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[Contract] Regional Water Authority Cost-Sharing Agreement for the Water Forum
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FileID
File ID: 2026-01002
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Location
Location: Citywide
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Recommendation
Recommendation: Pass a Motion authorizing the City Manager or designee to execute an interagency cost share agreement on behalf of the Water Forum for the Healthy Rivers & Landscapes Program (HR&L) with the Regional Water Authority (RWA).
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Contact
Contact: Ashlee Casey, Executive Director, (916) 808-1995, acasey@waterforum.org; Emily Lee, Administrative Analyst, (916) 808-1993, elee@waterforum.org, Water Forum; Kelly Sherfey, Supervising Financial Analyst, (916) 808-1466, ksherfey@cityofsacramento.org, Department of Utilities
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Presenter
Presenter: None
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Attachments
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Exhibit A-RWA Cost Share Agreement
3-Verdantas HR&L Scope
4-SP Cramer HR&L Scope
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Description/Analysis
IssueDetail
Issue Detail: The interagency HR&L cost share agreement with RWA supports HR&L Science Plan development and related pre-implementation tasks associated with salmonid habitat improvements and monitoring for the Lower American River, which are a requirement of the statewide HR&L Program, pursuant to the State Water Resources Control Board's Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan update process. Water Forum is supporting the HR&L Program process due to their long-standing partnership with RWA and as the sole implementer of salmonid habitat improvements and science and monitoring activities associated with those habitats, on the Lower American River.
The cost-share agreement will provide the budget, framework and specific approach for Science Plan development and a monitoring framework for assessment of the Flow and Non-Flow Measures to address several important and broad-scale ecosystem management questions required to be analyzed and reported upon under the HR&L Program. The agreement is needed since the level of effort and budget previously as...
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