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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - EVWD Board of Directors - 11/14/1961Fa%MT MAN B~N~%RDINO (X~JNTY WATER DIbT~ICT REGULAR 14~flN~ 7:30 p.m. NOVEMBER 14, lg61 Directors Present: Botts, President, presiding; Brooks, LeVesque, Littleton, Wall. Directors Absent: None. Others Present: ~eneral Manager-Secretary, Rickert; Auditor-Treasurer, Bragg; Assistant Office Manager, Lyons; Engineers Rowe and Miller; Attorney, Henry; East Valley times Editor, Boyd; Zoe Painter, Jack Nicholson and Henl7 P. zarzycki. MINUTES Upon inclination that each Board member present had read the minutes of the October 31, 1961 regular adjourned meeting, and there were no corrections or additions, the President declared the minutes approved as written. RESOLUTION 390 The Secretary reported the Main extension has been paid RV. LFASE OF LIEN in full, $227.50 on the William A. and Wilma O. Noakes NOA~ES lien, therefore the Release of ~ten is in order at this time, and Resolution No. 390 is presented. MOTION Upon motion by Director Littleton, duly seconded by Director LeVes~ue and carried unanimously, Resolution No. 390, Release of Lien on the property of William A. Noakes and Wilma O. Noakes at 26296 Sixth Street, Htghlard was adopted and order made. RE~OLUTION NO.891 Resolution No. 891, a Certificate of Completion, was filed NOTICE OF by Consultiag Engineers, Campbell & Miller, certifTi~; to COMPLETION the completion of Sewer Collection ~/stem located on HIGh/~ND AREA ~ress Street, Lankershim Street~ ~ucalyptus Street, Berrie SEWI~ PROJECT Lane, Victoria Street and Ward Street in the Highland Area J P S CONTRACT. on November 6, 1961 in accordance with the plans and specifications of the District. MOTION Upon motion by Director LeVesque, duly seconded by Director Wall and carried unanimously, Resolution No. 391, Certifi- cate of Completion of Sewer Collection 8ysten, Cypress, Lankersh/m, Eucalyptus, Victoria and Ward Streets and Berrie Lane was adopted and the President and Secretary ordered to execute end record Notice of Completion. RESOLUTION NO.$92 The Secretary presented Resolution No. 892, Certificate CERTIFICATE OF of Completion of Water Transmission main, Plant 24, C(IMPLETION, P~ANT Harrison Street to Golden and Marshall Blvd., Job 9-4, HARRISON TO which was filed by Associate Engineer, Charles L. Cole, GOLDEN & MARSHALL showing completion on October 20, 1961 in accordance BOB SIMON CONTRACT with plans and specifications of the District. MOTION Upon motion by Director Wall, duly seconded by Director Ltttleton and carried unanimously, Resolution No. 899. accepting Job W-863, Robert Simon, Contractor, was adopted and the President and Secretary ordered to execute and record Notice of Completion. APPRAISAL OF The re-appraisal of District's property west of the office DISTRICT PROPERTY was read to the Board and discussed in connection with ACROSS FRC~. the next item below in these m/nukes. OFFICE BY GRI~SBY LET~ - The President read a letter from Mr. Z. A. Painter sub- ZOB R%INTER TERMS mitring the following proposal to the District: "To sell OF SALE & EXCHANGE to your District all of our property, located at Base OF PROI~TIES Line and Del Rosa Avenue(except leased property to Texas Company) in exchange for all your property on the west side of Del Rosa Avenue consisting of ~..46 acree 452 Nov. 14, 1961 and $9,900.00. Te~s to be agreed upon by both parties.' Following discussion of many factors involved in this transaction, the Directors were asked to think this all over and come to next Board meeting prepared to e the decision. LETTER - The ~zesident read a letter from Claude B. Briscoe ClaUDE B. BRISCOE regarding his property at 25466 HighlandAvenue on which PROPERTY AT 25466 the Board granted a 90 day extension of time for con- HIGHLAND AVENUE nection to the sewer, the property being in escrow. EXTENSION FCR He now wishes a 6 month extension until the sale can SEWER CONNECTION. be completed and buildings moved. MOTION Upon motion b~ Director Littleton, duly seconded by Director LeVesc~/e and carried unanimously, to grant this extension under the circumstances if this action complies with ordinances governing, if agreeable with legal consul. CriNGE (RDER NO. Engineer Miller was called upon to present Change 5 HIGHLAND AREA Order No. $ which is an addition of ~-4 linear feet of SEWE~ PROJECT 4 inch vitrified clay pipe at 7832 Lankershim Street LOCATIONS. in the amount of $216.00 making a total on change orders 1 through § of $609.50. MOTION Upon motion by Director Littleton, duly seconded by Director WaLl and carried unanimously, Change order No. $ in the amount of $216.00 was approved. L~I'~E~ - SAN The ~resident-read a letter frc~ the San Bernardino BERNARDINO VALLEY Valley Municipal Water District regarding negotiations JNICIPAL WA'i'~ for sale of surplus water. DISTRICT FOR SALE OF WJRPLUS WATfR The Secretary presented an agreement which was drawn up by Attorney, Denslow Green. This agreement is the same as the one drawn up previously for the City except that depreciation of e~uip~ent was figured in, making the price $17.00 per acre foot instead of 12.00 previously figured. The agreement seems to be in order and if this meets with the approval of the Municipal Board, will be arranged as the District needs to sell surplus water in order to retain the various water rights. LET'£k/~ - A letter from Peyton Taylor dated NovemBer 14, 1961 PEYTON W. TAYLER was read stating a well near East Highland Avenue on OF WATER the fo~mer Gore Ranch, known as the Walkinshaw Well, RIGHTS OF is offered for sale at $33,600.00. Well site, ingress AGRICULTURE WF.T.L and egress easemen~ to well site and all pumping e~uipment are included. It also includes the water rights of 210 annual acre feet as recorded with the State. The ~an Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District has also been notified of this offer of sale. MOTION Upon motion by Director Littleton, the matter should be referred to engineering for determination of its value and whether or not it is prescriptive right water. The motion lost for lack of a second. Whatever is done in this matter wl-ll be setting a precedent as prescriptive right water has not been sold or offered for sale to this District before. Another well of this same capacity will be available in the next year or two. MOTION Upon motion by Director ~eVes~ue, duly seconded by Director Wall and carried unanimously, the offer to District to purchase the Walkinshaw Well, should be declined by letter to Peyton Taylor and suggest the offer be referred to theSan Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District. Nov. 14, 1961 GENERAL WATER The Secretary presented a 'Notice of Commenc~ent of DI[~JS~ION Proceedings of West Highlands WaterCom]many to Wind up and Dissolve'. He stated he had discussed the matter with Attorney Green end that the Articles of Incorporation and the By Laws of the West Highlands Water Company along with some other information, are to be mailed to Attorney Green who will then advise the District of further proceedure. AD3CURNMENT The business of the meeting being concluded, the President declared the meeting adjourned at 9:25 p.m. Harold O. Ricker~ Secretary Board of Direc~6rs. President -- EAST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY WATER DISTRICT Rt~ULAR MEETING 7:30 p.m. NOVEMBER 28, 1961 Directors Present: Botts, President, presiding; Brooks, heVes~ue, Littleton, Wall. Directors Absent: None. Others Present: General Manager-Secretary, Rickert; Auditor-Treasurer, Bragg; Associate Engineer, Cole; Assistant Office Manager, Lyons; Attorney, Henry; ConSUlting Engineer, Joe Rowe; Editor East Valley Times, Boyd and Constituents, Zoe Painter, Henry P. Zarzycki, Mr. and Mrs. 3~nes Stark, Aureola and R. D. m~i~s. MINUTES Upon indication that each Board m~mKer present had read the minutes and there were no corrections or additions, the President declared the minutes approved as written. DISCUSSION The President stated the matter of the trade of District's PROPI~TY TRADE property across from the office on Del Rosa for Zoe Painter's WITH ZOE PAINTER property north of the office and warehouse includiD~ the Library building on Base Line plus $9,900.00 was open for further discussion and decisions by the Directors as in- structed at last meeting. It was felt that the District should not have rental property nor expensive Base Line frontage. It was also felt that as far as values are con- cerned, it would be a good investment. Some felt the Base Line frontage could be sold off at a good price. The net square footage this would add would be small so that it seemed the main consideration should be the land use planned. MOTION Motion was made by Director LeVesque, that the District not make the trade on the grounds that we do not have the money at this time. The motion lost for lack of a second. MOTION Upon motion by Director Brooks, duly seconded by Director Wall, the trade would be made as a good investment. This was held a tie vote with two directors voting Aye and two