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RESOLUTION NO. 93-147
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Mohave County met in Special Session
this 17th day of May, 1993, and
WHEREAS, the Boulder Dam was built on the Colorado River (at the point
where the Colorado River is the boundary between the states of Arizona and
Nevada) approximately seventy miles northwest of the City of Kingman in Mohave
County, Arizona, and
WHEREAS, the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act stated that Arizona
and Nevada, Hnd the counties of :"laid states, had the right to have allocated to
them a certain amount of the revenues in lieu of taxation, for the loss of taxable
property si tuated in said states and subdivisions which were submerged by the water
of Lake Mead, and
WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States of America passed the Boulder
Canyon Project Act and the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, and
WHEREAS, former members of the Mohave County Board of Supervisors have
agreed it, to be in the best interel't of its citizens to use these funds in a manner
that would substantially benefit all its citizens, and
WHEREAS, the Mohave County Parks Department's various recreational
facilities are operated solely on revenues generated by those facilities and;
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors supports, and wishes to continue, efforts
to provide recreational facilities through the Mohave County Parks Department for
all of its citizens.
NOW 'IHEREFOHE, BE IT H,FBOLVED THAT the Mohave County Board of
Supervisors hereby approves the allocation of any and all revenues generated by the
parks, within the jurisdiction of the Mohave County Parks Department, to remain in
the operation budget of the Mohave County Parks Department.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT FlJRTHER RFBOLVED THAT the Boulder Dam in
Lieu funds sh8Jl he allocated to the MohRve Parks Department to be used for
continued support (If recreation in "ind through Mohave County's parks system.
. Resolution No. 93- 147
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PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 17th day of May, 1993.
MaliA VE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
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