HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 011-1947RESOLUTION NO. 11-47
WHEREAS, Hills Water Company, a corporation, operating
a water service for the supply of water to consumers in the
Burlingame Hills District adjacent to the city limits of the
City of Burlingame; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the City Water Department
to prepare to furnish water to the area in the city known as
Burlingame Manor; and
WHEREAS, on November 22, 1946: the Hills Water Company,
a corporation offered to lease to the City of Burlingame its
entire property including land, reservors, transmission and
distribution mains, services, meters, hydrants, valves, fittings,
pumping plant and all appurtenances, for a monthly rental of
WO.00; and at the same time offered to sell to the City of
Burlingame its entire property including all the factors before
mentioned for the sum of ?35,000.00 provided the offer be
accepted before June 10, 1947; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Burlingame
at a meeting held on November 23, 1946, held for the purpose
of considering the offer of Hills Water Company, adopted
Resolution No. 41-46, accepting said offer; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in him, the
City Engineer completed arrangements for transfer of the prop
of said Hills Water Company, and ever since January 10, 1947,
the Burlingame Municipal Water Works has been operating the
entire plant of said Hills Water Company; and
WHEREAS, application was made to the Public Utilities
Commission of California by the Hills Water Company to sell its
entire property to the City of Burlingame and thereafter the
said Public Utilities Commission made an offer authorizing the
sale of the entire property to the City of Burlingame; and
WHEREAS, the Water Commission of the City of
Burlingame, after consideration of the matter of purchase,
unanimously decided to recommend that the City Council exercise
"its option" to purchase the property of Hills Water Company,
a corporation; and
WHEREAS, the City Council after due deliberation deem it
to be to the interest and best advantage of the City of
Burlingame that the purchase of entire property of Hills Water
Company be consummated at the offered price of �'�35,000.00.
NOW, THERE IFOR, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council that
the City of Burlingame purchase from Hills Water Company, a
corporation, all of its water rights and physical properties, in-
cluding land, reservoirs, transmission and distribution mains,
services, meters, hydrants, valves, fittings, pumping plant and
all appurtenances for the sum of $35,000.00.
BE IT F'QRTHER RESOLVED that the chairman of the City
Council, the City Engineer and the City Attorney be and they are
hereby authorized and directed to carry into effect this resolu-
tion and consummate the purchase herein mentioned.
BE IT. F[TRMER RESOLVED: That there `.s hereby appropriated
from the Operating Fund of Burlingame Municipal Water Works the
sum of t20p000.00 and the sum of d,D'15,000.00 from the Capital
Outlay Fund to provide the purchase price for the property herein -
above mentioned.
The foregoing Resolution was duly introduced at a regular)
meeting of the City Council held on the 21st day of April, 1947,
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILI=: Dahl-Harris-Hunt-Simonds-Whitsell
NOES: COUNCIU,,SEN: None
ABSENT COUNCILMEN: None
i,., a., c-o -
I, Herbert K. White, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame,
do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly intro-
duced and a dopted by the City Council on the 21st day of April,
1947.
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