EXHIBIT 2-A
(2)
ORDINANCE NO. 109
AN ORDINANCE OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
MONTEREY PENINSULA
WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
REVISING RULE 23.5 AND
ADOPTING ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS TO FACILITATE THE FINANCING AND EXPANSION OF THE
CAWD/PBCSD
RECYCLED WATER RECLAMATION PROJECT
FINDINGS
1. The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District (“MPWMD”) is charged under the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Law with the integrated management of the ground and surface water resources in the Monterey Peninsula area.
2. MPWMD has general and specific power to cause and implement water conservation activities as set forth in Sections 325 and 328 of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Law.
3. In Ordinance No. 39, MPWMD found and
determined that it was in the best interest of MPWMD and the inhabitants
thereof to provide for the design and construction of a tertiary treatment
facility at the wastewater treatment plant owned by the Carmel Sanitary
District (“CSD,” now the Carmel Area Wastewater District (“CAWD”)) to produce
recycled water which could be used in lieu of potable water for the irrigation
of vegetated areas within the Del Monte Forest, a distribution system capable
of distributing the recycled water from the facility to a point of distribution
in the Del Monte Forest for further distribution to such vegetated areas, and
recycled water irrigation systems on each of such vegetated areas (the
“Original Project”).
4. Ordinance No. 39 made various
additional findings and set forth a method of financing the Original Project by
selection of a Fiscal Sponsor who would guarantee the costs of the Original
Project in exchange for the Water Entitlement as defined in Ordinance No. 39.
5. Pursuant to the provisions of Ordinance
No. 39, MPWMD on October 3, 1989, adopted Resolution No. 89-21, A Resolution of
the Board of Directors of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District
Approving the CSD/PBCSD Wastewater Reclamation Project, a Financing Plan
Therefor and MPWMD’s Participation in such Project and Financing Plan;
Selection of a Fiscal Sponsor pursuant to Ordinance No. 39; and Execution and
Delivery of the Wastewater Reclamation Project Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement
with Pebble Beach Company (the “Resolution”).
The Resolution made various findings, approved the Original Project,
approved a financing plan for the Original Project, selected Pebble Beach
Company (“PBC”), J. Lohr Properties, Inc. (“Lohr”), and the Hester Hyde Griffin
Trust (“Griffin”) as the Fiscal Sponsors for the Original Project, dedicated a
Water Entitlement of 365 acre feet annually (“af”) to PBC, 10 af to Lohr, and 5
af to Griffin, approved the Wastewater Reclamation Project Fiscal Sponsorship
Agreement (dated as of October 3, 1989) between MPWMD and PBC (the “Fiscal
Sponsorship Agreement”) and approved the issuance of Water Use Permits to PBC,
Lohr, and Griffin to “evidence” the Water Entitlement.
6. The Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement and
the actions taken pursuant thereto provide suitable guarantees of payment of
all costs of designing, constructing, equipping, and operating the Original
Project as required by Ordinance No. 39.
PBC, as stated in the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement, has assumed the
obligations of Lohr and Griffin as co-Fiscal Sponsors by providing all of the
necessary guarantees and thus PBC is the sole Fiscal Sponsor for the Original
Project for purposes of Ordinance No. 39 and the Fiscal Sponsorship
Agreement.
7. All actions of MPWMD in
the adoption of the Resolution, the terms of the Resolution itself, and the
binding and enforceable effect of the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement and all of
its terms, and the obligations of MPWMD thereunder, were all validated by a final
Judgment of Validation entered on July 12, 1990 in a validation action brought
by MPWMD (Monterey Superior Court Case No. M21594).
87. As
contemplated by the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement, to pay for the Capital Costs
of the Original Project, MPWMD issued interest-bearing Certificates of
Participation in 1992 in the principal amount of $33.9 million, the full
payment of which (both principal and interest) is guaranteed by PBC.
89. The facilities comprising the Original
Project have been completed and are owned and operated either by
CAWD and or by the
Pebble Beach Community Services District (“PBCSD”) pursuant to an agreement
between such agencies.
109. It
was originally estimated that the production of recycled water by the Original
Project would lessen consumption of potable water by at least 800 acre feet per
dry year, thus liberating such potable water for other uses
within the California-American Water Company (“Cal-Am”) service territory.
110. The performance of the Original Project has
not met the expectations of the parties to the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement or
the expectations of the parties to the Related Agreements (as defined therein),
either with regard to quantity or quality, due to a number of factors beyond
the consideration or control of any of the parties
participating in the Original Project.
Prominent among these factors are the salt-sensitivity of the dominant
grass species planted in the greens of many of the golf courses, inadequacy of
the drainage facilities to conduct accumulated salts away from the greens,
smaller than anticipated amounts of secondary effluent due to decreased flows of
influent to the CAWD wastewater plant (resulting in part from consumers’ water
conservation efforts), increased amount of salinity in the recycled water due
to reduced influent flows caused by water conservation efforts, increased
salinity added by water softening units (the demand for which increased as the
source water became more saline), internal wastewater plant processes
contributing additional salinity loading, the lack of sufficient data
concerning the composition of the secondary effluent produced by the CAWD
Wastewater Treatment Plant or concerning the water quality and water quantity
requirements for golf course irrigation, and the absence of any seasonal
storage of recycled water.
121. PBC is willing to assist, and MPWMD desires
that PBC assist, with the financing of an expansion of the Original Project
(the “Project Expansion”), in conjunction with PBC’s continuing role in the
financing and implementation of the Original Project., that The
Project Expansion, when implemented, will eliminate the need for
reliance on supplemental potable water for the irrigation of vegetated areas
within the Del Monte Forest as defined in Exhibit B to this Ordinance (except
in cases of an Interruption Emergency
as defined in this ordinance), thereby conserving additional
potable water. It has been estimated
by the parties primarily involved in the planning of
the Project Expansion (CAWD, PBCSD, PBC, and the Independent Reclaimed Water
Users Group (“IRWUG”)) that the Original
Project together with the Project Expansion will produce sufficient
quantities of Recycled Water each year to meet
all of the irrigation needs
of the Recycled Water
Irrigation Areas without the addition of any potable water thereto
(except during an Interruption as defined herein).
13. The
parties primarily involved in the planning of the Project
Expansion (CAWD, PBCSD, PBC, and IRWUG) to the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement and/or to the Related
Agreements contemplate that the Forest Lake Reservoir, one
component of the Project Expansion, when filled to its
capacity of 420 acre feet, will provide storage sufficient for 60
days supply during the irrigation period when
irrigation usage is the greatest. Thus,
if
the Forest Lake Reservoir is filled, this
storage will enable the Project to continue to provide Recycled Water even
during a shutdown of the CAWD
wastewater treatment plant or a break in (or other event preventing the
continuous delivery of Recycled Water through) the distribution
facilities “upstream” of the Forest Lake Reservoir.
14. Therefore, the parties primarily
involved in the planning of the Project Expansion (CAWD, PBCSD, PBC, and IRWUG)
have concluded that, after the Project Expansion is
Completed, the use of supplemental potable water for
irrigation on the Recycled Water Irrigation Areas, such that an Emergency (as further
defined herein) this Ordinance, will
likely
be necessary, if
at all, only if one of the following four circumstances should
occur: necessarily involve either
(1) the damage to or the destruction of the
Forest Lake Reservoir is destroyed or otherwise rendered inoperable,
or
(2) the destruction or other required
interruption of facilities supplying conveying
Recycled Water to Forest Lake Reservoir are destroyed or
otherwise rendered inoperable at a time when storage in Forest
Lake Reservoir has fallen below 50_____ acre feet, or (3) the destruction
or interruption of facilities supplying conveying
Recycled Water from Forest Lake Reservoir to Recycled Water
Irrigation Areas are destroyed or otherwise rendered inoperable, or
(4) the CAWD wastewater treatment plant or the PBCSD transmission
facilities are rendered unable to
deliver Recycled Water to the Forest
Lake Reservoir for a period of time that
allows the Recycled Water then remaining in storage
Forest Lake Reservoir to be exhausted.
15. The parties primarily involved
in the planning of the Project Expansion (CAWD, PBCSD, PBC, and IRWUG) have
conferred with and advised MPWMD that they have concluded that Tthe most
effective means of financing and implementationg of the Project Expansion without public funds will
be made possible by to makeing a portion of PBC’s existing Water
Entitlement available for separate sale and conveyance
to owners of residential property within the Del Monte Forest (defined in
Exhibit “B”) for use solely on that property, and applying the
proceeds therefrom to the costs of the Project Expansion and Original Project
as more specifically described in Section Three of this ordinance.
162. This
ordinance shall authorize PBC, on terms and conditions set forth in Section
Three of this ordinance, to separately sell and convey specified portions of its Water Entitlement for
use on lands within the Del Monte Forest (as defined in Exhibit “B”) not owned
by PBC at the time that this ordinance is adopted, through
which it PBC will attempt
to raise funds sufficient to finance all Capital
Costs of the Project Expansion as set forth in Section Three hereof; shall
revise and amend Rule 23.5 of the Rules and Regulations of the Monterey
Peninsula Water Management District as set forth in Section Four hereof; and
shall adopt other provisions to facilitate the financing of the Project
Expansion, as more particularly described below.
17. Ordinance No. 39, which is
among the body of actions and agreements supporting the issuance of MPWMD’s
Certificates of Participation as a tax-exempt financing and defining MPWMD’s
obligations to the holders thereof, remains in full force and effect, with all
of its terms, except to the extent its terms are amended by the terms of this
ordinance. Pursuant to Part VI of
Ordinance No. 39, PBC as Fiscal Sponsor has agreed that the amendments to
Ordinance No. 39 contained in this ordinance do not impair the interest of the
Fiscal Sponsor.
NOW THEREFORE be it ordained as follows:
Section
One: Short Title
This ordinance shall be known as the Recycled Water Project Expansion Supplemental Financing Ordinance of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District.
Section
Two: Purpose
It is the primary purpose
of this ordinance to facilitate the financing of the Project Expansion. The objective of the Project
Expansion is to provide sufficient quantities of Recycled Water of a quality
suitable for irrigation of even the most water quality-sensitive plants on the
golf courses and other vegetated areas
located within the Del Monte Forest (“Recycled Water Irrigation Areas”), and
thereby to completely eliminate the use of potable water for such irrigation
(except during an Interruption as defined herein). The Water Entitlement and Water Use Permits
represent a portion of the potable water freed up by the implementation of the
Original Project. However, the Original
Project has not to date produced sufficient quantities of Recycled Water of a
quality suitable for all irrigation needs within the Recycled Water Irrigation
Areas.
This ordinance recognizes the existing
annual dedication of 380 acre feet of potable water as the Water Entitlement,
which is evidenced by Water Use Permits authorizing use within specific
portions of the Del Monte Forest and a specific area of four
lots immediately adjacent theretoadjoining
areas pursuant to prior approval of the MPWMD Board, which
portions are collectively defined as the “Benefitted [sic]
Properties” in the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement as amended. The MPWMD Board authorized certain
amendments to the definition of such
“Benefitted Properties” prior to
the date that this ordinance is adopted.
This ordinance further
authorizes PBC, and
provides that specified quantities of to separately convey,
for valuable consideration, portions of PBC’s existing Water
Entitlement solely for dedication to shall be made separately available for sale and conveyance to
owners of and use solely on said residential property,
within the Del Monte Forest (as defined in Exhibit B) that
is not owned by PBC as of the date that this ordinance is adopted. Any portion of the
Water Entitlement thus conveyed may be used only on the specific property to
which it is first dedicated following the conveyance, and the water shall be
put solely
to Residential use through a Residential
Connection (as those capitalized terms are defined in Rule 11), and at
no time shall any portion of such water be classified in any User Category other than Residential (as defined in Rule
11). All of the proceeds therefrom each
of these separate conveyances shall be applied exclusively to the
costs of the Project Expansion and the Original Project as more specifically
described in Subsections E, I, and
J of Section Three.
The
Water Entitlement and Water Use Permits represent a portion of the potable
water freed up by the implementation of the Original Project, which has not to
date produced sufficient quantities of Recycled Water of a quality suitable for
all irrigation needs of the golf courses located within the Del Monte Forest
and and other vegetated areas to be irrigated with Recycled Water under Water
Sale Agreements (“Recycled Water Irrigation Areas”).
The
objective of Project Expansion is to provide sufficient quantities of Recycled
Water of a quality suitable for irrigation of even the most water
quality-sensitive plants located within the Recycled Water Irrigation Areas,
and to completely eliminate the use of potable water for such irrigation
(except during an Emergency as defined herein), which will enable additional
potable water to be freed up. This
ordinance does not alter the continuing guarantees of PBC’s fiscal
responsibility for the Original Project.
It establishes a specific method by which PBC will attempt to raise
funds to finance all Capital Costs of the Project Expansion. Funds thus raised in excess of the amount
needed for Capital Costs shall, and will cause certain additional revenues to
be applied to the the costs of the Project Expansion and Original Project as
more specifically described in Subsections E,
I, and J of Section
Three of this ordinance. Ordinance No.
39, which is among the body of actions and agreements supporting the issuance
of MPWMD’s Certificates of Participation as tax-exempt financing and defining MPWMD’s
obligations to the holders thereof, remains in full force and effect, with all
of its terms, except to the extent its terms are amended by the terms of this
ordinance.
Section
Three: Financing for the Project
Expansion
A. The Board having selected PBC as the
Fiscal Sponsor pursuant to Part II of Ordinance No. 39 and based upon the
irrevocable commitment of PBC to underwrite, be responsible for, assure and
guarantee the full payment of the Financial Commitment (Capital Costs and Net
Operating Deficiencies and Ancillary Project Costs of the Original Project as
set forth in the Fiscal Sponsorship
Agreement, the agreement deemed by MPWMD to be
“necessary or desirable” pursuant to Parts VI
and VII of Ordinance No. 39), MPWMD has granted the Water
Entitlement, and the General Manager has issued
Water Use Permits, to PBC, Lohr, and Griffin. These Water Use Permits authorizeing the expansion and extension of the Cal-Am
water distribution system to provide connections to, and potable water service
in specific annual quantities (in acre feet) for the use on and benefit of, the
specific properties identified in the Resolution and the Fiscal Sponsorship
Agreement (such annual quantities being specified, and such properties being
identified as the “Benefitted [sic] Properties,”
in the respective Exhibits “A” thereto as subsequently
amended).
B. The parties primarily
involved in the planning of the Project Expansion (CAWD, PBCSD, PBC, and IRWUG)
have conferred with MPWMD and have
concluded that In order to facilitate the
most
effective means of financing and implementing of
the Project Expansion without public funds, it is necessary to expand the scope of the Benefited
Properties within the Del Monte Forest, and
to allow PBC, on terms and conditions set forth in the
following Subsections of Section Three of this ordinance, to
separately sell and convey thus
making specified quantities portions of
the its existing
Water Entitlement separately available for sale and
conveyance to owners of residential property within the Del Monte Forest (as
defined in Exhibit B) solely for
dedication to the Benefited Properties (as defined in this
Ordinance) not owned by PBC as of the date that this ordinance is adopted. and use
solely on said property, with PBC will devote and
apply the proceeds of such sales and
conveyances therefrom to be applied
exclusively to the costs of the Project Expansion and the Original
Project as more specifically described in Subsections E, I,
and J of this Section Three.
C. In recognition of PBC’s Supplemental
Financial Ccommitment concerning
to raise funds to finance the
Project Expansion through the sale of portions of its Water Entitlement
(subject to the terms and conditions specified in this
ordinance and in Rule 23.5), PBC is hereby
authorized to separately sell and convey to other owners of land within Del
Monte Forest (as defined in Exhibit B), for residential use only, such portions of its Water
Entitlement for such consideration and upon such terms and
conditions as PBC in its discretion may determine, such portions of its
Water Entitlement as it may choose
(subject to the provisions of subsection G of this Section Three),
provided that no such conveyance shall be effective unless
and until PBC has provided the Supplemental Financial
Commitment as provided described
in Subsections H I and J of
this Section Three; and provided further that
each portion of the PBC Water Entitlement thus
conveyed:
(1) shall be dedicated solely to property within
the Del Monte Forest that is not owned by PBC as of the date that that this
ordinance is adopted;
(2) shall be put solely to Residential use through a Residential Connection (as those
capitalized terms are defined in Rule 11), and at no time shall any
portion of such water be classified in any User Category other than Residential (as defined in Rule 11);
(3) shall be offered on
a right of first refusal basis to persons on the Monterey County waiting list
for approved residential development projects awaiting water availability
within the Del Monte Forest whose intended use is consistent with the preceding
two subparagraphs (1) and (2), and
(4) the
proceeds therefrom shall without exception be
applied to the costs of the Project Expansion and the Original Project as more
specifically described in Subsections E, I,
and J of this Section Three.
D. As of the date that PBC
provides the Supplemental Financial
Commitment, Eeach
recipient of a portion of PBC’s Water Entitlement sold separately
from PBC’s land and conveyed pursuant to Subsection C
shall be entitled to issuance by the General Manager of a Water Use Permit, the face of which
shall limit uses to those permitted under the User Category entitled “Residential” (as these terms are
defined in Rule 11), for such
amount of the Water Entitlement as is documented in the conveyance
documentation presented to the General Manager. The General Manager shall simultaneously
note, on the face of the Water Permit issued pursuant to Rule 23.5 (and
Rule 23 to the extent consistent with Rule 23.5), the
quantity of the Water Entitlement thus conveyed and shall simultaneously
account for, with a commensurate reduction (as documented in a Water Use Permit) in the
aggregate amounts of the Water Entitlement thereafter held by PBC.
E. All proceeds received by PBC from any
separate sale or conveyance of a portion of PBC’s Water Entitlement as
described in Subsections
C and D of this
Section Three shall be used deposited in an escrow account (the “Escrow Account”) to
pay for, in the first instance, the Capital
Costs of the Project Expansion, which Escrow Account
shall specify and require that the funds shall be released and used only for
the purposes specified in Subsection I below. Any proceeds from such sales in excess of the
Capital Costs of the Project Expansion shall be used to pay the Net Operating Deficiencies of the Project or
the Capital Costs of the Original Project.
F. Any portion of Tthe Water
Entitlement of PBC shall be separately sold and conveyed, and
Water Use Permits issued, pursuant to Subsections C and D, of
this Section Three may be used only on the specific
property to which it is first dedicated following the conveyance, and the water
shall be put solely to for rResidential
use through a Residential Connection (as those
capitalized terms are defined in Rule 11), and at no time shall
any portion of such water be classified in any User Category other than Residential (as defined in Rule
11).
in Del Monte Forest (as defined in Exhibit B) on property not
owned by PBC as of the time that this ordinance is adopted. In addition, the
quantity of water acquired pursuant
to Subsection C of this Section Three (i.e.,
the portion of the PBC Water Entitlement thus
conveyed) and
actually used shall not exceed the quantity set forth in the
Water Permit issued pursuant to Subsection D of this Section
Three. Each
of these This restrictions
of use shall be set forth on the face of the Water Use
Permit, and notice thereof shall be recorded in the form of a deed restriction
against the Benefited pProperty
to which the conveyed Wwater
Eentitlement is dedicated.
G. Nothing in the first
preceding two sentences of Subsection F of this Section Three shall
affect the right and ability of PBC to use and apply, such quantity of PBC’s Water Entitlement to on Benefited
Properties owned by PBC as of the date that that this ordinance is adopted,
such
quantity of PBC’s Water Entitlement as has not been sold and
conveyed by PBC pursuant to Subsection C of this Section Three. Specifically, PBC shall continue to have
the right and ability, notwithstanding this ordinance,
to commence or to continue to apply and utilize the remaining portion
of its Water Entitlement on any or all Benefited Properties owned
by PBC as of the time that this ordinance is adopted, as provided
in the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement, for any
lawful use as determined by the appropriate jurisdiction with
land use authority thereover. In
addition, PBC and may
sell and convey a parcel of land that it owns together with a portion of its PBC’s remaining Water
Entitlement without being required to apply pay any consideration received therefor into the Supplemental
Financial Commitment further described in Subsections I
and J of this Section
Three Escrow Account. However, as a condition for
the preceding sentence, PBC shall provide
such information as is necessary for MPWMD to demonstrate that no
money or other valuable consideration has been separately
given or received for the portion of
the Water Entitlement conveyed with the land (other than
reimbursement for the Rule 24 connection fee or
other Cal-Am or MPWMD fees or
charges paid by PBC).
GH. Prior to
completion and operation of the Project Expansion, the Water Use Permits
evidencing the first 150 acre feet (or such additional amount, if any, as may
be agreed to by MPWMD) of the Water Entitlement sold and conveyed by PBC
pursuant to Subsections C and D of this Section Three to owners of residential
property within the Del Monte Forest (as defined in Exhibit B) for use solely
on said property shall not be subject to revocation or termination, whereas all
Water Use Permits for amounts of the Water Entitlement in excess of such amount
shall be subject to revocation or termination pursuant to the provisions of
this ordinance. After completion and
operation of the Project, aAll Water
Use Permits issued pursuant to Subsection D of this Section Three to
evidence the portions of separate
sale and conveyance of the Water Entitlement separately conveyed by
PBC pursuant to Subsections C
and D of this Section Three shall not be subject to revocation Revoked (as defined in
Rule 11) or Terminated as defined herein with respect to the
entire Water Entitlement so conveyedtransferred;
provided, however, in each case, that the actual use of water
on each of the properties to which a portion of the Water Entitlement is
dedicated (after conveyance by PBC pursuant to Subsections C and D of this
Section Three) shall at all times remain subject to the limitations and
restrictions referenced in Rule 23.5 on the same basis as other
customers of Cal-Am, and that such water use rights shall be
subject to modification after year 2075 as provided in this ordinance and in
Ordinance No. 39.
IH. Pursuant
to the Recycled Water
Project Supplemental Financing Agreement (“Supplemental
Financing Agreement”), an
agreement to be entered into between MPWMD and PBC in connection with
the approval of this ordinance, PBC will use its good faith efforts to sell such
portions of its Water Entitlement pursuant to Subsection C of this Section
Three as PBC in its discretion may determine
to raise the funds necessary to cover the Capital
Costs of the Project Expansion MPWMD with
the concurrence of PBC shall determine when the funds in the Escrow Account
(and the expected funds to be received from the sales described in Subsection C
of this Section Three) suffice to begin construction of the Project Expansion. At the end of each month
after the effective date of this Ordinance, PBC shall report to MPWMD, in a
manner that shall not adversely impact its continuing ability to sell such portions of its Water Entitlement
pursuant to Subsection C of this Section Three, on PBC’s progress in raising
the Supplemental Financial Commitment.
J. As of the date of
adoption of this ordinance, Tthe
parties Capital Costs of the
Project Expansion are estimated
at the present time that $15 million will be required to cover
the Capital Costs of, and to begin construction of, the Project Expansion but
may exceed this estimated amount. At such time as the
proceeds received by PBC for the separate sale of portions
of its Water Entitlement pursuant to Subsection C of this Section Three (combined
with any funds which may be independently committed by PBC, IRWUG,
CAWD, PBCSD, or any other entity
willing to commit funds to the Capital Costs of the
Project Expansion) (which
funds are collectively called the
“Supplemental Financial Commitment,”) are, in the judgment of PBC, sufficient to pay
for the Capital Costs of the Project Expansion, and
CAWD and PBCSD each concur in writing that
the Supplemental Financial Commitment is available for their use and that each
is prepared forthwith to commence construction of the Project Expansion, PBC
will give notice to MPWMD that the Supplemental Financial Commitment has been
provided, together with evidence of CAWD’s and
PBCSD’s respective intent to forthwith
to commence construction of the Project
Expansion.
JI. Any proceeds
received by PBC from the separate sale and conveyance of portions of its Water
Entitlement pursuant to Subsection C of this Section Three shall be devoted and
applied to first, the Capital Costs of the Project Expansion,
, and next, to the Capital Costs, Net Operating Deficiencies,
and Ancillary Project Costs of the Original Project and Project Expansion.
Section Four: Amendment of Rule 23.5
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Rule 23.5 shall be amended
by adding the portion set forth in italicized
typeface and by deleting all text shown in strikeout typeface. In all other respects, the text of Monterey
Peninsula Water Management District Rule 23.5 shall remain unchanged and shall
be republished by this ordinance.
Rule
23.5 PERMITS FOR WATER FROM THE
CAL-AM WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
DEDICATED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH THE PLAN TO FINANCE THE WASTEWATER
RECLAMATION RECYCLED WATER PROJECT
A. ISSUANCE OF WATER USE PERMITS. Upon The Board having selectedion of all the Fiscal Sponsor/Sponsors pursuant to
Part II of Ordinance No. 39 and based upon
the irrevocable commitment by those sSponsors
to underwrite, be responsible for, assure and guarantee payment of the
Financial Commitment (Capital Costs and Net Operating Deficiencies and
Ancillary Project Costs of the Reclamation Original Project recorded by the agreements required by Part VII of
this Ordinance No. 39), MPWMD has granted the Water Entitlement and the General Manager shall has issued Water Use Permits to the Fiscal Sponsor/Sponsors Pebble Beach Company
(“PBC”), J. Lohr Properties,
Inc. (“Lohr”), and
the Hester Hyde Griffin Trust (“Griffin”) authorizing the expansion and extension of the
Cal-Am water distribution system to provide water service and connections for
the benefit of the properties identified in the application(s) of the Fiscal
Sponsor/Sponsors Resolution
and the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement (such properties hereinafter
being called the “Benefitted
Properties” described in the respective Exhibits
“A” theretounder as amended). By virtue of the Water
Entitlement, eEach Water
Use Permit shall has granted an irrevocable present vested property interest upon
one or more Benefited Parcels Properties
for the prospective use and benefit of a
specified quantity of potable water per year (in acre feet) produced by the Cal-Am
water distribution system owned and
operated by the California-American Water Company (“Cal-Am”).
Water Use Permits shall be subject only to the following
limitations:
(1) Tthe
permit shall not limit the power of the
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District
(“MPWMD”)
to curtail water use in the event
of any water emergency caused by drought, or other threatened or
existing water shortage, as defined in Section 332 of the Monterey
Peninsula Water Management Act, including
without limitation the power of MPWMD to terminate
impose termination of water
service as a consequence of a violation of water use restrictions;
(2) Tthe permit
shall not relieve or reduce any obligation of the recipient of water to pay
customary fees, connection charges, user fees, surcharges, taxes, utility
taxes, and/or any other customary monetary obligation which may be imposed by
the California Public Utilities Commission, Cal-Am, MPWMD District, or other Public Participants upon water
users of the same class within the California-American Water Company
service area, including but not limited to fees and charges due and payable to
MPWMD by reason of Rule 24 of MPWMD’s Rules and Regulation, nor shall such permit limit the authority of Cal-Am or MPWMD to
terminate water use for such
non-payment of such fees and charges;
(3) Tthe permit
shall enable present use of the Water Entitlement by PBC only upon the commencement of operation of the
Reclamation Project and upon the continuing financial assurance or
guarantee by the Fiscal Sponsor/Sponsor(s) relating to the payment of Net
Operating Deficiencies for the Reclamation Project; and
(4) Nnotwithstanding
any other provision of this RuleOrdinance:
(a) the Water Entitlement allocated to the
Benefited Properties as a whole shall not exceed 380 AF,
(b)
the water usage under the Water Entitlement on any
Benefited Property shall not exceed the aggregate amount of the Water
Entitlement allocated to such Benefited Property,
(c) water usage of the Benefited
Properties shall be calculated by MPWMD in the a manner set forth in
Subsections C.4 and C.5 of Rule 23that reasonably reflects actual annual average water usage
among the Benefited Properties and does not discriminate against the Benefited
Properties in relation to other similarly situated water users within MPWMD.
Further,
notwithstanding any other provision of this Rule
Ordinance, once a new water connection is established through issuance
of a Water Permit and use of all or a portion of a Water
Entitlement, to
the extent of such usage shall be subject to
verification of water use capacity pursuant to Subsection E of Rule 23
and shall be enforced in a manner identical to that applicable to other
similarly situated water users within MPWMD, and
the water user shall be treated in a manner equal to any other Cal Am
water user and shall not be entitled to preferential access to water over any
other water user of the Cal Am water distribution system.
The
revocation and termination of any Water Use Permit shall not diminish or
otherwise adversely affect present actual use of water by reason of a prior
expansion or extension of the Cal-Am water distribution system through any
connection previously made pursuant to such Water Use Permit, except that actual use of water may be
reduced subject to the preceding two subparagraphs . Permits issued
pursuant to this Rule shall represent a vested property interest upon issuance
and shall not be subject to revocation or cancellation except as
expressly set forth in subparagraph (D) below, except that actual use of water may be terminated as described in the
preceding two subparagraphs. The Water Entitlement granted by each Water
Use Permit shall not be subject to reallocation pursuant to District MPWMD Rule 30, nor shall it be
terminated or diminished by reason of any water emergency, water moratorium or
other curtailment on the setting of meters for the California-American
Wwater Ssystem, nor shall it otherwise be
subject to diminishment or revocation, except as described in the preceding two subparagraphs or in the event
that a Water Use Permit is rRevoked
or cancelled as provided by subparagraph (D) below.
B. WATER
USE PERMIT PROVISIONS. Each Water Use Permit shall be issued by the
General Manager with respect to a single Benefitted Property and shall
identify, with respect to the Benefited
Property:
(1) the nature
(industrial/commercial/residential,
unless both the Property and the water dedicated thereto may be put to
industrial or commercial use) and location of the water use to be
applied to each Benefitted Property, and the consistency of such water
use with existing land use and zoning plans;
(2) the number and
nature of connections projected for each Benefitted Property; and
(3) the projected
water use required by each connection proposed upon the Benefitted
Property.
C. AMENDMENT
OF WATER USE PERMITS. The Each
Fiscal Sponsor Oowner of
any Benefitted Property, shall, upon request, be entitled to an
amendment to any Water Use Permit to reduce, or increase, or change the number
and type of connections and water use with respect to any Benefitted
Property owned by such Fiscal Spponsor Oowner, provided that in no event shall the aggregate amount
of estimated annual water usage for the Benefitted Properties owned by that Owner of that Fiscal
Sponsor/Sponsors exceed the aggregate Water Entitlement allocated to the
Benefitted Properties of that Fiscal Sponsor Oowner, and provided further that the
reallocation of connections shall be allowed only among those locations
identified in Exhibit A hereto the Fiscal Sponsor’s
application.
Portions of the Water Entitlement
evidenced in Water Use Permits may be separately sold and conveyed transferred and assigned only by PBC, and then only to successors-in-interest
to the Owners of the Benefitted
Properties as defined in this ordinance;
provided, however that such Owners who have received a Water Use Permit or
Water Permit from MPWMD to confirm the
portion of the Water Entitlement acquired by sale and conveyance from PBC pursuant to Subsections C and D of
Ordinance No. 109 shall be entitled to use the Water Entitlement evidenced
therein only after the providing of the
Supplemental Financial Commitment to finance the Project Expansion and then only on the Benefited Property to which it
applies and shall not have the right to further sell or convey the Water Use
Permit for any use other than residential use or on any other Benefited
Property.
D. REVOCATION, AND TERMINATION, OR MODIFICATION OF WATER USE PERMITS.
Each
Water Use Permit held by the
Fiscal Sponsor PBC shall provide that it shall be revoked and
terminated in the event that PBC or any other subsequent Fiscal Sponsor shall default in any
material manner upon its obligation, assurance, and guarantee of the Financial
Commitment for the Reclamation Project, provided that nothing herein
shall preclude PBC or any other
subsequent Fiscal Sponsor from disputing in good faith any claim of default
made by the Water Management District MPWMD nor shall the Water Management District MPWMD terminate or revoke any Water Use
Permit unless the PBC or any subsequent Fiscal Sponsor shall
have been given notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure any such default so
long as such opportunity to cure shall not result in any payment default to the any bondholders of the Certificates of Participation.
Prior to completion and operation of the Project Expansion,
the Water Use Permits evidencing the first 150 acre feet of the Water
Entitlement sold and conveyed by PBC pursuant to Subsections C and D of this
Section Three to owners of residential property within the Del Monte Forest (as
defined in Exhibit B) for use solely on said property shall not be subject to
revocation or termination, whereas all Water Use Permits for amounts of the
Water Entitlement in excess of such amount shall be subject to revocation or
termination pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance. All Water Use Permits issued after completion and operation of the Project to
evidence the separate sale and conveyance of the Water
Entitlement conveyed by PBC pursuant to
Subsections C and D of this Section Three of
Ordinance No. 109 shall not be subject to
revocation Revoked (as defined in Rule 11) or Terminated as
defined herein with respect to the entire Water Entitlement so
transferred except as set forth in the following sentences.
In addition, nNotwithstanding
the preceding sentences of this Subsection
Dany other provision
of ,
the actual use on each of the properties to which a
portion of the Water Entitlement is dedicated (after conveyance by PBC pursuant
to Subsections C and D of Section Three of Ordinance No. 109) shall at all
times remain subject to the limitations and restrictions referenced in
Subsections A through C of this Rule 23.5 on the same basis as other customers
of Cal-Am. Moreover, each
Water Use Permit which on or after January 1, 2075, embodies an annual Water
Entitlement in excess of requirements for planned land uses on a Benefitthis Ordinance Nos. 39 or 109ted
Property or which purports to authorize
usage in excess of the constitutional
limitation to reasonable and beneficial use shall be subject to modification, revocation, or and termination in the sole
discretion of the District MPWMD,
such that the water usage authorized thereby shall not exceed such requirements
and limitations.
Prior to any termination and revocation or modification, termination, or revocation pursuant to
this subparagraph D, the holder of the Water Use Permit, and during the
duration of the Financial Commitment, PBC or any subsequent Fiscal Sponsor, shall
be entitled to notice and a hearing, and any termination, revocation, or
modification shall be subject to appeal to the Board pursuant to Rule 70 of the
District MPWMD Rules and
Regulations.
The revocation,
and termination, or
modification of any Water Use Permit shall not diminish or otherwise
adversely affect present actual use of water by reason of prior expansion or
extension of the Cal-Am water distribution system through any connection
previously made pursuant to such Water Use Permit, provided that each Water Use Permit holder shall
be subject to such laws, ordinances, and regulations as are generally
applicable to persons actually using water from the Cal-Am water distribution
system, and nothing herein is intended to or shall affect the ability to
curtail or eliminate the actual use of water through any connection previously
made pursuant to a Water Use Permit to the extent such curtailment or
elimination is authorized by such other laws, ordinances, or regulations.
For example, all
persons using water from the Cal-Am water distribution system are required to
reduce their water usage in the various stages in MPWMD’s Expanded Water
Conservation and Standby Rationing Plan, and may be penalized or their water
service may terminated for failing to reduce water usage as required. Similarly, all such persons must pay the
rates and charges imposed for such water service, or their water service may be
terminated.
E. CAL-AM
SYSTEM EXPANSION/EXTENSION AND ISSUANCE OF PURSUANT
TO WATER USE PERMITS.
So Subject to the other
provisions of this Rule, long as the
Reclamation Project has commenced operation so long as all assurances or
guarantees required for both payment of Capital Costs and payment of Net
Operating Deficiencies for the Reclamation Project continue to be met (or expire by their terms)Eeach Water Use Permit shall entitle the owner of a
Benefitted Property to potable
water service to be provided by the Cal-Am water distribution system for
such Benefitted Properties, including the installation of water meters
and mains as necessary without regard to the existence of a moratorium or
a temporary delay on new connections, upon payment of the fees required by subparagraph E.2. and presentation
to MPWMD by the Fiscal Sponsor Owner of the applicable
Benefited Property for which the following information has not previously been provided:
(1.)
(a) A Water Release
Request from the person whose Water
Entitlement will be utilized (rather than from
the Jurisdiction as discussed in Rule 23) and a statement
by the Fiscal Sponsor Owner setting
forth the annual capacity of water use that the Fiscal Sponsor Owner intends to use through such
expansion/extension of the Cal-Am water distribution system, and the nature of
the uses to which such water is intended to be applied; and
(b) a valid municipal or county building permit
which will allow construction upon the Benefitted Property; or
(c) a complete set of architectural contract
drawings; or
(d) other
documentation sufficient for MPWMD the
District to determine quantity and the capacity for annual water use of the
Benefitted Property in the manner set forth in Subsections C.4 and C.5
of MPWMD Rule 23 and the number and type of each requested
connection.
(2.) The payment of any customary fees and
connection charges required by both Cal-Am and the District MPWMD of water users within the Cal-Am
service area, calculated upon the basis of the estimated annual water usage capacity for the Benefitted
Property determined as set forth in the preceding subsection
E.1(d)set
forth in the Fiscal Sponsor’s statement, including but not limited to fees and
charges due by reason of Rule 24 of the District’s MPWMD’s Rules and Regulations.
Upon the filing of the information and payment of the
fees required above, the General Manager shall issue make a notation on the new
Water Use Permit, or
a Water Permit
pursuant to those provisions of Rule 23 authorizing the expansion/extension of the Cal-Am
water distribution system that are consistent with this Rule 23.5,
which Water Permit
shall indicateing
the location, estimated usage measured as capacity,
and nature of each connection requiring a present expansion/extension of the
Cal-Am water distribution system. Estimated usage shall be based upon the water
use capacity for proposed or planned development upon Benefitted
Properties and
calculated in the manner
described in Subsections C.4 and C.5 of Rule 23. The aggregate
water use represented by such expansions/extensions of the Cal-Am water
distribution system, shall not exceed the Water Entitlement evidenced by such
Water Use Permit. In the event that an
Owner of any Benefited Property Fiscal Sponsor requests an
expansion/extension of the Cal-Am water distribution system with respect to
less than all of the Water Entitlement evidenced by such Water Use Permit, the
General Manager shall make a record of the respective
amounts deducted from
and remaining under the
pertinent notation on such Water Use
Permit indicating the remaining Water Entitlement (as evidenced in the
Water Use Permit) in
the manner described in Subsection C.6 of Rule 23.
The Owner of any
Benefited Property to which the Owner has previously applied a portion of the Water Entitlement through
prior expansions/extensions of the Cal-Am water distribution system Fiscal
Sponsor shall be entitled to increase the annual water use for any on such Benefited Property to which the Fiscal Sponsor has
previously applied a portion of the Water Entitlement through prior
expansions/extensions of the Cal-Am water distribution system upon
presentation of the information and payment of the fees set forth in this
subparagraph (E), provided that such increase does not cause
the aggregate any such increases in water use for on the Benefitted Property (or, in the case of
PBC, PBC’s Benefited Properties, as applicable)
to shall not exceed in the
aggregate the aggregate total Water
Entitlement of all Benefitted Properties owned
by such Owner, or the
total Water Entitlement of the Benefited Properties as a whole.
Cal-Am shall be authorized to execute a contract
with the Fiscal Sponsor to enable the provision of water service pursuant to subsections C and D of Section
Three of Ordinance No. 109 consistent with the Water Entitlement evidenced
by the Water Use Permit issued under this provision. Such agreement with Cal-Am shall at the Fiscal Sponsor’s option
be a condition precedent to the providing of financing pursuant to Section Three of Ordinance No. 109 Fiscal
Commitment by the Fiscal Sponsor that
is to pay for the Capital Costs of the Project Expansion. The actions required to be taken
by the General Manager pursuant to this paragraph shall be ministerial,
non-discretionary acts which shall not be affected by any water moratorium,
water emergency, allocation decision or other curtailment on the setting of new
water meters for the Cal-Am water distribution system and shall be enforceable
by mandamus., provided that
nNothing
in the foregoing is intended to or shall affect the ability of MPWMD to curtail
or eliminate the actual use of water through any connection previously made
pursuant to a Water Use Permit to the extent such curtailment or elimination is
authorized by such other laws, ordinances,
or regulations as are generally applicable to persons actually
using water from the Cal-Am water distribution system, nor is it
intended to provide or imply that any Water Use Permit holder shall not be
subject to such laws, ordinances, and regulations as
are generally applicable to persons actually using water from the Cal-Am water
distribution system.
For
example, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding subparagraph, all
persons using water from the Cal-Am water distribution system are required to
reduce their water usage in the various stages in MPWMD’s Expanded Water
Conservation and Standby Rationing Plan, and may be penalized or their water
service may terminated for failing to reduce water usage as required. Similarly, all such persons must pay the
rates and charges imposed for such water service, or their water service may be
terminated.
F. PROCEDURE IN CASE OF
INTERRUPTION OF RECYCLED WATER DELIVERIES
1. If there is an Interruption in Recycled Water
deliveries to any Recycled Water Irrigation Area, as
defined herein, the temporary use of potable water for irrigating
each such Recycled Water Irrigation Area is shall be authorized in
the manner described in this Subsection F. To accomplish this, Following
written notice to MPWMD from an
owner of the affected area, CAWD,
PBCSD and/or Cal-Am, CAWD, PBCSD
and/or Cal-Am are shall authorized Cal-Am to turn on the connection by which
potable water enters the distribution system serving the
Recycled Water Irrigation Areas (the Poppy
Hills tank as of the date that Ordinance 109 is adopted).
2. If potable water usage continues for longer
than [30]
days, MPWMD may hold shall
notify the owners of the affected Recycled Water Irrigation Area of a
hearing to determine how long and in what
quantities of potable water shall
continue to be supplied for irrigation of the affected Recycled Water
Irrigation Area. Under normal
circumstances, the use of potable
water for irrigation of a Recycled Water Irrigation Area shall not extend for
any longer than the period of time reasonably required to promptly and
diligently complete repair or replacement activities necessary to restore
Recycled Water service, provided that potable water shall be made available for
irrigating tees and greens without any limitation on the duration.
3. MPWMD shall give the
owners of each affected Recycled Water Irrigation Area not less than [ ] days
written notice of any such hearing. Upon rendering its
determination of what quantities of potable water shall continue
to be supplied for irrigation of the affected Recycled Water Irrigation Area, MPWMD
shall give the owners of the affected Recycled Water Irrigation Area not less
than 10 days written notice of any hearing determination, and the determination
shall take effect on the 11th day
following service of the notice by personal delivery or
by facsimile, or the 16th days
following service of the notice by mail.
G. DEFINITIONS.
For the purpose of this Ordinance No. 109 and Rule 23.5, the following
words shall have the meanings set forth below. Other words which are defined in Rule 11 to the Rules and
Regulations, when used in Rule 23.5 or thise ordinance shall have the meanings set forth therein, unless the
context otherwise indicates.
“Ancillary Project Costs” means net revenues (gross
revenues less allocable operation and maintenance costs and administrative and
general costs as such terms are defined in accord with generally accepted
utility practices) which Cal-Am shall not receive by reason of operation of the
Reclamation Project. Ancillary Costs shall not include any return on
assets of Cal-Am which have been removed from the water distribution system
rate base by reason of the Reclamation Project. Ancillary Costs shall be
reduced over time by net revenues received by Cal-Am by reason of sales of
Cal-Am water (with respect to the bBenefited
pProperties) following the
first date of Reclamation Project operation.
“Benefitted Properties” means those properties described on Exhibit “A” hereto within
the Cal-Am service area which
have been identified within the application of the selected Fiscal
Sponsor/Sponsors and upon which a portion of the Water Entitlement may be
utilized. For any public agency Fiscal Sponsor, the
term “Benefitted Properties” shall be defined as those properties owned
entirely by the public agency and dedicated for public use. All Benefited
Properties are located in the unincorporated
portion of the Del Monte Forest (the area shown on Exhibit “B”)
except as otherwise noted in Exhibit “A.”
“Cal-Am” means
the California American Water Company, a
California corporation, its successors and assigns.
“Capital Costs” as applied to the Reclamation Project
or any portion thereof means all or
any part of:
(a) the cost of
acquisition by CAWD or by PBCSD of
all lands, structures, real or personal property rights, rights-of-way,
franchises, easements, and interests acquired or used for, the Reclamation Project,
inclusive of fees and commissions for acquisition;
(b) the cost of
construction related to of the
Reclamation Project, including but
not without limitedation, to demolition, repair,
modification, replacement or renovation of existing structures, facilities,
fixtures or equipment essential to the
construction and operation of the Project; cost of improvements and
materials; direct and indirect Public Participation construction and
administration expenses properly allocable to the Reclamation Project in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; costs of painting,
decorating, furnishing and landscaping; contractor and subcontractor profit;
and costs related, by reason of the Reclamation
Project, to plumbing, mains,
tanks, or pipes which are modified, repaired, replaced, or renovated, whether
owned by Public Participants or others.
(c) the cost of
demolishing or removing any buildings, fixtures, equipment, or structures on
land so acquired, including, without
limitation, the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or
structures may be moved;
(d) the cost of all new machinery, piping, equipment and
furnishings, including but not limited to the cost lesser of (i) the fair market value, or (ii) depreciated value for
purposes of the applicable rate base, of machinery, piping, equipment and
furnishings made obsolete or unusable to Cal-Am, or any of the Public Participants, or others by reason of the Reclamation Project to the extent not replaced by the Project;
(e) costs of selling and issuing the
Certificates of Participation, including, without limitation, the underwriter’s
discount and any other applicable fFinancing charges;
(f) Interest on any funds advanced to permit payment of
any of the Capital Costs prior to, during, and for a period after
completion of the acquisition and construction of the Reclamation Project
as determined by the Monterey Peninsula
Water Management District, including,
without limitation, capitalized interest on the Certificates of Participation;
(g) provisions for
working capital;
(h) the Operating Reserve and other similar reserves for routine or extraordinary
repairs and replacements necessary to the Reclamation Project;
(i) the cost of
architectural, engineering, planning, environmental analysis, financial,
accounting, auditing and legal services, plans, specifications, estimates,
administrative expenses, permits, fees, adverse claims, personnel and overhead
costs (both direct and indirect, to the extent properly allocable to the Reclamation Project in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles), and
other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility of
construction the Reclamation Project or incident to the planning,
construction, acquisition, or financing of any
portion of theat Project, including, without limitation:
1. Payment during the
construction period of the premiums for all title and other insurance, bonds,
or undertakings required to be taken out and maintained with respect to any
part of. the Reclamation Project to the extent such amounts are not paid
by any contractor who constructs or installs any portion of the Reclamation Project;
2. Payment of the taxes,
assessments and other fees or charges, if any, that may become payable during
the construction period with respect to any
portion of the Reclamation Project, or reimbursements thereof; and
3. Payment of expenses
incurred in seeking to enforce any remedy against any contractor or
subcontractor in respect of any default under a contract relating to the
acquisition, construction or installation of any portion of the Reclamation Project.
4. Payment of expenses incurred concerning
asserted deficiencies in the Project and related matters beginning on January
1, 1995, and continuing through the drafting, negotiation, and
execution of any and all agreements necessary or desirable to implement the
design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the Project Expansion and
any modifications thereof or thereto, to the extent that
corresponding expenses concerning the implementation of the Original Project
were treated as reimbursable.
5. Payment
of any expenses incurred to track and record changes in
the Water Entitlements following issuance of new Water Use Permits or Water
Permits, to verify water use capacity pursuant to Subsection E
of Rule 23, to otherwise monitor compliance with or
to enforce actual water usage pursuant to such
laws, ordinances, and regulations as are generally applicable to persons
actually using water from the Cal-Am water distribution system, Water Use Permits and to make such
determinations concerning adjustments, and
to implement and enforce
the adjustments, to Water Use Permits that may be
required in 2075.
“CAWD” means the Carmel Area Wastewater District (formerly known as the Carmel Sanitary District), a public agency.
“CAWD/PBCSD” means both the
Carmel Area Wastewater District and the Pebble Beach Community Services
District, in reference to the Project with respect to any rights or obligations that they hold in
common, jointly and severally.
“Certificates of Participation” means the Certificates of Participation issued by MPWMD in 1992 in the amount of $33.9 million to finance the Capital Costs of the Original Project.
“Completed” with respect to the Project Expansion
shall mean that (1) all required permits or other approvals have been obtained,
(2) all construction activities for the advanced treatment components (being
added to the tertiary treatment plant facilities of the Original Project),
Forest Lake Reservoir, and all treatment, and distribution facilities
associated therewith, have been completed and tested in accordance with their
respective approved plans, permits and other approvals, (3) Forest Lake
Reservoir has been filled to capacity with “Recycled Water” suitable for
irrigation of all portions of the Recycled Water Irrigation Areas without the
addition of any potable water thereto and otherwise meeting all regulatory and
health standards for such usage, and (4) all portions of the distribution
system are capable of delivering such Recycled Water to the Recycled Water
Irrigation Areas.
“Del Monte Forest”
means the area of mostly unincorporated
Monterey County described and/or
depicted on Exhibit “B”
“Emergency”
means one or more sudden, unexpected occurrences, beyond the reasonable control
of the entity having operation and
maintenance responsibilities of
a particular facility
comprising part of the Project owner or
operator of any Recycled Water Irrigation
Areas, that interrupt the supply of Recycled Water to the Recycled Water Irrigation Areas, demanding
immediate and diligent action by such entity CAWD and/or PBCSD to restore such supply. Under no circumstances shall an Emergency
last longer than the period of time reasonably required to promptly and
diligently complete the repair or replacement activities
(taking into account cost only where exorbitant). Notwithstanding the
preceding sentence, once the Project Expansion first becomes operational, no
such Emergency shall, for purposes of this ordinance, justify the use of
potable water for irrigation of the Recycled
Water Irrigation Areas for more than days
within any consecutive day
period.
“Financial Commitment” means the commitment of PBC, as the Fiscal Sponsor, or any subsequent Fiscal Sponsor, to
assume and guarantee payment of (1) the Capital Costs of the Reclamation Project
(including the payment of the principal of and interest on the Certificates of Participation or any
bonds or other obligations issued by any Public Participant to finance such
costs), and (2) the Net Operating Deficiencies of the Reclamation Project
for the entire period
ending twenty years following the estimated completion date of the project until the Certificates of Participation (and any bonds or other obligations issued by any
Public Participant to finance such costs) have been paid in full (or for any shorter periods as permitted by the
District MPWMD), and (3) payment
of all Ancillary Project Costs.
“Fiscal Sponsor or Fiscal Sponsors”
means PBC and any person or persons
(including partnerships,
corporations, municipal corporations, or
other public entities) selected
to act that may succeed PBC
in ownership of all of PBC’s assets and
assume, as the Fiscal Sponsor/Spponsors, all of PBC’s obligations pursuant to Part II of Ordinance No. 39, Ordinance No. 109, the Fiscal
Sponsorship Agreement, and any amendments thereof, which person or persons shall will be obligated, and liable for, and capable of
paying the Capital Costs and Net Operating Deficiencies of the Reclamation Project.
“Fiscal Sponsorship
Agreement” means the Wastewater Reclamation Project Fiscal Sponsorship
Agreement between the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District and Pebble
Beach Company, dated as of October 3, 1989, as amended.
“Franchise Freed-Up
Water” means potable water which has been freed for new use by reason of subpotable
Recycled Wwater deliveries
from the Reclamation Project. Freed-Up Water has the same meaning as
“Franchise Water” in Ordinance No. 39.
“General Manager”
means the General Manager of MPWMD.
“Interruption,” for the
purposes of Rule 23.5 and Ordinance No. 109, means an interruption for longer
than { [hours] [days]} in the supply of Recycled Water to a
Recycled Water Irrigation Area.
“MPWMD” means the
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, a public agency.
“Net Operating Deficiency” as applied to the Reclamation
Project means, for any fiscal year or portion thereof, the difference
between the Operating Revenues and the Operation and Maintenance Expenses for
such period.
“Operation and Maintenance Expenses” as applied to the Reclamation
Project means all expenses and costs of management, operation, maintenance
and repair of the Reclamation Project, including payments to be made by
the Public Participants under agreements with Cal-Am for the purchase of subpotable
water, debt service payments on the Certificates of Participation and and
all incidental costs, fees and expenses properly chargeable to the all any other bonds or other obligations
issued to finance the cost of the Reclamation Project, Reclamation
Project in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles,
including reasonable depreciation and obsolescence charges or reserves
therefore assuming straight line depreciation upon a useful life assumed to be
thirty (30) years, amortization of intangibles and other bookkeeping entries of
a similar nature.
“Operating Reserve” means a reserve maintained for
the purpose of paying for operations, providing working capital, and paying for
routine and extraordinary repairs and replacements.
“Operating Revenues” as applied to the Reclamation Project
means all income, rents, rates, fees, charges and other moneys derived by the
Public Participants from the ownership or operation of the Reclamation Project,
including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing: (i) all income,
rents, rates, fees, charges or other moneys derived from the sale, furnishing
and supplying of the reclaimed,
subpotable Recycled wWater (or from potable
water supplied in lieu thereof (but only
to the extent the use of potable water is permitted hereunder); (ii)
Interest earnings on all revenues mentioned in (i) above, and on the Operating Rreserve or on any other fund or account relating
to the Reclamation Project, and (iii) insurance and condemnation
proceeds resulting from damage to or destruction of the Reclamation Project
facilities, or from the condemnation of the Reclamation Project;
provided, that the term “Operating Revenues” shall not include customers’
deposits or any other deposits subject to refund until such deposits have
become the property of one of the
Public Participants.
“Original Project” means and consists of (1)
a tertiary treatment facility at the present CAWD wastewater treatment plant
site, designed to produce at least 800 acre feet per year of disinfected
recycled water, (2) a distribution system which is capable of distributing the
recycled water from the facility to a point of distribution in the Del Monte
Forest for further distribution to the Recycled Water Irrigation Areas, and (3)
recycled water irrigation systems on each of the Recycled Water Irrigation
Areas.
“Owner” means the
holder (of record) of fee title to any Benefited Property.
“PBCSD” means the
Pebble Beach Community Services District, a public agency.
“Project” or
“Reclamation Project” means the CSD/PBCSD
wastewater treatment plant
(including lands, facilities, equipment, furniture and fixtures) Original
Project (used since 19945 to create, distribute, and store Recycled
Water) and the Project Expansion.
“Project Expansion” means and consists of
the addition of advanced treatment components to the tertiary
treatment plant facilities of
the Original Project to produce “Recycled Water,” and the addition of storage,
treatment, and distribution facilities at or associated with the
Forest Lake Reservoir located within the Del Monte Forest and owned by PBCSD.
“Public Participant” means any one or more of the following: the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, the Carmel Area Wastewater District, formerly the Carmel Sanitary District, the Pebble Beach Community Services District, or any successor public agency including but not limited to any joint powers agency formed by one or more of the above agencies.
The meaning of the term
“Recycled Water” depends upon whether or not the Project Expansion is
Completed:
(a) Before
the Project Expansion becomes operationalis
Completed, “Recycled Water”
shall mean water originating from the tertiary treatment facilities of the CAWD
wastewater treatment plant.
(b) Once After the
Project Expansion first Completed becomes operational, “Recycled Water” shall refer to water
originating from said tertiary treatment facilities and thereafter receiving
further treatment so as to be suitable for irrigation of all
portions of the Recycled Water Irrigation Areas without the
addition of any potable water thereto (except during an Interruption Emergency as defined herein) and otherwise
meeting all regulatory and health standards
for such usage. “Recycled Water” has
the same meaning as “Reclaimed Water.”
“Recycled Water
Irrigation Areas” means the golf courses and other vegetated areas located
within the Del Monte Forest that now or in the future may be irrigated with
Recycled Water supplied by the Project.
“Supplemental Financial Commitment” means the
funds that PBC will raise
through the sale of such portions of its
Water Entitlement pursuant to Subsection C of Section Three of
Ordinance 109 (combined with any funds which may be independently
committed by PBC, IRWUG, CAWD, PBCSD, or any
other entity willing to commit
funds to the Capital Costs of the Project Expansion). Pursuant to Subsection E of
Section Three of Ordinance 109, any proceeds received by PBC from the sales of
portions of PBC’s Water Entitlement pursuant to Subsection C thereof shall
be applied to payment of the Capital Costs of the Project Expansion (including
repayment of any funds independently committed by PBC, IRWUG,
CAWD, PBCSD, or any other entity as a
part of the Supplemental Financial Commitment), and any
proceeds from such sales in excess of the Capital Costs of the Project
Expansion shall be applied to the Net Operating Deficiencies of the Project or
the Capital Costs of the Original Project.
“Water Entitlement” means an
aggregate of 400 380 acre
feet per year (or less) of potable water, and in no event more than
fifty (50%) percent of the total amount of Franchise Water, which shall
be the maximum portion of the Franchise Water has
been dedicated (as evidenced by Water Use Permits issued pursuant to Ordinance
No. 39, the Resolution, and the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement) or which
may be dedicated to land within the jurisdiction of the District MPWMD for the purpose of providing for the
payment of the Capital Cost, Ancillary Project Cost, and Net Operating
Deficiencies of the Reclamation Project. Ordinance No. 109 provides a
process by which a portion of the Water Entitlement held by PBC may be
separately sold and conveyed and thereby be dedicated to other land within the
jurisdiction of MPWMD with the proceeds therefrom to be applied exclusively to the costs of the Project
Expansion and the Original Project as more specifically described therein.
“Terminate”
means the withdrawal, without
formal MPWMD action, of authority to act as
previously provided by a valid permit or water service
connection, whichever is applicable.
“Water Permit” means a
permit issued by MPWMD authorizing the
expansion/extension of the Cal-Am water distribution system pursuant to a
Water Entitlement (as evidenced by a Water Use Permit issued
pursuant to MPWMD Rule 23.5). Upon compliance with
Subsection F of Rule 23.5, MPWMD shall
by non-discretionary ministerial action, cause the present Expansion/Extension
of the Cal-Am water distribution for Benefitted Properties. A Water Permit shall take the place of and
be used instead of any Expansion/Extension Permit (as defined pursuant to Rule 23)
upon any Benefited Property as relates to the use of a
specified portion of the Water Entitlement.
“Water Use Permit” means a writing from the District MPWMD which
evidences the irrevocable dedication of the Water Entitlement as a
present vested property right enuring
to the use and benefit of one or more of the Benefitted Parcels Properties. A Water Use Permit shall by non-discretionary ministerial action,
cause the present Expansion/Extension of the Cal-Am water distribution for
Benefitted Properties upon designation of the location of
use, and upon payment of applicable connection fees and charges. A Water Use Permit shall take the place of
and be used instead of any Expansion/Extension Permit upon any Benefitted
Parcel Property as relates to the
use of any portion of the Water Entitlement.
Added by Ordinance No. 39 (2/13/89);
amended by Ordinance No. 71 (12/20/93)
Section
Five: Agreements to Provide for
Water Entitlement and to Guarantee the Payment of Project Capital
Costs and Net Operating Deficiencies
The
General Manager is authorized to negotiate and, subject to the prior approval or ratification by the Board, to execute a
Supplemental Financing Agreement with PBC, and such further
agreements with Cal-Am and PBC as are necessary or desirable,
(a) to provide the terms and
conditions upon which portions
of the Water Entitlement will be conveyed by PBC provided to, and used on, the
Benefited Properties not owned by PBC as of
the date that this ordinance is adopted in the manner provided in
this ordinance; and .
(b) to provide the terms and conditions upon
which PBC shall attempt to raise the
Supplemental Financial Commitment from which all Capital Costs
of the Project Expansion shall be paid (primarily from
the proceeds received by PBC from any separate conveyance of a portion of PBC’s
Water Entitlement as described in Subsections C or D of Section Three of this
ordinance);,
and
(c)
to provide the terms and conditions upon which PBC shall
assure and guarantee, with minimal fiscal risk to MPWMD or any other Public
Participant, payment of the Net Operating Deficiencies of the Project as a
whole.
MPWMD
will cooperate with PBC and Cal-Am in securing any approval required from the
California Public Utilities Commission that may be necessary or desirable in
connection with the Supplemental Financing Agreement or any such
further
agreements.
The Supplemental
Financing Agreement shall provide reasonable controls over expenditures and
accounting of expenditures and shall not require the Fiscal Sponsor to incur
any cost or liability for changes which expand the scope of the Project beyond
the Project Expansion.
The
Supplemental Financing Agreement shall not affect the Water Entitlement
evidenced by the issuance of Water Use Permits, or such other Water Permits
issued by MPWMD for a portion thereof as of the date that this ordinance is
adopted, or the Financial Commitment made by PBC (concerning the Original
Project) in the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement, or the acknowledgement thereof by
MPWMD. MPWMD shall agree not to amend
the provisions of this ordinance in any manner which would impair the interest
of such Fiscal Sponsor or any successor or assign.
The failure to enter into the Supplemental Financing Agreement or a further agreement with PBC and/or Cal-Am with respect to undertaking the Project Expansion shall in no way diminish or affect PBC’s or any Owner’s rights or obligations under Ordinance No. 39, any Water Use Permit issued thereunder, or any agreement entered into pursuant thereto.
MPWMD
shall acknowledge in any such agreement that the Fiscal Sponsor (currently PBC)
has made and has stated its
intention to continue to provide the Financial Commitment in reliance upon the
provisions of Ordinance No. 39 and this ordinance, as such Financial Commitment
is respectively defined therein. MPWMD
shall agree not to amend the provisions of this ordinance in any manner which
would impair the interest of such Fiscal Sponsor or any successor or assign.
Section 6: Agreements to Guarantee the Payment of Project Capital Costs
and Net Operating Deficiencies
The
General Manager is authorized to negotiate and, subject to the prior approval
or ratification by the Board, to execute such further agreements with PBC and
Cal-Am as are necessary or desirable to assure and guarantee, the full payment
of the Capital Costs and Net Operating Deficiencies and Ancillary Project Costs
of the Project (including the Project Expansion) with minimal fiscal risk to
MPWMD or any other Public Participant; provided that the failure to enter into
such a further agreement with PBC and/or Cal-Am with respect to undertaking the
Project Expansion shall in no way diminish or affect PBC’s or any Owner’s
rights or obligations under Ordinance No. 39, any Water Use Permit issued
thereunder, or any agreement entered into pursuant thereto that is not
subsequently superseded. Such further
agreements shall not require the Fiscal Sponsor to incur any cost or liability
for changes which expand the scope of the Project (defined to include the
Project Expansion). Furthermore, the agreement shall provide reasonable
controls over expenditures and accounting of expenditures.
Section Seven: Agreements
with Public Participants
The
General Manager is authorized to negotiate and, subject to the prior approval or ratification by the Board, to execute a
Supplemental Construction and Operation Agreement, and such
agreements as are necessary or desirable, to
provide for the respective construction, equipping and
operation of the Project Expansion by CAWD and/or
PBCSD in conjunction with the continuing operation and maintenance of the
Original Project by CAWD and/or PBCSD,
respectively. Such
agreements shall provide that, except for the funds available in an Operating
Reserve for the Project to be established under the Supplemental Construction
and Operation Agreement, the only funds of MPWMD or any other Public
Participant to be used to pay for the construction, equipping and operation of
the Project Expansion by CAWD and PBCSD, respectively, or the operation and maintenance
of the Original Project by CAWD and PBCSD, respectively, shall be the revenues
received by MPWMD from the sales of
Recycled Water from the Project.
All financial commitments for the construction, ownership,
and operation of the Project Expansion shall be payable first from Operating
Revenues of the facility including any reserves therefor, then from the funds
provided by PBC from the proceeds of the separate sale and conveyance of PBC’s
Water Entitlement and Water Use Permits to other Owners of the Benefited
Properties as provided in Section Three of this ordinance, and lastly from any
other funds lawfully available to MPWMD or any other Public Participant.
All
financial commitments of MPWMD and/or PBC under
the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement for the continuing operation and maintenance
of the Original Project by CAWD and/or
PBCSD, respectively, shall be unaffected by
this ordinance. In the event that PBC requests, or the Public Participants otherwise determine that it is appropriate, request
to issue refunding bonds or other obligations in order to
refinance any portion of the Capital Cost of the
Reclamation Project, MPWMD shall cooperate
with such Public Participants in providing for the issuance of such
obligations.
Section SevenEight: Purchase of Recycled Water from the Reclamation Project
The
General Manager is authorized to negotiate and, subject to the prior approval or ratification by the Board, to execute an
Agreement for Sale of Recycled Water agreements
with each owner of one or more
Recycled Water Irrigation Area(s) providing for the
purchase and sale of Recycled Water from the Projectthe owners of such Recycled Water Irrigation Areas as may
from time to time be located within the Del Monte Forest (as defined in Exhibit
B), and within the Cal-Am service area (collectively called the “Recycled Water
users”) for the purchase and sale of Recycled Water from the Project. Each such All agreements
for
Sale of Recycled Water shall:
(1)
require the Recycled Water users to purchase such Recycled Water for a term not
less than twenty (20) years;
(2)
provide for a guarantee by CAWD and/or PBCSD, as the Project operators of the
Project Expansion, of the delivery of Recycled Water from the Project to such
Recycled Water users to meet all of their irrigation requirements except during
an Interruption Emergency
as defined herein;
(3)
prohibit such Recycled Water users, after completion of the Project Expansion,
from using any potable water from Cal-Am to
irrigate any portion of the Recycled Water Irrigation Areas except during an Interruption
Emergency as defined herein,
provided, however, that the use of potable water during any such Interruption
Emergency shall be further
limited as may be required by the Board in response to water shortage emergency
declared by the Board pursuant to Section 332 of the Monterey Peninsula Water
Management District Law throughout the duration of such water shortage emergency;
and
(4)
provide for the timely payment and collection of revenues for Recycled Water, and
(45)
after the expiration of the Financial Commitment of the Fiscal Sponsor, require
MPWMD to impose rates and charges for Recycled Water sufficient to maximize
payment for Operation and Maintenance Expenses and Capital Costs of the
Reclamation Project, subject to the limitation set forth in Water Code section
13550 that the price for Recycled Water shall be comparable to the cost of
supplying potable domestic water except as the parties to the Related
Agreements may agree in writing otherwise.
The General Manager shall establish a billing and collection
procedure to ensure the timely collection of revenues under these agreements.
Section NineEight: Severability
If any
subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid or
unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or
unenforceability, shall not affect the validity or enforcement of the remaining portions of this
ordinance, or of any other provisions of the
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Rules and Regulations. It is
MPWMD’s express intent that each
remaining portion would have been adopted irrespective of the fact that one or more subdivisions, paragraphs,
sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid or unenforceable.
On motion by Director ________________________, and second by Director
_____________________, the foregoing ordinance is adopted upon this _____ day
of _______________, 2003, by the following vote:
AYES:
NAYS:
ABSENT:
I, Fran Farina, Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Monterey
Peninsula Water Managemnet District, hereby certify the foregoing is a full,
true and correct copy of an ordinance duly adopted on the _______ day of
________________, 2003.
Witness my hand and seal of the Board of Directors this ____ day of
________________, 2003.
_____________________________________
Fran Farina, Secretary to the Board
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EXHIBIT A
OWNER |
|
ORIGINAL
WATER ENTITLEMENT
(af/yr) |
|
QUANTITY
OF WATER ENTITLEMENTFOR WHICH WATER PERMITS HAVE BEEN
ISSUED (af/yr) |
|
QUANTITY OF WATER ENTITLEMENT
FOR WHICH WATER PERMITS HAVE NOT BEEN
|
Pebble Beach Company |
|
365.000 |
|
9.8 |
|
355.118 |
Macomber Estates |
|
10.000 |
|
9.654 |
|
0.346 |
Griffin Trust |
|
|
3.716 |
|
1.285 |
BENEFITED
PROPERTIES
All
real property within the boundaries of the unincorporated
portions of the Del Monte Forest as defined in Exhibit ”B” and
such additional real property as has been designated and included as Benefited
Properties under the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement pursuant to amendments
thereto as previously approved by the
MPWMD Board before the date that this
ordinance is adopted and Rule 23.5 is amended thereby. [We will need a
legal description of the portion of the Benefited Properties located outside
the Del Monte Forest.]
EXHIBIT B
DEL MONTE FOREST