DATE: July 8, 2025
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Public Protest Hearing and First Reading of Proposed Ordinance Granting a Franchise to RT Diversified, Inc.
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
1. 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 the 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 the unincorporated area of Fresno County: from the 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 the City is in the process of installing water and sewer mains, and along the streets surrounding the Bradley Center of Leonard, Weldon, Highland, and Princeton Avenues.
2. After conducting and closing the 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 the 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 the non-excl...
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