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RESOLUTION NO. 83-45
OF THE
TRUCKEE DONNER PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
ACT SECTION 16504 DECLARING THAT THE REBUILDING OF THE
TAHOE DONNER SUBSTATION REQUIRES EMERGENCY ACTION
WHEREAS, the District' s General Manager and staff have
determined that the Tahoe Donner Substation received a peak load
condition of 7.2 M.V.A. during the winter of 1982am83; and
WHEREAS, the existing capacity of the Tahoe Donner
Substation is 3.75 M.V.A. ; and
WHEREAS, the loading experienced in the winter of 1982-83
was in excess of two hundred percent (200%) of the name plate
rated capacity on the transformers= and
WHEREAS, extensive damage may have occurred to the existing
transformers; and
WHEREAS, Tahoe Donner Subdivision has experienced
overloading since 1979 for durations in excess of four (4)
months; and
WHEREAS, the existing buss structure of the Tahoe Donner
Substation indicates evidence of excessive heating; and
WHEREAS, all of the above conditions amount to a serious
need for repair and replacement of the Tahoe Donner Substation in
order to maintain safe and reliable electrical power to the Tahoe
Donner Subdivision; and
WHEREAS, the District has reviewed and relied upon the
recommendations of its consultants including R. W. Beck
Associates and Ingo Nikoley, and has also considered the opinions
of Electrical Engineers Tom Shaw and Harry MacDonald, the
consensus of whom urge rebuilding of the Tahoe Donner Substation;
and
WHEREAS, the California Public Utility District Act Section
16504 provides as follows:
In cases of great emergency, by the consent of at
least two-thirds (2/3) of its members, the Board
may at once dui or cause to be done without
notice all repair or replacement work necessary
to meet the emergency=
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Truckee Donner Public
Utility District Board of Directors recognizes and acknowledges
the extreme emergency existing at the Tahoe Donner Substation and
directs that the following action be taken:
1. Immediate purchase of appropriate 31,000 to
5,000 K.V.A. transformers, supporting regulators,
circuit breakers, buss structure, current
transformers, metering devices, and related
appurtenances and materials= and
2. Redevelopment of the existing ground; and
3. Re-rocking of the existing Substation; and `
4. Re-rocking and preservation of the existing
access road.
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NOW, THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Truckee
Donner Public Utility District Board of Directors direct and
authorize that the funding for the emergency work described above
be obtained from the existing District funds on reserve as
follows:
1. That an emergency loan be made from the
restricted funds of the District to be structured
as to require repayment within two (2) years; and
2. That interest on such loan shall be
charged in an amount equal to the interest earned
on funds deposited in LAIF; and
3. That the source of revenues for
repayment of•ethe emergency loan be derived from
the existing and future revenues of the
electrical system.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of the
Truckee Donner Public Utility district at a meeting held
within said District on the 25th day of July, 1983, by the
following roll call vote:
AYES: Hamilton, Maass, VanLandingham and Corbett.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Kuttel.
TRUCKEE DONNER PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
By*
JOHN CORBETT, President
ATTEST:
Susan M. Craig, 47
Deputy District Clerk