Resolution Number 63-2-25-1215
RESOLUTION NO. 63-2_25-1
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA, EXPRESSING
OPPOSITION TO ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 28
WHEREAS, the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District has not
.determined to join the Metropolitan Water District to relieve their acute water
shortage, but is attempting to require other cities and agencies to relieve their
water shortage by State legislation proposed as Assembly Bill No. 28; and
WHEREAS, Assembly Bill No. 28 is special legislation for the sole benefit
of the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District and is an attempt to have
the State Legislature compel other cities and districts to render relief to said
San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District in a manner which would reward
refusal to accept the burden providing water by voluntary contract to relieve the
voters of the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District of their vote against
membership in the Metropolitan Water District; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Water District is composed of cities and districts
voluntarily associated to provide the plant and facilities at their own expense
for the supplying of their own water, a situation of self help in the basic
American tradition; and
WHEREAS, the City of San Juan Capistrano is within the Orange County Water
Works District No. 4 of a participating agency (the Orange County Municipal Water
District) which participates in the Metropolitan Water District and therefore this
city believes that other areas should be allowed to join the District, but that no
area should be supplied special privileges and benefits by State legislation and
so relieved of any obligation to join with its sister cities and districts.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the City Council of the City of San Juan
Capistrano hereby respectfully petitions the Baerd of Supervisors of the County of
Orange opposition acting as a Board of Directors of Orange County Waterworks District
No. 4 to petition the California Legislature and the individual members thereof to
vote in opposition to Assembly Bill No. 28 and express to said individual members
its complete and unalterable opposition to said Assembly Bill No. 28 as now pro-
posed and unalterable opposition to any modification, amendment or change in said
bill.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That a request be extended to the Orange County
Municipal Water District by your Honorable Board to adopt a similar resolution
opposing said Assembly Bill No. 28 in the belief that the idea back of such approach
is basically wrong and an unexcusable invasion of the home rule principle of special
privilege legislation that should never be supported or favored by any informed
person.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of San Juan Capistrano
at its regular meeting held on the 25th day of February, 1963.
Mayor of the City of
San Juan Capistrano
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of
San Juan Capistrano
Approval of the foregoing resolution was constituted by the following vote of
the councilmen:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: DURNFORD, BATHGATE, CLIFF, OLIVARES and BUCHHEIM
NOES: COUNCILMEN: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: NONE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO )
I, ERNEST A. THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano, certify
that the foregoing resolution is a true copy, as entered in the record of this
office, and was duly passed, approved, and adopted on the 25th day of February,
1963, by a majority vote of the City Council.
City Clerk of the City of
San Juan Capistrano