Parks Board, updates the Board’s statement of purpose, updates the
Board’s powers and duties to reflect their current role, aligns the
number of members with the number of City Council members, reduces
the number of members needed to achieve a quorum, aligns members’
terms to coincide with the term of their appointing Council member, and
updates the process for members appointment to and members removal
from the Board to accurately reflect City Charter Section 11,
Participation & Diversity in Boards and Commissions and Council Policy
000-06, Appointments to Boards/Commissions/Committees.
Attachments:
15. PUBLIC COMMENT ON NON-AGENDA MATTERS
This is the time when any person may address the Council on matters not
listed on this agenda, but which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of
the Council. This public comment period will begin no earlier than 5:00 p.m.
and will be limited to twelve speakers selected randomly by the Mayor. Each
speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. Speakers who do not have an
opportunity to speak during this time will be allowed to make public comment
under Agenda Item 19.
16. REPORT ITEMS
16.1
REPORT - APPROVAL OF THE PRELIMINARY FY 2025/26
REGIONAL WATER REUSE SYSTEM OPERATING AND
MAINTENANCE, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT, AND DEBT SERVICE
BUDGET AND ALLOCATION OF COSTS
BACKGROUND: The Regional Water Reuse System, managed by
Santa Rosa Water, serves five member agencies - the cities of Santa
Rosa, Rohnert Park, Sebastopol, Cotati, and the Sonoma County South
Park Sanitation District, each hereinafter referred to as “User Agency”
or collectively as “User Agencies.” The Operating Agreement
(Agreement) between the User Agencies requires that Santa Rosa
Water annually prepare a Preliminary Budget and Allocation of Costs
for the Regional Water Reuse System and notify the User Agencies of
these costs by May of each year. The Board of Public Utilities annually
recommends the proposed fiscal year Preliminary Budget and Allocation
of Costs for the Regional Water Reuse System to the City Council to be
included in the annual City budget adoption. The Regional Operations
and Maintenance (O&M) Fund budget request is $53,419,287, the
Regional cash-funded Capital Improvement Program (CIP) is
$12,000,000, and the Regional debt service due is $18,299,256.