HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 1247 RESOLUTION NO. 124-7
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH FINDING
AND DECLARING THAT IT BE FOR THE BEST
INTERESTS OF THE CITY TO ENTER INTO AN
AGREEMENT AMENDING AN EXISTING OIL AND
GAS LEASE COVERING CERTAIN CITY-OWNED
PROPERTY; AND FINDING AND DECLARING THAT
THE USE OF PORTIONS OF SAID CITY-OWNED
LANDS AS A DRILL SITE FOR OIL DRILLING
WILL NOT SUBSTANTIALLY INTERFERE WITH THE
USE OF SUCH PROPERTY FOR OTHER PURPOSES
NOW EXISTING '
WHEREAS, the City of Huntington Beach under date of
January 24, 1955 entered into an Oil and Gas Lease with
Signal Oil and Gas Company, as Lessee, covering certain
City-owned lands in the general vicinity of the intersection
of State Highway 101 and Hampshire Avenue, which said lease
is recorded in Book 2946, Page 198, Official Records of
Orange County; and
WHEREAS, said lease contains certain limitations and
restrictions upon the use by Lessee of the surface of the
lands covered by said lease; and
WHEREAS, it is to the mutual benefit and advantage
of the City and its said Lessee that said Lessee be allowed
to occupy and use other portions of said leased lands in
addition to the portions thereof now permitted by said lease,
all subject however to limitations, restrictions, and
controls deemed appropriate by this Council; and
WHEREAS, this Council hereby finds that the appropriate,
controlled use of additional portions of the surface of said
lands now under lease as a site for oil drilling and
0 producing operations would not in its judgment substantially
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-interfere with the uses to which said lands are now being
put nor any other contemplated municipal uses or functions,
nor with other uses now existent in the vicinity;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
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the City of Huntington Beach that
1. The City Council hereby finds, declares, and
resolves that the statements of fact and of opinion contained
in the foregoing preamble are respectively facts, or the best
• opinion and judgment of this body
2. That it is for the best interest of the City to
immediately enter into an amendment of said Oil and Gas Lease
dated January 24, 1955 between the City and Signal Oil and
Gas Company, which Lease and amendment covers lands owned
by the City in the vicinity of Highway 101 and Hampshire
Avenue, all more particularly described in said lease and
in the proposed amendment thereto, a copy of which amendment
® is attached to this Resolution, and
3. Therefore, the Mayor and City Clerk are hereby
authorized and directed to execute said Amendment of Oil
and Gas Lease on behalf of the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach on the form as attached hereto and
• presented herewith.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, California, at a meeting thereof held on
the 31st day of May, 1955.
or
• ATTEST:
CI Clerk
Reso, No, 1247
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
County of Orange ss
City of Huntington Beach )
I , JOHN L. EENRICKSEN, the duly elected, qualified
and acting City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and
ex-officio Clerk of the City Coun611 of said City, do here-
by certify that the whole number of members of the City
Council of the City of Huntington Reach is five; that the
foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the affirma-
tive vote of more than a majority of all the members of
said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the
3-1st day of May 1955; by the following roll call
vote :
AYES: Councilmen:
Bartlett , LeBard, Lockett , Terry, Seabridge
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
None
011ty Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
U the City Council of the City
40 of Huntington Beach, California