HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 10, Page 943, No Resolution Number943
A RESOLUTION URGING STROTHER E. I'.1ELTON, STATE SENATOR,
AND CHARLES '. BURNLEY and ROY COPELAND, STATE REREPRESENTATIVES.J
FROM MCCRACKEN COUNTY TO OPPOSE -ANY AMEND',IENT TO THE TVA ENABLING
ACT WHICH ;TILL PREVENT CITIES FROM ESTABLIOHING COMPETING ELECTRIC
POWER SYSTEMS OR MILL CREATE A FORMULA FOR DE`PERMINING TILE PRICE
AT WHICH AN ELECTRIC SYSTEM MAY BE SOLD TO A MUNICIPALITY
WHEREEAS, under the provision of Bill #49 introduced
in the Senate no city in which there is already an electric plant
"shall have power under this or any other law to construct an
electric light, plant, or enter upon the construction of any
facilities duplicating those of the existing plant, or to obtain
an electric light plant other than by the purchase of such exist-
ing electric plant or the exercise of eminent domain;" and
WHEREAS, said bill further contains a price-fixing
formula by which the appraisers shall be governed when appraising
the properties of an electric utility system; and,
WHEREAS, in the event acquisition proceedings are
initiated, there is every reason to believe that the City of
Paducah will be dealing with an unwilling seller and if the right
of the city to construct and operate its own system is denied,
there would never be any incentive on the part of the Kentucky
Utilities Company to agree upon a price which the city could
afford to pay; and,
WHEREAS, if said amendment is passed, it is believed
that the City of Paducah may never be able to purchase the electric
system of the Kentucky Utilities Company at a fair and reasonable
price and thereby obtain for its inhabitants any substantial re-
duction in electric rates; and,
WHEREAS, q municipality should not be deprived of
its right to construct and operate its own electric system, being
a right which it has always had, and the enactment under which
that right would be relinquished could only be of benefit to or i
serve the interests of the power companies; and, j
WHEREAS, Section 96,580 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes
protides that the price to be paid for an electric system purchased)
from a power company shall be "fair and reasonable" and if the
appraisal of the properties of the Kentucky Utilities Company
is made by intelligent, honest and fair-minddd men as contemplated
by the board of commissioners, a price-fixing formula such as
the one proposed would not only be unnecessary but would be
impractical and confusing, and would serve to further complicate
the acquisition proceedings.
NOW TIIBREFORR, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MEMBER3 OF THE
BOARD OF CO:L,ISSIONERS OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1.
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That Strother E. Melton, State Senator and Charles
W. Burnley and Roy 0opeland, State Representatives from McCracken
County, be urged to vigorously oppose any amendment to the TVA
Act under which municipalities will be prevented from establishing
competing electrid power systems or under which there may be
created any formula for determining the price at which an electric
system may be sold to a municipality, and that a certified copy
of this resolution be mailed to each of them.
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Passed by the Poard of Commissioners, January 25, 1944
Recorded by Rudy Stewart, City Clerk, January 26, 1944. i