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City of Los Angeles proposed a motion and Recommendation on the conservation turf program: Authorize terms of staff option above but with the following modifications: residential Incentive to be $2/SF up to 3000 SF. $1/ SF over 3000 SF ( I don't support the commercial incentive at this time) Commercial incentive to be $2/SF up to 6000 SF. $ 1 SF. Over 6000 SF. With 2 acre max, $93,120 annual incentive cap Public Agency: $ 2 SF up to 6000 SF. $1/SF over 6000 SF. 5.7 acre max, $250,000 annual incentive cap( I think the annual incentive cap should be higher for the public agency and the acre max) Brief Background on my committee vote last Monday: I supported the Los Angeles recommendation above in a committee meeting last Monday. The commercial incentive was the only issue I had with this action. In my personal opinion, I think we should provide more funding incentives for residential and public agencies at this time. We can amend the program next year to include commercial. The City of Santa Ana highest water use comes from Santa Ana Residents at 67 percent. The Commercial sector uses 19 percent of water. City Government only uses 3 percent of water. With that being said, public agencies like Santa Ana will need to leverage these turf removal dollars to comply with the Governor Executive order in removing turf from all city medians. City staff has an estimate of $ 14.5 million dollars to remove all turf on medians and replace it with friendly drought landscape. In closing, I would like to get your input at tomorrows council meeting as we discuss the cities proposal for a water conservation plan. MWD has a special meeting next Tuesday to vote on this conservation program funding and turf removal program. Michele Martinez