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EXHIBIT A JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT creating ABAG POWER The public entities listed in Appendix A (Members) entered into this Joint Powers Agreement (Agreement) creating ABAG Publicly OWned Energy Resources (ABAG POWER). All Members are public entities organized and operating under the laws of the State of California and each is a public agency as defined in California Government Code Section 6500. RECITALS .A. Government Code Sections 6500-6515, permitting two or more local public entities by agreement to jointly exercise any power common to them, authorizes the Members to enter into this Agreement. B. Public entities consume energy in the form of natural gas and/or electricity and use telecommunications services in the performance of their essential governmental functions. C. Federal and State agencies responsible for the regulation of the natural gas, electric and telecommunications industries have determined that deregulation of these industries is in the public interest. D. Public entities have the opportunity to secure energy supplies and related services, manage energy consumption, obtain telecommunications services, manage the use of telecommunications services and determine conditions under which the private sector accesses and usei, in a cooperative and coordinated manner, public resources and infrastructure used in the delivery of such energy and services. E. The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), at its sole expense, has created and implemented a natural gas aggregation to purchase natural gas and related services on , behalf of the program participants and has formulated, but not yet implemented, a · program to purchase electricity through direct access and procure related services on behalf of public entities in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company's (PG&E) service area. 1 ABAG POWER JPA