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CEREMONIAL SIGNING <br />CITY OF SAN MARCOS & HAYS COUNTY <br />INI'ERLOCAL AGREEMENT <br />LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON & MARTIN LUTHER KING MONUMENT <br />Recitals. <br />WHEREAS, Hays County, Texas and the City of San Marcos, Texas both possess a rich <br />history that warrants commemoration; <br />WHEREAS, the County and City recognize the public benefit of historic monuments in <br />establishing a sense of place and local pride; <br />WHEREAS, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr. were collaborators and <br />significant contributors to the Civil Rights movement in the United States of America; <br />WHEREAS, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of <br />1964 into law on July 2, 1964 in a ceremony attended by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., <br />which extended voting rights and outlawed racial segregation and discrimination in <br />schools, housing or hiring on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin; <br />WHEREAS, Lyndon Baines Johnson had personal ties to Central Texas and the City of <br />San Marcos, Texas, where he attended Southwest Texas State Teachers College from <br />1927- 1930; <br />WHEREAS, the City of San Marcos, Texas is the only city in the State of Texas (and <br />perhaps in the United States) that features an intersection of streets named after Lyndon <br />Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr.; <br />WHEREAS, the community has long thought that the intersection of LBJ and MLK <br />Streets in San Marcos, Texas would be a fitting location for a memorial honoring the <br />collaboration between Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr.; <br />WHEREAS, the City Council of San Marcos, Texas has found that the Southwest corner <br />of the intersection of LBJ and MLK Streets is an appropriate place to erect a permanent <br />memorial honoring the collaboration between Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther <br />King, Jr.; <br />WHEREAS, the County currently owns, in fee simple, the real property that includes the <br />Southwest corner of LBJ and MLK Streets; and <br />WHEREAS, the County wishes to support and facilitate the City's plan to erect a <br />permanent memorial honoring the collaboration between Lyndon Baines Johnson and