RULES AND REGULATIONS REVIEW COMMITTEE

ITEM:		ACTION ITEM
3.	CONSIDER AMENDMENT TO ROTATION SCHEDULEFOR WATERMASTER REPRESENTATIVE
Meeting Date:			March 7, 2012	Budgeted:	N/A
From:			David J. Stoldt,	Program/	N/A
			General Manager	Line Item No.:
Prepared By:			David J. Stoldt	Cost Estimate:	N/A
General Counsel Review: N/A
Committee Recommendation: The Rules and Regulations review Committee, at its March 7, 2012 meeting, voted __ to __ to amend Rule 7.D as recommended.
CEQA Compliance: N/A

SUMMARY: Section 4.1 of the Rules and Regulations of the Seaside Groundwater Basin Watermaster specifies that every two years, member agencies must appoint a representative and alternate to the Watermaster for a two-year term. However, instead the District has changed the representative annually and notified the Watermaster each year. However, the District’s rotation schedule has not been working because the Supervisor’s and Mayors’ appointees already serve on the Watermaster board. Further, the rotation schedule as adopted by the District has a flaw in the way dates were set.

RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends the representative be appointed in a manner similar to standing committees. It is recommended to change Rule 7.D to read, “The District’s representative and alternate on the Seaside Groundwater Basin Watermaster shall be annually appointed by the Chair of the Board and approved by the Board.”

If the Committee instead decides to keep the rotation schedule intact, then it is recommended that the dates in the table in Rule 7.D be edited to reflect all January dates and be revised and adopted beginning 2013.

BACKGROUND: The District’s Board of Directors adopted Meeting Rule 7.D in August 2010 that established an annual rotation schedule for appointment of representatives to the Watermaster (see below); therefore, for 2012 Director Potter would be appointed to the position of representative, and Director Pendergrass would serve as alternate. However, Director Potter serves as the County of Monterey representative to the Watermaster, and he cannot represent both agencies concurrently. The next person in rotation is Director Pendergrass, who also has a conflict because he serves as the City of Sand City representative to the Watermaster. Last year, Director Brower served as the District’s representative, Judi Lehman as alternate, and they were reappointed by the Chair to again serve for 2012. This was done rather than shifting the rotation schedule forward to 2014.

The current text of Rule 7.D is as follows:

D. Seaside Groundwater Basin Watermaster

Representation on the Seaside Groundwater Basin Watermaster shall be determined as follows. Annual rotation of Directors into the position of representative and alternate to the Watermaster will begin in 2011 with Voter Division 5. If the Director rotating in declines to accept the position, the next Director in the rotation will be eligible to participate. If the Director rotating into the position represents another jurisdiction on the Watermaster, that Director must decide to represent either the MPWMD or the other jurisdiction.

Rotation Schedule for Watermaster Representative and Alternate
Year	Representative	Alternate
January 2011	Division 5	Board of Supervisors Rep.
October 2012	Board of Supervisors Rep.	Mayoral Representative
January 2013	Mayoral Representative	Division 1
October 2014	Division 1	Division 2
January 2015	Division 2	Division 3
October 2016	Division 3	Division 4
January 2017	Division 4	Division 5

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