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05/13/1930-015RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM, AUTHORIZING ASSIGNMENT OF GAS ENGINE CONTRACT. WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim, on or about the 12th day of April, 1929, made and entered into a contract with the C. & G. Cooper Company, wherein and whereby the City of Anaheim agreed with the.,Z. & 0. Cooper Company to acquire a certain four hundred (400) horsepower gas engine, together with auxiliary electrical generating equipment, and by the terms of which contract, the City of Anaheim agreed to pay the said C. & ""O.Cooper Company the sum of $27,500.00, which payments were to be made from savings in the cost of energy to be produced by the operation of said gas engine and generating equipment over the cost of energy to be produced when purchased by the City of Anaheim from the Southern California Edison Company, and, WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim has operated said engine for a . 2eriod of several months, and said gas engine cannot be operated by said City of Anaheim at a saving, but, on the contrary, the operation of said gas engine by said City of Anaheim can only be operated at a. loss under the prevailing rates approved by the Railroad Commission of the State of California, -&" the City of Anaheim can purchase energy from the Southern California Edison Company, and, WHEREAS, the operation of said engine by said city causes g-7eat vibrations of the earth to take place, which vibrations dis- turbed the comfort of the citizens of Anaheim living in the close proximity to said gas engine, and, WHEREAS, the City Council of the,;City of Anaheim deemmc %.�yit for the public interest that said gas engine be not operatedA and, WHEREAS, the Southern California Edison Company has made an offer to purchase the right, title and interest of the City of Anaheim in and to the aforesaid contract with the said C. & G. -1- Cooper Company, and, WHEREAS, by said offer, the said Southern California Edison Company agreed to pay to the City of Anaheim the sum of Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars to reimburse the City of Anaheim for wney expended by the City of Anaheim in the installation of said engine and in the cost incurred by said City of Anaheim in the operation of said amine, together with the cost of litigation, and said Southern California Edison Company, having expressly agreed in said offer that the C. & G. Cooper Company may remove said engine and terminate the afore- said contract of said City of Anaheim with said C. & G. Cooper Company within sixty (60) days, and, WHEREAS by said offer, the Southern California Edison Company has agreed to furnish the City of Anaheim electric energy for a period of ten (10) years under Schedule designated as "Schedule P -2 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council Of the city of Anaheim that the offer of the Southern. California Edison pompany,dated y'12th, 1930, for the assignment of said contract between the City of Anaheim and the C. & G. Cooper Company, dated April 12th, 1928, upon the terms above mentioned, be and the same is hereby accepted. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim be, and he is hereby authorized to exeeute,in the name, of the City of Anaheim a rcontraot asstgnmeAt. tom said Southets California Edison Company the aforesaid contract, with the C. & G. Cooper Company, and hp is further authorized to enter into said contract wherein the City of Anaheim agrees to purchase from the Southern California Edison Company electric energy to be used by the City of Anaheim for a period of ten (10) years, ;&e-%mtil electric energy is purchased from the Government of the United States of America from Boulder Canyon Dan, to take..the'plaace Ma of the n ' 64— energy purchase / the Southern California EM S= Company, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor and the City Attorney of the City of Anaheim be, and they are hereby instructed to cause the complaint heretofore filed by the City of Anaheim against the Southern California Edison Company before the Railroad Commission of the State of California to be dismissed. The foregoing Resolution is signed and approved by me this 13th day of May, 1930. Mayor of the OitY of Anaheim. Attest: y er o the it o Anaheim. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, � SS. CITY OF ANAHEIM. ) i EDWARD B. MERRITT, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was passed and adopted at a meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim held on the 13th day of May, 1930, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen 7n, Zj -,,_ �iCo�,,t(, yyt�t�' /( /Col".41 NOES : Councilmen ABSENT AND NOT VOTING: Councilmen AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Resolution on the 13th day of May, 1930. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the said City this 13th day of stay, 1930. Clerk of the City of Anaheim -3-