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File #: 19-5517    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinances and Action Items Status: Adopted
File created: 5/10/2019 In control: City Council
On agenda: 8/20/2019 Final action: 8/20/2019
Title: Subject: Establish a Residential Clean Water Rebate Program offering various financial incentives to decrease storm water runoff and establish a 20% cost-share of Clean Water and Storm Protection Fees for extremely low and very low-income property owners
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. A - City SCVWD Cost Share Agreement, 3. B - Draft Resolution

Title

Subject:  Establish a Residential Clean Water Rebate Program offering various financial incentives to decrease storm water runoff and establish a 20% cost-share of Clean Water and Storm Protection Fees for extremely low and very low-income property owners

 

Recommended Action

1.                     Authorize expenditures not to exceed $25,000 per year from the Environmental Management/Clean Creeks Fund to:

      A. fund the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s Rainwater Capture Program to match rebates for rain barrels, cisterns, and rain garden construction for Cupertino residential property owners offered through the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s new program, and

      B. to fund a separate City program that would provide property owners up to $3.00 per square foot of impervious surface removed and replaced with pervious hardscape; and

2.                     Adopt Resolution No. 19-111 to approve a Budget Adjustment in the amount of $25,000 in the Non-Point Source Fund for the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s Rainwater Capture Program, and the new impervious pavement conversion rebate pilot program (230-81-802); and

3.                     Authorize a 20% cost-share of Clean Water and Storm Protection Fees for extremely low and very low-income property owners; and

4.                     Authorize expenditures not to exceed $14,000 per year from the Non-Point Source Fund for a 20% cost-share of the 2019 Clean Water and Storm Protection fee for extremely low and very low-income property owners (230-81-802)