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RESOLUTION NO. 8705
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH URGING GOVERNOR BROWN TO
RECONSIDER HIS PLAN FOR THE ELIMINATION OF
THE COLORADO RIVER BOARD
WHEREAS, the Colorado River Board of California was
established by the State Legislature in 1937 to protect
California's rights to water and power resources of the
Colorado River; and
WHEREAS, the Board, largely because of its official
status as an agency of the State of California, has been highly
successful in meeting its tremendous responsibility; and
WHEREAS, in recent years it has been the main force
in creating for the first time a unified and cooperative
approach among the seven Colorado River Basin states toward
solving the many complex problems the river still presents;
and
WHEREAS, the Colorado River represents either a full
or supplemental source of water for some eleven million
citizens of California, irrigates some 800,000 acres of
California farmland and makes a significant contribution to
the State's energy supply through the hydroelectric power
generated at the dams on the river; and
WHEREAS, Governor Brown's 1976 -77 budget has proposed
the elimination of the State's one -third funding for the
Colorado River Board as the announced first step toward elimina-
tion of the Board as a state agency and a takeover of its
functions by the State Department of Water Resources; and
WHEREAS, the California Department of Water Resources
is not now staffed to handle Colorado River problems in any
• adequate manner.
• NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Newport
Beach does hereby at this its regular meeting of February 9,
1976, urge Governor Brown to reconsider his plan for elimination
of the Colorado River Board.
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