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ovato, California

lnformation about and copies of supporting m

aterials on agenda items are available for public review

at 999 Rush

Creek P

lace, Novato, at the R

eception Desk, or by calling the D

istrict Secretary at (a15) 897-4133. A

fee may be

charged for copies. District facilities and m

eetings comply w

ith the Am

ericans with D

isabilities Act. lf special

accomm

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ecretary as soon as possible, but at least two days prior to

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1. C

losed Session; C

onference with R

eal Property N

egotiators as allowed under

Governm

ent Code 54956.8. P

roperty: Recycled W

ater Agreem

ent between N

orth Marin

Water D

istrict and Marin C

ountry Club; D

istrict Negotiators: G

eneral Manager and C

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egotiating Party: M

arin Country C

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This section of the agenda is provided so that the public m

ay express comm

ents on any issues not listedon the agenda that are of interest to the public and w

ithin the jurisdiction of the North M

arin Water

District. W

hen comm

ents are made about m

atters not on the agenda, Board m

embers can ask

questions for clarification, respond to statements or questions from

mem

bers of the public, refer am

atter to staff, or direct staff to place a matter of business on a future agenda. T

he public may also

express comm

ents on agenda items at the tim

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The G

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ed the following item

s. To his know

ledge, there is no opposition to the

action. The item

s can be acted on in one consolidated motion as recom

mended or m

ay be removed

from the C

onsent Calendar and separately considered at the request of any person.

Consent - A

pprove Water S

ervice Agreem

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Consent- A

pprove: College of M

arin lndian Valley C

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pprove.' Resolution re C

onsolidation of District E

lection and Filing lnform

ationD

istrict Election, N

ovember 6,2018

Resotution

Consent- A

pprove: Group Life lnsurance R

enewal

Consent- A

pprove: Marin C

ounty Cooperative S

ervices Agreem

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Discussion on A

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Third Q

uarter FY

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uality Report

lnitial Review

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ceana Marin S

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Press R

elease - Russian R

iver lnflatable Rubber D

am G

oing Up

Media R

elease - Harm

ful Algal B

loom S

eason Beginning in C

alifornia's Lakes, Rivers and

Stream

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New

s Articles

PG

&E

to auction dams project

Hum

boldt County to draft stance on future of E

el River dam

s after PG

&E

announcement

California m

oves closer to crafting specific water caps for urban districts

Water contam

ination clearing up in Santa R

osa's Fountaingrove

neighborhoodP

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President F

raites called the regular meeting of the B

oard of Directors of N

otlh Marin W

ater

District to order at 6:00 p.m

. at the District H

eadquarters and the agenda was accepted as

presented. Present w

ere Directors Jack B

aker, Rick F

raites, Michael Joly, Jam

es Grossi, and

Stephen P

etterle. Also present w

ere General M

anager Drew

Mclntyre, D

istrict Secretary T

errie

Kehoe, A

uditor-Controller Julie B

lue and Chief E

ngineer Rocky V

ogler.

District em

ployees, Robeft C

lark (Maintenance/O

perations S

uperintendent), TonyA

rendell

(Construction S

upervisor) and Jeff Corda (S

r. Water D

ist. & T

P O

perator) were also in attendance.

Novato custom

ers Susan B

arnes and Virginia C

ottone were also in the audience.

MIN

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otion of Director B

aker, seconded by Director Joly the B

oard approved the minutes

from the M

ay 1 ,2018 m

eeting as presented by the following vote:

AY

ES

: Director B

aker, Fraites, G

rossi, Joly and Petterle

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: None

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uring the Public H

earing Ms. B

lue explained the proposed Novato W

ater rate increase of

4.5% based on the five year plan and budget. C

ustomers w

ere notified by letter and also the

hearing was published in the M

arin lndependent Journal. There w

ere 17 written protests and 9

phone calls inquiring about the increase. Ms. B

lue also explained that the typical customer w

ould

see an increase of $2.50 per month.

Mr. M

clntyre provided a presentation advising the Board that aging infrastructure costs,

increased regulatory requirements and higher operating costs including S

CW

A's 47o increase play a

major role in the proposed rate increase. H

e noted that the cost of providing service is not just

based on water used for drinking but also for fire protection. H

e also provided the Board w

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tructure versus Rate S

tructure graph showing that the cost structure is 35%

variable

and 65% fixed and the rate structure is77%

variable and 23% fixed.

Director F

raites opened the public hearing at627 p.m.

A m

ember from

the audience Susan B

arnes, stated that she hasn't had much interaction

with the D

istrict but based on the little she has that everyone is polite and it seems like a w

ell-run

District. S

he understood that costs are going up and she felt the increase is a reasonable amount;

however she w

anted to see a copy of the current rate survey. Mr. M

clntyre stated that our Auditor-

Controller recently retired and w

ith the change in staff it has been delayed. He offered to m

ake it

available to Ms. B

arnes when it is ready.

Hearing no further com

ment, D

irector Fraites closed the public hearing at 6:37 p.m

.

Director Joly questioned how

many custom

ers the new increase w

ould affect, and Mr.

Mclntyre replied 20,000 plus accounts. D

irector Petterle stated that w

e are raising costs based on

needs. Director Joly also praised the custom

ers in the audience stating that we appreciate all the

customers that took the tim

e to write to express their feelings, that none of the D

irectors wanted to

raise the rates, but that he will also be paying the 4.5o/o increase. D

irector Petterle also thanked the

rate payers for coming and that it w

as good to know that people are paying attention. H

e also stated

that he has been on the NM

WD

Board for seventeen years and it still am

azes him how

undervalued

water is. H

e wished w

e didn't have to raise the rates, however w

e must to insure w

e can deliver the

water, m

ake sure there is not a shortage to our customers and provide good quality w

ater. Director

Baker stated he has been on the B

oard for over thirty years, and he has witnessed m

ajor changes to

our treatment system

, and that it is expensive to operate. He expressed how

important it is to

ensure it is safe. Director G

rossi also comm

ented that the cost of construction of the past few

years

has been flat, and now w

e are seeing cost jumping 15-2A

%. D

irector Fraites w

rapped up the

discussion stating that North M

arin Water is a w

ell-run District. W

e have employees that have been

here for a long time. W

e have to run it like a business and believes the 4.5% increase is m

odest.

On m

otion of Director G

rossi, seconded by Director B

aker the Board approved R

esolution

18-12 entitled: "Resolution of the B

oard of Directors of N

orth Marin W

ater District A

mending

Regulation 54 effective June

1 ,2018 by the following vote:

AY

ES

: Director B

aker, Fraites, G

rossi, Joly and Petterle

NO

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: None

AB

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: None

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During the G

eneral Manager's report, M

r. Mclntyre asked for final com

ments on the draft

2018 Strategic P

lan. Mr. M

clntyre also announced receipt of a letter in which P

G&

E announced that

they plan to put the Potter V

alley Hydroelectric P

roject up for auction this fall. Director B

aker

comm

ented that it will not just be the w

ater agencies that are concerned but also the agricultural

comm

unity. Mr. M

clntyre stated that it needs to be a regional, multi county solution, including

Hum

boldt, Mendocino and S

onoma.

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President F

raites asked if anyone in the audience wished to bring up an item

not on the

agenda. Virginia C

ottone spoke about the AM

I Opt-O

ut Policy. S

he expressed her desire that the

Opt-O

ut Policy for A

MI m

eters should be allowed anytim

e someone new

moves into a residence.

She stated that there are people w

ho are sensitive to the exposure from A

MI m

eters. Mr. M

clntyre

stated that the policy has already been adopted by the Board; how

ever a customer alw

ays has the

option to request an exception from the B

oard. Director P

etterle requested that we revisit this issue,

and Ms. C

ottone stated she can share her research and answer m

ore questions if need be.

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President F

raites asked if staff or Directors w

ished to bring up an item not on the agenda

and the following item

s were discussed:

Mr. C

lark discussed the Norlh B

ay Bow

man's current interest in an outdoor archery range

and their request to investigate possible lease sites on District open space property. B

oth Director

Joly and Director B

aker expressed concerns of liability. This discussion led to the request that staff

draft a policy on recreational use of District lands.

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Mr. M

clntyre reviewed the M

onthly Progress R

eport for April. H

e stated that Novato's fiscal

year to date potable water production w

as up 8% and W

est Marin w

as up 260/o. He rem

inded the

Board that staff continues to investigate w

hy the production trend in West M

arin is significantly

higher than water sales. S

tafford Treatm

ent Plant production is dow

n 7o/o when com

pared to last

year due to lack of rainfall filling the lake. Overallthere is am

ple water supply in S

CW

A reservoirs

and Stafford Lake isat77%

capacity. With respectto recycled w

ater, we continueto add m

ore

customers and production is up 25o/o over last year. H

e also stated that the District has accrued 185

days without a lost tim

e accident, and that complaints overall w

ere down 97o, and that som

e of the

increase in the number of A

pril service orders were attributed to the A

MI register replacem

ents.

Ms. B

lue summ

arized the Monthly R

eporl of lnvestments. A

t April 30, 2018,33%

of the

District's P

ortfolio was invested in C

alifornia's Local Agency lnvestm

ent Fund, 25o/o in T

ime

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eposit, 22o/o in Federal A

gency Securities, 14o/o in U

S T

reasury Notes, 5%

in the

2 M

arin County T

reasury and 1% retained locally for operating purposes. D

irector Joly asked Ms.

3 B

lue to review treasury m

arket sensitivity with our investm

ents.

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n the motion of D

irector Petterle, and seconded by D

irector Bakerthe B

oard approved the

6 follow

ing items on the consent calendar by the follow

ing vote:

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YE

S: D

irector Baker, F

raites, Grossi, Joly and P

etterle

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one

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The B

oard approved the text for the Spring N

ovato Waterline to be m

ailed out in early June

2018

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The B

oard approved the text for the Spring W

est Marin W

aterline to be mailed out in June

2018.

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Mr. C

lark presented the third quarterly progress report for the Operations/M

aintenance

Departm

ent. Currently the D

istrict is training three new electrical em

ployees and two new

treatment

plant employees, a grounds m

aintenance employee and one new

maintenance supervisor.

Operations have been recently spending tim

e on the San M

ateo Tank R

ehabilitation project and

continue to focus on the backflow program

. Maintenance staff com

pleted removaland replacem

ent

of two air com

pressors at Stafford T

reatment P

lant, installed power, controls and cathodic protection

at the Norm

an tank and performed m

aintenance on the Stafford lake intake tow

er gate controllers.

Cross-C

onnection C

ontrol staff have been performing starl-up testing for the C

entral recycled water

project on-site retrofits. He stated that N

ovato Unified S

chool District continues to fall behind in

testing of their backflow devices and that future changes m

ay be in order to regain lOoo/o control of

the program.

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r. Clark presented the bulk chem

ical purchases program. ln the last five years there has

been a large increase in chemical costs and being able to buy as a group has really helped the

District save m

oney. The program

has expanded to 42 parlicipating agencies in I geographicalareas w

hich continue to allow several vendors to participate.

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Ms. B

lue stated that no changes have been made since the first review

. Approval of the

Equipm

ent budget is scheduled for the June 19,2018 board meeting.

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s. Blue sum

marized the second review

of the proposed FY

19 and FY

20 Novato C

apital

lmprovem

ent Projects. S

ince the initial review one project has been added, and the A

utomate Z

one

Valve P

roject was m

oved forward from

FY

18. The final budget review

and approval is scheduled for

the June 19,2018 board meeting.

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Ms. B

lue summ

arized the second review of the proposed F

Y 2018/19 N

ovato Operations

budget including a few changes since the first review

. Changes included a $33,000 increase in fees

to support labor negotiations for updating the MO

U w

ith the Em

ployee Association w

hich is expiring

at the end of Septem

ber, a $6,000 increase in temporary labor and a $32,000 decrease in pow

er.

She reported that the budget includes the proposed 4.5o/o rate increase as w

ell an employee cost of

living increase of 3%. T

otal Operating E

xpenditures are projected to increase 14V

o primarily due to

a onetime paym

ent to SC

WA

of $1,280,000. Source of S

upply is budgeted to increaseapproxim

ately 29Yo, W

ater Treatm

ent is budgeted to increase 137o, and Transm

ission and

Distribution is budgeted to increase 2%

. Staffing level is dow

n 1.2full time em

ployees (2%). T

his

budget will also be presented for a final review

at the June 19,2018 board meeting.

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lue reviewed the proposed2018119 N

ovato Recycled W

ater System

Budget and stated

that no changes were m

ade since the last review. A

s with the N

ovato budget, the final review and

approval will be at the June 19,2018 board m

eeting.

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iscellaneous item

s: Disbursem

ents-Dated

May 3, and

May

1 0,2018, NB

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ay 21,2018 Agenda, S

anitary district head leaving for position in SF

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Where W

ater is Scarce, C

omm

unities Turn to R

eusing Wastew

ater, Novato's 23 A

nnual Clean $

Green day Letter, E

vacuation Drill-N

MW

D staffed a table, lncum

bents seek to hold off bids of

challengers, Novato C

hamber Leadership N

ovato 2018 Graduation C

eremony-R

ocky V

ogler.

The B

oard also received the following new

s adicles: Sew

er Agency m

ergers needs

leadership.

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raites adjourned the meeting at 7:38 p.m

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Subm

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Theresa K

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one: Developer F

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The C

ollege of Marin's lndian V

alley Cam

pus (lVC

) is located at 1800 lgnacio Blvd (see

attached map). T

he Measure B

parcel tax, approved in 2016, funds a series of improvem

ents to

update and maintain C

ollege of Marin facilities and buildings. W

aterfacilities related to B

uilding No.

1 1 were approved by the board at the M

ay 1 ,2018 board meeting. T

he current project (the second

of five Measure B

improvem

ent projects) is to install three (3) pre-fabricated Division of S

tate

Architect approved buildings for class room

s and demonstrations

associated with the O

rganic Farm

program at lV

C. W

hile the project necessitates an 8-inch main extension for required fire protection,

the Ðistrict is requiring upsizing to a 16-inch diam

eter pipeline for a possible future looping project

identifiedintheDistrict's29l?W

aterMasterP

lan. Acreditw

illbeissuedbytheDistrictfortheextra

costs incurred for the oversizing per District R

egulation 22.

New

waterfacilities

include 160 feet of 16-inch PV

C m

ain, one comm

ercialfire hydrant, and

upgrade of the existing 1.5-inch meter to a 2-inch m

eter. A new

2-inch RP

P back flow

prevention

device will be required forthe new

2-inch meter. Landscaping w

ill be installed as part of this project.

These facilities w

ill receive normal pressure w

ater from Z

one 2. This project has a projected

additionaldemand of 4 E

DU

s (2 domestic and2 irrigation). B

ut since IVC

is currently utilizing only

46 ED

Us (45 historical and 1 estim

ated for Building no. 1 1) of the total 52 E

DU

of connection fees

previously paid, no additional connection fees are required at this time. T

he IVC

total updated

demand equals 50 E

DU

s. The projected dem

and will be reassessed w

ith each improvem

ent project

in the future.

Sew

er service is provided by the Novato S

anitary District.

As has been custom

arywith previous public agency projects, N

orth Marin W

ater Districtw

ill

invoice the College of M

arin for payment of actual costs as costs are incurred.

Environm

ental Docu

menf R

eview

A N

egative Declaration w

as prepared for the College of M

arin lndian Valley C

ampus

Facilities lm

provement projects and a N

otice of Determ

ination was filed w

ith the County C

lerk on

Novem

ber 14,2017.

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President and S

ecretary of this District be and they hereby are authorized and directed for and on

behalf of this District to execute that certain w

ater service facilities construction agreement betw

een

this District and M

arin Com

munity C

ollege District, providing for the installation of w

ater distribution

facilities to provide domestic w

ater service to that certain real property known as 1800 lgnacio B

lvd,

Marin C

ounty Assessor's P

arcel Num

ber 150-480-12, NO

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Com

munity C

ollege, herein called "Applicant."

WH

ER

EA

S, the A

pplicant, pursuant to District R

egulation 1, the State of C

alifornia

Subdivision M

ap Act and all applicable ordinances of the C

ity of Novato and/or the C

ounty of Marin,

has pending before the City or C

ounty a conditionally approved Tentative S

ubdivision Map, P

recise

Developm

ent Plan, T

entative Parcel M

ap or other land use application for the real property in the

District com

monly know

n as Marin C

ounty Assessor's P

arcel Num

ber 150-480-12 and the project

known as C

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OF

MA

RIN

(lVC

) Organic F

arm, consisting of one (1) lot for com

mercial/

institutional development; and

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ER

EA

$ prior to final approval by the City or C

ounty of a Subdivision M

ap, Precise

Developm

ent Plan, P

arcel Map or other land use application and recording of a final m

ap for the

project, the Applicant shall enter into an agreem

ent with the D

istrict and complete financial

arrangements for w

ater service to each lot, unit or parcel of the project;

WH

ER

EA

$ the Applicant is the ow

ner of real property in the District com

monly know

n as

1800 lgnacio Blvd, N

ovato (Marin C

ounty Assessor's P

arcel 150-480-12): and

WH

ER

EA

S, an agreem

ent for lndian Valley C

ampus w

as executed in 1973 (NM

WD

job-1a65)

and the historical water dem

and established for the services installed and for which connection fees

were paid equaled 22 equivalent dw

elling units (ED

Us); and

WH

ER

EA

S, an agreem

ent for College "C

'- lndian Valley C

ampus w

as executed in 1976

(NM

WD

job-1705) in which fees w

ere paid for an additional 15 ED

Us (for a total of 37 E

DU

s);

WH

ER

EA

S, an agreem

ent for lndian Valley C

ampus P

hysical Education C

enter was

executed in 1977 (NM

WD

job-1776) and fees were paid for an additional 15 E

DU

s (for a total of 52

ED

Us);

WH

ER

EA

$ an agreement for C

ollege of Marin, P

hase 1-Sw

ing Space w

as executed in July

2OO

B (N

MW

D job-2716) and no additional fees w

ere paid for additional ED

Us, but 2 E

DU

s were

reserved for projected water use associated w

ith the project.

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WH

ER

EA

S, an agreem

ent for College of M

arin Phase 2 w

as executed in Decem

ber 2008

(NM

WD

job-2732) and although the project demand of 14 E

DU

s was estim

ated, no additional Facility

Reserve C

harge fees were collected since the com

bined average historical usage for this property over

the priorten (10) years equated to an average day peak month consum

ption of 38 ED

Us, com

pared to

a total of 52 ED

Us for w

hich Facilities R

eserve Charges have previously been paid (leaving a balance

of 0 ED

Us in reserve), and

WH

ER

EA

S, an agreem

ent for College of M

arin lndian Valley C

ampus B

uilding 11 was

executed in May 2018 (N

MW

D job-2817.01) and although a project dem

and of 1 ED

U w

as estimated,

no additional Facilities R

eserve Charge fees w

ere collected since the new estim

ated total demand of

46 ED

Us (the com

bined average historical usage for this property over the last 10 years = 45 E

DU

s

plus 1 ED

U for B

uilding 1 1) is less than the 52 E

DU

s for which F

acilities Reserve C

harges have

previously been paid (leaving a balance of 6 ED

Us in reserve), and

WH

ER

EA

S, the projected w

ater demand for this project is 4 E

DU

s but no additional Facility

Reserve C

harge fees are due since the estimated com

bined total demand is 50 E

DU

s compared to 52

total ED

Us for w

hich Facilities R

eserve Charges have previously been paid (leaving a balance of 2

ED

Us in reserve) and

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, the parties hereto agree as follow

s:

1. T

he Applicant hereby applies to the D

istrict for water service to said real property and

project and shall comply w

ith and be bound by all terms and conditions of this agreem

ent, the District's

regulations, standards and specifications and shall construct or cause to be constructed the water

facilities required by the District to provide w

ater service to the real property and project. Upon

acceptance of the completed w

ater facilities, the District shall provide w

ater service to said real

property and project in accordance with its regulations from

time to tim

e in effect.

2. P

rior to the District issuing w

ritten certification to the City, C

ounty or State that financial

arrangements have been m

ade for construction of the required water facilities, the A

pplicant shall

complete such arrangem

ents with the D

istrict in accordance with S

ection 6 of this agreement.

3. P

rior to release or delivery of any materials by the D

istrict or scheduling of eitherconstruction inspection or installation of the facilities by the D

istrict, the Applicant shall:

a. deliver to the District vellum

or mylar prints of any revised utility plans approved by

the City or C

ounty to enable the District to determ

ine if any revisions to the final water facilities

construction drawings are required. T

he proposed facilities to be installed are shown on D

rawing N

o.

1.2817.02, entitled, "CO

LLEG

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F M

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rganic Farm

", a copy of which is attached, m

arked

Exhibit "4", and m

ade a part hereof. (For purposes of recording, E

xhibit "A" is not attached but is on

file in the office of the District.)

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b. grant or cause to be granted to the District w

ithout cost and in form satisfactory to the

District all easem

ents and rights of way show

n on Exhibit "4" or othen¡uise required by the D

istrict for

the facilities.

c. deliver to the District a w

ritten construction schedule to provide for timely w

ithdrawal

of guaranteed funds for ordering of materials to be furnished by the D

istrict and scheduling of either

construction inspection or construction pursuant to Section 6 hereof.

4. E

xcept for fire service, new w

ater service shall be limited to the num

ber and size of

services for which lnitial C

harges are paid pursuant to this agreement. lnitial C

harges for new

seryices, estimated D

istrict costs and estimated applicant installation costs are as follow

s:

lnitial Charqes

Meter C

harges (incrude ¡n materiarcost).

... ... One 2-inch @

$ 0.00

$ 0.00

Reim

bursement F

und Charges

....2-inch @ $

3,140.00 $ 3,140.00

Reim

bursement F

und Charges (C

redit). ..1.S

-inch @ $

1,540.00 $ <

1,540.00>

Facilities R

eserve Charges.

. Fifty-tw

o @ $ 28,600.00 $ 1,487,200.00

Facilities R

eserve Charges (C

redit). .., ... F

ifty-two @

$<28,600.00>

$.1,487 ,200.00>

Subtotal - lnitial C

harges.$

1,600.00

Estim

ated District C

ostsP

ipe, Fittings &

Appurtenances

District C

onstruction Labor... ...E

ngineering & lnspection... ... ..

Bulk M

aterials... .

Subtotal -E

stimated D

istrict Gosts

Estim

ated Applicant lnstallation G

ostslnstallation Labor.C

ontractor Furnished - P

ipe Fittings &

Appurtenances

Bulk M

aterials... .

$$$$$

10,978.0010,784.004,096.001,325.00

27,183.00

$ 13,800.00

$ 6,671.00

$ 4,612.00

Subtotal- E

stimated A

pplicant lnstallation Costs....

................ $ 25,083.00

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$ 53,866.00

Credit for U

psizinq from 8" to 16"

District C

osts for Upsizing... ...

$ <

78.00>A

pplicant Costs for U

psizing. .. $

<8,534.00>

Subtotal- C

redit for Upsizing from

8" to 16"........... $

< 8,612.00>

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AC

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ith Cred¡t)............

$ 45,254.00

(Bulk m

aterials are such items as crushed rock, im

ported backfill, concrete, reinforcing steel, paving

materials, and the like, w

hich are to be furnished by the contractor performing the w

ork.)

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5. ln addition to the lnitial Charges, E

stimated D

istrict Costs and C

ontributions, and Estim

ated

Applicant lnstallation C

osts set forth in Section 4 above, the A

pplicant shall furnish at no cost to the

District all P

VC

pipe (4-inch diameter and larger), valves and w

ater line fittings shown on E

xhibit "4" or

othen¡rise required by the District. T

he quantities, type and quality of said materials shall be approved

by the District prior to purchase by the A

pplicant and shall conform to D

istrict standards as stated and

shown on S

pecifications (15100 Valves, 15056 P

ipeline Fittings, 15064 P

olyvinyl Chloride (P

VC

)

Pressure P

ipe) marked as E

xhibit "8" attached hereto and made a part hereof and as otherw

ise may

be required. (For purposes of recording, E

xhibit "8" is not attached but is on file in the office of the

District.) T

he cost of said materials is estim

ated to be $6,671. The D

istrict reserves the right to reject

and prohibit installation of all nonconforming m

aterials furnished by the Applicant.

6. Financial A

rrangements to be m

ade by the Applicant shall consist of the follow

ing

lnitial Charses and E

stimated D

istrict Costs

The D

istrict will invoice T

he College of M

arin for payment of actual costs as costs are

incurred

Estim

ated lnstallation Costs

Alternate N

o. 1 - lnstallation Bv A

pplicant. lf the Applicant elects to install the facilities or

hire a private contractor to install the facilities, the Applicant shall provide financial guarantees

satisfactory to the District in the form

of a performance bond in the am

ount of $25,083 conditioned

upon installation of the facilities and furnishing of bulk materials and a m

aintenance bond in the amount

of $6,271 conditioned upon payment of the cost of m

aintaining, repairing, or replacing the facilities

during the period of one (1) year following com

pletion of all the facilities and acceptance by the District.

Perform

ance and maintenance bonds shall be executed by a C

alifornia admitted surety insurer w

ith a

minim

um A

.M. B

est rating of A-V

ll. ln lieu of posting bonds, the Applicant m

ay provide an irrevocable

letter of letters of credit payable at sight at a financial institution in the Novato area guaranteeing funds

in the same am

ounts. All financial guarantees shall be provided by the A

pplicant rather than the

contractor. The A

pplicant or contractor, whichever perform

s the work, shall be properly licensed

therefore by the State of C

alifornia and shall not be objectionable to the District.

Alternate N

o. 2 - lnstallationD

istrictf the A

pplicant requests the District to install the

facilities and the District consents to do so, the D

istrict will install and invoice T

he College of M

arin for

payment of actual costs as costs are incurred.

The credit for upsizing from

8" to 16" set forth in Section 4 hereof in the am

ount of $8,612 shall

be applied to the final project cost analysis.

7. Water service through the facilities to be installed pursuant to this agreem

ent will not be

furnished to any building unless the building is connected to a public sewer system

or to a waste w

ater

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disposal system approved by all governm

ental agencies having regulatory jurisdiction. This restriction

shall not apply to temporary w

ater service during construction.

8. New

construction in the District's N

ovato service area is required to be equipped with high

efficiency water conserving equipm

ent and landscaping specified in Regulation 15 sections e. and f.

9. All estim

ated costs set forth in this agreement shall be subject to periodic review

and revision

at the District's discretion. ln the event the A

pplicant has not completed financial arrangem

ents with

the District in accordance w

ith Section 6 hereof prior to expiration of six (6) m

onths from the date of

this agreement, all lnitial C

harges and estimated costs set forth in S

ection 4 hereof shall be revised to

reflect then current District charges and estim

ates. ln the event the Applicant has not secured final

land use approval for the project from the C

ity of Novato or C

ounty of Marin, recorded a final m

ap and

diligently comm

enced construction of improvem

ents required by those agencies and the District prior to

expiration of one (1) year from the date of this agreem

ent, the District m

ay, at its option, either retract

financial certifications issued to City, C

ounty and State agencies and term

inate this agreement or

require amendm

ent of this agreement and review

of all lnitial Charges and estim

ated costs contained

herein. The A

pplicant shall pay any balance due upon demand or furnish a guarantee of such paym

ent

satisfactory to the District.

10. All extensions of tim

e granted by the City of N

ovato or the County of M

arin for the

Applicant to com

ply with conditions of land use approval or to construct im

provements pursuant to a

subdivision improvem

ent agreement shall require concurrent extensions of this agreem

ent and shall be

cause for review and revision of all lnitial C

harges and estimated costs set forth in S

ection 4 hereof.

The A

pplicant shall apply to the District for extension of this agreem

ent prior to approval of theA

pplicant's requests for such extensions by either the City of N

ovato or the County of M

arin.

11. This agreem

ent shall bind and benefit the successors and assigns of the pafties hereto;

however, this agreem

ent shall not be assigned by the Applicant w

ithout the prior written consent of the

District. A

ssignment shall be m

ade only by a separate document prepared by the D

istrict at the

Applicant's w

ritten request.

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"District"

Rick F

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Theresa K

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MA

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ollege"A

pplicant"

Greg N

elson, V.P

. Finance and O

perations

lf the Applicant executing this agreem

ent is a corporation, a certified copy of thebylaw

s or resolutions of the Board of D

irectors of said corporation authorizingdesignated officers to execute this agreem

ent shall be provided.

This agreem

ent must be executed by the A

pplicant and delivered to the District

within thirfy (30) days after it is authorized by the D

istrict's Board of D

irectors.lf this agreem

ent is not signed and returned within thirty days, it shall autom

aticallybe w

ithdrawn and void. lf thereafter a new

agreement rs requesfed, it shall

incorporate the lnitial Charges (connection fees) and cost estim

ates then in effect.

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Item #7

To:

From

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: Approve R

esolution Re C

onsolidation of District E

lection

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Approxim

ately $2,000 Cost S

aving for Consolidating E

lection

Attached for the B

oard's approval is a resolution requesting consolidation of the District's

election on Novem

ber 6,2018, and requesting election services by the County C

lerk. The M

arin

County R

egistrar of Voters has requested that the D

istrict's resolution include language stating that

the North M

arin Water D

istrict is requesting that Marin C

ounty hold the election for the few S

onoma

County voters eligible to vote for the D

istrict's Board,

Regular 4-Y

ear Term

s of the following D

irectors will end in 2018:

Richard F

raites

James G

rossi" D

irector James G

rossi was appointed to the D

istrict Board of D

irectors in August,2017 to fill

the seat vacated by the resignation of former D

irector John Schoonover and G

overnment C

ode

1780(dX2) requires the appointm

ent holds until the next general District election. T

he length of

term follow

ing this election will be four years since form

er Director S

choonover's term w

as set to

expire in 2018.

Short 2-Y

ear Term

of the fotlowing D

irectors will end in 2020:

Michael Joly'.

.. Director M

ichael Joly was appointed to the D

istrict Board of D

irectors in February, 2017 lo fill

the seat vacated by the resignation of former D

irector Dennis R

odoni and Governm

ent Code

1780(dX2) requires the appointm

ent holds until the next general District election, T

he length of

term follow

ing this election will be tw

o years since former D

irector Rodoni's term

was set to

expire in 2020.

The filing period for the N

ovember 6,2018 D

istrict Election is July 16, through A

ugust 10,

2018. Nom

ination papers will be available from

the County C

lerk/Elections D

ivision, Hall of

Justice, Civic C

enter, San R

afael.

lf nomination papers are not filed by A

LL incumbents by 5:00 p.m

. on August 10,2018, the

filing period will be extended to 5:00 p.m

., August 15, 2018. N

ote: Only non-incum

bent

candidates may file nom

ination papers during an extended filing period.

Approved by G

Board of D

irectors June

1 ,2018

Theresa K

ehoe, District S

ecretary{R

esolution re Consolidation of D

istrlct Election and F

iling lnformation

District E

lection, Novem

ber 6, 2018tlbod\slections\m

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re cons of êlêction 2018.doc

Date b'l.lB

Upon taking out nom

ination papers, candidates will be given a copy of C

andidates Guidelines

with detailed inform

ation. lf you have any questions, please contact the County C

lerk's office (Dan

Miller) a|415-473-6437 . P

lease be aware that all candidates are required to file a C

andidates

Statem

ent of Econom

ic lnterests (Form

700) with the county elections w

here they file their

Declaration of C

andidacy. I will provide copies of F

orm 700 to the three current D

irectors whose

terms w

ill end in 2018.

Candidates w

ho are elected, or appointed in lieu of a contested election, take oftice at 12

noon on Friday, D

ecember 7,2018 and serve tw

o or four-year terms as noted above.

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Board adopt attached resolution.

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S, it is the determ

ination of said governing body the regularly scheduled

election to be held on the 6th day of Novem

ber,2018, at w

hich election the issue to be

presented to the voters shall be to elect the following m

embers to the B

oard of Directors:

Num

ber of Regular T

erm P

ositions (4-year) 2

Num

ber of Short T

erm P

ositions (2-year) 1

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, pursuant to Elections C

ode S10002,

the Board of S

upervisors of the County of M

arin is hereby requested to:

1) C

onsolidate said election with any other applicable election conducted on the

same day in the m

anner prescribed in Elections C

ode S10418;

2) A

uthorize and direct the Elections D

epartment at D

istrict expense, to provide all

necessary election services and to canvass the results of said election.

3) R

equests that Marin C

ounty hold the election on behalf of any Sonom

a County

voters eligible to vote for the District's B

oard.

PA

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this fifth day of June, 2018 by the following vote, to w

it

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Item #8

June 1,2018T

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Julie Blue, A

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Approve: G

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a benefit equalto their annual salary. The group life benefit also includes an accidental death and

dismem

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nity in the event of accidental death and

defined lump sum

payments if there is loss of sight or appendage. T

he District's current provider

is Mutual of O

maha, at $2.28l$1,000 of payroll, w

hich policy expires July 31 ,2018. Attached is a

chart showing our G

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history.

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life policy since 1957, to survey the market pricing for renew

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response, and two declined to quote. M

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ith the lowest cost at

$2.281$1,000. Their proposal included a tw

o-year rate guarantee and the premium

remains

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in the industry, with a B

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over $2 billion).

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Board A

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arinC

ounty

Up to $1,500/yr (costs paid by M

arin County)

The C

alifornia Statew

ide Groundw

ater Elevation M

onitoring (CA

SG

EM

) program w

as

developed by the Departm

ent of Water R

esources (DW

R) in response to the passage of S

enate Bill

x7-6 in Novem

ber 2009. CA

SG

EM

requires that groundwater elevations in all basins be regularly

monitored. M

arin County E

nvironmental H

ealth Services (E

HS

) is the lead agency for carrying out

the CA

SG

EM

program in M

arin County and their M

onitoring Program

is provided as Attachm

ent 1.

There are five groundw

ater basins in Marin C

ounty as shown in M

ap 1 of this attachment and six

wells w

ill be monitored tw

ice a year, in spring and fall. All basins w

ill be monitored except for the

Ross V

alley Groundw

ater Basin since no w

ells have been identified within this basin. N

MW

D has

agreed to assist EH

S w

ith groundwater m

easurements at three of the w

ell site locations in the

northwestern portion of the county (show

n in Map 2 and listed in T

able 1 ) since w

e routinely travel to

this area as part of our Oceana M

arin operation and maintenance

duties.

District staff tim

e to perform these services w

ill be minim

al and coincident with routine

Oceana M

arin visits. A cooperative services agreem

ent has been prepared to provide for cost

recovery to NM

WD

for these services (see Attachm

ent 2). The C

ooperative Services A

greement

has been reviewed by both C

ounty and NM

WD

legal counsel,

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ountyG

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levatlon Monitorlng F

nogram

Decem

ber 201'l(U

pdated April zO

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Rebecca N

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eputy Director

Marin G

ounty Environm

ental Health S

ervices3501 C

ivic Center D

rive, Suite 236

San R

afael, CA

94913415-473-6907

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Marin C

ountv Groundw

aterlevation M

onitorino Proqram

Decem

ber 2011(U

pdated April 2018)

1.0 Overview

This M

onitoring Plan (P

lan) has been prepared to satisfy the requirements of the C

alifornia Statew

ideG

roundwater E

levation Monitoring (C

AS

GE

M) P

rogram. C

AS

GE

M w

as developed by the Departm

ent ofW

ater Resources (D

WR

) in response to the passage of Senate B

illxT-6 in N

ovember 2009, T

he lawdirects that groundw

ater elevations in all basins and sub-basins in California be regularly and

systematically m

onitored, preferably by local entities, with the goal of dem

onstrating seasonal and long-

term trends in grourndw

ater elevations, DW

R is directed to m

ake the resulting information readily and

widely avaiìable. T

he CA

SG

ËM

program establishes a perm

anent, locally-managed system

to monitor

groundwater elevation in C

alifornia's alluvial groundwater basins and sub-basins identified in D

WR

Bulletin N

o. 118. The C

AS

GE

M prograrn relies and builds on the m

any, established local long-termgroundw

ater monitoring and m

anagement program

s. Through the C

AS

GE

M program

, local monitoring

parties with appropriate authority m

ay notify DW

R of their intent to be a M

onitoring Ëntity. A

Monitoring

Entity is a local agency or group that voluntarily takes responsibility for conducting or coordinating

groundwater levelm

onitoring and reporting for all or parl of the groundwater basin.

This P

lan is subject to change as the monitoring netw

ork for each basin changes. Revisions w

ill besubm

itted to DW

R w

hen additions or removal of w

ells from the m

onitoring network occurs.

It is noted that on Septem

ber 16, 2014, the California S

ustainable Groundw

ater Managem

ent Act

(SG

MA

) was signed into law

by a three-bill legislative package of AB

1739, SB

1168, and SB

1319, This

act requires governments and w

ater agencies of high and medium

priority basins to prepareG

roundwater S

ustainability Plans to halt overdraft and bring groundw

ater basins into balanced levels ofpum

ping and recharge. Since the groundw

ater basins within M

arin County have been ranked by D

WR

aslow

priority, there are no requirements for the C

ounty to prepare a Groundw

ater Sustainability P

lan atthis tim

e.

Monitoring E

ntity

The M

arin County Ë

nvironmental H

ealth Services D

ivision (EH

S) of the C

omm

unity Developm

ent Agency

is the lead agency for carrying out the CA

SG

EM

program in M

arin County. T

he North M

arin Water

District is a participating agency. T

he EH

S contact is R

ebecca Ng, D

eputy Director, (415) 473-6907,

[Fs@

marincountv.org,

Purpose

The purpose of this P

lan is to describe the approach and activities of Marin's groundw

ater levelm

onitorìng program to satisfy the C

AS

GE

M program

requirements. T

he basic components of a

CA

SG

ËM

plan include the following:

A discussion of the w

ell network

ldentify the wells in the m

onitoring network including m

aps of the wells in each basin

Discussion of the m

onitoring scheduleD

escription of the field methods used to collect w

ater level dataD

iscussion of the roles of cooperating agencies, if applicableD

escription of the monitoring plan rationale

1

Plan O

rganization

Section 2.0 of the plan provides an overview

of Marin C

ounty geology and briefly describes thehyclrogeologic conditions beneath each basin, S

ection 3.0 describes monitoring sites and tim

ing.S

ection 4.0 discusses procedures for monitoring procedures and data collection. lt also describes how

thew

ater level data is managed and stored, as w

ellas reporting requirements for the C

AS

GE

M program

.

2.0 Marin C

ounty

The C

ounty of Marin encom

passes an area of 828.20 square miles. G

eographically, the countyforms a

large, southward-facing

peninsula, with the P

acific Ocean to the w

est, San P

ablo Bay and S

an Francisco

Bay to the east, and the city of S

an Francisco to the south across the G

olden Gate B

ridge, Marin

County's northern border is w

ith Sonom

a County.

As described in the C

alifornia Departm

ent of Water R

esources Bulletin N

o. 118, there arefive groundw

ater basins within or parlially w

ithin Marin C

ounty's boundaries. These are show

n in Map

1. Four of the five groundw

ater basins are entirely within the county boundaries and are identified w

iththe S

an Francisco B

ay Hydrologic R

egion. The fifth groundw

ater basin is partially within M

arinC

ounty's boundaries and Sonom

a County's boundaries. T

his basin, the Wilson G

rove Highlands basin,

is identified with the N

orth Coast H

ydrologic Region.

The groundw

ater use in the San F

rancisco Bay H

ydrologic Region is generally about 5 percent of the

region's estimated average w

ater supply for agricultural and urban uses and accounts for less than onepercent of statew

ide groundwater uses. ln general, groundw

ater quality throughout most of the region

is suitable for most urban and agricultural uses w

ith only local impairm

ents. The prim

ary constituentsof concern are high T

otal Dissolved S

olid (TD

S), nitrate, boron, and organic com

pounds. Areas of high

TD

S (and chloride) concentrations are typically found in the region's groundw

ater basins situated closeto the S

an Francisco B

ay, such as southern Sonom

a and Petalum

a valleys. The shallow

aquifer zonew

ithln Petalum

a Valley also show

s persistent nitrate contaminants. S

ome of the m

ore remote areas in

west M

arin County are com

pletely reliant upon groundwater as their sole source of w

ater.

Marin C

ounty Groundw

ater Basin B

oundaries and Hydrology

This section provides a brief description of the geologic and hydrogeologic setting of the groundw

aterbasins in M

arin County as described in B

ulletin 118 and shown in M

ap 1.

Norih C

oast HIoaíc R

eoion

Basin 1-59 W

ilson Grove F

ormation H

ighlandsS

urface Area: 86,400 acres (135 square m

iles)A

verage well depths - 224fL (donrestic) and 323 ft. (m

unicipal/irrigation)

The W

ilson Grove F

ormation H

ighlands Groundw

ater Basin is an irregularly shaped basin in northern

Marin and southern S

onoma C

ounties. The basin is bound by C

hileno Valley on the south, B

odega Bay

on the west, and the T

olay Fault on the east. T

he contact between the F

ranciscan and Wilson G

roveF

ormation defines the B

asin boundary on the nor1h. The B

loomfield F

ault bisects the Basin from

norlh tosouth. S

everal streams drain the basin and join to form

Ëstero A

mericano C

reek, which runs from

east tow

est through the basin and is the northern Marin border w

ith Sonom

a, Most of the sm

aller tributaries flowsouth and w

est to join the creek before it enters Bodega B

ay. Average precipitation w

ithin the basin isestim

ated to be greater than 44 inches in the northwest to less than 28 inches in the southeast.

2

There is lim

ited information on the hydrogeology

of the basin. The prim

ary water-bearing form

ations areas follow

s:

1. R

ecent alluvium is dispersed throughout the basin, consisting of poorly sorted coarse sand and

gravel, and moderately sorted fine sand, silt, and clay.

2. P

leistocene marine terrace deposits are found throughout the basin, consisting of fossiliferous

marine sandstone, siltstone and silty clay w

ith interbedded gravels and basal tuff beds. The terrace

deposits were form

ed as alluvial fan or stream channel deposits and have been left isolated as the

grade level in streams dropped.

3. P

liocene Wilson G

rove Form

ation is the major w

ater-bearing unit in the basin, consisting ofunconsolidated, fine-grained, m

assive sand and minor am

ounts of gravel and tuff deposited underbeach and shallow

-marine conditions, T

he formation w

as deposited in a subsiding embaym

ent thatw

as open to the ocean. The sedim

ents were deposited on the surface of high relief carved into the

underlying Franciscan sedim

ents. The W

ilson Grove F

ormation consists of unconsolidated, fine-

grained, massive sand and m

inor amounts of gravel and tuff deposited under beach and shallow

-m

arine conditions,

San F

rancisco Bav H

vdrologic Region

Basin 2-27 S

and Point A

rea Groundw

ater Basin

Surface A

rea: 1,407 acres (2.2 square miles)

Average W

ell Depth: 94 ft.

The S

and Point A

rea groundwater basin is a sm

all, coastal basin that is bounded to the west, south

and southwest by T

omales B

ay. Tom

ales Bay is a geologic feature of high significance, as it

delineates the north, northwest trending S

an Andreas F

ault Zone. T

he basìn's northern boundary lìesjust south of D

illon Beach and adjoins the W

ilson Grove F

ormation H

ighlands basin. The eastern

boundary extends inland a distance that varies from about 1/4 m

ile in the south to just over 2 miles in

the north, The northern and eastern basin boundaries approxim

ately follow the alluvial sand deposits

in the basin and the surrounding bedrock. Holocene beach sands and Latest P

leistocene to Holocene

dune sands are the predominant basin deposits. A

ccording to one water w

ell log available for thew

estern-portion of the basin, bedrock, consisting of the Franciscan F

ormation, w

as encounteredbeneath the alluvium

at 94 feet below ground surface (bgs.) T

he Franciscan F

ormation consists

mainly of sandstone, w

ith minor am

ounts of conglomerate, chert, and shale. T

he annual precipitationin the basin averages 35 inches. (lt is noted in B

ulletin 118 that the boundaries of the basin may need

slight adjusting.)

Basin 2-28 R

oss Valley G

roundwater B

asinS

urface Area: 1.765 acres (2.8 square m

iles)A

verage Well D

epth'. 229 ft.

The R

oss Valley groundw

ater basin is a small, coastal basin located about 10 m

iles nodh of San

Francisco, w

ith portions of the basin lying in the City of C

orte Madera and Larkspur. lt is bounded to ihe

east by San F

rancisco Bay and to the north by C

orte Madera C

reek. From

its northern and easternboundaries, respectively, the basin extends south a m

aximum

distance of 2 miles and inland (w

est) adistance that varies from

about 1 mile in the south to just over 2 m

iles in the north. The basin boundaries

approximate the contact betw

een the adificial fill (predominantly)

and alluvium (m

inor) in the basin and.the surrounding bedrock. T

he artificial fill is characterized as fill overlying San F

rancisco Bay m

ud; andthe alluvium

as Holocene, undifferentiated

deposits. Additional deposits m

apped within the basin include

Holocene S

an Francisco B

ay muds, w

hich occur along and the shoreline and inland. The annual

precipitation in the basin ranges from 31 inches in the east to 41 inches in the w

est.

J

Basín 2-29 S

an Rafael V

alley Groundw

ater Basin

Surface A

rea: 896 acres ('1.4 square miles)

Average W

ell Depth: 159ft,

The S

an Rafael V

alley groundwater basin is a sm

all, coastal basin located 12 miles north of S

anF

rancisco, and includes the City of S

an Rafael, lt is bounded to the east by S

an Rafael B

ay, which lies

between S

an Pablo B

ay to the north and San F

rancisco Bay to the.south. T

he basin extends from its

southernmost boundary near S

an Quentin, about 1,5 m

iles to its northern boundary of Rafael C

reek. The

basin extends inland (west) a distancethatvariesfrom

about l12m

ile in the southto justunder2 miles in

the north. The basin boundaries approxim

ate the contact between the artificial fill (predom

inantly) and

alluvium (m

inor) in the basin and the surrounding bedrock. The artificial fill is characterized as fill

overlying San F

rancisco Bay m

ud; and the alluvium as H

olocene, undifferentiated deposits. T

he annualprecipitation in the basin averages 33 inches.

Basin 2-30 N

ovato Valley B

asinS

urface Area:2C

I,500 acres (32 square miles)

Average W

ell Depth : 243 ft.

The N

ovato Valley groundw

ater basin occupies a structural depression in the Coast R

angesim

mediately w

est of San P

ablo Bay and north of S

an Rafael. $an A

ntonio Creek bounds the N

ovatoV

alley basin to the north and the Mendocino R

ange forms the w

estern and southern boundary. Stream

sdischarging to S

an Pablo B

ay drain the basin and are tidally influenced in the lower reaches. A

nnualprecipitation in the basin ranges from

less than 28 inches adjacent to the bay to more than 40 inches in

the upland areas in the Mendocino R

ange.

3.0 Monitorino S

ites and Tim

ino

There is no history of groundw

ater monitoring in any of the M

arin County basins except for tw

o wells in

the Novato V

alley Basin that have been m

onitored by DW

R since 1973 and 1989. T

here is nopublished inform

ation regarding groundwater storage capacity and recharge for the M

arin County

groundwater basins.

Due to the urban setting and availability of m

unicipal water supplies in M

arin County, there are few

available wells of sufficient depth located w

ithin a particular groundwater basin. A

dditionally, due to therelatively sm

all size of the groundwater basins in M

arin County, there are few

wells included in the w

ellnetw

ork for monitoring.

Six w

ells will be m

onitored as part of Marin C

ounty's CA

SG

ËM

Plan. T

ogether, these wells represent the

four major basins w

ithin the county. Marin C

ounty EH

S w

ill administer the m

onitoring of five of thesew

ells. No w

ell monìtoring is proposed for the R

oss Valley G

roundwater B

asin since it is not well suited

for regular groundwater developm

ent and no well has been identified. T

he general location of thesew

ells is shown in M

ap 2.

-fhe site identification number of these w

ells, their respective basin, identification number, location, and

other pertinent information is detailed in the T

able 1 - Marin C

ounty CA

SG

EM

Sites. E

ach well w

ill bem

onitored twice a year, in the spring and fall.

Well com

pletion reports for each well are not included in this plan. T

he Depañm

ent of Water R

esourcesshould have copies of each w

ell completion report that can be identified by the unique w

ell completion

number. T

he reports, which are m

ade confidentialby Water C

ode Section 13752, m

ay be disclosed with

permission of the w

ell owner.

4

4.0 Monitorin

Procecl lr res

Field M

ethods

It is anticipated that monitoring w

ill be conducted using an electronic sounding tape (Solinst M

odel 102W

ater Level Meter) in A

pril and October of each year to obtain seasonal high and low

groundwater

levels.

Field P

reparation

1. S

anitize or pre-clean equipment and ensure that it is in w

orking order. Ënsure batteries are fresh

and the line is not kinked, knotted, frayed, or cut. Test the equipm

ent prior to going out.2.

Check the distance from

the electrode probe's sensor to the nearest foot marker on the tape to

ensure that this distance puts the sensor at the zero foot point for the tape. If it does not, acorrection m

ust be applied to all depth{o-water m

easurements. R

ecord this in an equipment log

book and on the field form.

3. P

rint new field sheets (attached D

WR

Form

1213) with updated previous levels.

4. C

ontact those well ow

ners that require notification prior to monitoring or for w

elìs that need to beshut off.

5. Ë

nsure keys to gates and assorted wrenches are in vehicle"

6. lf this is the initial visit, conduct a w

ell information inventory, plan to identify and photograph

measurem

ent reference points, and measure distance from

measurem

ent reference point toground surface.

7. ldentify site inform

ation and documentation required and m

easurement locations.

Fie.ld .P

roçedureg,

1C

heck that the well is not pum

ping. lf the well is pum

ping mark a 1 in the no m

easurement (N

M)

column of the field sheet, and do not take a m

easurement. lf the pum

p motor is off but w

arnr, takea m

easurement and m

ark 4 in the questionable measurem

ent (QM

) column due to recent

pumping. lf the pum

p is off and the motor is cold take a m

easurement.

Rem

ove well cap or plug and report date and tim

e on data sheet.E

nsu¡re that the opening into the casing, the reference point (RP

), is still available. lf the referencepoint needs to be changed or adjusted, take an accurate m

easurement

of the new R

P height from

ground surface and note on the field sheet.W

ipe off the electrode probe and lower 5 to 10 feet of the tape w

ith a disinfectant wipe, rinse w

ithde-ionized or tap w

ater, and dry.P

lace groundwater-level m

easuring device into the well.

For electrical tapes, record the distance from

the water surface, as determ

ined by the audio signalor m

eter, to the reference measuring point and record. F

or sonic meter, record the level displayed

on the LED

readout.W

ait several minutes and repeat the m

easurement,

Repeat m

easurements consistently going up or dow

n. lf measurem

ents are going up, ideally takem

easurements until the level stabilizes w

ithin 0.1 feet; otherwise note the m

easurements

asquestionable. lf going dow

n, then note "questionable."lf know

n, note the time since the w

ell was last pum

ping.R

emove all dow

nhole equipment, and replace w

ell plug or cap.C

lean and rinse all downhole equipm

ent and store for transport to the next well.

Note any changes in the w

ell condition since the previous measurem

ent (e,9., new reference

point, new w

ell enclosure, etc,)

23oU 46L101112

5

Recordina D

ata in the Field

(DW

R F

orm 1213t

7.B.

L101112

Local well identification num

ber from T

able 1, which is coded to the latitude and longitude, N

orthA

merican D

atum, N

AD

83M

easurement date and tim

e (military tim

e/Z4-hour form

at)N

o measure code (N

M) as described on the form

Questionable m

easurement code (Q

M) as described on the form

Reference point elevation (R

P) of the w

ell in feet, North A

merican V

ertical Datum

(NA

VD

BB

)

Ground surface elevation at the w

ell in feet, NA

VD

BB

- referred to land surface datum (LS

D)

on the formT

ape at reference point (RP

)T

ape at water surlace (W

S)

Reference point to w

ater surface, feetLand surface datum

to water surface, feet * calculation

Previous depth

Com

ments and observations

12345ri

Quality A

ssurance/Quality C

ontrol

The follow

ing general quality assurance/quality control procedures apply:

L D

ocument m

easurements, notes and codes on the groundw

ater level data forms or field

notebook.2.

Operate instrum

ents in accordance with operating instructions as supplied by the

manufacturer, unless otherw

ise specified.3.

Ëach w

ell should be tested at least twice in order to com

pare results. lf results do not ägreeto w

ithin 0.1 feet, a third measurem

ent should be taken and the readings averaged.C

onsistent failure of consecutive readings to agree suggests that levels are changingbecause of one or m

ore conditions as indicated on Form

1213, and should be notedaccordingly.

4. R

esults should be compared to historical m

easurements w

hile in the field and significantdiscrepancies noted and rejsolved, if possible.

5. W

ells for which no m

easurements or questionable m

easurements are obtained should have

the codes entered as described on the field form:

6" U

pon return from the field, appropriate corrective actions need to be com

municated and

completed prior to the next survey event.

7, A

ll data entered into electronic spreadsheet or database should be double-keyed or hardcopy printed.

B.

Questionable w

ells or measurem

ents noted during data compilation need to result in

correctìve actions, if applicable.

Sanitary P

ractices for Equipm

ent

The w

ater level measurem

ent equipment should be handled carefully, both w

hen transpoding theequipm

ent and when using the equipm

ent to take water level m

easurements. ln effect, only ihe w

ater levelm

easurement probe end should com

e in contact with the w

ell water,

The w

ater level measurem

ent equipment should be kept and m

aintained clean by preventive and standardcleaning m

easures including:

1. P

lacing the equipment in a clean space for storage and during transport to avoid contact w

ith dirtysurfaces

2. A

t a minim

um, cleaning the probe at the end of the tape w

ith an appropriate cleaning agent at the

6

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USE

domestic

domestic

domestìc

N/A

irrigation

lrrigation/industrìal

domestic

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active

active

active

N/A

active

active

inactive

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191 ft.

N/A

240 ft.

N/A

180 ft

33 ft.

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NMWD

resident

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38.2432,-122.8829*"

38.242137,-122.96442A

N/A

37.954443,-122.5A4425

38"110927,-122.565783

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700288

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312297

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347002

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CONTACT INFO

Tom Nunes,Tomales FireStation*707-878-2464Brittany Jensen31 0-701-8461

Carl lWilly) Vogler747-878-2443tawsonslanding@gmail.com

NIA

John O'RineyMarin SanitaryService415-458-5538Erik BrownNovato SanitaryDistricterikb@novatosan.com

DWR monitoringGlenn Diamond415-696-8332

ADDRESS

599 Dillon Beach,Tomales

350'1 TomalesPetaluma Rd,TomalesLawson's Landing137 Marine View DrDillon Beach

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MA

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WA

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MW

D and C

ounty are each public agencies engaged in providing publicservices w

ithin the County of M

arin, including monitoring and other activities related to groundw

ater

and surface waters w

ithin portions of the County of M

arin; and

WH

ER

EA

S, the P

arties desire to cooperate and coordinate personnel and equipment in order

to more efficiently and effectively provide particular services related to m

onitoring of groundwater

conditions within the C

ounty of Marin and service area of N

MW

D.

NO

W, T

HE

RE

FO

RE

, the Parlies do hereby agree as follow

s

1. N

MW

D shall provide certain sem

i-annual groundwater m

easurement and sam

pling

activities, as more expressly described in the S

cope of Work attached hereto as E

xhibit A, and

incorporated herein as if fully set forth.

2. P

eriodically, the managers of the P

arties, or their designees, will review

and consider

revisions to the Scope of W

ork in order to best accomplish the purposes for w

hich they are

undertaken. Such revisions m

ust be mutually agreed upon and in w

riting to be effective.

3. County shall provide to N

MW

D all rights of entry or other authorization required to access

any monitoring location on public or private property not ow

ned by a Party to this A

greement.

4. NM

WD

shall be solely responsible for the determination of need and assignm

ent of any

personnel, equipment, or m

aterials required pursuant to this Agreem

ent.

5. County shall fully com

pensate NM

WD

for work perform

ed hereunder pursuant to the Fee

Schedule attached hereto as E

xhibit B and incorporated herein as if fully set forth. T

he total cost to the

County shall not exceed $1,500, unless m

utually agreed upon in writing.

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6. N

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D shall, no m

ore frequently than monthly, invoice C

ounty for the personnel,equipm

ent, and materials pursuant to the F

ee Schedule and shall cooperate w

ith County to provide

any required tax identification or other payment inform

ation. County shall rem

it payment pursuant to

any undisputed invoice within 3O

-days of receipt.

7. Each P

arty will indem

nify, defend, and hold the other Party and its assignees, agents,

officers and employees harm

less from and against any claim

s, suits, proceedings, costs, liabilities,

expenses (including court costs and reasonable legal fees), or damages (C

laims) to real or tangible

personal property and/or bodily injury to persons, including death, resulting from its or its em

ployees,

Clients or agents negligence or w

illful misconduct arising from

or related to this Agreem

ent.

8. Each P

arty shall purchase and maintain throughout the term

of this Agreem

ent insurance

or indemnity protection that is co-equal w

ith its indemnity obligations and m

ay include insurance or self-

insurance. This shall include, but not necessarily be lim

ited to Com

mercial G

eneral Liability insurance

and Com

mercial A

utomobile liability insurance w

ith limits of not less than $1,000,000 per occurrence

($2,000,000 in the aggregate) and the other Party and its directors, officers, em

ployees, and

volunteers to the extent of the owed indem

nity obligations, shall be named as "additional insureds"

under such policies. Each P

arty shall also maintain w

orkers' compensation insurance for industrial

injury or illness, including coverage for its own em

ployees. Proof of insurance shall be provided in the

form of a certificate of insurance or self-insured letter to the other party.

9. All notices and authorizations in connection w

ith this Agreem

ent shall be addressed to

North M

arin Water D

istrictN

ofih Marin W

ater District

Attn: G

eneral Manager

P.O

. Box 146

Novato, C

A 94948

Marin C

ounty:M

arin County E

nvironmental H

ealth Services

Attn. D

eputy Director

3501 Civic C

enter Drive, S

uite 236S

an Rafael, C

A 94903

'10. Either P

arty to this Agreem

ent may, w

ithout penalty, imm

ediately withdraw

from

participation hereunder upon giving thirty (30) days written notice thereof to the other P

arty.

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MA

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"A M

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Rebecca N

g, Deputy D

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Theresa K

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Item #10

June 1,2018T

o: B

oard of Directors

From

: Julie Blue, A

uditor-Controllert?/

Subj: A

pprove - Em

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$275,000 Loan from Liability C

ontingency Fund

ln accordance with the D

istrict's Em

ployer Assisted H

ousing Program

, Christopher

Rodriguez, a 35-year-old F

ield Service R

epresentative who has been em

ployed with the D

istrict

for 1 year and 4 months, has requested a D

istrict loan of $275,000 to purchase a market-rate

home in N

ovato. The history of the D

istrict's Em

ployer Assisted H

ousing Program

was recently

reviewed w

ith the Board at the M

arch 6, 2018 meeting.

The 2-bedroom

, 2 %-bath 1,229 square foot hom

e is located at 1675 Novato B

lvd, Unit #9

and the sales price is $550,000. The first deed of trust w

ill be $247,500. The $275,000 D

istrict

loan would be 50%

of the sale price, the maxim

um percentage allow

ed under the policy.

Christopher w

ill pay a 5% dow

n-payment of $27,500 plus closing costs estim

ated at2.4o/o of the

purchase price ($13,000). Underthe H

ousing Assistance P

olicy, the Districtw

ill be entitled, at

Christopher's discretion, to either 50%

of the appreciation accruing on the property upon sale or

refinancing, or to the interest revenue foregone by the District over the period of the loan.

Christopher, his w

ife Lizbeth, and their son Diego are currently renting a room

from

Lizbeth's family in N

ovato. They are expecting their 2nd child in A

ugust 2018 and do not have

sufficient space in the current housing arrangement to accom

modate the new

baby, The purchase

is contingent upon approval of the District loan and receipt of an appraisal confirm

ing the value of

the home. A

ttached are details from the real estate listing w

ith pictures.

Source of F

unding

The $275,000 loan w

ill be borrowed from

the Liability Contingency F

und. Currently there

are five Em

ployer Assisted H

ousing Loans totaling $934,200 borrowed against the $1.5 m

illion

the Board has authorized for this program

. Christopher's $275,000 loan w

ill reduce the balance

remaining for future housing assistance to $291,000.

Recom

mendation:

Approve a loan to C

hristopher Rodriguez of up to $275,000 under the D

istrict's Em

ployer

Assisted H

ousing Program

, and authorize the General M

anager to sign the note at such time as

the loan is required to close the purchase transaction.

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Item #11

To:

From

:

Subject:

ME

MO

RA

ND

UM

Board of D

irectors

Tony A

rendell, Construction S

uperintendent

Contract E

xtension for NM

WD

Trench R

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: The B

oard authorize extension of the paving contract to W.K

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cLellan Com

panY

FIN

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AC

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Estim

ated at $300,000

W.K

. Mclellan C

ompany (M

clellan) has been the District's contractor for trench

restoration work since 1997. W

hen last approved by the Board at the January 3,2017 m

eeting,

the proposed McLellan pricing w

as 2o/o less than the pricing they submitted on a 2015

successful low bid for a sim

ilar paving contract with M

arin MunicipalW

ater District. T

here were

two bidders for the M

MW

D w

ork and Mclellan w

as successful low bidder. M

clellan is offering

to perform w

ork for next fiscal year at current pricing. ln July of this year, MM

WD

is also

expected to extend the contract with M

cLellan for another year. The D

istrict reserves the right to

extend the contract beyond FY

18119, subject to agreement by both parties.

Annual billings to M

cLellan for FY

18/19 are estimated to be approxim

ately $300,000.

Annual costs for this w

ork over the last five years are summ

arized in Table 1. T

o prosecute the

work, purchase orders w

ill be issued monthly for trench areas to be paved at the approved unit

pricing.

District staff w

ants to advise the Board that M

cLellan has had an excellent working

relationship with N

MW

D, C

ity of Novato, and M

arin County and they go out of their w

ay to

ensure that District paving needs are m

et, The quality of M

cLellan's work has been excellent

and there have been very few com

plaints from C

ity or County staff or custom

ers on the

workm

anship or longevity of trench restoration paving.

RE

CO

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Board authorize extension of the trench restoration paving contract w

ith W.K

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pany based on current unit prices provided.

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Item #12

ME

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RA

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UM

Board of D

irectors

Drew

Mclntyre, G

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June 1,2018

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The attached agreem

ent was developed for surplus w

ater to be released by Marin

Municipal W

ater District (M

MW

D) and treated by N

MW

D for ultim

ate use by the Nicasio

comm

unity during inter:mittent lim

ited water shortage conditions. T

he agreement applies solely

to normal and w

et year conditions on Lagunitas Creek, has been developed based on input

from both N

MW

D and M

MW

D legal counsel, and is consistent w

ith provisions in the NM

WD

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MM

WD

2014 lnterconnection Agreem

ent. The agreem

ent recognizes that both NM

WD

and

MM

WD

have pre-1914 water rights in Lagunitas C

reek and stipulates an arrangement w

herein,

upon request by NM

WD

when surplus w

ater is available, MM

WD

will release up to 20 acre-feet

of water into Lagunitas C

reek.

Per the attached agreem

ent terms, the resulting surplus w

ater release by MM

WD

is

for the sole benefit of off-setting any potable water trucked from

NM

WD

's West M

arin system to

the Nicasio com

munity. W

hen this occurs, NM

WD

will pay M

MW

D $213 per acre foot in

accordance with S

ection 6 of the 2014lnterconnection A

greement. T

he Marin M

unicipal Water

District B

oard of Directors approved this agreem

ent at their May 15,2018 m

eeting.

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istrict (North M

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ater District.

For good and valuable consideration,

receipt of which is hereby acknow

ledged, the parties agree

¿rs l'ollow

s:

Section l:

Iì.ecitals.

A. O

n February 5,2014 the parties entered into the Interconnection A

grcerrrent under which

North M

arin wheels M

arin Municipal's contractual

share ol'water liom

Sonom

a Cotrnty

Water A

gency through the North M

arin Aqueduct for distribr,rtion to M

arin Mr-rnicipal's

customers in M

arin County.

B. S

ection 3C of the Interconnection A

greernent provicles for Marin M

unicipal, underspecified conditions, to release w

ater into Lagunitas Creek upon N

orth Marin's request.

Water in excess of 250 acre-feet per year m

ay be released "subject to the availability o1'surplus w

ater as determined solely by M

arin Municipal."

C. N

orth Marin has requestecl that M

arin Municipal tnake available, tw

enty acrc l'eet ofw

ater pursuant to and under conditions specified in Section 3.C

ol'the InterconnectionA

greement,

so that North M

arin may treat that w

ater and supply it, through a privatew

ater hauler, to the unincorporated W

est Marin agricultural com

munity of N

icasio(N

icasio) that intennittently experiences lirnited water shortages.

D. N

icasio has been iclentif ied by Marin C

ounty LAIT

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as a priority rcview area regarcìing

a possible amendm

ent to the sphere of influence of Marin M

r-rnicipal. and Marin

Municipal desires to assist the residents of N

icasio with som

e o1'these water shoÍages.

E. M

arin Municipal acknow

ledges that both parties have pre-1914 water rights on LagLrnitas

Crccl<

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Section 2: T

en¡s.

A. P

ursuant to Section 3 C

of the Interconnection A

greement w

hich provides that"A

clditional amounts of w

ater may be released by M

arin Municipal upon N

orlh Marin's

reqLrest subject to the availability of surplus water as determ

inecl solely by Marin

Municipal" the parties agree as follow

s:

Norm

al and Wet

Water Y

ear Rcouest for

Arìrìifional R

elease of Availablc S

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ater for Nicasio R

esidents

Agreentenl llelv,een M

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During a w

ater year on l-agunitas Creek that is classified as other than a "dry

year" under the water year classifications as established by the S

tate Water

Resources C

ontrol Board in its O

rder Wlt 95-17, N

orth Marin m

ay requcst and

Marin M

unicipal rnay solely determine w

hether to release up to an additionaltw

enty acre feet of surplus water to supply N

icasio.

North M

arin sl-rall malce that request irr w

riting to:

Water S

upply Planning U

nitM

arin Municipal W

ater District

220 Nellen A

venueC

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94925

Marin M

unicipal shall considerNofth M

arin's request and in Marin M

unicipal'ssole discretion determ

ine whether it has up to tw

enty acre feet ol'available water

that is surplus to its needs.

If Marin M

unicipal determines that such surplus w

ater is available, it will release

as feasible l1o more than tw

enty acre feet of water ft'onr l-ake N

icasio or llomK

ent Lake to North M

arin for the sole purpose of supplying that water to N

icasio.W

ater delivered to Nicasio rnay be used only for dornestic and livestocl<

watcring

purposes. Any such surplus w

ater released for purposes of supplying Nicasio is in

addition to Marin M

unicipal's two hundred and fifty acre foot w

atcr delivery toN

orth Marin described in S

ection 3C of the lnterconnection A

greement.

IVN

ofth Marin shall pay M

arin Municipal for the surplus w

ater sr-rpplied for theN

icasio Com

munity underthe provisions of S

ection 6.C, "C

ompensation for

Nicasio or Lagunitas C

reek Deliveries and O

ther Water D

elivered by Marin

Municipal," of the Interconnection

Agreem

ent.

v. N

othing in this Agreem

ent shall be construed as a transfur o{'any portion of,anyw

ater right held by either parIy, and each party shall hold tlie other party harmless

should any state regulatory agency seek to take action against one or both partiesas the result of the delivery of w

ater in implem

entation of the agreement.

B. 'fhis agreem

ent shall expire concurrently with the Intercol-tllcction

Agrecm

ctrt refurenceclabove, ancl m

ay be terminated by either party uporr sixty (60) days' advance w

rittennotice in the m

anner contemplated by the Interconnection A

greement to the other party..

North M

arin Water D

istrictM

arin Municipal W

ater District

Iìick IrraitcsP

resident, Board of l)irectors

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President, B

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Agreentent IJe lv¡een M

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Drew

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Discussion on A

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At the M

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eeting, the Board approved an A

dvanced Metering lnform

ation

(AM

l) Opt-O

ut Policy (see attached). T

he Policy (#48) states that a residential custom

er may

opt-out of the installation of an AM

I meter but that once an A

MI m

eter has been installed there is

no option to opt-out. As reported by A

uditor-Controller Julie B

lue in her attached Board m

emo,

five of the seven agencies that responded to her survey reported that they did not allow opting

out of AM

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During O

pen Tim

e at the May 15, 2018 m

eeting, District custom

er Virginia C

ottone

spoke about the AM

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ut Policy. S

he requested that customers still be allow

ed to opt-out

after an AM

I meter w

as installed. My response to M

s. Cottone at that tim

e was that the P

olicy

was already approved, how

ever, any customer alw

ays has the option to request an exception

from the B

oard. Director P

etterle requested that the AM

I Opt-O

ut Policy be revisited.

I believe the District's A

MI O

pt-Out P

olicy as currently adopted is a fair comprom

ise to

address potential concerns by our customers. A

ccordingly, unless othen¡vise directed by the

Board, it is m

y recomm

endation that the P

olicy remain as approved at the M

ay 1 meeting.

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The A

MI m

eter installation project is underway w

ith 3% of m

eters installed as of April 13,

2Aß

. There are currently 25 custom

ers that have requested to opt-out of installing AM

I lneters.

Based on the rate of 2o/o of P

G&

E opt-out S

marl-M

eter customers in the N

ovato area there could

be Lrp to 400 custonrers electing to opi-out of the program. T

hese customers have expressed

concerns prirnarily revolved around health issues perlaining to radio frequency (RF

) emissions

from the antenna on the m

eter. Further inform

ation regarding customer concerns and R

F data

impacts w

as discussed at the March 20 board m

eeting.

A survey w

as conducted by staff to establish how other agencies are addressing sim

ilar

customer concerns. A

lthough the agencies are in different stages of implem

entation the majority

did not allow custom

ers to opt-oui of AM

I meter installation. T

he seven agencies that responded

were C

arpinteria Valley W

ater District, E

ast Valley W

ater District, V

alley of the Moon W

ater

District, and the C

ities of Buena P

ark, Cotati, R

oseville, and Santa R

osa. The results of the survey

indicated that one had an established opt-out policy, one was considering a policy, and five did

not allow opting out.

As this project continues through the im

plementation phase various options have been

considered Staff recom

mends the D

istrict establish an opt-out policy to accomm

odate those

custorners that have concerns with digital A

MI m

eters. This policy w

ill provide guidelines for

meter-reading, billing, and m

ove-out procedures for opt-out customers.

Those custom

ers that wish to opt-out of the installation of an A

IVII m

eter must subm

it an

application. Tlrese custom

ers will continue to have their m

eters manually read by N

IVW

D s F

ield

Service R

epresentatives. The cost of reading the m

eters, and the subsequent adrninistrative

duties, has been calculated at $'101 per customerfor each billing cycle and w

ill be added to the

opt-or,rt customer's btll

1 Per custonrer lti-m

orrthly charge of $lO =

Meter R

eadirrg and Systenr D

ata Errtry, $7.50 ($60/hour for 7

l-ninutes/rneter ¡-0.50 velricle tinre) + A

dministration,

$2 50 ($76lhr for 2 lnitrutes/rretet). Note: llourly ratr:s

represent ¿

ln average of the job classification and include all ellployer paid berrefìts

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April27,2O

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age 2 of 2Staff recom

mends that once a m

eter is installed there be no opt-out option. The custom

er

is notified approximately 10 clays priorto the m

eter installation. This allow

s for sufficienttirre for

the customer to call in w

ith questions or opt-out requests. Additionally, w

hen an opt-out customer

calls to discontinue service (move out), a F

ield Service R

ep will be dispatched to install an A

MI

meter. A

s tenant occupancy turnover occurs the number of opt-out custom

ers will decrease.

This m

emo ancl policy have been review

ed by legal counsel and their input has been

incorporated.

Staff R

ecom

endation

Staff recom

mends the B

oard approve the AM

I opt-out policy detailed below

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Last Revised:

A residential custom

er may opt-out of the installation of an A

dvanced Metering lnform

ation

(AM

l) meter. T

he request must be m

ade in writing by the N

MW

D custom

er of record (family

mem

loers, neighbors, or landlorcls cannot act on behalf of another unless there is a power of

attorney duly executed by the customer then in effect, in w

hich case the attorney in fact can act

for the customer) prior to the installation. T

o opt-out, the customer m

ust complete and subm

it an

opt-out application to NM

WD

.

There w

ill be a bi-monthly m

eter reading fee of $10 per opt-out customer. T

his fee is

assessed based on the time it w

ill take to read the meter and the adm

inistrative time to enter and

process the data.

When w

ater service is discontinued by a customer w

ho has opted-out, the District w

ill

install an AM

I meter on the account. lf a custom

er who has opted-out subsequently requests the

installation of an AM

I meter, an A

MI m

eter will be installed at no charge and that custom

er's

parlicipation in tlre opt-out program w

ill be terminated. O

nce an AM

I meter has been installed,

there is no optìon to opt-out.

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Subject:

Board of D

irectors

Pablo R

amudo, W

ater Quality S

upervisor (P-

Third Q

uafter FY

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uality Report

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Water served to the com

munities of N

ovato and Point R

eyes met all federal and state

primary and secondary w

ater quality standards during the third quafter of fiscal year 2017-2018

Follow

ing is a review of the activities and w

ater quality issues in regards to:

. S

ource Water

. T

reatmentP

erformance

. D

istribution System

Water Q

uality

. N

ovato Recycled W

ater

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Source W

ater: Stafford Lake

Stafford Lake w

ater was not used as a source of drinking w

ater in the third quarter. Water

quality was m

onitored on a bi-weekly basis for chem

ical and mineral com

ponents as well as

microbiological

activity.

Algae and plankton from

the raw w

ater intake were identified and enum

erated. Total algae

numbers w

ere low as is com

mon in w

inter months w

ith no large blooms. S

ix species were present

in appreciable numbers including tw

o comm

on cyanobacteria.

Treatm

ent Perform

ance: Stafford T

reatment P

lant

Stafford T

reatment P

lant did not produce any waterduring

the quarter. Waterw

as back-fed

into Stafford Lake from

the distribution system during this period. T

his was accom

plished using a

connection designed for this purpose that bypasses most of the treatm

ent plant plumbing. W

ater is

dechlorinated and monitored as it enters the lake in com

pliance with the district's potable w

ater

discharge permit.

Distribution S

ystem: N

ovato

Of the 264 routine sam

ples collected for compliance w

ith the Total C

oliform R

ule, there was

one coliform positive sam

ple this quarter. The colíform

bacteria were detected in a sam

ple taken

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: Novato)

from the sam

ple station representing the area served byWildhorse tank. T

he chlorine concentration

in the sample w

as sufficient to maintain disinfection and follow

up samples w

ere all clean, it is

suspected that a sampling error m

ay have been responsible for the result. Chlorine residual

concentrations throughout our distribution system

were good.

Average disinfection by-product concentrations w

ere moderate and typical for this tim

e ofyear.

Continuing the practice w

hich began in dryer years, NW

MD

performed a lim

ited flushing

program to clear sedim

ent that can accumulate in distribution m

ains. Zone l w

as targeted with

flushing that stafted in mid-M

arch and continued through late April.

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Source W

ater: Goast G

uard Wells

Raw

water quality w

as acceptable throughout the quarler. Water quality param

eters affected

by salt water w

ere elevated, but began to decrease by the end of the quarter. The sodium

concentration ranged from 81 - 87 m

glL, chloride concentration decreased from 260 to 88/L, and

bromide ranged from

0.32 to 0.91 mg/L. H

ardness ranged from 150 - 300 m

g/L.

Source W

ater: Gallagher W

ell

Gallagher w

ell was used as a source of w

ater during the quarler. Water quality param

eters

affected by saltwater are very low

from this source and are not prone to intrusion from

seawater.

Sodium

concentration remained steady at around 10 m

g/L, chloride at around 11 mglL, and brom

ide

at 0.06 mg/L. H

ardness was also fairly steady around 1 15 m

g/L.

Treatm

ent Perform

ance: Point R

eyes Treatm

ent Plant

Treatm

ent was optim

al throughout most of the quafter and finished w

ater qualitywas good.

lron and manganese w

ere not detected in treated water.

Waterw

as primarily sourced from

GallagherW

ellwhich

was supplem

ented with w

aterfrom

the Coast G

uard wells during tim

es of higher demand. W

ater from the tw

o sources is blended prior

to treatment.

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Distribution S

ystem: P

oint Reyes

Of 23 routine sam

ples collected for compliance w

ith the Total C

oliform R

ule, there were no

coliform positive sam

ples this quarter. Chlorine residual concentrations throughout our distribution

system w

ere good.

Disinfection byproducts w

ere moderate and typical for this tim

e of year.

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The D

eer lsland plant did not produce water during the quarter

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Item #15

To:

Board of D

irectors

From

: Julie Blue, A

uditor-Controller à7b

Subj: lnitial R

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Y19 W

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ater and Oceana M

arin Sew

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one at this time. U

pon adoption, the FY

19 Budgets w

ould see:

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ate lncrease....,,........W

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Expenditure P

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ewer S

ystem R

ate lncrease.........O

ceana Marin S

ewer S

ystem E

xpenditure Plan ....

June 1,2018

.... $37,000$1,962,000.... $11,000.. $760,000

Follow

ing for your initial review are the budgets for the W

est Marin W

ater System

and the

Oceana M

arin Sew

er System

proposed for FY

2018119 (FY

19). Proposed for the W

est Marin

Water S

ystem custom

ers is a 4.5o/o rate increase. Proposed for the O

ceana Marin S

ewer S

ystem

customers is a 5%

rate increase.

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A 4.5o/o increase is recom

mended in both the com

modity rate and the bim

onthly service

charge, which w

ould increase to $33.00 bimonthly for the typical custom

er with a 5/8" m

eter. The

proposed West M

arin Water increase w

ould total $30 annually ($2.S0 per m

onth) for the typical

residential customer (see R

ate lncrease Analysis on page 6 of the budget docum

ent).

A letter w

as mailed to each W

est Marin W

ater customer on M

ay 11,2018 advising of the

proposed rate increase and extending an invitation to attend the public hearing and/or exercise

the right to protest the proposed increase (see page 10). lf enacted, the proposed increase is

expected to generate $37,000 in additional revenue next fiscal year.

Annual 4.5o/o increases are included in the 5-year financial plan for F

Y20 and beyond (see

page 4) to help pay for $3.5 million in C

apital lmprovem

ent Projects scheduled over the next five

years as the District m

oves forward w

ith the initial stages of construction of a Solids H

andling

Facility pilot project at the P

oint Reyes T

reatment P

lant ($1,250,000), completion of the

replacement of P

RE

Tank #44 ($625,000), replacem

ent of PR

E T

ank #1 & #2 ($450,000) and the

relocation of the Olem

a PS

Out of the F

lood Plain ($500,000). T

he financial plan anticipates

borrowing $500,000 to construct these projects over the com

ing five years.

JB M

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eview: F

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udgetsJune 1, 2018P

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Sew

er Rates

The O

ceana Marin S

ewer S

ystem held a cash balance of $529,000 at A

pril 30, 2018. A

5% ($4/m

onth) increase is proposed for FY

19, which w

ill generate an additional $1 1 ,000 per year.

The increase w

ill help fund the CIP

program for the next five years totaling $2.8 m

illion dollars

which includes the P

ond Dredging and S

olids Disposal ($400,000), the T

reatment P

ond Rehab

($1,200,000), the AC

P S

ewer R

eline Project ($300,000), and the P

arallel Force M

ain Project

($500,000). Annual 5%

increases are included in the 5-year financial plan for FY

20 and beyond

to partially fund the CIP

program. G

rant and loan funds will fund the rem

aining project costs.

An increase in the S

ewer S

ervice Charge, w

hich is collected on the Property T

ax roll, must

be adopted by ordinance, which requires readings at tw

o Board m

eetings and publication twice.

A sum

mary of the ordinance w

ill be published in the Point R

eyes Light on June 7 and June 21,

and customers have been invited to attend the June 26 m

eeting in Point R

eyes Station. T

he

ordinance summ

ary to be published is included on page 21 . The letter on page 19 w

as mailed to

each Oceana M

arin homeow

ner on May 11,2018, providing notice of the proposed sew

er rate

increase and inviting customers to the June 26 public hearing.

Gonnection F

ees

The O

ceana Marin S

ewer connection fee w

as increased in FY

17 with a 2-phased

approach. The fee increased from

$15,200 to $22,600 effective Septem

ber 1,2016, and

increased to $30,000 effective July 1,2017, all in an effort to help finance the capital

improvem

ents.

One new

connection is budgeted for both West M

arin Water and O

ceana Marin S

ewer

next fiscal year.

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udgetsJune 1,2018P

age 3

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ignificant Capital lm

provement P

rojects budgeted for the coming year, from

page 1 of

the budget package, include:

Water

o $625,000 to com

plete the replacement of P

RE

Tank #44.

r gbb0,000 to com

mence the T

P S

olids Handling P

roject for solids removal from

the

treatment plant filtrate sY

stem.

. $90,000 to com

mence the N

ew G

allaher Well #2 project w

hich totals $300,000 and will

be completed in F

Y 20.

. $50,000 to replace P

B services in S

ync with C

ounty Paving (25 replacem

ents).

. $10,000 to R

elocate the Production M

eter to improve read accuracy.

Sew

er

o $400,000 for the project to dredge the treatm

ent and storage ponds.

. $12S

,OO

O is included for pond repairs related to the 16117 storm

damage.

. $40,000 is included for continued infiltration repair w

ork to reduce the amount of rainw

ater

from infiltrating into the collection system

.

Future P

roiects

The W

est Marin W

ater 5-Year F

inancial Plan includes a $1'3 m

illion Treatm

ent Plant

Solids H

andling Facility to be constructed over a tw

o-year period comm

encing in FY

19. The P

RE

Tank#1 and#2 R

eplacement project is scheduled in F

Y21 totaling $450,000. R

elocating Olem

a

PS

out of the Flood P

lan is scheduled for FY

23 totaling $500,000.

For O

ceana Marin S

ewer, $40,000 is budgeted each year into the future to continue

infiltration repair work. $1,200,000 is included com

mencing in F

Y20 to R

ehab the OM

Treatm

ent

Pond.

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ST

MA

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You w

ill note from page 3 of the budget that the proposed W

est Marin W

ater System

Budget projects a cash deficit next fiscal year of $991,000. T

his deficit assumes l)O

o/o of the

g1,325,000 Capital lm

provement P

roject Budget is expended, w

hich does not typically occur. The

proposed budget projects one new service to be added to the system

each year into the future,

in line with the slow

growth w

e have seen recently. A history of W

est Marin W

ater system grow

th

JB M

emo re lnitial R

eview: F

Y19 W

est Marin B

udgetsJune 1, 2018P

age 4

is shown graphically on page 7 of the budget docum

ent.

FY

lg water sales volum

e is budgeted at 64 million gallons w

hich is an increase of

approximately 3%

compared to the prior year budget of 62 m

illion gallons. Average annual

consumption over the past decade is 72M

G. T

he current water use reflects a conservative

estimate and is based on the average of the past five years of use. T

he forecast assumes w

ater

sales volume w

ill remain at 64M

G in F

Y20 and rem

ain static into the future as conservation

programs (including w

ater rate increases) continue to induce more efficient use of w

ater.

Historical consum

ption data is shown on page 8..

Operating expenditures, before depreciation, are budgeted to increase 3%

from the F

Y18

adopted budget, an increase of $16,000. A graphical history of operating expenditures

is included

on page 9. The 2018 update of the C

oastal Area A

nnual Water C

ost Com

parison (page 13) shows

that, even with the proposed 4.5o/o rate increase, the w

ater cost for NM

WD

's West M

arin

customers rem

ains below that paid by the custom

ers of the other seven coastal agencies

surveyed.

OC

EA

NA

MA

RIN

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WE

R O

PE

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TIN

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UD

GE

T

The proposed O

ceana Marin S

ewer budget show

n on page 14 includes a $4/month (5%

- to $gg/month) increase in the sew

er service charge. One new

connection is budgeted for next

fiscal year, which is O

ceana Marin's average over the past five years, as show

n in the chart on

page 17. Operating expenditures are budgeted to decrease 2V

o from the F

Y18 adopted budget.

A graphical history of O

ceana Marin operating expenditures is show

n on page 18. The 2018

update of the Coastal A

rea Annual S

ewer C

ost Com

parison (page 22) shows that, w

hen the

County 1%

allocation of AB

B tax revenue is included as a ratepayer cost, and assum

ing approval

of the recomm

ended 5% sew

er service charge increase, Oceana M

arin sewer service cost w

ill

continue to rank first among the six coastal sew

er agencies surveyed.

The W

est Marin W

ater and Oceana M

arin Sew

er budgets will be review

ed again at the

June 19 meeting. A

public hearing to considerthe proposed water rate increases and to adopt

the water and sew

er budgets is then scheduled for June 26 in Point R

eyes Station.

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NORTH MARIN WATER DISTRICT

CAPITAL IM PROVEM ENT PROJ ECTS 5124118

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FY18 EstFY18 Budqet Actual FYI9 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23

6.

2.6263.20

2.7160.00

2.6609.20

2.8829.00

2 6601 32

WEST MARIN WATER SYSTEMa. Replace PRE Tank #4A QsKsal ø82K sal)

b. Green Sand Filter Media Replace-FY18

c. New Gallaqher Well #2d. PB Replace in Svnc w/ County Pavinq

e. TP Solids Handlinq (Note+)

f. Abandon Downev Wellq. Relocation of Production Meterh. PRE Íank#1 & #2 Reolacementi. Relocate Olema PS Out of Flood Plainj. Othe r West Marin Water Svstem Expenditures

OCEANA MARIN SEWER SYSTEM

a. lnfiltration Repairb. Desiqn/lnstall 8th Disposal Trench (aoo')

c. Tahiti Wav Lift Pumos Rebuild (2) (every 5 yrs)

d. Tahiti Wav Power Relocatione. ACP Sewer Reline (6"@ 3,ooo')

f. Pond F)ror,ln in & Solids Disoosal

$550,000 $150,000 $625,000

$75,000 $25,000$1o,ooo $90,000 $2oo,ooo

$50,000 $0 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000

$50,000 $550,000 $700,000$25,ooo $125,000

$10,000$450,000

$500,000

$15,000$675.000 $250,000 $1,325,000 $950,000 $525,000 $175,000 $550,000

$40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000

$80,000$20,000 $20,000 $20,000

$20,000$50 000 $250 000

$50.000 $400,000$6.000 $150,000 $1,050,000

$3S,000 9125,000$100,000 $400,000

$210.000 $41.000 $565.000 $190,000 $1,090,000 $210,000 $710,000

7.

a.8672.2A

8.7163.00

8.7085_02

8.7'164.00

8.7166.00

8.717'1.00

4.7173.O0

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OM Treatment Pond Rehab-(Note 9)

h. OM Treatment Pond-Storm Damage (Note 10)

i Parallel Force Main tlst of 3 Segments) (Note 11)

NORTH MARIN WATER DISTRICT

CAPITAL IM PROVEM ENT PROJ ECTS

LESS FUNDED BY LOANS/GRANTS/OTHER

a. WM Treatment Plant Solids Handlinq (Note 4)

b. WM TP Modific Desiqn/Construct (Note 6)

c. OM Treatment Pond Rehab (¡:ote g)

d. OM Treatment Pond-Storm Damaqe (Note l0)

FY21

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FY19 FY20

($6e,000)

($500,000)

($113,000) ($1,038,000)

e. OM Parallel Force Main 11

TOTAL LOAN/GRANT FUNDS

SUMMARY - NET PROJECT OUTLAYWest Marin Water

Oceana Marin SewerNET PROJECT OUTLAY

$400,000)

$61 038 0

$675,000 $25O,OOO $1,325,000 $450,000 $525,000 $175,000 $550,000

ç21 000 000 $77 000 000 10 000 10 000

000

$10,000 ùU

STUDIES & SPECIAL PROJECTS

a. Dioitize West Marin Water Facilitv Maps2_4061.00

8.4062_00 b. Oceana Marin Vulne

WEST MARIN WATER DEBT SERVICE

a. EDA Loanb. PRE-1 Revenue Bondc. PR-6 Revenue Bond

$25,000000

$2,000 $2,000 $0 $0 $0 $0

$14,ooo $14,ooo $14,ooo $14,ooo $0 $0

$13,000 $13,OOO $12,000 $12,000 $13,000 $12,000

$o

$0

$o

d. TP Solids Handli Bank Loan

e. TP Solids Handlinq Add'l Bank Loan (ruote+)

f. TP Modifications Loan (Note 6)

OCEANA MARIN SEWER DEBT SERVICE

a. CIP Financinq (ruote tt)

$71,000 671

qrnn non slno ooo

$71,000 $71,000 $71,000 $71,000 $71,000

$0 $0 $35,000 ,000 $35,000

se7 000 s97.000 s1 '19.000 $1 18.000 $106,000

$0 $1 8,000 $17,000 $46,000

$624 000 s696.000 s503.000 $966.000NET PROJECT OUTLAY & DEBT SERVICE qqRÃ non ß365 000 s 918 000

Note 4 - $.1.25M WM Water Solids Handling Facil¡ty partially funded by bank loan ($600,000 rema¡ninE). Additional $500K io be bonowed ln FY20 to complete project.

Nôte 6 - $2.8M WM TP Prolect funded by debt ând /or grant funds.

Note 9 - lf CaIOES grant application is successful NMWD cost share = 25o/o ol total $1.2M project cost. $250K bonowed tn FY21 al3.5o/o for 20 years.

Note 10 - If CaIOES grant applicat¡on is successful $69,000 ofthe $125,000 project will be grantfunded.

Note 1 .1 - g25OK borrowed in Fy2l at 3.5o/o fol 20 years. $4OOK borrowed in FY23 at 3.5a/o lor 20 years to fìnance clP. Assumes 5o/o ânnual sêwer service ratê increases.

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ProposedB

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Estim

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Actual

201 7/1 I

Adopted

Budget

2017/18

I231516171B19

20

OP

ER

AT

ING

INC

OM

EW

ater Sales

Misc S

ervice Charges

Total O

perating Income

$868,0007,000

$855,0007,000

$810,0007,000

$875,000 $862,ooo $817,000

OP

ER

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EX

PE

ND

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RE

S¿

S

ource of Supply

s P

umping

o O

perationsz

Water T

reatment

a T

ransmission &

Distribution

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onsumer A

ccounting'10 W

ater Conservation

11 GeneralA

dministration

12 DepreciationE

xpense13 T

otal Operating E

xpenditures

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Miscellaneous R

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xpenseT

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perating lncome/(E

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NE

T T

NC

OM

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SS

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$736,000 $715,000 $718,000

$139,000 $14?,000

$15,00042,00052,000

159,000139,00027,00010,00095,000

197000

$55,0004,000

14,000(29,000)

$16,00052,00049,000

164,000129,00024,000

6,00082,000

193,000

$53,0004,000

20,000(31,000)

$15,00045,00053,000

147,000131,00027,00010,00095,000

195,000

$53,0004,000

13,000(31,000)

$44,000

$183,000

$46,000

$193,000

$39,000

$138,000

oTH

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SO

UR

CE

S/(U

SE

S) O

F F

UN

DS

21 Add D

epreciation Expense

22 Connection F

ees23 C

apital lmprovem

ent Projects

24 Bond &

Loan Principal P

ayments

25 Working C

apital lncrease/(Decrease)

26 T

otal Other S

ouces/(Uses)

$197,00023,000

(1,325,000)(69,000)

$193,00046,000

(250,000)(69,000)

$195,00023,000

(675,000)(6e,000)

($1,174,000) ($80,000) ($526,000)

cAsH

INC

RE

AS

E/(D

EC

RE

AS

E)

($991,000) $113,000 ($388,000)

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WEST MARIN WATER5-Year Financíal Forecast

* BASIG DATA1

¿

3

Active MetersAvg Commodity Rate/1,000 GalPotable Consumption (MG)

OPERATING REVENUECommodity ChargeBimonlhly Service ChargeMiscellaneous Service Charges

Cash lncrease/(Decrease)

Operating ReserveSystem Expansion ReserveLiability Contingency Reserve

Actual2015t16

780$g.oz5ô.6

$544,743168,775

11,377

$189,0390

(9215,74e_)

(63,455)

Actual2016t17

780$9.7061.6

$597,855168,775

6,838

$20,564(33,407)51,841

113.330)

$192,15130,800

(7e,064_)

(67,081)

Est Actual2017t18

781

$10.2166.4

$678,000177,000

$20,000(31,000)53,0004,000

$193,00046,000

(250,000)

(6e,000)

Budget2018t19

782

$10.6764.0

$683,000185,000

$14,000(29,000)55,0004.000

$197,00023,000

(1,325,000)

(6e,ooo)

Proiected2019t20

783$11.16

64.0

$714,000193,000

$4,000(27,000)57,0004,000

$219,00023,000

(950,000)500,000(70,000)

($278,000)

($100,000)

Projected2020t21

784$11.68

64.0

$747,000202,000

$3,ooo(40,000)59,0004.000

$235,00023,000

(525,000)

($346,000)

($171,000)

Projected202'U22

785s12.21

64.0

$782,00021 1,000

$2,000(37,000)61,0004,000

$244,00023,000

(175,000)

$11,000

$208,000

Projected2022t23

786$12.77

64.0

$817,000221,000

$4,000(34,000)63,0004,000

ç247,00023,000

(550,000)

($352,000)

t$124.000)

4Ã

6

7

B

o

10

11

7,000 7,000 7,000 7,000 7,000 7,000

TotalOperating Revenue $724,895 $773,468 $862,000 $875,000 $914,000 $956,000 $1,000,000 $1,045,000

Operating Expendilures 9462,242 9527,780 $522,000 $539,000 $555,000 $572,000 $589,000 $607,000Deprecialion Expense 189,039 192,151 193,000 197,000 219,000 235,000 244,000 247,000

TotalOperating Expense $651,281 $719,931 $715,000 $736,000 $774,000 $807,000 $833,000 $854,000

NET OpERATtNc TNCOME $73,614 $53,537 $147,000 $139,000 $140,000 $149,000 $167,000 $191,000

NON.OPERAT¡NG REVEN UE(EXPENSE)12 lnterest Revenue $10,02513 lnteresl Expense (23,232)14 PR-2 County Tax Allocation 49,36515 Miscellaneous 596ro Total Non-Op Revenue/(Expense) 36,754 25,668 46,000 44,000 38,000 26,000 30,000 37,000

1z Net lncome $110,368 $79,205 $193,000 $183,000 $178,000 $175,000 ...:$197,000 $228,000

orHER SOURCES(USES)Add Deprecialion ExpenseConnection FeesCapital lmprovement ProjectsLoan ProceedsDebl Principal PaymentsNet Change in Working Capital

(7e,ooo) (81,000) (72,000)(9,894) 10,290

TotalOtherSources/(Uses) ($100,059) $87,096 ($80,000) ($1,174,000)

18't9

20

¿l

22

23

24

25

¿o

28

29

$10,309 $166,301 $113.000 ($991,000)

$245,289 $401 ,012 $718,000 $296,000762,422 773,000 569,00099,000 99,000 99,000 99,00030,000 30,000 30,000 30,000

$196,000 $4o,ooo $263,000 $139,000

99,000 99,000 99,000 99,00030,000 15,000Bond Redemption Reserve

ENDTNG CASH BALANCE $1,136,711 $1,303,012 $1,416,000 $425,000 $325,000 $154,000 $362,000 $238,000

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WEST MARIN WATER/vorEs# KEY

West Marin Water includes the communities of Point Reyes Station, lnverness Park, Olema, Bear Valley, Silver Hills and Paradise Ranch Estates (PRE).

1 Assumes annual increase of 1 connection per year.

2 Commodity rate and Bimonthly Service Charge increased 45%711118. Annual 4.5% increases shown thereafter for financial forecasting purposes only

not yet - considered by the Board of Directors. Note that the FY2015/16 Average Commodity Rate included a drought surcharge.

3 Consumption projection assumes64MG in FY19 and 64MG annually thereafter.

4 Average Commodity Rate multiplied by Potable Consumption.

s Bimonthly service charge shown to ìncrease 4.5% annually after FY19. Details of the rate increase structure to be determined at annual budget hearings.

B Operating Expense projected to increase 3% per year.

12 Projected available funds invested at 1.00%

14t22lnlerest and principal payments comprised of two 4O-year 5% bonds all purchased by the Farmers Home Administration:

1) 1980 PRE-1 $240,000 revenue bond fully amortized in2020:2) 1981PR-6 $217,800 revenue bond fully amortized in2021,

plus an Economic Development Administration $46,000 5o/o }-year loan paid off in 2017.

FY20 includes debt service on $500K loan to finance completion of Solids Handling Facility.

l9 The connection fee was set at $22,800 per equivalent dwelling unit effective August I , 2010.

20 Capital lmprovement Projects. See 5-year Capital lmprovement Projects Plan.

FY20 $500,000 loan to complete the Solids Handling and PRE Storage projects.

26 Operating Reserve should be comprised of a minimum of 4 months of operating expenditures as recommended by the District's financial advisors.

27 System Expansion Reserve is composed of connection fee revenue and unexpended Bank of Marin loan funds.

28 Liability Contingency Reserve - $90,000 is West Marin Water's pro-rata share (3.6%) of the District's $2.5 million liability contingency fund, available to

pay liability claims arising within the West Marin water system. $8,885 was added in Dec 2006 from sale of 2 surplus parcels in lnverness Park.

29 Bond Redemption Reserve is comprised of one year of Revenue Bond debt service ($30K) for PR-6 & PRE-1 bonds as required by bond covenant

plus tax receipts held in the Marin County treasury.

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$8.55$8.93

$8.77$9.1 6

$9.39$9.81

88.77$9.1 6

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$11.97$12.50

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$9.91

$440

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$463$484

$432$452

$703$735

$590$616

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900

800

700

600

500

400

300

200

100

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$27,000

$10,000

$95,000

$539,000$522,000

2019Budget

$r5,000$42,000

$52,000

$159,000

$139,000

$52,000

$49,000

$164,000

$129,000

$24,000

$6,000

$82,000

2O18 ela

$16,000

$60,032

$141,079

$147,913

$30,414

$10,413

$86,366

$527,781

2017

$12,904

$38,660

$109,484

$22,646

$9,986

$88,982

$463,244

2016

$18,290

$26,199

$43,184

$144,473

$18,960

$51,463

$476,799

2015

$21,862

$30,657

$59,531

$141j32$129,737

$23,457

2014

$21,183

$30,514

$53,9'16

$146,415

$146,566

$24,334

$9,791

$41,561

$474,280

2013

$22,161

$28,195

$34,466

$113,619

$124,721

$21,947

$5,857

$45,861

$396,827

2012

$21,495

$18,226

$29,609

$111,205

$120,093

$23,367

$2,008

$56,945

$382,948

2011

$18,907

$45,965

$r 12,531

$70,274

$22,108

$5,266

$66,880

$373,023

$20,232

$1,883

$63,234

$371,982

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$11,364

$31,092$60,516

$42,962$90,739

$81,052

$320,470

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$2,319

$47,801

$14,970

$87,871

$82,386

$20,285

$5,338

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Dear C

uslomer:

This letter is to advise you of proposed increases to W

est Marin w

ater rates that would

take effect on July 1,2018. lt also provides information about a P

ublic Hearing scheduled

on June 26,2018, at which tim

e written and oral com

ments w

ill be considered and a vote onthe increase w

ill be taken by the North M

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increase in the cost of water is proposed, w

hich would result in an average increase

of $2.49 per month ($30 annually) for the typical (m

edian) single{amily residential custom

erw

ho consumes 49,300 gallons of w

ater annually. Those using less than the m

edian would

see an increase less than $30 annually, and those using more w

ould pay more. T

he increasefor non-residential custom

ers (comm

ercial, institutional and irrigation accounts) would vary

based on water use and m

eter size. The m

edian non-residential account would also see an

annual 4.5% cost increase. A

detailed description of the proposed water rate increases is

included on page 3.

You can determ

ine the increase in your annual water cost based on your w

ater use over the pastyear from

our website. lnsert the nam

e on your account and your NM

WD

account number into the

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aterat reasonable cost consistent w

ith good conservation practices and minim

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pact. Maintaining and renovating the infrastructure of the rural W

est Marin W

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isexpensive. T

oday the system includes 26 m

iles of pipeline, over 1 million gallons of finished

water storage distributed across 13 tanks, T

pump stations, 168 fire hydrants, a m

ultitude ofvalves, 3 w

ells, and a water treatm

ent plant, all designed to serve 781 customers. S

ufficientrevenue to finance the ongoing system

operation and renovation must be generated.

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increase is scheduled for 6:00 pm, T

uesday, June 26,2018, at the Dance P

alace (503 BS

treet) in Point R

eyes Station.

You are invited to present oral or w

ritten testimony on the proposal at the public hearing. Y

ouhave the right to protest this proposed rate increase. lf you do, you m

ust submit a protest in

writing, even if you plan to attend the public hearing. lf w

ritten protests are submitted by a

majority of the affected property ow

ners or customers, the proposed increases w

ill not beadopted.

Your w

ritten protest must be received priorto the close of the June 26,2018 public hearing.

Written protests m

ust be signed by the property owner or custom

er of record and must include

a description of the parcel (parcel number) or N

MW

D account num

ber. Send or deliver w

rittenprotests to:

District S

ecretaryN

orth Marin W

aler District

PO

Box 146

Novato, C

A 94948

For m

ore information about the N

orth Marin W

ater District, including the history of the W

estM

arin Water S

ystem, or to view

the most recent C

oastal Area W

ater Cost C

omparison

or theD

istrict's audited financial statement, visit N

MW

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District S

ecretary at (415) 897-4133

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2018 COASTAL AREA WATEB COST COMPARISONComparison of NMWD's Charges with Other Agencies Based on Rates and Charges in Effect on 6/1i 1 I"Typical" Single Family Residence (518" x3/4" Meter) Using 49,300 Gallons Annually

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WaterServices

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1.000 Gallons$1.33/$2.00$8.26l$8.88$7.86/$11.s6$2.61/$6.26

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$838

$806

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$215.50$52.81

$207.90$77.10$61.82

$1 10.00

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$1,568$605$4BB

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Median annual consumplion for West Marin Service Area single-famìly detached home is 49,300 gallons. Use will differ in other areas and mìcroclimates.

lncludes laxes for debt service on outstanding water bonds and loans plus any applicable apportionment of the AB8 1% County levy disfributed to compensate for theProp 13 elimination of the operation and maintenance tax.

'1s1 15 Ccf quarterly@S1 .00/Ccf, 16to 21 Ccf @$1.50,22 - 28 @$3.00,29 - 40 @$6,00,41 - 60 @$10,61 - 75 @$15 and 76+ Ccf @$18/Ccf (billed quarlerly).

Based on home with net AV of $545,375 (average 2017118 AV on 544 single family homes in Bolinas less $7,000 homeowner exemption) and tax rate of0.001 O/$1 00 AV. 1 00% of this tax is allocated lo water. Also shares in 1% Counly levy. This "allocation'' ¡s projected by the County of Marin at $302,414 for Bolinasin 2017118 of which 100% is credited to the water f und amounting to $477 per service.

ln 2016 the PUC agreed to consolidate Cal Waler's Redwood Valley rates with its "Bayshore D¡slricl" (South Bay) rates. Roughly 2,000 connectìons in the Redwood ValleyDistrict, of which Coast Springs is a part, are now combined with Bayshore's 54,000 conneclions, resulling in a signìficant rate reduction for Coast Springs customers.Cost information for Cal Waler is from the 2017 survey.

First 25 cubic meters bimonthly @ $2.075/cm; next 25 cm @ $3.051/cm. Drought surcharge of $20.00/cm for use in excess of 50 cm.

First 6 Ccf monthly @ $1.95iCcf; 6 to 10 Ccf @ $4.68/Ccf; 10 to 16 Ccf @ $7.88/Ccf; 16 to 20 Ccf @ $10.80/Ccf; 20 to 30 Ccf @ $16.97lCcf; 30 lo 40 Ccf @ $21 .20Ocf;40 and above Cct @ $27.541Cc1.

Based on weighted average tax rate of $0.0034/$100 AV and home wilh net AV of $1 ,377,441 (average 2017118 AV on 662 single family homes in Stinson Beach less $7,000homeowner exemption). Slinson Beach also shares in 1% County levy. This "allocation" is projected at $693,234 in2017118 of which 70% is credited to the waterfundamounting to $664 per service.

$61.82 bi-monthlywaterservice charge for 0-800 cubic feet, then $6.51/100 cubicfeet for 801-2,500 cubic feet, then $7.43/100 cubicfeet over2,500 cubic feet.

Based on share of 1% County levy. This "allocation" by the Counly of Sonoma was estimated at $388,136 for 16117 , of which 100% was alloca.ted lo waTer amounting to $367per service. The 17118 estimale will nol be available until June.

Firsl 12 Ccf bimonthly @ $2.60/Ccf; 13lo 36 Ccf @ S4.00/Cc1,37 ro 48 @ $5.60/Ccf, 49 to 60 @ $7.70/Ccf , and 6'1+ @ $23.20lccf.

$4g.gzbimonthly flat rate includes 4,500 gallons, plus $0.921100 gallons for 4,500 to 10,000, plus $1.29/100 gallons for 10,000 to 30,000, plus $1.621100 gallons for30,000+ gallons.

257" of revenue is allocated to cap¡tal improvemenls.

The annual $300 charge is collected via water billings and is allocated to capìlal ¡mprovements.

lncludes a proposed bi-monthly increase of $1 .50-

(1 3)

(14)

(1 s)

(1 6) Rate shown is weighted average of Point Reyes Slation, Olema, Bear Valley/lnverness Park & Paradise Ranch Estates and includes a Proposedincrease. Tier rate charges do not apply to the lypical residential customer as median use does not exceed lhe 400 gpd t¡er rate threshold.

West Marin Service Area receives allocation of lhe 1% County levy projected at $49,000 in 2017118, amounling to $63 per service.

4-5% commodìty rate

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NON-OPERATTNG REVENUE(EXPENSE)io lnterest Revenue $3,63811 Interest Expense

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$99,000

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$11,000(e,000)

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$65,000

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$48,000

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$128,000

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$55.000

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$69,000

$124,000

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1 Assumes 1 connection per year, which is the average over the last 5 years. Capacity is estimated at 294 dwelling units.z Proposed 5% annual increases to build cash to fund the $400,000 Pond Dredging and Solids Disposal project commencing in FY19 and

phase 1 of the $500,000 Parallel Force Main project commencing in FY22.o Operating expenditures projected to increase 3% annually after FY18. Excludes depreciation expense.10 Projected available funds invested at 1.00%12 County tax allocation enacted subsequent to Prop 13 to compensate for O&M tax revenue previously received. OM-1fOM-3 County Tax allocation

is projected to increase 3o/o per year.17 Connection fee increased to $30,000 on711l17. Assumes connections occur in OM-3 Units 1 or 5 which are subject to the connection fee.18 Capital lmprovement Projects. See 5-year Capital lmprovement Projects PIan.1e Grant/Loan - Pond Treatment Rehab capital projects to be funded at75o/o by grants. Includes loans for capital projects of $250K in FY21

and $400K in FY23. Loans are budgeted with an interest rate of 3.5o/o for 20 years.24 Cash available for operation, maintenance and improvements.

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$2,235

$15,735

$138,518

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$29,703

$29,021

$6,895

$62,281

$2,162

$18,099

$148,161

2012

$23,687

$25,928

$1,972

$61,215

$2,636

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2011

$22,503

$18,470

$489

$61,592

$2,778

$22,359

$128,191

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$15,748

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($1 ,O32lyearl. A

5%increase is proposed equaling $9O

/month ($1,080/year).

How

will the proposed increase affect m

y sewer blll?

Oceana M

arin sewer service charges are collected on the M

arin County property tax

bill, which is rendered annually for the fiscal year period July 1 through June 30. T

heproposed sew

er service charge increase would add $4 per m

onth to the cost of sewer

service for all customers in O

ceana Marin, resulting ln a total annual charge for fiscal

year 2018119 of $1 ,080 ($90 per month for July 2018 through June 2019).

Why are rates being increased?

ln January 2016 the District concluded a M

aster Plan U

pdate that identified over $3m

illion in projects necessary to improve the reliability and redundancy of the O

ceanaM

arin Wastew

ater System

. Constructing these im

provements w

ill be financiallychallenging for the 232 custom

ers of the Oceana M

arin utility. Even if the projects are

constructed over a 2}-year period, the cost would still average $150,000 annually. T

heproposed rate increase, if enacted, w

ould generate $11,000 of additional revenueannually ($48/year X

232 customers). T

he entire Master P

lan Update is available for

review at: http://w

ww

. nmw

d.com/pdfs/aqenda/0

1 1 9 I 6. pdf .

Additional rate increases w

ill be necessary in future yeers as the District continues to

improve the reliability of the exlsting facilities and to construct redundant facilitles in

order to protecl against potential system failure and sew

age spills. Prior years' rate

lncreases were in-line w

ith financing the CIP

plan on a pay-go basis while the current

5-year financial plan includes annual rate increases of 5% and forecasts borrow

ingfunds to com

plete the plan.

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RE

, G

eneral Manager

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RR

IE

KE

HO

E, D

istrict Se{S

tary .JULIE

BLU

E, A

uditor-Controller.R

OC

KY

V

OG

LER

, Chief E

ngineer

Proposed R

ate lncreaseM

ay '11, 2018P

age 2

Public H

earing

A public hearing before the N

MW

D B

oard of Directors to consider the proposed

sewer service charge increase is scheduled for 6:00 pm

, Tuesday, June 26' 2018,

at the Dance P

alace (503 B S

treet) in Point R

eyes Station.

You are invited to present oral or w

ritten testimony on the proposal at the public

hearing. You have the right to protest this proposed rate increase. lf you do, you m

ustsubm

it your protest in writing, even if you plan to attend the public hearing. lf w

rittenprotests are subm

itted by a majority of the affected property ow

ners the proposedincrease w

ill not be imposed

Your w

ritten protest must be received prior to the close of the June 26, 2018 public

hearing. Written protests m

ust be signed by the property owner and m

ust include adescription of the parcel (parcel num

ber or service address), Send or deliver w

rittenprotests to:

District S

ecretaryN

orth Marin W

ater District

PO

Box 146

Novato, C

A 94948

For m

ore information aþout the N

orth Marin W

ater District, including a history of the

Oceana M

arin Sew

er System

, or to view the m

ost recent Coastal A

rea Sew

er Cost

Com

parison or the District's audited financial statem

ent, visit NM

WD

's website at

ww

w.nm

wd.com

or callthe D

istrict Secretary at (415) 897-4133.

Sincerely,

,ta)-rn,

Drew

Mclntyre

GeneralM

anager

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alifornia Health

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ode and Section 31 101 et seq. of the C

alifornia Water C

ode, the Board of D

irectorsof N

orth Marin W

ater District (N

MW

D), intends to am

end NM

WD

Regulation 109, O

ceana Marin

Sew

er Service - R

ates and Charges, through the adoption of O

rdinance No. 36 on June 26,

2018, fixing its charges for sewerage services for the fiscal year 2018-2019 in the am

ount of$90 per m

onth ($1,080 per year) per parcel (a proposed increase of $4 per month - $48

annually), and further intends to elect to collect such charges on the tax roll as it did for fiscalyear2017-2018 inthe sam

e manner as general taxes. N

MW

D has caused to be filed w

ith itsS

ecretary a written report containing a description of each parcel of real property receiving

sanitary sewerage service from

said District and the anticipated am

ount of charges on eachsuch parcel.

NO

TIC

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BY

GIV

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TH

AT

ON

Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 6:00 p.m

. at aregular B

oard Meeting of N

MW

D held at T

he Dance P

alace, 503 B S

treet, Point R

eyes Station,

California, said B

oard will hear and consider all protests and objections to the proposed

increase in charges for sewage services set for in said report.

Dated: M

ay 31 ,2018

Publish: June 7 and June 21 ,2018 in the P

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Bolinas Community PUD

Marshall Community Wastewater System

Tomales Village CSD

Stinson Beach Co Water - Inspection Only

Bodega Bay PUD

No. ofSewer

Services

232

163

52

107

710

1,023

MonthlyServiceCharge

$90.00 (2)

$108.17

$ge.g¿ tsl

$8'1.90 (6)

$39.65 ter

$61.10

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Revenue (1)

AnnualTotal

$1,304

$1,298

$1,186

$1,074

$769

$733

$224

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$293

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(4)

(7)

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(1 0)

Notes:

(1) lncludes taxes for debt service on outstanding sewer bonds and lcans plus any applicable allocation of the ABB 1% County levydistributed to compensate for the Prop 13 elimination of the operation and maintenance tax.

(2) lncludes proposed increase of $4/month.

(3) Basedonshareof 1%Countylevy.This"allocation"isprojectedbytheCountyof Marinat$52,000for2017l18whichequatesto$224 pe( service.

(4) Based on home with net AV of $545,375 (average 2017118 AV on 544 single family homes in Bolinas less $7,000 homeownerexemption) and tax rate of 0.0010/$1 00 AV none of which is allocated to Sewer. Also shares in 1% County levy. This "allocation"isprojectedbytheCountyof Marin aT$,302,414 forBolinasin2Ð17118 of which 100%iscreditedtothewaterfund.

(5) Community wastewater step-system commenced October 2008. Each parcel has own septic tank, pumped to a communitycollection tank, then pumped into a community leach field.

(6) lncludes proposed increase of $9.45 month to be effective 7/1/1 8.

(7) Based on home with net AV of $374,093 (average 2017118 AV on 1 07 single famìly homes in Tomales) and tax rate of 2.40/$1 00 AV

(B) On-Site Wastewater System - no sewer system. Services provided include sepiic inspections, ground and surface watermonitoring and olher inspections required by the State Water Qualily Control Board. ln addition to the cost paid to Stinson BeachWater Co., each customer must purchase and install their own on-site wastewater system.

(9) Based on allocation of 1 % Couniy levy. This "allocatlon" was projected by the County of Marin at $693,234 for 2017 118 of which 30%was allocated to sewer amounting to $293 per service.

(10) Based on share of 1% County levy. This "allocation" by the CounTy of Sonoma was estimated at $388,136 for 16117 of which 100%was allocated to water (0% to sewer). the 17118 estimate wìll not be available until June.

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Item #16

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AF

T M

inutes of Water A

dvisory Com

mittee and T

echnical Advisory C

omm

ittee35 S

tony Point R

oad, Santa R

osa, California

May 7,2018

Attendees

Jennifer Burke, C

ity of Santa R

osaJack T

ibbetts, City of S

anta Rosa

Carlene O

kiyama, C

ity of Santa R

osaS

usan Harvey, C

ity of Cotati

Craig S

cott, City of C

otatiM

ark Millan, T

own of W

indsorP

aul Piazza, T

own of W

indsorT

oni Bertolero, T

own of W

indsorJake M

ackenzie, City of R

ohnert Park

Mary G

race Paw

son, City of R

ohnefi Park

Colleen F

erguson, City of S

onoma

Dave K

ing, City of P

etaluma

Jack Baker, N

orth Marin W

ater District

Drew

Mclntyre, N

orlh Marin W

ater District

Rocky V

ogler, Nofth M

arin Water D

istrictLarry R

ussell, Marin M

unicipalWater D

istrictJack G

ibson, Marin M

unicipalWater D

istrictC

arl Gow

an, Marin M

unicipalWater D

istrictM

ark Heneveld, V

alley of the Moon W

ater District

Grant D

avis, SC

WA

Mike T

hompson, S

CW

AJay Jasperse, S

CW

AA

nn DuB

ay, SC

WA

David M

anning, SC

WA

Brad S

herwood, S

CW

AC

arrie Pollard, S

CW

ALynne R

osselli, SC

WA

Don S

eymour, S

CW

AJessica M

artini Lamb, S

CW

ALynda H

opkins, Supervisor D

istrict 5

Public A

ttendees: David K

eller, FO

ER

Brenda A

delman, R

RW

PC

Bob A

nderson, United W

inegrowers

Duane D

ewitt

1. Check-in

Mark M

illan, WA

C C

hair, called the meeting to order at 9:08 a.m

2. Public C

omm

entsA

nn DuB

ay spoke about 2018 High S

choolVideo contest w

ith this year's theme. "F

rom

the Street to the C

reek, Be P

art of the Solution" and also the W

ater Aw

areness Poster

contest.

Duane D

ewitt spoke about the need to keep natural recharge areas open in the

Roseland area.

2018 WA

C/T

AC

Meetino and A

ooroval of Minutes

T

3. Recap from

the April 2,

4

Moved by S

usan Harvey, C

ity of Cotati, seconded by M

ark Heneveld, V

alley of the Moon

Water D

istrict, to approve the minutes of the A

pril 2, 2018 WA

C/T

AC

meeting;

unanimously

approved.

Coordination C

ouW

AC

Chair M

ark Millan reported that the group m

et to establish Agenda

5. Sonom

a Marin S

aviW

ater Partnershio

a. Water P

roduction Relative to 2013 B

enchmark - D

rew M

clntyre, North M

arin Water

District, referred to the handout and reported that the M

arch 2018 Partnership w

aterusage w

as 23o/o below the 2013 benchm

ark and the year to date water usage w

as13%

below the 2013 benchm

ark.

b. Eco F

riendly Garden T

our Recap - C

arrie Pollard, S

CW

A, repofted on the event.

Com

ments follow

ed.

6. Aoorove S

onoma-M

arin Savinq

Water P

artnershio First A

mended M

OU

Drew

Mclntyre, N

odh Marin W

ater District, reported that the original M

OU

expires thisJune. H

e gave a status update on development of the F

irst Am

ended MO

U and

highlighted changes from the original M

OU

.

Moved by Jake M

ackenzie, City of R

ohnert Park, seconded by S

usan Harvey, C

ity ofC

otati, to approve the Sonom

a-Marin S

aving Water P

artnership First A

mended M

OU

;unanim

ously approved.

7. Water S

uppl v Conditions

Don S

eymour, S

CW

A, reported that norm

al water supply conditions on the R

ussianR

iver are currently in effect. He stated that a final assessm

ent on the current water

supply condition for the Russian R

iver is June 1. Lake Mendocino is above the w

atersupply target storage at about 86,000 ac-ft, Lake S

onoma is at 94%

of the water supply

pool with 230,000 ac-ft of storage.

8. Potter V

allev Proiect

Relicensino U

odateD

on Seym

our, SC

WA

, stated that various PG

&E

studies are underway per the F

ER

Capproved S

tudy Plan. H

e also reported that the Congressm

an Huffm

an stakeholderm

eetings are continuing and that two ad hoc w

orking groups have been formed.

Com

ments follow

ed.

9. SC

WA

Washi

n D.C

Supervisor H

opkins reported on the success of the SC

WA

Washington D

.C. visit w

ithconfirm

ation that the Arm

y Corps of E

ngineers has allocated $3.6M in funding this year

for the Dry C

reek project

10Biolooical O

oinion Status U

nclat eJessica M

artini Lamb, S

CW

A, review

ed the hand-out and gave update on the Fish F

low

Project, D

ry Creek H

abitat Enhancem

ent Project, F

ish Monitoring, R

ussian River

Estuary M

anagement P

roject, lnterim F

low C

hanges and Public O

utreach efforts.D

iscussion followed. W

ith respect to the Fish F

low P

roject Draft E

IR status, Jessica

reported that Agency staff are still drafting responses to the com

ments and this process

has been slowed due to the need to m

eet with som

e of the resource agencies to review

2

comm

ents. She stated that these m

eetings should be finished this summ

er. WA

C C

hairM

ark Millan requested that Jessica return late sum

mer for another report update.

11. Post O

ctober Sonom

a Fire E

vent Update

Mike T

hompson, S

CW

A, reported. S

CW

A w

ill go to their board on June 5,2018 to getauthorization to proceed w

ith financing of the sewer system

in Larkfield and for aconsultant for the design.

Jennifer Burke, C

ity of Santa R

osa, updated the comm

ittee on the Water Q

ualityinvestigation and next steps. D

iscussion followed.

'12. lnteqrated Reqional W

ater Manaoem

ent Plan(s) U

pdateG

rant Davis, S

CW

A, reported on N

orth Coast and B

ay Area lntegrated R

egional Water

Managem

ent Plans. D

iscussion followed including the future direction of these grant

funded programs. G

rant also discusses the upcoming C

alifornia Econom

ic Sum

mit in

Santa R

osa, Novem

ber 15-16.

'13. ltems for next A

qenda (Auqust 6,2018 W

AÇ

4AC

l4eelrng)N

o special requests

14. Check O

uta. N

ext WA

C/T

AC

meeting is A

ugust 6, 2018b. M

eeting was adjourned at 1O

'.22 a.m.

3

DIS

BU

RS

EM

EN

TS

. DA

TE

D M

AY

17, 2018

Date P

repared 5/15/18

The follow

ing demands m

ade against the District are listed for approval and authorization for paym

ent in accordance

with S

ection 31302 of the California W

ater Code, being a part of the C

alifornia Water D

istrict Law:

Seo

Pavable T

oF

orA

mount

23 I A

ble Tire &

Brake

All S

tar Rents

Alphagraphics M

arin

4 A

tco Pest C

ontrol

5 A

T&

T

Autom

ation Direct

Backflow

Distributors

Bay A

rea Barricade S

ervice

9 B

lackPoint T

ree Service

10 B

rilliant Corners

11 B

uck's Saw

Service

13

CA

Debt &

lnvestment A

dvisory

Calpico

Carfango, A

llen1415

Cherry, R

obert & K

ris

Tire ($318) &

Tire R

epair ('16 Nissan F

rontier)

Propane (14 gals) (S

TP

)

Rate lncrease Letter (4 P

age-Color) (18,465)

($4,295), Carrier E

nvelopes (19,000) ($1,019) &M

ailing Services (18,465) ($1,002¡

Rodent R

emoval @

Stafford Lake D

am

Telephone ($+

t¡, Fax ($73), D

ata ($173) &Leased Lines ($190)

PLC

Pads (2)

Repair K

its & S

eals for Sm

all Backflow

Devices

Signs "A

ttention All V

isitors Please S

ign ln","P

arking Only", "N

ot a Through S

treet", "Private

Parking O

nly" & "P

arking Only for V

isitors ofN

MW

D", T

raffic Flags (6), C

ones (48) ($668) &B

arricades (24) ($684)

Rem

ove Large Branches from

3 Oak T

reesA

long Atherton T

ank Road

Refund of D

eposit/New

Developm

ent/WC

Restriction-N

ovato

Low O

il Shut D

own S

witch ($Z

Z¡, R

eplacement

Concrete S

aw ($1,085), S

tring Mow

er ($32+¡,

Weedline &

2 Stroke G

as (16 qts) ($1Zt¡

JP M

organ AM

I Loan Debt lssuance C

osts

Grounding C

lamps (15)

Claim

Settlem

ent-Reim

bursement for R

epair toC

ustomer's C

ar Due to R

amp P

ut in Drivew

ayfor C

apital lmprovem

ents Project - R

idge Road

Refund O

verpayment on C

losed Account

174.14

48.90

7,282.44

325.00

495.54

79.00

97.95

1,693.88

975.00

1,000.00

1,676.08

1 ,150.00

1 09.1 5

1,485.24

48.31

o7B12*Prepaid

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ay 17,2018

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171B19

20212223

Cilia, Joseph

Cole-P

armer

I nstrument

Corrpro

DeG

abriele, Chris

Diggs, Jam

es

Environm

ental Resource A

ssoc

Evoq ua W

ater Technologies

Ferguson W

aterworks

24 F

erguson Waten¡rorks

Fisher S

cientific

Frontier C

omm

unications

Retiree E

xp Reim

b (May H

ealth lns)

'O'R

ing Head S

eals (4)

Magnesium

Rod A

nodes for ST

P F

ilters (4)

Retiree E

xp Reim

b (May H

ealth lns)

Retiree E

xp Reim

b (May H

ealth lns)

Reference S

ample (Lab)

Service on D

eionization System

(Lab)

Box Lids (20) ($B

4B), F

langes (2), Nipples (25)

($3+Z

¡ Elbow

s (12), Bushings (4), C

ouplings (2),G

askets (10) & N

ipples (17),

Prog P

ymt#1:A

Ml P

roject: Meters (1,422)

($340,689), Registers (6,289) ($938,240),

Fiberlyte Lids (2,146) ($96,470) &

lnstallations(1,431) ($25,768) (Less C

redit of $84 for Price

Correction) (B

alance Rem

aining on Contract

$2,729,977)

Vision R

eimbursem

ent

Copper A

tomic A

bsorption (Lab)

Leased Lines

343.66

46.54

412 66

1,006.54

342.23

122.33

221.07

1,435.85

1,401,084.77

157.87

107.80

2,078.92

6,269.60

4,450.65

91.91

78.79

1,092.82

331.88

2526272829303132

Gaya, D

BP

rog Pym

t#7: Perform

Tank C

oating lnspectionS

an Mateo T

ank Project (B

alance Rem

aining onC

ontract $4,467)

Golden G

ate Petroleum

Gas ($3.12lgat) &

Diesel ($3.31/gal)

Refund O

verpayment om

Closed A

ccount

AT

I Mem

branes & E

lectrolyte (ST

P)

Gottlieb, H

erbert

Grady, K

en

Grainger

Adjustable S

pray Nozzles (2) ($203), lnsulated

Lance, 6" Spray G

un, Steel T

ape Measures (10)

($1SO

¡, Reducers (6), F

lood Alarm

Sw

itches forV

alve Vaults @

Norm

an Tank &

Plum

Tank

($1Zl¡, E

lectrical Gloves, Lug N

uts for Meter

Pedestals (4), T

ools for E/M

Truck ($227) &

Spray P

aint (12)

33 H

opkins Technical P

roducts B

ack Pressure V

alve for ST

P C

hemical P

ump

*Prepaid

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ents - D

ated May 17,2018

Seo

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3436

35

lnstrumart

Latanyszyn, Rom

an

LeBrun, K

ent

Maltby E

lectric373B

Marin C

ounty Ford

Marin C

ounty Clerk

39

Moore, D

oug

MS

I Litho

Nelson S

taffing

North M

arin Auto P

arts

NoÍh B

ay Gas

Novato B

uilders Supply

46 N

SI S

olutions

47 P

ace Supply

48 P

eterson Trucks

Motor O

il (9 qts), Oil F

ilter & A

ir Filter ('12 F

250)67.91

Environm

ental Fees to be P

aid to Dept of F

ishand W

ildlife to File N

otice of Determ

ination forP

RE

Tank 4A

Replacem

ent Project

Dissolved O

xygen Meter (O

.M.)

Retiree E

xp Reim

b (May H

ealth lns)

Exp R

eimb: D

3 Application F

ees

Breaker B

ox & G

round Lug for San M

ateo Tank

Recoat ($1eO

¡, Ground B

ar for Electrical Load

Center &

Uni-strut N

uts (20)

Retiree E

xp Reim

b (May H

ealth lns)

Window

Envelopes w

ith NM

WD

Logo (10,000)

Gather D

ata & C

omplete D

istricts Annual U

rbanA

rea Water C

ost Com

parison Survey

Headlight B

ulbs (2) ('07 Toyota P

ruis), Oil F

ilters(3), A

ir Filters (3), S

park Plugs (8) ($58), B

rakeF

luid (6 qts), Motor O

n Q4 qts) ($78), F

uel LineforA

utomotive F

uses (18') ($58), Oil &

Filter for

Shop A

ir Com

pressor, Light Bulb S

witch &

LightB

ulbs (10)

Screw

s, Concrete N

ails (1 lb), Pipe S

trap,S

ocket Drivers (2), M

etal Studs (4), Lum

ber,S

takes (25), Concrete (1 yd) ($194), P

ushB

room ($54) &

Hole saw

(2)

QC

Sam

ple (3) (Lab)

11" &22" E

lls (9) ($1,547), Couplings (59)

($1,066), Nipples (10) ($749) &

Tapping S

leeve(5" x 4")

Lower S

eat Cushion ('12 lnt'l D

ump T

ruck)

941.78

343.66

120.00

226.06

2,330.75

1,006.54

789.88

896.55

319.40

422.59

204.00

3,910.71

369.99

404142434445

Nitrogen (S

TP

) ($6t Z¡ &

April C

ylinder Rental

715.37

.Prepaid

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ents - Dated M

ay 17,2018

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51525354

49 P

ini Hardw

are

50 P

oint Reyes Light

Point R

eyes Prop M

gmt A

ssn

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M and A

ssociates

55 R

ice Lake Weighing S

ystems

Rockw

ell Engineering &

Equipm

ent

57 S

cott Technology G

roup

Sequoia S

afety Supply

Soiland

Stafford, V

ernon

Thom

as Scientific

Pail, P

lumbing S

upplies (Deer lsland R

eclaimP

lant), Hacksaw

, Hex P

lug, Replacem

ent Keys

(2), Filters for D

.l. System

($SO

¡, Claw

Bar, T

oolB

ox Latch, Wallbase, F

loor Glue, S

awhorse

Bracket, S

tain, Wood F

iller, Straps (10), T

oolsfor B

uilding & G

rounds Maintenance ($107),

Wire for T

ank Repair, C

leaning Wipes, S

torageB

oxes (3), Uni S

truts for Electrical E

nclosures,E

yebolts, Concrete D

rill Bit, C

oncrete Epoxy,

Tie P

lates, Spray P

aint (3), Mouse T

rap,H

ardware, P

ressure Treated P

ost, Trow

el (2),B

ushings (3), Sprinkler H

ead & S

hovels (12)($+

t o¡

Display A

d: Salinity lntrusion into P

t. Reyes W

ellS

upply

May H

OA

Fee (25 G

iacomini R

d)

Pre-E

mploym

ent Drug S

creen (Blue, O

utcalt &G

ibbs)

Exp R

eimb: M

ileage & P

arking (AC

WA

WQ

Com

mittee M

eeting-Sacram

ento)

Prog P

ymt#7: P

erform T

hird Party C

ompliance

Monitoring for S

an Mateo T

ank Recoating

Project (B

alance Rem

aining on Contract

$3,565)

Made A

djustments to W

eights Used in

Calibrating (Lab)

Replacem

ent Mechanical S

eal for OM

LiftS

tation Pum

p #2

Quaderly M

aintenance on Engineering C

opier(1t16t18-4t15t18)

Anti-F

og Lens Wipes (300), S

afety Gloves (298)

($1Ot) &

Sunscreen P

ouches (100) ($56)

Asphalt R

ecycling (11 tons)

Retiree E

xp Reim

b (May H

ealth lns)

Safety G

loves (20) & C

leaner (Lab)

April T

elephone Charges

979.77

78.75

75.05

126.00

96.84

1,262.50

797.52

631.98

718.00

239 61

56.20

343.66

243.38

467.34

565B59

606162"Prepaid

TP

x Com

munications

Page 4 of 5

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ents - Dated M

ay 17,2018

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oF

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636465666768697071727374

T&

TV

alve&lnstrum

ent

United P

arcel Service

US

A B

lueBook

US

Bank

VW

R lnternational

Ward, Lauren

Waste M

anagement

Water E

ducation Foundation

nager

t"* Wltnl

S-l b,l

ler

Bray F

lying Lead Solenoid for S

TP

Filter V

alve275.25

Verizon W

ireless

Volvo C

onstruction Equipm

ent Parts to R

epair Paving B

reaker

Delivery S

ervice: Sent M

eter Lid Out to M

akeM

old for AM

I Project &

Standard W

eights forC

alibration

Replacem

ent Teeth for M

eter Wrenches (6)

April S

afekeeping Fee-T

reasury Securities

Com

munication G

ateways (26) ($583), O

.MS

CA

DA

& N

ovato

AlcoholW

ipes (400), Sodium

Carbonate ($Z

S¡,

Endo B

roth ($1St) &

Standard (Lab)

Novato "T

oilet Rebate" P

rogram

Misc D

ebris (10 yds)

Mem

bership Dues (M

clntyre)

Novato "T

oilet Rebate" P

rogram

Rebar C

aps (60)T

OT

AL D

ISB

UR

SE

ME

NT

S

Date

Date

30.24

190.74

172.50

643.70

134.79

261.92

200.00

190.58

161.00

200.00W

hitney, Brian

White C

ap Construction

111.58$1,457,660.61

The foregoing payroll and accounts payable vouchers totaling $1,457,660.61 are hereby approved and

authorized for payment.

I

*Prepaid

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ay 17,2018

D/S

BU

RS

EM

EN

TS

. DA

TE

D M

AY

24, 2018

Date P

repared 5122118

The follow

ing demands m

ade against the District are listed for approval and authorization for paym

ent in accordance

with S

ection 31302 of the California W

ater Code, being a part of the C

alifornia Water D

istrict Law:

Seo

Pavable T

oF

orA

mount

P/R

* E

mployees

EF

T* lnternal R

evenue Service

EF

T* S

tate of California

EF

T* C

aIPE

RS

EF

T" U

S B

ank

I A

llied Fluid P

roducts

Alpha A

nalytical Labs

Arrow

Benefits G

roup

Arrow

Benefits G

roup

Athens A

dministrators

AT

&T

Bank of M

arin

Bay A

rea Barricade S

ervice

Bender, M

atthew

11 B

orjian, Jim

12 B

relje & R

ace

Net P

ayroll PP

E 5/15/18 &

Final P

ayout DB

entley

Federal &

FIC

A T

axes PP

E 5/15/18 &

Final

Payout D

. Bentley

State T

axes & S

DI P

PE

5/15/18 & F

inal Payout

D. B

entley

Pension C

ontribution PP

E 5115118

April B

ank Analysis C

harge (Lockbox $912 &O

ther $344, Less lnterest of $134)

Tem

porary Hose for H

ighline to Connect W

aterS

ervice During O

utages over 12 Hours

Lab Testing

May D

entalAdm

in Fee

April D

ental Expense

April B

ill Review

Fees

Leased Line

Bank of M

arin Loan Principal &

lnterest (Pym

t79 of 240)

Spray C

halk (60) ($236) & M

arking Paint (24)

Annual 2018 W

ater Codes (3 B

ooks)

Vision R

eimbursem

ent

Novato "T

oilet Rebate" P

rogram

Prog P

ymt#2: E

ngineering Services for S

TP

Clearw

ell Concrete C

oating Review

(Balance

Rem

aining on Contract $3,256)

234567

$173,179.00

83,248.42

19,217.84

35,150.31

$1 ,121 .61

1,709.89

30.00

299.45

3,857.66

23.73

66.24

46,066.67

329.29

566.38

15.00

100.00

382.50

BI10*Prepaid

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ay 24,2018

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14

13 B

rilliant Corners

15

California W

ater Service

Cherry, R

obert & K

ris

Clipper D

irect

Cole-P

armer

I nstrument

Com

cast

Corner O

ffice

161718'19

Refund E

xcess Advance for C

onstruction Over

Actual Job C

ost-856 Cypress U

pside to 1"M

eter

Water S

ervice (0 CC

F) (O

M) (3/1/18-5/1/18)

Refund O

verpayment on C

losed Account

Com

muter B

enefit Program

(4)

Filters for S

olids Testing (100) (Lab)

May lnternet C

onnection

Adjustable E

rgonomic D

esk for District

Secretary

Prog P

ymt#7: S

an Mateo R

ecoat Project

(Balance R

emaining on C

ontract $99,595)

Prog P

ymt#3. C

rest Tank P

ump S

tation(B

alance Rem

aining on Contract $2,380)

Gas ($3.21lgal) &

Diesel ($3.32lgal)

14" Pipe W

rench, Security B

its for Changing

Meter Lids ($77) &

Batteries (A

AA

, AA

) (144)

Media for M

icro (Lab)

O.M

, Chlorine P

ump P

art

New

Hydrant C

ylinder & P

arts for Gate on

Stafford lntake T

ower

Chlorine D

ioxide Generator A

nnual Service &

Parts (S

TP

)

Cafeteria P

lan: Uninsured M

edicalR

eimbursem

ent

Recycled W

ater Deliveries (1l1l1B

-3l31/1 B)

Deferred C

ompensation P

PE

5115118

T/M

Cable S

plice Kits for O

ld Ranch R

d Tank

Refund O

verpayment on C

losed Account

Misc P

aving & T

raffic Control

320.72

50.68

20.62

332.00

191.79

151.12

2,420.96

29,735.00

2,959.00

2,043.79

182.18

386.40

204.87

7,750.63

7,462.08

297.79

23,281.14

11,937.26

942.34

238.00

3,393.63

20 F

arr Construction

21 G

HD

Golden G

ate Petroleum

Grainger

Hardy D

iagnostics

Harrington P

lastics

Hose &

Fittings, E

tc

lnternational Dioxide

LGV

SD

Lincoln Life

Maltby E

lectric

Marin C

ounty

McLellan, W

K

222324252627282930313233*Prepaid

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ents - Dated lúiay 24,2018

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34353637

Nationw

ide Retirem

ent Solution D

eferred Com

pensation PP

E 5115118

Novato, C

ity ofS

treet Excavation M

oratorium F

ee (2075Laguna V

ista)

2,150.00

500.00

2,557.24

25,661.01

100.00

258.50

1,699.83

43.55

100.00

11,572.03

960.20

49.08

200.00

418.29

1,254.30

1,000.00

230.19

3B39

40414243444546474B

Pace S

upply

PG

&E

Ram

os, Jose J

Saysette, C

ori

Scott T

echnology Group

Six R

obblees'

Sm

irnoff, Michael

Sonom

a County W

ater Agency

Syar lndustries

Thom

as Scientific

Tishm

a, G.

US

A B

lueBook

U.S

. Bank C

ard

49 U

S P

ostal Service

50 V

WR

lnternational

Double D

etector Check A

ssembly ($1,951) &

2"C

opper Pipe (60')

Pow

er: Bldgs/Y

ard ($2,934), Rectifier/C

ontrols($7S

Z¡, P

umping ($21,308), T

reatment ($127) &

Other ($1O

Z¡, Line E

xtension Deficiency for 100

Ocean V

iew B

lvd-Dillion B

each & N

ew S

ervicelnstallation F

ee for Harbor D

rive Pressure

Station ($1Z

S¡

Refund O

verpayment on C

losed Account

Novato "C

ash for Grass" R

ebate Program

Adm

in Photocopier M

aintenance (4/30/1 8-4t29t19)

Oil S

eals (2) ('13 Vac E

xcavator)

Novato "T

oilet Rebate" P

rogram

Conservation P

rogram S

uppott (1 l1 118-3/31/1 8)

Asphalt (6 tons)

'O' R

ing Canister G

asket

Novato "T

oilet Rebate" P

rogram

Sam

ple Test (2) (S

TP

)

Birthday Lunches ($102),C

lean-up Supplies &

Food for R

etirement P

arty ($407), Safety

lncentive Lunch ($1SO

¡, Counter &

Wire

Harness ($3tZ

¡ & T

ime B

ooks for Construction

($265)

Meter P

ostage

Endo G

lass Am

pules (40), Buffer ($92) &

Gross

Media for B

acteria (Lab)

*Prepaid

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ents - Dated M

ay 24,2018

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inzer

General M

a

Fuses &

Heat S

hrink Tube for C

onstructionE

quipment

TO

TA

L DIS

BU

RS

EM

EN

TS

Date

232.35T

sosFrzse

The foregoing payroll and accounts payable vouchers totaling $508,652.56 are hereby approved and

authorized for payment.

lrlLà

%ntroller

Date

Bf

"Prepaid

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ents - Dated M

ay 24,2018

DIS

BU

RS

EM

EN

TS

- DA

TE

D M

AY

31, 2018

Date P

repared 5129118

The follow

ing demands m

ade against the District are listed for approval and authorization

for payment in accordance

with S

ection 31302 of the California W

ater Code. beinq a oart of the C

alifornia Water D

istrict Law:

Seq

Pavable T

oF

orA

mount

c4 1 A

llied Mechanical

2 A

tt Star R

ents

Alpha A

nalytical Labs

Alphagraphics M

arin

5 A

merican F

amily Life lns

6 B

old & P

olisner

Borges &

Mahoney

Bunler C

omm

ercial

Perform

HV

AC

Maintenance on B

oiler, Water

Pum

p, 2 AC

Units, D

ucts & C

ooling Tow

er

Com

pressor Rental to A

ir Up A

ll Novato H

ydroT

anks ($1+s¡ &

Propane (17.4 gals) (S

TP

)

Lab Testing

Metering Letters (2,053), M

ailing Services

(2,053) ($1,608) & P

ostage for Mailing of A

MI

Notification Letters

May E

mployee A

ccident, Disability &

Cancer

lnsurance

April Legal S

ervices: AM

I Project ($168), B

rown

Act ($84), M

isc ($420), Nicasio W

ater Supply

($20+¡ &

Personnel lssue ($1aO

¡

pH P

robe (ST

P)

Refund S

ecurity Deposit on H

ydrant Meter Less

Final B

ill

Lab Testing

Refund O

verpayment on O

pen Account

Refund O

verpayment on C

losed Account

Exp R

eimb: S

afety Boots

Consulting S

ervices: April lT

Support ($5,000),

Radio P

rogramm

ing for Tank S

ites ($2OO

¡,

Utility B

illing Softw

are ($3OO

¡, Website

Maintenance

($50) & A

MI M

odifications ($2,100)

Refund S

ecurity Deposit on H

ydrant Meter Less

Final B

ill & R

efund Overpaym

ent on Closed

Account ($476)

$2,490.00

208.04

339.00

2,142.67

2,883.19

1 ,155.00

325.08

238.00

70.30

77.74

35.77

200.00

7,650.00

121 89

815.39

7BIC

altest Analytical Laboratory

Childs, S

atonia

Cooper, B

/Hansi D

unn

Corda, Jeff

Core U

tilities

1011121314 D

ittmann, D

ebbie & M

ichael R

efund Overpaym

ent on Closed A

ccount

15 F

arr Construction

*Prepaid

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ents - Dated M

ay 31 , 2018

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'16 F

erguson Waterw

orks

17F

isher Scientific

Fujiw

ara, Deborah

Genterra C

onsultants

1819

20 G

HD

2122 G

rainger

Grant B

uilding lnvestment

Grisw

old lndustries

High-P

urity Standards

ldexx Laboratories

lnfoSend

lntellaprint System

s

Lucchesi, Sarah

Mclellan, W

K

Mclntyre, D

rew

Metrohm

US

A

MS

I Litho

Nipples (4), V

alves (4) ($Z,0S

g), Elbow

s (39)($2lZ

¡,3" Meter B

ox & C

ouplings (20)

Hoses (2) (Lab)

Refund O

verpayment on C

losed Account

Prog P

ymt#12: S

tafford Dam

Maintenance P

lan(B

alance Rem

aining on Contract $3,799)

Prog P

ymt#10: E

ngineering Services for P

RE

Tank 4A

Project (B

alance Rem

aining onC

ontract $59,007)

Cafeteria P

lan: Uninsured M

edicalR

eimbursem

ent

36" Pick &

Plastic S

heeting to Wrap F

lex Hose

($62)

Refund E

xcess Advance for C

onstruction Over

Actual Job C

ost (1305 Grant A

ve FS

)

New

Pressure R

egulators & R

eliefs for Use

During W

ater Main R

epairs

lC S

tandards (Lab)

Vessels for E

. ColiA

nalysis (Lab)

April P

rocessing Fee for W

ater Bills ($1,258),

Postage ($3,551) &

Monthly S

upport Fee ($722)

Quarterly M

aintenance on Engineering

Scanner/C

opier

Vision R

eimbursem

ent

Cafeteria P

lan Reim

bursement

Misc P

aving & T

raffic Control

Exp R

eimb: W

ebsite Hosting R

enewal C

harge

Yearly O

rder of Supplies to P

erformP

reventative Maintenance (Lab)

Business C

ards (2,750) (11 Em

ployees)

Mem

bership Dues (V

ogler) (Budget $180) (1118-

3,282.79

25.91

35.41

520.00

211.00

70.00

107.44

1,487.47

9,118.35

53.23

248.87

5,532.13

447.00

343.00

416.66

10,824.25

675.92

975.57

259.32

125.00

23242526272829303132333435*Prepaid

National F

ire Protection A

ssoc

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ents - Dated M

ay 31, 2018

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3B39

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36 N

eal, Aim

ee

37 O

zone, Laurie

Parkinson A

ccounting System

s

Petalum

a Elks Lodge #901

PO

A of N

ovato Heights

Purdy, Janet

Recology S

onoma M

arin

Reischm

ann, Marc

Reyes, V

eronica

Roy's S

ewer S

ervice

Safeguard

Schw

aab

Sequoia S

afety Supply

Sjoblom

, Jeff

SoftR

esources

Soiland

Solenis

Sonom

a County W

ater Agency

SP

G S

olar

Terrell, P

aul

Thatcher C

hemical

Refund O

verpayment on C

losed Account

Novato "T

oilet Rebate" P

rogram

April A

ccounting Softw

are Suppotl

Deposit to H

ost NM

WD

Holiday P

arty 12l1l1B

2018 Dues (B

udget $200)

Novato "T

oilet Rebate" P

rogram

May T

rash Rem

oval & G

reen Waste D

umping

Exp R

eimb: Laboratory T

raining for Regulation

lmplem

entation

Novato "S

mart lrrigation C

ontroller" Program

Cleaning O

.M. W

et Well &

North S

treet LiftS

tation

Deposit S

lips (600) (Front C

ounter)

Stam

p "Fire H

ydrant Approved"

Safety V

ests (3) & lbuprofen (400)

Exp R

eimb: D

2 Exam

& C

ertification Fees

(Budget $0)

Prog P

ymt#7: C

onsulting Enterprise A

ssetM

anagement S

oftware (B

alance Rem

aining onC

ontract $12,783)

Asphalt R

ecycling (6 tons)

Polym

er (2,290 lbs) (ST

P)

April C

ontract Water

April E

nergy Delivered U

nder Solar S

ervicesA

greement

Refund O

verpayment on C

losed Account

Chlorine G

as (2,000 lbs) (ST

P)

April Janitorial S

ervices

38.18

100.00

292.50

500.00

200.00

100.00

1,501.28

65.00

198.98

3,000.00

123.81

87.08

60.38

125.00

1,400.00

27.85

3,403.97

454,276.29

12,664.07

35.25

4,789.00

1,877.53

51525354555657*Prepaid

Tow

nship Building S

ervices

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5859

606l626364

Trinity F

inancial

Univar

VW

R lnternational

Waste M

anagement

Weisberg, M

eg & Jay

White &

Prescott

Wilhelm

, Patricia and R

oger

Refund O

verpayment on C

losed Account

Sodium

Hypochlorite (200 gal)

Buffer S

olution & F

ilter (Lab)

Misc D

ebris (Old lT

A/C

Unit)

Refund O

verpayment on C

losed Account

Prog P

ymt#22: S

urplus Tank S

ites (Balance

Rernaining on C

ontract $9,580)

Refund O

verpayment on C

losed Account

TO

TA

L DIS

BU

RS

EM

EN

TS

416.63

424.45

180.60

59.79

61.92

200.00

38,84$539,759.79

The foregoing payroll and accounts payable vouchers totaling $539,759.79 are hereby approved and

authorized for payment.

J1- Ir-C

ontrollerD

ate

General M

anD

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nglers, Boaters M

usl Portage A

round Dam

(Forestville, C

A) - T

he Sonom

a County W

ater Agency (W

ater Agency) began inflating its rubber dam

on tlre Russian R

iver near Forestville on M

onday, May 21. T

he rubber dam is a critical conrponent of the

Russian R

iver water supply system

that provides naturally filtered drinking water to m

ore than 600,000

residents in portions of Sonom

a and Marin counties. T

he rubber dam w

ill remain inflated through

sumnler and into the fall.

The rubber dam

is typically inflatecl in late spring when dem

and for potable water increases. W

hen fullyinflated, the rubber danr creates a sm

all pool of water from

which the W

ater Agency draw

s water for use

in four off-stream infiltration ponds. T

he infìltration ponds help recharge groundwater w

hich is thennaturally filtered through sand and gravel and delivered to the W

ater Agency's custom

ers.

Boaters m

ust portage around the rubber clam, located dow

nstream of W

oliler Bridge. P

ublic notices will

be posted around tlie rubber dam w

arning the public not to recreate olt or near the darn, California

Depaftrnent of F

ish and Wildlife regulations prohibit fishing w

ithin 250 feet of the upstream and

downstreanr sides of the rubber dam

.

The R

ussian River B

iological Opinion, issued in 2008 by N

ational Marine F

isheries Service, found that

fish screens at the \ùy'ater Agency's R

iver Diversion S

tructure could harm sm

all fish, including youllgendangered coho salm

on and threatened steelhead. In order to cornply with the B

iological Opinion and

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PG

& E

intends to sell a remote M

endocino County hydropow

er project at anauction this fall, a decision that m

eans little in terms of its m

eager electricaloutput but sends a ripple through the w

ater system that supplies cities,

residents and ranchers from U

kiah south through much of S

onoma C

ountyand into northern M

arin County.

Many of the m

ore than 600,000 customers and residents w

ho get their water

from the R

ussian River have no idea how

much of it flow

s from the P

otterV

alley Project's tw

o dams on the E

el Ríver and through an aging pow

erhousein the out-of-thew

ay valley about 20 miles north of U

kiah.

There's no indication yet that P

G&

E's divestiture from

the 110-year-oldproject -

or the alternative of transferring it to local control - w

ouldjeopardize the annual diversion of m

ore than 20 billion gallons of Eel R

iverw

ater into the Russian R

iver. But the utility's announcem

ent opens the doorto changes w

ater experts have anticipated and unsettles comm

unities acrosstw

o counties that rely on it.t'T

he water supply needs to be protected," said Janet P

auli, a longtime P

otterV

alley rancher and irrigation district official. "It's very serious. There's no

way around it."

Lake Mendocino, the reservoir near U

kiah, depends on the Potter V

alleydiversion to supply dry-season R

ussian River flow

s down to H

ealdsburg andsupplem

ent the supply the Sonom

a County W

ater Agency delivers to

customers in S

onoma and M

arin counties. Most is taken from

water stored in

Lake Sonom

a, the region's largest reservoir.

But w

ithout the diversion, Lake Mendocino w

ould shrivel in size in the driestyears ahead, dim

inishing flows in the upper R

ussian River, a local

government study found.

Mendocino C

ounty Supervisor C

arre Brow

n, a Potter V

alley resident, saidP

G&

E's announcem

ent was anticipated, but still cam

e as a shock.

"Now

, we have a big issue to confront," she said, noting that S

onoma,

Mendocino, Lake and H

umboldt counties all have a stake in the long-standing

tug of war over w

ater in the Russian and E

el river basins.

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There are im

periled, federally protected salmon and steelhead trout runs ¡n

both rivers, and critics of the diversion have long considered it water stolen

from the E

el River, w

hich flows out of Lake P

illsbury, a reservoir in LakeC

ounty, and courses for 200 miles through M

endocino and Hum

boldtcounties.

The w

ater diversion through a system of tunnels and pipes engineered in the

early 1900s transformed 7,000-acre P

otter Valley into an agricultural

cornucopia that produces $3a million w

orth of wine grapes¡ pears, grass-fed

cattle and other products a year.

In contrast, the small pow

erhouse completed in 1908 at the valley's north

end generates 9.2 megaw

atts of power, about 0.1 percent of P

G&

E's nearly

7,7 O}-m

egawatt total statew

ide.

Ironically, the project was originally built to generate electricity for U

kiah andthe diverted w

ater was essentially an afterthought. P

otter Valley ranchers

quickly realized their gain and hand-dug canals to keep their lands greenw

hen the surrounding hills turn gold.

David M

oller, a director in the utility's power generation departm

ent, said ina letter announcing the auction T

hursday that shedding the Potter V

alleyP

roject would have "a negligible im

pact on PG

& E

's overall portfolio ofrenew

able power."

Continued operation of the project "is not in the long-term

best interests ofP

G&

E's electric custom

ers," he said, acknowledging that it "provides

important regional benefits, including recreation opportunities and a

significant contribution to the Russian R

iver water supply."

The divestiture is not a novel m

ove for PG

& E

.

Last month, utility officials announced an auction of tw

o non-operatinghydropow

er projects totaling 28 megaw

atts in Kern and T

ulare counties. And

last year, PG

& E

sold a 3.5-megaw

att project to the Merced Irrigation D

istrictand launched an auction of a 29-m

egawatt com

plex in Butte C

ounty.

A year ago, w

hen PG

& E

filed documents w

ith the Federal E

nergy Regulatory

Com

mission for relicensing the P

otter Valley P

roject, there were suspicions

the utility might opt to decom

mission the project.

At the tim

e, Moller said decom

missioning w

as "a possibility to be looked atit" in any relicensing case. S

hutting off the water diversion w

ould have at'devastating effect" throughout the R

ussian River w

atershed, Brow

n said atthe tim

e, calling the watershed "the econom

ic engine for the county ofM

endocino."

Many farm

ing interests in Sonom

a County feel the sam

e way about the

water's value.

Grape grow

ers in the famed A

lexander Valley viticultural area w

ould behandicapped, the S

onoma C

ounty Farm

Bureau said, and residents north of

Windsor, as w

ell as fish in the upper river, would be com

promised.

Without inflow

from the P

otter Valley P

roject, Lake Mendocino w

ould go dryin 60 percent of the years from

2015 to2045, according to a Sonom

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Critics of the project, including the nonprofit F

riends of the Eel R

iver, sensedin relicensing a renew

ed opportunity to press for removal of the project's tw

odam

s that they contend cut off migrating salm

on and steelhead fromvaluable spaw

ning areas above Lake Pillsbury.

The issues and com

peting interests are now revived, as M

oller said PG

& E

is"open to exploring" the possibility of transferring the project to a "local orregional entíty" instead of selling it at an auction'

James G

ore, chairman of the S

onoma C

ounty Board of S

upervisors, said acounty bid on the project w

ould need to include Mendocino, Lake and

Hum

boldt counties, a sentiment that B

rown expressed, as w

ell.

"It's go time to try to figure out how

we honor the different needs for that

water," he said.

Gore noted the irony of w

orking collaboratively with P

G&

E on w

ater issuesw

hile the county and utility are in a legal battle over damage claim

s from the

October w

ildfires.

Rep. Jared H

uffman, D

-San R

afael, said PG

& E

's move to sell or transfer the

hydropower project could be "a productive,opening" for dialog involving the

multiple interests in tw

o watersheds.

"I certainly am w

illing to facilitate conversations," he said. "Stay tuned."

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boldt County to draft stance on future of E

el River dam

s after PG

&B

announcement

-By W

ill Houston, E

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Hurnboldt C

ounty tribes, fishermen, city officials and environm

entalists on Tuesday called for

the Board of S

upórvisors to support full removal of P

G&

E's P

otter Valley P

r oiect darns Tuesclay

af}er the utility õompany announced last w

eek that it planned to auction off the project.

The board ultim

ately directed znd District S

upervisor Estelle F

enneil and rst District S

upervisorR

ex Bohn to draft a policy statem

ent outlining the county's position on the future of the project,w

ith the stance being based on the input from local stakeholders.

The rro-year-old P

otter Valley P

roject supplies water and pow

er to hundrecLs of thousands ofcustom

eis in the Potter V

aliey by diverting water from

the Eel R

iver into the Russian R

iver.

Board C

hairman ancl 5th D

istrict Supen,isor R

yan Sundberg said he personally w

ants to see thedam

s removed, though he said that m

ight not be a realistic option.

"These dam

s have choked off our natural resollrces, our salmon for a long tim

e," Sundberg said.

"...Dam

removal is the best w

ay to get as much w

ater down the river as possible."

Form

er Wiyot T

ribe Chairw

oman C

heryl Seidner and other tribal representatives

callecL on theboard T

uesclay to allow the tribe to have a seat at the table at the very start of discussions on the

future of the Potter V

alley Project.

Seidner, w

hose fatlæ-L_I{jl_iA

urrl_q1_çjßï w

as an Eel R

iver fisherman, said she rem

embers her

grandfather talking about the Eel R

iver when it ran w

ith eels and salmon that could be

üarvested, cannedãnd dried. Even then, she said, the irnpacts on the river from

dams and other

disturbances could be seen.

"Today eating sahnon and eel is a luxury fbr rne," she said. "W

e clon't get it like we usecl to. N

oww

e can maybé get three or fîve eels and w

e used to get gunny sacks full and we w

oulcl have it allw

inter long and we shared it w

ith the comm

unity.

"... So I alw

ays hear how m

uch water w

e had in the Bel R

iver and now som

etimes I don't even

get my ankles w

et, a few years ago, as I crossed the E

el River," S

eidner said, referencing thezou4-t' w

ater year w'hçtLil-r-ç:t!-vc-Llyçl;!

dry in some sections,

Meanw

hile, a local environrnentaÌ organization says it obtained documents show

ing thatH

umboldt C

ounty and three other counties are supporting plans to keep the dams in place.

Fennell denied the allegations.

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Constructed in rgo8 in M

endocino Cclunty, the P

otter Valley P

roject uses two dam

s and adiversion tunnel connecting the E

el River to the R

ussian River to generate pow

er and proviclew

ater for farmers and com

munities in M

endocino and Sonom

a counties.

The C

ape l-Iorn Dam

was constructecl on the E

el River in rgo8 to create the V

an Arsdale

reservoir, which w

orked to carry water south through the m

ilelclng diversion tunnel to providew

ater and generate hydroelectric power for P

otter Valley residents'

About rz m

iles upliver of Cape H

orn Dam

is the Scott D

am, w

hich was constructed in rgzz to

form the Lake P

illsbury reservoir. Lal<e P

illsbury was created to supply a continuous flow

of

water to the project's pow

er generators cluring the late spring ancl summ

er mouths w

hen the Eel

River flow

s typically begin to decrease.

The proiect is req¡ired to provide flow

s to federallyprotected spe_cies of salm

on on the river, butthe danis created challenges for the anadrom

ous fish that affected all aspects their freshwater

life such as migration, spaw

ning and juvenile development.

A fish ladder w

as add.ed to the Cape H

orn Dam

to allow fish to pass into the V

an Arsclale

reservoir, however no such pu.sage*uy exists for S

cott Dam

and as a result, about roo-r5o miles

of habitat once used for spawning w

ere lost.

Where there w

ere once about Soo,ooo salm

onids in the zoo-mile E

el River and its m

any

tributaries prior to 19Oo, only about 15,ooo return to the river each year. O

ther factors that have

been attribùt".lto the decline in Eel R

iver salmon populations are logging, overharvesting,

introcluction of invasive species, illegal watet' diversions and natural events.

Fgrtuna's interim

City M

anager Merritt P

erry said the future decision about the pro'ìect presents

an opportunity to make a signifîcant changes to the river.

"The city of F

ortuna is the largest incorporated city on the Eel R

iver and it stands to win or lose

depending on how this goes on the river health," P

erry saicl.

The federal licenses for the dam

s are set to expire in 2ozz, with P

G&

E planning to auction off

the darns.

Fennell is the chairw

ornan of the Eel-R

ussian River C

ornmission, w

hich is made up

representatives of Hum

boldt, Mendocino, S

onoma and Lake counties. S

he said that the group is

loôking at the possibility of a regional entity, such as a joint powers authority, that could look at

hoi,v thô darnsãould be nanageä and present those possibilities to PG

&E

before it auctions thedam

s to a new ow

ner.

Bohn ancl F

ennell are set to return to the board with the clraft policy statem

ent prior to thecom

mission's June B

rneeting in Ukiah.

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In a news release on M

onday evening and in comm

ents made T

ucsday, Friends of the E

el River

representatives accused Fennell and the com

mission she chairs of secretly plcltting to keep the

dams in place for fînanciai gain tcl the detrim

ent of fish.

The environm

ental organization says they used a public records request to obtain notes takenduring w

hat they ctaim w

ere secret meetings betw

een mem

bers of the Bel-R

ussian River

Com

mission including F

ennell, PG

&E

officials and Russian R

iver water districts.

The group alleges these m

eetings were held to discuss plans f'or taking the clam

s out of thefedeial ticensiñg process so as tõ avoid having to provide additional protection fbr fisheries, suchfish passage on S

cott Dam

.

The group alleges that the clam

s would instead obtain a non-pow

er licens-e_ thrclugh the state andr,voukl tuin thJP

otter Valley P

roject into a water transf'er prcf ect, but still keep hydropow

errunning.

Fe¡nell vehem

ently d.enied the accusations T

uesday, calling them "dishonest fabrications'"

"And w

e have one main goal and that is to get m

ore of our water back into our E

el River,"

Fen¡ell saicl. "A

nd this mom

ent in history, we have a golden opportunity right now

to

accomplish that and w

e will ancl w

e can with a unitecl front w

orking together. And that has been

and will continue to be m

y goal."

PG

&E

spoheswom

an Deanna C

ontreras says the company has had several inform

al meetings

with stal<

eholders to discuss icleas for the future of the Potter V

alley Project.

"None of these ideas have resulted in any plans or agreem

ents going forward," she said.

Contreras saicl the com

pany is open to exploring the possibility of transferring the project to alocal or regional entity as an alternative to the auction.

"PG

&E

is not presently involved in any active transfer or sale negotiations," Contreras said.

Tension peaked at T

uesclay's meeting after F

-riends of the Eel R

iver Conservation D

irector Scott

Greacenõalled F

ennell "duplicitous" for denying knowledge of these plans that he said w

ouldcreate an "end run" arollnd the need to create fish protections and around ongoing staÌ<

eholcler

talks about the future of the Potter V

alley Project.

"The plan you're hoping to rnovc forw

arcl will underm

ine our hope of fish recovery in the Eel .

and aõross the region,"-Greacen said. "It w

ould continue the status quo. It would sl¡ip guJ on the

promise w

e have made to the future that w

e will do better. It is a plan to w

elsh on the debt that*e o*" the future. It's a plan to say to history, 'W

e clidn't care. We knew

, but we clidn't care."'

Fennell responclecl saying that G

reacen doesn't know at all w

hat herplans are because she hasn'tcreated a platr and that her plan is to "listen to the people of H

umboldt C

ounty and represent

them, thank you very m

uch."

Greacen responcled, "I don't trust you," to w

hich Fennell replied, "T

hat's fine, I clon't feel thatgreat about you either."

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California cities and torn¡ns m

ay find themselves on a w

ater budget in the next

decade under a pair of bills approved Thursday by the legislature.

The m

easures foltow G

ov. Jerry Brornm

's call to make w

ater conservation a

permanent w

ay of life in a state long accustomed to jew

el-green larrt'ns and

suburban tracts studded with sw

imm

ing pools.

More than a year of legislative negotiations reflected the enduring conflicts

over state and local control.

Though the bills establish a fram

ework to end excessive urban w

ater use, the

proposals were substantiatly w

eakened by a series of amendm

ents sought by

water districts.

"I would say it w

as amended w

ith so many exceptions and so m

any carve-outs

... that I have serious doubts that it's going to reduce water use or lead to m

ore

efficient use," said Matt O

'Malley, executive director of S

an Diego

Coastkeeper, an environm

ental group.

Sen. B

ob Hertzberg (D

-Van N

uys), co-sponsor of one of the bills, said thatdespite necessary com

promises, the m

easures represented a "gigantic move

forward" in the state's approach to urban w

ater use.

"Instead of having a governor that [issues] emergency orders w

hen we have a

drought, it sets standards in terms of indoor, outdoor w

ater use andenforcem

ent. So w

e're not just engaged in crisis managem

ent all the time."

Under the bills, w

hich Brow

n is expected to sign, the state will set standards

that will be used to create individual w

ater budgets for the more than 4oo

water agencies that distribute supplies to cities and tor¡rns.

The budgets w

ill in essence set a target for how m

uch water a district should

use in ayeat, taking into account such factors as the local climate, am

ount of

irrigated landscape and population.

How

the local districts meet the targets w

ill be up to them. T

he budgets will be

developed over the next several years, based on standards for indoor andoutdoor use as w

ell as leakage from w

ater distribution systems.

If an agency doesn't meet its target, the S

tate Water R

esources Control B

oard

can start issuing conservation orders after July t, z0z6.

A clause that w

ould have allowed the board to issue cease-and-desist orders

was dropped. B

ut starting in late 2027, the board can impose fines of $r,ooo a

day on agencies that violate orders.

"This is the first legislation w

ith a threat of a fiscal penalty," said Tracy Q

uinn,

California w

ater conservation director for the l'[atural Resources D

efense

Council, an environm

ental group.

"While it m

ay not be the giant leap we w

ere hoping for when w

e started this

process, it's definitely a step in the right direction," she added.

The approach departs from

the one taken during California's five-year

drought, when B

rown issued an unprecedented order to cut the state's overall

urban water use by 2S

%.

Water districts com

plained that the order treated all districts the same,

whether they w

ere water hogs or m

odels of conservation.

The m

andate enrded when B

rovrn declared the drought over last year, but the

governor directed state agencies to develop permanent urban conservation

measures. T

he legislation is a step in that process.

Water districts and environm

ental groups were split on the bills, according to

a legislative listing of supporters and opponents.

Supporters included the M

etropolitan Water D

istrict of Southern C

alifornia

and Los Angeles, the P

acific Institute and the NR

DC

.

Opponents included num

erous water districts across the state, w

hich

considered the measures overreach, as w

ell as environmental groups such as

the Sierra C

lub of California and the C

alifornia Coastkeeper A

lliance, which

argued they didn't go far enough.

"It's really death by a thousand cuts," said Sara A

minzadeh, executive director

of the Coastkeeper A

lliance.

She com

plained that the indoor use standard was too high.

The m

easure sets an initial indoor standard of SS

gallons per person per day -w

hich Am

inzadeh said the vast majority of w

ater suppliers already meet. T

he

number drops to 52.5 gallons in zoz5, and to 5o gallons in zo3o.

The S

ierra Club and the C

oastkeeper alliance also objected to an amendm

ent

favoring water districts that include recycled w

ater in their potable supplies.T

hey can increase their annual water budget by ro%

to t5%.

"We felt it w

as really bad public policy to set a precedent where uses of certain

supplies... could essentially be wasted," A

minzadeh said.

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osa officials are increasingly hopeful thatthe full replacement of a portion of the

water system

in Fountaingrove contam

inated after October's w

ildfires may not be

necessary, citing steady improvem

ent in the water quality in parts of the system

.

lnstead of barreling ahead with replacing the entire system

at a cost of up to $43 million,

the city now is opting to replace the m

ost contaminated parts and see if that helps resolve

the contamination problem

.

"The data suggests it m

ay be premature to rush into full replacem

ent," said Ben

Horenstein, director of S

anta Rosa W

ater.

Tests in various parts of the 184-acre area are show

ing dramatically different levels of

contamination based on w

here the samples are taken, officials said.

Results from

water service lines -

which run from

the water m

ains to the water m

eters at

the curb and have been isolated - are show

ing the highest levels of contamination, in

some cases hundreds of tim

es the allowable levels.

Unlike the service lines, w

ater in the mains have been regularly flushed over the past

several months and are show

ing steady declines in the levels of benzene and other volatile

hydrocarbons.

Officials believe plastic pipes and system

components that m

elted during the wildfires

released the chemicals. B

ecause of low w

ater pressure in the area during the fires, the

chemicals w

ere sucked back into the service lines and mains. T

here, they adhered to or

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were absorbed into the pipes and other system

components, such as rubber gaskets. T

he

contaminants w

ere then leached back into the water, officials believe.

After an initial period of fluctuation, benzene levels have steadily been decreasing in w

ater

sampled from

fire hydrants, which draw

directly from the m

ains, said Jennifer Burke, the

city's deputy director of water and engineering resources'

Benzene levels in the advisory area -

which once encom

passed 350 homes, all but 13 of

which burned in the T

ubbs fire - have been falling since January, she said. T

ests show

they have dropped below levels that require the city to report data, and in m

any cases are

no longer detectable.

The w

ater in the mains is flushed regularly, in part to ensure it doesn't sit too long in any

one area of pipe. The practice also ensures that chlorine levels are m

aintained to keep the

water clean and free of organic contam

inants such as bacteria.

That strongly suggests that flushing action, despite early evidence to the contrary, is

helping resolve the contamination problem

, Burke said.

To date, the city has flushed 220,000 gallons of w

ater through parts of the system in the

area. Flushing initially reduced contam

ination levels but didn't eliminate them

. ln fact, in

some cases the presence of benzene stubbornly bounced back, confounding w

ater

officia ls.

But over tim

e, contamination levels in the w

ater mains have dropped as the city has

isolated the mains from

the contaminated service lines, replaced m

any service lines and

continued the flushing efforts.

The trend has prom

pted the city to reconsider the need to replace the entire water system

in the advisory area. lnstead, it is offering to install water filters for anyone seeking to

rebuild in the area while it determ

ines whether the entire system

needs to be replaced.

As an interim

step, the city will spend $3.4 m

illion to replace 500 water service lines -

350

in the advisory area and 150 outside the area - and hope contam

ination levels in the

mains continue to drop and eventually disappear.

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tilities signed off on a $600,000 contract this week to carry out the

first phase of the project. lt is expected to pick a contractor for the remainder of the w

ork,

estimated to cost $2.8 m

illion, by the end of the month.

The w

ork is expected to be completed by A

ug. 3,

The city hopes that replacing the service lines w

ill remove a source of contam

ination, allow

many isolated areas of the system

to be flushed, and that with tim

e the problem w

ill

correct itself.

"We do feel that this phased approach is the right thing to do and is in the best interests of

the comm

unity," Horenstein said.

Not everyone agrees. T

he city held a private meeting w

ith some residents of the area this

week, and som

e expressed concern thatthe "pivot," as Horenstein calls it, m

ay just be

delaying the inevitable system replacem

ent.

There w

as also some confusion about the city's prom

ises to install carbon filters for any

homeow

ner who needs one, H

orenstein said.

"There certainly are fears that the carbon system

will be the long-term

solution," he said.

But, that is far from

the case, he said.

"Giving everyone a B

rita water filter is not the w

ay to solve a long-term issue," H

orenstein

said. The city's regulators "have been pretty clear about that."

Joe Kates, w

ho attended the private meeting, said there w

as debate about the wisdom

of

the phased approach. Som

e residents who've been struggling to figure out how

to rebuild

in the area have viewed the benzene problem

as the final straw and decided to m

ove on.

But K

ates, a retired molecular biologist, said he w

as actually encouraged by the city's

systematic and data-driven approach to solving the problem

.

"lt was a very strong signal and, on the basis of that, m

y wife and I are com

mitted to

rebuilding," he said.

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ln contrast to the federal government's chronic underinvestm

ent in the pipes,

pumps, and plants that supply and treat the nation's drinking w

ater, Am

erica's

large cities are forging ahead with fresh spending to m

odernize their systems'

One result is that all the w

ork to repair municipal w

ater systems is raising the

cost of service.

ln its latest annual survey of water price trends in 30 large U

.S. cities C

ircle of

Blue found that the average price of residential drinking w

ater for a family of

four using 100 gallons per person per day rose 3.3 percent last year. lt was the

smallest increase since the survey started in 2010 and continues a recent trend

of slower price grow

th.

For a fam

ily of four using 50 gallons per person per day, the average price rose

4.6 percent, the same as the previous year. T

he median increase for the 100-

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gallon scenario was 2.4 percent. T

he median

increase was 3.1 percent at the 5O

-gallon tier, a

Ievel that reflects more conservative use.

The largest price increases occurred in C

alifornia,

where m

ajor utilities are in a construction frenzy to

cleanse dirty water for reuse, gird pipes against

earthquakes, and respond to water-supply

vulnerabilities that were exposed during the five-

year drought that ended last year.

Prices at the 50-gallon-per-person level in F

resno,

Los Angeles, S

an Diego, S

an Francisco, and S

an

Jose climbed m

ore than 7 percent. Residents of

San Jose (17.8 percent), F

resno (15.4 percent), and Los Angeles (13 percent)

absorbed the three highest price increases in the survey.

"Tw

o big cost drivers are diversification of water sources and replacing aging

infrastructure," Sanjay G

aur, vice president in the California office of R

aftelis, a

consultancy, told Circle of B

lue. Cities that lost revenue due to w

ater restrictions

during the drought are also looking to make up that deficit, he added.

The survey has lim

its. The prices do not reflect average household bills. C

ircle

of Blue has developed a sep_arate--çlgtA

-S9! for that category. T

he cost of water

is a major factor in how

much an urban A

merican fam

ily generally uses. Higher

prices generally result in lower usage.

A second constraint is that the survey is narrow

. There are m

ore than 50,000

comm

unity water system

s in the United S

tates. This assessm

ent looks at only

30 of the largest, which typically display better financial strength and few

er

health violations than their smaller counterparts. A

nd it does not consider

stormw

ater fees or Sew

er rates, which in m

any cases are far higher than

drinking water.

The strength of the survey, though, is its annual accounting of the change in

prices for three scenarios in which m

onthly water use rem

ains constant. The

survey, which attracts national attention, is useful for identifying financial trends

that influence the water bills of tens of m

illions of Am

erican residents.

This year's survey finds that the extensive investm

ents large cities are making

to their water system

s comes as the federal governm

ent continues to display

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the decades old avers¡on to paying for improving

infrastructure. President T

rump entered office

more than a year ago after cam

paigning to spark

federal investment in the system

s that move

people, goods, water, data, and electricity. T

he

grand infrastructure project Trum

p championed

faded on Capitol H

ill, where law

makers opted

instead for a status quo piecemeal approach that

was less costly and used existing financing tools.

City leaders, though, understand the urgency of

assuring their residents and businesses have

adequate supplies of water and distribution

systems that do not break in order to stay

competitive nationally and globally. Los A

ngeles,

for example, w

ants local water sources to account

for half of the city's supply by 2035, a

transformation that w

ill require billions of dollars of investment to reuse w

ater,

store more rainfall, and strip industrial chem

icals from polluted groundw

ater

basins. The city budgeted $0.0 U

¡tl¡on over the next five years for capital

projects, a category that includes basic fixes such as water m

ain replacements.

Fresno's increase is part of a five-year, $429 m

illion plan to develop an

alternative to the city's declining groundwater reserves. T

he Southeast S

urface

Water T

reatment F

acility, expected to begin full operations in June, will draw

water from

the Kings R

iver. The facility is being financed through the state

revolving fund, a low-interest, w

ater infrastructure loan program that C

ongress

is still keen to support.

San D

iego is spending $t.Z billion on the first phase of P

ure Water, the brand

name for a state-of-the-art w

astewater recycling facility, D

ischarges from the

city's wastew

ater treatment plant that are currently cast into the P

acific Ocean

will be reused for drinking.

Farlher north, S

an Francisco is nearing com

pletion of a $4.8 billion construction

program to protect its regional w

ater distribution system from

earthquake

damage. T

he city's pipes cross three fault lines.

Six cities in the survey, m

eanwhile, did not change their rates, w

hile Austin

Water in T

exas, bucking the national trend, decreased its water charges.

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The investm

ents made by these 30 cities are part of the $683 billion that

Bluefield R

esearch, a group that analyzes water infrastructure, expects

municipal utilities to spend in the next decade on w

ater and sewer system

s.

More than 40 percent of the m

oney will go tow

ard the most basic com

ponents:

repairing and replacing old pipes. These netw

orks, hidden from sight, are a

formidable asset, w

ith their total length in a single city often extending several

thousand miles.

The challenge for w

ater utilities is to earn enough revenue to repair pipes,

expand systems, m

eet regulatory requirements, and prepare for the w

et-dry

punches expected from a w

arming planet. B

ut they must do so at a tim

e when

many are selling less w

ater than they have in decades. Los Angeles, for

example, used 18 percent less w

ater last year than in 1970, despite adding

more than '1.2 m

illion people.

Weakening the Link betw

een Use and

Revenue

While residential w

ater prices are moving relentlessly upw

ard, they did so over

the last year at a slower pace. lnstead of large, double-digit expansions every

few years, som

e cities are introducing smaller, regular increases.

Houston, due to a 2010 ordinance, pegs its annual adjustm

ents to inflation and

to the city's population growth. C

hicago also links its increases to local

consumer price trends.

Atlanta has not raised rates since 2012, thanks to supplem

entary revenue from

a one-percent city sales tax.

To keep pace w

ith decreases in water dem

and, utilities are shifting a larger

share of their revenue from variable charges, w

hich are based on the number of

gallons used, to fixed charges, which are paid each billing cycle regardless of

how m

uch water flow

ed through a home's taps.

Exem

plifying that trend is San Jose, w

hich had the most drastic change in rate

structure last year of the 30 cities.

San Jose M

unicipal Water S

ystem, one of three w

ater providers in the city,

made three m

ajor moves that resulted in a double-digit percentage point

increase for some custom

ers. San Jose attributes its rate increase to the higher

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cost of purchasing Water from

San F

rancisco, which is also a regional

wholesaler, and from

Santa C

lara Valley W

ater District.

San Jose began by scrapping its increasing block rate, a rate design in w

hich

the cost of each gallon becomes m

ore expensive as use increases. The sam

e

concept governs federal income tax brackets. T

hese rates are popular because

higher prices are seen as a signal to conserve and those who use the m

ost

water pay m

ore for it.

The utility's next change w

as to shift more of its rate to the fixed fee, w

hile also

decreasing its variable charges, That shift is becom

ing a comm

on adjustment

for utilities, one they undertake in order to align their costs and revenues. One

of the drawbacks of relying on increasing block rates, if they are not w

ell-

designed, is that utility revenue is exposed to changes in the weather. W

et

summ

ers or drought restrictions can slash water use at the upper end -

and

with it, the m

oney from those m

ore-expensive gallons.

Denver W

ater executed a similar m

ove last year

as San Jose -

increasing the fixed fee and

trimm

ing the variable. Starting w

ith a rates

overhaul in 2O16, D

enver Water has gradually

shifted revenue to fixed charges. lt now collects

around 20 percent of rate revenue from the fixed

charge, compared to less than 10 percent in

2015.

The intersection of

higher rates andequity concerns haveresulted in w

ateraffordabi

I ity. becomi n g

a politically prominent

issue.

"The result is a m

ore reliable revenue stream for

us and smoother, m

ore consistent, and lower

price adjustments for our custom

ers," Travis T

hompson, a D

enver Water

spokesman, told C

ircle of Blue.

The challenge w

ith this revenue shift is that it raises concerns about equity and

conservation. Equity because frugal users w

ill shoulder a relatively higher

burden, and conservation because less of the rate will be attached to how

much

water is used.

"lt's a big balancing act," Gaur, the rates consultant, rem

arked

The num

bers bear that out. Residents in S

an Jose's Evergreen neighborhood

who use relatively little w

ater saw prices increase at a m

uch steeper rate than

high-volume users. (S

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particular neighborhoods.) At the S

0-gallon level the increase was 17 percent,

while at 100 gallons, prices rose only 3 percent.

The intersection of these tw

o trends - higher rates and equity concerns -

have resulted in water affordability becom

ing a politically prominent issue.

Philadelphia drew

attention last year for its income-based rate, but other cities

in the survey have increased financial aid for the poor.

Seattle P

ublic Utilities offers a bill discount of up

to 50 percent for the more than 30,100

households in its customer aid program

.

Denver, after its rates overhaul, still uses an

increasing block rate. But the size of the blocks

are based on winter w

ater use. As a result, indoor

use, which is fairly constant throughout the fall,

winter, and spring, is priced at a low

rate. Higher

rates apply in summ

er, when law

ns are growing

and water use can spike as m

uch as three times

as winter use. lt is a w

ay both to personalize water rates and keep a price

signal for conservation.

Not E

verything ls Bigger in T

exasR

ate decreases, on the other hand, are rare. But A

ustin Water, w

hich SerV

eS

about 1 million people in the T

exas capital, accomplished the feat.

The utility did so by m

aking two adjustm

ents, according to David A

nders,

assistant director of finance. lt refinanced its debt, which brought interest

payments dow

n, and the city started charging new housing developm

ents more

money to connect to the w

ater and sewer system

.

Austin is consistently ranked as one of the country's fastest grow

ing large cities,

Its population swelled by roughly 140,000 people since 2010. B

ut until recently

it was taking in only $B

million to $10 m

illion a year in connection fees, far lower

than what the state allow

ed.

The C

ity Council passed a resolution, effective January 2014, that increased

the connection fees. Anders said the utility is now

earning about $35 million a

year in connection charges, which are used to pay dow

n the debt.

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"The policy change m

ade development and grow

th pay more for itself, rather

than have all ratepayers subsidize the growth," A

nders told Circle of B

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