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<br />:' (',~. \'l <br />~;"v ' <br /> <br />92 <br /> <br />M~TROI'OLlTAN WAT~R DISTRICT <br /> <br />District Board of Directors in matters relating to annexation. (As- <br />sembly Bill No. 2174.) Under instructions from the Board of <br />Directors, representatives of the Board and of the legal and <br />engineering staffs. .with the assistance of representatives from com- <br />munities within the District, opposed the enactment of this bill. and <br />it was not passed. <br />To enable Orange County Water District to purchase surplus <br />water from the Metropolitan Water District in conformity with the <br />policy of the Board of Directors of the latter District that taxpayers <br />of the Metropolitan Water District must not be subject to assess. <br />ment to pay for the water so purchased. it. was necessary to devise <br />expeditious means for excluding from the Orange County Water <br />District all lands lying within the Metropolitan Water District. <br />As the legislature had created the Orange County Water J)istrict <br />b,' special statute in which the boundaries of that district were <br />defined (Orange County Water District Act, Stats. 1933, p. 2400). <br />the representatives of the locally interested parties accepted the <br />suggestion of the Metropolitan Water District's legal department <br />that the statute could be amended to exclude the overlapping lands <br />and to provide simplified machinery for future exclusions of lands <br />presently within Orange County Water District whenever those <br />lands should be annexed to the Metropolitan Water District. Assis- <br />tance was furnished to Orange County Water District and to the <br />municipalities in Orange County comprised w'ithin the Metropolitan <br />Water District, in preparipg and securing passage of the required <br />legislation amending the Orange County Water District Act. (Sen- <br />ate Bill No. 509, approved by the Governor, and in effect, July 8. <br />1949, as Chap. 850.) <br />Other measures introduced at the 1949 session of the State <br />Legislature were examined for their possible effect upon the MEt- <br />ropolitan Water District and. where such action was considered <br />advisable. appropriate repref'entations were made respecting the <br />District's po.sition regarding slIch measures, pur~uant to instruc- <br />tions of the Board of DireCtors. <br /> <br />" <br />I <br /> <br />Colorudo RivC"t' ptnl>lems <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />FEDERAL LEGISLATION-With the opening of the 81st Congress. <br />bills were introduced in the Senate (Senate Bill 75) and the House <br />of Representatives (H. R. 934 and H. R. 935) which, if adopted. <br />would authorize the construction of the Central Arizona Project. <br />Representatives of the District appeared in opposition to these <br />