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WATER COMMITTEE
December 11 , 1973
Chairman, Knox Williams Vice-ChaJrman, Robert Watson
Present: Committee Members
Staff:
Guests:
A.C. Bowen, Bill Cannon,
Bill Esterline, Huston Tucker
Tim Flanagan, The 1ma Sowe 11
Char 1es G i bb
Betty Duran
The meeting was called to order by A.C. Bowen, Acting Chariman, at
k:\S PM.
A motion (Cannon-Tucker) was carried approving the minutes of the
last meeting.
The committee was provided with the staff prepared revised water
rate comparison chart that included taxes for water system by the
entities under comparison. This concluded the present water rate
d i scuss i ons.
The conclusion was that the current water rates are sufficient to
sustain the enterprises' obligations and have produced only
minimal complaints from citizens.
The Committee was provided with staff background information on
current water rights problems. The Committee, after much discussion
on pros and cons of use of water in the San Luis Rey basin, concluded
that the City would not benefit from a limited use of the water
because the State would thereafter approve a permit based on this
limited use. The Committee agreed that, since the City has provided
the State Board with all the necessary information to support the
petition for renewal of the water permit, the committee would not
make any recommendations until the State Board has acted on the
City's request.
The Financial Director, Thelma Sowell, provided the committee with
the current financial statement (see attached copy). She was happy
to report that the water enterprise has a net income for this fiscal
year. The committee reviewed the financia1.statement.
The committee was also provided with a staff prepared graph of the
City's water purchases,, The graph appears to indicate that the
purchases of water is close to the assumptions for water purchases
which the revised water budget was predicated upon.
A copy of the CMWD Citizen Report on One Entity Operation was
mailed to all committee members. The Acting Chairman, Mr. A.C.
Bowen, stated that he analyzed the report in detail and found
several discrepancies that would question the validity of the
published savings of $38,000 reported by the CMWD committee.
The Financial Director, Thelma Sowell, stated that she had
reviewed the report and also found discrepancies in the figures
on the report.
The staff had no recommendations for sale of additional water
property at this time.
The next meeting of this committee will be held on January 8,
1974 at 4:00 PM.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:50 PM
Respectfully submitted,
Charles Gibb
CG/mac
Attach.