Item 8 Staff Report Authorize to Execute Letter of Support for Calfred Bay-Delta ProgramCOUNCIL, AGENDA REPORT
DATE: MAY 11, 1999
TO: MAYOR AND TO COUNCIL
FROM: TOWN MANAGER
SUBJECT:
MEETING DATE: 5/17/99
ITEM NO.
AUTHORIZE MAYOR TO EXECUTE LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR CALFED BAY -DELTA
PROGRAM
RECOMMENDATION:
Authorize Mayor to execute letter of support for CALFED Bay -Delta Program.
DISCUSSION:
Santa Clara Valley Water District forwarded the attached proposed letter of support for the CALFED Bay -Delta
Program. Attached to the letter is information explaining the program. The letter will be signed by various Santa Clara
County Mayors and representatives from other agencies.
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT:
Is not a project defined under CEQA, and no further action is required.
FISCAL IMPACT:
None.
Attachment: Letter of support for CALFED Bay -Delta Program
Distribution: Rick Callender, Government Relations Manager - Santa Clara Valley Water District, 5750 Almaden
Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118-3686
PREPARED BY: DAVID W. KNAPP
Town Manager
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DATE: May 11, 1999
FROM:
TO:
Lynda Ramirez Jones
Board Administrative Asssista
Phone: 408/265-2607, ext, 2327
SanEa Clara Valley Water DisEricE
6760 ALMADEN EXPRESSWAY
SAN JOSE, CA 95118-3686
TELEPHONE (408) 265-2600
FACSIMILE (40B) 268.0271
www.ecvwd.dst.ca,us
Councilmembers Matthew Dean
and Jeanette Watson
Councilmember Don Burnett and
Bert Viskovich
Councilmember Suellen Rowlison
Councilmember Lou Becker
Councilmember Elayne Dauber
Councilmember Linda Lubeck
Mike McNeely
Mayor Jack Lucas and
Brian Leventhal
Councilmember Cynthia Cook
Councilmember Mario Ambra
or Cathy Lazarus
Councilmember Dick Rosenbaum
Councilmember Pat Dando
Richard Hathorn
Councilmembers Evan Baker and
Stan Bogosian
Councilmember Jack Walker and
John Greenhut
Supervisor Don Gage
MESSAGE:
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
City of Campbell 408/374-6889
City of Cupertino
City of Gilroy
City ofLos Altos
Town of Los Altos Hills
Town of Los Gatos
City of Milpitas
408/777-3366
408/846-0500
650/941-7419
650/941-3160
408/354-8431
408/263-6541
City of Monte Sereno 408/395-7653
City of Morgan Hill 408/779-3117
City of Mountain View
City ofPalo Alto
City of San Jose
City of Santa CIara
650/903-6039
650/328-3631
408/277-5192
408/241-6771
City of Saratoga 408/868-1280
408/730-7699
County of Santa Clara 408/295-6993
City of Sunnyvale
Enclosed is a 10-page (including this sheet) fax from Amy Fowler regarding the final joint
CALFED letter. Please send your signatures either by fax or mail to Amy Fowler at the
numbers indicated on her document. Thank you. May 11, 1999
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Date: May 11, 1999
To
Company or Agency
Fax Number
SCV Water Commission
From: Amy Fowler. phone: (408)265-2607 x2064
fax: (408)264-0213
e-mail address: acfowler@scvwd.dst.ca.us
Total Pages: 9
Message: Attached is the final joint letter with signature blocks inserted. There may be
additional changes to the signature blocks, but I do not anticipate the existing ones
to change substantially. We will take this to our Board for signature on May 18.
Please send me your signatures either by fax or by mail, and I'll cut and paste them
onto a master letter. I'Il send you a copy of the final signed version after I have it
done. Thanks!
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May 5, 1999 DRAFT
Honorable Bruce Babbitt
Secretary, Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
Dear Secretary Babbitt and Governor Davis:
Honorable Gray Davis
Governor, State of California
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
We commend your leadership and appreciate your continuing commitment to the CALFED
process. As leaders of Santa Clara County's local governments, water supply agencies, business
and industries, and the agricultural and environmental communities, we would like to express our
support for the CALFED Bay -Delta Program and convey our joint message on the continuing
development and progress of the program.
Santa Clara County, synonymous with Silicon Valley, is home to 1.7 million residents and over
1,500 businesses speciali7ing in knowledge -based services and high-tech manufacturing. Exports
from the San Jose metropolitan region in 1997 were valued at over $29 billion, ranking second in
the nation. A reliable, high quality imported water supply is essential to sustaining the quality of
life in Santa Clara County, In an average year, water imported from the Bay -Delta watershed
constitutes more than half of the County's supply. A substantial portion of this water is treated
and reused. The reliability and quality of this Bay -Delta supply must meet the needs of Santa
Clara County to sustain economic growth and protect the environment and the quality of life we
treasure.
People choose to live and work in Santa Clara County because of its exceptional environmental
quality and cultural diversity. We, the undersigned, share an interest in helping CALFED protect
and restore the environment of the entire Bay -Delta region, including Santa Clara County,
through an effective water supply management and environmental restoration program, The work
CALFED has accomplished to date in ecosystem restoration is an impressive start. Santa Clara
County remains committed to the goals of a healthy, functioning ecosystem.
We support and very much appreciate President Clinton's budget request for initial funding of
CALFED's Stage 1 implementation. We believe, however, that it is imperative that adequate
state and federal funding be provided throughout the 7-year duration of Stage 1 implementation.
We further believe that CALFED's success is contingent on its ability to meet all of its objectives
through a balanced implementation program that provides equitable and progressive improvement
in water quality, water supply reliability, and ecosystem restoration. We look forward to
CALFED's timely completion of its water management strategy and environmental
documentation such that program implementation in all resource areas can begin. Attached is a
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set of message points that explain in greater detail our interests in the CALFED process.
Sincerely,
Robert W. Gross, Ph.D. Pete McHugh
Chair, Board of Directors Chair
Santa Clara Valley Water District Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors
Ron Gonzales Judy Nadler
Mayor Mayor
City of San Jose City of Santa Clara
Daniel Furtado Wally Dean
Mayor Mayor
City of Campbell City of Cupertino
Mike Gilroy Louis Becker
Mayor Mayor
City of Gilroy City of Los Altos
Bob Johnson Jan Hutchins
Mayor Mayor
Town of Los Altos Hills Town of Los Gatos
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Henry Manayan Jack Lucas
Mayor Mayor
City of Milpitas City of Monte Sereno
Dennis Kennedy Mary Lou Zoglin
Mayor Mayor
City of Morgan Hill City of Mountain View
Cary Fazzino Jim Shaw
Mayor Mayor
City of Palo Alto City of Saratoga
Manuel Valerio Carl Guardino
Mayor President/CEO
City of Sunnyvale Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group
W. Richard Roth Don Hordness
President President
San Jose Water Company Santa Clara County Farm Bureau
Craig K. Breon
Environmental Advocate
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
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Steven J. Tedesco Linda Asbury
President and CEO Executive Director
San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Cupertino Chamber of Commerce
Commerce
Susan Valenta Gaye Morando
Executive Director Executive Director
Gilroy Chamber of Commerce Milpitas Chamber of Commerce
Carol Olson Susan Frank
President President and CEO
Mountain View Chamber of Commerce Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce
Betty Hangs
General Manager
Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce
Suzi Blackman
Executive Director
Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce
cc: Members of Santa Clara County Congressional Delegation
Members of Santa Clara County State Legislative Delegation
Lester Snow, CALFED Bay -Delta Program
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Key and Supporting Message Points:
1. Equitable and progressive improvement in all solution areas during Stage 1. To meet
the CALFED Bay -Delta Program's four equal goals of improved water quality, water
supply reliability, ecosystem restoration, and levee stability, program development and
implementation must provide for balanced achievement ofthese four goals, recognizing that
historic inbalances should be corrected to the extent possible.
2. Sustained state and federal funding to support Stage 1 actions in all solution areas.
Constituents of Santa Clara County support the President's FY2000 budget request of
$95 million for CALFED and believe that it should be fully appropriated. However,
CALFED's Stage 1 implementation is expected to begin in July 2000 and continue for
seven years. We recognize CALFED's "beneficiaries -pays' principle. Nonetheless, to
accompany local public and users -based sources of funding, adequate state and federal
funding are imperative throughout the first stage to support a balanced program of
implementation in the following areas:
a. Source water quality improvements. CALFED committed to provide safe, reliable,
and affordable drinking water in a cost effective way either by achieving adopted
drinking water quality targets (as specified in the December 1998 Phase II Report) or
by providing an equivalent level of public health protection utilizing a cost effective
combination of alternative source waters, source control, and treatment technologies.
CALFED also committed to provide continuous water quality improvement for Delta
drinking water supplies toward these adopted long-term water quality targets. Urban
areas such as Santa Clara County that depend on the Delta for water supply need
source water quality improvements to protect public health. CALFED's Stage 1
implementation must progressively meet these commitments.
b. Treatment technology implementation. We believe the state and federal
governments have a commitment to help fund, early in Stage 1, the necessary research
and implementation of advanced treatment technology at the local water utilities to
protect public health and to Tneet future drinking water quality standards,
c, Feasibility studies for regional alternatives. As part of the alternative means to
achieve CALFED's adopted water quality goals, Santa Clara Valley Water District
and other Bay Area water agencies will cooperate with CALFED to jointly investigate
the potential to improve drinking waxer quality through alternative sources of
supplies. We anticipate that in addition to local funding sources, CALFED support
and funding will be necessary for such an effort.
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d. Watershed management programs and Total Maximum Daily Load (TIVIDL)-
based pollution prevention programs. We believe CALFED should expand the
scope and budget of the proposed Stage 1 Watershed Management Program to
include pollution prevention efforts in urban watersheds. Constituents of Santa Clara
County have developed a watershed management program to coordinate the
"patchwork" of separate regulatory actions to address the various sources of
pollution that threaten the Bay, and to protect water quality throughout Santa Clara
Basin watersheds. The Regional Water Quality Control Boards' efforts in developing
TMDL-based pollution prevention programs for individual watersheds must be
adequately funded and coordinated with CALFED's water quality program to provide
effective pollutant source control throughout the Bay -Delta system.
e. Conservation and recycling. Constituents of Santa Clara County support
conservation and recycling as necessary elements of the CALFED program. Our
local industries, residents, and agriculture have invested heavily in water conservation
and reuse. As a matter of fact, the water use in the county over the past eleven years
remains below 1987 levels during a period of rapid economic growth. We commit to
further water use efficiency as a way to mitigate future shortages. However, other
water users, both agricultural and urban, must also commit to significant new efforts
in water use efficiency. In addition, CALFED must provide both financial and
institutional support to advance demand management and recycling programs to
achieve significant gains in these areas.
f. Ecosystem restoration and implementation of the Environmental Water
Account. We continue to support implementation of CALFED's Ecosystem
Restoration Program and maximizing coordination and leverage with the Restoration
Fund established by the Central Valley Project Improvement Act. We believe the
South Bay is integral to the Bay -Delta system and appreciate CALFED's 1998
funding of the barrier removal project on the Guadalupe River and the cold water
fisheries and water quality assessment tasks of the Santa Clara Valley Watershed
Management Initiative. Such funding efforts link the residents of the South Bay to
the CALFED process both geographically and politically and help garner support for
CALFED. Furthermore, we support the establishment of the Environmental Water
Account as a creative tool in the portfolio of environmental water management
measures and actions to simultaneously maximize environmental protection, water
supply certainty, and water quality.
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Integrated storage investigation. We support CALFED's Water Management
Strategy of developing a balanced, phased and integrated package of possible water
management tools including. water use efficiency, water transfers, conveyance
facilities, and groundwater and surface storage opportunities to achieve ecosystem,
water supply reliability, and water quality goals: CALFED needs to perform the
necessary studies within Stage 1 to determine the proper mix of surface and/or
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groundwater storage, and the general operational strategy necessary to meet
CALFED objectives.
h. Monitoring and needs assessment for additional Delta facilities. We support
CALFED's approach of maximizing the utility of the existing Delta facilities to meet
ecosystem, water supply reliability, water quality, and levee stability goals..Howev.er,
CALFED should continue to monitor the overall effectiveness of program
implementation through Stage 1 and evaluate the need for additional Delta facilities to
meet its adopted goals.
3, Provide assurances of improved water supply reliability and improved water quality.
Constituents of Santa Clara County supported the CALFED process as a consensus-
building effort to resolve Bay -Delta issues. As participants of this process, we expect the
reliability and quality of State Water Project, Central Valley Project, and Hetch Hetchy
supplies for Santa Clara County will be improved. Silicon Valley, the high-tech center of
the nation, cannot be sustained if its annual water supply is vulnerable to unpredictable
cutbacks and shortages, especially if such shortages have very little linkage to hydrologic
conditions. In 1996, stakeholders within Santa Clara County jointly developed an
Integrated Water Resources Plan to meet the county's future water needs. This integrated
plan, while emphasizing conservation, recycling, banking, and transfers, is built upon the
foundation of maximizing use of existing baseline supplies from our three imported water
sources and local sources. We expect the CALFED process to provide the assurances and
certainty that are critical to our water supply reliability needs.
The businesses and residents of Silicon Valley also depend an a high quality source of water
to meet industrial and potable needs. We cannot accept any unmitigated degradation of
water quality in order for CALFED to meet other program objectives. On the contrary, we
expect CALFED to provide continuous improvement towards the achievement of its
adopted drinking water quality targets to enable urban water supply agencies to meet
future, more stringent drinking water regulations in an economical and feasible manner.
4. Fair and equitable allocation of program costs. The allocation of costs to implement the
Bay -Delta solution must be equitable, and commensurate with improved drinking water
quality, water supply reliability, levee stability, and environmental benefits.
5. Cost-effective implementation and adaptive management. We believe that CALFED
should implement program actions that are cost-effective and provide multiple benefits in
the four solution areas. In addition, CALFED's staged implementation and decision -
making process should be designed to allow for scientific evaluation of program
performance and to facilitate the adaptive management process.
6, Maintain focus and momentum to resolve Bay -Delta issues. We appreciate the
monumental task that CALFED is undertaking to resolve Bay -Delta issues and we
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commend CALFED's efforts and progress to -date. We strongly urge CALFED to continue
making progress and seeking closure with all of the interested parties in its development of
a long-term comprehensive plan that will restore ecological health and improve water
management for beneficial uses of the Bay -Delta system. We Iook forward to CALFED
finalizing its Programmatic EIR/EIS such that program implementation in all resource areas
can begin.
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documentation such that program implementation in all resource areas can begin. Attached is a
set of message points that explain in greater detail our interests in the CALFED process.
Sincerely,
Robert W. Gross, Ph.D. Pete McHugh
Chair, Board of Directors Chair
Santa Clara Valley Water District Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors
Ron Gonzales Judy Nadler
Mayor Mayor
City of San Jose City of Santa Clara
Daniel Furtado
Mayor
City of Carnpbell
Wally Dean
Mayor
City of Cupertino
Mike Gilroy
Mayor
City of Gilroy
Bob Johnson
Mayor
Town of Los Altos Hills
Louis Becker
Mayor
City of Los Altos
Town of Los Gatos
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Town Council Minutes May 17, 1999
Redevelopment Agency Los Gatos, California
MINUTES OF MAY 3, 1999 (06A.V)
Motion by Mr. Blanton, seconded by Mr. Attaway, that Council approve the Minutes of May 3,
1999 Joint Redevelopment/Town Council Meeting as submitted. Carried unanimously.
MINUTES OF MAY 10, 1999 STUDY SESSION (06B.V)
Motion by Mr. Blanton, seconded by Mr. Attaway, that Council approve the Minutes of May
10, 1999 Town Council Study Session as submitted. Carried unanimously.
TOWN FINANCIAL POLICIES/EXPENDITURES/RESOLUTION 1999-54 (7A.06)
Motion by Mr. Blanton, seconded by Mr. Attaway, that Council adopt Resolution 1999-54
entitled, RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS ESTABLISHING TOWN
FINANCIAL POLICIES. Carried unanimously.
PURCHASING MANUAL AMENDMENT/RESOLUTION 1999-55 (7B.06)
Motion by Mr. Blanton, seconded by Mr. Attaway, that Council adopt Resolution 1999-55
entitled, RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS REVISING TOWN FINANCIAL
POLICIES. Carried unanimously.
CALFED BAY -DELTA PROGRAM/LETTER OF SUPPORT (08.19)
Motion by Mr. Blanton, seconded by Mr. Attaway, that Council authorize the Mayor to execute
a letter of support for CALFED Bay -Delta Program. Carried unanimously.
DO GRAFFITI, LOSE YOUR LICENSE/ADOPT A BLOCK/RESOLUTION 1999-56 (10.09)
Motion by Mr. Blanton, seconded by Mr. Attaway, that Council adopt Resolution 1999-56
entitled, RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS SUPPORTING THE "DO GRAFFITI,
LOSE YOUR LICENSE" AND "ADOPT -A -BLOCK" ANTI GRAFFITI CAMPAIGNS. Carried
unanimously.
BOOKING PHOTO WORKSTATION/PRINTRAK INC./RESOLUTION 1999-57 (11.09)
Motion by Mr. Blanton, seconded by Mr. Attaway, that Council adopt Resolution 1999-57
entitled, RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS AUTHORIZING THE TOWN
MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH PRINTRAK INTERNATIONAL. INC. TO
PURCHASE NT-BASED MULTICAPTURE WORKSTATION. Carried unanimously.
HAZARDOUS VEGETATION/BRUSH DECLARED A NUISANCE/RESOLUTION 1999-53 (12.23)
Motion by Mr. Blanton, seconded by Mr. Attaway, that Council adopt Resolution 1999-53
entitled, RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS DECLARING HAZARDOUS
VEGETATION (BRUSH) A PUBLIC NUISANCE AND PROVIDING FOR ABATEMENT.
Carried unanimously.
LIBRARY RESTROOM UPGRADES/PRJ 9708/ACCESSIBILITY/RESOLUTION 1999-58 (13AB.35)
Motion by Mr. Blanton, seconded by Mr. Attaway, that Council adopt Resolution 1999-58
entitled, RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN.OF LOS GATOS AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION
OF AN AGREEMENT WITH CRW INDUSTRIES, INC. FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
PROJECT 9708 - AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT ACCESSIBILITY UPGRADES OF
LIBRARY RESTROOMS. Carried unanimously.
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