98-0324_CC_Minutes_Special MeetingMARCH 24, 1998
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA
The Special Meeting of the City Council of the City of San Juan Capistrano, California was called to
order by Mayor Jones at 4:30 p.m. in the City Council Chamber.
ROLL CALL: PRESENT: Gil Jones, Mayor
John Greiner, Mayor pro tem
Collene Campbell, Council Member (arrived at 4:33 p.m.)
Wyatt Hart, Council Member
ABSENT: David M. Swerdlin, Council Member
STAFF PRESENT: George Scarborough, City Manager; Cheryl Johnson, City Clerk; Cynthia L.
Pendleton, Administrative Services Director; Amy Amirani, Public Works Director; Bob Clark,
District Engineer.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - None
ADMINISTRATIVE
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTO
Written Communications:
Report dated March 24, 1998, from the Public Works Director, advising that on
November 21, 1995, the City, the Water District and the San Juan Basin Authority had signed
an agreement designed to protect the City and District water rights and groundwater
production facilities from potential impacts of the San Juan Basin Authority's proposed
Desalination Plant, also known as Project Committee No. 4. At the time of approval, only
the members of Project Committee No. 4 were bound by the agreement. Since that time the
water rights situation had changed. It was recommended that all members of the San Juan
Basin Authority should be bound by the November, 1995 agreement and the Report
forwarded an Amendment to that Agreement. The Report further advised that the City and
the District had requested that the State Regional Water Quality Control Board, Division of
Water Rights, give the City/District application to appropriate their current and projected
groundwater supplies (425 acre feet annually foi the City and 2,900 acre feet annually for the
District) from the San Juan Creek, Trabuco Creek and their tributaries (identified as the San
' Juan Basin) priority over all other applications pending on the San Juan Basin. Assurances
had been negotiated from the San Juan Basin Authority and the Capistrano Beach Water
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District that the City's and the District's entitlements would be preserved; therefore, staff
recommended the request for priority be withdrawn.
The Public Works Director made an oral report.
Approval of Agreement Amendment/Letter Withdrawing Priority Request:
It was moved by Council Member Hart, seconded by Council Member Greiner and
unanimously carried to approve the San Juan Basin Authority - Capistrano Valley Water
District and City of San Juan Capistrano Amendment to Agreement; and, to authorize the
Mayor to sign the letter to the State Water Resources Control Board requesting the
withdrawal of the City's and the District's requested priority over all other applications
pending on the San Juan Basin.
There being no further business before the Council, the meeting was adjourned at 4:35 p.m. to the
next regular meeting date of Tuesday, April 7, 1998, at 5:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers.
Respectfully submitted,
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