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RESOLUIION NO. 80-167 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA URGING UNANIMOUS SUPPORT OF PROPOSITION 8 AT THE NOVEMBER 4, 1980 ELECTION WHEREAS, the State Water Project furnishes water to more than 13 million people in the San Francisco Bay area and Southern California, and to hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural land in the San Joaquin Valley; and WHEREAS, the State Water Project will be the largest single source of water supply for Southern California after the Central Arizona Project is completed and that state takes delivery of the Colorado River water which Southern California is presently using but to which Arizona is entitled; and WHEREAS, without the proposed Peripheral Canal and additional water development, conservation, reclamation, and groundwater management programs specified in recently enacted Senate Bill 200, the State Water Project will not be able to furnish sufficient water to meet the needs of either Southern California or the other regions of the State served by the project; and WHEREAS, without the Peripheral Canal, the Delta area's fishery resources, its recreational potential, and its ability to maintain a quality of water necessary to meet its own agricultural, domestic, and industrial needs will degrade; and WHEREAS, long-standing controversy over protection of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has delayed construction of the Peripheral Canal; and WHEREAS, the Legislature approved ACA 90 which has been designated Proposition 8 on the November 1980 State ballot; and WHEREAS, the primary purpose of Proposition 8 is to strengthen Delta protection by adding to the State Constitution the Delta protection Act and the Delta protection provisions in SB 200; and WHEREAS, the provision in Proposition 8 that reempha- sizes California's intention to maintain State control of its wild and scenic North-Coast rivers by increasing the present restriction on export of water from these rivers from a majority to a two-thirds vote of the California Legislature would continue to allow the State the option of developing these waters for export if and when such development is proven essential to the well-being of Californians. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana: That unanimous support of Proposition 8 at the November 4, 1980, election is urged.