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6.1G Page 1 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager September 14, 2009 SUBJECT Memorandum of Understanding between the City of San Carlos and the City of Redwood City for improvements to the San Carlos Levee RECOMMENDATION Approve, by motion, the Memorandum of Understanding between the City of San Carlos and the City of Redwood City for improvements to the San Carlos Levee and authorize the City Manager to execute the same. BACKGROUND The city is currently undertaking a levee improvement and certification project to raise the height and certify the perimeter levees in the Redwood Shores area. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has determined that a segment of levee near the San Carlos Airport and Highway 101, bordering the Steinberger Slough, must also be improved and certified to provide complete flood protection for the Redwood Shores Peninsula. That segment of levee is owned by the City of San Carlos. After extensive staff effort to coordinate the responsibility for the required improvements, the agencies involved have preliminarily agreed that Redwood City will take the lead in the design and construction of the necessary improvements and recover the project cost through reimbursement by San Carlos. This Memorandum of Understanding governs the funding and reimbursement arrangement between Redwood City and San Carlos for the work to improve the San Carlos Levee. The San Carlos City Council approved this Memorandum of Understanding on July 28, 2009. ALTERNATIVES Council may choose not to approve the Memorandum of Understanding and direct staff to modify the terms of the Memorandum. FISCAL IMPACT For the short term, sufficient funds have been appropriated in the GID 1-64 and the Capital Projects Fund budgets for the up front costs of the levee improvements. The City of San Carlos intends to form an assessment district within San Carlos to reimburse Redwood City for the cost of improvements.