25-0393
Pass and authorize Chairman to execute a Resolution of Intention to grant up to a 25-year franchise on a non-exclusive basis (the “non-exclusive franchise”), by Ordinance, to RT Diversified, Inc., DBA Bakman Water Company, (also referred to as “RTD”), on behalf of Clovis Unified School District (“CUSD”), upon annual payment of a franchise fee to County, to construct, maintain and use pipes and appurtenances for transmitting water and wastewater for CUSD’s Terry Bradley Education Center Project (“Bradley Center” project) for any and all purposes, as allowed by a County-approved conditional use permit and/or road permit condition, in, along, across, upon, and under approximately 4.8 miles of following public streets and highways within unincorporated area of Fresno County: from existing City of Fresno water main at McKinley Avenue, east of Temperance Avenue, eastward on E. McKinley Avenue, and then Northward on N. Leonard Avenue, to Shields Avenue, westward on Shields Avenue to a Shields and Locan terminus where City is in process of installing water and sewer mains, and along streets surrounding Bradley Center of Leonard, Weldon, Highland, and Princeton Avenues; set July 8, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. or as soon thereafter as may be heard for public protest hearing, as required by Public Utilities Code Section 6232, for Board to hear and pass upon on any protest, including any objections, made against granting of non-exclusive franchise, and for Board’s first reading of proposed Ordinance that would grant non-exclusive franchise, with Board’s second reading of proposed Ordinance expected to follow on August 5, 2025, at 9:30 am or as soon thereafter as may be heard; and further reading of proposed Ordinance expected to be waived at time of its introduction and passage; and direct Clerk of the Board to publish notice of public protest hearing in a newspaper of general circulation within County, at least once within fifteen (15) days after passage of Resolution
- Committee
- Public Works & Planning
- Requested by
- Public Works & Planning
- Introduced
- April 7, 2025
- On agenda
- June 10, 2025
- Passed
- June 10, 2025
- Enactment no.
- Resolution No. 25-181