BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:
Title
Claim of Roy Woolsey.
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Deny the Claim of Roy Woolsey.
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SUMMARY:
In June 2016, Mr. Roy Woolsey filed a claim (Attachment 1), requesting a refund of groundwater production charges paid for Well No. 06S03W25B001 in Los Altos Hills. He states the metes and bounds description of Zone W-2 adopted by the District Board of Directors (Board) as a Board resolution in December 1971 does not match the proposed map modifying Zone W-2 presented to the Board in October 1971.
Background
On October 19, 1971, the Board held a public hearing on proposed Zone W-2 amendments, including the addition of portions of Los Altos Hills. The meeting minutes state: "The proposed boundary changes and areas to be included in Zone W-2, as indicated on the attached map..." (Attachment 2). Following the public hearing, the Board directed staff to prepare necessary legal descriptions and maps to implement the Board's action. On December 28, 1971, the Board adopted Resolution No. 71-79 to amend the Zone W-2 boundaries. The resolution states that "the boundaries of said Zone W-2 as so amended are as described upon "Exhibit A"..." This exhibit, attached to the resolution, is the 17-page legal description (metes and bounds) establishing the amended Zone W-2.
Mr. Woolsey claims his property is outside Zone W-2 based on the proposed map presented to the Board in October 1971. District survey staff confirmed Mr. Woolsey's property is within Zone W-2 per the metes and bounds description contained in Resolution No. 71-79 adopted by the Board in December 1971. However, it does not appear that Mr. Woolsey's property is within the proposed Zone W-2 as generally depicted on the proposed map presented to the Board two months earlier in October 1971. Staff has been unable to locate documentation to explain this difference. Nonetheless, Resolution No. 71-79, not the proposed map, was formally adopted by the Board as the o...
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