HomeMy Public PortalAbout2000.070 (05-02-00)RESOLUTION NO. 2000.70
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LYNWOOD GIVING NOTICE OF ITS INTENT TO
INITIATE DETACHMENT AND EXCLUSION PROCEEDINGS
FROM THE WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICT OF
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
WHEREAS, the City of Lynwood ("Lynwood") is currently within the territory of the
Water Replenishment District of Southern California ("WRD"); and
WHEREAS, Lynwood is the owner of an adjudicated water right which allows it to
produce ground water from the Central Basin and use beneficially; and
WHEREAS, Lynwood currently pays an assessment of water it extracts pursuant to its
adjudicated water rights, which assessment is levied by the WRD pursuant to section 60317 of
the Water Replenishment District Act (California Water Code §§60000 et seq. and hereinafter
the "Act"); and
WHEREAS, Lynwood has and continues to assert that the current levy of the assessment
for the ensuing year 1999-2000 commenced on July 1,1999 ("FY 1999-2000") which the WRD
established on April 16, 1999, is unlawful, unnecessary, overly burdensome, exceeds the
statutory authority of the WRD and unconstitutionally taxes Lynwood's water rights; and
WHEREAS, the proposed use of said assessment is for purposes which are neither
authorized to be undertaken by the WRD under the Act nor are they effective in that said
purposes are not necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act and therefore result in the waste
of public funds from the assessment; and
WHEREAS, the assessment rate for FY 1999-2000 does not account for the use of the
existing excess cash reserves of the WRD for any authorized or legal use of the:WRD; and
WHEREAS, the .cost of administration by the WRD is excessive and wasteful; .and
WHEREAS, the assessments levied by the WRD in recent prior. years have been excessive
and overly burdensome resulting in the accumulation of excess cash reserves by the WRD; and
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the City Council of the City of Lynwood, State of
California does hereby resolve, declare, determine and order as follows:
Section 1. That the City of Lynwood gives notice of -its intent to initiate detachment and
exclusion proceedings from the Water Replenishment District of Southern California.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 2nd day of May
2000.
A TEST:
{ I ANDREA L. HOOPER, City Clerk
City of Lynwood
APPROV AS ORM:
Ci Attorney ..
City of Lynw od
IS BYRD, M o
City of Lynwood
RALPH W. DAMS III
City Manager
APPROVED THIS CONTENT:
JO EPH Y. A G a~
ctor of Public works/City Engineer
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
ss.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood at a
regular meeting held in the City Hall of said City on the day of 2nd, May , 2000, and ~
passed by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN REA, REYES, RICFIARDS, SANCHEZ, BYRD
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
City Clerk, City of Lynwood
ss.
I, the undersigned City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and Clerk of the City Council of
said City, do hereby certify that the above and forgoing is a full, true and correct copy of
Resolution No. 2000.70 on file in my office and that said resolution was adopted on the date
and by the vote therein stated.
Dated this 2nd day of May , 2000.
City Clerk, City of Lynwood
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