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CONSIDER DISPOSITION OF
DISTRICT RESERVE ALLOCATION |
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Meeting Date: |
May 18, 2020 |
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From: |
David J. Stoldt |
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General Manager |
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Prepared By: |
David J. Stoldt |
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General Counsel Approval: N/A |
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Committee Recommendation: Water Demand Committee met May 7, 2020 and voted 3-0 to recommend maintaining Board discretion (status quo) |
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CEQA Compliance: Action does not constitute a project as
defined by CEQA |
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The District Reserve was established
by Ordinance 182 adopted by the Board at its May 20, 2019 meeting. That Ordinance restored a definition to Rule
11, which had been removed when the District Reserve Allocation was eliminated
in 1995:
"District
Reserve Allocation" shall mean a quantity of water held/or use at the
discretion of the District.
It also re-established Rule
33-B:
The District
Reserve Allocation shall refer to a quantity of water available for use at the
District's discretion. The District Reserve Allocation can be augmented by
dedications of water from a Water Entitlement, Water Use Credit, Water Credit,
or a new Source of Supply
Use of the word “discretion” was
intentional and derived from direction provided to staff by the Water Supply
Planning Committee at its February 21, 2018 meeting. At that meeting under the agenda item “Discuss
Reinstatement of District Reserve and Policy for Use,” The committee
discussed establishment of a District reserve, and if it should be restricted
to projects that provide a public benefit or if it could be allocated for
jurisdictional use. During the discussion committee members opined that: (a)
only for public benefit projects; (b) Board should determine if a project
provides a public benefit; (c) each request should be determined on its merit
by the Board – not according to a list of qualifying projects; and (d) project
should not be growth inducing.
Water allocated from the Reserve
would not allow new meters to be set outside of the current moratorium.
Water Demand Committee met May 7,
2020 and voted 3-0 to recommend maintaining Board discretion (status quo).
RECOMMENDATION: The Committee recommends
the Board should decide whether (a) the balance in the Reserve should be
allocated equally to the jurisdictions, or (b) it should be retained by the
Board for use at its discretion. Committee and staff recommendations are to
maintain the status quo.
EXHIBIT
None
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