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HomeMy WebLinkAbout3664 RESOLUTION NO. 3664 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, SUPPORTING THE POSITION OF THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT WITH RESPECT TO AND OPPOSING THE MODIFIED PACIFIC SOUTHWEST PLAN OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY DETERMINE AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That this City Council is vitally interested in the water supply of this community and of Southern California generally. That this City recently became a part of the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District and said Water District more recently joined the Metropolitan Water District, thereby committing and obligating itself to a multi-million dollar payment to the Metropolitan Water District as its cost for joining said District in order to receive its proportionate share of the more than one-half billion dollars that has been expended to provide facilities for the transporting of water from the Colorado River to Southern California. SECTION 2. That the Modified Pacific Southwest Plan proposed by Secretary of the Interior Udall would result in the abandonment of the Colorado River Aqueduct of the Metropolitan Water District, and fails to recognize and preserve the rights of existing water projects in the State of California to priorities to the annual consumptive use of 4,4 million acre feet of water from the Colorado River. SECTION 3, That this City Counci~ does therefore oppose the Modified Pacific Southwest Water Plan as presently proposed by Secretary of the Interior Udall and does hereby endorse and support the position of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California officially declared by it on March 17, 1964, with respect to Secretary of the Interior Udall's Modified Pacific Southwest Water Plan. -1- 3664 SECTION 4, The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution and shall cause certified copies hereof to be forwarded to the Honorable Edmund G. Brown, Governor of the State of California, to Thomas H. Kuchel and Clair Engle, United States Senators, and to Glenard p, Lipscomb, Congressman representing the 24th District, to State Senator Thomas M. Rees, to State Assemblymen Houston I, Flournoy and John L. E, Collier, to the Metropolitan Water District and to the League of California Cities, I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia held on the 7th day of April, 1964, by the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit: AYES: Councilmen Balser, Butterworth, Reibold, Turner and Phillips NOES: None ABSEN'l': None ~;'T-dJ~~ ity Clerk of t e City of Arcadia SIGNED AND APPROVED this 7th day of April, 1964.' ZUN::. 010 &(~ Mayor of the City of rcadia ,z~ City Clerk (SEAL) -2- 3664