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Support adopting a Resolution to:
a. Use General Fund Contingency to provide funding for a rebate to ease non-residential customers, who are still recovering from the March 2023 storms and flooding, into the Pajaro County Sanitation District (PCSD) sewer rates approved in 2024 by PCSD Ordinance No. 5420, in response to Board Referral No. 2025.02; and
b. Authorize and direct the Auditor-Controller to transfer $217,154 for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25 from General Fund 001, Contingencies Appropriation Unit CAO020 to Pajaro County Sanitation District Fund 151, Appropriation Unit PFP047, where General Fund Contingencies has sufficient appropriations available in the adopted budget.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Budget Committee support adopting a Resolution to:
a. Use General Fund Contingency to provide funding for a rebate to ease non-residential customers, who are still recovering from the March 2023 storms and flooding, into the Pajaro County Sanitation District (PCSD) sewer rates approved in 2024 by PCSD Ordinance No. 5420, in response to Board Referral No. 2025.02; and
b. Authorize and direct the Auditor-Controller to transfer $217,154 for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25 from General Fund 001, Contingencies Appropriation Unit CAO020 to Pajaro County Sanitation District Fund 151, Appropriation Unit PFP047, where General Fund Contingencies has sufficient appropriations available in the adopted budget.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
In early March 2023, the community of Pajaro was inundated by flood waters when a portion of the Pajaro River levee failed. Evacuation orders issued by the Monterey County Sheriff for the Pajaro community and nearby areas were in effect from March 10, 2023 to March 23, 2023. The sanitary sewer force main which collects untreated wastewater from the community and transports it to the City of Watsonville for treatment was ruptured on March 13, 2023 and was out of service until March 24, 2023.
On June 6, 2023...
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