DATE: June 10, 2025
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Resolution of Intention to Grant a Franchise to RT Diversified, Inc.; Setting dates for Public Protest Hearing and further actions.
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
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1. Pass and authorize the 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 the 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 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. Set July 8, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. or as soon thereafter as may be heard for the public protest hearing, as required by Public Utilities Code Section 6232, for the Board to hear and pass upon on any protest, including any objections, made against granting of the non-exclusive franchise, and for the Board's first reading of the proposed Ordinance that would grant the non-exclusive franchise, with the Board's second reading of the proposed Ordinance expected to follow on Aug...
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