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State of California <br />Memorandum <br />Date: March 7. 2017 <br />To: Arthur Hinojosa, Chief <br />Division of Integrated Regional Water Management <br />Tracie L. Billington, P.E. Chiefs �q(lt <br />Financial Assistance Branch <br />Sivision of Iar�ed Regional Water Management <br />From: epartment o a r esources <br />California Natural Resources Agency <br />Subject: Approval of Disadvantaged Community (DAC) Involvement Grant Award for the Santa <br />Ana Funding Area <br />A <br />This memorandum requests your approval to award $6.3 million in Proposition 1 DAC <br />Involvement grant funding to the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA) for <br />the Santa Ana Funding Area proposal titled Disadvantaged Communities Involvement <br />Program. <br />Proposition 1, the Water Quality Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, <br />was passed by California voters on November 4, 2014, and authorized the Legislature <br />to appropriate $510 million for IRWM, of which not less than 10 percent ($51 million) <br />was allocated for the purposes of ensuring the involvement of DACs, economically <br />distressed areas, and underrepresented communities (collectively referred to as <br />DACs) in IRWM planning efforts. <br />On August 1, 2016, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) issued the final <br />Proposition 1 IRWM Grant Program Guidelines (Guidelines) and DAC Involvement <br />Request for Proposals (RFP). The Guidelines present the general processes that are <br />used by DWR to administer the Grant Program, The RFP contains solicitation -specific <br />information for awarding the $51 million, including delegation of the grant approval <br />authority from the Director to the Chief of the Division of IRWM. For this solicitation, <br />DWR requires a single Funding Area -wide proposal from each of the 12 Proposition 1 <br />Funding Areas. DWR is accepting proposals on an ongoing basis with the goal of <br />awarding all DAC Involvement funds by summer 2017. <br />On November 10, 2016, DWR received the DAC Involvement proposal from SAWPA <br />on the behalf of the Santa Ana Funding Area. DWR reviewed the proposal based on <br />the criteria published in the RFP, and returned comments back to SAWPA on <br />December 22, 2016. Comments included a request for the following information: <br />1) A letter of support for the proposal from the Santa Ana Regional Water <br />Management Group <br />2) Additional detail and evidence of the known DAC water management needs <br />3) A discussion on the barriers encountered when attempting to involve DACs in <br />past activities <br />JUNNAIVI <br />DWR 155 (Rev <br />7111) 31 <br />