of Anaheim call a special election to be held
in said territory thereby proposed to be annexed to said City of
Anaheim and giving notice thereof as required by law, and to sub-
mit to the electors residing within said territory the question
whether said new territory shall be annexed to, incorporated in,
and made a part of the City of Anaheim, and said petition also
contains a request that the question to be submitted at such
special election to the electors residing within said new terri-
tory shall be whether said new territory shall be annexed to, in-
corporated in, and made a part of said City of Anaheim, and the
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property therein be, after such annexation, subject to taxation
equally with the property within the City of Anaheim, to pay its
pro rata share, based upon assessed valuation, of all bonded in-
debtedness of the City of Anaheim outstanding or authorized at the
date of the filing of said petition, to wit June 9,
19 53
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Anaheim that a special election be and the same is
hereby, called to be held on Friday the 7th day of
August 195'3 in said new territory mentioned
in the petition aforesaid and hereinafter more particularly de-
scribed, and proposed to be annexed to the City of Anaheim, for
the purpose of submitting to the electors residing in said new
territory the question whether the said new territory shall be
annexed to, incorporated in, and made a part of the City of Ana-
heim and the property therein be, after such annexation, subject
to taxation equally with the property within said City of Anaheim,
to pay its pro rata share, based upon assessed valuation, of all
of the bonded indebtedness of said City of Anaheim outstanding
on the 9th day of June 19 53 or theretofore
authorized.
The new territory in which such special election is
hereby called and shall be held, is situated in the County of
Orange, State of California, the boundaries of which are described
as follows:
A tract of land lying within sections 15, 16, 21 and 22,
township 4 south, range 10 west, San Bernardino Base and Meridian;
bounded on the east by the E line NU* NE4 of said section 22, on the
south by Winston Road extended to Walnut Street, South on Walnut
Street to Cerritos, \Test on Cerritos to the Southerly extension of
Loara Road, north on Loara Road, and its southerly extension, to
Lincoln Avenue, Bounded by the existing City Limits on the north and
east, and more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the E line of the
NIT4 of NE Section 22, T4S, RlOW, S. B. B. N. and the existing City
Limits being 660 more or less southerly of the monumented center
line of Ball Road (6o feet wide); thence,
1. Southerly 66o feet more or less along said E line of
the NW* of NE$ of said Section 22,T4S, RlOW, S. B. B. M. to the S
line of the N- of NI of said Section 22; thence,
2. Westerly 1350 feet more or less along said S line of
the Ni of NI of said Section 22, across Manchester Ave. and across
Harbor Blvd. to its intersection with the southerly extension of the
west right-of-way line of said Harbor Blvd.; thence,
3. Northerly 20 feet more or less along said southerly
extension of the west right -of -way line of Harbor Blvd. to its inter-
section with the north right -of -way line of Winston Road; thence,
4. Westerly 2610 feet more or less along said north right-
of --way line of Winston Road and its westerly prolongation to the east
line of Section 21, TLS, R1011, 6. B. B. M.; thence,
5. Continuing westerly 30 feet more or less along the
said westerly prolongation of the north right --of -way line of Winston
Road to its intersection with the west right -of --way line of West
Street; thence,
6. Southerly 61 feet more or less along said west right
of -way line of West Street to its intersection with the S line of the
NE* of NE; of said Section 21, T4S, R101J, S. B. B. M.; thence,
7. Westerly 1320 feet more or less along said S line of
the NE* of NE* of said Section 21, T4S, RlOW, S. B. B. M. and its
prolongation across Walnut Street to the west right-of-way line of
said Walnut Street; thence,
8. Southerly 1342 feet more or less along said west ri'ht-
of --way line of Walnut Street to the north right -of -way line of
Cerritos Avenue; thence,
9. Westerly 2616 feet more or less along said north right
of --way of Cerritos Avenue across Southern Pacific Railroad Co. r3gat-
of --way (60 feet wide) to the W. line of Ei of NW* of said Section 21,
TLS, RIOW, S. B. B. M.; thence,
10. Northerly 2642 feet more or less along said W line of
E2 of NUe of Section 21, T4S, RlOW, S. B. B. M. to the south right-
of-way line of Ball Road; thence,
11. Easterly 20 feet more or less along said south right-
of-way line of Ball Road to its intersection with the southerly pro-
longation of the east right -of -way line of Loara Street, being 40
feet in width; thence,
12. Northerly 5300 feet more or less along said east
right -of -way line of Loara Street and its southerly rolongation,
across Ball Road (60 feet wide) across Crone Avenue (60 feet
wide) across Broadway (6o feet wide) across Mabel Street (50 feet
wide) to the south right -of -way line of Lincoln Avenue, the same
being the existing City Limits line of the City of Anaheim;
thence,
13. Following along the existing City Limits Line east-
erly 270 feet more or less to an angle point; thence southeasterly
484 feet more or less to an angle point; thence northeasterly 50
feet more or less to an angle point; thence, southeasterly 752
feet more or less to an angle point; thence, southerly 4670 feet
more or less to an angle point, said point being on the monument-
ed center line of Ball Road; thence, easterly, continuing along
the existing City Limits Line 1346 feet more or less to an angle
point; thence, northerly 297 feet more or less to an angle point;
thence, northeasterly 1698 feet more or less to an angle point;
thence northwesterly 33 feet more or less to an angle point;
thence, northeasterly 2315 feet more or less to an angle point;
thence, southeasterly 66 feet more or less to an angle point;
thence continuing southeasterly 224 feet more or less to an angle
point; thence northeasterly 54.75 feet more or less to an angle
point; thence southeasterly 515 feet more or less to an angle
point; thence, southwesterly 49.50 feet more or less to an angle
point; thence, southwesterly 630 feet more or less along said
existing City Limits Line to an angle point being on the monu-
mented center line of Ball Road; thence westerly 5.12 feet more
or less to an angle point in said existing City Limits Line;
thence, southerly 66o feet more or less continuing along said City
Limits Line to an angle point, said point being on the S line of
the N of Ni of Ni of Section 22, T4S, RIOW, S. R. B. H.; thence,
easterly 1290 feet more or less along the said S line of the N2
of N -1 of Ni of Section 22, T4S, R10GJ, S. B. B. M. and the existing
City Limits Line to the point of beginning.
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AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the polls of said
election shall be opened at 7:00 o'clock A.M. of the day of said
election and shall remain open continuously from said time until
7:00 o'clock P.M. of the same day, when said polls shall be
closed, except as provided in Section 573 of the Elections Code
of the State of California.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that at said special election
the question whether said new territory shall be annexed to, in-
corporated in, and made a part of the City of Anaheim, and the
property in said new territory be, after such annexation, sub-
ject to taxation equally with the property within the City of
Anaheim, to pay its pro rata portion, based upon assessed valuat-
ion, of all of the bonded indebtedness of said City of Anaheim
outstanding on the 9th day of June 19 53 or
theretofore authorized, shall be submitted to the electors re-
siding in said new territory so proposed to be annexed to said
City of Anaheim.
That said new territory hereinbefore and in said peti-
tion for annexation described is hereby designated as "BALL
ROAD ANNEXATION NO. 2 ANNNMNIMMEIC and said territory
shall be indicated and referred to by the name of
BALL ROAD ANNEXATION NO. 2 upon the ballots to be
used at said special election, at which the question of such
annexation of said territory to the City of Anaheim is submitted
to the electors of said territory, and the name UBA,
ROAD ANNEXATION NO, 2" whenever used in the notice
of said special election hereby called in said territory, and any
and all proceedings for the annexation of said territory to the
City of Anaheim shall mean and shall be construed to mean the
territory hereinbefore and in said petition described, and so
proposed by said petition to be annexed to said City of Anaheim.
That on the ballots to be used at said special election
in addition to any other matters required by law, there shall be
printed substantially the following:
MARK CROSS (-h) ON BALLOT ONLY WITH RUBBER STAMP:
NEVER WITH PEN OR PENCIL.
(ABSENTEE BALLOTS MAY BE MARKED WITH PEN AND INK
OR PENCIL.)
INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS
To vote on any measure, stamp a cross (4) in
the voting square after the word "YES" or after
the word "NO All marks, except the cross (4-),
are forbidden. All distinguishing marks or
erasures are forbidden and make the ballot void.
If you wrongly stamp, tear or deface this ballot,
return it to the inspector of election and ob-
tain another.
On absent voter's ballots mark a cross with
pen or pencil.
MEASURE SUBMITTED TO VOTE OF VOTERS
:Shall "BALL ROAD ANNEXATION NO. 2"
:be annexed to the City of fnaheim, Califor
:nia, and the property in said BALL ROAD YES
ANNEXATION N0. 2 be after
such annexation, subject to taxation equal
:ly with the property within said City of
:Anaheim, to pay its pro rata portion, based:
:upon assessed valuation, of all bonded in-
:debtedness of said City of Anaheim outstand- NO
:ing on 9 1 9 53 or
:theretofore authorized?
A cress placed in the voting square after the word
"YES" in the manner hereinbefore provided shall be counted in
favor of the adoption of the proposition or measure. A cress (4.)
placed in the voting square after the word "NO" in the manner
hereinbefore provided shall be counted against the adoption of the
proposition.
The qualified electors residing in said new territory so
proposed, to be annexed to said City of Anaheim are hereby directed
to vote upon the question of the annexation of said territory to
the City of Anaheim and the subjection of said territory, after
annexation, to taxation equally with the property within said City
of Anaheim, to pay its pro rata portion, based upon assessed
valuation, of all bonded indebtedness of said City of Anaheim out-
standing on June 9 19 53 or theretofore author-
ized, by stamping a cross (f) in the voting square after the word
"YES" on the ballots to be used in said election, or by stamping
a cross in the voting square after the word u+N0" on such ballots.
If an elector shall stamp a cross in the voting square after
the printed word "YES the vote of elector shall be counted
in favor of said territory being annexed to, incorporated in, and
made a part of the City of Anaheim and the property in said terri-
tory be, after such annexation, subject to taxation, to pay its
pro rata portion, based upon assessed valuation, of all bonded
indebtedness of said City of Anaheim outstanding on
June 9 19 53 or theretofore authorized; and if an
elector shall stamp a cross (4.) in the voting square after the
printed word "NO the vote of such elector shall be counted
against such annexation.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that for the purpose of hold-
ing said election there shall be, and here is established, one
election precinct designated as hereinafter stated. The polling
place for said precinct shall be the place hereinafter designated
and the persons hereinafter named, being competent and qualified
electors and residents of said territory and of said election
precinct, are hereby appointed officers of election and they shall
hold said election and make return thereof in the manner provided
by law.
"BALL RO4D ANNEXATION NO. 2" voting pre
cinct shall consist of all of said above described territory pro-
posed to be annexed to the City of Anaheim for the purpose of
holding said election.
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Polling Place:
Inspector:
Judge:
Judge:
Orange Grove Trailer Park Business Office
913 S. Palm St., Orange County, California.
(1 blk. East of Manchester Ave.)
Mrs. Lynn $obey
Mrs. Pauline Hohensee
Mrs. Magdaline Mang
Except as otherwise provided in this resolution, said
election hereby called shall be conducted as provided by law for
municipal elections in the City of Anaheim and the Annexation Act
of 1913 (Statutes 1913, Chapter 312, Title IV, Division 2, Part 2,
Chapter 1, Articles 1 to 4 inclusive, of the Government Code of
the State of California) and all acts amendatory thereof and
supplementary thereto.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk of the
City of Anaheim be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to
give notice of said special election by causing a notice thereof
to be published once a week for four (4) successive weeks prior
to the 7th day of August 19 .53 in the
Placentia Courier a newspaper of general circulat-
ion printed and published outside of the City of Anaheim, but in
the County of Orange, in which the territory so proposed to be
annexed to the City of Anaheim is situated. Such notice shall
distinctly state the date of such special election, the measure
or proposition to be submitted at such special election, to wit:
That it is proposed to annex to, incorporate in, and make a part
of said City of Anaheim the aforesaid territory sought to be
annexed and shall specifically describe the boundaries thereof,
and that after such annexation, such territory shall be subject
to taxation equally with the property within said City of Anaheim,
to pay its pro rata portion, based upon assessed valuation, of
all bonded indebtedness of said City of Anaheim outstanding on
the 9th day of June
19 53 or theretofore
authorized. Such notice shall distinctly designate said terri-
tory proposed to be annexed to said City of Anaheim as
'BALL ROAD ANNEXATION NO. 2 as the name by which such terri-
tory shall be indicated upon the election ballots; that such
notice shall instruct the electors how to vote at said special
election; that with respect to the assumption of bonded indebted-
ness said notice shall:
1. State distinctly the proposition to be submitted.
2. Specify the improvement or improvements for which
the indebtedness was incurred or authorized.
3. State the amount or amounts of such indebtedness
outstanding at the date of the first publicat-
ion of the notice.
4. State the amount authorized to be represented
by bonds to be issued.
5. State the maximum rate of interest payable or to
be payable on the indebtedness.
Such notice shall designate the election precinct, the place at
which the polls will be open, and the hours at which such polls
will be open for such election in said new territory as establish-
ed by this resolution. In such the qualified electors
residing in said new territory so proposed to be annexed shall be
directed to vote upon the question of annexation as hereinabove
provided.
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AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that immediately upon the
closing of the polls, the election officers for said election
precinct hereinabove designated shall count the ballots, make
up, certify, and seal the ballots and tally sheets of the ballots
cast, and deliver them, with the returns, to the City Clerk of
the City of Anaheim; that, at its next regular meeting held at
least three days after the election, the City Council shall can-
vass the returns. The canvass shall be completed at the meeting
if practicable, or as soon as possible, avoiding adjournments.
Immediately upon completion of the canvass, the legislative body
shall cause a record to be entered upon its minutes stating the
proposition submitted, the number of votes cast, and the number
of votes cast for and against annexation and that thereafter the
City Council shall take and conduct such further proceedings
as are provided for in the Annexation Act of 1913 and acts amend-
atory ti:ereof and supplementary thereto, hereinabove referred to.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and signed by me
this 30th day of June 19 53
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK Or TFE CIT7iv" ANAHEIM
STnTE OF CALI
COUNTY OF ORANGE ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM
I, CHARLES E. GRIFFITH, City Clerk of the City of Ana-
heim, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was intro-
duced and adopted at an adjoumedregular meeting provided by
law, of the City Councilcf the City of Anaheim, held on the
day of 19 by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Pearson, Wisser, Baying and Van Wagoner.
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None.
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: Boney.
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of
Anaheim approved and signed said resolution on the 30th day of
June 19 53
IN WITNESS 't:ERE OF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim this 30th day
of June 19 53
aN-
MAYOR OF THE CITYNAHEIM
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