Resolution 1986-44
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RESOLUTION NO. 86 - 44
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GILROY ADOPTING ALTERNATIVE-SL (WINTER SURFACE
DISCHARGE TO THE PAJARO RIVER AND SUMMER LAND TREAT-
MENT) AS THE LONG TERM WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR
THE CITIES OF GILROY AND MORGAN HILL.
WHEREAS, the wastewater treatment plant servicing the
Ci ties of Gilroy and Morgan Hill has reached capaci ty and
virtually all residential, commercial and industrial growth
beyond the year 1988 will be severely curtailed unless addi-
tional sewage capacity is provided; and
WHEREAS, the Regional Water Quality Control Board required
the cities to submit a long term wastewater management report
and requires that further expansion of the treatment plant be
consistent with said report; and
WHEREAS, at the direction of the two cities, James M.
Montgomery Engineers analyzed alternatives for sewage treat-
ment expansion as described in their Wastewater Management
Alternative Analysis and Long Term Draft Project Report
("Montgomery Engineers Report") dated July 1984; and
WHEREAS, for more than two years expansion of sewage
treatment capacity has been studied by James M. Montgomery
Engineers as consultants to the two cities, by the Citizens
Sewer Advisory Committee, by the Joint Powers Committee of the
two City Councils, and by the City Councils themselves; and
WHEREAS, the Ci ties of Gilroy and Morgan Hill as lead
agencies caused to be prepared an environmental impact report
for a Long Term Wastewater Management Plan ("Plan") _ pursuant
to the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA"); and
WHEREAS,_ the Council has certified the Final Environmental
Impact Report for the Long Term Wastewater Management Plan of
the Cities of Gilroy and Morgan Hill dated March 1986 prepared
by Earth Metrics Incorporated ("Final EIR") pursuant to CEQA
after consideration of oral and written evidence at a public
hearing held on the draft EIR on December 14, 1985 and consid-
eration of oral and written evidence received during the CEQA
review process; and
WHEREAS, the City Councils of Gilroy and Morgan Hill have
held public hearings on the Plan alternatives on April 22,
April 29, May 6, June 10, and July 29, 1986; and
WHEREAS, the Council has considered the oral and written
testimony presented at those public hearings on the various
alternatives under consideration as the Plan; and
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WHEREAS the Council, in balancing environmental concerns
with economic, technical and feasibility considerations of
alternative SL (Winter Surface Discharge to the pajaro River
and Summer Land Treatment), has determined that it best suits
their needs and those of the residents in the service area,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Gilroy that alternative SL as described in the
Montgomery Engineers Report and the Final EIR is hereby
adopted as the Plan for the Cities of Gilroy and Morgan Hill.
The Council hereby incorporates by this reference the miti-
gation measures for significant environmental effects relevant
to alternative SL as described in Resolution No.86-4~nd fur-
ther described in the Final EIR.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this
special meeting of the Gilroy
called vote:
29th day of Jud.y, 1986 at a
City Council by the following
AYES:
COUNCILMEHBERS: GAGE, KLOECKER, MUSSALLEM, PALMERLEE,
VALDEZ and HUGHAN.
NOES:
COUNCILME}ffiERS: None
ABSTAINING: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEHBER: ALBERT
p~Jyd'~PROVED:
/s/ SUSANNE E. STEI~TZ-~/S/ ROBERTA H. HUGHAN
CITY CLERK MAYOR
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I, SUSANNE E. STEINMETZ; City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do
hereby, certify that the attached Resolution No.
86-44
is an
original resolution, duly adopted by -the Council of the City of
special
Gilroy at a regurar meeting of said Council held on the 29th
day of
July
, 19 ~, at which meeting a quorum was'
present.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Official Seal of the City of Gilroy this 30th day of July
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