Res 173RESOLUTION NO. 173
RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO GRANT GAS FRANCHISE
WHEREAS San Diego Gas g Electric Company, a California
Corporation, has filed with the Council of the City of Poway 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 Council intends to
grant said franchise, tb~t h~aming of objections to the granting thereof
will be held at the time a~ place specified in the form of notice hereinafter
set forth which the Clerk of said City is hereby directed to publish at
least once within fifteen days after the passage of ~h~s resolution in
P0way News-Chieftain, a newspa~ of §aneral circulation within said City,
and that said notice shall be in the following words and figures:
"NOTICE OF INTENTION T0 GRANT FRANCHISE"
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that San Diego Gas $ Electric Company,
a California corporation, has filed its application with the Council of
the Ci~ of Poway requesting said Council to grant it a franchise for
an indeterminate period, under the Franchise Act of 1937, to install,
m~ntain and use pipes and appurtenances under, along, across and upon
the public streets and places within said City for transmitting and
.distributing gas to the public for any and all purposes.
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If said franchise shall be granted to it, said San Diego Gas
$ Electric Company, its successors and assigns, hereinafter designated
grantee, shall during the life thereof pay to said City two pemcent of
the gross a.p_n~al receipts of said franchise; provided, however, that
such payment shall in no event be less than one p~rcent of the gross
annual receipts derived by grantee from the sale of gas within the
limits of said City.
Said percentages will be paid q11~terly. F~rst q,~terly
payment to be made on or before the Fifteenth day of Feb~m~y 1982.
Subsequent q~m~terly payments will be made no later than the twe_nty-
fifth day of the end of each q-a~ter (May, August and November) every
calendar year thereafter. In the event such payments sha] 1 not be
made, said franchise shall be forfeited. Said City Council proposes
to grant said franchise for an indeterminate period.
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that any and a]] persons
having any objections to the granting of said franchise may appear
before said Council at the City Ha] 1 of said City at the hour of
8:00 p.m., on Tuesday, the 17th day of November, 1981, and be heard
thereon; and
· NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that at any time not later
than the hour so set for he,ring objections, any person interested
may make written protest stating objectons against the granting of
said franchise, which protest must be signed by the protestant and
delivered to the City Clerk of said City, and the Council shall at
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 27th day of October, 1981, declaring
its intention to gpant said franchise.
DATED: October 27, 1981
By order of teh CouncJ_l of the City of Poway.
Clerk of the City of Poway
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The foregoing resolution was duly passed and adopted by the
Council of the City of Poway at a regular meeting of the said Council
held on the 27th day of October ·, 1981, by the following
vote:
Counc~Member Oravec, Rexrode, Emery
Shepardson, Tarzy
NOES: Council Member None
ABSENT: Council Member
None
Ma~or o the City o~
A~fEST:
Clerk City 6f Poway