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Special Meeting of the Board of Directors August 1, 2005 DSRSD General Manager Bert Michalczyk thanked the officials for attending this second joint meeting. Since the last meeting on May 13, 2005, Pleasanton City Manager Nelson Fialho, Zone 7 General Manager Dale Myers, Mr. Michalczyk and staff have discussed several issues: water quality, future facilities, Well Master Plan. From these discussions, they have created a "roadmap" on how to proceed in the future. He noted there was also input from the City of Livermore and California Water Service Company (Cal Water). He stated the roadmap takes the form of a Joint Resolution to which are attached "Policy Principles" that will guide future work and discussions related to water quality. The Joint Resolution would be signed by the three agencies if they concur at their respective Boards/Council meetings in the near future. He noted that this approach is the joint recommendation of the Managers of each agency. Mr. Michalczyk explained that the Joint Resolution makes five points: (1) DSRSD and Pleasanton formally support the water quality improvement projects listed in the Zone 7 brochure; (2) Zone 7 acknowledges the importance of the water quality concerns of Pleasanton and DSRSD and commits to implementing the water quality improvement projects; (3) Pleasanton, DSRSD and Zone 7 pledge to explore and identify ways to make further progress on the schedule shown to improve taste and reduce odor and hardness of the water; (4) Pleasanton, DSRSD and Zone 7 commit to implement the projects in a manner that does not degrade the quality of the water in the east end of the Valley; and, (5) the referenced "Policy Principles" will guide Pleasanton, DSRSD and Zone 7 in developing and implementing the projects, programs and operating guidelines related to improving delivered water quality. The Policy Principles consist of five general areas: (1) General Policy Principles; (2) Operational Principles; (3) Facilities Principles; (4) Educational Principles; and, (5) Funding Principles. These principles will commit the agencies to work cooperatively and thus do a better job together rather than separately. One of the items not presented for discussion at this meeting was the Well Master Plan EIR. The managers and legal counsel from each agency have agreed to some language changes to the Well Master Plan EIR. Basically, additional mitigation measures were included that requires Zone 7 to monitor the impact on delivered water quality from the first two wells and consider that information prior to proceeding with any additional wells. The Zone has actually moved forward and last week released the Final EIR with the agreed upon language. Pleasanton City Manager Fialho expressed that staff had done an excellent job pulling together the documents. The Policy Principles fundamentally can be used as a roadmap for the three agencies to move forward. This will help to continue future discussions relating to water quality, water deliverability and reliability. He supports these documents. Zone 7 General Manager Myers expressed his appreciation for all the good work that Mr. Michalczyk has done on these documents. He also thanked Mr. Dan Mclntyre, Livermore Director of Public Services and Mr. Henry Wind, District Manager of Cal Water. He, too, believes it is a good, workable document and supports it. Chair G-reci asked for any other comments or questions. Pleasanton Councilmember Matt Sullivan entered the meeting at 3:17 p.m. DSRSD President Ford expressed his concern with the dates listed in the Zone 7 Water Quality Project brochure. He asked that the brochure be updated with the correct dates. Mr. Myers noted that the project dates in the brochure had recently been updated. 2 DRAFT