AgdaPkt 2015-04-13 Closed and Joint SA and PFA REVISED 04_10_2015

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8.A. - Page 43 THE ENTERPRISE General Background The City is located in the southern portion of the County and, through the Enterprise, supplies water to the City, unincorporated areas of the County and portions of the City of San Carlos and the Town of Woodside. Operation and maintenance of the Enterprise is financed through the City's Water Enterprise Fund. The City is one of 28 Wholesale Customers in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Alameda Counties which purchase water from the SFPUC. In 2009, the SFPUC and the Wholesale Customers entered into the WSA which replaced a prior agreement entered into in 1984. The WSA has a 25-year term (with provisions for two conditional five-year extensions).The City currently receives all of its potable water from the Regional Water System. Management The maintenance and operation of the Enterprise is the responsibility of the City's Public Works Services Department ("Public Works"). The Public Works Director has responsibility for the Department and one of the three superintendents reporting to him has the responsibility of maintaining and operating the Enterprise. The Water Utilities Section is staffed by a Public Works Utility Superintendent along with two field supervisors,who manage the operations and maintenance of the water system including transmission, storage, distribution, meter reading, regulatory compliance sampling and analyses, cross-connection control, long-range planning and asset management/mapping. The Section has 30.97 full time equivalent (FTE) employees involved in the Enterprise. The Engineering and Construction Division of the Community Development Department is responsible for the design and construction of water system projects, primarily system replacement, and regulatory compliance improvements. The Revenue Services Division of the Finance Department is responsible for all City utility billing and collections, as well as processing connection and facilities fees. Service Area The Enterprise serves most of the corporate area of the City and portions outside the corporate limits, including Canada College, portions of the City of San Carlos and the Town of Woodside, and the unincorporated Emerald Hills area of the County. The Enterprise's service area presently covers approximately 14 square miles. Service is provided to areas between Highways 280 and 101, and between Whipple Avenue and Marsh Road in the area east of Highway 101, and in the Redwood Shores development. As of June 30, 2014, the Enterprise served domestic water to approximately 84,557 people through 23,612 active service connections. Residential connections account for 88 percent of the total service connections. Commercial connections account for nine percent. The remaining three percent are mostly fire connections, and some municipal and institutional connections. The Enterprise's service area is substantially built out, with a relatively stable customer base. See "Customer Base"below. Water Supply and Demand Background. The water supply delivered to the 28 Wholesale Customers (including the City) by the SFPUC originates from two primary sources (i) the Tuolumne River through the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and (ii) local runoff into Bay Area reservoirs in the Alameda and Peninsula watersheds. Water originating in the Hetch Hetchy watershed represents the majority of the water supply available to the Regional Water System. On average, the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir provides approximately 85% of the water delivered and runoff into Bay Area reservoirs provides approximately 15% of the water delivered through the Regional Water -19-