HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - No. 687W4E'llSA, t Uity et Lodi is a ocrporate city ot the sixth class,
situated in the 00anty of 8an Weaquia, State ot Oalifornia, and inad
according to tho 1.5Q United—atm:Ws census, population of 6,776, an
increase of approximately forty percent over the United istates census
of 19Ot 141
WIIBRRAS, the Mol Area contiguous to the OitY of 14041
of'tho mot densely pepUlated rural sections in the 'United Otalos, tire
being more th5.&n sixty homes per square mile in parts of the area and
twenty homes per seeere mile being eommon; and
WUtki4A$, the principal crops grown in th:r1y Ot4tIte41
irrigated. Uolobrmwe ATOA are grapes, peaches, apricots:, prunes, Cherries,
almonds, walnuts, alf4ata, trhe produce; with vincyo:As prodominOing
becaose of the anaguel/y fwvorable conditions for Tolcv grape produs*.
tion, whioh hae 07Yen S4odJ the aiwtitto$104 crX Val-48;'UOW:(1.$ Ifeky
Ocuter of the world; and.
Wg41, the Oity of Lodi has successfully cperAo its mnn:i4..pci
electric distribotion. 'and wter supply systems ttt profit since
the profit tor the la8t fiscal year onding li33 being, for tha.
electric system exceos
c: ZQ”Aa0 QVOT ope4itiag expenece, 'bond.
rodempti int.9rost of 430,09,02; and 1:er.the Water sapply System,.
h simil4r net exeCot o4 4nd
WItailz4., in order to ditri.b4Va ele4ArioiA on:0707 to' Ao,
PUMp&t municip0. wOwr supply ond supply electricity for pari,
and street llghting, municipal bths, seWerage dif,3pesia plant, hoe,ting
and lighting publio bUildings the Oity'ef 4cdi PtktehaeAle oxee.W.of
45,500,WO itt hpax oX electrical energy 040h :tioal yo.114,
totel number of kilewatt hoer so purchased for the fiscal year ending
Jane 50, 1,4'143 being 6,644,000, an increase of approximately forty-five,
Peroent darini!7 tb( ten year Preceding, Vho cost of :whiCh, under its
present contract with tho 'aeitic Gas and hloutrie pompany, tym ()Ali
Public service oorsotation suoplying power in the Uokoireare ArKL, wa$
t52,41(,*.95; and
vaDMI: in the Mokalcmne T1:0,e: ccntigoous to the City of' Lodi,
the primary ivriation water supply is withdrwn from wells by means
of electrically driven pumps, wad the average annual power octet is
approximately 04.0Q per aorc thus irr4;.ated under the iresent electric
rates of thesaid Pacific T:'4e. ,:lnd Electric Ocap6my; anAl
the domestic :And power rate charged the consumers in
the Rural irca uro considerablyin excese, of• the rItes chorged tor
similar service to consumers 'living within the City of Lodi ,i,lad. served
by its Municipal M.ectric Distribution tem; :And
41, la 1920 aad 1929 tl's Lod l District ON.ualer of Commerce,
subsequent to recommenaction of the Oit-y Council e the City of
Lodi, oe.usod a power survey to be made of the said Rural Arau contifM-
ous to the City sf Lodi, which survey conclusively indicated the
riomiQ nooda-..ad dooiraility of soc'avin an indopondeut source of'
electric energy for irrigation A 4wo8tio use in the %arid Amil, at
reasonable and reduced rates.; and
. WIJX,R, the City 0'uthe Oity of Lodi has boon ,I[id iS
Low striving to obt4in 1.1 isaenct economic 86IDN30 of electric
oriergy for Lt elocte distrIbution system 1..nA mcnicip1 needs;
Wirl., tlw Colorado Powr Company, C.:41ifowni4. oorporution,
did own a load power ;,:ite in imadcr ..:nd. 0Advor..:4f4 0oun1ies,
Olifornia, thoub which the I,4volumne 'River flows, loowted owvOxi.-
mately twonty-flve miles easterly from the Oity of :Lodi, the power
generatioW3. polibilitios o. Which have been invotigate0 and enp:inoor-
tag reports made to tho City-Om:6.01 of tile City of Loai, which in-
vestigationio and rots indicate the ostnomic: reamibility'qn4 desit-
ability of dovoloping en the mite 3 hyaro,,electric power plant to
supply eleotriwa energy to the city of Lodi and/or tbe O&ty and. said
Rural Area;-and
wHiM] an 30.4ELIkrY 9, 1929, tI City of Lodi acquired by Deed..
from said Colorado Power Company the above mentioned power site to be
used by the aid City, or the Oity and a Rural Area, for the construc-
tion thereUpon aud operation of a municipal hydro-eleotrio power
plant as aforeuaid; and
WHEREAS, aubeequent to enquiring the above mentioned Deed, the
City of Lodi °bused further engineering investigations to be made
upon the feasibility of eoonowiaally developing the said site by
Consulting Engineers Mesers, Nelson A. Eckert, Walter L. Huber and
Frederiok H. Yowler, which investigations confirmed report e made
upon the said proposed project development by Consulting Engineers
Fred C. Herrmann and Louis L. Leurey, engineers tor the Colorado
Power Company, all of Which investigations indioated the project to
be economically feasible and a desirable source of eleotrio energy
for the City of Lodi and a contiguoue Dural Area predicated upon the
use of the natural and riparian flow of the said river; and
KHEREAS, subsequent to the Paid deed oonveyance, litigation
fo11owo th the Couety of Oelaverae, California, between the City
of Lodi, Colorado Power Company, Pacifie Gas and Eleetrie Company, and
East Bay Mueioipal Utility Dietrict, whioh litigation has finally re-
eulted in the City of Lodi and/or the Colorado Power Oompeny, being
assured through a State Supreme Court decision, of a oertain regulated
flow of water being returned by the Pacifio Gas and Electric Company
into the liokelurans River above the above mentioned power site of the
City of Lodi; the Eaet Bay Menieipal Utility District having been
given, by final decree, the right to re -regulate, in ite Pardee Reser,*
voir immediately up-etream from the power site of the City of Lodi,
the said water a released by the Paoifie Gas and'Electric) Company am
aforesaid, together with all other waters flowing in the eaid river,
to the extent of eueh regulation ae will be neceesery to perudt of
the diversion to the East Bay Distriet of its ultimate proposed maxi-
mum municipal water needs of two hundred million gallons daily or
approximately one-fourth of the average annual flow of the said river
and to operate its Pardee Power Plant, at the hese of Paid Pardee Dam;
all of such power regulated water antt residual flow as aforesaid
being roturnod to the lickelumne River above the site of the proposed
Lodi Power'Plant, and over which the said returned waters will flow;
end
wHERBO, in addition to the foregoing litigation, the City of
Lodi, in protection of its municipal 49 domestic water supply, brought
an action in the County of San ;Carotin, California, seeking to enloin
the 'Zest Bay Municipal Utility District and the Pacific Gas and tlectrie
Oompasy from interfering with the natural flow of the said Mokolumna '
River, predicated upon the effect of interference with the underground
water basin of the area in and about the Oity of Lodi, from which basin
the said Oity and Rural Area obtain their respective municipal, domes-
tic and irrigation water suppli e; and
wayara , on August ]4, 19aa, the Superior 00art in and for the
County of San Joaquin ..tsured to tie City of Lodi, by Judgment and
Decree, thea delivery by the said Last Boy Municipal Utility Di trict
of 'certain minimum flews of water into the said ';olumne River at
Pardee Dam, which the Court acute plates Will 04rVO tk5 replenish and
maintain the said underground basin ad which minimum relemees, to-
ther with all tAller flows of said ZiVOT, Will new OWV ara across
the pooftle eito of the City c Lodi; and
WS, a preliminary study of' the power thwt could be developed
at the proposed LeAl Power aant, utilising the above mentioned minimum
regulated fie s of water tother with such other flows az will be
available at the sits, indicates that the dvelopment of the ?relent
is highly economio and desirable to the Oity and the Rural Area, and
will result in an anneal not sexing of approximately forty porcent of
their combined present costs vl electric energy pending the liquida-
tion of the Pro4oct bonds and thereafter approximately seventy per
Cent annually; and
WRXRBAS, the above recited benefits may be secured by the City
of Lodi individtmlly, or the City of Lodi and a Rural Area jointly, st
total capital coats of lose than $600,000,00 and N800,000,00
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respectively; and
'6HgRWAB, the 4nnuA1 reacrt of the Oity Clerk ofthe City of Lodi
tor the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933,shows thAt:tho total rate
por 0.00.00 of ussessed valudtion is t1.00; the prosea outstanding
bonded indebtednese cf said City of Lodi is 1?.15,200.03, of which
mmount the Oit:i TreAsury now hulde umont of 78,469.46, .5•3A. the
preeent tot.d bondro. cr,o,Leity, exclusive of the issuance of Revenue
Income Bondc,,, is 006,338.00, Irelioated upon, wxximum bonding capc-
ity of fifteen percent of the 1932 nea-opovAive assevsment roll, where
pr1nc1p.:41 interest ,,re wholly dependent upon funds derived from
taxetion; and the City of Lodi oun now issue bonds in. the Quount of
0569,607.40, when the present Tre6.eury held Lodi City ofttet:tnding bonds
shull have been canCeled;
VsIHRWW, by Resolution 1o, 683 passed by -U4o City 00i1 on
August 21, 1933. the City Council emplcye ,gOonemitiyig KrigineT
Naleon V,ckart, ritUter L. Haber ori4 Fred C. Herrmann to
fully and cowletely inve8tiv.to and repoyt upon the present futs
coo:corning eo2=t, fiw..Lncing2 caoo.Le feasibility oT
ocnstretion and or.AtraAiou of to power project ohereinbefore
referred to, 2. it mey bo adA.ptJ tc the neeci:a of the City of
Lodi ,And tlac:Hlt territory";
4i1;!, theIdonOnecring rosoort, ordered in. a.wordance
Resolutioni , together wit such other tril'ormaticin as is rveuire:i
in an L:,pplication ter• Grant and, Lo:.!,n fro:o the Yederfi ...mergency
AdJaniotrAion1 ib1 to4orlcc, Wsingten District of i3olumbit iA
aecord.nco with. CircuUr Ho. 2 Ulted Auguet 1, 1933, will not be
avAl..!..ble for sevor,I. wool;• .4t4
the 0114 Council Vie, City ,:f° L(.(11 is :.,,tvrohensive
that such delay to filin et kr,111 completo application under the
provisions of the said Oil:cal:a. No. 2, muy leopurdi4e the consider-
tion of such L. Grilt and Loan by tho 0te.to ,Qvimory Board created
under the 'ActionA Inductriul Recovery Aet,
NO4 W IT I..t.OLVN:0; that the Oity Council of the City
of Lodi hereby directs and orders the City Atorney to filo such
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certified copies of thia resolution, together with such other fsete
and data aa may be regaired and available at this time to esuferm
with the requirements of the aforesaid Oircular Vo. 2, with the said
State Advisory Board. tho Federal Emergency Paminictration of Vublie
Werke, signifying thereby the intention of tho City o Lodi to file 4
complete and detailed application fOr a %rant and Loan ia accordance
with the provisions of the Rational Industrial Recovery Act; and
DE IT PORT0A1 RELY); that the City 0ouncil of the City et' Lodi
does herewith roquoPA that the 4lete Advisory Board of the Fed(ml
imorgency Oministration of ;Public 'Iilorks file and record this reaolu-
tien PendinT the filing of an additional aria final application, 1 ao
cerdence with the terms ana conditions reetted. in OirealarIle, 2,
dated August 1,, liWZ, as hereinabove recited; and said Oity GOU:444
further requests that, upon t1 filing with said *tate Advi*oty Bkbara
of each additional ana final application, the same b 'noidered And
given preference ae of the duto O this rosolution
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Adopted La vegslar session of tho Oity 0ouncil of the Gity of
Lodi held, Tuesday, Septomber 5, 193a, by tllewig vote:
Ayes; (loans:amen Olark, Zsagle,
Spooner and Steele
Aees; Oonneilmon ROHS
Absent: 0ouncilmen - 11011M