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Editorial
May 16, 1939
Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
What is this article about?
Editorial supports El Centro city council's plan to build a new city hall, ending decades of renting inadequate shared quarters to better suit the prosperous community's needs.
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HOME OWNERSHIP FOR CITY GOVERNMENT
For more years than most women have birthdays, the El Centro city government has been like a permanent resident who spends his whole life paying rent for a home that is not quite up to his station in life. The city council has done admirable service during the last four years in encouraging El Centrans to own their own homes; yet for reasons of economy and lack of financing the city government itself has gone on renting its quarters.
All that is by way of being ended now. Up for consideration of ways and means is a plan to build a new city hall, for which the city will pay on a rent-like basis with ownership assured at the end of a comparatively short period of years. For starting the plan toward fruition, the city council is to be congratulated once again. It is to be hoped their efforts meet with success.
There are few communities as prosperous and modern as El Centro which do not have spacious quarters for the municipal government. It has been one subject of unpleasant comment by many visitors to this city that the city hall and appurtenant offices are housed in a rented building shared by business and other offices, and which was never intended in the first place for city hall purposes.
El Centro social and business activities have outgrown the pioneering stage. It is time the municipal offices followed the trend.
For more years than most women have birthdays, the El Centro city government has been like a permanent resident who spends his whole life paying rent for a home that is not quite up to his station in life. The city council has done admirable service during the last four years in encouraging El Centrans to own their own homes; yet for reasons of economy and lack of financing the city government itself has gone on renting its quarters.
All that is by way of being ended now. Up for consideration of ways and means is a plan to build a new city hall, for which the city will pay on a rent-like basis with ownership assured at the end of a comparatively short period of years. For starting the plan toward fruition, the city council is to be congratulated once again. It is to be hoped their efforts meet with success.
There are few communities as prosperous and modern as El Centro which do not have spacious quarters for the municipal government. It has been one subject of unpleasant comment by many visitors to this city that the city hall and appurtenant offices are housed in a rented building shared by business and other offices, and which was never intended in the first place for city hall purposes.
El Centro social and business activities have outgrown the pioneering stage. It is time the municipal offices followed the trend.
What sub-type of article is it?
Infrastructure
What keywords are associated?
City Hall
Home Ownership
El Centro
Municipal Offices
Public Works
What entities or persons were involved?
El Centro City Council
El Centro City Government
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Plan For New City Hall In El Centro
Stance / Tone
Supportive Of City Council's Initiative
Key Figures
El Centro City Council
El Centro City Government
Key Arguments
City Government Has Rented Inadequate Quarters For Years While Encouraging Residents To Own Homes
New Plan To Build City Hall With Rent Like Payments Leading To Ownership
Congratulates Council For Advancing The Plan
Many Prosperous Communities Have Spacious Municipal Quarters
Current Rented Building Is Shared And Unsuitable, Noted By Visitors
El Centro Has Outgrown Pioneering Stage, Time For Municipal Offices To Follow