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Consider recommendations regarding a Request for Waiver on Competition in Purchase of Filtration Membranes at the Laguna County Sanitation District Wastewater Reclamation Plant, Third District, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
Acting as the Board of Directors, Laguna County Sanitation District:
a) Approve a Budget Revision Request No. 0007311 in the amount of $835,357.31 to purchase tertiary filtration membranes for Fiscal Year 2020-2021;
b) Authorize the County Purchasing Agent to procure membranes in an amount not to exceed $835,357.31 (includes sales tax of $56,502.31) from Suez Water Technologies and Solutions (parent company of Zenon), not a local vendor, without being required to conduct a formal bid process in Fiscal Year 2020-2021;
c) Authorize the County Purchasing Agent to procure membranes in an amount not to exceed $959,399.55 (includes sales tax of $65,359.55) from Suez Water Technologies and Solutions (parent company of Zenon), not a local vendor, without being required to conduct a formal bid process in Fiscal Year 2021-2022 pending adoption of the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 budget; and
d) Find that the proposed action is for the minor alteration of existing public facilities involving no expansion of the use beyond that which presently exists, and that the proposed action is therefore exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to 14 CCR 15301.