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House Bill 9065




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HR 9065

        By Representatives Harrington, Bitner and Gay






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution honoring the City of Punta Gorda

  3         Fire Department.

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  5         WHEREAS, on March 16, 1897, the Mayor and Town Council

  6  of the Town of Punta Gorda, Florida, passed Ordinance No. 129,

  7  to establish a fire department consisting of a hook and ladder

  8  company, a Fire Marshal, and first and second Assistant Fire

  9  Marshals, and

10         WHEREAS, the duties of the Fire Marshal included the

11  responsibility for control of all operations at each fire that

12  occurred in town, the care, custody, and control of all fire

13  apparatus, and pricing a set of hooks and ladders and five

14  buckets, and obtaining estimates for the construction of

15  cisterns or reservoirs at the mouth of all streets opening

16  onto to Marion Avenue from the south or southwest from King

17  Street to Cross Street, and

18         WHEREAS, the fire committee obtained the prices of and

19  purchased fire pumps, to be put into said reservoirs, and also

20  contracted for such hose as was useful and necessary for use

21  on said pumps, and

22         WHEREAS, in order to obtain the means to equip and

23  carry out the operations of the fire department a tax of 4

24  mills on the dollar on the state valuation of the property

25  within the corporate limits of the Town of Punta Gorda was

26  levied and collected annually as a special tax for waterworks

27  and fire protection, and

28         WHEREAS, Mayor Bill Richards of Punta Gorda

29  commemorated the event of the Centennial Celebration for the

30  Punta Gorda Fire Department by the presentation of a

31  ceremonial badge to Fire Chief Bill Dryburgh, NOW, THEREFORE,

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HR 9065

    581-110A-97






  1  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  2  Florida:

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  4         That the House of Representatives of the State of

  5  Florida hereby commends the Firefighters of the City of Punta

  6  Gorda for their dedication and service to the community of

  7  Punta Gorda for the past 100 years.

  8         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution

  9  be presented to Mr. Bill Dryburgh, Chief of the Punta Gorda

10  Fire Department and the Punta Gorda City Council as a tangible

11  token of the sentiments expressed herein.

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