Item 47 - Shared Services Agreement with the Municipal Water District of Orange County

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2.2.1. Subject to the first paragraph of this Section 2, the Parties may participate, without the need for an additional agreement, in joint activities and studies designed to ensure water supply and system reliability, including but not limited to, water reliability analyses, water supply and demand projections, master planning for water use efficiency, water system loss analysis and leak detection studies, preparation of urban water management plans and drought contingency plans, demand management studies, and studies related to water transfers, water recycling, groundwater recovery, and water storage programs. 2.2.2. The Parties may participate, without the need for an additional agreement, in joint activities and studies related to system reliability efforts for emergency response. 2.2.3. The City shall have no obligation to pay for consultant unless City has agreed to participate as set forth in the first paragraph of this Section 2. 2.3. Award and Administration of Consultant Agreements 2.3.1. When programs or services administered by MWDOC require MWDOC to engage a consultant, MWDOC will use its standardized professional services agreement as a form and will modify it as required for each particular engagement. MWDOC will award the agreement pursuant to its own Administrative Code and procedures, except as noted in this Agreement. 2.3.2. For each professional services agreement, MWDOC will determine appropriate insurance requirements. When MWDOC requires a consultant’s insurer to name MWDOC, its directors, officers, agents, employees, attorneys, consultants and volunteers as additional insureds, the same requirement will be made for the City and its Council, officers, agents, employees, attorneys, consultants and volunteers. Other protections in MWDOC’s insurance requirements, including waiver of subrogation rights, will also be extended to the City when practicable. 2.3.3. MWDOC shall administer such professional services agreements and coordinate all aspects of the proposed work. MWDOC shall communicate with the City regularly and upon request regarding the status of the agreement and the work for each professional services agreement in which the City has elected to participate. 2.3.4. MWDOC shall invoice the City for the City’s share of total costs anticipated for each professional services agreement in which the City has elected to participate, as contemplated in this Agreement. Such invoices shall be mailed by the 10th day of each month for the preceding month and shall be paid by the City within forty-five (45) days. The City shall have no obligation to pay for consultant unless City has agreed to participate as set forth in the first paragraph of this Section 2. 2.3.5. MWDOC shall inform the City on a timely basis of any proposed extra work under any professional service agreement being administered by MWDOC that would result in an MASTER AGREEMENT FOR SHARED PROGRAMS MWDOC & SANTA ANA 7 55401.00001\29553757.1