HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 097CITY OF MEDINA, WASHINGTON
RESOLUTION NO. ! /
A RESOLUTION relating to the retention by Water District
68 of its real and personal property, franchises, rights,
assets, taxes levied -but -not -collected for the district
for other than indebtedness, water lines, facilities,
equipment and service to the residents of the district
in the face of the proposal of the City of Bellevue to
acquire the same.
WHEREAS the City of Bellevue has by Resolution dated July 14,
1969 indicated a disposition to acquire all the property
of Water District 68 on the basis of enabling legislation
the passage of which was substantially secured by the City
of Bellevue in the extraordinary session of the 1969 Legis-
lature which Legislation permits acquisition where 60% of
the assessed valuation of real property of a district lies
within the City's corporate limits; and
WHEREAS the City of Medina lies wholly within Water District
68; and
WHEREAS the residents of Medina depend entirely upon Water
District 68 for domestic water but would lose any equity in
J the property of the district upon such a take-over and
would also lose the right to elect representatives to manage
such property, which they have so far enjoyed through the
election of commissioners of the district, and
WHEREAS it is impractical for the Bellevue area, however
organized to develop an independent water supply approaching
the quality and low cost of that which Water District 68
purchases from the City of Seattle so that the City of
Bellevue cannot bring any apparent new benefit to water users
of the area,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MEDINA DOES
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS.
Section 1. policy. An effectively administered
municipal agency such as Water District 68, the limits of
which are comprehensive and designed with efficient water
service in mind, which has had a long and successful history
of service, which in the instance of Water District 68 has;\
extended from shortly after December llth, 1944, should only
be supplanted for substantial and convincing reasons, the
advantage of which is so clear as to outweigh the disadvan-
tage of disenfranchising and depriving of their equity, a
substantial portion of the residents of the district. Nor
should an indispensable utility such as a water supply
system be the device by which a city government may indirectly
tax for the general costs of its government, those who are
not residents of that city.
Section 2. Memorial to the Board of Commissioners
of Water District 63. The City Counci o e City of Me ina
hereby memorializes the Board of Commissioners of Water District
68 to insist that reprcientatives of the City of Bellevue
satisfy the District's Board that an uncompensated acquisition
of the District's property by the City will be in the beat
public interest including the best interest of those residents
of the District who reside in the several cities and unin-
corporated areas of the District which are not within the
corporate limits of the city of Bellevue and, failing such
showing, that the Water District resist by whatever legal
means are at its dispocal such a take-over.
THIS RESOLUTION ADOPTED the 13th day of October, 1969.
J. T. DeFriel �/ jr., Mayor
ATTEST.
Bernice Sowden, C ty Clerk
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