DATE: August 5, 2025
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Second Reading of Proposed Ordinance Granting a Franchise to RT Diversified, Inc.
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
1. Conduct second reading of a proposed Ordinance granting up to a twenty-five (25) year non-exclusive franchise to RT Diversified, Inc., 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 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. Waive reading of the Ordinance in its entirety and adopt the Ordinance.
REPORT
The first recommended action will enable your Board to conduct the second reading of a proposed ordinance granting a non-exclusive franchise of up to twenty-five (25) years to RT Diversified, Inc. ("RTD") upon annual payment of a franchise fee of two percent (2%) of its gross annual receipts to the County to construct, maintain and use pipes and appurtenances for transmitting water and wastewater to service CUSD's Bradley Center under Division 3, Chapter 2 of the California Public Utilities Code.
The second recommended action will enable your Board to waive the reading of the ordinance in its entirety and adopt the proposed ordinance. This item pertains to a location in District 5.
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