HomeMy WebLinkAbout510 - Ordinances ORDINANCE NO. 510
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
~, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 3 OF THE RANC~O
C13CAMDNGA MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 3.48
PERTAINING TO THE ESTABLISHM~I~T OF UTIT.TTY USER'S FRF~
A. Recitals.
"(i) The City of Rancho Cucamonga is a 'public corporation, of the State
of California. As a 'public' corporation the City of Rancho Cucamonga is
obligated to construct, maintain and administer, for the health, welfare and
safety of its citizens, all public property (streets, parks, etc.) and public
services (police, fire, etc.). Unlike a 'private, corporation which, in a
poor econc~y, may simply reduce production or property ownership, the City of
Rancho Cucamonga always must operate and provide basic services. Accordingly,
the City of Rancho Cucamonga, as with all public corporations, requires a
st3_ble and constant revenue source for those basic public services which must
be provided.
"(ii) With the recent weak econcmy, the State of California has acted to
balance the State ~_dget by reducing allocations to municipalities. Such
state actions have reduced long standing and stable revenue sources frce
property taxes and state fund subventions (i.e., cigarette tax, fines and
forfeitures, trailor coach fees, etc.) Accordingly, the ability of the City
of Rancho Cucamonga to provide long range basic services has now been
jeopardized.
(iii) Until such time as the State of California acts to permanently
return such revenue sources to municipalities, including the City of Rancho
Cucamonga, this Council finds that it is immediately necessary for the
maintenance of basic public services for the health, safety and welfare of the
residents of the City of Rancho Cucamonga that the following ordinance be
adopted. ,,
B. Ordinance.
The City COuncil of the City of Rancho Cucamonga does ordain as follows:
Section 1. Title 3 of the Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Code is hereby
amended by adding a new Chapter 3.48 to be read, in words and figures, as
follows:
3.48.010 Title. This Chapter shall be known as the Utility User's Fee
of the City of Rancho Cucamonga.
3.48.020 Definitions. The following words and phrases, whenever used in
this Chapter, shall be construed as follows:
A. "Person" shall mean any domestic or foreign corporation, firm,
association, syndicate, joint stock company, partnership of any kind, joint
venture, club, trust, society, or individuals.
B. "City" shall mean the City of Rancho Cucamonga.
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C. "Gas" shall mean natural or manufactured gas or any alternate
hydrocarbon fuel which may be substituted therefor.
D. "Telephone Corporation, ,, "Electrical Corporation," "Gas Corporation,"
and '~qater Corporation," shall have the same meanings as defined in Sections
234, 218, 222, and 241, respectively, of the California Public Utilities Code
except, "Electrical Corporation,",,,Gas Corporation,,, and '~qater Corporation-
shall also be construed to include any municipality, public agency engaged in
the selling or supplying of electrical power or gas or water to a service
user.
E. "Finance Director" shall mean the Director of Administrative
Services, or his or her designee, of the City of Rancho Cucamonga.
F. "Service Supplier" shall mean any entity required to collect or self-
impose and remit a fee as in~ by this Chapter.
G. "Service User" shall mean person required to pay a fee imposed by
this Chapter.
H. '~4onth" shall mean a calendar month.
I. "Non-utility Supplier" shall mean: (a) a service supplier, other
than an electrical corporation franchised to serve within the City, which
g~nerates electrical energy in capacities of at least 50 kilow~tte for its own
use or for sale to others; or (b) a gas supplier other than a gas corporation
franchised to serve the city, that sells or supplies gas for its own use or
for sale to others within the City.
3v-48.030 Exemptions. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed as
imposing a fee upon any person when inpDsition of such fee upon that person
would be in violation of California statute, the Constitution of the State of
California, or the Constitution of the United States.
A. 1. The fee imposed by this chapter shall not apply to any service
user that uses electric,gas, water or telephone services in or upon any
residence occupied by such service user when the combined total gross incc~e
(as used for purpmses of the California personal ~ tax law) of all
members of the household in which such service user resided was less than the
current amount est~_blished for San Bernardino/Riverside Counties by the United
States Department of Housing and Urban Development for very low income
families for the applicable family size for the calendar year prior to the
fiscal year (July 1st through June 30th) and for which an application for
exemption as provided in this chapter is sought.
2. The fee Lmposed by this ChatYcer shall not apply to the State of
California, any county or city or any district or political subdivision
thereof.
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3. Tne exemption granted by subparagraph A.1. above this section shall
not eliminate the duty of the service supplier from collecting fees frcm such
exempt service users or the duty of such exempt service users frc~ paying such
fees to the service supplier unless an exemption is applied for by the service
user and granted in accordance with the provisions of subsection (B) of this
section.
(B) . 1. Any service user exempt frc~n the fees imposed by this chapter
because of the provisions of misection (A) of this section may file an
application with the Finance Direr for an exemption. Such applications
shall be made upon forms supplied by the Finance Director and shall recite
facts under oath which qualify the applicant for an exemption. Tne Finance
Director shall review all such applications and certify as exempt those
applicants determined to qualify therefor, and shall notify all service
suppliers affected that such exemption has been approved, stating the name of
the applicant, the address to which such exempt service is being supplied, and
such other information as may be necessary for the service supplier to remove
th~ exempt service user frce its fee billing procedure. Upon receipt of such
notice, the service supplier shall not be required to continue to bill any
further fee imposed by this chapter from such exempt service user until
further notice by the Finance Director is given. The service supplier shall
eliminate such exempt service user from its fee billing procedure no later
than sixty days after receipt of such notice from the Finance Direr.
2. All exemptions shall continue and be renewed autcmatically by the
Finance Director so long as the requisite facts supporting the initial
qualification for exemption shall continue; provided, however, that the
exemption shall automatically terminate with any change in the service address
or residence of the exempt service user; further provided such service user
may, nevertheless, apply for a new exemption with each change of address or
residence.
3. Any service user exen~t from the tax shall notify the Finance
Director within ten days of any charge in fact or circumstance which might
disqualify such service user from receiving such exemption. It shall be a
misdemeanor for any service user to knowingly receive the benefits of the
exemptions provided by this section when the basis for such ex~Jtion either
does not exist or ceases to exist.
C. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this section, however, any
service supplier who determines by any means that a new or non-exempt service
user is receiving service through a meter or connection exempt by virtue of an
exemption issued to a previous user or exempt user of the same meter or
connection, such service supplier shall notify the Finance Director of such
fact and the Finance Director shall conduct an investigation to ascertain
whether or not the provisions of this section have been complied with, and,
where appropriate, order the service supplier to cc~nence collecting the fee
from the non-exempt service user.
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3.48.035 Maximum Annual Fee.
A. The maximum aggregate amount of fees imposed by this Chapter upon any
one service user for utilities during any calendar year shall not exceed Fifty
Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00).
B. To qualify for such maximum aggregate payment, a service user shall
subnit an application to the Finance Director, together with sufficient
evidence demonstrating payment exceeding the maximum aggregate artrant provided
in this section. Upon receipt and acceptaxx~ of such application, the Finance
Director shall notify each service supplier not to impose the utility fees
required by this Chapter upon such service user. Such accepted and approved
service user shall remit the maximum aggregate utility user fee directly to
the City of Rarr_ho Cucamonga in a form and in irstallment amounts, consistent
with the rules and regulations adopted by the Finance Director.
C. Any service user who has been approved and accepted to pay the
maximum aggregate amount that, pays more than the maximum aggregate fee
provided herein during one calendar year may claim a refund or credit for such
overpayment as provided in this Chapter.
D. Consistent with the rules and regulations adopted by the Finance
Director, the maximum .aggregate amount specified in subsection A, above, may
be adjusted annually in relation to the Consumer Price Index issued by the
United States Department of T ah0r for the greater San Bernardino area.
3.48.040 Telephone User's Fee. A. There is hereby imposed a fee on the
amounts paid for any intrastate telephone services by every person in the City
using such services. The fee imposed by this Section shall be at the rate of
4.66 percent of the char~es made for such services, and shall be paid by the
person paying for such services.
B. As used in this Section, the term "charges,, shall not include charges
for services paid for by inserting coins in coin-operated telephones, except
that where such coin-operated service is furnished for a guaranteed amount,
the amounts paid under such guarantee, plus any fixed monthly or other
periodic charge, shall be included in the base for computing the amount of fee
due; nor shall the term "charges', include charges for any type of service or
equipment furnished by a service supplier subject to Public Utilities
C~tu~,~ssion regulations during any period in which the same or similar services
or equipment are also available for sale or lease fr~n persons other than a
service supplier subject to Public Utilities Cammission regulations; nor shall
the words "telephone cu~utunication services" include land mobile service or
maritime mobile services as defined in Section 2.1 of Title 47 of the COde of
Federal Regulations, as said Section existed on January 1, 1970. The term
"telephone cu~.~unication services', refers to that service which provides
access to a telephone system and the privilege of telephone quality
cex,,~unication with substantially all persons having tele[hone stations which
are part of such telephone system. The Telephone user's fee is intended to,
and does, apply to all charges billed to a telephone account having a situs in
the City, irrespective of whether a particular cu,a.unication originates and/or
terminates within the City.
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C. The fee imposed by this Section shall be collected from the service
user by the person providing the intrastate telephone ccnmunication services,
or the person receiving payment for such services. Tne amount of the fee
collected in one month shall be remitted to the Finance Director on or before
the last day of the following month; or at the option of the person requ/red
to collect and remit the fee, an estimated amount of fee collected, measured
by the fee bill in the previous month, shall be remitted to the Finance
Director on or before the last day of each month.
D. Nothwithstanding the provision of Sklksection (a) , the fee imposed
under this Section shall not be in~ upon any person for using intrastate
telephone c~unication services to the extent that the amounts paid for such
services are exempt frcm or not subject to the tax im~ under Division 2,
Part 20, of the California Revenue and Taxation Code, of the tax imposed under
Section 4251 of the Internal Revenue Code.
3.48.050 Electricity User's Fee. A. There is hereby imposed a fee upon
every person using electrical eneq3y in the City. The fee imposed by this
Section shall be at the rate of 4.66 percent of the charges made for such
enezxgy by an electrical corporation providing service in the City and shall be
paid by the person using the energy. The fee applicable to electrical ~
provided by a non-utility supplier shall be determirad by applying the fee
rate to the equivalent charge the service user would have incurred if the
energy used had been provided by the electrical corporation frarr3Lised by the
City. Non-utility suppliers shall install and maintain an appropriate
utility-type matering system which will enable c~mpliance with this Section.
"Charges,,, as used in this Section, shall include charges made for: (1)
metered energy and (2) m/nizum charges for service, includ/ng custceer
charges, service charges, demand charges, standby charges, and all other
annual and monthly charges, fuel or other cost adjustments authorized by the
California Public Utilities Ccmnission or the Federal Energy Regulatory
Con.~dssion.
B. As used in this Section, the term "using electrical ~,, shall not
be construed to mean the storage of such ~ by a person in a battery owned
or possessed by him for use in an automobile or other machinery device apart
from the premises upon which the energy was received, provided, however, that
the term shall include the receiving of such energy for the purpose of using
it in the charging of batteries; nor shall the term include electricity used
and consumed by an electric utility supplier in the conduct of its business as
an electric public utility; nor shall the term include the mere receiving of
such energy by an electric corporation or gove~ental agency at a point
within the City of Rancho Cucamor~a for resale; nor shall the term include the
use of such energy in the production or distribution of water by a water
utility or a governmental agency.
C. The fee imposed in this Section shall be collected frcan the service
user by the energy service supplier or non-utility supplier. The tax imposed
in this Section on use supplied by self-generation or from a non-utility
supplier not subject to the jurisdiction of this Chapter, shall be collected
and remitted to the Finance D/rector in the manner set forth in Section
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3.48.080. The amount of fee collected by a service supplier or a non-utility
supplier in one month shall be remitted by United States mail to the Finance
Director, postmarked on or before the last day of the foll~ing month, or at
the option of the person required to collect and remit the fee, an estimated
amount of fee measured by the fee billed in the previous month, or based upon
the payment pattern of the custcm~rs.
3.48.055 Tax on Co~enerated Electricity A. Notwithstanding the rats
provisions in Section 3.48.050 of this ordinance, the fee imposed on every
person using cogenerated electrical energy in the City shall be at the rats of
four and sixty-six one hundredths percent (4.66%) of the value of the
cogenerated electrical ~ consumed in the City. Cogenerated electricity
shall be valued at the electric utility supplier's cembLned "Avoided Cost
Energy Pricing and Avoided Cost Capacity Pricing" which is filed with the
California Public Utilities C~,L,~ssion.
B. The cogenerator shall install and maintain an appropriats metering
system which will enable c~liance with this section.
C. The fee shall be collected and paid by the ccgenerator under section
3.48.065 if the cogenerator consumes the energy. If the congenerator sells
the emergy for consumption in the City, the fee will be imposed on the d%arges
made for such service and shall be collected and paid by the person to whc~
the energy is sold.
3.48.060. Gas User's Fee. A. There is hereby imposed a fee upon every
person in the City, other than a gas corporation or electrical corporation,
using gas, in the City which is transported through mains or pipes or by
mobile transport. The fee imposed by this Section shall be at the rats of
4.66 percent of the charges made for the gas and shall be paid by the person
using the gas. The fee applicable to gas or gas transportation provided by
non-utility suppliers shall be determined by applying the fee rats to the
equivalent charges the service user would have incurred if the gas or gas
transportation had been provided by the gas corporation franchised by the
City.
"Charges" as used in this Section, shall include: (1) the charge for gas
which is delivered through mains or pipes or mobile transport; (2) gas
transportation c~arges; and (3) demand charges, services charges, customer
charges, minimum charges, annual and monthly charges, and any other authorized
by the California Public Utilities C~,.~dssion or the Federal Energy Regulatory
C~.:dssion.
B. The fee otherwise imposed by this Section is not applicable to: (1)
charges made for g~s which is to be resold and delivered through mains and
pipes; (2) dlarges made for gas used and consumed by a public utility or
govel~-ntal agency in the cc~duct of its business; or (3) charges made by a
gas public utility or gas used and consumed in the course of its public
utility business; or (4) charges made for gas used in the propulsion of a
motor vehicle, as authorized in the Vehicle Code of the Stats of California.
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C. The fee imposed in this Section shall be collected from the service
user by the person selling or transporting the gas. A person selling only
transportation services of gas to a service user for delivery of gas through
mains or pipes shall collect the fee from the service user based on the cost
of transporting the gas. The person selling or transporting the gas shall, on
or before the last day of each calendar month, ccammncing on the 20th day of
the calerxtmr month after the effective date of this Chapter, make a report to
the Finance Direr stating the amount of fees billed during the preceding
calendar month. At the time such reports are filed, the person selling or
transporting the gas shall remit fee payments to the Finance Director in
accordance with schedules established or approved by the Finance Director.
The fee imposed in this Section on use supplied by self-production or a non-
utility supplier not subject to the jurisdiction of this Ordinance, shall be
collected by and remitted to the Finance Director in the time and manner set
forth in Section 3.48.080.
3.48.065 Service Users Receivinq Direct Purcha~inq of Gas, Electricity
or Telephone Service. A. Notwithstanding any other provision
of this O~, a service user receiving gas, electricity, or telephone
service directly from a non-utility supplier not under the jurisdiction of
this Ordinance, or otherwise not having the full fee due on the use of gas,
electricity, or telephone service in the City directly billed and collected by
the service supplier, shall report said fact to the Finance Director within 30
days of said use and shall directly remit to the City the amount of fee due.
B. The Finance Director my require said service user to provide,
subject to audit, filed tax returns or other satisfactory evidence documenting
the quantity of gas, electricity, or telephone service used and the price
thereof.
3.48.070 Water User's Tax. A. There is hereby imposed a fee upon every
person in the City using water which is delivered through mains or pipes. The
fee imposed by this Section shall be at the rate of 4.66 percent of the
char~ee made for such water and shall be paid by the person paying for such
B. There shall be excluded frc~n the base on which the fee ir~ in
this Section is coated, charges made for water which is to be resold and
delivered through mains or pipes; and char~ee made by a municipal water
department, public utility, or a city or municipal water district for water
used and consumed by such department, utility, or district.
C. Tne fee imposed in this Section shall be collected from the service
user by the person supplying the water. The amount collected in one month
shall be remitted to the Finance Director on or before the last day of the
following month.
3.48.075 Exemption for Enerqy Produced by Fuel Cells Notwithstanding
any other provision of this ordinance, no tax shall be Lmposed on the use of
energy produced through the use of fuel cell technology.
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3.48.080. Fee Collection - Procadlr~. The duty to collect and remit
the fees imposed by this ordinance shall be performed as follows:
A. The fee shall be collected, insofar as practicable, at the same time
as, and along with, the chargee made in accordance with the regular billing
practices of the service supplier. Where the amount paid by a service user to
a service supplier is less than the full amount of the energy charge and fee
which has been accrued for the billing period, such amount and any subsequent
payments by a service user shall be applied to the utility charge first until
such charge has been fully satisfied. Any remaining balance shall be applied
to fees due.
B. The duty to collect fees from a service user shall ccmmBnce with the
beginning of the first full regular billing period applicable to the service
user where all charges normally included in such regular billing are subject
to the provisions of this ordinance.
C. Where a person receives more than one billing, one or more being for
different periods than another, the duty to collect shall arise separately for
each billing period.
3.48,090. Delinquent Payments--Interest and Penalty. A. Fees collected
frc~ a service user which are not remitted to the Finance Direr on or
before the due dates provided in this chapter are delinquent.
B. Penalties for delinquenc~ in remittance of the fee collected, or any
deficiency determination, shall attach and be paid by the person required to
collect and remit at the rate of fifteen percent of the total fee collected or
C. The Finance Director shall have power to impose additional penalties
upon persons required to collect and remit fees under the provisions of this
chapter for fraud or negligenc~ in reporting or remitting at the rate of
fifteen percent of the amount of the fee collected or as reccm~uted by the
Finance Director.
D. Every penalty in~ under the provisions of this chapter shall
become a part of the fee required to be remitted.
3.48,100. Fee Deemed Debt to City--Collection. Any fee required to be
paid by a service user under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed a
debt owed by the service user to the City. Any such fee collected from a
service user which ha.~ willfully been withheld frc~n the Finance Director shall
be deemed a debt owed to the City by the person required to collect and
remit. Any person owing money to the City under the provisions of this
chapter shall be liable to an action brought in the name of the City for the
reoovery of such amount.
3.48,110. ~]ministration and Enforcement--Finar~e___ Director Authority
A. The Finance Director shall have the power and duty, and is hereby
directed, to enforce each and all of the provisions of this Chapter.
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B. Tne Finance Director shall have the power to adopt rules and
regulations not inconsistent with provisions of this Chapter for the purpose
of carrying out and enforcing the payment, collection, and remittance of the
fees herein imposed.
C. The Finance Director may make administrative agreements to v-ury the
requirements of this Chapter so that collection of any fee imposed here may be
made in conformance with the billing procedures of the particular service
supplier so long as said agreements result in collection of the fee in
confo~ with the general purpose and scope of this Chapter.
D. The Finance Director shall determine the eligibility of any person
who asserts a right to exemption from the fee imposed by this Chapter. The
F~ Director shall provide the service supplier with the name of any
person who the Finance Director determines is exempt from the fee imposed
hereby, together with the address to which service is supplied to any such
exeapt person. The Finance Director shall notify the service supplier of
termination of any person's right to exemption hereunder, or the change of any
address to which service is supplied to any exempt person.
E. The Finance Direr shall provide written notice to all service
suppliers of any change in the City's boundaries at least 90 days prior to any
annexation or other change in the City's boundaries. Said notice shall set
forth the revised boundaries by streee and address along with a copy of the
final annexation order from LAFOD.
3.48.120. Failure to Remit--Assessment and Administrative Rem~B_i~n A.
The Finance Director may make an assessment for fees not remitted by a person
required to remit.
B. Whenever the Finance Director determines that a service user has
deliberately withheld the amount of the fee owed by him from the eunounts
remitted to the service supplier who is required to collect the fee, or that a
service user ba-~ refused to pay the amount of fee to such person, or whenever
the F/nance Director deems it in the best interest of the City, he or she may
relieve such person of the obligation to collect fees due under this ordinance
from cel-tain named service users for specified billing periods.
C. The service supplier shall provide the City with amounts refused,
along with the names, and addresses of the service users refusing to pay the
fee imposed under provision of this ordinance. Whenever the service user ban
failed to pay the amount of fee for a period of two or more billing periods,
the service supplier shall be relieved of the obligation to collect fees due.
D. The Finance Director shall notify the service user that he has
assumed responsibility to collect the fees due for the stated periods and
denk3r~ payment of such fees. The notice shall be served on the service user
by handing it to him personally or by deposit of the notice in the United
States mail, postage prepaid thereon, addressed to the service user at the
address to which billing W'dS made by the person required to collect the fee;
or, should the service user have changed his address, to his last known
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address. If a service user fails to remit the fee to the Finance Director
within fifteen days from the date of the service of the notice upon him, which
shall be the date of mailing if service is not acconplished in person, a
penalty of twenty-five percent of the amount of the fee set forth in the
notice shall be imposed, but not less than five dollars. The penalty shall
bec~me part of the fee herein required to be paid.
3.48,130. Recordkeepinq Rec~rements It shall be the duty of every
person required to collect and remit to the City any fee imposed by this
ordinance to keep and preserve, for a period of three years, all records as
may be necessary to determine the amount of such fee as he may have been
liable for the remittance to the Finance Director, which records the Finance
Director shall have the right to inspect at all reasonable times.
3.48.140. Refunds Authorized When--Procedlr~ A. Whenever the amount
of any fee has been overpaid or paid more than once, or has been erroneously
or illegally collected or received by the Finance D/rector under this
ordinance it may be refunded by the Finance D/rector as provided in
subsections B and C of this section, provided a claim in writing, therefor,
stating under penalty of perjury the specific grounds upon which the claim is
founded, is filed with the FinarEs Direr within one year of the date of
overpayment. The claim shall be on forms furnished by the Finance D/rector.
B. A service supplier may claim a refund or take as credit against fees
collected and remitted an amount overpaid, paid more than once or erroneously
or illegally collected or received, when it is established that the person
from whom the fee has been collected did not owe the fee.
C. Any service user may obtain a refund of fees overpaid, or paid more
than once, or erroneously or illegally collected or received by the City
Finance D/rector, by filing a claim in the manner provided in subsection A of
this section, hut only when the service user having paid the fee to the
service supplier establishes to the satisfaction of the Finance Director that
the service user ha.~ been unable to obtain a refund from the service supplier
who collected the fee.
D. Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, whenever a service
supplier, pursuant to an order of the California Public Utilities C~,~dssion
or a court of competent jurisdiction, makes a refund to service users of
charges for past utility services, the fees paid pursuant to this ordinance on
the amount of such refunded charges shall also be refunded to service users,
and the service supplier shall be entitled to claim a credit for such refunded
fees against the amount of fee which is due upon the next monthly returns. In
the event this ordinance is repealed, the amounts of any refundable fees will
be borne by the City.
Section 2. This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon
adoption pursuant to the provisions of California Gove~-,-~nt Code Section
36937. The fee imposed under this Ordinance shall apply to changes appearing
on bills rendered on or after July 1, 1993.
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subclivisicn, paragraph, sentence, clause, cr ~hrase thereof ~ve of
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PAS~, APPROV~D, and ADOP11~) this 7th day of April, 1993.
AYES: Alexander, Buquet, Stout, Williams
NOES: Gutierrez
I, D~RRA J. ADAMS, CITY CLERK of the City of Pancho O_~_wr~mcnga,
passed pursuant to Govt. Code Section 36937 at a re~ meetin~ of the City
Council of the City of Pancho Cucamonga held cn the 7th day of April, 1993.
ENmcuted tb { -~ 8th day of April, 1993, at ~ O___wr~er~ga,
California.
· |De/xn J. City Clerk