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REPORT January 13, 2003 Subject Water Shortage Contingency Plan To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager Recommendation Provide direction to staff on desired policy for allocation of water during the next drought Background The State of California's 1984 Urban Water Management Planning Act ( "The Act ") AB 797, requires every urban water supplier providing water for municipal purposes to more than 3,000 customers, or supplying more than 3,000 acre feet of water annually, to prepare and adopt an Urban Water Management Plan, the primary objective of which is to plan for the conservation and efficient use of water. Redwood City owns and operates a water utility that serves over 83,000 customers, supplying 13,278 acre feet of water annually. Portions of the service area are outside the City's corporate limits. Redwood City's first Urban Water Management Plan ( "the Plan ") was prepared in 1986 to _ comply with the legislative requirement. The Plan was updated in 1992 and twice in 2002 (see Attachment 3 for current Water Shortage Contingency Plan section). A major revision is currently under way and slated for City Council consideration within the next 60 days. All such amendments to the Plan must include all information necessary to meet the requirements of the California Urban Water Management Planning Code, and must be adopted after public review and a public hearing and then filed with the California Department of Water Resources. The City of Redwood City has been a member of the California Urban Water Council (CUWCC) since 1992, and is a signatory to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding urban water conservation in California. As such, Redwood City has made a long -term commitment to fully implement 14 water conservation "Best Management Practices" (BMPs) delineated in the MOU. In the fall of 2002, the City Council approved a professional services agreement for a substantial upgrade of the City's "Water Allocation Program" software and database (BMP No. One). On November 4, 2002 the City Council reviewed - iformation on various other BMPs and authorized participation in a regional Large Lanoscape Water Conservation Audit Program, set to begin in Redwood City in January 2003 (BMP No. Five). At that time the City Council indicated that further consideration of increased conservation programs should occur as policy decisions on the proposed Redwood City Recycled Water Project are made by the Council. Staff will bring forward recommendations via the City Council Utilities Committee over the next several months. As the Council will recall, Redwood City's water supply reliability situation is considered to 1 of 2