HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/03/16 KRGSA AGENDA� _ 8
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL
KERN RIVER GSA
Thursday, November 3, 2016
10:00 a.m.
City Hall North
1600 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield CA 93301
First Floor, Conference Room A
AGENDA
3. PUBLIC STATEMENTS
4. APPROVAL OF OCTOBER 6, 2016 MINUTES
5. NEW BUSINESS
A. Correspondence Received (City Clerk)
B. Financial Report (Nelson Smith)
i. Todd Groundwater Invoice
Chair Members:
Rodney Palla, Chair
Harold Hanson
Gene Lundquist
C. Lamont's Request to Join KRGSA
D. Update from Management Group (Beard /Chianello /Mulkay)
i. White Paper Update
ii. KRGSA Selection of Water Budget Study Periods for Data Collection Purpose
iii. Management Comments
iv. Invitation to Participate in Kern SGMA Interview by Center for
Collaborative Policy (CCP)
6. COMMITTEE COMMENTS
7. ADJOURNMENT
KERN RIVER GSA
MINUTES
MEETING OF OCTOBER 6, 2016
Conference Room A, City Hall North, 1600 Truxtun Avenue
1. CALL TO ORDER REGULAR MEETING - 10:01 a.m. ACTION TAKEN
2.. ROLL CALL
Present: Chairman Palla, Chair Member Lundquist
Absent: Chair Member Hanson
Public and Staff: See attendees attached
3. PUBLIC STATEMENTS
Tim Ruiz from East Niles Niles Community Services
District spoke regarding the format of the KRGSA
minutes. He requested to have all attendees of the
meeting noted on all future sets of minutes.
Chair Member Lundquist spoke regarding the last
KGA meeting and wanted to thank and recognize
Mark Mulkay, General Manager for KDWD, for his
comments made at the meeting.
4. APPROVAL OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 MINUTES
Motion by Chair Member Lundquist, seconded by APPROVED
Chairman Palla, for approval of the
minutes.
5. NEW BUSINESS
A. Correspondence Received
Clerk Typist Katharine Dye announced
that the KRGSA had not received any
mail.
B. Website Update
Assistant City Manager Steve Teglia announced
that all change requests had been made to
the draft website and that he will be emailing a
link to the website to the board members soon.
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5. NEW BUSINESS continued ACTION TAKEN
C. Documents in Response to the County
Attorney Gene McMurtrey announced that
he made corrections to the agreement and
letter to be sent to the County of Kern.
Motion by Chair Member Lundquist, seconded APPROVED
by Chairman Palla, for approval to send the
letter and MOU to the County of Kern regarding
their participation in the KRGSA.
D. Cost Sharing Discussion
Attorney Gene McMurtrey announced that
Attorney Robert Kuhs inquired how cost
sharing would work with different agencies
joining the KRGSA.
There was brief discussion amongst Board and
Staff and general agreement that the KRGSA
will handle such matters if and when other
agencies join the KRGSA
Update from Management Group
White Paper Update
General Manager of KDWD
Mark Mulkay gave an update on the
KRGSA's white papers. Mr. Mulkay
announced that Phyllis Stanin with
Todd Groundwater is hoping to have
a set of draft white papers for the
KRGSA to review in thirty days.
Modeling & Budget Update
Comments were provided on this
matter during the discussion of Item E. iii.
iii. KGA Participation in Modeling
General Manager of KDWD
Mark Mulkay made staff comments
regarding the modeling and budget.
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ACTION TAKEN
5. NEW BUSINESS continued
iv. KGA Stakeholder Identification Form
ID4 Manager David Beard made staff
comments and recommended
Chairman Palla as the KRGSA
contact person for the CCP.
Motion by Chair Member Lundquist, APPROVED
seconded by Chairman Palla, for
approval of making Chairman Palla
the contact person for the CCP.
V. Management Comments'
None.
6. COMMITTEE COMMENTS
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7. CLOSED SESSION: Conference with Legal Counsel:
Potential Litigation; Closed Session pursuant to
Government Code section 54956.9(d)(2), (e)(1). One
matter.
Chairman Palla announced that Closed Session Item 7
was being pulled from the agenda.
9. ADJOURNMENT
Chairman Palla adjourned the meeting at 10:58 a.m.
CHAIR ''of the Kern River
Groundwater Sustainability Agency
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16 OCT 31 PM 2: 22
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KATHLEEN KRAUSE
October 26, 2016 a k of ha gourd of SUPOMson
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To Whom it May Concern,
I am writing to notify you that I am interested in receiving information related to the - -"
development of a Groundwater Sustainability Agency or any Groundwater Sustainability
Plans in the area
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 (SGMA) provides a framework
for the sustainable management of groundwater supplies by local authorities. The SGMA
acknowledges the importance of ensuring that persons interested in Groundwater
Sustainability Agency and Groundwater Sustainability Plan development are informed of
the relevant processes. Specifically the SGMA requires that interested persons be
notified of relevant notices, meetings, announcements, draft plans and other relevant
documents and further requires that all such interested persons be placed on a list to
receive such notifications upon their written request. (Cal. Water Code 10723.4)
As a local stakeholder of Kern County, from the community of Bakersfield, I wish to be
included on the list of interested stakeholders that will receive further information on
ways to meaningfully participate in processes related to GSA and Plan development in
my area.
Since I am not yet aware of the formation of a groundwater sustainability agency for this
region, I am writing to request that your agency and your staff provide me with
notifications as outlined above until such time that a GSA is formed. Please do not
hesitate to contact me with any questions either by US Mail, my email address, or my
phone number all of which are printed at the top of this page. Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
LIN thonyi t
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Kern River GSA
Report of Receipts and Disbursements
for the 2016 -17 Fiscal Year
Report information as of October 31, 2016
Beginning Balance of KRGSA Trust as of July 1, 2016 $
Receipts
Date
Received Received
08/29/16
09/23/16
09/29/16
Total Receipts to date
Disbursements
Date
Paid
City of Bakersfield
Kern Delta Water District
Kern County Water Agency
Total Disbursements to date
Amount
Received
$ 50,000.00
$ 50,000.00
$ 50,000.00
$ 150,000.00
Authorized
COB Check Amount for payment
Number Paid by KRGSA on:
Balance in KRGSA Trust as of report date $ 150,000.00
(city trust account: 618 -0000- 208.05 -00)
Kern River GSA
Contract Monitoring Worksheet
Report information as of October 31, 2016
Agreement # 16.001 Horizon Water & Environment LLC
Contract Date August 4, 2016
Contract Amount $ 194,000.00
Remaining Authorized
Date COS Check Invoice Amount Contract for payment
Paid Number Number Paid Balance by KRGSA on:
Beginning Balance $ 194,000.00
Agreement # 16-002 Todd Groundwater
Contract Data August 4, 2016
ContractAmount $ 360,000.00
Remaining Authorized
Data COB Check Invoice Amount Contract for payment
Paid Number Number Paid Balance by KRGSA on:
Beginning Balance $ 360,000.00
BILL TO:
Kern River Groundwater
sustainability AgencY
Bakersfield City Clerks Office
1600 Truxtun Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93307
KRGSA 16-002
Pr rject N0.62306 Kern RNer GSA GSP'
DESCRIPTION
professional services in connection with a Groundwater
Sustainability Plan,
Phyllis Stanin
Kate White
Professional Services Subtotal
CommunicalJons Fee @ 2% of Professional Services
Adrninistrative/Secretarf*
Sheila Gould
DATE INVOICE NO.
10/8/2016 652.306 9-16
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P.O. Box 20820
Bakersfield, CA 93390 -0820
RE: KRGSA Selection of Water Budget Study Periods for Data Collection Purposes
Dear Honorable Board of Directors:
The Kern River Groundwater Sustainability Agency (KRGSA) is beginning the processes
necessary to develop a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP), including but not limited to
establishing various study periods for the purpose of data collection. In particular, we have
developed three recommended study periods for application to the water budget analyses. As
required in 4354.18 of the GSP regulations, a water budget must be developed for current,
historical, and projected time periods. Based on technical considerations and a review of regional
data, the KRGSA has preliminarily determined to use the following study periods:
• Current Water Budget WY 2015 and WY 2016 (2 years)
• Historical Water Budget WY 1995 through WY 2014 (20 years)
• Projected Water Budget incorporating 50 years of hydrologic data from WY 1967
through WY 2016 (50 years).
Our approach for the water budget analysis anticipates the use ofthe groundwater model
C2VSim, which is being updated by the Department of Water Resources (DWRG for the entire
Central Valley (including the Kern County Subbas t) through Water Year C VY) 2015 or WY
20162 (model available summer 2017). GSP regulations anticipate the potential use of C2VSim
for water budgets (4354.18(f)). The KRGSA anticipates developing detailed monthly water
budget components for historical and current water budgets within the GSA boundaries and
checking those components against the C2VSim model, correcting as necessary. Accordingly.
detailed data must be collected for development of the GSA historical and current water budgets
covering the study periods selected.
For the porrent water budge analysis, the last Poll water year(s) included in the C2VSim model twrmanm unaenme
will be analyzed. We anticipate this analysis to include WY 2015 and may also include the full
WY 2016, depending on the model update.
' Water Year is defined from October l through September 30; for example, Wy 2015 world extend from October
1, 2014 through September 30, 2015.
2 0wn Is currently considering whether to include all data from WY 2016 in the final calibration.
Kern Groundwater Authority
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In order to select the appropriate time period for the historical water budget analyses, the rnrm.n•e: uni
following technical aspects were considered:
• Sufficiently lung historical period that approximates average hydrologic conditions
• Kern River Annual Index of 100 percent
• Annual average precipitation close to 100 percent
• Annual average of surface supply from other local drainages, such as Poso
Creek (assumed to mirror the overall Kern County hydrology)
• Minimum of 10 years as required by GSP regulations ( §354.18(c)(2)(B))
• Inclusion of recent time periods to allow evaluation of ongoing groundwater
management practices and more recent land use patterns
• Sufficiently short historical period to incorporate widely - available and higher- quality
data
• Average availability of imported surface water supplies, such as State Water Project
(S WP) water and Central Valley Project (CVP) water, may be considered, but these
supplies arc limited by non -local (and non -hydrologic) factors; as such, average
availability of these supplies may not reflect Kern County hydrology. The historical
water budgets would reflect the decrease in available imported supplies over time
• Begins at a period of relatively low water levels and after water levels have been
relatively stable for a period of time (after a dry period, for example).
Finally, for the pro ected water budget, GSP regulations require that projected hydrology use 50 — rnnnmea: Underline
years of historical precipitation and stye onflow (354.18(c)(3)(A)). Beginning with the most
recent period of historical hydrology, a 50 -year period would include WY 1967 through WY
2016. Natural hydrologic data from this time period will be used in developing the 50.year
projected water budget as required by the regulations.
None oflhe water budget study periods proposed herein would preclude the use of older
historical data ar more recent data for other analyses in the GSPS including, but not limited to,
the hydrogeologic conceptual model ( §354.14) and local groundwater conditions ( §354.16).
Significant study and review have been performed to determine these water budget time periods
by our consultants and, if you deem necessary, we welcome your consultants contacting Todd
Groundwater to discuss the time periods in detail.
GSP regulations generally require all GSAs in the basin to use the "same data and
methodologies° for development of multiple GSPS ( §357.4(a)). In particular, GSP regulations
require that the water budgets be coordinated for the basin ( §357.4(6)(3)(8)). Therefore, we
believe it is imperative that we all use the same time periods as we develop water budgets for the
GSPS. Please review these time periods and give us your concurrence or your suggested time
periods for further discussion.
'thank you for your consideration. We look forward to your response in a timely fashion.
Kern Groundwater Authority
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Sincerely,
ALIgUSt 25, 2016
Mark Mulkay
Cicner,il Manager
Kern Delta Water District
501 Taft I l i ghway,
Bakersl'ield Ca. 93307
Rc: Participation in the Kern River GSA
Dew, Mr. M Ll I kay:
At its ineeting ol'Nugust 22, 2016, the Larnont Public Utility District's Board of'Directors
'ILIthorized the District's General Counsel and its Interim (.iencral Manger to begin
neg,,otiations lor Laniont P U 1) to become as meni ber ofthe Kern R I ver CiS A,
Respectfully,
Martin Nichols,
Intcrim Gcncral Manger
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