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AN ORDINANCE BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS,
ESTABLISHING A POLICY WITH RESPECT TO CALLING AN ELECTION WHERE
THE CITY HAS THE RIGHT TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE A GENERATING
PROJECT PROPOSED TO BE UNDERTAKEN BY THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL POWER
AGENCY, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, the City of Denton, Texas, has heretofore executed
a Power Sales Contract with the Texas Municipal Power Agency (said
contract being dated September 1, 1976) which is identical in its
terms with contracts executed between the Agency and the Cities
of Bryan, Garland and Greenville, Texas, and
WHEREAS, the said Power Sales Contract provides, in part, that
before the Agency may issue bonds to provide for the construction
*or acquisition of any power generating facility (or interest there-
in) and transmission facility required to connect or interconnect
such generating facility with a city or others (all of which it
hereafter referred to as a "Generating Project"), the same must be
approved (in manner provided in Section 13 of the said Power Sales
Contract) by the City of Denton, and
WHEREAS, it appears that the Texas Municipal Power Agency may
hereafter seek the approval of an additional Generating Project and
this governing body desires to establish a policy for the future
approval thereof by this City,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS,
HEREBY ORDAINS
SECTION I
(1) In the event the Texas Municipal Power Agency hereafter
requests that the City of Denton approve a Generating Project, then
the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas, shall call and order
that an election be held within the City of Denton on the proposi-
tion of whether such Generating Project shall be approved If a
majority of the participating qualified electors vote in favor of
such Generating Project, then the City Council of the City of Denton
shall be authorized to approve the same
(2) That the City of Denton has previously approved the Texas
Municipal Power Agency electric generating project known as "Bryan
Lignite Number One" and the project that permits Texas Municipal
Power Agency to participate in the ownership and operation of the
"Comanche Peak Nuclear Steam Electric Generating Project", the
approval of those projects is hereby reaffirmed
(3) The provisions of paragraph 1 of this Section shall not
be applicable to approval of System Development and Reliability
Expenditures, to Developmental Projects (as those terms are defined
in the said Power Sales Contract), nor to those projects described
in paragraph (2) of this Section
SEPTION II
That this ordinance shall become effective fourteen days from
the date of its passage, and the City Secretary is hereby directed
to cause the caption of this ordinance to be published twice in the
Denton Record -Chronicle, the official newspaper of the City of
Denton, Texas, within ten (10) days of the date f its passage
PASSED AND APPROVED this the/OtL day of A D
1979
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ATTEST
S HOLT, CITY SECRETARY
CITY OF DENTON. TEXAS
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
PAUL C I HAM, CITY ATTORNEY
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
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J MITCHELL, MAYOR
0TY OF DENTON, TEXAS
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