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BACKGROUND The City's Sewer Enterprise has been operating a sewer system in Pleasanton since the 1920's. The City's sewer system currently serves approximately 69,500 residents, representing approximately 20,000 accounts, including residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The Department is responsible for operating and maintaining over 270 miles of sewer pipelines, ranging in size from to 33 inches in diameter, and 10 sewage pump or lift stations. In addition to the daily operation and maintenance of the sewer system, the City's Public Works Department plans, designs and constructs necessary expansion, replacement, and improvements to the sewer system through the City's Capital Improvement Program. The City's wastewater is conveyed through four major pipelines to the Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD) owned and operated wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) for treatment. The WWTP is located just south of the intersection of Stoneridge and Johnson Drives in Pleasanton. DSRSD treats wastewater from the Cities of Pleasanton, Dublin, and the southerly portions of the City of San Ramon. The treated wastewater is transported from DSRSD to the Livermore Amador Valley Water Management Agency's (LAVWMA) owned and operated pump station and pipelines for ultimate disposal to the San Francisco Bay. New development projects within the City are required to pay two separate fees for connecting to the City's sewer system: a regional fee and a local fee. The regional connection fee includes costs required to expand DSRSD's WWTP and LAVWMA's pumping plant and pipeline disposal facilities. DSRSD staff is currently studying revisions to the treatment portion of the regional fee to DSRSD's Board of Directors and this fee is expected to change in the near future. LAVWMA's Technical Advisory Committee is also studying whether revisions to the disposal portion of the regional fee are needed. This study will be brought to the LAVWMA Board of Directors (comprised of legislative representatives from the three agencies) when complete. The local sewer connection fee pays for constructing improvements to the City's sewer collection system facilities (consisted of pipes, pump stations, telemetry control systems and other ancillary equipment) required to serve demands placed on the system by future growth. The recently completed WWMP allows the City to now update the local sewer connection fee based upon sound and reliable engineering and financial management information. This new sewer connection fee update will include the Planning Department's latest data to develop the projected number of new sewer connections (based upon a unit flow per single family dwelling unit-known as a dwelling unit equivalent, or DUE) for both residential and commercial projects as well as the anticipated year when new development is expected to connect to the sewer system. The sewer connection fee study will use this information to develop a financial model to determine the cost per each future DUE required to construct new capital improvements necessary to serve the new development. The study will also examine alternatives for the City to increase Page 2 of 4