Bolinas Community Public Utility District

 Resolution No. 571

Designates the BCPUD’s General Manager as the BCPUD’s Authorized  Representative and Authorizes the Submission of a Loan Application on behalf of the BCPUD to the California Department of Public Health’s Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program.

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    WHEREAS, the Bolinas Community Public Utility District (“BCPUD”) has a critical water main located under sections of Terrace Avenue, including but not limited to the portion of Terrace Avenue known as “Surfer’s Overlook”;

WHEREAS, the BCPUD, the Bolinas Fire Protection District and many Bolinas residents have advised the County of Marin for years that the County’s seawall at the base of Surfer’s Overlook is failing and is in need of immediate repair;

WHEREAS, despite the foregoing facts, the County of Marin’s Department of Public Works recently advised the Bolinas Community that it has recommended that the County “take no measures to attempt to maintain, reinforce or replace the [sea]wall” below Surfer’s Overlook, despite the Department of Public Works’ own acknowledgement that the wall “needs to be replaced” and “the failure of this wall will ultimately hasten the loss of Terrace Avenue at this location.”

    WHEREAS, the failure of the County seawall at the base of Surfer’s Overlook eventually will lead to a catastrophic failure of Terrace Avenue, a County-maintained road, and the BCPUD’s water main at this location;

WHEREAS, this present degradation and/or loss of Terrace Avenue at Surfer’s Overlook  requires that the BCPUD plan, design and install an alternative to the existing water main at this location so that the district does not face a public health emergency in the form of an inability to provide water service to a large segment of its customers;

WHEREAS, the BCPUD has received an invitiation to submit an application to the California Department of Public Health’s Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund loan program for the funds necessary to pay for the planning, design and installation of an alternative to the above-described water main;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the BCPUD’s Board of Directors that its General Manager is hereby designated by Bolinas Community Public Utility District, a public entity established under the laws of the State of California, as the district’s Authorized Representative for purposes of submitting a loan application to the California Department of Public Health’s Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund loan program.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the BCPUD’s Board of Directors that the BCPUD’s Authorized Representative is hereby authorized to submit a loan application on behalf of the BCPUD to the California Department of Public Health’s Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund loan program for the funds necessary to pay for the planning, design and installation of an alternative to the district’s existing water main under Terrace Avenue at Surfer’s Overlook.

    IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that this resolution was duly introduced and adopted by the Board of Directors of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District at a special meeting held this 29th day of October 2008, by the following vote:




AYES:    Amoroso, Siedman, Smith

NOES:  None

ABSTAIN: None

ABSENT:   Kimball, McClellan                                           

      
  __                      Jack Siedman___               ___
                         President, Board of Directors
Attest:

_______Jennifer Blackman___
    Secretary