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The following recommendations, created to respond to concerns expressed by Council, were presented by Councilman Greenalch for discussion purposes: (1) Revise the current program to meet the City's current allocations from the San Francisco Water Department (SFWD). (2) Revise the "Water Banking" Program to retain the units already banked, permit banking to continue at the reduced rate of 20% of the units saved per billing period, and return excess use charges remaining after program expenses proportionally to units left in bank. (3) No building moratorium be imposed as part of the City's Water Rationing Program. (4) Increase Water Excess Use Charges to four (4) dollars per unit for the first four (4) units over the allocation for a billing period and six (6) dollars for each unit thereafter; for accounts receiving excess use charges for two (2) consecutive periods, a water restrictor should be installed for seven (7) days. (5) Adopt a "Public Use" category of water users with Parks, Schools, and Hospitals maintaining their current allocations and Day Care, Adult Care, and governments receiving allocations based on March 1991 use. (6) Following the Public Hearing and Council discussion the matter be referred back to the committee for purposes of developing an ordinance to be considered by the Council at the continued Public Hearing on April 29, 1991. Also introduced for the first time a new proposal for distribution based on actual allocation: Residential 51%, CommerciallIndustrial 18%, Public Use 8%, Reserve 5% and other 18%. Council discussed input of all members of the Council Water Committee into the proposed recommendations; the Public Utilities Commission meeting of April 23, 1991 that will impact allocation to Redwood City from San Francisco Water Department and advance information that the PUC will recommend maintaining the current allocation; need for complex water management program in the long term; descriptions of worst case scenarios; advantages of referring water rationing plan to Council Water Committee with direction to incorporate PUC and SFWD decisions into Redwood City rationing plan; inequities in current rationing program as it penalizes water savers of 1987; impact of and possibility of withdrawal of all units of banked water allocations at one time; incentives to continue banking and at what levels; information showing more water under users than over users, and over allocation to commercial accounts; need to target water over users; and need for aggressive educational program. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mayor La Berge declared a recess at 9:05 p.m. Meeting reconvened at 9:15 p.m. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After Council and speakers agreed upon a five minute limit for each speaker, the following people addressed the Council: Regular Meeting Minutes April 15, 1991 Page 3 MINUTE BOOK NO. 50 Page No. 228 T -, """"""""'T-""""'- ,--.-