 I just got a new camera and microphone. So I'm just testing to make sure that it works. Can everybody hear me? I Can't Kimberly. This is true Yes, I can hear you drew You can or cannot Sounds like she cannot Can you hear me Lynn? I can hear you. Okay, that's positive Every day is a new day with these meetings Just because it worked the last time doesn't mean it's gonna work this time exactly All right, I could hear you now do okay. I can hear that was my technical issue. Sorry. Okay. Good. No problem at all Hey, Drew, can you hear me? Yes? So we'll get started in just a minute or so so it looks like we have all of our Water contractors Except I'm looking to see if we have katati. I don't see Craig yet But other than that We're looking pretty good Fergie as well city of Sonoma, okay It's 9.02. Good morning everyone Happy March 1st. We're in March already. It was a quick February We're we are going to Start off just with agenda item number one Which is the check-in Again we're gonna have I just want to remind everybody from the agencies just because it is a virtual meeting to state your full name and What agency you are representing and I'm gonna ask Who's gonna do Easter I guess Easter you got to do the roll call, please. Yes City katati City of Petaluma up Kent brother city of Petaluma City of Brent Park Mary Grace Paulson city run a park City of Santa Rosa Jennifer Berks in a reservoir City of Sonoma Northburn Water District Drew McIntyre in Northburn Water District town of Windsor Christina Goulart town of Windsor Valley of the Moon Water District Good morning. This is Matt with Valley the Moon Water District Matt Fullner We're in Municipal Water District. Thank you. Okay. Thank you Easter Let the meeting minutes reflect that we do have a quorum today for the for the attack meeting. So that's good I want to again remind everybody to mute your phones when you're not speaking just to cut down on any Background noise Are there any public attendees Easter? Yes For a staff and public attendees we have Roberta Aether Don Seymour Grant Davis Kimberly Zunino then was Ellie Pam Jean Paul Piazza Claire Nordley Colin Close David Manning Margaret Degenova Paul Selsky Peter Martin Sandy Potter Stephen Hancock and Tony Williams and Jason Beatty. Okay. Thank you Easter. We're gonna move to Agenda item number two public comment these these are This is for anybody from the public. They would like to speak first on something that was not on the agenda I did not receive anything Via email or voicemail on my phone via the 5 p.m. Cut off last night Is there Anything at all from public comment at the zoom meeting this morning Agenda item two items not on the agenda And that would be secretary atha. I guess if you see any indication there are no hands raised Okay, thank you Seeing no public comments for agenda item number two then we move to item number three Which is approved the FY? 2122 water transmission system budget Again, this is a action item for the tack after review of the actual budget to approve to recommend bringing it to the whack for approval and There as everybody will recall there was a budget finance subcommittee Set up with the chair of Kimberly Zunino. I wanted to again. Thank Kimberly for doing this again For another year and and also want to thank the Subcommittee group as well for their work on reviewing the budgets And so Kimberly you want to you want to kind of give an overview of the What transpired what transpired with the budget subcommittee before having Lynn Razzelli give a presentation on the budget? I'll do that. Good morning So I will just provide a brief overview of the budget subcommittee work before Ms. Razzelli presents the snow water transmission system budget for fiscal year twenty one twenty twenty one twenty two the technical advisory budget subcommittee With representatives from Sonoma water town of Windsor city of Katati city of Santa Rosa North Marin Water District Marin Municipal Water District and city of Sonoma Reviewed the proposed twenty twenty one twenty two budget With the first proposal from Sonoma water the wholesale rate increases were at six point five six percent for Santa Rosa and Petaluma aqueducts And four point nine six percent for the Sonoma aqueduct After our first round of review Sonoma water the increases were reduced to four point one percent and two point eight percent Perspectively and at that point the contractors on both the Santa Rosa and the Petaluma aqueducts Agreed to reduce the discretionary capital charge from twenty seven dollars to twenty dollars per acre foot allowing for an additional reduction The final proposed wholesale rate increases are now at three point four seven for Santa Rosa and Petaluma aqueducts and 3.43 for the Sonoma aqueduct Lynn Roselli will be providing you much more detail But the subcommittee was satisfied with the final proposed budget and increases in unanimously approved the recommendation to the tack And that is my update and if there are no questions, I will hand it over to Lynn Roselli Any questions from the tack on Kimberley's initial summary? Okay? Lynn you want to go ahead and do your presentation, please sure Can you hear me? Yes, okay, so Roberta you're going to bring up the Presentation there we go. Perfect. Okay. My name is Lynn Roselli. I'm the administrative services division manager for Sonoma water We are the division of Sonoma water that puts together the budget rate package And we are presenting the proposed draft budget and rates for the water transmission system today Next slide So for those of you that may not be as familiar with Sonoma waters enterprises We have water supply water transmission flood protection on 75 thousand miles of streams and 75 miles of streams and creeks we have eight wastewater treatment plants and we have an energy and sustainability program that helped us get to Carbon-free water next slide next so today We are just going to be talking about the water transmission system the revenues We see receive for each one of these enterprises is is only allowed to be used for its intended purpose and Is not Commingled with any other funds next slide, please So a little bit about background about the process that we went through for the budget The budget and rate setting process is governed by the restructured agreement for water supply that was signed in 2006 by the water contractors And As Kimberly mentioned we started with prepared we prepare internally of the budget and rates beginning in October November we get a draft out to the technical budget subcommittee mid-January We receive input and incorporate that input in January and February and then we are here today for the technical advisory committee meeting to vote make a recommendation on the budget and rates and then we will be making presentations to those City town councils and water district boards in March Then come back for the water advisory committee vote on April 5th And then we take it to our board for adoption on April 20th next slide, please Whoops back one I think there we go so water transmission system activities and funds So we budget for it looks like we missed a slide somewhere in there Can you back up back up one? There we go, so the water transmission system just very briefly for those that are not as familiar with it We have the wall or mirror bell production or collection wells up in the upper left-hand corner We have three aqueducts Santa Rosa, Petaloma, Sonoma we prepare a budget and a rate for each one of those aqueducts and For and the customers on each of the water contractors or customers on each one of those aqueducts pays the rate specific to that aqueduct Next slide Okay, so we went over this so let's go to the next slide Okay, so operations and maintenance so we budget on the three aqueducts We budget for operations and maintenance and then we have four sub funds Five capital funds and a number of debt service funds I just want to point out briefly that the water management fund is for the urban water management plan That's been completed this fiscal year and has very minimal funding next fiscal year that we will fund with fund balance the Watership Planning and Restoration Fund is for the Russian River biological opinion from 2006 includes estuary management of Fish Low EIR and the Dry Creek Habitat enhancement project Next slide please So I'm gonna start off with the capital project budgets. We have These are the the five main projects hazard mitigation projects the top four have FEMA funding The last one's normal aqueduct crossing We are trying to get to the preliminary design done in next fiscal year so that we can apply for FEMA funding and offset some of the costs to the water contractors The fiscal year twenty one twenty two budget is five point four million dollars next slide please and Other capital projects. This is not a complete list, but the major ones are shown here They will have activities in fiscal year twenty one twenty two The budget for these other activities. Some of them are already underway Is four point three million and when you combine these projects with the hazard mitigation projects You have a total budget for capital projects of nine point seven million Next slide please For operations and maintenance we have a number of projects the highlights are a catholic protection project on the Santa Rosa aqueduct And Russian River Katadi intertie. That's a three point two million dollar project that will be occurring next fiscal year We have pump and valve replacements and the ongoing tank maintenance And then for we have a number of different studies The regional water supply resiliency study is a study that is going on in collaboration with all of the water contractors and continues to move forward With the work plan implementation And For any any other details on the operations and maintenance fund you can find it on PDF page 29 Or if you're looking at a hard copy it is page 21 of the budget rate package So the budget for on M is thirty point five million dollars next slide please So these are the sub fund costs again The water management is for the urban water management plan and the cost there will not be significant in twenty one twenty two We'll fund with fund balance But we do have a number of biological opinion compliance projects including the dry creek habitat enhancement project Phase four. We're doing that in collaboration with the Army Corps We plan to come Army Corps planning to construct that in twenty one twenty two and The water contractors cost share is thirty five percent The Army Corps is making up the other sixty five percent which results in some significant savings for the water contractors We are also in the third driest year on record So looking down the eyes of a down the tunnel of a drought and we have Funding for water conservation of water use efficiency Including two prop one grant funded programs that we work with the water contractors on that are involved in those programs And a lot of so the water education water use efficiency Programs are all budgeted in the water conservation fund So the fun the budget sorry the budget for those funds is eleven point oh five million for the sub funds next slide Please so in comparison to This fiscal year's budget this budget the budget for fiscal year twenty one twenty two is three million dollars approximately three million dollars less And this year's budget we made significant strides and efforts in cutting some of the costs To keep the budget and rates lower because of the pandemic and to be sensitive to the hardships that it's causing However when you take the net value of the net total between fiscal year twenty twenty one and fiscal year twenty one twenty two The total net budget for this fiscal year is forty three dollars and for next fiscal year is Forty seven dollars and that is where it makes up the the change in the rates So you'll see that as we go forward and start to talk about the rate generation This is about the budget and then we'll get into the rates in a minute And the main Change here is that there is three million less in capital projects And and that makes up for the majority of it next slide please So this is just a pie chart to give you an example of how the budget is allocated It's 54 percent for operations and maintenance 17 percent for capital 20 percent for the sub funds including the biological opinion of water conservation And nine percent for the debt service funds with eight point five million in offsetting Grants bonds and fund balance next slide please So now we're going to transition to talk about the rates and the rate setting calculation Which is governed by the restructure grade for water supply And it tells us to take the cost of operations and maintenance and divide it by the quantity of water sold The quantity of water sold has to be the lesser of the three-year annual average or the last 12 months So next This is an animated slide so you can see those are the budget and deliveries for This fiscal year of 46,095 it is the lesser of the two And the 12 months was 47,748 and when you do the math you get $1,000 per acre foot for the Santa Rosa and Petaluma aqueducts This is just an example the the calculation is a little bit more complicated than this But this gives you an idea of how it is calculated and the fact that it is very sensitive to water Deliveries being that we are in a very dry year a drought year and we don't know what the future is And in our our experience from prior years has been that when we have drought years We see deliveries in the order of 42,000 acre feet or 44,000 acre feet Which would significantly undercut the revenue that we were anticipating for This budget cycle. Okay next slide please Uh, so, uh, we just wanted to give you an example of how our rates compared to other wholesale water rates in The the bay area. We're on the far left. It's $1,000 per acre foot Uh zone seven and san francisco public utilities commission elected not to increase Their rates this year due to due to covet Santa Clara valley water district is proposing a 9.6 percent rate increase that is not shown in this because it has not been adopted yet Contra costa county is showing a 3.72 percent rate increase with another 3.72 rate increase the following year Um, next slide please Let's okay, so here is our breakdown of the proposed rates and budget It's based for each one of the aqueducts. It's based on 46,095 acre feet in deliveries That is a four percent increase in deliveries over this year's budget Uh, and this provides the breakdown It shows the 3.47 percent rate increase on the santa rosa and petaluma aqueduct and the 3.43 percent rate increase on the sonoma aqueduct And i direct your attention to the discretionary charges the water contractors have Uh, the discretion to Set the capital charges on their aqueducts to build fund balance for future projects And to use as a rate stabilization tool And as uh kimberley mentioned at the start the water contractors are using it to bring You know, they had originally started with 27 dollars per acre foot on the santa rosa and petaluma aqueducts They lowered that to 20 dollars In order to bring the rate increase down to 3.47 percent Uh, next slide please And so I wanted to summarize some of the budget rate reduction measures. Uh, kimberley alluded to some of that already Uh, we reduced the rate increase from 6.5 percent to 4.1 santa rosa and petaluma aqueduct on the budget subcommittee Further reduced their aqueduct capital charge to get to a rate increase of 3.47 percent Sonoma aqueduct actually increased their aqueduct capital charge from 32 dollars to 38 dollars In order to have a rate increase that was similar to santa rosa and petaluma Uh, and also because uh, they have such a small customer base They need to continuously add funds to their capital fund in order to be able to pay for the cap projects Capital projects on their aqueduct so we saved about 1.3 million overall We were able to decrease capital project costs. We increased fund balance We we pushed the water management sub fund rate down to zero So we're using fund balance to fund that we shaved a little bit off of water conservation labor and all of these measures were taken, uh, in In light of the fact that, uh, we are in the middle of a pandemic We know that customers are experiencing serious financial hardships We wanted to make sure that and and as a result because the water contractors have to provide water To their customers and their customers may not be able to pay It represents a significant hardship. So we made every effort to, uh, reduce our rate increase But not to the point where we felt, uh, that we wouldn't be able to reliably and safely manage the water transmission system And, uh, it's it's a balancing act in terms of, uh, the need to, um Meet the, you know, keep rates low, but at the same time Be responsible and manage the water transmission system. We're facing a drought year We're expecting that we may have lower, uh, deliveries and so we didn't want to go lower than this because of that Um, and just as an example the rate increase on average is approximately 65 cents per household per month when our rate is trans is Is, uh, passed through to customers That can be a lot when you don't can't pay rent and can't pay your utility bill. We understand that Hopefully this coming year there will be some relief for customers To help them pay their rent and their utility bills and, uh, we can start a recovery process Next slide, please And, uh, next steps, uh, we're here today for the TAC to vote on the, uh The budget and rate to make a recommendation to their WAC members We're making presentations the month of march water advisory committee meetings on april 5th And we take it to our board on april 20th for adoption And that is all I have and i'm happy to answer any questions you have Thank you, lin Before I open it up just to the TAC, I do want to acknowledge a collaborative arrangement And efforts that were being made during this process through agency staff and the finance subcommittee Certainly appreciate, uh, the efforts that were made to sharpen the pencil and Make adjustments in the budget to where we're looking at right now So with that I'd like to open it up for comments from the TAC And again recognize this will be an action item for for the TAC once we're done receiving comments I don't see Anybody Raising their hands So, uh, next thing I'd like to do is open it up to the public if there are any comments on this agenda item number three For the f y 21 22 water transmission system budget Uh, if anybody in the public wishes to make a comment Please raise your hand and zoom or hit style start mine if you're participating via phone Secretary atha do you do see any indication that there are any public comments on this item? Yes, we have one hand raised david keller. I'll allow to talk one moment, please Morning david be able to unmute and make a comment got it. Thank you. Um, thanks lin for the presentation Um, I want to know is there anything in the upcoming budget for um, either the studies for potter valley project um that need to go forward or for formation of the regional entity that hopefully will own it Uh, the potter valley project is not budgeted in the water transmission system It is budgeted under the water supply enterprise So the water transmission water contractors are um in the water transmission budget are not paying for Anything to do with potter valley project? That's a good thing. Okay All right. Thank you very much Any other comments from the public on this item? Hey hearing or seeing none then, uh, i'm gonna ask secretary Uh, the desma to do a roll call for the tack approving this, uh budget to bring to the whack for Uh adoption at the special meeting that's held on april 5th City of katari Yes, hi city of petaluma Yes, kent karather, city of petaluma City of brunette park, uh, mary graze cross and city of brunette park. Yes city of santa rosa Uh, jennifer berg santa rosa water. Yes City of sonoma calling bergus in city of sonoma. Yes north brun water district drew mackentire north brun water district. Yes town of winzer christina gulart town of winzer. Yes In valley of the moon water district Well, never valley the moon water district. Yes And the item is unanimously approved Okay, thank you, easter and again, um, thanks to kimberley and uh budget finance subcommittee, uh for the good work on this and obviously to land and scwa staff to Shepard this through to to approval Okay, we're gonna move on to agenda item number four, which is uh water supply conditions and temporary urgency change order update And I believe don seymour is going to be kicking this off Morning drew morning everyone don seymour swimming water So starting at the top of the watershed had michael's berry is just under 37 000 acre fee This is about 67 percent of the available storage with the slide gates and radio leads closed Um, I think earlier at earlier meetings. I'd mentioned pg had been pursuing a variance They seem that that seems to be postponed. I think they're waiting to see how the hydrologic year kind of ends up However, if I think it's storage doesn't greatly increase it like bills bury over the next Four to six weeks, uh pgna will likely pick up that process again and be filing something similar to what they did last year Lake mendicino is currently at about 32 600 acre feet This is just under 48 percent of the available storage for this time of year Since our last meeting February 1 there's been this storage has increased by about 4600 acre feet The release is now about 25 cfs. This is the absolute minimum under any condition from the reservoir Um, I think to put things in a better perspective, you know, we like to compare things to 24 I think there's been a comparison of the 20 21 year 20 21 uh hydrologic conditions to 2013 2014 This is about the same storage level. We were at this in the year in 2014. However, a series of storms in march and april um that that uh You monthly cumulatively dropped about eight or nine inches of precipitation over that time period Resulted in a max ending storage at lake mendicino 51,000 acre feet So kind of keep in mind the type of rainfall we're going to need to see some recovery However, I'd like to point out, you know, this comparison of 2013 14 to 2020 21 Isn't looking that that that that close anymore For example in 2013 Just outside of ukai gauge. It has about 127 years of record received Cumulatively 28 inches of rain in 2013 and 18 inches of rain in 2014 However in 2020 that gauge only received 14 inches of rain Over the entire season and so far this year 10 inches of rain. So cumulatively You know, we've received about half the rainfall in 2021 2020 20 21 that was received in 2013 2014. So we have a pretty dry watershed out there Lake sinoma is just uh over 156,000 acre feet um This is 64 and available storage at lake sinoma. The release is currently about 80 cfs And uh, storage is this is a this storage level is about 14,000 acre feet lower than in 2014. So, um We're looking at very low storage levels for this time of year and really a need for significant, uh Perspectivation in march and april and we're definitely running out of out of west sea. Let's the wet season to get there Um as you on the temperature updates with the temperature change order Back when it was that that order was approved december 24th Um, and just to remind everyone that was that just requested changes to the upper russian river that the water year type Be based on storage thresholds at lake mendicino Uh dry creek and the lower russian river are still the water year type is still determined based on decision 16 10 on our water rights So as right now at march 1, um, the upper russian river is in a critical water year type based on the order And under decision 16 10 dry creek and the lower russian river are under a dry water water year type And just to put that in perspective if we were we did not have this order in place The upper russian river would also be under a dry water year type And it would be requiring, uh, snow water right now to be releasing about 50 At least 50 cfs more than we are right now. So, um, it's it's a significant health and deserving storage Um, snow water staff is currently addressing a number of terms and conditions that were in the order based on its approval and We're we're we're we're we're we're working on a number of issues that are terms that will have to have due dates of april one I don't know if anybody has any questions, but I have to answer Thanks, don questions from the tack on dawn's, uh, update on water supply conditions Don, um, I've got a couple questions First off on uh, lake pillsbury if If the capacity gets to 40 000 uh acre feet, will pgne then actually start diverting higher flows into the Lake mendicino No, I had to um Water year type for the potter valley projects also determined based on chemo that inflow into lake pillsbury Through and so it, uh, it's still currently a critical water year type for for lake, uh, for the potter valley project So right now the transfer is about 45 cfs through the project And like I said, um, pgne had been contemplating filing a variance that they dropped below Uh, and it changed a bit, but initially 18 000 acre feet would have significantly reduced that transfer even more So I think right now with the storage level they have they're just trying to Determine where they're going to end up at the end of the the water, you know the hydrologic year And then based on that they'll like I said, if there's not, uh Storage doesn't greatly improve at lake pillsbury I would anticipate that they will be filing um a variance in april similar to what they did last year and We'll have to see what what what they request if I think if storage is is below 40 000 acre feet You're going to see the a very low transfer into the into the russian river system Probably on the order of like 15 cfs And then some amount for the contract with the potter valley irrigation system Okay, thanks don and then in looking at today's Um Lake mendicino storage graph. I mean lake mendicino has been gaining Of late is that primarily just because of the transfers from PG&E into the reservoir are are greater than the outflow and that's what we're seeing or Yeah, and there's it's primarily the pvp transfer, but there's also been Some unimpaired flows coming from the watershed That unfortunately that unimpaired flow has it's been declining But right now like I mentioned we're at the very minimum release from lake mendicino 25 cfs And so we have a delta and it's been gaining Anywhere from 82 or like 100 120 acre feet a day But that's been kind of dropping off as the unimpaired flows dropped off Okay, thanks don Any other questions from the tack before I open it up to the public one? Seeing none We're now going to take public comment on this agenda item again It's agenda item number four water supply conditions and temporary urgency change order If you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand Oh, if you're participating via telephone hit Star nine And then secretary atha if you can let me know if you see any indication of any live comments There are no hands raised Okay, and again just for all of these agenda items, you call that I did not receive any public comments By the cutoff at 5 p.m. Yesterday So we will Don thanks again for that report. We'll now move to agenda item number five sonoma marine saving water partnership first item is Water production relative to 2013 If secretary atha if you could go ahead and pull that up on the screen great Thank you If you I don't know if you could blow that up a little bit just for readability Okay, so as we normally do we're starting off a new calendar year. So this is water usage by the partnership Um for the month of January And again, this is so the the tab you'll table one and table two are the same Because the year to date and the monthly is is all just one month starting this new year You can see that the partnerships water usage is five percent Below that in 2013 and if you could scroll down a little bit further um, you can see the Chart one which which shows the current water use Versus 2013 on a On a month-to-month basis over the last 12 months And then if you scroll down a little bit further you get that the chart two which shows the regional water supply Use gallons per day per capita and again recall that While the water use is down five percent from 2013 The the water use in terms of gallons per day per capita from about the In the early 2000s late 1990s is down about 37 percent Versus what had been used historically and you can see that in the orange color graph over time Uh, and that was well above what the sbx 7-7 State mandate a 20 percent reduction again the partnership Was at a 37 percent reduction. So That's just reflective of everything that retail water contractors have been doing on their aggressive funding of water conservation and recycle water, etc For these trends that you see over time Um Any questions from the tack on the water production data Seeing none any questions from the public On the water production data. This is agenda item 5a I'm not seeing any hands raised Okay, thank you secretary atha Let's move to agenda item b then water supply conditions Uh public outreach messaging. So this is uh just an update On what's been taking place By the agency and the partnership related to these dry year conditions And paul piazza's got to provide this update Thank you drew good morning members of the tack and those who are joining the audience The uh partnership has been convening a winter outreach subcommittee On a bi-weekly basis due to the current low rainfall and water supply conditions We last bet On february 11th to look at uh or to get input on ramping up the Campaign that was launched earlier in the year using a series of 10 ads Focused on social media outreach We've received direction from the subcommittee to Take a smaller subset of that social media ad campaign and Revamp them to make them a little bit more usable for an actual digital media placement by so we are Moving forward with that. We also provided a draft Broadcast radio script for input and review By the partners and we're moving forward with launching that as well We had a meeting just last week On thursday The 25th Where they reviewed The subcommittee reviewed the series of five ads Want to recognize Barry and his team with our community and government affairs department who are Taking on the work for the outreach portion of this So they Are doing some of the graphic design work and working with a graphic design consultant to get those ads Ready for release There was some input received thursday that incorporated some changes and the ads were redistributed on friday for final input by the subcommittee before being forwarded to The consultant to do some graphic design touch up before release So those are moving forward as well. And then You've probably noticed at the top of this page We're adopting A campaign that was provided by the city of santa rosa the tagline is being used for the Both the social media campaign and the digital media ads, but In this case it was taken from An email signature block. So we're all working to Push out some messaging for our staffs to help Notice that we're in a dry year And this can be used by any of their partners so the plan being that The work that comes out of this outreach subcommittee will enable us to share all of the resources and approaches that we put together for the rest of the partnership staff And that can be co-branded through their social media sites they can choose to do Additional outreach with the digital campaign ads to use for e-news bill inserts If they want to do Additional ad placements in their local papers That's that's an option for the partnership Let's see what else there were some newly developed Water supply infographics developed by our caga staff and those were shared with the subcommittee for the first time They weren't quite ready for prime time. So I don't have a version of them here for this meeting, but Our caga staff will be able to provide those soon and we can share those with the group We're continuing discussions on additional Ramping up activities to include What may be a regional event similar to was done in the last drought either As a drought drive-up event or in creating a community challenge Um Wasn't quite, you know something we had decided on entirely but we're continuing the discussions on that to move forward with additional outreach. So That's it for now. I'm happy to take questions from staff or the public Thank you, paul Questions from the tack on paul's update Okay, seeing none. We'll move to taking any Questions from the public. This is agenda item number five 5b water supply conditions public outreach messaging Is there anybody from the public that would like to make a comment on this agenda item? I'm seeing no hands raised Okay, thank you secretary atha We will now move to agenda item number six biological opinion status update. Pam Yeah, can you hear me? Okay drew. Yes Okay Hopefully everybody got a copy of this along with the agenda and I want to start off by thanking easter Who I think got a couple of panicked emails over the weekend from No, I'm a water staff who had not received the agenda because we had a An issue with our email for a couple hours on friday or thursday or friday one of the day that was now and so Several of us over the weekend realized that we didn't have any of the meeting information and she promptly saturday afternoon sent it out to us. So thank you easter very much for First of all monitoring your email over the weekend, but also getting it out to us. So really appreciate that So as I said, hopefully everybody has a handout at this point, you know, I'll just run through it pretty quickly Being hopefully just sort of the changes as you all Are hearing us update every month Um Starting off with the fish flow project. We do continue to work on that project um Some of the materials that have been developed to help educate the public are going to be part of the public policies facilitating committee Meeting which I'll talk about it and um, it's a very last portion of this report, but I just wanted to mention that Um, some of the work that's being done as part of the fish flow project will actually appear at that meeting So I also on on dry creek habitat enhancement project We have two remaining elements to complete this summer in 2021. Um, those are portions of phase three, which is the last mile of the first three miles of the habitat enhancement work on dry creek um, the construction window of course starts in june ends mid october, so So That's the construction that will be going on that will hopefully be wrapping up phase three We uh, our environmental staff continues to do biological surveys of the sites that were constructed and or maintained During the summer in the fall to verify that they've been built according to plan and are providing Habitat they're quantifying that Uh, there's kind of a nice description in here of what exactly they're doing, but essentially the the output of that work is that um, they'll be developing maps and analyzing habitat quality and quantity to identify, um What's out there? What changes have occurred over time? So, um Again, um, there's a nice little write up here if everybody could read it Uh, as far as phases four through six go um inter flue who's working on the phase four portion of the project Is um has completed the bid documents for the project this um piece of work the phase four is is centered approximately one mile downstream And two miles upstream of yokem bridge on the creek So sort of in the upper portion of the watershed there And um, there's some issues with right-of-way. Some of the property owners have requested some changes changes to the right-of-way agreement. So um The core is currently reviewing the changes that have been requested And given the time that might take to get the review and approval of those changes the construction may be delayed So we'll just have to see In the meantime, um, they are working on procuring logs and large woody debris Or large woody materials for the project Again, this is for phase four And that that procurement work will count towards the Sonoma water share of the project Cost which is the 35 in kind match And um, we do have a contract going to our board of directors in april That's cute contracts with the suppliers Um, we also continue to advance the right-of-way agreements on the face with the phase five property owners And uh card no who is the consultant working on the design of phase five is addressing comments I'm sorry is um is card no is working on phase six not five. They're also working on um some Some, um appraising those easements meeting with property owners, etc out there And construction of phase five is scheduled for 2022 Card no who's working on phase six of the project is addressing final comments on the design plans and specifications So we've got all three of these phases happening happening in parallel And um, there's just a lot of work being done Um, so there's also the last paragraph in here. I'm not going to go over it completely But there is a small piece of work that's being done Um, sort of as a keep your fingers crossed to make sure that we have enough Work done out habitat enhancement work out there done to meet our full six miles So, um, there is a little bit of extra work being done by esa To do some work In another area that's not part of phases one two three or four five six Um, as far as fish monitoring goes it has not been a great year um The video monitoring at maribel dam is done because the dam is down and um, they're working on getting through all of the video But so far the count looks like it's going to be the lowest It's been since we started doing the monitoring in 2000 There's a lot of reasons for this. I'm not going to go through some of them. We're explained in here But uh, it doesn't look great this year and this is not doesn't seem to be Specifically to the russian river watershed. They're seeing this all up and down the coast. So, um At least that's what our resource agency partners are telling us One of the things I noted when I read this was that since 2015 The estimated number of chinook small smolts leaving dry creeks. Those are the small guys heading out to the ocean um Has been less than 50 percent since 2009. So We are definitely seeing a decline. Um, and there's a lot of um Years in there. There's some years in there where we've had high flows in dry creek and uh flood releases sustained flood releases and We do think that some of the low return this year has to do with what happened in 2017 when we had those high flows in dry creek As far as coho goes, um coho and steelhead go Um, they've been pretty challenged this year. You can see from these photographs that were included in the update that We're already getting The tributaries to dry creek and and tributaries just all together disconnecting from either the river and dry creek and um Black rain is is not helping at this point Um, not only can they not access these creeks When they disconnect like this, but they also get stranded And in some places we have um reds becoming exposed Which means that reds are their nests. So that means that um Those nests are becoming exposed and they're no longer Watered, which means that anything that was in that nest is going to die. So And as noted here should this dry weather pattern continue. Um, this could be a real problem for these fish A bright spot is however that um Dry creek is providing some great habitat for coho And we're seeing them use that how tough and they have an abundant supply of water cool Clean water coming out of lake sinoma. So, um, hopefully that will help those coho this year Um, as far as the Russian River estuary management project goes, um, we did experience, uh, a lot of closures in 2020 eight during the Eight during the whole year two during the lagoon management period We artificially breached the barrier beach four times in 2020 Um, and so far this year in 2021 the mouth mouth is closed four times. It's currently open So It it's uh, not like way wide open, but it is open at this point Yeah, we continue to do, uh, pinniped monitoring out there and there's an upcoming q&a session with volunteers Who are doing a lot of that pinniped monitoring work for us On april 29th and if anybody's interested in that there's a web link here To participate in that training for q&a session as they're calling it There's a beautiful photo here at the mouth of the river. So Um, don already talked about interim flow changes and the water supply conditions. So i'm not gonna Talk about that right now. We can answer any questions if somebody thinks of one But lastly, um, there is an upcoming public policy policy facilitating committee meeting This is a public meeting normally held annually Hosted by the public policy facilitating committee, which is made up of members of All those folks participating in biological opinion including ourselves the core the resource agencies the regional board And last year we had this meeting scheduled and covid happened and it got canceled But we do have a virtual meeting scheduled for next week next tuesday And hopefully folks if they're interested Can participate you do need to register in order to participate. So please Get in and register if you are at all interested and The presentations will include um presentations on the estuary management project On the dry creek project, um, there will be as I mentioned a little bit earlier a video explaining Uh, it's kind of a rush river 101 There's a couple of videos that have been put together in support of the fish flow and water rights project And so that will also be provided and shown during the meeting There will also be um a chance for the public to comment if they so choose And again if you'd like to participate make sure you register to do so And I think that's it drew Thank you pam Questions from the tack on pam's report. You don't see anyone pam On your I have a question You talk about Some delays on phase four right-of-way related delays. So if If that gets delayed too much longer am I correct to assume that then You could have construction of phase four and phase five in the 2022 year That is possible. We're trying really hard to not have that happen because that's a lot of work in one year Um at the same time, but um, but that is possible. Yeah Okay And then the the only other question that I had is what any insight on what the Was generating esa's Additional efforts related to a stretch that wasn't really part of the defined phases for potential enhancement is that I Understand in reading this it was to address. Maybe if there was a A shortage of the total six miles required. This is trying to Makeups a shortfall. Is that correct? Yeah, and david manning has his hand up. Maybe if I'm not sure who's who's monitor who's handling the the zoom, but he Can explain that to you Okay, great. Thanks. Um, can everybody hear me? Yes Very good. So, uh In construction of phase three Work some of the projects were located downstream in an area that has Quite a lot of quite a lot of sediment deposition And we've been trying to adapt it would manage one of those areas below west side road bridge Sort of the lower portion of dry creek And have decided to abandon efforts to continue to reconstruct that section We are uncertain how much the resource agencies require us to make up in terms of Habitat that is no longer provided in that reach So we have secured this preliminary agreement with the property owner We are working with currently for the work and described as upcoming this summer To extend to that section of the project to do a little planning in the event We're asked to essentially mitigate for the loss of that habitat In the reach to portion of the creek And as you know, it takes many years to develop these projects and plan them So we felt it best to do that work now to be Sure to run compliance with the VO at the end 2023 now 2024 So it's effectively an adaptive management strategy to make sure that For the resource agencies question that section of the creek, which was filled during a really high flow winter that Pam mentioned so there is Some negotiation of the resource agencies around the amount of habitat that needs to be replaced because it was certainly a You know a natural event that created those changes to the stream channel, but we anticipate It'll probably hold us to the six mile obligation. We don't make sure we need it Okay. Thank you, David. I appreciate that additional Information any question any other questions of the tack before I open it up to the public on this agenda item? I don't see any so It's now time to take public comments. This is agenda item number six biological opinion status update Are there any comments from the public on this item? There are no hands raised Okay, great Okay, Pam don't go anywhere. We're gonna talk agenda item number seven potter valley project Oh, it's lind. Did you have a hand raised for a reason? Yeah, just very briefly. I wanted to mention that that extra mileage is associated with mile three And is not part of the water transmission budget Okay Thank you, lind All right agenda item number seven potter valley project update Pam So I think we're just kind of in a holding pattern right now on potter valley project in terms of We're still waiting for the study plan determination from the federal energy regulatory commission at this point The partners are waiting for that We are in in terms of what's going on with FERC. We're in a holding pattern. We are not enough holding pattern as far as Trying to get some other things done and and probably one of the bigger things is um We are starting um to hopefully Do something about getting some funding and so we're working really hard on that um Between all the partners and and all the contacts that we all have so And that's really the the big push right now is to to try to figure that out Okay, thanks, Pam, and I'm gonna just piggyback on Pam's report and add just a quick update on the uh huffman Uh potter valley project ad hoc meeting that the last one occurred friday, february 29th um, there were really two agenda items on this one was to report out on Uh, what was believed to have been after FERC had responded and made a study plan determination So there wasn't much to say on that because uh FERC has still not yet made their determination That had been expected mid january Uh, so the only other real agenda item was related to the funding as Pam had mentioned Um, there was a discussion again that you know these These studies will require at least eight to ten million dollars Um to perform And that you know, they have been prioritized recognizing that all that money would most not most likely not be available immediately Indications are that the initial prioritization would require about two and a half to three million dollars Um, there was mention about A recent omnibus bill in congress That has the potential to provide some funding for For these studies, however, no money has actually been appropriated yet on that but that is a A promising scenario And there was also discussions about trying to get funding from PG&E And the fact that there just hasn't been anything Yet from PG&E Freed up yet, but there is a strong desire obviously with the partners to continue to work with PG&E to to have that be a funding window As well as the omnibus aspect so That that meeting with huffman lasted only about an hour There was supposed to be a follow-up meeting, you know, they try to schedule these meetings every couple months or so There's supposed to be a follow-up meeting scheduled Relatively soon. I haven't heard Pam have you heard of an of a new date yet? No, I haven't they talked about a month from that meeting which was january 29th And I haven't heard anything about another ad hoc at this point. Maybe they're waiting for the study plan determination Which we think sense, right, right, okay Okay, and so that's kind of the A brief update on the huffman process any questions from the tack On this pvp update I don't see any indications from the tax. So I'll go ahead and open up Again, this is agenda item number seven potter valley project open this up for any public comments I see no hands raised. Okay. Thank you secretary atha So we're going to move now to agenda item number eight Sonoma waters climate adaptation plan and there's going to be a powerpoint presentation associated with this I think this is going to be a tag team from Jay jaspers and dale roberts at least those two so Jay, are you going to be the one kicking this off I will drew. Thanks All right. Good morning, everybody Jay jaspers as drew said i'll be Partnering with dale roberts who is our project manager for the climate adaptation plan also want to acknowledge jacob's I think most of you know Is our consultant for this project And it's it's been a few years that we've been working on this climate adaptation plan We are getting close to Developing a comprehensive draft plan for the spring And then we're hoping to finalize it in late summer And take it to our board. I think we're planning in august late august. I believe So we wanted to give you a briefing here at the tack and then follow up In a few months with the whack also to give a briefing of the plan It was timing it for when the actual draft comes out Next slide, please Thank you So just very briefly You know this adaptation plan really is trying to respond to within our north north bay area region the The issues that are thrown at us from a climate risk related issues We certainly have our fair share of those as we all know and experience them and It involves our day-to-day operations, you know with floods and droughts as we've been talking about earlier and also wildfires are You know, obviously things we deal with Unfortunately all the time here And what we're trying to aim to do with this climate adaptation plan is really to bring the science in the research and science in Evaluate all of our facilities and our operations And assess the vulnerability of those facilities And then what we do is then we do a risk assessment So we may have very vulnerable facilities, but if the consequence isn't that large Then that's a lower risk, but however, you know, we could have vulnerable facilities that have high consequence So we're doing this not only for our water system But also for sanitation and flood control. So it's comprehensive throughout our operations We of course are going to be focusing today on on our water system given Given your audience So i'm going to just talk a little bit about the background And the process we used and some of the climate drivers then i'll turn it over to dale to talk a little bit more about the vulnerability risk assessments and How we are developing adaptation project strategies and portfolios and then the very end Dale's just going to give you a quick update on a related project that we have that we're working with all of you on with jacob's also On the resiliency study as we are beginning to implement the work plan and starting phase two So we just want to give you a quick update at the very end of this next slide, please So one of the things that we Our plan benefits from is is really A significant amount of investment within our region on partnering and with on the climate science and bringing that science down to a scale That we can really leverage and use in our management decisions. And so We've been working at least 15 years with NOAA Office of Atmospheric Research and Weather Service. We have long-standing agreements and mo use with them Same with the us geologic survey And laurence berkeley national lab and also scripts institute of oceanography The center for western weather and water extremes. And these are the major drivers That I essentially mentioned and I'll go over a few now just to know a little bit more detail Next slide so atmospheric rivers most of you know that I've been Blathering on about atmospheric rivers for both to 10 maybe 10 years And they are certainly a prime feature within our region um both for driving floods and also Droughts and this year we haven't had many atmospheric rivers nor did we last year and we have droughts and so the When you look back in the historical record and we've done studies With NOAA and scripts back to the 1920s for our region And you can parse out atmospheric rivers for relation to flooding and drought. It's it really much Is the driver and tells the story so it makes a lot of sense for us to try to better understand These events and predict them Either their lack Or their occurrence This red dot figure in the lower left is from a paper by tom corningham out of uc san diego that was published in 2019 Essentially what it did is it looked at the 11 western united states and looked at the proportion of economic losses due to atmospheric rivers You can see up in our region. Um, it's about 98 to 99 percent of economic losses From flooding are due to atmospheric rivers. It's about 80 some percent all total when you average the 11 western states and for then what he also did is he Ranked each county in the 11 western united states as to the proportion of Damages that occurred From atmospheric rivers and sadly sonoma county ranked number one Of all counties in the 11 western united states Over the last 40 years with 5.2 billion in damages From the county or in the county due to atmospheric rivers. So this is a very I think a loud statement from mother nature in our region Uh as to that threat next slide fires, of course is another um I don't need to talk too much about this, but uh, we certainly since uh 2017 we've had more than our fair share Of fires and so this is also something we need to address in our climate adaptation plan To build resiliency not just uh explicitly within our built assets and facilities But also in our natural water resources and protecting them too And so we really have to look at the full scale of potential impacts from wildfires next slide um This is a listing of some of the activities. I'm not going through those But uh, we have been working for years on climate adaptation efforts I mentioned partnering with research agencies and really Leveraging the latest in from the science and experts in this Forecast informed reservoir operations. I think most of you are familiar with that That's a perfect example of a climate adaptation program as is our a qpi project Leading that in the bay area Again with many other agencies water agencies, but also with the state and NOAA and scripts, etc Uh, and then you know local hazard mitigation planning. This is something. It's a key strategy is combining this Climate adaptation plan much like we did several years ago almost 20 years ago with the seismic hazard assessment that Many of you may remember when we when we did that in the early 2000s and we linked that into local hazard mitigation Which then allowed us to get the FEMA funding to do seismic resiliency projects that we've been working on Last several years recently. There's been FEMA has allowed now climate risk to be included and so this in a similar Analog, we're hoping to bring this climate adaptation plan into our lhmp So that we can rank then and access these funds From FEMA as well as other Funding sources that we anticipate From the federal side that may be coming forward on climate risk Next slide And so our climate Adaptation plan as I mentioned really is going to is comprehensive water supply sanitation and flood control We're looking at this comprehensively and we're also Like we're going to focus on water supply Dale will but we're also thinking about connecting dots. So we may have adaptation strategies from a water supply from a wastewater side or A flood control side that has benefits for water supply Maybe it's storm water recharge or using recycled water and vice versa. So we're really looking at those cross cutting Initiatives where we get the win-win next slide This is the overarching Framework that we have been working under starting with the purple step one the problem scoping And then step two, which is the hazard understanding and mapping which we've done a lot of work bringing in and synthesizing the data The modeling the science and making it relevant On the ground to our actual operations in our facilities Then we did the vulnerability risk assessments, which I mentioned briefly Dale going to that a little bit more And then from there identifying the adaptation strategies and then portfolio strategies too And then this is meant to be a continual process as we Operationalize this so there'll be an implementation and monitoring aspect to this too because we want to make sure what we're doing We're getting a bang for the buck and we're moving the needle on overall resiliency for our operations Next slide And these are I think you know all of these there should be no surprises here. These are the the climate and hydrologic drivers For our region and I'll just you know temperature sea level rise precipitation variability I should be a drought wildfire and river flooding um, and next slide Just touch on these this is this slide just shows several of the models that we use and they all consistently show increase in temperature and so that has consequences even if Some of the rainfall models and show higher rainfall and some show drier conditions in the future, so there's not agreement there But all of them show warmer conditions and of course that has consequences both from a water supply, but also a landscape Issue too and impacts that we have to be cognizant in our in our operations next slide Sea level rise, of course is is going to be significant for us and in Primarily in the petal and Sonoma valleys, but also at Jenner On the Russian river, those are areas that we really have to consider and understand this this shows the petal and Sonoma with It's a scenario for future Sea level rise This what this particular slide doesn't show the animation. We have another version that kind of shows animation there that Is a little more compelling, but this has been a big issue for those of you involved in sigma issues Where we're dealing with this too for the Petaluma Groundwater sustainability plan in the Sonoma Valley groundwater sustainability plan also next slide And then precipitation extremes The atmospheric rivers Um, there's fairly consistent understanding from all the different models, you know Some may overall as I said show on average a little higher rainfall relative to historical conditions Some show a drier conditions, but what they all seem to show is that there's increasing Amount of rain is going to come from these atmospheric rivers and these atmospheric rivers are very narrow bands as you know And it's a hit or miss proposition. So although we like the Goldilocks just just enough but not too much What we see with more of our rain being focused in on atmospheric rivers is more variability So, um, maybe on average you might get more rain or less rain But the variability the drives are going to be drier and the wets are going to be wetter and this slide just shows some of the Forecasting of increased intensity of these Atmospheric rivers too because it will be warmer and the equatorial region will drive stronger range with a weaker jet stream in the future next slide And then I think enough set on increasing fire risks and potential water quality impacts to that of course is very We're very mindful of as I mentioned earlier All right next slide, please And I think this is where I turn it over to dale to talk about Some of the the process and developing adaptation portfolios Uh, thanks j. Uh, everyone hear me. Okay thumbs up or raise the roof gesture. Yes. Okay. Good So thank good morning everyone. Thank you Drew and others an Easter for getting us Our email system as Pam mentioned was out. So when people ask did you get external emails? You go? I don't know so We found out later that a lot of things went missing into the ether. So thanks for rallying and getting it done Uh, as j mentioned, uh, we looked at our cispos our three core functions water supply flood management and sanitation or wastewater For the modern word for it and looked at what some of these projected climate threats would be To that infrastructure matching those on the left Those issues on the left with the systems on the right Next slide, please And so when you look at vulnerability, you're looking at how vulnerable it is but also how how What's your adaptive capacity and compare those together? I'm sure many of you have gone through this process on other systems, but When we say adaptive capacity We're basically saying can you do something about it? And we've historically been able to do some things such as Instead at our infiltration plans instead of letting the river level rise and over top of the bank We open gates down below and they fill in from the bottom. So you get less Trickle over just Beat it to the punch we expect to See more situations like that will have to do what we've done in the past and perhaps more so Then when you look at the risk as j mentioned, it's not just Are you vulnerable? But what is what is the consequence of of those? Vulnerabilities and what's actually the likelihood and the product of those two determines whether you're How big the risk is I mean there's always going to be some risk, but Is it worth the doing something about? So we went through that process with all of our systems next slide, please So we looked at Each of our assets within our three core functions water supply sanitation and flood management This is some of the water supply systems. There's more than this that we looked at And went through that process for each one of them something weird happened on the The column headings there, sorry about that But uh, at least uh, at least the low medium high or matching up in the correct boxes but you could see Mirable diversion facilities are more vulnerable to river flooding and wildfire at least the risk of them and is uh Worse than say drought or even extreme precipitation and went through that for that process for All of our systems next slide slide, please Uh, as I mentioned, this is the process that we went through so knowing those Vulnerabilities and risks we met with staff in meetings like the one shown here, uh, where we Brainstormed and looked at through all the ideas out on the table Came up with over 250 Initial concepts collected some wild ones Some pragmatic ones and some of the things that we're already doing We've paired those down and categorized them into Groupings into different portfolios based on where they stood And eventually got it down to closer to 80 concepts And that's across all Water sanitation and flood control Next slide, please And then from those we Went through a preliminary Prioritization or Look for the projects that would have them the best bang for the buck and and the ones that would actually move the needle on adapting to climate change And in most of those we looked at How much control we had over the situation when you look at the overall watershed We don't own the watershed. We don't even own the water. We have the rights to the water, but It the water Touches a lot on the way to when we can finally control it. So who do so what do we build? How do we operate differently? Who do we collaborate with what? What policies do we need to influence on the local state and federal level? And those um those uh Projects also looked at what are the Short-term big wins. What are the long-term? big wins and what are the What are those that you don't want to commit to yet because there could be a magical fossil fuel saver and don't put all your eggs in one basket The longer term projections are less certain. So we don't want you elevating everything 20 feet off out of the floodplain If it's really not going to happen Uh Next slide, please So this is for water supply, uh, just and for sanitation and flood management. We also came up with Five different not deliberately five. It was just circumstantial. They all ended up being five five Groupings of portfolios. I'm not going to go through the whole Perimeter of projects that uh fall under water supply and within each of those projects The ones with a bold bullet or the anchor for that particular strategies such as the Call it call it, uh, 12 to 2 p.m. If you will The more infrastructure related than over to the right to to about 4 30 or so is uh operationalizing And all the way around You can see, uh The the bulleted items if you will are those that are the ones I was mentioning earlier is kind of the anchor projects that would carry That uh overall Uh strategy, uh, whereas the others help in certain areas but not uh less broadly um Next slide, please And jay alluded to this earlier some of the um The adaptation strategies we came up with weren't didn't just benefit water supply exclusively Or our system exclusively they benefit both our flood control systems and our sanitation systems And so there's synergies amongst those core functions and synergies with external entities such that we can Move the needle not only on our water supply water transmission systems But on our other core functions and other people's core functions A classic example is that is that first bulleted item Looking at the whole watershed resilience program some of the The work we've done in fire smart and fire cameras and the like that helps us and it circumstantially helps other entities in wealth Other entities as well. And there's some we we're always looking for mutually beneficial uh solutions That can help us and others in the long term and further down you can see next to last bullet forecast informed Uh operations fero reservoir operations, not just looking at lake menesino, but looking at also lake sinoma and potentially Flood control structures. They're more passive system right now But that type of solution is working now It's a needed more going into the future Take advantage of existing assets and make just operate them differently rather than Building something completely new, which is sometimes the simplistic answer to solving problems Next slide, please Am I frozen? Well, there we go. Uh, got it. Um So as jay mentioned, uh don seamore has been working with our consultant jacob's engineering to Uh embark or we've embarked on a Cinema water resiliency study, which basically looks at uh the the the whole Water system, not just our arteries if you will but the the additional Uh system beyond the wholesale water supply and looking at the whole watershed and Not just our backbone, but looking at all the retail customers even looking at the groundwater basins In those areas and looking at at it as if there's no jurisdictional boundaries across the whole system And where's the best bang for our our buck looking at that system? I don't know if you've Or I think you've already brought that to this group, but that has some Synergies with the climate adaptation plan as well some of the brainstorming That's going on under that project is mutually benefit needs to take in its consideration the changes In the climate that are impacting our systems and your systems as well And ultimately we'll have a decision support tool that will Bring to the surface those most optimal projects That are beneficial mutually beneficial to a number of parties So with that next slide, please I think that oh and this is kind of the Schedule of it j talked about the schedule of the climate adaptation plan our next step For this group is presented to the Water advisory committee at the may meeting and go to our board late august. I think it's the 24th But the resiliency study Wrapped up the work plan scoping document and beginning development and implementation of the we're in phase two basically So that's exciting stuff and underway and hopefully we can keep continually improving that With that we'll go to the next slide, which I think is the closeout slide So you can contact j if you need more detail myself and armin munivar is our project manager on jacob's engineering consultant side who's a wealth of information And did a similar climate adaptation plan for the whole caldera river basin Not that we're small potatoes or any less important, but uh Very knowledgeable So just just a shout out to them for the great work they've done on it So drew with that. I'll hand it back to you. Thank you so much. Okay. Thank you dale. Thank you j Questions from the tack on this report I'm looking I don't see any uh dale or j I I have a a couple questions So once this goes to the Your board late august What what are you envision? How will this be used I guess in the future? I I know that one element is you know continued This climate edit adaptation plan talks about the regional water supply resiliency study is one of the Core projects and so that's moving forward dale. You already mentioned that and the group is Is well aware of that some of the other projects that were identified in that pie chart is sort of high High priority projects After this gets approved then is this setting the stage for Being some of these projects being incorporated into future agency budgets or how you know what how do you see this unfolding after the approval By the board in august so drew I'll take a shot at that the climate adaptation plan Is you know it has portfolios like dale should and some projects are already well underway And what we're trying to do is capture from those very mature projects All the way to projects that are just concepts and so What it's doing though is it's laying a framework of this whole climate risk resiliency and So it depends on the particular initiative and again, it's also for sanitation and flood control too But in a broad sense what we're we're also trying to do is frame either a lot of the actions and projects were already well underway or we're starting into a climate risk framework because From the state perspective and grant funding and certainly with the federal also putting ourselves in a position to leverage and to show how all of this can then tie directly into benefits to operations and resiliency of our Of our facilities and that's going to be very important to compete well On a lot of the the funding and climate risk drivers which Certainly on the state has been very active And we have had conversations with the state. They're very interested in This plan because this is one of the leading plans. It's being developed out there and Our consultant is also working for dwr on framing too, but now also What we're seeing is the federal opportunities too and I mentioned one of them which was recently now Climate climate risks can be included in your lhmp. And so now we're going to be Not just looking at you know Our lhmp's with other natural hazards like seismic is it still a huge one that we're focused on but now Packaging with this plan will be able to package our lhmp with climate risk Projects too and ideally We'll be able to do projects that do that bring resiliency to both. You know, that's not always going to happen, but that that's a That's really a goal For as many places where we can make those connections is what we try to do Okay, I don't know if you had anything to add to that I Know I would just emphasize what Jay said is that a lot of these Ideas that they may be something we're already working on and we're not going to We don't want to create another plan and then Just have it be its own animal We want to operationalize this and incorporate it into existing systems such as the capital projects plan If it's an infrastructure type project Incorporated into normal operations like forecast and form reservoir operation make that Normal and then boom we comes out of the climate adaptation plan or there's even you know funding strategies in there Which I didn't really elaborate on but looking at as Jay mentioned Looking at state and federal funding and being being the poster child in the climate world in what's worthy of Funding such that you can move the needle on adapting the climate change and um Being Maybe for lack of a better word that the the the teacher's pet of say dwr or femur or something because they They they want to show that projects are are making a difference as well. So So basically part of it is just is incorporating the elements into here haven't fit into Some of the programs we're already doing and then we'll still track the climate adaptation plan probably update it at Certain couple year intervals As we move forward to ensure because we want to keep track of how is the climate changing? We're going to continue modeling and monitoring it and seeing if it's going. We're projecting right now The the 20 teams show everything we predicted would happen happened And had the wettest year had the longest drought had the nastiest fires. So Is that going to get worse? Uh Okay, not sure All right, thanks j. Uh jay and dale. I was uh, it's encouraging to hear Another potential benefit is you know funding sources. I know the agency's done really well with the earlier work on hazard mitigation studies Folding into being successful and getting local hazard mitigation grants. So Uh, that's encouraging to see that this climate adaptation plan could serve as a funding Uh mechanism as well for potential grant funds Any other questions from the tack on this before I open it up to public comment? Seeing none. I'll go ahead and open up agenda item number eight snowmobiles climate adaptation plan Uh to comments from the public. So if you wish to make a comment via zoom Please raise your hand or hit star nine on your phone if you're participating via phone Chair there are no hands raised Thank you secretary atha That brings us to The last item Just items for for the special whack meeting on april 5th. So this is a This is a specially scheduled meeting the the primary role is To have the whack review and then approve The water transmission system budget for f y 22 2022 um, there's always the possibility between now and in uh finalizing this agenda that Some other high priority items could be added, but that's our focus right now is is um on budget approval for april 5th Any comments from the tack on this april 5th agenda? Seeing none any comments from the public on agenda item number nine special whack meeting agenda for april 5th I'm not seeing any hands raised Thank you secretary atha okay, uh, thanks everyone that that concludes our tack meeting and uh, hope everybody has a a good week and and They're projecting some precipitation At the end of this at the end of this week. So let's all Uh, keep our fingers crossed that will that'll materialize again. Have have a good week Thanks, drew