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Support authorizing the Auditor-Controller to amend the FY 2017-18 adopted budget for Resource Management Agency Facilities Maintenance Projects, Fund 401, Appropriations Unit RMA004, increasing appropriations in the amount of $95,641, financed by unassigned fund balance (401-3101), to fund the completion of a Focused Wastewater Service Area study that will provide a current assessment of regional opportunities for sewer service area consolidation.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Budget Committee support authorizing the Auditor-Controller to amend the FY 2017-18 adopted budget for Resource Management Agency Facilities Maintenance Projects, Fund 401, Appropriations Unit RMA004, increasing appropriations in the amount of $95,641, financed by unassigned fund balance (401-3101), to fund the completion of a Focused Wastewater Service Area study that will provide a current assessment of regional opportunities for sewer service area consolidation.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
On December 13, 2016, the Board of Supervisors directed staff to develop a Memorandum of Understanding (County MOU) between the County of Monterey and then Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency ([MRWPCA] now Monterey One Water) for the preparation of a Focused Wastewater Service Area Study (Study) that will provide a current assessment of regional opportunities for sewer service area consolidation for the Bolsa Knolls, Spreckels, Indian Springs, Las Palmas Ranch, Oak Hills and Toro areas. Funding for the study and staff costs, in the amount of $125,000, was provided for in the FY 2016-17 adopted budget from an operating transfer from the General Fund 001 to the Facilities Maintenance Projects Fund 401.
The County entered into the County MOU with the MRWPCA to reimburse MRWPCA $100,425 for the cost of the Study. The County MOU included language to allow the Director of the Resource Management Agency, at their sole discretion, to approve one (1) future amendment to the ...
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