Title
Adopt a Resolution to Approve and Authorize the City Manager to Establish a Capital Reserve of $126,923 for the Exclusive Use of the East Bay Dischargers Authority for Emergency Repairs
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COUNCIL PRIORITY
* Infrastructure
* Fiscal Sustainability and Transparency
SUMMARY
The East Bay Dischargers Authority (EBDA) is responsible for the safe discharge of effluent from member wastewater treatment plants to the San Francisco Bay. The City of San Leandro is a member of the EBDA Joint Powers Authority. As part of the agreement with member agencies, EBDA requires funds to be available for unforeseen emergency repairs within 30 days of request.
EBDA's Emergency Reserves 1.8 policy, requires each member agency "to clearly identify within their agency's capital reserves a line item for EBDA that is equal to the agency's allocation." The City of San Leandro's (The City) allocation is set at $126,923 for EBDA's emergency reserve.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The City Council adopt a Resolution to create an emergency reserve fund for EBDA emergencies and allocate $126,923 for the exclusive use of funding emergency repairs required by EBDA.
BACKGROUND
EBDA was created in 1974 for the purpose of discharging treated wastewater to the San Francisco Bay. It collects the discharges from four wastewater treatment plants in the East Bay: Union Sanitary District, City of Hayward, Oro Loma Sanitary District and the City of San Leandro as well as discharge from the Livermore-Amador Valley Water Management Agency (LAVWMA). It dechlorinates these discharges and pumps the water about seven miles into the San Francisco Bay. These four entities, plus Castro Valley Sanitary District, are the five member agencies of EBDA.
The City owns and maintains the pump station at the Water Pollution Control Plant as well as the pipeline to the Marina Dechlorination Facility. EBDA owns and is responsible for the pump stations at the other Member Agencies, the pipeline fr...
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