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WHEREAS. the Parties have determined that authorizing GWMA to hire consultants as necessary to maintain the Monitoring Stations and conduct the monitoring required by the Harbor Toxic Pollutants TMDL will be beneficial to the Parties; WHEREAS. the Permittee agrees to pay: (a) its proportional share of the Monitoring Costs to be incurred by the GWMA in accordance with the Cost Sharing Formula reflected in Exhibit “A“; and (b) applicable administrative fees to cover administrative costs; and
WHEREAS, the role of the GWMA is to: (1) invoice and collect funds from the Permittee to cover its portion of the Monitoring Costs; and (2) hire and retain consultants to maintain Monitoring Stations and conduct monitoring at the Monitoring Stations.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and conditions set forth herein, the Parties do hereby agree as follows:
Section 1. Bum. The purpose ofthis Agreementisforthe Permitteetocost share in the Monitoring Costs.
Section 2. W. The Parties shall fully cooperate with one another to achieve the purposes of this Agreement.
Section 3. Vgignggy Nat_urg. The Parties voluntarily enter into this Agreement.
Section 4. W This Agreement shall become binding on GWMA and the Permittee.
Section 5. M. This Agreement shall commence on July 1, 2023 and shall expire on June 30. 2026, unless terminated earlier pursuant to this Agreement.
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(a) The GWMA shall invoice and collect funds from the Permittee to cover the Monitoring Costs.
(b) The GWMA shall administer the consultants’ contracts for the Monitoring Costs. Provided the Permittee has paid all outstanding invoices to the GWMA to cover the Monitoring Costs and administrative costs, the GWMA will provide the Permittee with the monitoring data collected from the Monitoring Stations and any associated reports.
(c) The GWMA is authorized and may negotiate. enter into agreements with, and collect funds from general and indual NPDES permit holders, that are not M34 Permittees. for costcsharing the Monitoring Costs in order to reduce the total costs incurred by the M84 Permittees.
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(a) Annual Payment Amount. The Permittee shall pay no more than the following amounts for each of the three fiscal years (June 30-July 1) listed below (“Annual Payment Amount"):
Fiscal Year 20232024:
Seven Hundred Eighty Eight Dollars and Thirteen Cents ($788.13) Fiscal Year 2024-2025:
Seven Hundred Ninety One Dollars and Fifty Four Cents ($791.54) Fiscal Year 2025-2026:
Eight Hundred Ten Dollars and Twelve Cents ($810.12)
Each Annual Payment Amount includes the Permittee’s Cost Share Amount identified in Exhibit 'A', attached hereto and incorporated herein.
(b) Administrative Costs. In addition to the Annual Payment Amount, the Permittee shall also pay its proportional share of the GWMA’s staff time for hiring the consultants, managing the consultants’ contracts, and invoicing the Permittee and legal fees incurred by the GWMA in the performance of its duties under this Agreement (“Direct Costs"), and audit expenses and other overhead costs (“Indirect Costs"), referred to collectively herein as the ‘Administrative Costs Payment Amount”. The Administrative Costs Payment Amount will be» added to the Permittee's annual invoice to cover the Permittee’s share of the administrative costs.
i. GWMA Members. if the Permittee is a GWMA Member. then the Administrative Costs Payment Amount does not include the GWMA's Indirect Costs, which GWMA Members absorb as part of their annual membership dues. The rate charged to GWMA Members in order to recover the Direct Costs portion of the Administrative Costs Payment Amount will range between zero percent (0%) and five percent (5%) of the of the Permittee's Cost Share Amount identified in Exhibit "A.’ On an annual basis the GWMA will evaluate the percentage rate charged to GWMA Members to ensure it adequately recovers the GWMA's cost of performing its duties under this Agreement. Based on this review, the GWMA Board will establish the rate charged to recover its Direct Costs for the next fiscal year. The GWMA will provide the Permittee, through the respective Chairs of the Lower San Gabriel River and Lower Los Angeles River Watershed Management Groups, fifteen (15) days' written notice prior to July 1st of the fiscal year in which a new rate will take effect. ii. Non-GWMA Members. If the Permittee is not a GWMA
Member, then the Administrative Costs Payment Amount will include the GWMA’s indirect Costs. The rate charged to Non-GWMA Members in order to recover Direct Costs will range between five percent (5%) and ten percent (10%) of the Permittee's Cost Share Amount identified in Exhibit “A." The rate charged to Non-GWMA Members in order to
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recover Indirect Costs will range between two percent (2%) and five percent (5%) of the Perrnittee's Cost Share Amount identified in Exhibit “A.” On an annual basis the GWMA will evaluate the percentage rates for both Direct and Indirect Costs charged to Non- GWMA Members to ensure they adequately recover the GWMA's cost of performing its duties under this MOU. Based on this review, the GWMA Board may increase or decrease the rates charged to recover its Direct and indirect Costs for the next fiscal year. The GWMA will provide the Perrnittee, through the respective Chairs of the Lower San Gabriel River and Lower Los Angeles River Watershed Management Groups, fifteen (15) days' written notice prior to July 1st of the fiscal year in which a new rate will take effect.
(c) Adjustment of Cost Share Based on Number of Participants. The Annual Payment Amount and the Administrative Costs Payment Amount identified in this Section 7 ('Financial Terms”) represent the maximum dollar amounts that the Perrnittee is required to submit to the GWMA, but may be reduced based on the final number of M84 Perrnittees that participate in the cost sharing for the Monitoring Costs. (d) Reserve Credits. if the actual cost share amount plus administrative costs collected by GWMA from all participating permittees in the Harbor Toxic Pollutants TMDL program are less than the Annual Payment Amount, plus the Administrative Costs Payment Amount, paid by all permittees in a particular year, then the GWMA will notify the Chairs of the Lower San Gabriel River and Lower Los Angeles River Watershed Management Groups. The Chairs will direct GWMA on how to apply the excess balance, which may include carrying the balance over to cover permittee costs in one or more subsequent years. , GWMA reserves the right to transfer funds from the excess balance to maintain a minimum balance of $10,000 in its account dedicated to the Harbor Toxic Pollutants TMDL program at all times, per GWMA’s Administrative Budget Policy.
Notwithstanding the forgoing. the Administrative Costs Payment Amount charged to non.
GWMA Members for Indirect Costs will be retained by GWMA and is not subject to a credit.
(e) Funds remaining in the possession of the GWMA at the expiration or earlier termination of this MOU shall be promptly returned to the Perrnittee in proportion to the Cost Share Amount identified in Exhl ‘A' or rolled over into the subsequent MOU for the Harbor Toxic Pollutants TMDL if requested by the Pennittee. (f) The Perrnittee's Annual Payment Amount and Administrative Costs Payment Amount for the 2023-2024 fiscal year are due upon execution of this Agreement, but in no event later than September 30, 2023. For each subsequent fiscal year, commencing with the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the GWMA shall submit annual invoices to the Perrnittee for the Annual Payment Amount and Administrative Costs Payment Amount. Upon receiving an invoice from GWMA, each Pennittee shall pay the Annual Payment Amount and Administrative Costs Payment Amount set forth in the invoice to the GWMA within forty-five (45) days of receipt.
(9) The Pennittee shall be delinquent if its invoiced payment is not received by the GWMA within forty-five (45) days after the lnvoice’s date. if the Pennittee
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is delinquent, the GWMA will: 1) verbally contact the representative of the Permittee; and 2) submit a formal letter from the GWMA Executive Officer to the Perrnlttee at the address listed in Section 11 of this Agreement. If payment is not received within sixty (60) days of the original invoice date, the GWMA may terminate this Agreement. However. no such termination may be ordered unless the GWMA first provides the Permittee with thirty (30) days written notice of its intent to terminate the Agreement. The terminated Permittee shall remain obligated to GWMA for its delinquent payments and any other obligations incurred prior to the date of termination. if the GWMA terminates this Agreement bemuse the Pennlttee is delinquent in its payment, the Permittee shall no longer be entitled to the monitoring data collected from the Monitoring Stations. (h) Any delinquent payments by the Permittee shall accrue compound interest at the average rate of interest paid by the Local Agency investment Fund during the time that the payment is delinquent.
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(a) The GWMA is, and shall at all times remain, a wholly independent contractor for performance of the obligations described in this Agreement. The GWMA's officers, officials, employees and agents shall at all times during the term of this Agreement be under the exclusive control of the GWMA. The Permittee cannot control the conduct of the GWMA or any of its officers, officials, employees or agents. The GWMA and its officers. officials. employees, and agents shall not be deemed to be employees of the Permittee.
(b) The GWMA is solely responsible for the payment of salaries, wages. other compensation, employment taxes, workers’ compensation, or similar taxes for its employees and consultants performing services hereunder.
Section 9. lndgmgifigtion and Warranty.
(a) The Permittee shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless the GWMA and its officers, employees, and other representatives and agents from and against any and all liabilities, actions, suits proceedings, claims, demands. losses, costs, and expenses, including legal costs and attomey’s fees, for injury to or death of person(s), for damage to property (including property owned by the GWMA) for negligent or intentional acts, errors and omissions committed by the Permittee or its officers, employees, and agents, arising out of or related to that Permittee's performance under this Agreement, except for such loss as may be caused by GWMA's negligence or that of its officers, employees, or other representatives and agents, excluding the consultant. (b) GWMA makes no guarantee or warranty that any monitoring data prepared by the consultants shall be approved by the relevant governmental authorities.
GWMA shall have no liability to the Permittee for the negligent or intentional acts or omissions of GWMA’s consultants.
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(a) The Permittee may terminate this Agreement for any reason, or no reason, by giving the GWMA prior written notice thereof, but the Permittee shall remain responsible for its entire Annual Payment Amount through the end of the current fiscal year during which Permittee terminates the Agreement and shall not be entitled any refund of any portion of said Annual Payment Amount. Moreover, unless the Permittee provides written notice of termination to the GWMA by February 15th immediately prior to a new fiscal year, the Permittee shall also be responsible for its Annual Payment Amount through the end of such new fiscal year (9.9., If the Permittee terminates on March 1", 2024, the Permittee is responsible for the Annual Payment Amounts for both fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. if the Permittee terminates on February 10, 2024. the Permittee is responsible for its Annual Payment Amount only for Fiscal year 2023- 2024, not for fiscal year 2024-2025). If the Permittee terminates the Agreement, the Permittee shall remain liable for any loss, debt, or liability otherwise incurred through the end of the new fiscal year.
(b) The GWMA may, with a vote of the GWMA Board, terminate this Agreement upon not less than thirty (30) days written notice to the Permittee. Any remaining funds not due and payable or otherwise legally committed to Consultant shall be returned to the Permittee.
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(a) Other NPDES Permit Holders. Individual or general NPDES permit holders who are not M84 Perrnittees that receive Harbor Toxic Pollutants TMDL monitoring requirements in their NPDES permits may wish to participate in this cost share for the Monitoring Costs in order to receive the monitoring data collected from the Monitoring Stations. Upon receipt of a written request from an NPDES permit holder to participate in this cost share, the GWMA will either reject or accept the NPDES pennlt holder’s participation in the cost share arrangement. If accepted, the NPDES permit holder will enter into a separate cost share agreement with the GWMA that will require the NPDES permit holder to pay annually at least twelve thousand three hundred dollars ($12,300) (“Private Monitoring Fee”) for the Monitoring Costs. Failure to pay the Private Monitoring Fee by the date set forth in the cost share agreement will result in termination of the NPDES permit holder’s participant status. An NPDES permit holder accepted as a participant will only be entitled to receive the monitoring data collected from the Monitoring Stations for any fiscal year in which the participant has paid its Private Monitoring Fee. The Private Monitoring Fee will be applied as a credit toward the Pennittee's Annual Payment Amount in proportion to the Pennittee's Cost Share Amount identified in Exhibit “A.”
(b) um. All Notices which the Parties require or desire to give hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given when delivered personally or three (3) days after mailing by registered or certified mail (return receipt requested) to the following address or as such other addresses as the Parties may from time to time designate by written notice in the aforesaid manner:
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Ms. Grace Kast
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To the Permittee:
City of Belifiower
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Belifiower, CA 90706
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(c) Amendment. The terms and provisions of this Agreement may not be amended, modified or waived. except by a written instrument signed by all Parties. (d) Myer. Waiver by either the GWMA or the Perrnittee of any term, condition, or covenant of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of any other term, condition, or covenant. Waiver, by the GWMA or the Permittee, to any breach of the provisions of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of any other provision or a waiver of any subsequent breach of any provision of this Agreement. (e) Lew to @vem: Venee. This Agreement shall be interpreted, construed, and governed according to the laws of the State of Caiifomia. In the event of litigation between the Parties, venue shall lie exclusively in the County of Los Angeles. (f) Ne Preeemetion in gaging. The Parties to this Agreement agree that the general rule than an agreement is to be interpreted against the Party drafting it, or causing it to be prepared, shall not apply.
(9) Severability. if any term, provision, condition or covenant of this Agreement is declared or determined by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall not be affected thereby and this Agreement shall be read and construed without the invalid, void, or unenforceable provisions(s).
(h) Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements, whether written or oral, with respect thereto. (i) Counterearts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute but one and the same instrument, provided. however, that such counterparts shall have been delivered to all Parties to this Agreement.
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In the preparation and negotiation of this Agreement. Accordingly, this Agreement shall be construed according to its fair language.
(k) Autflorigy to gxmg this Aggeemeet. The person or persons executing this Agreement on behalf of Permittee warrants and represents that he or she has the authority to execute this Agreement on behalf of the Permittee and has the authority to bind Permittee.
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