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<br />61 <br /> <br />Insurance <br /> <br />Pleasanton participates in the Bay Cities Joint Powers Insurance Authority (the <br />“Insurance Authority”) and the California Affiliated Risk Management Authority for its general <br />comprehensive liability insurance (which includes coverage for property damage) for claims <br />between $250,000 and $29,000,000. Similarly, employment practices liability claims between <br />$75,000 and $1,000,000 are covered through the Employment Risk Management Authority and <br />claims between $1,000,000 and $3,000,000 through Lloyds of London-Beazley. <br /> <br />Pleasanton is self-insured for workers’ compensation liability. Pleasanton has established <br />a liability insurance reserve and a workers’ compensation reserve to account for and finance <br />Pleasanton’s liability insurance premiums and the deductible portion of any claims. <br /> <br />Employees <br /> <br />Pleasanton has 10 full-time employees employed in its Sewer Division. Nine of these <br />employees are represented by the Pleasanton City Employees Association, whose contract <br />expires on March 31, 2022. Pleasanton has not had any work stoppages by its employees in <br />recent years. <br /> <br />For information regarding pension plans for Pleasanton’s employees, see Appendix A <br />attached. <br /> <br /> <br />CITY OF LIVERMORE <br /> <br />General <br /> <br />Livermore is a general law city founded in 1869 and incorporated in 1876. Livermore is <br />located in Alameda County on the eastern edge of the Livermore-Amador Valley (called the Tri- <br />Valley area, which contains the cities of Pleasanton, Livermore, Dublin and San Ramon), <br />approximately 50 miles southeast of San Francisco and 30 miles southeast of Oakland. Livermore <br />comprises an area of approximately 22.57 square miles of the 413 square miles in the valley, with <br />a reported population of 91,216, as of January 1, 2021 based on the State Department of Finance. <br /> <br />Livermore is accessible by Interstates 580 and 680 which provide easy access to <br />residents, commuters and travelers to and from the Central Valley and the San Francisco Bay <br />metropolitan area. <br /> <br />Livermore’s elevation is approximately 390 feet above sea level at the municipal airport <br />terminal. The mean temperatures for January and July are 37 degrees and 88 degrees, <br />respectively. Rainfall averages 14.4 inches per year. <br /> <br />Livermore is a modern suburban community whose roots go back to 1835 when an English <br />sailor, by the name of Robert Livermore, settled the community and founded Rancho Las Positas, <br />a cattle ranch that is encompassed by much of the present day city. In its early days, the area <br />now known as the Livermore-Amador Valley had traditionally been a ranching and agricultural <br />community. Today, Livermore is still surrounded by vineyards and ranches; growing from a <br />shipping processing point for valley produce, including cattle, and particularly dry white wines, to