Saavedra

BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY2

Background

Glendale Water and Power (the Utility) is a department within the City that operates an electric utility. Article XI, section 22 of the City’s charter has long provided for an annual transfer (the GFT) from the Utility’s revenue fund to the City’s general fund.3 The City council may reduce or waive the GFT to insure the sound financial position of the Utility. (Ibid.) California voters enacted a series of voter initiatives beginning with Proposition 13 in 1978, amending the California

2 The following background and procedural history are summarized from our prior unpublished opinion in Saavedra v. City of Glendale (Dec. 27, 2018, B281991) (Saavedra I). For purposes of this appeal, we discuss only the procedural history subsequent to Saavedra I in depth. 3 Section 22 of article XI of the charter provides: “A fund to be known as the Glendale Water and Power surplus fund is hereby created, to which fund shall be credited from the receipts of the department of Glendale Water and Power in the waterworks revenue fund and the electric works revenue fund, any amounts in excess of the requirements of the several funds as hereinbefore set…