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Staff Report for Amendments to the East Bay Dischargers Authority Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This item presents amendments to the East Bay Discharges Authority (EBDA) Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement (JPA) to the Facilities and Transportation Committee. This issue is scheduled to go before City Council on November 18, 2019. Staff recommends that the Facilities and Transportation Committee recommend to the City Council to pass resolutions authorizing the City Manager to extend the agreement.
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. 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. Each agency sends a representative to serve on the EBDA Commission. Mayor Cutter is currently representing the City on the Commission.
EBDA owns and is responsible for pump stations at each treatment plant, the pipes that convey the wastewater from the treatment plants, the Marina Dechlorination Facility and the outfall pipeline. EBDA's budget is about $5 million per year, which is funded by the member agencies, pro-rated by the quantity of water each member discharges.
The agreement that created the EBDA JPA has been amended three times since its inception. The term of the current agreement ends on January 1, 2020. The member agency managers and Commission members of EBDA have been negotiating for the last four years an amendment to extend the agreement for an additional 20 years.
The EBDA Commission has approved two amendments and recommends that the governing bodies of each agency authorize their execution. The first (Amendment Fo...
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