25-0394

Conduct public protest hearing, as required by Public Utilities Code section 6234, for the Board of Supervisors (“Board”) to receive, hear, and pass upon any timely written protests, including any timely written objections, made by any interested person against the Board granting a franchise, up to 25 years, on a non-exclusive basis (the “non-exclusive franchise”), by Ordinance, to RT Diversified, Inc. (“RTD”), upon annual payment of a franchise fee to County, to construct, maintain and use pipes and appurtenances for transmitting water and wastewater to service Clovis Unified School District’s (“CUSD”) Terry Bradley Education Center (“Bradley Center”), in, along, across, upon, and under approximately 4.8 miles of the 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; After conducting and closing public protest hearing, do the following, as determined by the Board: a. determine that no timely written protests, including timely written objections, have been made against the Board granting of non-exclusive franchise to RTD, and the Board may proceed to act on recommended action 3; or b. determine that one or more timely written protests, including timely written objections, have been made against the Board granting of non-exclusive franchise, and have been heard by the Board, and pass upon such protest(s), including such objection(s), as applicable: i. protest(s), including objection(s), are insufficient; ii. protest(s), including objection(s), are overruled or denied; or iii. protest(s), including objection(s), are sufficient; and c. if the Board determines that all such protests, including all such objections, are insufficient or overruled or denied, the Board may proceed to recommended action 3; d. if the Board determines that only some of such protests, including some of such objections, are insufficient or overruled or denied, the Board will determine, under recommended action 2.e., if remaining protests, including remaining objections, are sufficient; e. if the Board determines that any such protests, including objections, are sufficient, then the Board may grant such protests, sustain such objections, and abandon these proceedings; and conduct first hearing, including first reading of an Ordinance granting non-exclusive franchise, as described above, to RTD; waive reading of the Ordinance in its entirety and set second hearing of Ordinance for August 5, 2025 and designate County Counsel to prepare a fair and adequate summary of proposed Ordinance; and direct the Clerk of the Board to post and publish required summary in accordance with Government Code section 25124(b)(1)

Agenda Item Morning Session Introduced April 7, 2025

Where it was heard