REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on a Resolution Approving an Amendment to the Restated Water Supply Agreement (WSA) between the City and County of San Francisco and Wholesale Customers in Alameda County, San Mateo County and Santa Clara County to Allow a Minimum Purchase Transfer Among Wholesale Customers and a Transfer from the City of Mountain View to the City of East Palo Alto
Report
COUNCIL PILLAR
Deliver and Enhance High Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure
BACKGROUND
In June 2009, the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA), acting on behalf of the City of Santa Clara as a wholesale customer, entered into a Water Supply Agreement with the City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco) and Wholesale Customers in Alameda County, San Mateo County and Santa Clara County (WSA). The WSA establishes the terms by which the 26 Wholesale Customers purchase water from the San Francisco Regional Water System. The WSA builds upon the 1984 "Settlement Agreement and Master Water Sales Contract between the City and County of San Francisco and Certain Suburban Purchasers in San Mateo County, Santa Clara County and Alameda County."
In September 2017, BAWSCA and the Water Management Representatives (WMRs) of the BAWSCA member agencies began reviewing the issue of Minimum Purchase Quantities, as described in Section 3.07.C of the WSA, and discussing the creation of a process to transfer Minimum Purchase Quantities. Throughout 2017 and 2018, the WMRs held multiple meetings during which the agencies currently subject to Minimum Purchase Quantity requirements and the other Wholesale Customers shared their interests and concerns regarding changes to the Minimum Purchase Quantity requirements and allowing transfers of Minimum Purchase Quantities.
Council previously approved the Amended and Restated WSA, at which time the Wholesale Customers expressed a collective interest in working together to develop a process for the expedited and permanent...
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