HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 6278 (Protest Central Marin Sewage Treatment Plant)RESOLUTION NO. 6278
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL
PROTESTING CONSTRUCTION OF THE CENTRAL MARIN SEWAGE
TREATMENT PLANT
WHEREAS, the citizens of San Rafael, through the electoral
process, voted to approve a unified sewer project known as the
Central Marin Sewage Treatment Plant; and
WHEREAS, said sewage treatment plant was purported to bear
an ultimate price tag of $40 million maximum; and
WHEREAS, the sewage facility will treat sewage not only
from the City of San Rafael but several neighboring communities as
well; and
WHEREAS, said treatment plant will now be located near
the terminus of Andersen Drive, at one of the principal entrance-
ways to San Rafael; and
WHEREAS, said plant will remove from the tax rolls property
that would otherwise be taxed at its highest and best use; and
WHEREAS, the facility is now estimated to cost over twice
as much as the original $40 million, without guarantee of the 75%
funding from federal sources originally represented to the voters;
and
WHEREAS, although said treatment plant is comprised of
two phases, first, the plant itself, and second, the outfall lines,
there is no assurance that the second phase, the outfall lines,
will ever be completed; and
WHEREAS, to the extent the citizens and voters of
San Rafael approved a $40 million project, they did not approve a
project costing $80 million or more.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of San Rafael that the City protests construction of
the Central Marin Sewage Treatment Plant for all of the fore-
going reasons.
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RESOLUTION NO. 6278
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution
be sent to the Environmental Protection Agency and to other
pertinent agencies and officials of the Federal Government.
I, JEANNE M. LEONCINI, City Clerk of the City of San Rafael,
hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly and
regularly introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the
Council of said City on Monday , the 5th day of April 1982,
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Breiner, Frugoli, Jensen, Miskimen &
Mayor Mulryan
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
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JffNE-M. LEONCINI, City Clerk
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