HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 21-79 RESOLUTION NO. 21-79
RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO GRANT ELECTRIC FRANCHISE
WHEREAS Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a' California
utility corporation, has filed with the City Council of the City
of Atascadero an application requesting that a franchise be granted
to it of the character and for the purposes mentioned in the form
of notice hereinafter set forth; and
WHEREAS in the opinion of said Council the public good
requires that said franchise be granted;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that said City Council
intends to grant said franchise, that hearing of objections to
' the granting thereof will be held at the time and place specified
in the form of notice hereinafter set forth which the Clerk of
1 said City is hereby directed to publish at least once within
fifteen days after the passage of this resolution in
the Atascadero News , a newspaper of
general circulation within said City, and that said notice shall
be in the following words and figures:
"NOTICE OF INTENTION TO GRANT FRANCHISE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Pacific Gas and Electric
iCompany, a California utility corporation, has
filed its application with the Council of the City
of Atascadero requesting said Council to grant it
a franchise for an indeterminate period, under the
Franchise Act of 1937, to construct, maintain and
use poles, wires , conduits and appurtenances,
including communication circuits, in, along, across,
' upon and under the public streets and places within
said City for transmitting and distributing electricity
to the public for any and all purposes. 11
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If said franchise shall be granted to it, said
' Pacific Gas and Electric Company, its successors and
assigns, hereinafter designated grantee, shall during
the life thereof a to said Cit two per cent of the
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' gross annual receipts of said grantee arising from the
use, operation or possession of said franchise; provided,
however, that such payment shall in no event be less
than one per cent of the gross annual receipts derived
by grantee from the sale of electricity within the
limits of said City.
Said percentage will be paid annually from the
date of the granting of the franchise applied for and
in the event such payment shall not be made said
franchise shall be forfeited. Said City Council
proposes to grant said franchise for an indeterminate
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period.
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that any and
all persons having any objections to the granting of
said franchise may appear before said Council at the
City Hall of said City at the hour of 7: 30 p.m. on Monday,
the 14th day of January , 1980, and be heard
thereon; and
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that at any time
not later'-than the hour so set for hearing objections
any person interested may make written protest stating
objections against the granting of said franchise which
protest must be signed by the protestant and delivered .
to the Cit Clerk of said Cit and the Council shall at
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the time set for hearing said objections proceed to hear
and pass upon all protests so made.
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For further particulars reference is hereby
made to said application filed as aforesaid in the
office of said Council, and also to the resolution
adopted on the 10thday of December , 1979 ,
declaring its intention to grant said franchise.
Dated: December 10 , 1979
' By order of the Council of the City of
Atascadero.
Clerk of the City of Atascadero
MURRAY L. WARDEN
1 The foregoing resolution was duly passed and adopted
by the Council of the City of Atascadero at a regular meeting of
the said Council held on the loth day of December ,
1979 , by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Highland, Mackey, Nelson, Stover
and Mayor Wilkins
NAYS: C-euPtc-11meik None
ABSENT Geufteklmerr None
Mayor of the City hf Atascadero
ROBER J. WILKINS, JR.
ATTEST:
*erk the City of Atascade. WARDEN
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