Resolution 2020-13RESOLUTION NO.2020-13
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GILROY CREATING A UTILITY UNDERGROUNDING
DISTRICT ALONG MONTEREY ROAD FROM SOUTH OF
EIGHTH STREET TO TENTH STREET
WHEREAS, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has
authorized electric and telecommunication utilities to convert overhead utility
lines and facilities to underground pursuant to Electric Rule 20 and
Telecommunication Rule 32, and
WHEREAS, pursuant to certain criteria, CPUC rules allow participating
cities and counties to establish legislation authorizing the creation of underground
utility districts within which existing overhead electric distribution and
telecommunication distribution and service facilities will be converted to
underground, and
WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy, has adopted an ordinance authorizing the
City Council to designate areas within which all existing overhead poles,
overhead wires and overhead equipment associated with the distribution of
electric power, telecommunication services and cable television should be
removed and replaced with underground wires and facilities; and
WHEREAS, each year the City of Gilroy is notified by PG&E regarding
the allocation of work credits for conversion of overhead electric distribution lines
and facilities to underground, known as Rule 20A allocations, and
WHEREAS, the Director of Public Works for City of Gilroy has consulted
with PG&E and determined that the City has accumulated Rule 20A work credits
or PG&E has agreed that the City may borrow against future credits sufficient to
complete a future overhead to underground conversion project, and
WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy and the affected utilities will agree that
each utility shall complete the engineering of their respective portion of the
Overhead to Underground Utility Conversion in the Monterey Road
Undergrounding district, and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Gilroy has now received the
report from the Director of Public Works recommending that the area identified in
Exhibit 1 should be designated as an underground utility district within which all
existing overhead poles, overhead wires and overhead equipment associated with
the distribution of electric power, telecommunication services and cable television
should be removed and replaced with underground wires and facilities; and
RESOLUTION NO.2020-13
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City
of Gilroy that:
Section 1. The public interest requires the removal of all existing utility poles
[excepting those poles supporting streetlights or traffic signals], overhead wires
and associated overhead structures and installation of underground wires and
facilities for supplying electric power, communication, or similar associated
services within the areas as shown in Exhibit 1, attached hereto, with such area
being designated as the Monterey Road Underground Utility District, and
Section 2, That the utility companies, cable television services and other affected
services shall commence work on installation of underground facility installation
in Monterey Road Underground Utility District and that as each phase of
undergrounding is complete and ready for conversion from overhead to
underground utility facilities, all fronting property owners shall be notified of the
schedule for conversion of all utility service lines, and
Section 3, The electric utility shall use the underground conversion allocation
computed pursuant to decisions of the California Public Utilities Commission for
the purpose of providing to each premises requiring it in Monterey Road
Underground Utility District a maximum of one hundred feet of individual
electric service trenching and conductor (as well as backfill, paving and conduit,
if required) and each other serving utility shall provide service trenching and
conductor in accordance with its rules and tariffs on file with the California Public
Utilities Commission or as required by its Franchise Agreement with the City of
Gilroy, and
Section 4. The electric utility shall use said underground conversion allowance
allocation, up to a maximum amount of $1,500 per service entrance excluding
permit fees, for the conversion of electric service panels to accept underground
service in the Monterey Road Underground Utility District, and
Section 5. That upon notification as specified in Section 2, all property owners in
Monterey Road Underground Utility District shall have each property served from
such electric overhead facilities shall have installed in accordance with PG&E's
rules for underground service, all electrical facility changes on the premises
necessary to receive service from the underground facilities of PG&E as soon as it
is available; and underground electrical entrance facilities installed and inspected
pursuant to the City of Gilroy Electrical Code within sixty (60) days and that
should any property owner fail to install satisfactory underground electrical
entrance facilities by the date specified in the notice, the electric utility shall
notify the Director of Public Works who shall, within thirty (30) days direct the
electric utility in writing to discontinue electrical service to the property, without
recourse, pursuant to Rule 11 until electrical entrance facilities are ready to accept
underground electrical conductors and have passed the necessary inspection
requirements, and
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RESOLUTION NO.2020-13
Section 6. That once all services have been converted from overhead to
underground, the utility companies, cable television services and other affected
services shall remove all poles (except as specified above) and associated
overhead facilities in Monterey Road Underground Utility District, and PG&E is
authorized to discontinue its overhead electric service upon completion of the
underground distribution system.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 2°d day of March, 2020 by the following
roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BLANKLEY, BRACCO,
LEROE-MUNOZ, MARQUES, TOVAR, TUCKER
and VELASCO
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
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NONE
NONE
APPR VE :
Ro an Velasco, Mayor
RESOLUTION NO.2020-13
I, SHAWNA FREELS, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do hereby certify that the
attached Resolution No. 2020-13 is an original resolution, or true and correct copy of a city
Resolution, duly adopted by the Council of the City of Gilroy at a regular meeting of said held on
Council held on the 2nd day of March, 2020, 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 4t' da f March, 2020.
Shawna Freels,
City Clerk of the City of Gilroy
(Seal)