HomeMy WebLinkAbout2108 SOLUTION NO. 2100
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF R DLAN S, CALIFORNIA OPPOSING TUB APPLICATION
OF THL CITY OF BEAU ONT BEFOPM THB PUBLIC UTILITILS COM SSION OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, UNDER APPLICATION NO. 42321, REWARDING A GILIDE SEPA—
RATION AT BEAUMONT AVLNUB IN THE CITY OF BLIMIONT AND THE IN LINE O
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO PIM AT ITS CROSSING NO. Sm 02a4, INSOFAR AS SAID
APPLICATION REQULSTS AN APPORTIOMUNNT OF THE COST Tf EREOP, AND A C0hKRI—
BUT10h TtLiaiMM BY THE CITE" OF REDLANDS.
WHEREASO the City of Beaumont, Californiag has filed Application
No. 42321 -with the Public Utilities Commission of the: State of California,
for the construction of to grade separation at the intersection of Beaumont
Avenue in the City of Beaumont and the lain Line of the Southern Pacific
Company, and the widening of Beaumont Ave nuet and in said application,
has requested thaAt s portion of the cost thereof be borne by the City of
Redlands as well as other public entities; and
tit ERBAS, this City Council finds that no financial benefit will
inure to the City of Redlands or Its reeidernats thereof, from the construc—
tion and completion of such project; and
WHE S, at would appear that the cost of such projects in various
parts of Csalzforniaa as, in effect, apportioned by the State through allo—
cation of gas tax reTenanes, and further, that persons, as they travel and
transact business about the state, contribute to the public treasuries of
the various public entities in which they so travel and do business, through
the payment of sales taxes, in lien taxes a license taxes and sundry other
levies, which said allocation and payment generally result In a contribu—
tion to such projects as the one under consideration, commensurate with the
use thereof; and
WMEAS, it is recognized that certain territorial jurisdictional
entities have specific problems resulting from the location within their
jurisdictional limits of railroads and anther private and public projects;
and
MIL,RLAS, it is felt that an allocation of costs among entitles, as
herein applied for, would result in most only an inequitable distribution
of cost, but in long and tedious factual determinations by the Commission
in any such application in the: facture resulting in a tre Aendous burden on
the Commission o to the extent that the work of the Commission may well be
rendered iuupossible to perform with necessary expediency, and
W11ERMIS, this City Cosuncil sympathizes with the: City of Beaumont in
its attempt to solve its problem, It must be recognized zed that this City has
traffic and other problems of its one, within its boundaries, which must
be solved and which continually strain the resources of this City,
NOW, TILEREF€IRia, BE IT AND IT 13 HEREBY RESOLVED that this body, In
regular meeting assembled this 21st day of February, 1961, doses hereby
oppose the application of the City of Beaumont before the Public Utilities
Commission, bung Application No. 42321, insofar as the same pertains to
an apportionment of the cast of the project therein concerned to the City
of Redlands; that in such reaapect, such aapplaca.ti on has no merit; that
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this body finds that no financial benefit is bG be received there g�:-om, by
the City of Redlands or the cxtizeRs thereog, that any minor con-venzence
inuring to the people of Redlands is so remote ao to be negligible amid does
not warrant any contvibution to the cost of such project over and beyond
the sums presently allocated to the City of Beaumont by the State of Califor—
nia through gas to allocation.
ADOPTED, SIGNED AND APPROVED thin 210t day @2 Bebruary, 19610
Mayor of the City of Redlande
ATTEST:
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APPROVED FOR FORM.
Edward F. Taylor
City Attorney