DATE: 06/04/2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
Honorable President and Board Members
FROM: Utilities Department
2025-186
REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL AND
CORONA UTILITY AUTHORITY ACTION
SUBJECT:
RESOLUTION APPOINTING THE CITY’S REPRESENTATIVES AND ALTERNATES
TO THE WESTERN RIVERSIDE COUNTY REGIONAL WASTEWATER AUTHORITY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND TO REPEAL RESOLUTION NO. 2022-018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The resolution before the City Council will update the City of Corona’s representatives and alternates for the Western Riverside County Regional Wastewater Authority’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee, which the Mayor will appoint.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
That the City Council adopt Resolution No. 2025-036, appointing the City’s representatives and alternates to the Western Riverside County Regional Wastewater Authority Board of Directors and Executive Committee and repealing Resolution No. 2022-018.
That the Corona Utility Authority review, ratify, and to the extent necessary, direct that the City Council take the above actions.
BACKGROUND & HISTORY:
The Western Riverside County Regional Wastewater Authority (WRCRWA) exists for the purposes of planning, constructing, and operating a cost-effective regional water reclamation treatment system for the benefit of its member agencies, which includes the City of Corona, the City of Norco, Jurupa Community Services District, Home Gardens Sanitary District, and Western Municipal Water District. On July 18, 2012, the Corona City Council approved the execution of Addendum No. 6 to the Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement (JPA) creating the City of Corona (Corona) membership.
The JPA requires Corona to designate and appoint, by resolution, two people to act as Corona’s representatives on the WRCRWA Board of Directors and shall designate and appoint two other people to act as alternates for Corona’s representatives. At least one of Corona’s representatives and the alternate for that representative must be members of the City Council; however, the other representatives and alternates are not required to be members of the City Council. The JPA further states that one of Corona’s representatives shall represent Corona on the Executive Committee of the WRCRWA Board of Directors.
ANALYSIS:
Resolution No. 2012-090 designed and appointed the Mayor and the Department of Water and Power (DWP) General Manager to act as Corona’s representatives on the WRCRWA Board of Directors. The resolution further designated and appointed Corona’s Vice Mayor to act as the Mayor’s alternate and the DWP Operations Manager to act as the DWP General Manager’s alternate.
Resolution 2013-090 included language allowing the DWP General Manager and Operations Manager, or his/her designees, to represent Corona as the non-City Council member representative and the non-City Council member alternate.
Resolution No. 2022-018 updated the General Manager and Operations Manager position titles as Corona’s non-City Council member representatives.
Resolution No. 2025-036 repeals Resolution No. 2022-018 and authorizes the Mayor to appoint Corona’s designees and alternates as Corona’s representatives on the WRCRWA Board of Directors as well as updates to the position titles for the Utilities Director and Assistant Utilities Director.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
There is no financial impact associated with the recommended action.
ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS:
This action is exempt pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the Guidelines for the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), which states that a project is exempt from CEQA if the activity is covered by the commonsense exemption that CEQA applies only to projects that have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA. This action is to adopt the resolution to update the City’s WRCRWA representatives, and there is no possibility that adopting this resolution will have a significant effect on the environment.
Therefore, no environmental analysis is required.
PREPARED BY: TOM MOODY, UTILITIES DIRECTOR
ATTACHMENT:
1. Exhibit 1 – Resolution No. 2025-036