EXHIBIT 9-A

RESOLUTION NO. 2010-11

A Resolution of the Board of Directors

of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District

To Apply for Proposition 84 Planning Grant Funding and Authorize the General Manager To Enter into a Contract with the State of California

Resolved by the Board of Directors of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, that application be made to the California Department of Water Resources to obtain an Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Grant pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coast Protection Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 84) for tasks to update the Monterey Peninsula, Carmel Bay, and South Monterey Bay Integrated Regional Water Management Plan and to enter into an agreement to receive a grant for such tasks. The General Manager of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District is hereby authorized and directed to prepare the necessary data, conduct investigations, file such application, and if a grant is awarded, execute a grant agreement with the California Department of Water Resources.

On a motion by Director ________ and second by Director _______ the foregoing resolution is duly adopted this 19^th day of July 2010 by the following votes.

Ayes: Directors

Nays:

Absent:

I, Darby Fuerst, Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, hereby certify that the foregoing is a resolution duly adopted on the 19^th day of July 2010.

Witness my hand and seal of the Board of Directors this ___ day of ____ 2010.

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