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Me <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />JULY 5, 2016 <br />TITLE: <br />COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH <br />PARTICIPATING PARTIES FOR THE SANTA <br />ANA DELHI DIVERSION PROJECT <br />(NONGENERAL FUND) <br />(PROJECT NO. 16 -6467) <br />(STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 6, 1G) <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1" Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />1. Authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the Council to execute a cooperative agreement <br />with the County of Orange, the Orange County Flood Control District, the Irvine Ranch Water <br />District, and the cities of Newport Beach and Costa Mesa; for the term commencing with the <br />full execution of the agreement by all parties, and extending twenty years from the <br />completion of construction with automatic ten -year renewal, thereafter; obligating the City to <br />its share of $1.9 million for design and construction, including an ongoing 33.93 percent <br />share of maintenance costs for the Santa Ana Delhi Diversion Project, subject to <br />nonsubstantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney. <br />2. Amend the Fiscal Year 16/17 Capital Improvement Plan to include the Delhi Diversion <br />Project and allocate $1.3 million in the Fiscal Year 2016/17 Budget to fund this project. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The City of Santa Ana, the County of Orange (CO), the Orange County Flood Control District <br />(OCFCD), the Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD), and the cities of Newport Beach and Costa <br />Mesa desire to enter into a Cooperative Agreement (Exhibit 1) to define the roles and <br />responsibilities related to funding design, construction, and maintenance of the Santa Ana Delhi <br />Diversion Project (Project). The Project will help improve the water quality in the Santa Ana and <br />the Newport Bay region and increase local groundwater supplies. <br />Planning for this project has been a regional collaboration among the agencies and cities. The <br />Project will divert trash and debris from dry weather low flow (non - stormwater) in the Santa Ana <br />Delhi Channel into a containment area, while conveying non - stormwater flow into an Orange <br />County Sanitation District (OCSD) trunk sewer main. This sewer main serves an Orange County <br />Water District (OCWD) groundwater replenishment system, an advanced water purification <br />25G -1 <br />