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DUBLIN SAN RAMON SERVICE DISTRICT 'M` REGIONAL CONNECTION FEES Appendix C LAVWMA Description LAVWMA Livermore Amador Valley Water Management (the Agency) is a joint powers agency that was formed in 1974 by a joint exercise of powers agreement between the cities of Pleasanton and Livermore and the Dublin San Ramon Services District. The Agency has implemented a water quality management program involving wastewater disposal. The Agency operates an export pipeline connecting with the East Bay Dischargers Authority's system and discharges treated wastewater, through a deepwatcr outfall, into San Francisco Bay. The Agency currently has an Amended and Restated Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement dated September 10, 1997, among the members. This agreement, among other things, sets forth capacity limitations and capacity rights of each member as well as cost sharing procedures for debt scrvicc and fixed operating costs related to capacity rights and variable operating costs related to actual use of the export facilities. The Dublin San Ramon Services District (District) is one of the three participants in LAVWMA. The other two participants are the Cities of Livermore and Pleasanton, each also having a one -third representation in LAVWMA's Board of Directors, composed of two representatives from each participating agency. The LAVWMA's Board of Directors approves LAVWMA's annual budget, which is prepared by LAVWMA's general manager. The Agency charges its members for project costs in proportion to their rights to the Agency's capacity. The District contracts with the City of Pleasanton "City to provide wastewater treatment and disposal. The District establishes user charges for these wastewater services. The City then establishes those same charges in its service area and remits the charges they collect to the District on a monthly basis. A portion of the user charge is for the services provided by LAVWMA. LAVWMA bills the District for both the District's and Pleasanton's share of these costs .(which includes both operations and debt service). Financial statements for the Authority may be obtained from LAVWMA, 623 West Myrick Court, Clayton, California 94517. LAVWMA has 5131,160,000 in outstanding debt at June 30, 2009. The District is obligated to pay debt scrvicc totaling 594,620,045 or 56.9 million per year. The total debt scrvicc represents both the District's share and the City of Pleasanton's share based upon a contractual agreement whereby the City collects rates and fees and remits them to the District. The debt has been allocated between expansion and replacement funds based on the work that was performed on the system. The detail allocation of the debt is as follows. BLACK VEATCH 26 MAY 2010