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Council Chambers -City Council.
City Hall Cit- of Lodi
'' orday July 28 1930
Pursuant to adjournnent taken frau the regular meeting
of July 21, 1930, the City Council of the City of Lodi met
in adjourned regular session at 8 o'clock P.M. on the date
first above written, Counciamen Keagle, Roach, Steele, ,feihe
and Spooner present, none absent.
In the absence of the City Clerk, Councilman jeihe was
chosen Clerk oro -tem and the Council was addressed by lir
.fired G. Caryi.n regard to building permit No.885 filed by
Mrs'_`ary A. Larson for replacement of burned structure at
No. 212 N. Sacramento Street. On motion of Councilman Keagle,
Roach second the permit :gas ordered granted.
The City Council was then resolved into Committee of the
Whole to consider matters relating to the City's suits vs
Pacific Gas & Electric Company and East Bay Municipal Utility
District as affecting the percolating Waters supplying the
City.
Messrs. Thos. H. Means B. A. Etcheverry and Paul Baily
Consulting Engineers employed heretofore by the City, rendered
a report by letter stating that they were ready to proceed and
on motion of Councilman Steele, Keagle second, that the City
go ahead at once and have the suits set for trial, Resolution
No. 617 was formally adopted by the following vote :-
AYES: Councilmen, Steele, Keagle, Roach, ,feihe and
Spooner.
NOES: Councilmen, Hone.
ABSENT: Councilmen, None.
RESOLUTION No- 617
WHEREAS, at an adjourned regular meetingof the City
Council of the City of odi, San Joaquin Couny, California,
held on the 28th da of July, 1930 at the hour of 8 o'clock
in the afternoon of said day, the report of B.A.Etcheverry,
Thomas fi. Means and Paul Bailey, engineers heretofore emp-
loyed by said City regarding underground water conditions
underlying said City and upon and from which suply the
said City is dependent for its municipal, domestic and ind-
ustrial existence, was duly and regularly filed, from which it
appears that the said underground waters are replenished and
maintained through percolation of the natural and recurring
flows of the Mokelumne River, and any change in quantity of
flow or rate of flow will reduce such percolation and reduce
the under;round flow which furnishes the city's water supply;
AND T EAS, said City of Lodi has heretofore camaenced
an action in the Superior Court of the State of California
in and for the County of San Joaquin against East Bay Municip-
al Utility District, Pacific Gas & Electric Company and
others, which action is numbered 22,415, which action has been
commenced and is being prosecuted for the purpose of obtaining
theudge^ment of said court restraining the defendents therein
names from disturbing and jeaoordizing the .Tater supply of
said city by interfereing with, storing. or diverting the
otherwise natural, necessary and recurring stream flow of the
said river ;
NOW Tl y H'FORE, BE IT R SOLV D; That Robert 1. Searls
and Glenn 'test attorneys representing said city in said
action , be andthey are hereby authorized and directed to at
onee cause said action t� be set for trial and tried and to
obtain and present to said court the evidence which in their
judgement may be necessary for the purpose of properly
presenting said city's case to said court in said action.
BE IT FURTli R RESOLVED, That said Engineers be and
they are hereby authorized and directed to promptly complete
said report and the necessarystudies, maps, profiles,
exhibits and evidence as menioned in and contemplated by the
report hereinabove referred to.
No further business appearing the City Council adjourn-
ed to the day and hour of their next regular meeting.
Clerk of the City Council,pro-tem.