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Resolution No. 9631
Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Establishing One or
More Pledged Sources of Revenue For Repayment of Funding Pursuant
to The Federal Clean Water Act Amendments
R E C I T A L S
A. The City of Palo Alto City
and/or construction of certain public facilities and improvements relating to its wastewater
system, including the planning/design of primary sedimentation tanks, fixed film reactors, and
the laboratory/environmental service building, and the construction of a sludge treatment and
loadout facility that were identified in the Regional Water Quality Control
Long Range Facility Plan.
B. The City intends to finance the planning, design, and/or construction of the
Projects or portions of the Projects
.
C. Section 603(d)(1)(C) of the Federal Clean Water Act Amendments require each
financing recipient to establish one or more pledged sources of revenue for Clean Water State
Revolving fund (CWSRF) financial assistance.
D. Revenue will be considered pledged when the City adopts a resolution
committing a source of funds for repayment.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto RESOLVES as follows:
SECTION 1. The City of Palo Alto hereby pledges Net Revenues of its Wastewater
Treatment enterprise fund to repayment of any and all Clean Water State Revolving Fund
financing incurred for CWSRF Project No. 8104, including the planning/design of primary
sedimentation tanks, fixed film reactors, and a laboratory/environmental service building, and
CWSRF Project No. 8091110, including the design and construction of a sludge dewatering and
loadout facility , and other terms
relevant to this action, are defined as follows:
"Net Revenues" means, with respect to the Wastewater Treatment enterprise, for
any period of computation, the amount of the Gross Revenues received from the Wastewater
Treatment enterprise during such period, less the amount of Maintenance and Operation Costs
of the Wastewater Treatment enterprise becoming payable during such period.
"Gross Revenues" means, for any period of computation, all gross charges received
for, and all other gross income and revenues derived by the City from, the ownership or
operation of the Wastewater Treatment enterprise or otherwise arising from the Wastewater
Treatment enterprise during such period, including but not limited to (a) all Charges received by
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the City for use of the Wastewater Treatment enterprise, (b) all receipts derived from the
investment of funds, (c) transfers from (but exclusive of any transfers to) any stabilization
reserve funds, and (d) all moneys received by the City from other entities whose customers are
served pursuant to contracts between those entities and the City.
"Maintenance and Operation Costs" means the reasonable and necessary costs
spent or incurred by the City for maintaining and operating the Wastewater Treatment
enterprise, calculated in accordance with sound accounting principles, including the cost of
supply of water, gas and electric energy under contracts or otherwise, the funding of
reasonable reserves, and all reasonable and necessary expenses of management and repair and
other expenses to maintain and preserve the Wastewater Treatment enterprise in good repair
and working order, and including all reasonable and necessary administrative costs of the City
attributable to the Wastewater Treatment enterprise and any financing instruments incurred to
finance improvements to the Wastewater Treatment enterprise, such as salaries and wages and
the necessary contribution to retirement of employees, overhead, insurance, taxes (if any),
expenses, compensation and indemnification of any bond trustee or other lender, and fees of
auditors, accountants, attorneys or engineers, and including all other reasonable and necessary
costs of the City or charges required to be paid by it to comply with the terms of any financing
instrument related to the Wastewater Treatment enterprise, but excluding depreciation,
replacement and obsolescence charges or reserves therefor and amortization of intangibles or
other bookkeeping entries of a similar nature.
"Charges" means fees, tolls, assessments, rates and rentals prescribed under
applicable law by the City Council for the services and facilities of the Wastewater Treatment
enterprise.
This pledged source of revenue shall remain in effect until such financing is fully
discharged unless modification or change of such dedication is approved in writing by the State
Water Resources Control Board.
SECTION 2:
financing for the abovereferenced projects does not meet the definition of a project for the
purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act, under Public Resources Code Section
21065 and CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5), because it is an administrative governmental
activity which will not cause a direct or indirect physical change in the environment. Council
approved an Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration for the sludgedewatering and
loadout facility project on March 28, 2016 (Staff Report ID# 6424).
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Implementation of the primary sedimentation tanks, fixed film reactors, and the
laboratory/environmental service building projects is subject to future CEQA analysis.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: October 17, 2016
AYES: BERMAN, BURT, DUBOIS, FILSETH, HOLMAN, KNISS, SCHARFF, SCHMID, WOLBACH
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTENTIONS:
ATTEST:
City Clerk Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM: APPROVED:
Senior Deputy City Attorney City Manager
Director of Public Works
Director of Administrative Services
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