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BACKGROUND In 1999 the City of Pleasanton entered into a settlement agreement with the County of Alameda, the City of Livermore, the Sierra Club, Northern California Recycling Association (NCRA), Altamont Landowners Against Rural Mismanagement (ALARM), and Waste Management of Alameda County (WMAC), Inc. The settlement resulted from litigation over the expansion of the Altamont Landfill. As part of the settlement, the parties agreed that the County would impose a fee totaling $1.25 per ton at the Altamont Landfill and Resource Recovery Facility. The jurisdictions currently paying this fee are Oakland, San Francisco, Alameda, San Leandro, Castro Valley, Oro Loma, Albany, Hayward, and Dublin. The fee results in a continuous, yet variable revenue stream. The funds are collected in three accounts, as follows: • $0.25 per ton to the Education Account • $0.25 per ton to the City of Livermore for host community impacts • $0.75 per ton to the Open Space Account The use of the Open Space fund is distributed on an 80 percent/20 percent split with eighty percent of the fees designated for purchases in the eastern area, and twenty percent of the fees designated for purchases in the western area (see Attachment 4 for a map depicting these areas). The City of Pleasanton and Alameda County must authorize expenditures in the western area. The settlement also required the creation of an advisory committee. The Altamont Landfill and Resource Recovery Facility Open Space Advisory Committee was created to oversee the collection and distribution of the funds generated by the settlement agreement. After its formation, the Open Space Advisory Committee established a grant application process that allows it to review proposals based on their merit and public benefit. In August 2017, EBRPD submitted an application to the County for a $600,000 grant for part of the total $1,900,000 cost of acquiring the 4-acre Glenn property. On September 15, 2017, the Open Space Advisory Committee considered this application, and voted to fund $100,000 of the $600,000 request. In accordance with the settlement agreement, the organizations affected by the proposed project (the City of Pleasanton' and Alameda County) must determine that the. recommendation for expenditure is consistent with the settlement agreement in order to release the appropriate funds to the grantee. Subsection 7.4.2. of the settlement agreement states that first priority for acquisition of property should be land having significant value for preservation of native biological diversity and/or wildlife habitat, and ' The City of Pleasanton has another agreement with the City of Dublin regarding the use of the Open Space Fund for property in the western area. Because this land is not within the limits of the City of Dublin, that agreement does not require City of Dublin approval of this site. However, since Dublin residents and businesses do pay into the fund, this Dublin and Pleasanton agreement provides for equal division of the use of western area funds. That agreement allows for alternative allocations when funds cannot be exactly equally divided in particular years based on which sites become available, such as the present situation. • Page 2 of 4