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Aw CITY COUNCIL <br />TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS <br />MINUTES OF A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING <br />March 29, 1971 <br />REEL 34 - SIDE 1, TRACK 2 — FOOTAGE 925 - 1390 <br />REEL 34 - SIDE 2, TRACK 2 -- FOOTAGE 00 - 735 <br />Mayor Walter A. Hanson called the Regular Adjourned Meeting of the City Council <br />of the Town of Los Altos Hills to order at 7:45 P. M. in the Council Chambers of <br />th- Town Hall, 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills, with the following members <br />answering roll call: Present: Councilmen Corbett, Davey, Grabowski, Helgesson <br />and Mayor Benson. Absent: Now. <br />Mayor Benson stated that this special meeting had been called for the express <br />purpose of discussing the financial crisis that the Tow faces in meeting its <br />contractual obligations with Palo Alto for sanitary sewer capacity rights. He <br />noted that it was not the Council's intent at this meeting to take any action but <br />rather to gather ideas and hear the residents suggestions as to how the Town might <br />best cope with the problem. <br />`a The letter mailed to all residents was read which stated that the most equitable <br />solution would be to form an Assessment District assigning rights to all buildable <br />sites in the Palo Alto Basin. The letter, as well as the attached cash flow <br />projection and map of the Palo Alto Sanitary Sewer Basin, are hereby incorporated <br />as a part of these minutes. <br />Mr. Fritachle explained the composition of the Los Altos and Palo Alto sewer basins <br />to further clarify the equity of the proposed solution to the problem. <br />In the Los Altos Basin of an estimated total of 1,572 units of capacity required, <br />868 were voluntarily purchased through the S.A.D. C4 assessment district. An <br />additional 151 units were provided by the L.A.H. F1 County District and approximately <br />another 100 hooked up to Los Altos facilities prior to capacity charges. Thus, of <br />the potential 1,572 unite, 10119 unite have been purchased or did not require <br />purchase of capacity. The other 453 possible home sites are not presently guaranteed <br />capacity in the Los Altos sewage treatment facilities. The remaining units, should <br />they wish and are able to hookup at some future date, must pay the original $276.00 <br />capacity charge plus 7% compounded annually beginning with calender year 1970. <br />In the Palo Alto Basin the terms of the contract required that the Town most <br />purchase capacity in the Palo Alto Sewage Treatment Facilities for all potential <br />homesites in the Palo Alto Basin. At the time of negotiation in 1968 this quantity <br />was estimated at 2,075 and resulted in a total committment of $400,000.00, payable <br />in $80,000.00 annual increments through July of 1973. At the time it was intended <br />that annual sewer hookups would enable these committments to be met. However, <br />r ( only S.A.D. i3 and 65, comprised of 520 units, have so far paid the Palo Alto Basin <br />�r per unit assessment of $450.00. As a result the Town cannot meet the July 1, 1972 <br />oommittment of $80,000.00 - nor the following years payment. <br />QC <br />