I. RECOMMENDATION:
Council Authorization for the Assistant City Manager to Execute a Task Order with AM Consulting Engineers (AMCE) to prepare the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan.
II. BACKGROUND:
In January of 2020, the City of Coalinga completed and approved the 2015 Urban Water Management Plan. These plans are required by the State of California to be drafted and reviewed every five years. The document that was completed was for the years of 2015-2020.
III. DISCUSSION:
The Urban Water Management Planning Act requires urban water suppliers to update their UWMPs every five years and submit the adopted plan to DWR by July 1, 2026. While there have been no substantive statutory changes to the Water Code since the 2020 UWMP cycle, DWR has issued updated guidance, revised standardized submittal tables, and new reporting expectations that materially affect the scope and level of documentation required for the 2025 UWMP. In particular, the 2025 UWMP places increased emphasis on standardized table reporting, consistency with WUEdata, water loss standard compliance, and clarified accounting for stored water.
This proposal reflects those updates and provides a comprehensive scope of services to prepare a complete, defensible, and DWR-ready 2025 UWMP for the City of Coalinga.
IV. ALTERNATIVES:
The Council may choose to not proceed with updating the City’s Urban Water Management Plan and risk being ineligible for grants and other state and federal water infrastructure funding. Staff does not recommend.
Direct staff to an alternative to get the report completed by the due date of July 1, 2026.
V. FISCAL IMPACT:
This agreement will have no impact to the General Fund as it is funded by Water Enterprise funds. Sufficient funds exist in the Water Enterprise (Plant Operations Professional Services) fund to fulfill this total agreement not to exceed $39,000.00. |