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BACKGROUND The City implemented a recycle water system for commercial irrigation customers in 2014 as a result of completing the feasibility study of a City owned and operated recycled water utility. Phase 1 of the utility includes converting 132 existing commercial customers whose businesses reside along Stoneridge Drive between Johnson Drive and El Charro Road to recycled water for irrigation uses. The development of a recycled water service within the City will lessen the demand for potable water supply and help the City meet the State of California's Water Conservation Act of 2009, which requires a 20 percent reduction in urban per capita water use by the year 2020 as well as meeting recent State mandated conservation goals. Recycled water also increases the City's water system reliability since recycled water is a local supply and is relatively drought proof. Phase 2 of the study includes the construction of a scalping plant to allow the City to extend the Recycled Water Utility to south Pleasanton to include providing recycled water for irrigation purposes to Callippe Golf Course. The City does not have a current recycled water connection fee. The City hired HDR Engineering, Inc. (HDR) to develop a recycled water connection fee. Connection fees are defined as one -time charges paid by new development to finance construction of public facilities needed to serve them. By establishing a cost -based recycled water connection fee, the City will charge new customers this fee and have "growth pay for growth" and existing utility customers will be sheltered from the financial impacts of growth. DEVELOPMENT OF THE RECYCLED WATER SYSTEM AND CONNECTION FEE A report on the City's recycled water project entitled, The City of Pleasanton Recycled Water Feasibility Study (`Feasibility Study"), dated July 2013 identifies the recycled water project facility into two phases; Phase 1 (separated into 1A and 1 B) and Phase 2. The report also includes a west and east option. The two phases of the overall project include feasible sites along the northern side of the City, extend the recycled water from west to east City limits, and south along Santa Rita Road to just south of Valley Avenue. The main goal of this distribution route is to connect, as many as possible, high demand irrigation water users along this route from the supply /treatment location to the Tassajara Reservoir. The Tassajara Reservoir has an 8 million gallons (MG) capacity, was built in 1993, and is currently part of the potable water distribution system. The City has determined that the Tassajara Reservoir and a portion of its supply line can be easily converted from the potable water system to serve the recycled water system. The conversion of this existing reservoir and supply pipeline to recycled water will project a larger savings in the establishment of a recycled water system. The focus of this recycled water connection fee is the projects listed as Phase 1A and Phase 1B of the Hacienda Area plus a decentralized satellite facility (scalping facility) included in Phase 2. Phase 1A establishes the backbone of the system, connection of existing pipelines repurposed from the potable water system and including the largest customers along the way. Phase 1B will extend the backbone of the system to include several of the smaller customers. Phase 1A will provide a total system capacity of 3.0 Page 2of4