HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 09012004 - 70-713 IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Endorsing
Passage of Proposition "W" } RESOLUTION NO. 70/713
on the November 3, 1970 �
Ballot.
WHEREAS Mr. Grant Burton, Chairman of the Citizens Committee
for Proposition "W" appeared before the Board and urged its support
of Proposition "W", approval of an amended water supply contract
betweenthe Contra Costa County Water District and the U. S. Bureau. of
Reclamation, which contract requires approval of the electorate; and
WHEREAS since 1951 the Contra Costa County Water District
has obtained water from the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation's Contra Costa
Canal under a contract which guaranteed maximum annual delivery of
86,000 acre feet of water estimated to be adequate to 1991; and
WHEREAS the needs of the growing population in the area
serviced by the Contra Costa County Water District already exceeds the
contract maximum; and
WHEREAS said district and the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
have recently approved an amended contract which insures the annual
requirements up to 195,000 acre feet of water per year until 1991 and
which provides for improvements to the canal system, the cost of which
would be included in: the water rates paid to the Bureau of Reclamation
and, therefore, would not require additional taxes and would, in fact,
stabilize water costs to the district;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT BY THIS BOARD RESOLVED that it endorses
the passage of Proposition "W'" and urges the citizens within the
Contra Costa County Water District to vote favorably on said proposition.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 27th day of October, 1970 by the
following vote of the Board:
AYES; Supervisors J. P. Kenny, A. M. Dias ,
J. E. Moriarty, E', A. Linseheid,
T. J. foil.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
RESOLUTION NO. 70/713