25C - AGMT FOR SANTA AN WATERSHED PROJECT

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Attachment 1 Proposal Summary Proposition 1 Disadvantaged Community Involvement Grant Program Funding Area: Santa Ana Applicant: Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA) Grant Amount: $6.3 million Proposal Title: Disadvantaged Communities Involvement Program Proposal Summary: By geographic area, 28 percent of the Santa Ana River watershed is considered as a Disadvantaged Community (DAC). The Santa Ana River watershed also includes a small area of sovereign tribal land (0.5 percent of the geographic area), some of which qualifies as a DAC. The SAWPA's One Water One Watershed (OWOW) planning efforts (i.e., their IRWM Plan) has identified general water management needs, as well as specific needs in some individual communities. DACs in the watershed cannot afford to invest in the infrastructure or maintenance necessary to meet or sustain their water needs; this is highlighted in the OWOW 2.0 Plan as the largest challenge. Other water management needs in the watershed include climate impacts on water supplies, legacy groundwater and local stormwater pollution, increased water demand through growth, and inadequate or limited understanding between water managers and community members. The Santa Ana Funding Area DAC Involvement Proposal includes exploring the strengths and needs of DAC communities in the watershed, through engagement and education, uncover and share the needs and capacities within the water agencies and communities, and assure integrated water management projects that are supported by communities are made ready for implementation and prioritized in the OWOW Plan Update 2018. Task Description Amount Requested Strengths &Needs Assessment • DACI Technical Advisory Committee (TAC): The TAC will include a representative from each of the program partners and the DAC and Tribal Pillar Chair, and will recruit other members from DACs in the watershed. This group will meet regularly to advise the DACI $143,202 program efforts, and will assist developing community connections. • Disadvantaged Community/Tribal Pillar: SAWPA will assist the Pillar (one of the OWOW topic -based coordination efforts) to convene for workshops approximately five times per year. These workshops will provide opportunities to learn and consider relevant topics, $56,893 including issues of homelessness. The Pillar, through conversation and deliberation, will develop the OWOW Plan Update 2018 chapter about DACs. • Engage Local Elected Leaders: The Local Government Commission (LGC) will lead efforts to interview and/or surveylocal elected leaders who serve DACs. $73,035 • Engage Mutual Water Companies: The California Rural Water Association (CRWA) will engage with mutual water companies throughout the watershed to learn about the strengths $64,884 and needs of these or anizations. • Engage Water Agencies: SAWPA staff will engage with water agencies throughout the watershed to gather and summarize the understanding of strengths and needs of DACs $53,474 within their water service areas. • Community Listening Workshops: The California State University Disadvantaged Community Center (CSU DACC) will conduct community workshops throughout the watershed, during which community members will share their understanding of the water - $g6,843 related strengths and needs of their communily. • Community Water Ethnography of the Santa Ana River Watershed: CSU DACC will lead the writing of the Community Water Ethnography of the Santa Ana River Watershed, a report about social, cultural and water -related strengths and needs of the DACs in the $230,603 watershed. • Homelessness & Water Convening: SAWPA staff and program partners will convene a one -day event to reveal synergies and develop new partnerships between those seeking to $65,588 manage homelessness in the watershed and those en a ed with water management. Engagement/Education 25C-46