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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 562 RESOLUTION NO ,,,-f1 N RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH DECLARING THAT THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND NECESSITY DEMAND THE SALE OF A PUBLIC UTILITY OWNED BY SAID CITY,TO-EXIT THE MUNICIPAL GAS PLANT AND FORKS, The Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach do Resolve as follows; It is Resolved, that the public interest and necessity demands that a public utility owned by the City of Huntington Beach, to-wit, the municipal Gas system and works, should be sold, and that said necessity consists in this; that the service lines of said system have deteriorated to such extent that a large expen- diture of public money is necessary to replace and improve the same; that in order to take care of the replacement of said system, as well as for storage tanks, extentions, and necessary improvements it would be necessary to provide a bonded fund in a large sum of money, and to increase the service rate to the individual consumers in said City of Huntington Beach; and that if the said system were so improved, there is a liklihood that the same would be destroyed within a brief period of time because of the extension of the oil industry in said City; and that the present system and gas system and works are at present in danger of immediate destruction by such oil industry; that an offer of purchase has been made for said system which will repay to the City of Huntington Beach a sum greatly in excess of the cost of said system and works, and enable the officials of said city to provide a fund for the payment of bonds to the extent of approximately Z 00 0 ^, and relieve the citizens of said City and property owners therein whose property is subject to said bonded indebtednsas from the burden thereof; that such sale would cause an immediate lowering of the rates for gas service to the inhabitants of said City, and effect a greatly improved service in said city. Passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, December 2Oth. , 1926. President of the Board of Trustees T of the City of Huntington Beach. f 1 Attest Wcl�',�W City Clerk and ex-officio clerk of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach. STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS. CITY OF HiNTINGTON BEACM I, C. R. Furr, City Clerk and ex-officio clerk of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, do hereby certify, that the foregoing resolution was presented and read to the Board of Trustees of the said City at a regular adjourned meeting of said Board held on the 20th. day of December, 1926, and was by said Board of Trustees pppsed and adopted by the following vote, AYES: Trustees fi_ w - NOES Trustees Absent Trustees City Clerk and ex-officio clerk of the Board of Trustess of the City of Huntington Beach, State of California.