File #: 16-00542    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Passed
File created: In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 7/12/2016 Final action: 7/12/2016
Title: Acting as the Board of Directors, Water Agency: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding a Cachuma Project Update and Contract Renewal, First, Second, Third, and Fourth Districts, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.) a) Receive and file a report on the status of Cachuma Lake Water Supply; b) Direct staff to contact the United States Bureau of Reclamation to determine the process and timeline to negotiate the renewal of the Water Supply Contract for the Cachuma Project and return to the Board for direction; and c) Find that the recommended actions a and b, to receive and file a report and to direct staff to contact the United States Bureau of Reclamation for contract renewal information, are organizational or administrative activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment and therefore do not constitute a "Project" within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act, as set forth in 14 CCR 15378(b)(5). COUNTY EXECUTIVE...
Sponsors: PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, WATER AGENCY
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A Downstream Users Accounting, 3. Attachment B Remaining Water in Cachuma - through May 2016a, 4. Attachment C Remaining MU Balance Update May 2016a, 5. Attachment D Cachuma Contract with USBR (1996), 6. Attachment E CMU Contract Example (City of SB) Resolution, 7. Presentation

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Acting as the Board of Directors, Water Agency:

 

HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding a Cachuma Project Update and Contract Renewal, First, Second, Third, and Fourth Districts, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.)

 

a) Receive and file a report on the status of Cachuma Lake Water Supply;

 

b) Direct staff to contact the United States Bureau of Reclamation to determine the process and timeline to negotiate the renewal of the Water Supply Contract for the Cachuma Project and return to the Board for direction; and

 

c) Find that the recommended actions a and b, to receive and file a report and to direct staff to contact the United States Bureau of Reclamation for contract renewal information, are organizational or administrative activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment and therefore do not constitute a “Project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act, as set forth in 14 CCR 15378(b)(5). 

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE