25C - AGMT FOR SANTA AN WATERSHED PROJECT

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Task Description Amount Requested • Tribal Consultation: Building upon past consultation efforts, the Disadvantaged Community/Tribal Pillar Chair, in partnership with SAWPA staff, CRWA and CSU DACC will $200,276 confer with the sovereign tribal communities within the Santa Ana Watershed and the adjacent areas not served by a Regional Water Management Group. • Value of Water/Tap Water Trust: This activity will seek to share the value and safety of tap water within the communities of the watershed. There are negative economic and health $116,580 outcomes from reliance on bottled water that for the Santa Ana watershed can be overcome with a respectful, multi-lingual, and compassionate outreach campaign. • Translation Services: SAWPA will contract for translation services to produce an on -call list $171,833 of in -person meetingand written material translation consultants. • Engagement Best Practices Publications: The Water Education Foundation (WEF) will research and produce a printed publication that will take a broad look at the engagement of $118,617 DACs with water management, with case studies from around the state, including the SAWPA region. • State of the Santa Ana Watershed Conferences: WEF, in partnership with SAWPA, will develop and host two conferences. Both events will in -part focus on the water management $123,075 needs of communities, and the transition to implementation phases, respectively. The funding will support the DAC related aspects of the conferences. • Community Water Education: The CSU DACC will design and host nine DAC water education events, distributed appropriately to serve local DACs throughout the watershed. $107,481 These events will provide learning opportunities for DAC members on how to engage with the water management process in the watershed. • Water Agency Community Engagement Training: Using information garnered during the Strengths & Needs Assessment, the CSU DACC will partner with SAWPA to provide nine DAC oriented trainings to water agencies staff in the watershed. This training will include $156,204 engagement skills and specific knowledge about DACs served by the participating water agencies. • Local Elected Leader Training: LGC will develop and execute nine DAC oriented trainings for local elected leaders and their staff in the watershed. These training sessions will relay the findings of the Strengths & Needs Assessment program element, basic information on $233,035 water management topics, and best practices for helping the DACs they serve, interact with water planning. • Community Engagement Interns Program: This program will support water -related DAC engagement internships for students from the CSU, University of California, and community college campuses of the watershed. The program, administered by the CSU DACC, will $644,091 seek applications from public agencies and environmental or social justice non- governmental organizations for the services of pairs of interns to assist with community engagement or public affairs work related to DACs. Project Development • Technical Assistance (TA) for Community needs: During engagement efforts the program team will learn of projects, plans and programs. Following evaluation of these projects, plans and programs, an appropriate set will receive TA for project engineering services, curriculum development, translation services, and program support. The evaluation of the projects, plans, and programs will follow a set of evaluation criteria to - $3,087,588 be developed by the DACI TAC. This effort may also link to the State Water Resources Control Board's Technical Assistance Program, via the CSU DACC and CRWA which are both statewide TA providers. • OWOW Plan Update 2018: The DAC Involvement program information (or results) will be incorporated in the OWOW Plan. This will include an update to Subchapter 5.11 DAC/Tribal Communities and a general update throughout in reference to DAC engagement best $130,699 practices, maps, and other related materials. This will be a complementary effort to the actions funded the related Proposition 1 IRWM Planning Grant. 25C-47