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September 24, 2002 Ayes: Benn, Griffin, Moody, Pitts, Randall, Whitehurst Nays: None 02 - 290 - Adoption of a resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute an Emergency Raw Water Sales Contract with Norfolk. Recommendation: · Adoption of a resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute an Emergency Raw Water Sales Contract with Norfolk. Purpose and Need: · Under the Contract, Norfolk will sell up to 10MGD of surplus raw water to Portsmouth, when needed under certain emergency drought conditions. · Portsmouth might not have sufficient raw water under extreme drought conditions to fully meet the needs of its users for treated water. Those users include residents and businesses in Suffolk and Chesapeake, as well as in Portsmouth. Under those conditions, Norfolk has agreed to sell Portsmouth additional raw water from any surplus it may have. · The Contract would allow Norfolk and Portsmouth to better ensure a continuing supply of treated water for the region, even under extreme drought conditions. · The water would be conveyed from Norfolk's raw water facilities in Suffolk to Portsmouth's treatment facilities in Suffolk by a pipeline to be constructed Portsmouth, largely along VDOT right-of-way. by · Simultaneous approval of the contract by Norfolk City Council is anticipated. Financial Impact: · The City will pay the cost of constructing the pipeline and related facilities, currently estimated to be approximately $3.5 million. This cost will be paid from Utility Department funds and not from general funds. · Portsmouth will pay Norfolk a reasonable price for water, as it may be used from time to time under the contract. · The continued presence of a stable supply of treated water will have unmeasurable but very significant indirect long-term benefits on economic development and business retention in Portsmouth. Motion by Mr. Whitehurst, and seconded by Mr. Moody, to adopt the following resolution, and was adopted by the following vote: "A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN EMERGENCY RAW WATER SALES CONTRACT WITH THE CITY OF NORFOLK. BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that the City Manager is hereby authorized, acting for and on behalf of the City, to execute and enter into an Emergency Raw Water Sales Contract with the City of Norfolk, substantially the same as the contract which is attached hereto. The City Manager is further authorized to take all further steps and actions reasonably necessary to implement the contract, to perform all duties and responsibilities contemplated therein, and to grant such further assurances and execute such further instruments as may be needed for this purpose." Ayes: Benn, Griffin, Moody, Pitts, Randall, Whitehurst Nays: None