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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA RESOLUTION NO. 81-16 RESOLUTION OPPOSING ASSEMBLY BILL 9 AND ASSEMBLY BILL 68 WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 9 and Assembly Bill 68 are now pending in the California Legislature; and WHEREAS, WHEREAS, AB 9 calls for a special election on June 2, 1981, and AB 68 c/~lls for a special election on April 7, 1981, to provide for the submission of the Water Facilities Referendum Statute (Senate Bill 200) to the voters of the State; and SB 200, if confirmed by the voters, would authorize the Peripheral Canal project as well as other water development facilities and features to enable the State Water Project to divert and export more water from Northern California to Southern California~ and WHEREAS, the Peripheral Canal would seriously impair the main- tenance of an adequate supply of water of good quality for domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial uses in Contra Costa County, as well as for the preser- vation and protection of fish and wildlife resources and other environmental values of the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuarine System; and WHEREAS SB 200 does not contain the water policy reforms, which must accompany any new water facility construction necessary to assure responsible management of our state water resources; and WHEREAS, a special election would needlessly require additional expenditures of public funds, estimated by the Secretary of State to cost $12 million; and WHEREAS a special election would deny the people of California the time needed to learn of the serious shortcomings of current water planning in the State and to recognize the need for a complete re-evaluation of future water needs without massive expansion of the State Water Project and construction of the Peripheral Canal; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Pleasanton stands in firm opposition to the passage of AB 9 and AB 68.