Title
Proposed Water Service Contract with Grosse Ile Township
Body
Agenda of: January 9, 2019
Item No.: 2018-1071
Amount: Revenue Contract
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Sue F. McCormick
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: January 2, 2019
RE: Proposed Water Service Contract with Grosse Ile Township
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Randal Brown, General Counsel, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), authorizes the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to execute a 30-year water service contract with Grosse Ile Township; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
On November 26, 2018, the Grosse Ile ("Member Partner") Board approved the terms of a new Water Service Contract ("Contract") with GLWA. The Member Partner has been receiving water services through a 35-year agreement with the City of Detroit dated December 3, 1980. This Contract is based upon the model water contract, as subsequently amended, developed in partnership with the Technical Advisory Committee. The Contract has a thirty-year term and provides for, in part, pressure commitments by GLWA; maximum day and peak hour commitments by the Member Partner; the establishment of the Technical Advisory Committee (now, the One Water Partnership) for a thirty-year period; notification and payment of charges; maintenance responsibilities of the Member Partner and GLWA; and water quality commitments by the Member Partner and GLWA.
Additionally, Exhibit A of the Contract establishes the Member Partner's service area boundaries, meter locations, emergency connections, retail customers served by the Member Partner outside of Member Partner's corporate limits, and each party's respective ownership and maintenance responsibilities. Exhibit A is not attached for homeland security reasons.
JUSTIFICATION
Approval...
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