HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 1726 RESOLUTION No. 1726
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH OPPOSING ASSEMBLY
BILL No. 28.
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill No. 28 would be a legislative
mandate compelling local agencies to enter into a contract
not deemed by them to be mutually beneficial but designed for
the primary benefit of only one party, to wit, the San Bernar-
dino Valley Municipal Water District; and
WHEREAS, such attempted legislative mandate would be
an unwarranted invasion into home rule; and
WHEREAS, the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water Dis.
trict has an adequate and proper method of relieving its
water situation by joining the Metropolitan Water District;and
WHEREAS, the voters of the San Bernardino Valley Munici-
pal Water District have elected not to join the Metropolitan
Water District and relieve their water situation, such action
is a mandate of the people to accept the reduction in available
water; and
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill No. 28 would in effect provide
the facilities of the Metropolitan Water District to the use
of the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District without
their joining and participating in the Metropolitan Water Dis-
trice in violation of the terms of the Metropolitan Water Dis-
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trice Act and as such would operate as an unfair and unjust
enrichment to the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water Dis-
trict, a non-member of the Metropolitan Water District, to
the detriment of all members of the Metropolitan Water Dis-
trict.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of
the City of Huntington Beach does hereby express its unequiv-
ocal opposition to Assembly Bill No. 28 and does respectfully
request that the California legislature vote solidly in opposit-
ion to this measure or any modification thereof.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all Cities in Orange County
and all members of the Metropolitan Water District be sent
copies of this resolution and that they be urged to voice
their opposition to this Assembly Bill,
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution
be sent to the Honorable John A. Murdy, Jr. , State Senator
and to the Honorable William E. Dannemeyer, the Honorable James
E. Whetmore, and the Honorable Hobert E. Badham, State Assembly
men from Orange County.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting of the City Council
held on the 4th day of March, 1963,
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
County of Orange ) ss
City of Huntington Beach )
I, PAUL C. JONES, the duly elected, qualified
and acting City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-
officio Clerk of the City Council of said. City, do hereby cer-
tify that the whole number of members of the City Council of
the City of Huntington Beach is five; that the foregoing resol-
ution was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more
than a majority of all the members of said City Council at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 4th day of March ,
1963, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen:
Wells, Gisler, Stewart, Welch, Lambert
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
None
City Clerk sex ficio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Huntington Beach,
California