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jxs 05/26/2015 <br />RESOLUTION NO. 2015 -025 <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF <br />SANTA ANA DECLARING THE EXISTENCE OF A PHASE 2 <br />WATER SUPPLY SHORTAGE AND ORDERING THE <br />REDUCTION OF WATER CONSUMPTION BY AT LEAST <br />TWELVE PERCENT (12 %) <br />BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AS <br />FOLLOWS: <br />Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines <br />and declares as follows: <br />A. On April 1, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order to cities <br />and towns across California to cut water use by 25% as part of a <br />sweeping set of mandatory drought restrictions, the first in state history. <br />B. On April 1, 2015, State water officials measured the lowest April 1 <br />snowpack in more than 60 years of record - keeping in the Sierra Nevada. <br />C. On April 14, 2015, the Governing Board of the Metropolitan Water District <br />( "MWD ") took action to reduce water deliveries to its member agencies, <br />including the City of Santa Ana, effective July 1, 2015. <br />D. Because of the action taken by the MWD, beginning July 1, 2015, the <br />City's water deliveries will be reduced by 15 %. <br />E. The MWD action also includes heavy surcharges for member agencies <br />that exceed their allocations. The surcharge will be roughly four times the <br />normal price of an acre foot of water for use beyond the allocated amount. <br />F. The State of California's Drought Emergency Water Conservation <br />regulations provide that the City of Santa Ana must reduce its monthly <br />total potable water production by 12 %, using 2013 as the base year. <br />G. Santa Ana Municipal Code section 39 -105 and Water Code sections 350 <br />and 353 authorize the City Council of the City Santa Ana, as the governing <br />body of the City of Santa Ana Water Resources Division, a water <br />distributor, to declare that water shortage emergency conditions prevail <br />within the area served by such distributor whenever it finds and <br />determines that the ordinary demands and requirements of water <br />consumers cannot be satisfied without depleting the water supply of the <br />Resolution No. 2015 -025 <br />Page 1 of 5 <br />