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RESOLUTION NO. 68-3
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA
OPPOSING PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT
ACT PROVISIONS PERTAINING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF WATER RATES.
WHEREAS, an interim study is now being conducted of the Metropolitan
Water District Act to determine the advisability of proposed amendments to its
provisions for the establishment of water rates; and
WHEREAS, for the past several years the City of Los Angeles has been pro-
posing that the Metropolitan Water District should reduce property taxes and
increase water rates, and the proposed amendments would make such action
mandatory for the District; and
WHEREAS, the Orange County Water District has made a study of the effect
of such changes and has determined that the amendments as proposed would be
unjust and unfair to the water users of Orange County, both for the present and
the long-range future; and
WHEREAS, this Council concurs with the Orange County Water District and
other cities of Orange County in opposing the proposed amendments;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA
MESA, that the proposed amendments to the Metropolitan Water District Act be,
and the same are hereby opposed as unfair to the residents of Orange County,
and this Council hereby goes on record in support of the position of the Orange
County Water District.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 15th day of January, 1968.
Mayor of the Cit Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
City of t�i_ Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio
Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the
above and foregoing Resolution No. 68-3 was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa at a regular meeting
held on the 15th day of January, 1968.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa, this 16th day of January, 1968.
City Clerk and the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
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