2019-028 - Authorize the WVCW Program Authority to collect storm water fee on behal of the Town to continue the clean water programRESOLUTION 2019 -028
RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
AUTHORIZING THE WEST VALLEY CLEAN WATER PROGRAM AUTHORITY TO
COLLECT THE STORM WATER FEE ON BEHALF OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
TO CONTINUE THE CLEAN WATER PROGRAM
WHEREAS, in 1992, the Town of Los Gatos (the "Town ") entered into an agreement with
the West Valley Sanitation District (the "District ") to manage the storm water program for the
Town known as the Clean Water Program; and
WHEREAS, this agreement provided a procedure for the District, as the agent of the
Town, to set and implement a fee to be used to fund the Clean Water Program for the Town;
and
WHEREAS, the District and the Town followed the procedures in the agreement and set
such a fee; and
WHEREAS, the fee has been collected since the 1994 -95 fiscal year without modification
or increase: and
WHEREAS, the District has provided notice of its intended withdrawal from the Clean
Water Program in July 2020; and
WHEREAS, in response to the District's withdrawal, on April 2018, the Town, along with
the cities of Campbell, Saratoga and Monte Sereno (collectively referred to as the "Cities'),
formed the West Valley Clean Water Program Authority, a California Joint Powers Authority
(the "JPA "), to take over the management of the Clean Water Program; and
WHEREAS, in the Joint Powers Agreement adopted by the Cities to form the JPA, the
Cities gave the JPA the power to collect fees and charges to support the Clean Water Program;
and
WHEREAS, the continued collection of the Town's fee is essential to the continuation of
the Clean Water Program; and
WHEREAS, the Town desires to have the JPA collect the fee.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: by the Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos
that:
1. The Town hereby ratifies the amount of the fee that has been collected since the 1994 -95
fiscal year and asks the JPA to take over the collection of the fee without increase or
modification of the fee.
2. The Town Manager or his designee is hereby directed to work with the JPA to transfer to
the JPA the collection duties for the fee.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Los
Gatos, California, held on the 7th day of May 2019 by the following vote:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
AYES: Marcia Jensen, Rob Rennie, Marico Sayoc, Barbara Spector, Mayor Steven Leonardis
NAYS: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTAIN: None.
SIGNED:
MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
LOS GATOS, CALI ORNIA
DATE:
ATTEST
TOWN CLERK OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA
DATE: 5
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