EXHIBIT 1-B

Monterey Peninsula Water Management District

Budget Service Program Categories and Performance Measures
January 19, 2005 Budget Workshop

General and Administrative

• Ensure that all citizen/customer inquiries and other letters to District staff that require a response receive an initial written acknowledgement within 48 hours; and that a full response is normally provided within two weeks
• Ensure completion of draft minutes of each regular Board of Directors meeting and submit same with the subsequent regular Board meeting agenda packet, and submit draft Committee meeting minutes with next Committee meeting agenda packet
• Ensure that each Board of Directors meeting packet is delivered to Directors by the Wednesday preceding each regular Monday Board meeting, and that special Board meetings packets are delivered not less than five days prior to the meeting

Budgeting and Financial

• Complete all financial reports and accounting functions within the identified target deadlines
• Complete all financial reports an accounting functions without subsequent corrections
• Ensure compliance with audit requirements as evidenced by no significant audit findings
• Ensure invoices are paid in a timely manner to maintain good relations with suppliers and the public

Personnel

• Maintain efficiency and responsiveness of the recruitment process to insure timely staffing of vacant positions
• Ensure employee development and timely performance feedback
• Provide timely responses to employee requests for information

Risk Management and Safety

• Maintain appropriate insurance levels to minimize exposure to loss
• Ensure employees receive and attend training for all mandatory courses on time
• Monitor workplace safety through measurement of workdays lost to injury and illness

Support Services

• Ensure distribution of incoming and outgoing mail on a daily basis
• Complete preparation of all Board and Committee packets for timely distribution by established deadlines
• Ensure daily maintenance of District files for use by the public, staff, legal counsel and the Board

Information Technology

• Ensure effective support of computer hardware and software within four hours of requests during working hours
• Maintain secure and reliable electronic environments at all times
• Ensure full backup of all District computer records and data on a daily basis

Environmental Protection

• Rescue steelhead from the drying Carmel River; transfer fish to Sleepy Hollow Steelhead Rearing Facility, and keep them until released with a goal of no more than (TBD)% mortality
• Monitor health of riparian vegetation and irrigate as necessary to assure a minimum of 90% survival
• Monitor lagoon wetlands vegetation transects and bathymetric survey cross-sections with a goal of 100% annual coverage

Water Supply

• Complete draft EIR on long-term Aquifer Storage & Recovery Project by (date)
• Report to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) on water year 2005 Carmel River diversions no later than September 1, 2005, as per SWRCB permit
• Collect streamflow data at (TBD) gages in the Carmel River watershed
• Measure groundwater levels in (TBD) wells within the District

Water Resources Management

• Participate in all meetings and develop the Memorandum of Understanding among Cal-Am, the California Department of Fish & Game and the District by (date) each year
• Conduct all required meeting and report timeline elements for Seaside Basin Groundwater Management Plan preparation by (date)
• Prepare testimony and participate in PUC rate cases within required timelines

Water Use & Permitting

• Process all applications within the time limits set by the Permit Streamlining Act
• Collect and report well and water distribution system water use records within (TBD) months of the end of the reporting year
• Tabulate permit water use totals for each jurisdiction’s allocations and entitlements on a monthly basis

Water Conservation

• Inspect 90% of properties transferring ownership (that have not been previously inspected in the past five years) for compliance with District conservation laws
• Data related to conservation and permit final inspections shall be entered with 100% accuracy
• Estimated water savings resulting from the District’s retrofit and rebate programs shall be tabulated and maintained monthly
• The quantity of reclaimed water produced and used by the Reclamation Project shall be tracked monthly and maintained in an electronic file
• Attend 100% of the Water Awareness Committee meetings

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