BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:
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Adoption of Groundwater Production and Other Water Charges for District Fiscal Year 2019-2020.
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
A. Adopt a Resolution DETERMINING GROUNDWATER PRODUCTION CHARGES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019-2020; and
B. Adopt a Resolution DETERMINING SURFACE WATER, TREATED WATER, AND SOUTH COUNTY RECYCLED WATER CHARGES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019-2020.
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SUMMARY:
The District annually considers adjusting water charges necessary to provide the revenue for the service of providing water supply to Santa Clara County. Pursuant to Section 26 (and its applicable subsection) of the District Act, an annual public hearing is held before the Board on or before the fourth Tuesday of April to consider whether or not to levy a groundwater charge. The rate setting process for surface water charges includes a formal protest procedure consistent with Board Resolution 12-10. If written protests are filed by a majority of surface water operators/property owners, the surface water charge, for that zone, will not be increased.
On April 9, 2019, the Board opened the public hearing on the groundwater production charges for fiscal year 2019-20. The public hearing was continued to the evening of April 11, 2019 in Morgan Hill and closed on the evening of April 23, 2019 in San Jose. Following the close of the public hearing, the process to validate and tabulate all protests received began. With the following parameters outlined in Resolution 12-10, the District's Clerk of the Board has determined that a majority of surface water operators and/or parcel owners did not protest in either North County (Zone W-2) or South County (Zone W-5).
The counts of the protests were not available at the time this agenda memo was written. They will be provided in a supplemental agenda item.
Since the valid protests received for Zone W-2 and Zone W-5 from surface water operators, and respective parcel owners is less than a majority, there is n...
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