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O RESOLUTION NO. 25-00 A RESOLUTION TO EXPEDITE IMPLEMENTATION OF AB1149 WHICH RECOGNIZES THE NEED TO AMEND RULES FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF OVERHEAD ELECTRIC AND COMMUNCATIONS FACILITIES. WHEREAS, the State of California passed Assembly Bill 1149, which recognizes the need to amend, revise, and improve rules for the replacement of overhead electric and communications facilities with underground facilities; and WHEREAS, the California Public Utilities Commission("CPUC"), has opened a proceeding to implement Assembly Bill 1149 which will consider comments of stakeholders and produce recommendations for improving the CPUC utility undergrounding program. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills strongly urges the CPUC to rapidly accelerate the undergrounding program, to establish a statewide goal to complete the conversion of overhead to underground utilities in urban and suburban areas no later than 25 years from January 1, 2001, and to authorize local jurisdictions to implement the program for completion within a 25-year schedule. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills strongly urges the CPUC, as a fundamental principle, to authorize local jurisdictions to establish underground districts with boundaries that seek to maximize the continuity of underground districts and are in accordance with locally determined priorities. Further, such priorities shall include, but not be limited to, public safety, service reliability, economic development and aesthetics. The CPUC shall identify ways to significantly increase undergrounding funds and ensure funds are spent in a timely and cost-effective fashion using state-of-the-art designs and construction practices. The CPUC shall ensure significant improvement in utility administration of the undergrounding program to avoid delay in the installation of underground facilities. The CPUC shall require the utilities to disclose the historic use of Rule 20 funds to each local jurisdiction and allow jurisdictions to recapture any unused funds from the statewide pool and/or their past allocations; and require the utilities to annually report the expenditures for each district in each local jurisdiction to the CPUC and each jurisdiction.