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RESOLUTION NO. 5682
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA
URGING PROMPT IMPLEMENTATION OF "911" AS A UNIVERSAL
EMERGENCY TELEPHONE REPORTING NUMBER
WHEREAS, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his
State of the Union message in January, 1968, reported that
the telephone companies had offered the use of number "911"
as a universal emergency telephone reporting number through-
out the United States; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Communications Commission
has requested that this number be used by all emergency ser-
vices in the United States; and
WHEREAS, the United States Senate and Congress
have passed a concurrent resolution endorsing the use of
number "911" as a universal emergency telephone number; .,and
WHEREAS, the League of California Cities, at its
1968 convention in Los Angeles, by resolution, endorsed the
use of the emergency communications number "911"; and
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles Division of the League
of California Cities has appointed an Emergency Communications
Committee to study the use of the number "911"; and
WHEREAS, said Committee has reported there is no
technical or jurisdictional reason to preclude the imple-
mentation -of the use of "911" in Los Angeles County; and
WHEREAS twenty-seven jurisdictions have already
commenced use of 1911", including New York; Jackson, Missis-
sippi; Springfield, Massachusetts; Suffolk County, New York;
Buffalo, New York; Sierra Vista, Arizona; Bountiful City,
Utah- and others; and a number of communities are scheduled
for ?1911" service in the years, 1969 and 1970; and
WHEREAS, due to the widespread use of "911" as an
emergency number elsewhere in the United States, the Pacific
Telephone Company in the Los Angeles area has found it neces-
sary to equip this emergency number with a recording which
tells the dialer that he must call the emergency service
through the operator or the regular emergency seven -digit
number; and
WHEREAS, there are now two test areas in Los
Angeles County, including the cities of Inglewood, Lomita,
Rolling Hills and certain unincorporated County territory,
and covering two of the 128 telephone exchanges, which test
areas are testing the actual working conditions and feasi-
bility of the use of 11911"; and
WHEREAS., experience in cities where "911" is in
effect has shown an increase of 10% in reported crime over
a period of 90 days, and has further shown that 95% of the
residents in said areas know the emergency number "911"
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and can call it without referring to any directory service,
as compared to less than 1% of the citizens who know by
memory the seven -digit number of their respective local
police departments; and
WHEREAS, the use of "911" connects the citizen
making the report directly with the police agency receiving
the call, rather than with a telephone company operator;
and'
WHEREAS, the high mobility of persons in the
greater Los Angeles area and the multiplicity of police and
fire agencies therein is confusing to the person in need
of emergency assistance, and the use of "911" as proposed
would enable him to obtain a sense of security and assure
to him the availability of emergency assistance at any time
and place within the County of Los Angeles; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of the County of
Los Angeles has established a committee to implement the in-
ception and use of "911" within the County;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA DOES RESOLVE as follows:
Section 1. All cities in the Los Angeles area
are urged o avail hemselves as soon as possible of the ad-
vantages of the "911" emergency telephone number system.
Section 2. Such cities are urged to act now,
utilizing facilities presently available and resisting appeals
for delay, in the light of the continuing local population
growth and the probability that present jurisdictional pro-
blems may, in the future, well be more complex than they are
today.
Section 3. The Board of Supervisors of the County
of Los Angeles and the City Councils of the various cities
in said county are further urged to initiate programs to
action toward the implementation of the "911" system, so that
such implementation may become a reality at the earliest pos-
sible date.
The. City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Resolution.
Adopted and approved this 2nd day of
February , 1970.
-mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was
duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa at a
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regular meeting thereof held on the 2nd day of
February , 1970, by the following vote of the
Council:
AYES: Councilmen: Rubio, Decker, Snyder, Calvert, Solem
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
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