HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 2022-124 - Authorizing the Grant Application Submittal and Execution for the Sustainable Groundwater Management Grant Program With The Department Of Water Resources On Behalf Of The Enterprise-Anderson Groundwater Sustainability AgencyRESOLUTION NO. 2022-124
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WHEREAS, on September 16, 2014, Governor Brown signed three bills (SB 1168, SB 1319, and
AB 1739) into law creating the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 ("SGMA")
codified at Water Code section 10720 et seq.; and
WHEREAS, SGMA requires the formation of a Groundwater Sustainability Agency ("GSA") that
will be responsible for implementing provisions of SGMA as to the medium and high priority
groundwater basins, as defined by the California Department of Water Resources ("DWR"); and
WHEREAS, the overlying members of the Redding Area Groundwater Basin (the City of
Anderson, Anderson -Cottonwood Irrigation District, Bella Vista Water District, Clear Creek
Community Services District, the City of Redding and the County of Shasta) formed the
Enterprise -Anderson Groundwater Sustainability Agency ("EAGSA"), and designated the City of
Redding as the fiscal agent; and
WHEREAS, the DWR is administering the Sustainable Groundwater Management Grant
Program to provide funds to GSAs to promote healthy and sustainable groundwater basins, to
reduce and eliminate undesirable effects, and to promote projects that provide benefits while also
improving groundwater supply and quality;
AOW THEREFORE,RESOLVED, BY THE CITY COUNCILOF OF
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1. That an application be made to the Department of Water Resources to obtain a grant under
the 2021 Sustainable Groundwater Management (SGM) Grant Program SGMA
Implementation Grant pursuant to the California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal
Protection, and Outdoor Access for All Act of 2018 (Pub. Resources Code, § 80000, et
seq.) and the Budget Acts of 2021 and 2022. Be it further resolved that the City of Redding
has the authority and shall enter into a funding agreement with the Department of Water
Resources to receive a grant for the: EAGSA Sustainable Groundwater Management Grant
Project.
2. The Director of Public Works of the City of Redding, or designee, is hereby authorized and
directed to prepare the necessary data, conduct investigations, file such application, execute
a funding agreement and any future amendments thereto, submit invoices, and submit any
reporting requirements with the Department of Water Resources.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was introduced and adopted at a regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Redding on the 15t" day of November, 2022, by the
following vote:
AYES:
COUNCIL MEMBERS: Dacquisto, Mezzano, Winter, and Schreder
NOES:
COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT:
COUNCIL MEMBERS: Resner
ABSTAIN:
COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ATTEST:
PAMELA MIZE,Vfy Clerk
KRISTEN SCHREDER, Mayor
BARRY E. DeWALT, City Attorney