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Minutes - City/Districts Liaison - 2006-03-17 501 44- 4 L9 9 ' Fri !2' sa Consolidated ,ti water District ��PORFiEo�9 CITY/DISTRICTS LIAISON COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES FRIDAY, March 17, 2006 7:30 a.m. COSTA MESA CITY HALL 5TH FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM 77 Fair Drive Costa Mesa, California 92626 Mesa Committee Members: Trudy Ohlig-Hall, Vice President Fred Bockmiller, Vice President Diana M. Leach, General Manager • City Committee Members: Allan Mansoor, Mayor Allan Roeder, City Manager CMSD Committee Members: James Ferryman, President Arlene Schafer, Director Rob Hamers, Manager/District Engineer Discussion was held on the following items: I. Desalination Project in Huntington Beach Ms. Leach described the proposed desalination plant in Huntington Beach as proposed by the Poseidon Resources Corporation. The project is still in its conceptual stages and the Poseidon group has held general meetings with MCWD. In order for the Poseidon group to reach their goal of providing water to south Orange County, a new pipeline would have to be constructed from the proposed plant in Huntington Beach through Costa Mesa to a point of connection with a 42-inch water line in Del Mar Avenue just east of Newport Blvd. MCWD has not received any definite proposals from the Poseidon group. MCWD and the City agreed that future proposals by the Poseidon Group would be made to both MCWD and the City due to the significant impacts of constructing a pipeline through Costa Mesa. CITY/DISTRICTS LIAISON COMMITTEE MEETING March 17, 2006 MINUTES Page 2 C II. Santa Ana Heights and Banning Ranch Annexations Mr. Roeder described the City of Costa Mesa's position regarding annexing unincorporated areas in and around the City as well as the recent actions by the City of Newport Beach regarding west Santa Ana Heights. The City of Costa Mesa made application to Orange County LAFCO to annex west Santa Ana Heights and the majority of the Banning Ranch. Mr. Roeder described the excessive service delivery costs and other problems of a city or county serving an island and the City of Costa Mesa's desire to have an orderly and practical boundary line between the City of Costa Mesa and the City of Newport Beach. III. City's Proposed Utility Users Tax Mayor Mansoor described his goal of having the residents of the City vote on whether to establish a tax to fund the undergrounding of the Edison, telephone, and cable TV lines throughout the City. A very preliminary cost is $800 million and the tax would require a two-thirds voter approval. Mr. Roeder stated the City does have the authority to require some or all of the utilities in the City to collect the tax if approved by the voters. Some of the logistics being discussed are the fact that some areas of the City already have underground facilities plus the sewer and water lines owned by the Sanitary District and the Water District are underground. IV. LAFCO MSRs and Spheres of Influence Director Ohlig-Hall stated her desire for the three agencies to work together during the Municipal Service Review process. The City and Sanitary District agreed that a working group would benefit the agencies by promoting discussion of common issues and garnering additional cooperation between the three agencies. V. Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Mr. Hamers explained the on-going joint program between the City and the Sanitary District that results in residents being provided free pickup of HHW at their homes and the new February 9, 2006 regulations that require batteries and other electronic waste be recycled instead of taken to landfills. Director Schafer described the discussion at the recent Chamber of Commerce meeting where speakers were unsure how compliance with the new regulations would be achieved. Mr. Hamers described the Sanitary District's compliance with the new regulations for its single family and small multi-family trash collection program through the sorting procedure at the material recovery facility in Stanton. Mr. Hamers stated the City's recycling coordinator should be contacted regarding how compliance is achieved in the City's commercial trash collection program. CITY/DISTRICTS LIAISON COMMITTEE MEETING March 17, 2006 MINUTES Page 3 The next meetin g of the Liaison Committee was scheduled for Friday, June 16, 2006 at 7:30 a.m. at the Costa Mesa Sanitary District at 628 W. 19th Street, Costa Mesa. Public Comments There were no public comments. The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 a.m. III _�� id,42/10)1,404 id Arthur Perry, Secretary James FerrymaryPresident Costa Mesa Sanitary District Costa Mesa Sanitary District C