1958-09-29 Accepting Bus ServiceRESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
WHEREAS, the City of Okeechobee has experienced
and is experiencing a phenomenal growth in permanent resi-
dents, and
WHEREAS, the City of Okeechobee annually offers
its facilities to many winter visitors and tourists, and
WHEREAS, for many years Tamiami Trail Tours, Inc.,
operating as "Tamiami Trailways", has rendered efficient
motor -bus transportation in an East and West direction
between West Palm Beach and Fort Myers and between Canal
Point and Miami, and
WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the City
Council of the City of Okeechobee that Tamiami Trail Tours,
Inc. has filed an application with the Florida Railroad and
Public Utilities Commission, and intends to file an applica-
tion with the Interstate Commerce Commission, for authority
to transport passengers, baggage of passengers, express and
newspapers between Canal Point and Jacksonville via Okeechobee,
Ashton, Orlando, Sanford, DeLand, Bunnell and St. Augustine,
and
WHEREAS, it is necessary and essential that said
applications be granted in order that public convenience and
necessity be best served so that the permanent residents,
itinerant workers and visitors to this populous area may enjoy
efficient motor -bus transportation between Okeechobee and
Jacksonville and intermediate points, without interchange,
over the lines of Tamiami Trail Tours, Inc.,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council
of the City of Okeechobee in regular meeting assembled this
a 9 day of September, 1958, that this Council formally
approves the applications of Tamiami Trail Tours, Inc. for
the extension of its common carrier bus service between Canal
Point, Florida, and Jacksonville, Florida, via Okeechobee,
Ashton, Orlando, Sanford, DeLand, Bunnell and St. Augustine,
and that this Council respectfully requests the Florida Rail-
road and Public Utilities Commission and the Interstate Com-
merce Commission to grant said applications.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of
this Resolution be furnished Tamiami Trail Tours, Inc. for
transmittal to the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities
Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission in support
of its applications for permanent authority to operate over
said route.
PASSED and DULY ADOPTED at a meeting of the City
Council of the City of Okeechobee, Florida, on the .2?*
day of September, A. D. 1958.
CITY OF OKEECHOBEE
OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, FLORIDA
I, a Clerk of the City
of Okeechobee, Florida, do hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true and correct copy of the Resolution adopted by the
City Council of the City of Okeechobee on September a. 9 ,
1958, as the same appears of record in the official minutes
of said Council.
IN WITLESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
official seal this ..� ?,*( day of September, 1958.
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