HomeMy WebLinkAbout55-093RESOLUTION NO. 55-93 OF THE -
CITY COUNCIL OF-~ OF SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA,
OPPOSING TaE UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECTS
AS PROPOSED IN S. 500 AArD H.R. 270 AND Tlt~ FRYINGPAN-
ARKANSAS PROJECT AS PROPOSED IN S. 300 AND H.R. 412,
NOW PENDI$~G IN CONGRESS.
~.~2~EAS, the City of Santa Ana, California, is vitally dependent
on a water supply obtained from the Colorado River, and
%q~EP~EAS, California's rightful share of Colorado River water is
threatened by the Upper Colorado River Basin projects as proposed~ in S, 500
and H.R. 270 and the Fryingpan-Arkansas project as proposed in S 300 and
H.R. 412, now pending in Congress, and
~EREAS, the aforementioned projects would inflict on all taxpayers
of this City and the Nation an unjustifiable burden of more than four billion
dollars, and
~tY~REAS, these political pump-priming schemes if authorized would
furnish water to grow the kind of crops which are already in great s~rplus
in this country, and which are already heavily subsidized by the taxpayers,
and
~EREAS, the Colorado River Board of California, official state
agency charged with the responsibility of safeguarding California's existing
contracts for Colorado River water, has gone on record strongly opposing these
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the enactment of these project
bills is against the interest of the City of Santa Aha, California, in
particular and the State of California in general and should be opposed.
BE l~ FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of S~nta Aha respectfully
quests the representatives of the State of California in the Congress of the
United States to actively oppose the enactment of the above mentioned bills
or any similar proposals, and that certified copies of this resolution be
air mailed to our Congressional representatives, and copies be made avail-
able to press and radio news sources.
PASSED ANDADOPTEDby the City Council of the City of Santa Ana at
its regular meeting held on the 2~st day of .Earch , 1955.
ATTEST:~
' ~LEP~ o~ T~E COOWCIL
STATE OF C~LIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF SANTA ~NA )
I, EB~4AKEELER, do hereby certify that I ~m the Clerk of the Council
of the City of Santa Ana; that the foregoing Resolution was regularly intro-
duced and read to the said Council at its regular meeting held on the 21st
day of ~arch , 1955, and was at said meeting regularly passed and
adopted by said Council by the following vote, to-wit:
COUNCIT~W~N: William Jerome, Jo Lo McBride, Thomas F. Larsen,
Milford Wo Dahl, Courtney R. Chandler
AYES,
NOES, COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT, COUNCII~EN: None
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL