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County Counsel recommending the Board authorize the Chair to sign a Services Agreement between the County of El Dorado and the El Dorado County Water Agency for the County to provide operational support services as described in the Services Agreement to the El Dorado County Water Agency.
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
County Counsel recommending the Board authorize the Chair to sign the Services Agreement between County of El Dorado County and the El Dorado County Water Agency. (Attachment B)
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The El Dorado County Water Agency (EDCWA) has been an independent agency since 1959. Following the EDCWA’s formation, the County of El Dorado (“County”) provided administrative and various other support services through it departments to the EDCWA. Through its resolutions and agreements, EDCWA’s Board of Directors authorized various services to be provided and EDCWA functions to be performed by the County including those of the Auditor/Controller, General Services, Human Resources, Information Technologies, Insurance, Risk Management, Treasurer/Tax Collector and Worker’s Compensation. In the 2005 timeframe, a Memorandum of Understanding was developed to formalize the arrangement. Although a fully executed copy of the 2005 MOU has not been located, services continued to be performed by the County and the County was compensated by the EDCWA for those services in accordance with the 2005 MOU.
In order to memorialize and update the nature of the services to be provided by the County to EDCWA and the method and manner of compensation to the County by EDCWA for providing those services, the parties entered into negotiations on a Services Agreement. The services to be provided by the County under the terms of the Services Agreement include the following:
“a. Administration Services
(i) Budgeting: As requested by Agency, assistance to Agency in administering and monitoring its operations, under the direction of the Agency’s...
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