HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 037-87 AB1710 WaterRESOLUTION NO. 37 - 87
A RESOLUTION OF TIE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN
SUPPORTING AMENDMENTS TO AB1710 (COSTA)
WHEREAS, water is California's n~Dst precious and sought-after natural resource;
P~FjREAS, California's water resources must be managed in an environmentally-safe and
economically-sound manner in which some regions of the state are not unfairly benefited
to the detriment of other regions; and
~{EREAS, AB 1710 .(Costa) addresses, in part, some of the negative impacts of the
current water transport system but, nevertheless, is intended to increase the supply of
Delta water exported south without providing adequate protections for the San Francisco.
Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta estuaryr and
P~!EREAS, the City of Dublin believes ~ere should be no increase in the current
annual level of export out of the Delta until the following protections and safeguards
have been enacted and are in place:
1. Statutory protection for the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary;
2. issuance of new water quality standards for the Bay and Delta by the State Water
Resources Control Board;
3. Initiation of an adequate, comprehensive program to reconstruct and maintain Delta
levees;
4. Negotiation of contractual obligations for restoration of the fisheries;
5. Implementation of water baking; and
P~_REAS, the City of Dublin is ~lling to have the consensus-building process
continue, seeing it as the most effective and efficient way long-tem to resolve
California's water problems and to meet the State's water needs,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Dublin does
hereby urge the Speaker of the Assembly Willie L. Brown, Jr. and Ass~nblyman John
Vasconcellos, Chairman of the Ass~oly Committee on Ways & ~ans to withhold action on AB
1710 as passed by the Assen%bly Con~nittee on Water, Parks & Wildlife on ~y 6, 1987; and
BE IT FLIRTHER RESOLVED that the City of Dublin urges the leadership and members of
the California Legislature to support a continuation of the consensus process to resolve
California's water problems.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 8th day of June, 1987.
AYES:
Counci~ers Hegarty, MDffatt, Snyder, Vonheeder
and ~yor Jeffery
NOES: I~ne
ABSENT: ~ne
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