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RESOLUTION NO. 2290 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY 0F SANTA ANA, REQUESTING OF THE SECrETARY Or THE INTERIOR AN EXTENSION 0P TIME TO CONTRACT WITH THE UNITED STATES FOR HOOVER DAM ELEOT~ICAL ENERGY TO 0CTOBER 15, 1931. WHEREAS, the time for entering into a contract by the City of Santa Aha with the Secretary of the Interior for the Onited States for electrical energy from the Hoow D~m allocated to the City of Santa Ana is extremely limited; and WHEREAS, said contract must be entered into on or before April 15, 1931; and WHEREAS, it is necessary that the City of Santa Ana contract with the City of L~s Angeles and its Department of Water and Power for transmitting said electrical energy; and WHEREAS, the said City of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power on the 24th day.of Januar~y, 1931, for the first time made a requirement that the municipalities, including the City of Santa Aha, pay to the said City of Los Angeles its Department of Water and Power, their proportionate shares of the initial investment and construction cost of the transmission line to be constr~cted by the City of Los Angeles and its maid Department, upon the execution of the contract for transmission of said electrical energy with the said City of Los Angeles and its said Department; and WHEREAS, it is not within the contemplation of Article 20 of the proposed contract between the United States and the City, or the provisions of Article 25 of the contract between the United States and the City, or within the previous understand- ing of any of the said municipalities in their conversations with the Secretary of the Interior, or the City of Los Angeles, that the municipalities, including the City of Santa Aha, shall pay their proportionate shares of the initial investment in the trans- mission line constructed at the execution of the contract between any such municipality and the City; and WHEREAS, it is impossible to prepare and execute a contract between the City Los Angeles and the City of Santa Aha with respect to the transmis~on of said electrics energy in sufficient time to enable the City of Santa Aha to submit the proposed contra¢ between the United States and the City of Santa Aha for the purchase of such electrical energy to the vote of the people by April 15, 1931; and WHEREAS, the City of Pasadena did on the 27th day of January, 1931, adopt a resolution requesting an extension of the time within which to execute a contract with the United States for an additional period of six months, to-wit: October 15, 1931; NOW, THEREFORH, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA: That it consents to said request of the City of Pasadena for said extension. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the Secretary of the Interior of the United States be, and the s~me is hereby respectfully requested on behalf of the City of Santa Aha to extend the time within which the City of Santa Ana, and the other municipalities to whom Hoover Dam Energy has been allocated, may enter into said contracts for an additional period of six months, to-wit: October 15, 1931, and that in the meantime the Secretary of the Interior be requested to a~bi~a~$ with the City of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power reEarding the matter of the payment of the proportiona shares of the cost of said transmission line to be paid by the City of Santa Ana, and the other~Gnicipalities, to the end that the City of Santa Aha, and the mmaller municipalities, may be permitted to contract with said City of Los Angeles, and its