HomeMy WebLinkAboutStaff Report 3.B 6/16/2014Agenda Item #3.B
DATE: June 16, 2014
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council through City Manager
FROM: Dan St Ji en�bE Director, Public Works & Utilities
Larry Zimmer, P.E. — Capital Improvements Division Manager
SUBJECT: Resolution Adopting the San Francisco Bay Area Integrated Regional Water
Management Plan Update (BAIRWMP)
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council approve the attached Resolution adopting the San
Francisco Bay Area Integrated Regional Water Management Plan Update (BAIRWMP).
BACKGROUND
On February 25, 2013 the City Council adopted the 2006 San Francisco Bay Area Integrated
Regional Water Management Plan (Resolution #2013-016). Resolution # 2013-017 N.C.S.
provided support for submittal of a grant application for Proposition 84 Funds in the Amount of
$825,000 through the Bay Area Integrated Regional Water Management Program (BAIRWMP)
for the Capri Creek Flood Reduction/Environmental Enhancement Project, and authorized the
City Manager to execute appropriate agreements to accept the Grant. The City received the
Proposition 84 grant award for $825,000 in February 2014. As a requirement of the funding, all
sponsoring agencies must adopt the 2013 amended BAIRWMP.
The San Francisco Bay Area Integrated Regional Water Management Plan, originally adopted in
2006, was amended in 2013 to recognize and include the recently proposed Prop 84 projects.
The BAIRWMP states that the Plan is "not intended to duplicate existing and ongoing plans, but
to better integrate these efforts, and utilize the results and findings of existing plans to put
forward the projects needed to address IRWMP goals and objectives" (pg.I of Executive
Summary, attached). The Plan does not require the City to undertake any action or specific
projects. The Plan recognizes regional challenges such as water quality and reliability,
regulatory compliance, flood protection, financial and funding, environmental and watershed,
interagency coordination, expanded recycled water use, climate change and coordination with
other regions (page IX of ES). Goals of the Plan include the promotion of environmental,
economic and social sustainability, improve water supply reliability and quality, protect and
improve watershed health and function and Bay water quality, improve regional flood
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management and create, protect, enhance and maintain environmental resources and habitats.
Resource Management Strategies are presented on page XIII of the ES. The update brings the
Plan into compliance with the 2012 Integrated Regional Water Management Guidelines for
Propositions 84 and IE as published by the CA Department of Water Resources. Compliance is
required to quality for funding through the Bay Area Region's portion of the $1 billion approved
by Proposition 84. The City has representation on the various Committees and Subcommittees
(see pg. ES page IV for governance structure).
Based on the City's participation in the regional grant application, the plan makes numerous
references to the Petaluma River, the Petaluma Watershed, and the various documents the City
has adopted relative to water resources. The following specific references are included in the
amended plan regarding the City of Petaluma's activity in regional water management priorities
and efforts:
Page Content
1-7 List of Bay Area Clean Water Agency members
1-9 North Bay Water Agency partner agencies
1-12 Sonoma County Water Agency wholesale water contractors list
2-21 Groundwater basin boundary description
2-49 Bay Area recycled water programs
2-61 Table 2-22, Water Quality Issues
2-70 Flood protection infrastructure (references the Payran Reach
improvements)
6-16 Table 6-2 Project Scoring Results (illustrating Capri Creek as a Tier One
project)
8-18 Capri Creek project description
13-18 Table 13-2, North Bay Water Agency member agencies, water resource
functions
FINANCIAL IMPACTS
Adopting the BAIRWMP has no financial impacts. Staff work to prepare the Council agenda
report is billed against the Capri Creek Project budget and is reimbursable by Zone 2A funds.
ATTACHMENTS:
Resolution Adopting the Bay Area Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (2013)
Executive Summary of the Bay Area IRWM Plan.
® Items listed below are large in volume and are not attached to this report, but may be viewed on
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3. San Francisco Bay Area Integrated Regional Water Management Plan, September 2013
Attachment 1
RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA INTEGRATED
REGIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN UPDATE (BAIRWMP)
WHEREAS, the State electorate approved multiple statewide bond measures since
2000, including Propositions 50 and 84, to fund water and natural resource projects and
programs, including Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM); and
WHEREAS, the benefits of integrated planning for water resources management
activities include increased efficiency and effectiveness, enhanced collaboration across agencies
and stakeholders, and improved responsiveness to regional needs and priorities; and
WHEREAS, state statute and guidelines require that an IRWM Plan be adopted by the
governing boards of participating agencies before IRWM grant funds are provided for water
resources management projects that are part of the IRWM Plan; and
WHEREAS, several of the participating agencies in the Bay Area jointly submitted an
IRWM grant application for state consideration where a condition for funding required the Bay
Area IRWM Plan to be adopted by January 1, 2007; and
WHEREAS, the Bay Area agencies that received funding in previous grant rounds did
adopt the Bay Area IRWM Plan before such funds were received; and
WHEREAS, more recent state statutes and guidelines require that the Bay Area IRWM
Plan be updated before agencies may receive future IRWM grant funding; and
WHEREAS, a grant was received to update the Bay Area IRWM Plan, that Plan having
been completed in the fall of 2013 and submitted to the State Department of Water Resources in
January 2014; and
WHEREAS, a series of workshops were held on the initial Bay Area IRWM Plan and,
recently, the Plan Update to provide stakeholders, including Bay Area local governments, an
opportunity to ask questions, provide comments and make recommendations; and
WHEREAS, the Draft Bay Area IRWM Plan Update was posted on the internet and
made available for public comment; and
WHEREAS, the Bay Area IRWM Plan Update provides an implementation framework
that calls for tracking accomplishments, developing lists of prioritized projects and periodically
updating the Bay Area IRWM Plan as conditions warrant, provided funding and resources are
available to carry out these activities; and
WHEREAS, adoption of the Bay Area IRWM Plan Update does not entail a direct
commitment of resources and implementation of each project, as such will be the responsibility
of the project proponent and any applicable project partners, and there is no joint commitment or
responsibility by the Bay Area IRWM Plan Update participants to implement any or all of the
projects; and
WHEREAS, the City of Petaluma has reviewed the Bay Area IRWM Plan Update and
determined that it is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to CEQA
Guidelines §15263 and §15306 because the IRWM Plan Update consists of basic data collection
that would not result in the disturbance of any environmental resource and involves planning
studies for possible actions that the participating agencies have not yet approved; and
WHEREAS, the IRWM Plan Update is meant to be complementary to participating
agencies' individual plans and programs and does not supersede such plans and programs, and
adoption of the IRWM does not prohibit or effect in any way a participating agencies' planning
efforts separate from the IRWM Plan; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of
Petaluma does hereby adopt the Bay Area IRWM Plan Update.
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