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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01/14/81 AGENDA WATER BOARD - CITY OF BAKERSFIELD WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1981 4:00 P.M. Call meeting to order Roll Call - Board Members: Barton, Chairman; Payne, Ratty, Kelmar, Oberholzer 1. Approve minutes of regular meeting of November 19, 1980. 2. Scheduled Public Statements. 3. Correspondence Incoming: None 4. Letter to North Kern Water Storage District regarding proposed Cawelo Water District/North Kern Water Storage District exchange agreement dated December 9, 1980. - FOR BOARD CONSIDERATION. 5. Request for assignment of the following City water contracts ncw held by Tenneco to the James Pioneer Improvement District of the North Kern Water Storage District: a) Assignment of Tenneco portion (82.5%) of Kern Tulare Water District basic contract to James Pioneer Improvement District. b) Assignment of Tenneco water purchased from City (100,000 acre feet "in place") per agreement 80-24 W.B., to be assigned from Tenneco to James Pioneer Improvement District. - FOR BOARD ACTION. 6. Authorize Water Board Meetings to be changed from Wednesday at 4:00 P.M. to Thursday at 4:00 P.M. This would elminate possible conflicts with City Council meeting. - FOR BOARD CONSIDERATION. 7. Transfer of $90,000.00 from Agricultural Water Enterprise Budget to the City General Fund. These funds were budgeted for transfer to General Fund in current fiscal year. See attached memo from John Chafin to Phil Ke!mar for details. - FOR BOARD ACTION. 8. Mainline Extension Agreements for various Tract and Parcel ~aps within the Ashe Water System. - ACCEPTANCE OF EXECUTED AGREEMENTS. 9. Staff Comments - (Stan Hatch and Tom Stetson) update on current negotiations. - FOR BOARD INFORMATION 10. Board Comments 11. Adjournment MINUTES WATER BOARD - CITY OF BAKERSFIELD WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 19~1 4:00 P.M. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Barton in the Depart- ment of Water Conference Room. The secretary called the roll as follows: Present: Barton, Payne, Ratty, Kelmar, Oberholzer Absent: None Staff Present: Bogart, Celedon, Chafin, Core, Hatch, Hawley, Hostmyer, Matsinger, Stetson Others Present: Bob Bellue, District Engineer Kern County Water Agency Mary Collup, District Manager Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District Tom Clark, Nickel Enterprises Chris Garren, River West Dean Gay, Olcese Water District Gail Schontzler, The Bakersfield Californian C.H. Williams, Engineer-Manager North Kern Water Storage District The minutes from the regular meeting of November 19, 1980, were approved as presented. Letter dated January 13, 1981, addressed to the Water Board from Paul E. Enns, President of Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage Dis- trict regarding the agreement with the City of Bakersfield to sell 100,000 acre feet. of stored ground water was presented to the board. Mr. Ratty made a motion that the letter be received and referred to staff. The motion was passed. ~.etter dated January 14, 1981, addressed to the Water Board from Stuart T. Pyle, Engineer-Manager of the Kern County Water Agency regarding the possible change of the Water Board meetings to Thursday at 4:00 P.M. was presented to the boardj~ The letter was deferred to be discussed along with item six (6) on the agenda. North Kern Water Storage District letter regarding proposed Cawelo Water District/North Kern Water Storage District exchange agreement dated December 2, 1980, was presented to the board for consideration. After the letter was outlined by Water Manager Chafin, a letter dated December 9, 1980, from James J. 'Barton, Chairman of the Water Board addressed to the Board of Directors of North Kern Water Storage District regarding the proposed Cawelo Water District/North Kern Exchange Agreement was presented to the board. After discussion between board and staff Mr. Oberholzer made a motion that the letter be signed by the Chair- man and sent to the board of directors of the North Kern Water Storage District. The motion was passed. Request for assignment of the following City water contracts now held by Tenneco to the James Pioneer Improvement District of the North Kern Water Storage District: a) Assignment of Tenneco portion (82.5%) of Kern Tulare Water District basic contract to James Pioneer Improvement District. b) ASsignment of Tenneco water purchased from City (100,000 acre feet "in place") per agreement 80-24 W.B., to be assigned from Tenneco to James Pioneer Improvement District. Mr. Hatch at this time stated that the Assignments should be approved suject to the following conditions: 1) The water which is the subject of the assignment shall be used for irrigatiOn purposes only; and 2) shall not be used outside the boundaries of the James Pioneer Improvement District of the North Kern Water Storage District. After discussion Mr. Oberholzer made a motion that the Assign- ments be approved with the conditions that Mr. Hatch indicated. The motion was passed. Consider Water Board meetings to be changed from Wednesday at 4:00 P.M. to Thursday at 4:00 P.M. to eliminate possible con- flicts with~City Council meetings. After a brief discussion, item number six (6) was withdrawn from the agenda. Mr. Oberholzer made a motion that the regular meetings of the City of Bakersfield Water Board be held on Wednesday at 4:00 P.M. at the Department of Water Conference Room located at, 4101 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, California, The motion was passed. Transfer of $90,000.00 from Agricultural Water Enterprise Budget to the City General Fund was preSentedto the board for action. These funds were budgeted for transfer to the General Fund in current fiscal year. A memorandum from John Chafin to Mr. Kelmar was presented regarding the details of the transfer, At this time Mr. Kelmar stated that he felt the public should be made aware at the next City Council meeting that the funds to be transferred are to repay the general fund for acquistion costs associated with the purchase of the Kern River rights and properties. Mr. Kelmar made a motion that the transfer of funds be approved. The motion was passed. Mainline Extension Agreements for various Tract and Parcel Maps within the Ashe Water System fourteen (14) in all were presented to the board for acceptance. Mr. Ratty made a motion that the agreements be accepted. The motion was passed. Staff Comments At this time Consulting Attorney Stanley C. Hatch brought~be board up-to-date on the Olcese negotiations. At this time a letter addressed to Mr. Gilbert H. Castle, General Manager of Kern Delta Water District from James J. Barton regard- ing the Kern Delta 1981 Extra Surplus State Water Project Exchange was presented to the board. Mr. Oberholzer made a motion that the letter be signed by the Chairman and distributed as indicated. The motion was passed. At this time C. H. Williams, Engineer-Manager of the North Kern Water Storage DiStrict brought the board up-to-date on the Cloud Seeding Program. There being no further business to come before the board, Chairman Barton adjourned the meeting at 4:45 P.M. ~es J. B~ton, Chairman City of Bakersfield Water Board Liffda Hostmyer, Sec~tary City of Bakersfield Water Board