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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso. 1976-182 - Declaring intention to acquire necessary PG&E facilities to distribute electric power to the annexed Cascade area from City systemRESOLUTION NO. ­7�, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDDING DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO ACQUIRE NECESSARY P.G. & E. FACILITIES TO DISTRIBUTE ELECTRIC POWER TO THE ANNEXED CASCADE AREA FROM THE CITY SYSTEM WHEREAS, Pacific Gas and Electric Company desires a resolution of assurance from the City Council in relation to the acquisition of their Cascade area electric distribution facilities, as a condition to the prepara- tion and completion of the Company's inventory appraisal and severance damage analysis for facilities in that area, and WHEREAS, the City Council has been assured by the Assistant City Manager and Finance Director of the City that there are sufficient funds in the Unappropriated Surplus Account of the City to pay for the purchase of such distribution facilities, predicated upon the preliminary value determination made by the Director of the City's Electric Department, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Redding that it is the intention of this Council to acquire those distri- bution facilities of Pacific Gas and Electric Company determined to be necessary by the City's Electric Department in order to provide City service to all customers located within the territorial boundaries of the newly annexed area comprising the former Cascade Community Services District. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that such acquisition shall be by negotiated purchase from the Company if there is agreement between the parties on valuation; otherwise, by appropriate eminent domain proceedings. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council does hereby give assurance to the Company that the City possesses the necessary fiscal means to accomplish this acquisition without need for a bond election, and that it is the intention of the Council to retain this ability until the acquisition has been accomplished. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was introduced and read at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Redding on the 20th day of December 1976, and was duly adopted at said meeting by -1- .40 • the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN: Anderson, Demsher, Gard, Pugh, and Fulton NOES: COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None ST: VM4IRED L. BRAY ON, City 61 erk FORM APPROVED: EARL D. MURPHY, City Attorney LEE D. FULTON, M.D. Mayor of the City of Redding -2-