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HomeMy WebLinkAbout97-48 - Restructuring of Water Districts• RESOLUTION NO. 97 -48 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH TO CONDITIONALLY SUPPORT THE EVALUATION OF RESTRUCTURING ALTERNATIVES OF COASTAL MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT AND MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT OF ORANGE COUNTY WHEREAS, the "wholesale" delivery of water in Orange County includes production and delivery of local water supplies, as well as the delivery of imported water supplied by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California ( "MWD "); and WHEREAS, the wholesale delivery of imported MWD water in the coastal portion of Orange County stretching from Newport Beach to San Clemente has been accomplished through Coastal Municipal Water District ( "CMWD ") for over • fifty (50) years; and WHEREAS, City of Newport Beach ( "City ") as a member agency of CMWD, receives imported MWD water through CMWD for delivery to its customers; and WHEREAS, various governmental restructuring, reorganization and consolidation proposals have been recommended for the future wholesale delivery of local and imported water in the CMWD service area, including: 1) the proposed consolidation of CMWD and the Municipal Water District of Orange County ( "MWDOC") and 2) the creation of a North and South County Wholesale District divided by basin and non -basin agencies; and WHEREAS, this City has recently participated in a series of "facilitated meetings" among CMWD, MWDOC and other CMWD / MWDOC member agencies to determine whether or not the proposed consolidation of CMWD and MWDOC would be appropriate; and • WHEREAS, now that those facilitated meetings have been completed, CMWD has requested that the City formally review, analyze and consider the Res 97 -48 • issues associated with the proposed consolidation of CMWD and MWDOC and adopt a resolution in support of or opposition to: 1) the consolidation of CMWD and MWDOC; and /or 2) the reorganization of CMWD and MWDOC into a North and South County Wholesale District; and WHEREAS, the City has reviewed the information produced during the facilitated meetings and independently analyzed the impact that such restructuring proposals may have on the continued availability to the City of a reliable and economical water supply; and WHEREAS, the City has determined that the proposed restructuring proposals could result in increased services with a possible cost savings for the City or for the citizens served by the City; and WHEREAS, the City has determined that the following conditions should be considered by LAFCO during the process of evaluating any of the restructuring alternatives for CMWD and MWDOC: • Single Orange County Wholesale District (Consolidation of CMWD and MWDOC) 1. The consolidated agency should have at least seven board members with one member from Coastal. 2. The Coastal area would become an election division for a board member. 3. Maintain the current total of seven MWD directors between CMWD and MWDOC by MWD adopting a policy to preserve the current representation level. 4. At least two of the seven MWD directors should be from Coastal during the time the consolidated agency has seven MWD directors. A minimum of one, should be from Coastal, if MWD directors are reduced to six. 5. The Manager's Advisory Committee should be increased from ten • to twelve members with two from the Coastal area - -one from the North and one from the South. Res 97 -48 • 6. That our costs do not increase as a result of consolidation or reorganization and they should preferably decrease. 7. Preservation of the Laguna Declaration Policy to provide service to the existing Coastal boundaries. a. After consolidation, a new entity shall be considered as a surviving agency. 9. Preserve the existing capacity rights that the existing agencies have in transmission feeders serving the coastal service area. Creation of a North and South Countv Wholesale District 1. Maintain the current total of seven MWD directors between CMWD and MWDOC by MWD adopting a policy to preserve the current representation level. 2. That our costs do not increase as a result of consolidation or • reorganization and they should preferably decrease. 3. Preservation of the Laguna Declaration Policy to provide service to the existing Coastal boundaries. 4. Preserve the existing capacity rights that the existing agencies have in transmission feeders serving the coastal service area. WHEREAS, the City requests that a status quo option be evaluated in the review process that would leave CMWD and MWDOC unchanged. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Newport Beach (City) does hereby support: (A) Evaluation of both alternatives with the conditions described above: 1) the proposed consolidation of CMWD and MWDOC, and 2) the creation of a North and South County Wholesale District, and request that the Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) provide the • appropriate and necessary terms and conditions; and (B) As part of the review process, an evaluation of the status quo option by LAFCO. Res 97 -48 • BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City shall deliver a certified copy of the Resolution to the following: the Coastal Municipal Water District, the member agencies of Coastal Municipal Water District, the Municipal Water District of Orange County and the Local Agency Formation Commission. ADOPTED, SIGNED AND APPROVED THIS 9th day of June, 1997. Robin Clauson Assistant City Attorney ATTEST: • Lavonne Harkless City Clerk • AJ Debay, Mayopj ty of Newport ach • STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE } as. CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH } I, LAVONNE M. HARKLESS, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 97 -48, was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 9th day of June, 1997, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: Ayes: O'Neil, Thomson, Edwards, Hedges, Glover, Noyes, and Mayor Debay Noes: None Absent: None Abstain: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the • official seal of said City this 10th day of June, 1997. (Seal) L City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California