HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC RESO 13,496RESOLUTION NO. 13,496
RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO GRANT ELECTRIC FRANCHISE
WHEREAS San Diego Gas & Electric Company, a California
corporation, has filed with the Council of the City of National
City 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, that hearing of objections to
the granting thereof will be held at the time and place speci-
fied 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 this resolution in
the National City Star News, a newspaper of general circula-
tion 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 San Diego Gas & Electric
Company, a California corporation, has filed its application
with. the Council of the City of National City 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 communi-
cation 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.
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 per cent of the 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 th.e sale of electricity
within the limits of said City.
Said percentage will be paid annually from th.e date
of the. granting of the franchise applied for, first annual
payment to be made within three months and fifteen days after
theexpiration of the calendar year 1981. Subsequent annual
payments will be made within three months and fifteen days
after the termination of eachand every calendar year there-
after. In the event such payments shall 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 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 7:45 p.m., on Tuesday, the 3rd day of February,
1981, 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 City Clerk of the City,
and the Council shall at the time set for hearing said objec-
tions proceed to hear and pass upon all protests so made.
For further particulars reference is hereby made to
said application filed as aforesaid in the Office of the City
Clerk of National City.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of January, 1981.
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