Resolution No. 523221
RESOLUTION NO. 523
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
ENDORSING S. 3104, H. R. 12332, H. R. 12335, AUTHORIZING
INVESTIGATIONS AND REPORTS ON THE WATER RESOURCES AND
REQUIREMENTS OF THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Cypress fully realizes that it
is imperative that Orange County and the entire Southern California area have
an adequate and continuing supplemental water supply in order to protect the
interests of its people and to assure the future economic growth of the area,
and
WHEREAS, this City Council represents the approximately 13,000 landowners
and inhabitants of the City of Cypress, which encompasses an area of 61 square
miles within Orange County, all of which receives its principal water supplies
from the Colorado River Aqueduct of the Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California, and
WHEREAS, Senators Thomas H. Kuchel and Pierre Salinger from the State
of California have jointly introduced S. 3104, and Representative Richard T.
Hanna and James B. Utt from Orange County, California have introduced H. R. 12335
and H. R. 12332, respectively, both of which are practically identical with
S. 3104, and
WHEREAS, these bills which are now pending before the United States
Congress if passed would assure protection of California's 4.4 million acre
feet per year of water from the Colorado River and would also authorize
investigations into sources of water in the Pacific Northwest, where water
is being wasted to the ocean, for transfer to the Colorado River system to
supply sufficient water for all Colorado River Basin States,
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of
Cypress does hereby endorse S. 3104, H. R. 12335 and H. R. 12332 and
compliments Senators Kuchel and Salinger and Congressmen Hanna and Utt for
having introduced these bills.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this Resolution be sent to
United States Senators Thomas H. Kuchel and Pierre Salinger; to United States
Representative Richard T. Hanna and James B. Utt; to State Senator John A.
Murdy, Jr.; to Senator James A. Cobey, Chairman of the Senate Water Committee
of the California Legislature; to AssemblymentPobert E. Badham, William E.
Dannemeyer and James E. Whetmore; and to Chairman Carley V. Porter of the
Assembly Water Committee.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cypress,
California, this 26th day of October, 1964.
ATTEST:
ITY CLE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF CYPRESS )
MAYOR r/
I, DARRELL ESSEX, do hereby certify that I am the City Clerk of the
City of Cypress; that the foregoing Resolution was regularly introduced to
said Council at its regular meeing held on the 26th day of October, 1964,
and was at said meeting passed and adopted by a roll call vote, to -wit;
AYES: 5 COUNCILMEN: Corze ►an, Kanel, 'McCarney, Wright, and Noe
NOES: 0 COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: 0 COUNCILMEN : None
C Y CLERK
Resolution No. 523