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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />SEPTEMBER 3, 2019 <br />TITLE: <br />APPROVE AN APPROPRIATION <br />ADJUSTMENT TO RECEIVE AND <br />APPROPRIATE $23,760 FROM THE SOCAL <br />WATER$MART PUBLIC AGENCY <br />LANDSCAPE PROGRAM TO PURCHASE <br />CENTRAL COMPUTER IRRIGATION <br />CONTROLLERS FOR CENTENNIAL PARK <br />(STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 6, 1) <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 161 Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2ntl Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />_ - FILE NUMBER <br />CI MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Approve an appropriation adjustment to receive $23,760 from the SoCal Water$mart Public <br />Agency Landscape Program in the Miscellaneous income account and appropriate the same <br />amount to the Parks, Recreations and Community Services Agency Operating Materials & <br />Supplies Buildings/Grounds account to purchase central computer irrigation controllers for <br />Centennial Park. <br />DISCUSSION <br />Funding for the SoCal Water$mart program is provided through a partnership between the <br />Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Metropolitan) and its 26 member agencies <br />throughout Southern California. Their commitment to develop an affordable balance between <br />supply and demand has made "finding" water a priority. <br />To encourage agencies that have not already installed water -efficient landscape equipment to do <br />so, SoCal Water$mart has unveiled the Public Agency Landscape (PAL) program, offering <br />enhanced incentives paid up -front for public agencies to install water -efficient landscape devices <br />at their facilities and on their grounds. Exhibit 1 describes the Terms and Conditions of this <br />program. <br />The City is proposing to install nine central computer irrigations controllers at Centennial Park. <br />The project is approximately $25,000 and the incentive program would provide $23,760 in <br />incentive funding. The incentive amount is $55 per station. The project would involve nine <br />controllers with 48 stations per controller. The department's General Fund budget for <br />maintenance covers the $1,300 difference between the cost and incentive. <br />20A-1 <br />