HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC RESO 6658RESOLUTION NO. 6658
RESOLUTION ENDORSING PROPOSITION "W"
ON JTJNE 5 PRIMA_-Y ELECTION BALLOT
WHEREAS, The population of the Metropolitan Water
District of Southern California, now more than six million,
is increasing at an amazing rate, and is creating an im-
perative need for larger water deliveries, and
WHEREAS, there is urgently needed an accelerated
construction program to bring the District's Colorado Riv-
er Aqueduct to its full planned delivery capacity of more
than a billion gallons a day, and
WHEREAS, San Diego County is now largely depend-
ent upon Colorado River Water to meet its industrial, agri-
cultural and domestic needs, and completion of the Metro-
politan's Aqueduct will assure a continued supply from
this source, and
WHEREAS, Proposition "W" on the June 5 ballot
provides a financing plan with no tax increase for com-
pleting the aqueduct construction program by authorizing
issuance of short term notes which will be repaid within
12 years, with interest, from the annexation fees now be-
ing received by the District over a 30-year period from
areas which have annexed to it in recent years, and
WHEREAS, Proposition "W" thus makes possible
during the next few years, the investment of a part of
an assured future income due over a 30-year period to
bring our aqueduct to its full delivery capacity with-
out new tax money,
NOW, THEREF :tl , BE IT RESOLV D
that the Cs1 Y COUNCIL of CITY OF NATIONAL CITY does here-
by endorse Proposition
"bti" on
the June 5, 1956 Primary
election ballot and urges its approval by the voters.
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MAYOR