HomeMy WebLinkAboutRes 32-63 07/23/1963
RESOLUTION NO. ~07 - h3
A RESOLUTION DIRECTED TO THE RESIDENTS OF COLONIAL
HEIGHTS AS TO \'lATER AND SEWER RATES.
WHEREASg the Cook County Hatei... and. Sa':ii'er Company, 81'.1.
Illinois Corporation has heretofore afforded water and sewe~
services to areas commonly knOl-ffi as IIatlen Heights and Colonial
Heights, and
\iHEREAS, the Village of Mount Prospect has purchased the
prope~ties of the Cot'}k County tiater and Sewer Company, which
properties serviced not only areas within the Village 01' Mount
Prospect but also certain areas designated as Colonial Heights
which lie outside 01' the Village of r-~ount Prospect, and
~f.HEREAS, the Village 01' Mount Prospect will afford unifo~
rates for the use 01' water and sewer to all areas within the
village and intends to maintain in force and effect the same
rates Which the Cook County Water and Sewer Company previously
had as to areas which lie outside of the village, and
liliEREAS, it is desil"'able and to the best interest to the
Village 01' Mount Prospect that the areas designated as Colonial
Heights which presently lie without the village be annexed and
became a part of the Village of Mount Prospect. and
tVHEREAS, to stimulate the annexation 01' said Colonial Heights
area the Village 01' Mount Prospect wishes to make an offer to make
its rates unifor.m to said area as well as areas within the Village
if said Colonial Heights area will take positive steps leading
toward the annexation to the village, and
~J.HEREAS, the Village of Mount Prospect wiShes to otter
retroactively to adjust its rates to the date of acquisition to
the properties of the Cook County Water and Sewer Company as to
the Colonial Heights area which is not now a part of the village
! 1.r said area does petition and become a part of tho village and
. said petition is filed with the County Court 01' Cook County prior
to September 15, 1963.
NOll\!, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the President and Board of
Trustees of the Village of Mount Prospect; Cook County, Illinois,
do hereby wish to go on record to all persons concerned and
mainly the residents of Colonial Heights, which area is not
presently within the Village of Mount Prospect, that if said area
formally petitions the County Court of Cook County on or prior to
September 15. 1963 for the purpose of annexing said territory to
the Village of Mount Prospect, that the President and Board of
Trustees will authorize an adjustment of the water and sewer rates
retroactively from the time that the village acquired the Cook
COlUlty "later and Sewer Company so that the rates to the residents
of Colonial Heights will be the same a.s the Village of MOtmt
Prospect rates as of said date aforementioned, and that ~le Presi-
dent and Board ot Trustees wish by so doing to encourage said
res1dents into annexing to the village so that said 8I'ea JDa7
1'80e1V8 full governmental 88n1088, at the same oost as the
residents of the Village of MOunt ~r08.P8ot.
Seotion 2. This Nsolution shall be in full to:rce and
eff0ct rrom end after lte p~ssago Eilld approval accordiI.~~ to 19M~
PASSED AND APPROVED this ~3 . ,day of Julys 1963
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Fresldent
Attest:
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Vl~lage Clerk ~