Agenda packet — Gonzales City Council, February 21, 2023

Any writing or documents provided to a majority of the City Council regarding any item on this agenda will be made available for public inspection at City Hall located at 147 Fourth Street, Gonzales, California, during normal business hours.

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A G E N D A

JOINT MEETING OF THE

GONZALES CITY COUNCIL,

GONZALES SUCCESSOR AGENCY,
AND

PLANNING COMMISSION
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 117 FOURTH STREET
GONZALES, CA 93926
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2023
6:00 P.M.

CALL TO ORDER

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

1. ROLL CALL- City Council/Successor Agency
Mayor Pro Tem/Vice Chair Scott Funk, Council/Agency Member Liz Silva, Council/Agency Member Lorraine Worthy, Council/Agency Member Maria Orozco, Mayor/Chair Jose L. Rios
Planning Commission
Chair Gloria Velasquez, Chair Pro Tem Ernesto Mancera, Commissioner Myrna Morales, Commissioner Adrian Paco, Commissioner Tencia Vargas Youth Commissioners
Sherlyn Flores and Luke Naegle
Successor Agency Item

PUBLIC NOTICE
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JOINT ITEM WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION

2. Water Supply Assessment - Administrative Draft: Vista Lucia Specific Plan Area a) Staff Report
b) Public Comment
c) Council/Commission Discussion
d) Council/Commission Action
Staff Recommended Action-Receive presentation, and acknowledge that the Water Supply Assessment will be used to inform environmental review for the Vista Lucia Specific Plan Project and may be used as an informational foundation for other development projects under review, including the Rianda Family Cooler Project, the Puente Del Monte Specific Plan, the development of the D’Arrigo 138 acres within City limits east of Hwy 101, and future buildout of the Gonzales Agricultural Industrial Park

ADJOURN TO REGULAR COUNCIL-SA MEETING

BUSINESS FROM THE PUBLIC

3. Business from the Public not on the Agenda; any member of the Public may address the Council/Agency for a period not to exceed three minutes on any subject not on the Agenda. The Council/Agency will listen to all communications but may take no action.

CONSENT AGENDA
All matters listed under the Consent Agenda are considered routine by the City Council and will be adopted by one action of the Council unless any Council Member has a question or wishes to make a statement or discuss an item. In that event, the Mayor will remove the item from the Consent Calendar for separate consideration.

4. Approve the Joint City Council and Successor Agency - Regular Meeting - February 6, 2023 Minutes

5. Approve City Accounts Payable Warrants #48160-48219

6. Community Development Department Activity Report

7. Community Engagement & Strategic Partnerships Activity Report

8. Fire Department Activity Report

9. Police Department Activity Report

10. Public Works/City Engineer Department Activity Report

11. Recreation Department Activity Report

12. Consider Approval of a Retroactive Agreement Between the City of Gonzales and Armanasco Public Relations, Inc. from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023, for Services Rendered to Support the Community Center Capital Campaign for a Not to Exceed Amount of $90,000; and Amend the FY 2022-2023 City Budget by Increasing the Measure X Budget (Budget Unit 100-800), Other Contractual Services (Object Code 6245) by $45,000

BUSINESS FROM CITY COUNCIL

13. City Council Board/Committee Reports
a. League of California Cities Monterey Bay Division
b. Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments
c. Monterey Salinas Transit
d. City & School Joint Steering Committee

14. Oral Communications

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BUSINESS FROM CITY MANAGER

15. Oral Communications

CLOSED SESSION
Any member of the public may address the Council on a closed session item appearing on the agenda.

Speakers shall have a limited time of three (3) minutes. Please be brief and to the point.

16. The City Council will recess to closed session to meet with its designated representatives, Trevin Barber and Mike Howard, regarding labor relations matters pursuant to Government Code Section 54957.6. The employee organization is Gonzales Firefighters IAFF Union Local 538.

17. The City Council will recess to closed session pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(A) to confer with its Attorney regarding pending litigation which has been initiated formally and to which the City is a party: Claim of G. Rosales.

ADJOURNMENT

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35.104 ADA Title II). This is a public meeting and as such, can be seen live by people present or online and is being recorded; therefore; anything you say or do here is public information. The recordings are available online.

City of Gonzales

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

STAFF REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor Rios and City Council
DATE: February 21, 2023
FROM: Taven Kinison Brown, Community Development Director THROUGH: Trevin W. Barber, City Manager
SUBJECT: Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan

RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council:
• Receive a presentation of the Water Supply Assessment for the Vista Lucia Specific Plan. • Acknowledge that the Water Supply Assessment will be used to inform environmental review for the Vista Lucia Specific Plan Project and may be used as an informational foundation for other development projects under review, including the Rianda Family Cooler Project, the Puente Del Monte Specific Plan, the development of the D’Arrigo 138 acres within City Limits east of Hwy 101, and future buildout of the Gonzales Agricultural Industrial Park.

BACKGROUND
As the City approached its 2010 General Plan update and later negotiated an expansion of the City’s Sphere of Influence to include the Vista Lucia Specific Plan (VLSP), the Puente Del Monte Specific Plan (PDMSP) proposal and various parcels owned by D’Arrigo Bros, it was wholly apparent that there is adequate water available to serve the projects.

The Water Supply Law (Water Code Section 10910 et seq.) also known as SB610 requires that subdivisions greater than 500 units be analyzed for sufficiency of water supplies over a 20 year horizon that includes existing and proposed uses during that horizon. The WSA must also analyze “dry” years in addition to normal or average conditions. SB610 requires the City of Gonzales to prepare a WSA for the VLSP project. The City operates a public water system that serves customers within its current City AGENDA
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limits; and will also serve the areas to be annexed into the City.

In the spring and summer of 2022, it became known to the City that the Puente Del Monte Specific Plan property-owner’s group of Jackson Family Investments and the Rianda Family Trust, had separated their once unified approach to the PDM Specific Plan development, to now include an agriculture processing cooler facility on the 107-acre portion of the plan area owned by the Rianda Family Trust. This change in affairs affected the scope and focus of the Water Supply Assessment, in that the cooler would have a different water use than the residentially focused Puente Del Monte Specific Plan. Additionally, it became apparent that Jackson Family Investments would be waiting for a period of time to see how the cooler project would fare through the City and LAFCo exercises before committing to a redesign or reorganization of the Specific Plan areas anticipated for development on the remaining Jackson Family Investment properties. The “Project” now is the Vista Lucia Specific Plan community. Future development projects may build upon the information presented in the WSA.

The WSA report has been prepared by Zanjero Consulting, under contract to the Pembrook Development team behind the Vista Lucia Specific Plan effort. The report was reviewed by the City’s engineering consultant, Schaaf & Wheeler the City of Gonzales Community Development Director and Public Works Director.

Representatives with Zanjero and Schaaf & Wheeler will be present or available online to speak to technical or detailed questions should the Commission and Council have questions.

REVIEW AND ANALYSIS
Please refer to the attached Administrative Draft of the Water Supply Assessment for the Vista Lucia Specific Plan Area for full details. The report is organized according to the following sections named below:
• Project Introduction
• Proposed Project Estimated Water Demands
• Estimated Water Demands for Existing City Customers and Other Planned Uses • Water Supply Characterization
• Sufficiency Analysis & Conclusions
Project Introduction
As described in more detail in the Vista Lucia Specific Plan, the Proposed Project plans for 3,498 dwelling units, with 995 designated low density, 1,239 designated medium density, 540 designated as medium-high density, 620 designated as high density, and 104 designated as mixed-use The Proposed Project anticipates 57 acres of neighborhood and community parks, 20 acres designated as promenades, 2 acres designated as neighborhood greens, 73 acres dedicated to stormwater detention, and 42 acres for schools.

For purposes of this WSA, the Proposed Project anticipates all land uses to be completed by 2050 to allow the analysis to fully evaluate the complete project. Consistent with the City’s projections, the Proposed Project is anticipated to be completed within 30 years. The specifics and timing of the later phases will be determined by market conditions.

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Proposed Project Estimated Water Demands.

The VLSP community is anticipated to require approximately 1,501 acre-feet of water each year at full build-out. This demand is summarized below:

Table 2-6. Summary of proposed Project Water Use
Proposed Project
Acre-Feet per Year at Full Buildout
Indoor Outdoor Misc. Subtotal Loss Factor Grand Total
Vista Lucia Residential 901 283 - 1,351 150 1,501
Non-Residential 36 131
Table 2-7: Proposed Project Water Demands under Dry-Year Conditions Multiple Dry Year
Normal Single Dry Year 1 Year 2 Year 3-5
% Increase (reduction) 0% 5% 5% 0% -10%
Resulting Change in Demand (af/yr) 0 75 75 0 -150
Total Demand (af/yr) 1,501 1,576 1,576 1,501 1,351
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The Proposed Project will be constructed on a 768-acre site currently used for the farming of crops irrigated with groundwater. The current water consumption of the Proposed Project site was from 2016 – 2021, to be approximately 1,900 – 2,000 acre-feet a year.

The Proposed Project is expected to require 1,375 acre-feet per year under normal conditions, with only 297 acre-feet per year of that demand used outdoors (and therefore most likely to evaporate rather than be captured by the City’s wastewater collection system, see Sections 3, 4, and 5). This analysis demonstrates that the Proposed Project is expected to generate significantly less consumptive demand for groundwater than the site’s current agricultural land use.

Estimated Water Demands for Existing City Customers and Other Planned Uses Water use data from the most recent 5 years, from 2016 to 2021, provided the primary basis for analyzing current water use trends. In 2021, the most recent year for which data is available, the City of Gonzales served 1,958 service connections, all of which are metered. Of these connections, 1,599 were singlefamily residential, 176 were multi-family residential, 132 were commercial or institutional, 39 were industrial, and 12 were landscaping.

In addition to serving the Proposed Project, as described in Section 2, the City of Gonzales will continue to serve its existing customers and will extend water service to other planned developments (Puente Del Monte, Rianda Cooler, D’Arrigo, and Franscioni). Including all anticipated residential and non-residential indoor and outdoor water demands plus non-revenue water, the existing City and other planned developments are expected to generate 4,992 acre-feet of water demand annually at full buildout. These demands are summarized in Table 3-9. Summary of Existing City and Other Planned Development Water Demand.

Water Supply Characterization
Many existing water users, including the existing customers of the City of Gonzales and existing irrigated agriculture on the site of the Proposed Project, share groundwater available in the aquifer beneath the Proposed Project. This section provides a detailed characterization of the aquifer, as well as historic and projected uses of this shared resource. Section 5 details the sufficiency of groundwater resources to meet the long-term needs of the Proposed Project.

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City of Gonzales Sustainable Yield
The City of Gonzales straddles the intersection of the three subbasins described above, which somewhat complicates the consideration the City’s future water use in each subbasins’ GSP. However, the three GSPs are all consistent in their approach to municipal water use in future water budgets, which were the basis for calculating the sustainable yield values presented in this WSA. All three subbasins’ GSPs state that, “Because the [groundwater] model assumes no urban growth, future municipal pumping was assumed to be equal to current municipal pumping. Future agricultural pumping is then calculated as the total projected pumping minus the current municipal pumping.” As calculated in Section 3.1 of this WSA, current pumping by the City of Gonzales is 1,910 acre-feet per year and the net consumption of groundwater after accounting for recharge is 874 acre-feet per year.

For the purposes of this WSA, it is assumed that 874 acre-feet of net water consumption by the City of Gonzales (2020-2021 average) represents the best available estimate of the long-term net consumption by the City accounted for in GSP future water budgets. Therefore, 874 acre-feet per year is considered an available consumptive supply to the existing City customers for the purposes of the sufficiency analysis presented in Section 5.

Sustainable Yield Conclusions
The Proposed Project will be supplied by the City of Gonzales, which is in turn supplied by groundwater from the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin. While all of the City’s existing wells are located in either the Eastside or the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin, the City could conceivably pump water from any of the three groundwater subbasins underlying Gonzales to serve its existing customers, the Proposed Project, and other planned uses. As described above, this WSA used the sustainable yields calculated by the three subbasins’ GSPs as the basis to calculate the water supply available to the existing City, the Proposed Project, and the City’s other planned developments.

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The average sustainable yield of the three subbasins would be 1.60 acre-feet/acre/year. As a conservative assumption, this WSA assumes that the most restrictive subbasin’s sustainable yield estimate will limit the groundwater supply available to the proposed project. Therefore, the sustainable yield of 1.37 acrefeet/acre/year for consumptive water use calculated for 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin is assumed to represent the water supply available to the Proposed Project and the City of Gonzales’ other planned developments on a per acre basis. The water use of the existing City of Gonzales has already been accounted for as an “Urban Use” in the various Subbasins’ water budgets.

The sustainable yield of 1.37 acre-feet/acre/year for consumptive water use can then be multiplied by the number of acres in the Proposed Project and the City’s other planned developments to arrive at the total quantity of water available as consumptive supply. These calculations are presented in Table 4-2. With a total acreage of 2,239, the total sustainable consumptive groundwater supply available to the Proposed Project and the City of Gonzales’ other planned developments is 3,072 acre-feet per year. In addition, the City of Gonzales was estimated to have had a current net consumption of 874 acre-feet of groundwater, which the GSPs assume will be constant throughout the planning period. The City’s current consumption is a static value not scaled by acres. The grand total supply of sustainable yield for net consumption is estimated to be 3,946 acre-feet/year, as presented in Table 4-2.

The report continues and describes Water Rights, Financing and Regulatory Approvals Sufficiency Analysis & Conclusions
As illustrated in Figure 5-1, the total net consumptive use of the Proposed Project, Existing City, and other planned developments is 2,398 acre-feet per year. The sustainable yield available to serve these uses is 3,946 acre-feet per year. Therefore, this WSA finds that there is sufficient groundwater available to sustainably supply the Proposed Project, Existing City, and other planned uses.

As detailed in this WSA, sufficient groundwater resources exist to meet the forecast demand of the Proposed Project as described in Section 1. While approximately 6,493 acre-feet of groundwater pumping will be required to meet the combined total demand of the existing City, the Proposed Project, and other planned developments, the net consumptive use is only approximately 2,398 acre-feet. This value represents the amount of groundwater extracted that will primarily leave the basin through evapotranspiration and evaporation.

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Also, during single and multiple dry years, the total combined demands are expected to increase extraction to as much as 6,818 acre-feet as a result of increased demand for irrigation water, but also decrease to as low as 5,844 acre-feet when temporary shortage provisions are instituted. Net consumptive use is expected to increase and decrease by equal proportions during single and multiple dry years but will remain well below the available sustainable yield.

Potential Uses of the Water Supply Assessment.

The Water Supply Assessment will be used to inform environmental review for the Vista Lucia Specific Plan Project, and may be used as an informational foundation for other development projects under review, including the Rianda Family Cooler Project on Gloria Road, the Puente Del Monte Specific Plan effort as it may be modified by the Rianda Cooler Project, the development of the D’Arrigo 138 acres within City Limits east of Hwy 101, and future buildout of the Gonzales Agricultural Industrial Park.

Explain the Recommendation and How it Supports the Vision Gonzales will continue to be a safe, clean, family-friendly community, diverse in its heritage, and committed to working collaboratively to preserve and retain its small-town charm.

Explanation:

The City has planned to grow into the Sphere of Influence areas east of the City of Gonzales as negotiated with the County of Monterey in 2014 through a Memorandum of Agreement. The City will guide development to be consistent with its General Plan and its Vision and will assure that infrastructure and utility systems, such as the provision of municipal water and delivery systems will be in place to serve the new development in a cost effective, revenue neutral manner. Review and acceptance of the reporting included in this Vista Lucia Specific Plan Water Supply Assessment report acknowledges that sufficient ground water is present in the underlying aquifers, and that the conversion of these particular agricultural lands will use less water than historical or present agricultural practices.

Explain how the Recommendation Directly Implements the Mission The City Council and staff of the City of Gonzales will realize our Vision by providing the leadership, commitment, and resources necessary to provide excellent services that enhance the quality of life of our diverse community.

City services will be delivered in a cost-effective, respectful, and friendly manner to ensure the safety and well-being of the residents and the promotion of business, recreational, housing and employment opportunities in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Explanation: As above, the City will guide development to be consistent with its General Plan and its Vision and will assure that infrastructure and utility systems, such as the provision of municipal water and delivery systems will be in place to serve the new development in a cost effective, revenue neutral manner. Additionally, financing systems and cost recovery through property assessments or district levies (or other mechanisms) for services to be provided into the new neighborhoods, including water service in the eventual Vista Lucia Specific Plan area, will assure that no greater financial burden will fall on existing city residents through approval of new developments and residential neighborhoods as contemplated and forecast in the VLSP Water Supply Assessment.

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Strong fiscal policies allow us to provide appropriate infrastructure for:
• Public Safety X Yes No N/A
• Housing X Yes No N/A
• Recreation X Yes No N/A
• Environment X Yes No N/A
• Education X Yes No N/A

ALTERNATIVES
• Receive a presentation of the Administrative Draft of the Water Supply Assessment for the Vista Lucia Specific Plan Area (VLSP SWA). And / Or:
• Request additional information or direct refinement to the Water Supply Assessment, which would continue the matter to a date certain or uncertain.

BUDGET IMPACT
The preparation of the Water Supply Assessment for the Vista Lucia Specific Plan Project has been paid for by Pembrook Development. City of Gonzales staff time and city consultant and peer reviews have been paid for through Reimbursement Agreements with the Pembrook Development. Invoices are billed against the developer’s deposit so that no impact on city budget results.

CONCLUSION
Staff recommends the City Council:
• Receive a presentation of the Water Supply Assessment for the Vista Lucia Specific Plan. • Acknowledge that the Water Supply Assessment will be used to inform environmental review for the Vista Lucia Specific Plan Project and may be used as an informational foundation for other development projects under review, including the Rianda Family Cooler Project, the Puente Del Monte Specific Plan effort, the development of the D’Arrigo 138 acres within City Limits east of Hwy 101, and future buildout of the Gonzales Agricultural Industrial Park.

Attachments:

1. Vista Lucia WSA (Public Review Draft)

2. WSA - Appendix A

3. WSA - Appendix B
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SB 610

WATER SUPPLY ASSESSMENT
FEBRUARY 2023

PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT

FOR THE

VISTA LUCIA SPECIFIC PLAN PROJECT
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Attachment: Vista Lucia WSA (Public Review Draft) (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) Vista Lucia Specific Plan Project
SB 610 Water Supply Assessment
Prepared for
City of Gonzales, CA
Public Review Draft
February 2023
Prepared by:

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Attachment: Vista Lucia WSA (Public Review Draft) (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) Table of Contents
Section 1 – Project Introduction .................................................................................................. 1-1

1.1 Analytical Method ....................................................................................................... 1-1

1.2 Document Preparation and Approval........................................................................... 1-1

1.3 Document Organization............................................................................................... 1-2

1.4 Proposed Project Description....................................................................................... 1-2 Section 2 – Proposed Project Estimated Water Demands ........................................................... 2-1

2.1 Determining Unit Water Demand Factors................................................................... 2-1

2.2 Vista Lucia Water Use Demand Factors...................................................................... 2-5

2.3 Proposed Project Water Demand Projection.............................................................. 2-16 Section 3 – Estimated Water Demands for Existing City Customers and Other Planned Uses.. 3-1

3.1 Existing City of Gonzales............................................................................................ 3-1

3.2 Other Planned Developments ...................................................................................... 3-7

3.3 Existing City and Other Planned Developments Water Use Conclusions................. 3-13 Section 4 – Water Supply Characterization ................................................................................. 4-1

4.1 Characterization of Groundwater Supplies.................................................................. 4-1

4.2 Groundwater Management in the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin ...................... 4-10

4.3 Water Rights, Financing, and Regulatory Approvals................................................ 4-19 Section 5 – Sufficiency Analysis & Conclusions........................................................................ 5-1

5.1 WSA Law Sufficiency Analysis.................................................................................. 5-1

5.2 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act Compliance ............................................ 5-4

5.3 Sufficiency Analysis Conclusions ............................................................................. 5-11 Packet Pg. 15
Attachment: Vista Lucia WSA (Public Review Draft) (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) This Water Supply Assessment was prepared under the direction of a California licensed civil engineer.

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Attachment: Vista Lucia WSA (Public Review Draft) (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) Vista Lucia – Water Supply Assessment
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SECTION 1 – PROJECT INTRODUCTION
As the lead agency under the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”), the City of Gonzales (“City”) is assessing the potential environmental effects associated with the proposed Vista Lucia Specific Plan Community (referred to as the “Proposed Project”). To inform the CEQA analysis, this Water Supply Assessment (“WSA”) has been prepared for the Proposed Project. The City of Gonzalez (“City”) has been identified as the public water system that will supply water for the Proposed Project, and therefore has been tasked with the preparation and approval of this WSA.

1.1 ANALYTICAL METHOD
This WSA estimates the Proposed Project’s water demand through build-out, presents and discusses the availability of water sources identified to meet that demand, and assesses whether expected water supplies will be sufficient to meet the projected water demand of the City with the Proposed Project along with current customers and other planned uses during normal, single dry, and multiple dry year conditions.

The above-referenced analytical method is derived from the Water Supply Assessment Law (“WSA Law”) codified at Water Code section 10910 et seq. The WSA Law, sometimes referred to as “SB 610,” outlines the information and analysis that must be included in a CEQA document prepared for certain projects of a specified size and composed of certain land-uses (e.g., subdivisions larger than 500 residential units).1 For such covered projects, the WSA Law requires an assessment of whether projected water supplies identified to serve a proposed project will be sufficient to meet existing and planned water demands over a 20-year horizon. The WSA Law expressly anticipates events like the most recent drought by requiring assessment of water supply sufficiency in single dry years and multiple dry years – not just under normal, or average, hydrologic conditions.

The Proposed Project requires a WSA because it consists of a Specific Plan residential community development with more than 500 dwelling units. The WSA will be incorporated into the CEQA documents — an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) — being prepared for the Proposed Project (the Project EIR).2

1.2 DOCUMENT PREPARATION AND APPROVAL
The WSA law requires that the lead agency – in this case, the City of Gonzales – identify a “public water system”3and further requires the lead agency to request that each identified public 1 Water Code § 10912(a).
2 Water Code § 10911(b).
3 A “public water system” is a system that provides water for human consumption that has at least 15 service connections.

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water system prepare a WSA for the project. The City operates a public water system that serves customers within its current City limits; it is anticipated that the City would expand its water distribution system to also serve the Proposed Project.

The City will be required to determine, based on the entire record, whether projected water supplies will be sufficient to satisfy the demands for the Proposed Project, in addition to existing and planned future uses.

This WSA provides the necessary information for the City to make its determinations and to comply with the statutory assessment of water supply sufficiency as required by WSA Law. The governing body of the City is required to approve this WSA.

1.3 DOCUMENT ORGANIZATION
The WSA is organized according to the following sections:
 Section 1: Proposed Project Introduction. This section provides an overview of the WSA’s purpose and organization, along with a detailed description of the Proposed Project, including the land use elements that will create water demand.  Section 2: Proposed Project Estimated Water Demands. This section describes the methodology used to estimate water demands of the Proposed Project and details the estimated water demands from initiation through build-out.  Section 3: Estimated Water Demands for Existing City Customers and Other Planned Uses. This section describes the methodology used to estimate water demands from the City of Gonzales’ customers within its existing service area. Section 3 also includes analysis of other planned projects that are reasonably foreseeable within the selected planning horizon.
 Section 4: Water Supply Characterization. This section characterizes the water sources identified to serve the Proposed Project as well as existing City customers and other planned uses. Water sources are characterized for their projected availability during normal, single dry, and multiple dry year conditions.  Section 5: Sufficiency Conclusion. This section assesses whether the projected availability of the identified water sources will be sufficient to meet the Proposed Project’s water demands during normal, single dry, and multiple dry year conditions, pursuant to Water Code Section 10910. The analysis integrates the demand detailed in Section 2 and Section 3 with the characterization of the Proposed Project’s water sources detailed in Section 4.

1.4 PROPOSED PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Proposed Project consists of the Vista Lucia Specific Plan community. The Vista Lucia community site is situated on approximately 768 acres in the northeast area of Gonzales within the City’s Sphere of Influence (SOI), east of Fanoe Road with the existing alignment of Associated Lane forming its northern boundary.

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The Proposed Project includes several residential and non-residential land-use classifications including market rate housing, mixed use commercial and residential elements, public facilities such as schools, parks (including trails and plazas), and open space (including storm water retention and managed aquifer recharge percolation facilities). The Proposed Project represents the development of a portion of the City’s SOI, which is identified by the City’s General Plan for “orderly development consistent with the approved Neighborhood Design Guidelines and Standards and Community Character policies” of new neighborhoods guided by Specific Plans.4 Figure 1-1 displays a location map of the Proposed Project, as well as other planned developments which are expected to occur. These other planned developments include the Puente Del Monte Community, the Rianda Cooler, the Franscioni Development, and three projects by D’Arrigo, all of which are discussed in more detail in Section 3.

Figure 1-1: Proposed Project Location Map
4 City of Gonzales General Plan, June 2018, p. II-18.

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1.4.1 Project Summary
As described in more detail in the Vista Lucia Specific Plan, 5 the Proposed Project plans for
3,498 dwelling units, with 995 designated low density, 1,239 designated medium density, 540 designated as medium-high density, 620 designated as high density, and 104 designated as mixed use. The Proposed Project anticipates 57 acres of neighborhood and community parks, 20 acres designated as promenades, 2 acres designated as neighborhood greens, 6 73 acres dedicated to
stormwater detention, and 42 acres for schools.

Figure 1-2 provides the Proposed Project’s land-use plan7,8 while Table 1-1 presents the detailed residential unit counts and non-residential acreage. This information becomes the foundational land use data used to derive the demand forecast presented in Section 2. 5 Vista Lucia Specific Plan, February 2022 (Administrative Draft). 6 Neighborhood Greens are small parks, which may include features such as a “bandstand, a clock tower, a monument, landscape art, passive gardens, park benches, a fountain, an interactive splash pad for children, a hardscape plaza, or other appropriate amenities.” Vista Lucia Specific Plan, February 2022 (Administrative Draft). 7 City of Gonzales General Plan, June 2018, p. II-18.
8 Vista Lucia Specific Plan, February 2022 (Administrative Draft).

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Figure 1-2: Proposed Project Land Use Map (Vista Lucia) Land Use Source: Vista Lucia Specific Plan, February 2022 (Administrative Draft), Figure 2-1 Packet Pg. 21
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Table 1-1: Summary of Proposed Project Land Uses and Acreages Land Use by Type Vista Lucia
Acres DUs
Residential
Low 199 995
Medium 177 1,239
Medium-High 45 540
High 31 620
Mixed Use 104
Subtotal 452 3,498
Non-Residential
Mixed Use Commercial 8
Neighborhood Parks 28
Community Parks 29
Promenade 20
Neighborhoods Greens 2
Elementary School 24
Middle School 18
Other
Open Space and Storm Detention 73
Roads 114

1.4.2 Proposed Project Phasing
For purposes of this WSA, the Proposed Project anticipates all land uses to be completed by 2050 to allow the analysis to fully evaluate the complete project. Actual project phasing may take longer. Table 1-2 is obtained from the Vista Lucia Specific Plan, and presents the phasing assumed for Vista Lucia development.
9 Consistent with the City’s projections, the Proposed
Project is anticipated to be completed within 30 years. 10 The specifics and timing of the later
phases will be determined by several external factors including market conditions. However, for purposes of this WSA, the Proposed Project is anticipated to reach build-out by 2050. 9 Specific timing will be determined by market conditions but for the purposes of this WSA, all units are assumed to be completed within the planning horizon of 30 years.
10 City of Gonzales, (2018). Community Development. https://gonzalesca.gov/services/community-development.

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Table 1-2: Vista Lucia Phasing Plan
Category 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050
Residential (Units)
Low Density 129 358 607 886 995 995
Medium Density 161 446 756 1,103 1,239 1239
Medium-High Density 70 194 329 481 540 540
High Density 81 223 378 552 620 620
Mixed Use Residential 14 37 63 93 104 104
Non-Residential (Acres)
Neighborhood Center Mixed Use 0 2 4 6 8 8
Elementary & Middle School 0 12 42 42 42 42
Neighborhood Parks 0 6 11 17 22 28
Community Parks 0 6 12 17 23 29
Promenade 0 4 8 12 16 20
Neighborhood Greens 0 0 1 1 2 2
Streetscape Landscaping 0 23 46 68 91 114
Other Miscellaneous Uses (Acres)
Open Space (Stormwater Det.) 73 73 73 73 73 73
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SECTION 2 – PROPOSED PROJECT ESTIMATED WATER

DEMANDS
This section describes the methodology, provides the supporting evidence, and presents the estimated annual water demands for the Proposed Project. For the purpose of estimating annual water demand, the Proposed Project is planned to develop according to the phasing presented in Table 1-2.

This section is organized to first describe the basis for determining unique demand factors for the various land uses within the Proposed Project, then provides a detailed forecast of the water needs for the Proposed Project, followed by an overall demand summary that forms the foundation for the water supply sufficiency analysis included in Section 5.

2.1 DETERMINING UNIT WATER DEMAND FACTORS
As detailed in Section 1, the Proposed Project consists of the Vista Lucia Specific Plan community. The Proposed Project’s two communities include up to 3,498 residential units and accompanying infrastructure and improvements such as streetscapes, mixed-use and commercial areas, public facilities including schools, and parks and open space. To understand the water needs of the Proposed Project, unique water demand factors are used that correspond with the anticipated residential lots and other Proposed Project attributes. This subsection presents the methodology for determining the unit water demand factors that become the basis of the Proposed Project water demand estimate.

This section presents the demand factors associated with the Proposed Project as two distinct groups of demand factors: (1) residential, and (2) non-residential. Values developed for each distinct group of demand factors are based on several sources of information, details of which are provided in the following subsections.

2.1.1 Current and Future Mandates Affecting Water Use
There are several factors that affect the development of unit water demand use, ranging from state-imposed and City landscape ordinances and other water-use mandates, to changes in the types of housing products being offered. These factors are incorporated into unit water demand factor determination and discussed in this section. Characteristics of the factors relevant to this WSA are described below.

Water Conservation Objectives
In 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill No. 7 (SBX7-7), which established a statewide goal of achieving a 20 percent reduction in urban per capita water use by Packet Pg. 24
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2020 for urban retail water suppliers.11 Since the Proposed Project communities are yet to be built, this legislation only indirectly applies.

However, the efforts undertaken throughout the State by urban retail suppliers to comply with this statute, though not directly, would affect the Proposed Project’s use of appliances, fixtures, landscapes and other water using features, through changes or additions to City ordinances and/or through a continuing “conservation ethic” developed in communities in and around the Proposed Project as a result of the most recent statewide drought conditions.

In response to the 2013 through 2015 multi-year drought conditions, Governor Brown issued Executive Order B-37-16 in May 2016 entitled “Making Water Conservation a California Way of Life.” In May 2018, Governor Brown signed into law SB 606 and AB 1668, which imposed additional statutory requirements above and beyond the 20 percent by 2020 target reflected in the 2009 legislation. This is expected to result in continued efforts to increase water use efficiency and ultimately to reduce water demands of existing water users and continue to influence the expected demands of future water user. While yet to be codified in statute, the actions currently underway to establish new targets likely will further influence future water use for development projects such as the Proposed Project.

Indoor Infrastructure Requirements
Beginning in January 2010, the California Building Standards Commission adopted the statewide mandatory Green Building Standards Code (hereafter the “CAL Green Code”) requiring the installation of water-efficient indoor and outdoor infrastructure for all new projects after January 1, 2011. The CAL Green Code was incorporated as Part 11 into Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, and was revised in 2013 and in 2016 to address changes to the State’s Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (“MWELO”) adopted during the drought.12 Revisions to the CAL Green Code in 2019 modified sections to direct users to MWELO regulations contained in other regulatory sections.13
The CAL Green Code applies to the planning, design, operation, construction, use and occupancy of every newly constructed or remodeled building or structure. All new residential and non-residential customers must meet the water use requirements of the CAL Green Code as well as the outdoor requirements described by MWELO.

The CAL Green Code’s indoor requirements generally manifest through: (1) installation of plumbing fixtures and fittings that meet the 20 percent reduced flow rate specified in the CAL Green Code, or (2) by demonstrating a 20 percent reduction in water use from the building 11 California Water Code § 10608.20.
12 The 2016 Triennial Code Adoption Cycle consisted primarily of the MWELO updates adopted in response to the drought. Indoor infrastructure changes were limited to some minor non-residential fixture changes and changes to the voluntary Tier 1 and Tier 2 requirements. Additionally, the Code was updated to match the new Title 20 Appliance Efficiency Regulations.
13 The 2019 updated sections to direct CAL Green code users to Title 23 of the California Code of Regulations to allow Title 23 to be the sole location of MWELO requirements.

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“water use baseline.”14 The Proposed Project will satisfy these indoor requirements through the use of appliances and fixtures such as high-efficiency toilets, faucet aerators, on-demand water heaters, or other fixtures, as well as Energy Star and California Energy Commission-approved appliances. Outdoor requirements are discussed in the following subsection.

California Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance and County Ordinance The Water Conservation in Landscaping Act was enacted in 2006, requiring the Department of Water Resources (“DWR”) to update the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance.15 In 2009, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved the updated MWELO, which required a retail water supplier or a county to adopt the provisions of the MWELO by January 1, 2010, or to enact its own provisions equal to or more restrictive than the MWELO provisions.16, In response to the Governor’s executive order dated April 1, 2015, (EO B-29-15), DWR updated the MWELO and the California Water Commission approved the adoption and incorporation of the updated State standards for MWELO on July 15, 2015, effective after December 1, 2015. 17,18

The changes included a reduction to 55 percent for the maximum amount of water that may be applied to a landscape for residential projects, which effectively reduces the landscape area that can be planted with high water use plants, such a turf. For residential projects, the coverage of high water use plants is reduced to 25% of the landscaped area (down from 33%). The newly updated MWELO also now applies to new construction with a landscape area greater than 500 square feet (the prior MWELO applies to landscapes greater than 2,500 square feet).19 The City of Gonzales adopted a water efficiency landscaping ordinance in July 2015 to comply with the then-current MWELO standards. However, this landscaping ordinance is now obsolete. 14 See CAL Green Code. For Residential construction, Section 4.303.1 provides the residential water conservation standard and Table 4.303.2 identifies the infrastructure requirements to meet this standard. Table 4.303.1 and Worksheets WS-1 and WS-2 are to be used in calculating the baseline and the reduced water use if Option 2 is selected. For non-residential construction, Section 5.303.2.3 provides the water conservation standard as well as the baseline and reduced flow rate infrastructure standards. Note that Worksheets WS-1 and WS-2 incorporate both residential and non-residential fixtures, yet the water use is still to be analyzed by “building or structure” as specified in Chapter 1, Section 101.3.
15Gov. Code §§ 65591-65599.
16 California Code of Regulations (CCR), Tit. 23, Div. 2, Ch. 27, Sec. 492.4. The MWELO provides the local agency discretion to calculate the landscape water budget assuming a portion of landscape demand is met by precipitation, which would further reduce the outdoor water budget. For purposes of a conservative analysis, precipitation is not assumed to satisfy a portion of the outdoor landscape requirement because the determination of an appropriate effective precipitation factor is highly uncertain given the various landscape slopes, terrain composition, concurrent watering schedules, etc.
17 The County landscape ordinance will be updated to be at least as stringent as the updated MWELO, or else the MWELO will be applied as the default landscape ordinance. 18 These updated changes have been incorporated into California Code of Regulations (CCR), Tit. 23, Div. 2, Ch. 27, Sec. 490-495.
19 CCR Tit. 23, Div. 2, Ch. 27, Sec. 490.1.

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With the revised MWELO in 2015, the City has yet to update its ordinance and is not listed as in compliance with the state as of the drafting of this WSA.20 However, the Proposed Project includes water conservation features that even extend beyond the updated MWELO. Therefore, this WSA calculates demands that are fully in compliance with, and in fact go beyond, the revised MWELO and likely any future updated City requirements.

The MWELO provides a methodology to calculate total water use based upon a given plant factor and irrigation efficiency. Finally, the MWELO requires the landscape design plan to delineate hydrozones (based upon plant factors) and then to assign a unique water use value for each hydrozone (low, medium, high).21
Metering, Volumetric Pricing, and Water Budgets
California Water Code Section 525 requires water purveyors to install meters on all new service connections after January 1, 1992. California Water Code section 527 requires water purveyors to charge for water based upon the actual volume of water delivered if a meter has been installed.

Though the City would be billing customers on a volumetric basis, this action alone is not expected to substantially reduce water use. However, it is anticipated that the retail billing system would encourage and help maintain reasonable use (e.g., through implementation of a tiered rate structure and/or water budgets), so that the Proposed Project’s water demands at build-out are not expected to increase as the Proposed Project ages.

Project Specific Landscape Requirements
The Proposed Project includes a number of requirements for landscape efficiency beyond what is found in MWELO. Extensive landscaping guidelines have been prepared for the Vista Lucia community. Among the Vista Lucia restrictions is a limit on residential turf to 25 percent of the landscape area for each residential lot classification.22 Other restrictions include a vast majority of identified plant-types defined by the MWELO’s guidance documents as having “Low” or “Very Low” water use.23 Using defined methods, guidelines for landscaping for many portions of the Proposed Project have been defined and water budgets have been prepared. This information is presented later in this section.

The strict landscaping guidelines result in estimates of outdoor water use lower than the maximum allowed under the current MWELO. This changes the character of typical residential development, replacing turf with ornamental shrubs, groundcovers, and trees as well as a reliance on numerous native or adaptive species for landscaping. 20 Agencies in compliance are listed here: https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/2019-mwelo-reports/resource/e8a5945afe2b-4ac1-ba46-ee12da278626 21 CCR Tit. 23, Div. 2, Ch. 27, Secs. 492.3(a)(2)(A) and 492.7(a)(2). 22 Vista Lucia Specific Plan, Appendix B
23 The MWELO water use methods refer to plant water use factors as defined by the University of California’s Water Use Classifications of Landscape Species (WUCOLS). Reference is available here:
http://ucanr.edu/sites/WUCOLS/
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2.2 VISTA LUCIA WATER USE DEMAND FACTORS
The Vista Lucia Specific Plan (VLSP) community will be developed on 768 acres in the northeast area of Gonzales within the City’s Sphere of Influence in Monterey County. The remainder of this subsection described the methodology used to calculate the indoor and outdoor residential and non-residential water demand associated with the VLSP portion of the Proposed Project.

2.2.1 Residential Water Use Demand Factors
The Proposed Project anticipates five general residential land use designations. The size of the lot generally has the greatest impact on the annual per-lot demand for water as the irrigation needs for landscaping generally increase with larger landscaped areas. However, as discussed previously, the VLSP includes defined plant material selection and design that significantly reduces the outdoor component of the forecast residential water demands compared to more conventional landscape designs, thus limiting, but not eliminating, this traditional lot-size effect.

In contrast, indoor water demands remain relatively consistent regardless of lot size, but do vary slightly based on the number of people per dwelling unit. Distinct demand factors are provided for the following residential uses:
 Indoor Residential Use – this category identifies the generally anticipated water use for the varied housing types.
 Outdoor Residential Use – this category addresses the landscape water demands for the various planned lot sizes.

For purposes of this WSA, residential unit water demand factors are described as “the acre-feet of water use annually per dwelling unit” – or acre-feet/dwelling unit (“af/du”). Both indoor and outdoor residential water demands will be met with potable water supplied by the City.

2.2.1.1 Indoor Residential Water Use Factors
The VLSP residential elements would be built in accordance with all applicable building codes including the Cal Green Code discussed previously, as it may be further modified prior to Proposed Project implementation.

The VLSP indoor demands are estimated using an assumed value of 55 gallons-per person per day, multiplied by the assumed occupancy rates for conventional and high-density residential classifications. For purposes of this WSA, conventional housing assumes an average occupancy rate of 4.4 people per house, while the high-density and mixed-use classifications assumes 3.4 persons per house.24
24 City of Gonzles 2015 Housing Element indicates an average occupancy of 4.4 people per household for conventional housing (low – medium-high densities). 3.4 persons per household is assumed for high density and mixed-use housing.

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The assumed per-person rate of 55 gallons per day is derived from California Water Code Section 10609.4(a), which states a value of 55 gallons per capita (i.e., per person) per day (“gpcd”) be the standard for indoor residential water use for purposes of an urban water suppliers determination of their water use objective.
25 When multiplied, the per-person use results in a
per-dwelling unit demand of 0.27 acre-feet per year for conventional housing and 0.21 for highdensity and mixed-use housing.

2.2.1.2 Outdoor Residential Water Use Factors
Outdoor water use is primarily a factor of lot size and the type and extent of landscaped area.

The VLSP community includes up to 3,498 residential lots with five average lot sizes. Outdoor demands for the mixed-use residential classification are attributed to the mixed-use commercial portion of the development, described in section 2.2.2.5.

Outdoor demands for the Proposed Project are calculated based on a number of factors including the regulations and calculation methodologies contained in MWELO. The MWELO provides for determining the Maximum Applied Water Allowance (“MAWA”) where the maximum is determined as 55 percent of the reference evapotranspiration for the area, resulting in the following equation:27
MAWA = (ETo) (0.62) (0.55 x LA), where ETo is the reference evapotranspiration in inches per year; LA is the landscape area in square feet; and 0.62 is a conversion factor from inches to gallons. The resulting value is in “gallons per year”
A primary factor in this calculation is evapotranspiration (“ET”). The methodology directs the use of ET from a reference crop, such as maintained grass – a value referred to as ETo. For the Proposed Project, the average ETo is 52.50 inches per year (or over 4.4 feet per year).28 Besides the ETo value, the primary factor driving outdoor water use on a per-lot basis is the square footage of landscape area.
25 California Water Code Section 10609.4 also decreases the indoor residential standard to 52.5 gpcd after January 1, 2025, then to 50 gpcd after January 1, 2030, unless otherwise revised by the State Water Resources Control Board.

As of May 2022, California Senate Bill 1157 is proposing the 2030 value to be further lowered to 42 gpcd. 26 With the increasingly stringent requirements of building codes as well as water and energy efficiency codes, it is likely that the actual indoor demand may be below the forecast values. Executive Order B-37-16, among other orders, directed state agencies to develop new urban water use targets including a standard for indoor residential percapita water use. These new targets are to “build upon the existing state law” that requires a 20% reduction in urban water use by 2020 – which already includes the suggested 55 gallons-per-person per day planning guidance. 27 This formula reflects the latest revision to the MAWA that became mandatory as of December 1, 2015. 28 ETo is consistent with California Irrigation Management Information System data available for the region. ETo was recorded at the Soledad II station.

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The VLSP relies on landscaping restrictions that go beyond the efficiency standards set by the MAWA equation above. Specifically, the VLSP restricts turf to 25 percent of the landscaped area, and restricts plant choices to a majority of low and very-low water use species. More information about these restrictions is discussed in Section 2.1.1 above.

The calculations for water use are based on specific restrictions and the water efficient character as presented in the VLSP.29 This WSA utilizes individual calculations for each parcel type based on typical landscape areas, plant types, and average plant water use factors defined in the VLSP.

The Estimated Total Water Use (ETWU) of the residential parcels was calculated using the following formula:

ETWU = (ETo - Peff) (0.62) (PF/IE) ( LA) / (325,851)
where: ETo is the reference evapotranspiration in inches per year; Peff is effective precipitation in inches per year; 0.62 is a conversion factor from inches to gallons; PF is Plant Factor as a fraction of ETo; IE is irrigation efficiency as a fraction of water applied; LA is the landscape area in square feet; and 325,851 is a conversion factor from gallons to acre-feet. The resulting value is in “acre-feet per dwelling unit per year”
The following assumptions form the basis of the residential landscape unit demand factors:
 Reference Evapotranspiration (ETo) is 52.50 inches per year – based on CIMIS data (see above)
 Effective Precipitation (Peff) is 0 inches per year – an extremely conservative assumption that implies all plants’ water needs will be met with irrigation water  Plant Factors (PF) – based upon the plant palette described in Appendix B of the VLSP, the following factors are assumed:
o Turf = 0.6 (assumes use of certain Fescues, Bermuda Grass, and some other turf varieties with relatively low irrigation requirements. Some grass varieties, such as St Augustine, Zoysia, and Buffalo grass, may have factors less than 0.6.)
o Shrubs and Trees = 0.3
 Irrigation Efficiency (IE) is 1.0, which assumes that all applied irrigation water is available to the root zone of plants30
 Landscape Area (LA) for the various residential lot types was supplied by the Proposed Project’s landscape architect, as described below.
29 Vista Lucia Specific Plan, Appendix B
30 A sensitivity analysis was performed during this WSA’s calculation of outdoor water use, to determine the effect of using various assumptions for irrigation efficiency (IE) and Effective Precipitation (Peff). The sensitivity analysis assumed IE of 75%, 81%, and 90% for turf, shrubs, and trees respectively; Peff was set to 50% of Gonzales’ annual rainfall of 15 inches per year. Modifying these terms in the ETWU equation led to an increase of approximately 6% in the Proposed Project’s residential outdoor water demands, or approximately 10 acre-feet/year. The effect of modifying IE and Peff assumptions was determined to be insignificant. For simplicity, IE was set to 1.0 and Peff set to 0 inches as described above.

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 Because much of the landscape area will be trees and shrubs, the landscape area is reduced by 3 percent to reflect the “open/non-irrigated” space between plants. This area does not receive irrigation when using drip irrigation systems, which will be used for irrigating the trees and shrubs. This small deduction is reflected in the demand calculations for each residential lot category.

Using the plant factors and the MAWA equation, demand factors for each residential lot category are presented here:
 Low Density – The proposed 995 single family dwellings will be built on 199 acres with an average density of 5 dwelling units per acre, for a gross lot size of 8,712 sf per unit.

After subtracting 20% from the gross lot size to account for local streets, the typical net lot size in the Low Density category is estimated to be 6,970 sf. Each lot is assumed to contain a home with a footprint of 2,200 sf and 600 sf of hardscape. 31 For purposes of
this WSA, the remainder of each lot is assumed to be landscaped, for an average landscape area of 4,170 sf in the Low Density category. 25 percent of the landscape area will be turf (the maximum allowed in the VLSP guidelines), and the remainder mostly drought-tolerant and native or adaptive shrubs and trees. The resulting outdoor demand factor is forecast to be 0.15 acre-feet per dwelling unit. 32  Medium Density – The proposed 1,239 single family dwellings will be built on 177 acres with an average density of 7 dwelling units per acre, for a gross lot size of 6,223 sf per unit. After subtracting 24% from the gross lot size to account for local streets, the typical net lot size in the Medium Density category is estimated to be 4,729 sf. Each lot is assumed to contain a home with a footprint of 1,800 sf and 500 sf of hardscape.33 For purposes of this WSA, the remainder of each lot is assumed to be landscaped, for an average landscape area of 2,429 sf in the Medium Density category. 25 percent of the landscape area will be turf (the maximum allowed in the VLSP guidelines), and the remainder mostly drought-tolerant and native or adaptive shrubs and trees. The resulting outdoor demand factor is forecast to be 0.09 acre-feet per dwelling unit. 34 31 600 sf hardscape includes driveway and yard features such as patios and paved paths. 32 Calculated using ETWU equation.
33 500 sf hardscape includes driveway and yard features such as patios and paved paths. 34 Calculated using ETWU equation.

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 Medium-High Density – The proposed 540 multifamily and single-family attached and detached dwelling units in this category will be built on 45 acres with most landscaping configured in common areas rather than individual lots. Most units will consist of townhome and/or auto-court type residences, without conventional driveways, instead being served by drive aisles, guest parking spaces, and tuck-under parking at homes. For purposes of this WSA, it is assumed that buildings would occupy 50 percent of the gross area and 25 percent would be taken up in drive aisles, guest/resident parking, entry roads, etc. The remaining 25 percent of the gross area will consist of outdoor amenities; 75 percent of the outdoor amenities would be sort of planting/landscaping (and the other 25 percent in hardscape, walkways, plazas, patios, decks, etc.). 35 The total of approximately
367,538 sf will be landscaped in this residential category, including 25 percent turf and the remainder mostly drought-tolerant and native or adaptive shrubs and trees. The resulting outdoor demand is calculated to be 13.44 acre-feet per year for the 45 acres of Medium-High Density Residential use.36 Divided by the 540 dwelling units in this category, the outdoor demand factor is forecast to be 0.02 acre-feet per dwelling unit.  High Density – The proposed 620 units will include a variety of attached multi-family dwellings including 2 or 3 story walkup apartment buildings, with assigned parking/guest spaces and drive aisles. This dwelling unit type is typically associated with community controlled outdoor spaces so the average outdoor demands are quite low per unit. It is assumed that 15 percent of each gross parcel in this category will be landscaped common area, with the remainder consisting of building footprint, street, and other hardscape.

With 31 acres planned in the high-density residential category, it can be expected that a total of 202,500 sf of landscaped area will be associated with this housing type, with 25 percent of this area turf, and the remainder mostly drought-tolerant and native or adaptive shrubs and trees. The resulting outdoor demand is forecast to be 7.40 acre-feet for the entire high-density potion of Vista Lucia. When divided by the 620 dwelling units, the outdoor demand factor is 0.01 acre-feet per dwelling unit. 37  Mixed Use Residential. – The proposed 104 units typically exist above commercial space. Outdoor demands are minimal if present but are assigned to the commercial portion of the Proposed Project. For purposes of this WSA, this classification assumes zero outdoor water demand.

2.2.1.3 Summary of Residential Water Use Demand Factors Table 2-1 provides a summary of the residential unit water demand factor used to estimate the total Proposed Project water use.
35 Based on personal correspondence with VLSP landscape architect. Assumes roads will take up about 25% of the gross lot.
36 Calculated using the ETWU equation.
37 Calculated using the ETWU equation.

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Table 2-1: Summary of Residential Demand Factors for VLSP Water Demand Category
by Dwelling Unit (du) Type
Average Density
(du/ac)
Indoor
Factor
Outdoor
Factor
Total
Demand Factor
(af/du)
Low Density 5.0 0.27 0.15 0.42
Medium Density 7.0 0.27 0.09 0.36
Medium-High Density 12.0 0.27 0.02 0.30
High Density 20.0 0.21 0.01 0.22
Mixed Use 13.0 0.21 0.00 0.21
Using the factors presented above, Table 2-2 provides a summary of the residential water demands for the Proposed Project.

Table 2-2: Summary of Residential Water Demand for VLSP Water Demand Category
by Dwelling Unit (du)
Type
Acres Dwelling
Units
Indoor
Factor
(acrefeet per
DU)
Indoor
Use
(acrefeet per
year)
Outdoor
Factor
(acre-feet
per DU)
Outdoor
Use
(acrefeet per
acre)
Total Demand
(acre-feet
per year)
Low Density 199 995 0.27 269 0.15 152 420
Medium Density 177 1,239 0.27 335 0.09 110 445
Medium-High Density 45 540 0.27 146 0.02 13 159
High Density 31 620 0.21 130 0.01 7 138
Mixed Use -
104 0.21 22 0.00 0 22
Residential Subtotal 3,498 901 283 1,184

2.2.2 Non-Residential Water Use Demand Factors
The Proposed Project has several non-residential features ranging from a mixed-use neighborhood center, three schools, landscaped promenades, community gardens, and storm detention facilities. Many of these proposed land-uses are unique, requiring specific demand forecasts for each component.

For purposes of this WSA, the demand for non-residential classifications is described as either “the acre-feet of water use annually per acre of land,” acre-feet/acre (af/ac), or as a single demand projection for a demand category such as the indoor uses for the elementary and middle schools, acre-feet/unit (af/unit). These values reflect indoor or outdoor water needs expected for typical non-residential use for each of the following classifications:
 Neighborhood Center Indoor
 Elementary and Middle School Indoor
 Elementary and Middle School Outdoor
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 Park Restroom Facilities
 Non-residential Outdoor
o Neighborhood Parks
o Community Parks
o Promenades
o Streetscape Landscaping
o Neighborhood Greens
o Stormwater Detention
 Other miscellaneous uses, including temporary irrigation to establish open space landscaping, and temporary construction water.

The method and basis for determining the unit water demand factor for each of these classifications is detailed in the following subsections.

2.2.2.1 Neighborhood Center Indoor
The proposed Neighborhood Center Mixed-Use area is anticipated to include up to 120,000 square feet (sf.) of commercial space on approximately 8 acres. Up to 104 residential units will also be located within this mixed-use zone. Mixed-Use residential units may be either horizontally mixed (uses in separate buildings) or vertically mixed (uses in the same building, stacked). Associated residential demands were discussed in the prior subsection.

Water uses will primarily include retail, service, professional, and offices meant to serve the daily convenience needs of Vista Lucia’s residents. The non-residential unit water demands for the remaining land uses are highly dependent on the actual businesses and activities on each parcel. However, prior investigations for a variety of commercial, office and retail configurations – ranging from large regional warehouses, such as Home Depot, to small strip malls with multiple tenants, generally indicate the unit water demand per acre of land use averages to be nearly equivalent. This is in part due to regional facilities often having large parking areas with limited landscape, and smaller areas having a mix of uses from restaurants, with high use, to retail stores, with low use. Based upon meter studies conducted on existing neighborhood commercial facilities elsewhere in California, coupled with the on-going commitment toward more efficient water use, the indoor unit demand factor for this classification is estimated at 1 acre-foot/acre for the purposes of this WSA. 38 2.2.2.2 Elementary and Middle School Indoor
The VLSP includes two 12-acre elementary schools, totaling 24 acres, and one 18-acre middle school. Based upon meter studies for existing elementary schools, total school use – indoor and outdoor – ranges from 20 to 30 gallons per day per student. Depending on the schools’ 38 Zanjero, Inc. has performed several meter studies in California’s Central Valley. Specific small and large mixeduse commercial developments were analyzed and found to range from 0.78 af/ac/yr to 1.22 af/ac/yr for the total indoor and outdoor area (hard space such as parking and sidewalks). The majority of this use is from indoor needs, which do not significantly vary regionally between the Central Valley and the Salinas Valley.

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landscape design and operation, 60 to 70 percent of this demand is used to meet outdoor needs.39 Therefore, for purposes of this WSA, indoor demands are based upon an assumed use of 10 gallons per day per student. The total number of students per dwelling unit is estimated to be

0.4331 students/DU for elementary school (grades K-6) and 0.1137 students/DU for middle school (grades 7-8).40 With a total of up to 3,498 dwelling units in Vista Lucia, the estimated elementary school student body (for both elementary schools) is 1,550 and the estimated middle school student body is 398. These unit demand factors would reflect all administrative, teacher, student, cafeteria, and janitorial uses for the school, averaged on a per-student basis. The resulting forecast for indoor demand for both of the two proposed elementary schools is 17.3 acre-feet/year, rounded up to 18 acre-feet/year for purposes of this WSA. The forecasted indoor demand for the proposed middle school is 4.5 acre-feet/year, rounded up to 5 acre-feet per year for purposes of this WSA. Total indoor use for three all VLSP schools combined totals 23 acrefeet per year.

2.2.2.3 Elementary and Middle School Outdoor
The VLSP’s three proposed schools will total approximately 42 acres, including the two elementary schools and one middle school. Quantifying outdoor water demands for schools depends on many factors including campus landscaping, size and type of play fields, student population, and other factors. For each school, it is assumed that school sites will follow traditional school designs, with play fields occupying approximately 12.5 percent of the total site area and the remaining campus landscaping being trees and shrubs with lower water demands.

This equates to 65,000 sf of turf (1.5 acres) for each of the two elementary schools and 97,500 sf of turf (2.25 acres) for the middle school. Turf areas are expected to require 2.6 acre-feet per acre. The remaining low water use landscaping is estimated to cover approximately 16.6 percent of each total site area, which equates to 2 acres for each elementary school and 3 acres for the middle school. This non-turf landscaping outdoor demand is estimated to be 1.31 acre-feet per year per low water use landscaped acre, which is less that the 45% of ETo required by the MWELO formula for non-residential uses. Total outdoor water use at all three Vista Lucia Community proposed schools is 22.8 acre-feet per year, rounded to 23 acre-feet.

2.2.2.4 Neighborhood and Community Park Restroom Facilities The Vista Lucia community will include a total of 57 acres of parks, including community and neighborhood parks. There will likely be one restroom in each of the two large Community Parks, and possibly a restroom in two or three of the neighborhood parks, for a total of up to five park restrooms across the entire community. For purposes of this WSA, each park restroom facility is assumed to demand 1 acre-foot annually – equivalent to the indoor use of 4 single family homes. This is a conservatively high estimate. With five restrooms, a total of 5 acre-feet a year is estimated to be demanded for park restroom use. 39 This is an estimate of indoor use per acre derived from a 2015 study of school demand in Folsom, California. A 2016 review of school demands in El Dorado Hills, California confirmed these numbers for newer schools. 40 Based upon values from the Gonzales Unified School District Facilities Management Plan.

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2.2.2.5 Other Non-Residential Outdoor (Landscaped Areas) The Proposed Project includes several distinct outdoor landscaping areas including traditional parks and promenades as well as community areas and ornamental landscaping in the Neighborhood Center. For purposes of estimating water demand, assumptions have been made regarding the percentage of each acre that is irrigated, the percentage of irrigated area that is turf versus shrubs and groundcover, and the number of trees. Appendix B of the VLSP provides significant details on the Proposed Project’s landscaping direction and plant selection.

The Proposed Project includes 28 acres of Neighborhood Parks, 29 acres of Community Parks, 20 acres of Promenades, and 2 acres of community greens. Other features include streetscape landscaping along the 114 acres of roads. The primary assumptions used to estimate the outdoor demand for these features include:
 The assumed reference evapotranspiration (ETo) – as discussed previously, an ETo of

52.5 inches per year is assumed.
 Plant Factors (PF) – based upon the plant palette described in Appendix B.10 of the VLSP, the following factors are assumed:
o Turf = 0.6 (assumes use of certain Fescues, Bermuda Grass, and some other turf varieties with relatively low irrigation requirements. Some grass varieties, such as St Augustine and Buffalo grass, may have factors < 0.6) o Shrubs and Trees = 0.3
 The estimated square footage of each type of planting within each land-use category (LA) These assumptions are combined in the following formula:

Demand = (ETo) (0.62) (PF x LA)/IE, where ETo is the reference evapotranspiration in inches per year, PF is the plant factor, LA is the landscape area, and IE is the irrigation efficiency for each planting type by land classification. 0.62 is a conversion factor to gallons. The resulting value is in “gallons per year,” which is converted to acre-feet per year Table 2-3 presents the assumed percentages of irrigated land per each planting designation.

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Table 2-3: Summary of Non-Residential Landscape Demand Factors for VLSP Public Use Element
Total
Open
Area
(acres)
% of Total
Open Area
Irrigated
Total
Irrigated
Area
(acres)
% of Total
Irrigated
Area in
Turf
Average
Demand
Factor
(AF/yr)
Average
Demand
Factor
(AF/acre)
Neighborhood Center Mixed Use 8 10% 0.8 0% 1.0 0.13
Schools (Elementary and Middle) 42 29% 12.2 43% 22.8 0.54 Neighborhood Parks 28 75% 21.0 25% 34.3 1.22
Community Parks 29 75% 21.8 45% 41.2 1.42
Promenade 20 60% 12.0 0% 15.7 0.78
Neighborhood Greens 2 40% 0.8 25% 1.3 0.65
Streetscape Landscaping 114 10% 11.4 0% 14.9 0.13

2.2.2.6 Summary of Non-Residential Water Use Demand Factors Table 2-4 provides a summary of the non-residential unit water demand factor used to estimate the total Proposed Project water use.

Table 2-4: Summary of Non-Residential Demand for VLSP
Water Demand Category Acres
Indoor
Use
(AF/yr)
Outdoor
Use
(AF/acre)
Total Demand
(AF/yr)
Neighborhood Center Mixed Use 8 8 0.13 9
Schools 42 23 0.54 46
Neighborhood Parks 28 5 1.22 39
Community Parks 29 - 1.42 41
Promenades 20 - 0.78 16
Street Landscaping 114 - 0.13 15
Neighborhood Greens 2 - 0.65 1
Stormwater Detention* 73 - 1.31 96
*Stormwater detention water demand occurs during establishment only.

2.2.3 Other Miscellaneous Uses
The Proposed Project has two primary additional miscellaneous land uses with water demands, albeit only temporary demands. These uses have minimal impacts to the overall forecast water use due to their limited duration.

Construction Water
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conservatively assumed for purposes of this WSA to be 8 acre-feet per year (this is about 2,400,000 gallons – or about 600 fill-ups of a 4,000-gallon water truck per year).

Stormwater Detention, Drainage, Agricultural Buffers, and Other Open Space As stated in Section 1, the Proposed Project would include 73 acres of open space surrounding the community and buffering it from the surrounding agricultural uses. It is anticipated that this open space will also contain percolation ponds and swales to capture and percolate storm water runoff. These areas are intended to be seeded with native or drought-tolerant water use plants and will require irrigation during establishment only. The 73 acres of this type of open space is expected to annually require 1.31 acre-feet per acre (95.3 acre-feet total) during the first 2-3 years of establishment.

2.2.4 Non-Revenue Water Demands
The demand factors presented earlier in this section represent the demand for water at the residential customer meter for each category. To fully represent the Proposed Project’s demand on water resources, non-revenue water also needs to be included. Non-revenue water represents all of the water necessary to deliver to the customer accounts and reflects distribution system leaks, water demands from potentially un-metered uses such as fire protection, hydrant flushing, and unauthorized connections, and inescapable inaccuracies in meter readings.41 In most instances, the predominant source of non-revenue water is from system leaks – the loss from fittings and connections from water sources through treatment plants, tanks, pumping plants, major delivery system back-bone pipelines, and community distribution systems. Because the delivery system distributing water within the Vista Lucia will be new, the percentage of nonrevenue water is estimated to meet the 10 percent goal set forth by the American Water Works Association. Therefore, the Proposed Project’s water delivery system is expected to require about an additional 150 acre-feet per year at build-out to serve the Proposed Project’s needs.

These values are included as the “loss factor” in Table 2-5 and are considered to return to the groundwater system through percolation.

2.2.5 Summary of Vista Lucia Specific Plan Water Demand Forecast Combining Vista Lucia’s land use details and phasing with the demand factors presented in Table 2-1, Table 2-2, Table 2-3, and Table 2-4 the water demands for Vista Lucia from implementation to build-out can be estimated. Upon completion of the Vista Lucia Specific Plan community, the demands are conservatively estimated at 1,351 acre-feet of water annually, excluding considerations of non-revenue water (see below), and up to approximately 1,501 acrefeet of water annually when considering of non-revenue water (see Table 2-5). 41 The American Water Works Association and the California Urban Water Conservation Council recognize the inherent non-revenue water that is either lost or not accounted for in urban treated water distribution systems, and suggest purveyors strive for conveyance losses equal to 10% of all water delivered to customers. Obtaining this value depends on numerous factors including the age and extent of distribution system infrastructure, meter rehabilitation programs, and how a purveyor tracks fire flows and hydrant flushing.

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Table 2-5: Vista Lucia Forecast Water Demands*
*Totals may not sum exactly due to rounding to the nearest whole acre-foot.

2.3 PROPOSED PROJECT WATER DEMAND PROJECTION
As described in the previous subsections, the Proposed Project consists of the Vista Lucia Specific Plan Community. Including all anticipated residential and non-residential indoor and outdoor water demands plus miscellaneous and non-revenue water, the VLSP community is anticipated to generate 1,501 acre-feet of water demand at full build-out. This demand is summarized in Table 2-6.

Category 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 Low Density 129 358 607 886 995 995 35 97 164 239 269 269 Medium Density 161 446 756 1,103 1,239 1239 43 120 204 298 335 335 Medium-High Density 70 194 329 481 540 540 19 52 89 130 146 146 High Density 81 223 378 552 620 620 17 47 79 116 130 130 Mixed Use Residential 14 37 63 93 104 104 3 8 13 19 22 22 117 324 550 802 901 901
Low Density 129 358 607 886 995 995 20 55 92 135 152 152 Medium Density 161 446 756 1103 1239 1239 14 40 67 98 110 110 Medium-High Density 70 194 329 481 540 540 2 5 8 12 13 13 High Density 81 223 378 552 620 620 1 3 5 7 7 7
Mixed Use Residential 14 37 63 93 104 104 0 0 0 0 0 0
37 102 172 251 283 283
Neighborhood Center (Mixed Use) 0 2 4 6 8 8 0 2 4 6 8 8 Elementary & Middle School 0 12 42 42 42 42 0 9 23 23 23 23 Park Restrooms 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5
0 12 29 32 35 36
Neighborhood Center Mixed Use 0 2 4 6 8 8 0 0 1 1 1 1
Elementary & Middle School 0 12 42 42 42 42 0 6 23 23 23 23 Neighborhood Parks 0 6 11 17 22 28 0 7 14 21 27 34
Community Parks 0 6 12 17 23 29 0 8 16 25 33 41
Promenade 0 4 8 12 16 20 0 3 6 9 13 16
Neighborhood Greens 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 1
Streetscape Landscaping 0 23 46 68 91 114 0 3 6 9 12 15 0 28 66 88 110 131
Open Space (Stormwater Det.) 73 73 73 73 73 73 1.31 (estab.) 96 0 0 0 0 0 Construction Water 8 8 8 8 8 0
104 8 8 8 8 0
117 336 579 834 936 937
140 138 246 347 400 414
Total 257 474 825 1,181 1,336 1,351
Non-revenue water at 10% 29 53 92 131 148 150
Total Vista Lucia Demand 286 527 917 1,312 1,485 1,501

0.21 0.54
Other Miscellaneous Uses
8 Outdoor Subtotal
Indoor Total
Outdoor Total

0.13 Outdoor Subtotal

0.13 1.22

1.42 0.78

0.65 Non-Residential (Acres)
1 N/A
Indoor Subtotal
N/A

0.02 0.01

0.00 Outdoor Subtotal

0.09 Demand Factor
(af/du or af/ac)
Residential (Dwelling Units)

0.27 0.27

0.27 0.21
Indoor Subtotal

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Table 2-6: Summary of Proposed Project Water Use
Proposed Project
Acre-Feet per Year at Full Buildout
Indoor Outdoor Misc Subtotal Loss Factor Grand Total
Vista Lucia Residential 901 283 - 1,351 150 1,501
Non-Residential 36 131

2.3.1 Water Demands during Single- and Multiple-Dry Year Conditions To adequately assess the sufficiency of available water supplies – discussed in Section 5 – the Proposed Project’s normal-year water demand is modified to reflect anticipated increases in demand during drier conditions. Conservative modifications to the Proposed Project’s water demand to reflect conditions expected during dry conditions are as follows (see Table 2-7):

Single dry year: Landscape irrigation demands would increase to reflect the generalized earlier start of the landscape irrigation season due to limited rainfall in the single driest year.

Since this increase only applies to the outdoor portion of a customer’s demand, an adjustment factor of 5 percent is applied to the total normal-year water demand values to conservatively reflect the expected increase in demand for water.42
Multiple dry years: During multiple dry years, demands are also expected to increase during the first in a series of dry years – as discussed above for the single dry year condition.

However, during the second, third or more consecutive dry years, demands also are expected to reflect water shortage contingency plans implemented by the retail water purveyor.43 During the second year, the water purveyor is assumed to request a reduction target of 10 percent. To be conservative, this WSA assumes a resulting demand reduction of 5 percent to accommodate conservatively low participation by customers. Thus, the already higher expected demand increase of 5 percent during dry conditions is decreased by 5 percent to reflect conservation – resulting in the original normal condition demand forecast. During the third year, fourth, and fifth years of a multi-year drought, the purveyor is expected to set a conservation target of 20 percent. For this analysis, the demands in the third year are reduced by 15 percent. Thus, during multiple dry conditions, demands initially increase due to reduced effective precipitation, but then decrease due to short-term conservation measures, with a net effect of a 10 percent reduction from the forecasted normal condition. 42 Based on meter studies and work with DWR on “weather normalization” of per capita water use values, Zanjero has demonstrated that urban water use increases during low rainfall months. Based on conversations with urban water purveyors, DWR and landscape water professionals, it appears common for landscape irrigation timers to be turned on “early” when February and March are unusually dry. 43 This WSA anticipates the retail purveyor serving the Proposed Project will apply a water shortage contingency plan to address drought conditions.

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Table 2-7: Proposed Project Water Demands under Dry-Year Conditions Multiple Dry Year
Normal Single Dry Year 1 Year 2 Year 3-5
% Increase (reduction) 0% 5% 5% 0% -10%
Resulting Change in Demand (af/yr) 0 75 75 0 -150
Total Demand (af/yr) 1,501 1,576 1,576 1,501 1,351

2.3.2 Implications of Land Use Change on Groundwater Demand The Proposed Project will be constructed on a 768-acre site currently used for the farming of truck crops irrigated with groundwater. To lend context to the demands presented in this WSA, the current water consumption of the Proposed Project site was estimated using OpenET.44 From 2016 – 2021, approximately 1,900 – 2,000 acre-feet a year of water has been consumed (evaporated) on the Proposed Project site, as shown in Figure 2-1. It is likely that a greater among of irrigation water was applied to the Project Site, with excess applied water percolating deeply and returning to the groundwater basin. This analysis focuses on the portion of applied water that is consumed through evaporation.

Figure 2-1: Current Water Consumption at Proposed Project Site Source: Custom spatial summary by OpenET for years 2016-2021.

Some of the water consumption documented in Figure 2-1 is met by precipitation, with the remaining water consumption representing the quantity of groundwater applied as irrigation.

Gonzales averages 16 inches of precipitation annually; some of which runs off or infiltrates the ground and sinks below the root zone where it is no longer accessible to plants. This WSA estimates that 75 percent of the annual precipitation is effective (a conservatively high 44 https://explore.etdata.org/
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assumption), which across the 768-acre site equates to 768 acre-feet of water from effective precipitation. By subtracting this value from the total evaporation calculated in Figure 2-1, this WSA estimates that approximately 1,100-1,280 acre-feet of groundwater is consumed by the Proposed Project site’s current agricultural use annually.

The Proposed Project is expected to generate 1,501 acre-feet per year of demand under normal conditions, with only 414 acre-feet per year of that demand used outdoors (and therefore most likely to evaporate rather than be captured by the City’s wastewater collection system, see Sections 3, 4, and 5). This analysis demonstrates that the Proposed Project is expected to generate significantly less consumptive demand for groundwater than the site’s current agricultural land use.

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SECTION 3 – ESTIMATED WATER DEMANDS FOR EXISTING

CITY CUSTOMERS AND OTHER PLANNED USES
This section describes the methodology, provides the supporting evidence, and presents the estimated annual water demands for the existing City of Gonzales and other reasonably foreseeable planned developments. Characteristics such as how water uses vary among different land use classifications, throughout the year, and under differing hydrologic conditions, all help with that understanding. Because the Proposed Project will be served by the City of Gonzales, assessing these other foreseeable water demands is crucial to the overall determination of water availability.

This section is organized to first describe the basis for estimating the future use of the City of Gonzales’ existing customers, including population growth within the existing service area. Later in this chapter, the water use of other foreseeable developments known to the City of Gonzales planning department are considered. These other planned developments include the Puente Del Monte Community, the Rianda Cooler, the Franscioni Development, and three projects by D’Arrigo. This section concludes with a summary combining the forecasted demands of the existing City and other planned developments, which provide the basis for the water sufficiency analysis presented in Section 5.

3.1 EXISTING CITY OF GONZALES
The City of Gonzales is located in central Monterrey County in the Salinas Valley along Highway 101. The population was estimated to be 8,536 in 2020 according to the CA Department of Finance.45 Gonzales is situated in a primarily agricultural region, and has long provided residential, commercial, and industrial services related to its agricultural setting.

The City relies entirely upon groundwater to meet its municipal water supply needs. Accurately assessing current water use is key to estimating future water use.

3.1.1 Current Customer Water Use
Water use data from the most recent 5 years, from 2016 to 2021, provided the primary basis for analyzing current water use trends. In 2021, the most recent year for which data is available, the City of Gonzales served 1,958 service connections, all of which are metered. Of these 45 https://dof.ca.gov/forecasting/demographics/estimates/e-5-population-and-housing-estimates-for-cities-countiesand-the-state-2020-2022/ Packet Pg. 43
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connections, 1,599 were single-family residential, 176 were multi-family residential, 132 were commercial or institutional, 39 were industrial, and 12 were landscaping. 46 Customer Water Use 2016-2021
Recent customer water use data can advance an understanding of water use trends, effects of temporary use restrictions imposed during the most recent prolonged drought and recovery from such temporary restrictions, effects of long-term demand management measures, and other pertinent water use factors relevant to forecasts of future water use.

Over the last few years, a number of new industrial facilities have opened or expanded, including agricultural produce processing facilities owned by Taylor Farms and DelMonte Fresh Produce.

The new industrial facilities have led to a significant increase in the annual water use attributable to industrial connections. In 2019, approximately 47 existing customer accounts that were previously classified as “Other” were reclassified as Commercial/Institutional or Landscape.

During this same period, City public works staff identified and corrected water meter reading errors that had previously caused inaccuracies in the City’s water use data. As a result of these recent changes in how the City’s water use data is collected and recorded, this WSA assumes that the most recent years of 2020 and 2021 are the most accurate and representative of the City’s current water use.

Table 3-1 presents the City’s past water use by customer classification for 2020-2021.

Table 3-1: City Water Use 2020-2021 (Acre-Feet per Year) Use Type 2020 2021 Average Percent of Total
Single Family 571 543 31%
Multifamily 99 96 6%
Commercial/Institutional 95 97 5%
Industrial 953 1070 57%
Landscape 6 20 1%
Total 1724 1827 100%
The historic data also provide insight into the relative ratio of differing customer classifications to each other. Industrial use and single-family homes together represent 88 percent of the City’s total water use in recent years.
46 The City of Gonzales has recently recategorized some of its existing service connections. Approximately 40 connections that were classified as “Other” were reclassified as “Commercial/Institutional” in 2020, and the “Other” category was discontinued. An additional small number of accounts from other categories have been recategorized as landscaping meters. All recent changes in meter classification have been taken into account in the following analysis.

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Existing Distribution System Losses
The City of Gonzales served 1,958 total service connections in 2021, which is under the threshold of 3,000 service connections set by DWR that would trigger the requirement to submit an Annual Water Loss Audit to DWR.47 To date, the City has not submitted a Water Loss Audit.

Instead, this WSA estimates water loss based upon a comparison of the quantity of groundwater pumped and the quantity of water delivered. It is assumed that the difference in these values represents water loss, as shown in Table 3-2. Because of water meter reading errors identified and corrected in 2019, City staff advised that the water use and well extraction data from 2020 and 2021 represented the most accurate recent data to evaluate water loss.

Table 3-2: City System Distribution Loss
2020 2021 2-year Average
Total Extractions (AF) 1,826 1,993 1,910
Total Deliveries (AF) 1724 1,827 1,775
Apparent Loss (AF) 102 166 134
Loss Percent 6% 8% 7%
As Table 3-2 illustrates, the City’s distribution loss was below 10 percent in 2020 and 2021, the two recent years for which there was reliable data.

Calculating Indoor and Outdoor Water Use Through Wastewater Flows The proportion of the City’s existing water demand that is used indoors versus outdoors is not directly measured, but has important implications for the groundwater sustainability and supply sufficiency analyses presented in Sections 4 and 5 of this WSA.

As the best available proxy, this WSA compared the inflows to the City’s Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) to its total metered deliveries. As noted above, due to water meter reporting errors identified and corrected in 2019, data from 2020 and 2021 are assumed to the most accurate recent data available. It is assumed that the measured influent flow at the City’s WWTP represents the quantity of water used indoors, while the difference between WWTP inflow and total metered deliveries is assumed to be used outdoors (or otherwise lost through evapotranspiration). Table 3-3 presents these calculations. On average, approximately 42 percent of the City’s total metered deliveries are assumed to have been used outdoors and did not ultimately flow to the City’s WWTP.
47 Department of Water Resources. (2022). Water Audit Report Data. WUEdata. Retrieved from https://wuedata.water.ca.gov/awwa_plans
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Table 3-3: Existing City Indoor and Outdoor Use
2020 2021 2-year Average
Total Deliveries (AF) 1,724 1,827 1,775
Total Inflow to WWTP/ Assumed Indoor Use (AF) 1006 1039 1,023 Difference/ Assumed Outdoor Use (AF) 718 788 753
Percent Used Outdoors 41.6% 43.1% 42.4%
Demand Management Measures
The City of Gonzales is affected by many of the same current and future mandates affecting water use for the Proposed Project. In particular, the City is subject to water conservation objectives, indoor infrastructure requirements, the California Model Water Efficient Landscaping Ordinance, metering, volumetric pricing, and water budgets, which are described in detail in Section 2.1.1.

3.1.2 Wastewater Collection and Consumptive Water Use
When groundwater is extracted from a basin and used for municipal purposes, some portion of the water used will ultimately transpire through plants or otherwise evaporate and be lost to the groundwater basin. However, much of the groundwater used may ultimately return to the basin.

A portion of the water applied to landscaping may percolate deeply and return to the aquifer. If the water is used indoors, then collected and treated at a wastewater treatment plant, the water may be recycled to offset existing groundwater demands or directly recharged to the basin.

A project’s consumptive use of water equals the project’s total water use minus the quantity of water from the proposed project returning to recharge the basin (or to meet demands that would otherwise be met by groundwater). The distinction between the quantity of water used and the quantity of water consumed is crucial when considering the sustainability criteria required by SGMA.

Currently, water used indoors in the City of Gonzales is collected by the City’s sanitary sewer system and conveyed to the Gonzales Wastewater Treatment Plant (GWWTP), located approximately two miles west of the City at 400 Short Road, Gonzales, CA. The GWWTP is a grade II lagoon ponding treatment plant,
48 which treats wastewater to secondary standards and
disposes of effluent through three 7-acre infiltration basins, 49 with some evaporation also occurring during the treatment process. The GWWTP has a permitted discharge capacity of 1.3 MGD, but the full build out of the existing city and SOI is expected to generate 3.60 MGD of 48 City of Gonzales. (2018). Wastewater. The City of Gonzales, California . Retrieved from https://gonzalesca.gov/services/public-works/wastewater 49 Central Coast Region; State of California, Staff Report for Regular Meeting of March 24, 2006 (2006). Retrieved from: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralcoast/board_info/agendas/2006/march/item6/item6_staff_report.pdf Packet Pg. 46
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wastewater.50 The proposed project and other developments in the City of Gonzales east of Highway 101 will require the City to add new wastewater collection and treatment capacity.

To accommodate the expected increase in wastewater flows, the City of Gonzales will construct a new 1 million gallon per day Industrial Wastewater Treatment Facility adjacent to the current GWWTP. The City plans to construct a separate wastewater collection system from the Gonzales Agricultural Industrial Park to the new Industrial Wastewater Treatment Facility, thereby separating industrial wastewater from the City’s domestic wastewater and freeing up capacity at the existing GWWTP. This approach is anticipated to achieve more efficient operations at both treatment plants, because domestic and industrial wastewater contain different contaminants and therefore can be more efficiently treated separately. When needed, the City will also complete a phased expansion of its existing GWWTP to increase the plant’s capacity as development proceeds and new connections are added. Both treatments plants will continue to dispose of treated wastewater through infiltration basins. All influent to the GWWTP not lost to evaporation during the treatment and percolation process will return to the groundwater basin. This concept is important from a long-term sustainability perspective and is discussed again in Section 5 – Sufficiency Analysis.

This WSA assumes that recharge to the groundwater system by percolation of treated wastewater can be calculated by subtracting the volume evapotranspirated (ET) during the treatment process from the volume of influent to the GWWTP. Influent volumes are recorded in the City’s Wastewater Treatment Plant Annual Reports. Due to metering errors discovered and corrected in 2019, only data from the years 2020 and 2021 was used, as City staff has indicated those years’ data to be the most accurate. To determine the volume of water lost to evaporation, the GWWTP’s treatment and percolation ponds were analyzed using data from OpenET.51 A custom polygon was drawn around the GWWTP’s treatment and infiltration ponds with an area of

31.858 acres. A report was downloaded from the OpenET website reporting the cumulative ET in acre-feet per month, which was summarized on an annual basis. Table 3-4 shows the results of this analysis below. During the two most recent years for which there is accurate data, approximately 12 percent of the wastewater volume arriving at the GWWTP was lost to evaporation, while the remainder was returned to the groundwater basin through infiltration.

Table 3-4: Treated Wastewater Evaporation and Recharge
2020 2021 2-year Average
Influent to WWTP (AF per year) 1,005 1,038 1,022
Annual ET (AF per year) 121 121 121
Estimated Loss to ET (%) 12% 12% 12%
Estimated Recharge to Groundwater (AF) 884 917 900
50 Kimley Horn, Existing City Plus Sphere of Influence Wastewater Master Plan, p 11 (2019). 51 https://openetdata.org/
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3.1.3 Estimate of Current Net Consumptive Water Use
To inform the analysis of supply sufficiency in Sections 4 and 5 of this WSA, it is useful to estimate the City of Gonzales’ current net consumptive use of groundwater. Net consumptive use is equal to the quantity of water extracted from the groundwater basin which ultimately evaporates and does not return to the basin through recharge. In the case of the City of Gonzales, the two contributors to net consumptive use are outdoor water use and loss from the ponds of the GWWTP, both of which are assumed to evaporate and permanently leave the groundwater basin.

This approach can be expressed by the following formula:
“Net Consumptive Use” = “Outdoor Water Use” + “WWTP Loss to ET” Using the 2-year average values for 2020-2021 presented earlier in Section 3.1, this formula becomes:
“Net Consumptive Use” = 753 acre-feet + 121 acre-feet
“Net Consumptive Use” = 874 acre-feet
This WSA therefore estimates that currently, the City of Gonzales has a net consumption of 874 acre-feet per year of groundwater. Of the 1,910 acre-feet of groundwater pumped on average during 2020 and 2021, the remaining 1,034 acre-feet were returned to the groundwater basin through system losses (134 acre-feet) and percolation at the GWWTP (900 acre-feet).52

3.1.4 Forecasting Customer Water Use
According to the City’s 2019 Water Master Plan, the existing developed footprint of the City of Gonzles has limited opportunity for infill. It is expected that the vast majority of new development will occur as specific planned projects on land currently used for agriculture within the current City limit and in the City’s SOI.53 The major new developments expected are the Proposed Project (Vista Lucia community, see Section 2) and the Puente Del Monte, Rianda Cooler, D’Arrigo, and Franscioni developments (see Section 3.2, below). New growth of connections within the existing developed footprint is expected to be generally minimal. While there are no other specific projects known at this time that would require water service by the City, there are two specific areas where growth of water connections is possible within the existing developed footprint of the City. The first is in the Gonzales Industrial Park located southwest of S Alta St, which has not yet reached full buildout. New industrial facilities are possible in this area. The second source of new connections is the possible addition of a small number of auxiliary dwelling units (ADUs) in existing residential areas.

This WSA assumes that current water use trends in the City of Gonzales are generally a good indication of what future water use will be in the City’s existing developed area. Ongoing demand management measures will likely decrease per capita water use, mostly notably the 52 Values do not sum exactly, due to rounding.
53 Kimley Horn, Existing City Plus Sphere of Influence Water Master Plan, p 4 (2019).

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impending implementation of Urban Water Use Objectives (UWUO).54 Some infill construction of ADUs may slightly increase the number of residential connections or occupants per connection. Overall, these effects are expected to cancel each other out, with residential water use in the existing built footprint of the City of Gonzales remaining constant over the planning period. Multifamily, Commercial/Institutional, and Landscape water use are also expected to remain stable of the planning horizon of this WSA. Using the City’s historic water use from 2015-2021, average demand factors for each customer connection type were developed. These demand factors are presented as “current” in Table 3-5, below.

The City does anticipate that new industrial facilities in the Gonzales Industrial Park are possible. As a conservative assumption, this WSA assumes that the number of industrial water connections increases by 10 percent in 2030 and again in 2040.

Any other future increases in the City’s water demand will be from the Proposed Project and Other Planned Developments, which are explicitly considered elsewhere in this WSA. As a conservative assumption, water system loss is also forecasted at 10 percent rather than the 8 percent the City currently experiences. Total water use in 2050 is projected to be 2,257 acre-feet per year within the existing City of Gonzales, as shown in Table 3-5.

Table 3-5: Existing City Forecasted Water Use

3.2 OTHER PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS
The City of Gonzales anticipates expanding its footprint into its sphere of influence by approving the development of the following projects: Puente Del Monte, Rianda Cooler,55 D’Arrigo (SOI, Rincon, Industrial), Franscioni, and the Proposed Project (Vista Lucia). While the Proposed Project is considered in detail in Section 2, the other planned developments that will be served by the City are discussed below. The land use details of these developments are presented in Table 54 Legislation passed in 2018 (Senate Bill 606 and Assembly Bill 1668) establishes a new framework for long-term improvements in urban water use efficiency and drought planning, which will require decreases in per capita water use.
55 Rianda Cooler is a possible variation within the area covered by the Puente Del Monte development. If the Rianda Cooler is built, Puente Del Monte would be 70 acres smaller than the acres shown in Table 3-6. Including the cumulative acreages of both alternatives is a conservative assumption to ensure that the water demands of either development scenario is not under-stated.

Current
(2021)
2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 Current (2021) Future
Current
(2021)
2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050
Single Family Residential 543 543 543 543 543 543 543
Multifamily Residential 96 96 96 96 96 96 96
Commercial/Institutional 97 97 97 97 97 97 97
Industrial 39 39 43 43 47 47 47 1,070 1,070 1,177 1,177 1,294 1,294 1,294 Landscape 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
Water Loss 8% 10% 152 183 193 193 205 205 205
Total Customer Demand 1,993 2,010 2,127 2,127 2,257 2,257 2,257 132
12 0.34

0.55 0.74

27.42 1.69
Customer
Class
Connections per Customer Class Demands (acre-feet) Demand Factors (acre-feet/ connection)
1599
176
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3-6. A map presenting to locations of the other planned developments is presented as Figure 1-1 in Section 1.

Table 3-6: Other Planned Development Land Use (acres)
Development Current 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 Buildout Puente Del Monte Mixed Use - 58 68 78 92 185 104 585
Rianda Cooler Industrial - - 70 70 70 70 70 70
D'Arrigo
SOI - - - - - - 597 597
Rincon - 69 138 138 138 138 138 138
Industrial - - 47 95 95 95 95 95
Franscioni Industrial - - 28 55 55 55 55 55
Before the ultimate approval and construction of the Puente Del Monte, Rianda Cooler, D’Arrigo, and Franscioni developments discussed above, each development will be required to produce its own WSA that examines the expected water use of these developments based on details provided by each developments’ Specific Plan. At this time, the Puente Del Monte development has released a Specific Plan that would allow this level of analysis, which this WSA completed and included as Attachment A.

The Rianda Cooler, D’Arrigo, and Franscioni developments have not released Specific Plans.

This WSA has instead uses the best currently available information to estimate the future water use from these developments. This information includes proposed land use information shared by the developers, construction phasing estimates provided by the City of Gonzales, and water use demand factors calculated by this WSA for similar land use categories in the Proposed Project, as detailed in Section 2.

3.2.1 Puente Del Monte
In earlier drafts of this WSA, the Puente Del Monte (PDM) Specific Plan community was considered part of the Proposed Project, and detailed analysis of its expected water demands was performed by Zanjero. Ultimately, the Proposed Project description was revised to include only the Vista Lucia Community, with the Puente Del Monte Community analyzed as one of the Other Planned Uses to be served by the City of Gonzales. The analysis of Puente Del Monte’s future water demands is included in this WSA as Attachment A and summarized briefly in this section.

The Puente Del Monte Specific Plan community will be developed on 585 acres located partly within the City of Gonzales and partly within the City’s Sphere of Influence in Monterey County (See Figure 1-1). The developable areas will contain low to high density housing, open space, commercial, light industrial and school uses. An agriculture buffer bounds a majority of the Specific Plan area providing transition from farmlands to the built environment. The anticipated water use of the Puente Del Monte Specific Plan community is presented in Table 3-7.

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Table 3-7: Puente Del Monte Water Use at Full Buildout
Acre-Feet per Year at Full Buildout
Indoor Outdoor Misc Subtotal Loss Factor Grand Total
Puente Del Monte
Residential 676 267
18 1,135 126 1,262
Non-Residential 72 102

3.2.2 Rianda Cooler Project
An approximately 70-acre property within the planning area of the Puente Del Monte Specific Plan is owned by the Rianda family. This land may be developed according to the Puente Del Monte Specific Plan, therefor generating a portion of the water demands already accounted for above, in Section 3.2.1.

However, the Rianda developers have indicated that the 70-acre Rianda property may instead be developed separately from the PDM Specific Plan, as an industrial facility for agricultural cold processing (referred to in this WSA as the Rianda Cooler Project). The Rianda Cooler facility would consist of processing, cooler, dry storage/warehousing, administrative, and maintenance space for the processing of local and non-local fresh produce, as well as employee parking and minimal landscaping. The Rianda Cooler project is still speculative at this time, and its developers have not yet produced the planning documents that would allow a detailed analysis of the facility’s exact configuration and water demands. But because the Rianda Cooler may be developed within the planning horizon of this WSA, it is considered here and its water use is estimated using the currently best available information.

The exact level of indoor water use for the Rianda Cooler Project will depend on the final design of the facility. City of Gonzales Staff have indicated that this facility, if built, would generate a total demand of approximately 200,000 gal/day, or about 225 acre-feet of total use. 95 percent of this indoor water use would be collected as wastewater and be delivered to the Gonzales WWTP.56 For the purposes of this WSA, the indoor unit demand factor for this type of industrial facility is estimated at approximately 3.2 acre-foot/acre or 225 acre-feet/year total.

For the purposes of calculating outdoor water use, it is assumed that the Cooler facility will include 10 percent of its total area landscaped with drought tolerant plantings, for a total of 7 irrigated acres. Using an assumed maximum allowable plant factor of 0.30, the Rianda Cooler’s outdoor water use would be 9.1 acre-feet per year total or 0.13 acre-feet per acre for the 70-acre project.

If the Rianda Cooler Project is ultimately pursued, its development will result in the Puente Del Monte development being approximately 70 acres smaller and having a lower total water demand than was presented above in section 3.2.1. However, because it is uncertain at this time how land use within a smaller reconfigured PDM community might vary from the land uses 56 Personal Communication, June 17, 2022 Zoom meeting with City Staff.

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presented in the current PDM Specific Plan, this WSA makes the conservative assumption that the City may need to serve both the full PDM community and the Rianda Cooler Project.

While the timeline for the development of the Rianda Cooler Project is uncertain at this time, this WSA assumes that the Cooler Project would be complete and operational by 2030. Once fully built out, it is expected to demand 234 acre-feet per year total for indoor and outdoor water use.

After including in a loss factor of 10 precent, this demand is equal to 258 acre-feet per year.

3.2.3 D’Arrigo Developments’ Land Use
Property owned by D’Arrigo Brothers Inc. within the City of Gonzles and its SOI is expected to be developed within the planning horizon of this WSA. The developments consist of three distinct projects: SOI, Rincon, and Industrial.

D’Arrigo SOI
In the middle of the City’s SOI, between Johnson Creek and Gloria Road, is the D’Arrigo – SOI development comprised of approximately 597 acres of residential, mixed-use, and park land use types. The existing land use currently consists of agricultural lands. Part of this development (approximately 238.1 acres) was documented in the City’s 2019 WMP, though the current conceptual land use plan has differing land uses than the 2019 WMP. In total, 681 dwelling units are planned, plus 50 acres of parks and 90 acres of mixed-use commercial development.

It is unlikely that this project will be developed in the near future. For the purposes of this WSA, it is assumed that build out occurs at the end of the planning horizon, in 2050, to allow for this project to be included in the analysis of total water demand for the City and Other Planned Uses at buildout. Using similar demand factors as developed for the Proposed Project, the total water demand for indoor use is estimated to be 268 acre-feet per year and estimated for outdoor uses at 119 acre-feet, for a total of 386 acre-feet per year at full build out. The D’Arrigo – SOI development’s water use and phasing is included in Table 3-8, below.

D'Arrigo Rincon
Within the City limit, along the east side of Highway 101, between Herold Parkway and the Puente del Monte development, is the D’Arrigo – Rincon development, which is comprised of approximately 138 acres of residential land use. The existing land use currently consists of agricultural lands. This development was not documented in the City’s 2019 WMP.

It is anticipated that the D’Arrigo – Rincon project will be built in the next several years because it is located within the City’s existing City Limit and is therefore likely to benefit from an expedited approval process. In total, 700 dwelling units are included in this project. For the purposes of this WSA, it is assumed that half of the units will be built by 2025 and the remainder complete by 2030. Using similar demand factors as developed for the Proposed Project, the total water demand for indoor uses is expected to be 183 acre-feet per year and 37 acre-feet per year for outdoor uses, for a total of 220 acre-feet per year at buildout. The D’Arrigo – Rincon development water use and phasing is included in Table 3-8, below.

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D'Arrigo Industrial
In the southwestern corner of the City’s SOI is the D’Arrigo – Industrial development (previously called Vosti in some planning documents), which is comprised of approximately

95.3 acres of industrial land use. The exact industrial uses of the project are not yet known, but will likely be similar to existing agricultural processing facilities already operating in the City of Gonzales. The existing land use currently consists of agricultural lands. This development was documented in the City’s 2019 WMP.

For the purposes of this WSA, the indoor unit demand factor for this type of industrial facility is estimated at approximately 3.2 acre-foot/acre or 304 acre-feet/year total. This approach is consistent with the assumptions used to estimate the demand of the Rianda Cooler Project above in Section 3.2.2.

For the purposes of calculating outdoor water use, it is assumed that the D’Arrigo – Industrial development will include 10 percent of its total area landscaped with drought tolerant plantings, for a total of 9.5 irrigated acres. Using an assumed maximum allowable plant factor of 0.30, the D’Arrigo – Industrial development’s outdoor water use would be 12.4 acre-feet per year total, or

0.13 acre-feet per acre across the 95 total acres.

The total water demand for indoor and outdoor uses is expected to be 317 acre-feet per year. The D’Arrigo – Industrial development water use and phasing is included in Table 3-8, below.

D’Arrigo Water Use Summary
The three D’Arrigo Developments (SOI, Rincon, and Industrial) may all be completed within the planning horizon of this WSA. While the exact phasing and configuration of these projects is not yet finalized, this WSA has used the best available current information to estimate the future water demands of these projects. The water use of the three D’Arrigo Developments is estimated to be 923 acre-feet per year at full buildout. After factoring in a loss factor of 10 percent, the total demand for the D’Arrigo Developments is expected to be 1,015 acre-feet per year, as presented in Table 3-8.

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Table 3-8: D’Arrigo Phasing and Water Use
*Table 3-8 Demand Factors include both indoor and outdoor water use.

3.2.4 Franscioni Development Land Use
Property owned by the Franscioni family is also expected to be developed within the planning horizon of this WSA. The Franscioni development is located at the southeastern corner of the City’s SOI, along the east side of Highway 101 south of the Puente del Monte development. The development is comprised of approximately 55 acres of industrial land use. The existing land use currently consists of agricultural lands. This development was documented in the City’s 2019 WMP, but the proposed acreage is different.

The exact industrial uses of the project are not yet known, but will likely be similar to existing agricultural processing facilities already operating in the City of Gonzales. For the purposes of this WSA, the indoor unit demand factor for this type of industrial facility is estimated at approximately 3.2 acre-foot/acre or 176 acre-feet/year total. This approach is consistent with the assumptions used to estimate the demand of the Rianda Cooler Project above in Section 3.2.2.

For the purposes of calculating outdoor water use, it is assumed that the Franscioni development will include 10 percent of its total area landscaped with drought tolerant plantings, for a total of

5.5 irrigated acres. Using an assumed maximum allowable plant factor of 0.30, the D’Arrigo – Industrial development’s outdoor water use would be 7.2 acre-feet per year total, or 0.13 acrefeet per acre across the 55 total acres.

The total water demand for indoor and outdoor uses is expected to be 183 acre-feet per year.

After adding in a loss factor of 10 percent, the total water demand is expected to be 202 acre-feet per year.
2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 Buildout
Low-Density 238 du 0.36 - - - - - 86 86
Medium-Density Residential 239 du 0.32 - - - - - 75 75
Medium-High Density Residential 102 du 0.29 - - - - - 30 30 High Density Residential 102 du 0.22 - - - - - 23 23
Mixed-Use Non-Residential 90 acres 1.13 - - - - - 102 102 Parks 50 acres 1.42 - - - - - 71 71
Low-Density 245 du 0.36 44 88 88 88 88 88 88
Medium-Density Residential 245 du 0.32 39 77 77 77 77 77 77 Medium-High Density Residential 105 du 0.29 15 31 31 31 31 31 31 High Density Residential 105 du 0.22 12 23 23 23 23 23 23 Industrial Industrial 95 acres 3.33 - 159 317 317 317 317 317 110 378 537 537 537 923 923
11 38 54 54 54 92 92
121 416 591 591 591 1,015 1,015
Water Demand in Acre-Feet
Total Demand
Subtotal
D'Arrigo
Total Du
or Acres
Demand
Factor*
SOI
Rincon
Loss factor
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3.3 EXISTING CITY AND OTHER PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS WATER USE

CONCLUSIONS
In addition to serving the Proposed Project, as described in Section 2, the City of Gonzales will continue to serve its existing customers and will extend water service to other planned developments (Puente Del Monte, Rianda Cooler, D’Arrigo, and Franscioni). Including all anticipated residential and non-residential indoor and outdoor water demands plus non-revenue water, the existing City and other planned developments are expected to generate 4,992 acre-feet of water demand annually at full buildout. These demands are summarized in Table 3-9.

Table 3-9: Summary of Existing City and Other Planned Developments Water Demand

3.3.1 Water Demands During Single- and Multiple-Dry Year Conditions The City does not currently have an adopted Urban Water Management Plan or Water Shortage Contingency Plan that addresses water demands in dry year condition.57 To adequately assess the sufficiency of available water supplies – discussed in Section 5 – the other planned water demands in normal-year must be modified to reflect anticipated increases in demand during drier conditions. Conservative modifications to the total demand presented in Table 3-9 to reflect conditions expected during dry conditions are as follows (see Table 3-10):

Single dry year: Landscape irrigation demands would increase to reflect the generalized earlier start of the landscape irrigation season due to limited rainfall in the single driest year.

Since this increase only applies to the outdoor portion of a customer’s demand, an adjustment 57 Senate Bill 552 (passed in 2021) requires small water suppliers - defined as those with fewer than 3,000 connections and serve fewer than 3,000 acre feet - to have an abridged water shortage contingency plan, annually report their water supply conditions and use by month, and upgrade their infrastructure to drought resilient standards, if needed. The City has not yet adopted an abridged water shortage contingency plan to meet this new legislative requirement.

Indoor Outdoor Misc Subtotal Loss Factor Grand Total
1,182 869 N/A 2,051 205 2,257
Residential 676 267
Non-Residential 72 102
Rianda Cooler Industrial 225 9 N/A 234 23 258
SOI 268 119
Rincon 183 37
Industrial 304 12
Franscioni Industrial 176 7 N/A 183 18 202
4,992
Sector
Acre-Feet per Year at Full Buildout
18 1,262
Existing City and Other Planned Water Demands Total
N/A
Existing City
D'Arrigo 922 92 1,015
Puente Del Monte 1,135 126
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factor of 5 percent is applied to the total normal-year water demand values to conservatively reflect the expected increase in demand for water.58
Multiple dry years: During multiple dry years, demands are also expected to increase during the first in a series of dry years – as discussed above for the single dry year condition.

However, during the second, third or more consecutive dry years, demands also are expected to reflect water shortage contingency plans implemented by the City. 59 During the second
year, the City is assumed to request a reduction target of 10 percent. To be conservative, this WSA assumes a resulting demand reduction of 5 percent to accommodate conservatively low participation by customers. Thus, the already higher expected demand increase of 5 percent during dry conditions is decreased by 5 percent to reflect conservation – resulting in the original normal condition demand forecast. During the third year through fifth years, the City is expected to set a conservation target of 20 percent. For this analysis, the demands in the third year are reduced by 15 percent. Thus, during multiple dry conditions, demands initially increase due to reduced effective precipitation, but then decrease due to short-term conservation measures, with a net effect of a 10 percent reduction from the forecasted normal condition.

Table 3-10: Other Planned Water Demands under Dry-Year Conditions Normal Single Dry
Multiple Dry Year
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 - 5
% Increase (reduction) 0% 5% 5% 0% -10%
Resulting Change in Demand (af/yr) - 250 250 - (499)
Total Demand (af/yr) 4,992 5,242 5,242 4,992 4,493
58 Based on meter studies and work with DWR on “weather normalization” of per capita water use values, Zanjero has demonstrated that urban water use increases during low rainfall months. Based on conversations with urban water purveyors, DWR and landscape water professionals, it appears common for landscape irrigation timers to be turned on “early” when February and March are unusually dry. 59 This WSA anticipates the City of Gonzales will apply a water shortage contingency plan to address drought conditions.

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SECTION 4 – WATER SUPPLY CHARACTERIZATION
This section characterizes the intended water supply that will be used to serve the estimated water demands of the Proposed Project as detailed in Section 2, as well as the existing City of Gonzales and other planned demands discussed in Section 3. 60 The Proposed Project will be served by the City of Gonzales, which relies solely on groundwater to meet its water demands (including the future demand of the Proposed Project’s, see Table 2- 7). Because of the Proposed Project’s commitment to efficiency and groundwater sufficiency, captured stormwater will be directed to the groundwater system through managed aquifer recharge facilities. Wastewater produced by the Proposed Project will be directed to a new and or expanded City of Gonzales wastewater treatment plant that directs treated water into the local aquifer as recharge, further offsetting existing City water demands. This current and continued future operation results in a limited quantity of the total water pumped by the City that is actually consumed and no longer available to the local groundwater system. 61 Many existing water users, including the existing customers of the City of Gonzales and existing irrigated agriculture on the site of the Proposed Project, share groundwater available in the aquifer beneath the Proposed Project. This section provides a detailed characterization of the aquifer, as well as historic and projected uses of this shared resource. Section 5 details the sufficiency of groundwater resources to meet the long-term needs of the Proposed Project.

4.1 CHARACTERIZATION OF GROUNDWATER SUPPLIES
If a project’s water supply includes the use of groundwater, the WSA must include: a description of any groundwater basin or basins from which the proposed project will be supplied, a detailed description and analysis of historical and projected groundwater pumping, and an analysis of the sufficiency of the groundwater from the basin or basins from which the proposed project will be supplied to meet the projected water demand associated with the proposed project (the sufficiency analysis is presented in Section 5).62 A detailed description of the groundwater resources underlying the Proposed Project is included as Attachment B and is briefly summarized below.
60 Water Code Section 10910(d)(1) requires that “The assessment... include an identification of any existing water supply entitlements, water rights, or water service contracts relevant to the identified water supply for the proposed project, and a description of the quantities of water received in prior years by the public water system...under existing water supply entitlements, water rights, or water service contracts. (2) An identification of existing water supply entitlements, water rights, or water service contracts held by the public water system...shall be demonstrated by providing information related to all of the following: (A) Written contracts or other proof of entitlement to an identified water supply. (B) Copies of a capital outlay program for financing the delivery of a water supply that has been adopted by the public water system. (C) Federal, state, and local permits for construction of necessary infrastructure associated with delivering the water supply. (D) Any necessary regulatory approvals that are required in order to be able to convey or deliver the water supply.” 61 The City does not currently have plans for developing a new supply of either desalinated or recycled water. This WSA will not speculate on the future availability of recycled water. 62 Water Code § 10910(f).

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The Proposed Project includes the Specific Plan community of Vista Lucia, which is located in the City of Gonzales SOI. The City and Proposed Project are within the Salinas Valley and overlie the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin. This area of the Salinas Valley is largely agricultural, with a significant groundwater basin that has been used historically for irrigation and, to a much lesser degree, for meeting municipal demands for cities including Gonzales and for individual domestic uses scattered throughout the valley. The extent of each subbasin and its connection with adjacent subbasins has been assessed by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR).

The Proposed Project is located near the intersection of three subbasins: the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin (Basin No. 3-004.01), the Eastside Subbasin (Basin No. 3-004.02), and the Forebay Subbasin (Basin No. 3-004.04), as defined by DWR Bulletin 118.63 The subbasins cover areas of 140 square miles, 90 square miles, and 147 square miles respectively. In the area around the City of Gonzales, the subbasins are generally bounded by the Gabilan Range to the east and the Sierra de Salinas to the west. The 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin and Eastside Subbasin are both characterized as high-priority basins under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), while the Forebay Subbasin is characterized as medium-priority. 64 All three subbasins have produced Groundwater Sustainability Plans, which were used by this WSA to evaluate the long-term reliability of groundwater supplies for the Proposed Project and the City of Gonzales. The Salinas Valley-Wide Integrated Groundwater Sustainability Plan was also used to evaluate conditions across subbasin boundaries.

While current supply wells for the City of Gonzales are located only in the 180/400-Foot Aquifer and Eastside Subbasins, a portion of the City and its other planned developments also overlies the Forebay subbasin. It is possible that water from any of the three subbasins would ultimately be used to serve the Proposed Project. Therefore, each of the three subbasins is described in turn below. See Figure 4-1 for DWR’s representation of the Groundwater Basins.

4.1.1 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Geology
The 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin lies in northwestern Monterey County and includes the northern end of the Salinas River Valley. The Subbasin covers an area of 89,700 acres, or 140 square miles (DWR, 2004). It is bounded by the Eastside Aquifer and Langley Area Subbasins to the east, the Forebay Aquifer Subbasin to the south, the Monterey Subbasin to the west, and the Monterey Bay to the north. The 180/400-Foot Aquifer subbasin is located at the northern, downgradient end of the larger Salinas Valley Basin. Land surface elevations in the Subbasin range from approximately 500 feet above sea level along its border with the Sierra de Salinas to sea level at Monterey Bay.65 The geology of the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin is characterized by alluvium, terrace deposits, the Paso Robles Formation, and the Aromas Red Sands Formation.

The 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin contains a mix of sands, gravels, and clays. The clay layers 63 California Department of Water Resources, California’s Groundwater Update 2020 Highlights (2020). 64 CA Department of Water Resources. (2022). Basin Prioritization. water.ca.gov. Retrieved from https://water.ca.gov/programs/groundwater-management/basin-prioritization 65 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021), Ch 4.

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form a number of horizontally continuous aquitards which restrict the vertical movement of water within the subbasin and create confined conditions in the deeper geologic layers. The shallowest aquitard, the Salinas Valley Aquitard, is generally encountered at depths of less than 30 feet below the ground surface and limits the ability of the Salinas River to provide recharge to the underlying aquifers. The major water-bearing formations are below one or more aquitards.

The southern extent of the aquitards corresponds approximately with the City of Gonzales.

Seawater intrusion is a major issue in the northern part of the subbasin, adjacent to Monterey Bay. 66

4.1.2 Eastside Subbasin Geology
The Eastside Subbasin lies in northeastern Monterey County. The Subbasin covers an area of approximately 57,500 acres, or 90 square miles along the east side of the Salinas Valley. It is bounded by the Gabilan Range to the east, the Forebay Subbasin to the south, the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin to the west, and the Langley Area Subbasin to the north. Land surface elevations in the Subbasin range from approximately 900 feet above sea level along its border with the Gabilan Range to approximately 20 feet above sea level where it meets the 180/400- Foot Aquifer Subbasin along State Highway 101 near the City of Salinas. The geology of the Eastside Subbasin is dominated by alluvial fan deposits. Surface-water drainages originating in the Gabilan Range deposited a series of interconnected alluvial fans that extend from the Gabilan Range in the northeast to the fluvial deposits that define the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin in the southwest. There are no known structural features that restrict groundwater flow within the Eastside Subbasin, such as geologic folds, faults, or horizontally continuous aquitards. However, groundwater flow from the Eastside Subbasin to various other subbasins may be restricted due to lack of continuous sediments. Usually, groundwater flow follows the topography of the valley northwest toward Monterey Bay.67

4.1.3 Forebay Subbasin Geology
The Forebay Subbasin lies in the middle of Monterey County, and the middle of the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin. The Forebay Subbasin is bounded by the Gabilan Range to the east, the 180/400-Foot Aquifer and Eastside Subbasins to the north, the Sierra de Salinas to the west, and the Upper Valley Subbasin to the south. Land surface elevations in the Subbasin range from approximately 1,800 feet along the Sierra de Salinas alluvial fans to less than 200 feet at the boundary with the 180/400-foot Aquifer Subbasin near the City of Gonzales. The geology of the Forebay Subbasin is characterized by 2 intersecting geologic facies: the fluvial and marine dominated deposits of the main Salinas Valley; and the Arroyo Seco alluvial fan originating in the Sierra de Salinas on the west side of the Subbasin. In general, the alluvial sediments encountered in the Arroyo Seco Cone are more coarse-grained than those found in the main 66 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021), Section 4.2.
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valley’s fluvial and marine deposits. The Forebay Subbasin lacks the major horizontally continuous aquitards that characterize the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin.68 68 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Forebay Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021).

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Figure 4-1: Location of Groundwater Subbasins

4.1.4 Movement of Groundwater between Subbasins
Because the Proposed Project lies at the intersection of three Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin subbasins, it is crucial to evaluate the quantity of groundwater flowing across subbasin boundaries. Groundwater in the Salinas Valley generally flows from the southeast towards the northwest and Monterrey Bay, from Forebay Subbasin into both the Eastside Subbasin and the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin. There is no reported hydraulic barrier between the Forebay Subbasin and the two subbasins down gradient; however, the sediments are more stratified in the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin than in the Forebay Subbasin.69 The Forebay Subbasin GSP estimates that from 1980 to 2016, an average of approximately 800 acre-feet per year of groundwater flowed out of the Forebay subbasin into the Eastside subbasin and 3,100 acre-feet per year of groundwater flowed out of the Forebay subbasin into the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin.70
Groundwater also flows between the Eastside Subbasin and 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin. The Eastside Subbasin GSP estimates the historical rate (WY 1980-2016) for flow from 180/400- Foot Aquifer Subbasin into Eastside Subbasin as 3,600 acre-feet per year. Based on groundwater 69 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Forebay Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021), page 4-10.
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contours presented in Figure 4-2 and discussed in the next section, it can be inferred that the greatest rates of flow between 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin and Eastside Subbasin likely occur several miles north of the City of Gonzales closer to Monterey Bay.

4.1.5 Current Groundwater Conditions and Trends
The City of Gonzales and the Proposed Project lie at the intersection of three Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin subbasins, and the Proposed Project could potentially use water from any of these three subbasins. Therefore, this WSA assumes that the Valley-Wide Integrated Groundwater Sustainability Plan (VWIGSP) for the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin offers the best available wholistic evaluation of the groundwater resources that supply the City of Gonzales and the Proposed Project.

According to the VWIGSP, groundwater production is primarily from the alluvium that fills the Salinas Valley, most of which does not contain clay layers that divide the alluvium vertically into distinguishable aquifers. The exception is in the northern portion of the basin, where laterally continuous clay layers in the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin create relatively shallow confined conditions, in contrast to the unconfined conditions over most of the basin. Additional deeper clay layers create definable aquifers in the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin, whereas most of the basin includes only a single undifferentiated aquifer. The City of Gonzales and the Proposed Project lie at the southern end of the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin, at the transition between confined and unconfined conditions.71
The Monterey County Water Resources Agency (MCWRA) generated groundwater elevation contours for fall 2017 (the most recent available) from monitored wells suggest that the groundwater gradient (flow direction) throughout the Salinas Valley is generally from the southeast to northwest, towards Monterey Bay. As shown in Figure 4-2, groundwater elevation contours from fall 2017 indicate elevations range from 90 feet above mean sea level (msl) in the southeastern portion of the City of Gonzales and the Proposed Project, to 60 feet above msl in the northwestern portion of the Project. If the City of Gonzales is assumed to be at an average elevation of approximately 135 feet above msl, the fall 2017 groundwater elevation contours represent the presence of water approximately 45 to 75 feet below ground surface (bgs), respectively. MCWRA found in its 2017 study that groundwater elevations of the 180-Foot aquifer and 400-Foot aquifer were very similar near the City of Gonzales, which may suggest that aquitards found further north do not have a significant confining effect under the location of the Proposed Project.72
Current groundwater extraction rates within the Basin will likely continue for the foreseeable future. However, as discussed later in this section, regional efforts to stabilize the basin are now 71 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Valley-Wide Integrated Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021), Chapter 4 page 17.
72 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Valley-Wide Integrated Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021), Chapter 5 page 20-11, Figures 5-2 and 5-3.

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legally required. Each subbasin within the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin has published a Groundwater Sustainability Plan on or before January 31, 2022.

It is important to note that California experienced a statewide drought from 2012 through 2016, which may have exacerbated rates of groundwater decline in some portions of the subbasin over the past few years, most notably in areas where groundwater extraction increased to supplement reduced or nonexistent surface water supply. It is also important to recognize that the land proposed for development has been actively irrigated for agriculture using groundwater. The parcel’s current and historic use to serve irrigated agriculture is reflected in the representative Basin groundwater conditions.

An additional important attribute of the Basin is the base of freshwater. This term describes the interface of freshwater and brackish water in an aquifer system, or increased consolidation and cementation of sediments which decreases well yield. Although the sedimentary sequence in the Salinas Valley structural trough is 10,000 to 15,000 feet thick, the productive freshwater aquifers are only at shallower depths.73 The base of the Salinas Valley groundwater basin was characterized by the USGS (Durbin et al., 1978). The VWIGSP displays data from this study, which suggests that the base of the groundwater basin slopes steeply towards the west under Gonzales. It is estimated that the base of freshwater occurs at an elevation of approximately 800 to 1,400 feet below msl beneath the middle of the Proposed Project, or at a depth of approximately 900 to 1,500 feet bgs. It should be noted that saltwater intrusion from Monterey Bay, which has been an issue in the northern portion of the Basin, has not been projected to affect the area around Gonzales.

Given the approximate groundwater elevation of 60 to 90 feet above msl beneath the Proposed Project in fall 2015 (Figure 4-3), the data suggest that there is 800 to 1,400 feet of saturated freshwater-bearing aquifer material in the immediate vicinity of the Proposed Project area. It should be noted that these groundwater levels reflect conditions during the peak of a recordsetting drought. Groundwater levels fluctuate by as much as 20 feet between wet and dry seasons but have been relatively stable year-to-year.74 Of the Subbasins within the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin, the greatest historic declines have occurred in the Eastside Subbasin. From 1944 to 2021, the Eastside Subbasin declined by almost 60 feet, or a long-term average rate of approximately 9.3 inches per year (Figure 4-4).75 If the Basin experienced a worst-case scenario rate of decline of 2 feet a year on a long-term average basis (a conservative assumption, very likely an overestimate of the actual rate of decline and a violation of the recent State-wide groundwater sustainability provisions), the projected decline over the next 30 years would be 60 feet. The base of freshwater is reported to be at an elevation of at least 800 feet below msl, as discussed above, indicating there is currently approximately 860 feet of saturated aquifer available. The rate of decline in this portion of the Subbasin can be expected to slow or even 73 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Valley-Wide Integrated Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021), Chapter 4 Page 13
74 Monterey County Water Resource Agency, Salinas Valley Water Conditions for the Third Quarter of Water Year 2021-2022 (2022).
75 Monterey County Water Resource Agency, Annual Groundwater Level Monitoring. Retrieved from Annual Groundwater Level Monitoring | Monterey County, CA
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stabilize during the next sequence of consecutive “wet” years. There is more than sufficient depth of saturated aquifer underlying the Proposed Project to provide a reliable water supply.

While this demonstrates that a reliable water supply is physically available to serve the proposed project, the analysis above does not address the legal standard of groundwater sustainability as established by Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). That analysis is presented in the following section.

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Figure 4-3: Base of Freshwater in the Vicinity of the Proposed Project Packet Pg. 66
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Figure 4-4: Salinas Valley Groundwater Levels Changes (1944 – 2021) Source: Monterey County Water Resource Agency

4.2 GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT IN THE SALINAS VALLEY GROUNDWATER BASIN
In California, regulation of groundwater has largely been left to local authorities. There are a variety of methods available for managing groundwater resources in California and the degree of groundwater management in any basin is often dependent on water availability and demand.76 Typically, local groundwater management strategies include monitoring groundwater levels and production amounts, and conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water supplies.

In 2014 the State of California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), which consist of three bills (AB 1739, SB 1168, and SB 1319). SGMA outlines necessary steps for local groundwater agencies to reach sustainable groundwater use. The framework allows local agencies to establish a Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) in order to develop and implement groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs) for their respective jurisdiction. Where multiple GSAs cover a defined basin, the GSAs may submit one GSP or individual GSPs. If individual GSPs are developed, each GSA must provide the State with agreements demonstrating coordination on GSPs and cooperation for on-going implementation and enforcement. The GSP for the Basin must be submitted to the State by January 31, 2020 for high priority basins and 76 Department of Water Resources, Bulletin 118 (2003), Ch. 2.

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January 31, 2022 for medium priority basins. As shown in Figure 4-5, the Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency (SVBGSA) is the GSA for six subbasins within the Salinas Valley: the 180/400-Foot Aquifer, Eastside, Forebay, Langley Area, Monterey, and Upper Valley Aquifer subbasins. The City of Gonzales overlies the 180/400-Foot Aquifer, Eastside, and Forebay subbasins, all of which are entirely under the jurisdiction of the SVBGSA.

SVBGSA was responsible for producing each subbasin’s GSP as well as the overarching ValleyWide Integrated Groundwater Sustainability Plan.

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4.2.1 Sustainable yield under SGMA
Each subbasin within the larger Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin has produced a GSP that estimates sustainable yield on a subbasin-wide basis. Sustainable yield is the amount of water that can be safely extracted and consumed each year from a subbasin while balancing the water budget, resulting in no net decrease in storage of useable groundwater or any other undesirable result as defined by SGMA.77
GSAs may also choose to implement, through a GSP, the formal process of quantifying pumping allocations that define the maximum amount of water that may be extracted annually by individual parties. Pumping allocations are not water rights and cannot determine water rights.

Instead, they are a way to determine each extractor’s pro-rata share of groundwater extraction and regulate groundwater extraction.

At this time, none of the subbasins within the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin have issued pumping allocations. None of the subbasins’ GSPs have expressed sustainable yield on a peracre or per-party basis. In the absence of defined pumping allocations, this WSA assumes that sustainable yield on a subbasin-wide basis is the best available indicator to develop a proxy value for groundwater supplies available to the Proposed Project. Each subbasin’s sustainable yield can then be interpolated to estimate sustainable yield on a per-acre basis and therefore supply available to the City of Gonzales and the Proposed Project.

The following section presents the estimated sustainable yield for each subbasin underlying the Proposed Project. The methodology described below is summarized in Table 4-1. 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Sustainable Yield
This WSA calculated an estimate of sustainable yield for the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin based on values projected for 2030 in Section 6.4 of the subbasin’s 2022 GSP. These values are more conservative than those projected by the GSP for 2070.

The 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin GSP estimates that projected pumping will total 124,600 acre-feet/year for the entire subbasin, with 11,000 acre-feet/year attributed to urban uses and the remaining 113,600 acre-feet/year attributed to agriculture. 91.2% of the subbasin’s total pumping is projected to be from agriculture. 78 Changes in storage from declining groundwater levels and due to seawater intrusion are projected to total 13,400 acre-feet/year. Subtracting the decline in storage from the projected pumping, the sustainable yield for the entire subbasin in 2030 will be 111,200 acre-feet/year.79 This quantity represents the sustainable yearly consumption of groundwater for all uses, including agriculture and municipal uses. 77 California Department of Water Resources. (2022). Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) .

Retrieved from https://water.ca.gov/programs/groundwater-management/sgma-groundwater-management 78 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021), Section 6.4.3
79 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2022), Section 6.4.4
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Table 4-1: WSA Estimate of Sustainable Yield Calculations for Agriculture (acre-feet/acre) Because the 2030 adjusted projected pumping values reflect a condition where storage continues to decline, the 113,600 acre-feet/year attributed to agriculture pumping was not used in this WSA. Instead, this WSA used projected sustainable yield, reduced to the percentage attributable to agriculture. Using 91.2% of the sustainable yield projection of 111,200 acre-feet/year, it is estimated that 101,383 acre-feet/year could be pumped sustainably for agricultural use. This sustainable yield value represents gross pumping, not net consumption. It is assumed that of the 101,383 acre-feet/year that could be sustainably pumped for agriculture, 85 percent would be consumed by crops (evaporated), and 15 percent would percolate deeply and return to the groundwater subbasin. After subtracting out the estimated 15,207 acre-feet per year of deep percolation from agriculture, the proportional amount of sustainable yield attributable to agriculture that would be net consumed from the subbasin is 86,176 acre-feet/year across the existing 62,806 acres in the subbasin used for irrigated agriculture (Table 4-1).80 By dividing the portion of the projected sustainable yield used for agriculture by the number of irrigated acres in the subbasin, this WSA estimates the sustainable yield on a per irrigated acre basis is at least 1.37 acre-feet/acre (Table 4-1). Therefore, the Proposed Project could convert a sustainable supply of 1.37 acre-feet/acre of consumptive water use from irrigated agriculture to urban use without negatively impacting the sustainable yield represented by the GSP for the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin.

The GSP assumes that land use is static over the planning period, aside from crop seasonality, therefore the existing irrigated agricultural acres represent the irrigated acres expected in 2030 and 2070. Crucially, the water budget assumes no urban growth, with future municipal pumping 80 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2022), Section 3.2
180/400-Foot Aquifer
Subbasin Eastside Subbasin Forebay Subbasin
Urban 11,000 9,400 5,800
Agricultural 113,600 81,000 165,700
Total 124,600 90,400 171,500
(13,400) (10,000) -
111,200 80,400 171,500
Yes Yes No

91.2% 89.6% 96.6%
101,383 72,040 165,700
15,207 10,806 24,855
86,176 61,234 140,845
62,806 34,471 85,834

1.37 1.78 1.64
Percent of Pumping From Ag
2030 Adjusted Projected
Pumping (AF/yr)
Change in Storage
Projected Sustainable Yield (Gross Pumping)
Continued Overdraft Projected?
Proportional Amount of Sustainable Yield (Gross
Pumping) Attributable to Ag
Acres in Subbasin Used for Ag
Estimated Sustainable Yield for Ag (acrefeet/acre)
Estimated Deep Percolation from Ag (15%)
Proportional Amount of Sustainable Yield (Net
Consumption) Attributable to Ag
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equal to current municipal pumping.81 The GSP states that if “urban growth replaces agricultural irrigation, the impact may be minimal because the urban growth will replace existing agricultural water use.”82 Consistent with this assumption, the Proposed Project and other planned developments involve urban development on land currently used for irrigated agriculture, within the assumed existing irrigated acreage value.

Eastside Subbasin Sustainable Yield
This WSA calculated an estimate of sustainable yield for the Eastside Subbasin based on values projected for 2030 in Section 6.4 of the subbasin’s 2022 GSP. These values are more conservative than those projected by the GSP for 2070.

The Eastside Subbasin GSP estimates that projected pumping will total 90,400 acre-feet/year for the entire subbasin, with 9,400 acre-feet/year attributed to urban uses and the remaining 81,000 acre-feet/year attributed to agriculture.83 89.6% of the subbasin’s total pumping is projected to be from agriculture.84 Changes in storage from declining groundwater levels are projected to total 10,400 acre-feet/year. Subtracting the decline in storage from the projected pumping, the sustainable yield for the entire subbasin in 2030 will be 84,400 acre-feet/year.85 This quantity represents the sustainable yearly consumption of groundwater for all uses, including agriculture and municipal uses.

Because the 2030 adjusted projected pumping values reflect a condition where storage continues to decline, the 81,000 acre-feet/year attributed to agriculture pumping was not used in this WSA.

Instead, this WSA used projected sustainable yield, reduced to the percentage attributable to agriculture. Using 89.6% of the sustainable yield projection of 80,400 acre-feet/year, it is estimated that 72,040 acre-feet/year could be pumped sustainably for agricultural use. This sustainable yield value represents gross pumping, not net consumption. It is assumed that of the 72,040 acre-feet/year that could be sustainably pumped for agriculture, 85 percent would be consumed by crops (evaporated), and 15 percent would percolate deeply and return to the groundwater subbasin. After subtracting out the estimated 10,806 acre-feet per year of deep percolation from agriculture, the proportional amount of sustainable yield attributable to agriculture that would be net consumed from the subbasin is 61,234 acre-feet/year across the existing 34,471 acres in the subbasin used for irrigated agriculture (Table 4-1). 86 81 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2022), section 6.4.3
82 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2022), section 6.4.1
83 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Eastside Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2022), Section 6.4.4.
84 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Eastside Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2022), Section 6.4.3.
85 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2022), Section 6.4.4
86 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Eastside Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2022), Section 3.2.

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By dividing the portion of the projected sustainable yield used for agriculture by the number of irrigated acres in the subbasin, this WSA estimates the sustainable yield on a per irrigated acre basis is at least 1.78 acre-feet/acre (Table 4-1). Therefore, the Proposed Project could convert

1.78 acre-feet/acre of consumptive water use from irrigated agriculture to urban use without negatively impacting the sustainable yield represented by the GSP for the Eastside Subbasin.

The GSP assumes that land use is static over the planning period, aside from crop seasonality, therefore the existing irrigated agricultural acres represent the irrigated acres expected in 2030 and 2070. Crucially, the water budget assumes no urban growth, with future municipal pumping equal to current municipal pumping.87 The GSP states that if “urban growth replaces agricultural irrigation, the impact may be minimal because the urban growth will replace existing agricultural water use.”
88 Consistent with this assumption, the Proposed Project involves urban development on land currently used for irrigated agriculture and within the assumed existing irrigated acreage value.

Forebay Subbasin Sustainable Yield
This WSA calculated an estimate of sustainable yield for the Forebay Subbasin based on values projected for 2030 in Section 6.4 of the subbasin’s 2022 GSP. These values are more conservative than those projected by the GSP for 2070.

The Forebay Subbasin estimates that the projected sustainable yield for the entire subbasin in 2030 will be 171,500 acre-feet/year and would result in no change in groundwater storage. 89 This
quantity represents the sustainable yearly consumption of groundwater for all uses, including agriculture and municipal uses. The GSP estimates that 165,700 acre-feet/year of the sustainable yield (96.6%) will be pumped for agricultural use.
90 This sustainable yield value represents gross
pumping, not net consumption. It is assumed that of the 165,700 acre-feet/year that could be sustainably pumped for agriculture, 85 percent would be consumed by crops (evaporated), and 15 percent would percolate deeply and return to the groundwater subbasin. After subtracting out the estimated 24,855 acre-feet/year of deep percolation from agriculture, the proportional amount of sustainable yield attributable to agriculture that would be net consumed from the subbasin is 140,845 acre-feet/year across the existing 85,834 acres in the subbasin used for irrigated agriculture (both row crops and pasture) (Table 4-1).
91 87 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Eastside Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2022), Section 6.4.3.
88 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Eastside Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2022), Section 6.4.1.
89 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Forebay Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2022), Section 6.4.4. Table 6-17: 2030 (Adjusted) 90 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Forebay Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021), Section 6.4.3.
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By dividing the portion of the projected sustainable yield used for agriculture by the number of agricultural acres (both row crops and pasture) in the subbasin, this WSA estimates the sustainable yield on a per irrigated acre basis is at least 1.64 acre-feet/acre. Therefore, the Proposed Project could convert 1.64 acre-feet/acre of consumptive water use from irrigated agriculture to urban use without negatively impacting the sustainable yield represented by the GSP for the Forebay Subbasin.

The GSP assumes that land use is static over the planning period, aside from crop seasonality, therefore the existing irrigated agricultural acres represent the irrigated acres expected in 2030 and 2070. Crucially, the water budget assumes no urban growth, with future municipal pumping equal to current municipal pumping.92 The GSP states that if “urban growth replaces agricultural irrigation, the impact may be minimal because the urban growth will replace existing agricultural water use.”
93 Consistent with this assumption, the Proposed Project involves urban development on land currently used for irrigated agriculture and within the assumed existing irrigated acreage value.

City of Gonzales Sustainable Yield
The City of Gonzales straddles the intersection of the three subbasins described above, which somewhat complicates the consideration the City’s future water use in each subbasins’ GSP.

However, the three GSPs are all consistent in their approach to municipal water use in future water budgets, which were the basis for calculating the sustainable yield values presented in this WSA. All three subbasins’ GSPs state that, “Because the [groundwater] model assumes no urban growth, future municipal pumping was assumed to be equal to current municipal pumping.

Future agricultural pumping is then calculated as the total projected pumping minus the current municipal pumping.”94 As calculated in Section 3.1 of this WSA, current pumping by the City of Gonzales is 1,910 acre-feet per year and the net consumption of groundwater after accounting for recharge is 874 acre-feet per year.

Sustainable Yield Conclusions
The Proposed Project will be supplied by the City of Gonzales, which is in turn supplied by groundwater from the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin. While all of the City’s existing wells are located in either the Eastside or the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin, the City could 92 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Forebay Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021), Section 6.4.3.
93 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Forebay Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021), Section 6.4.1.
94 All three subbasin GSPs present this information in Section 6.4.3.

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conceivably pump water from any of the three groundwater subbasins underlying Gonzales to serve its existing customers, the Proposed Project, and other planned uses. As described above, this WSA used the sustainable yields calculated by the three subbasins’ GSPs as the basis to calculate the water supply available to the existing City, the Proposed Project, and the City’s other planned developments.

Each of these underlying subbasins has calculated its own projected sustainable yield as a subbasin-wide annual value expressed in acre-feet per year of consumptive use. None of the subbasins have issued pumping allocations to individual entities or expressed sustainable yield on a per-acre or per-party basis. In order to determine the supply available to the Proposed Project and the City of Gonzales’ other planned developments, this WSA estimated the sustainable yields attributed for irrigated agriculture for each subbasin, divided by the number of irrigated acres in each subbasin, to arrive at per-acre consumptive sustainable yield values for net consumption. The average sustainable yield of the three subbasins would be 1.60 acrefeet/acre/year. As a conservative assumption, this WSA assumes that the most restrictive subbasin’s sustainable yield estimate will limit the groundwater supply available to the proposed project. Therefore, the sustainable yield of 1.37 acre-feet/acre/year for consumptive water use calculated for 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin is assumed to represent the water supply available to the Proposed Project and the City of Gonzales’ other planned developments on a per acre basis. The water use of the existing City of Gonzales has already been accounted for as an “Urban Use” in the various Subbasins’ water budgets.

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Table 4-2: Net Consumptive Sustainable Yield Conclusions Development Acres
Net Consumptive Sustainable Yield
Acre-Feet Per Acre Total Acre-Feet per Year
Proposed Project (Vista Lucia) 768 1.37 1,054
Puente Del Monte & Rianda Cooler 585 1.37 803
D'Arrigo 831 1.37 1,140
Franscioni 55 1.37 75
All New Developments Subtotal 2,239 1.37 3,072
Existing City N/A 874
Grand Total N/A 3,946

4.3 WATER RIGHTS, FINANCING, AND REGULATORY APPROVALS95 Upon construction of the Proposed Project, ownership and operation of all water utility systems will be transferred to the City of Gonzales. It is anticipated the Proposed Project will be annexed into the City prior to Project construction. The City of Gonzales will then be responsible for the continued operation and maintenance of all utility systems. However, the City assuming responsibility for water delivery will not have any impact on the Proposed Project’s estimated water demand or the availability of the groundwater resources available to serve the Proposed Project, as described later in Section 5.

Absent an adjudication of a groundwater basin, California common law governs the right to use and extract percolating groundwater from a basin. The Salinas Valley Basin and all of its subbasins are unadjudicated groundwater basins and therefore subject to these common law rules. The owner of real property overlying a groundwater aquifer possesses a right as part and parcel of the land to extract groundwater from beneath the property for use on overlying land within the watershed. The Proposed Project applicants are, or will become as a result of approval of the Proposed Project, landowners overlying the Basin. Accordingly, both the current owner of the property and the proposed applicant of the Proposed Project are overlying owners and are entitled to produce groundwater to serve their reasonable and beneficial uses within the watershed or drainage area of the basin. The City, as a municipal water supplier, also has the opportunity to establish appropriative rights on this same groundwater resource as the Proposed Project and other planned future uses are established – consistent with the appropriative rights to groundwater it has already established through service to existing customers. These rights, however, are subject to the County’s oversight and management, and as may be required to conform to SGMA.
95 See Water Code Section 10910(d)(2)
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4.3.1 Financing the Water Supply
The Proposed Project anticipates being served by the City of Gonzales. The Proposed Project is explicitly anticipated by the City of Gonzales’ current Water Master Plan.96 The estimated cost of developing the water system which will serve all planned developments in the City’s Sphere of Influence, including other planned developments not included in the Proposed Project, is expected to be approximately $20.3-21.1 million.97 New wells and other related infrastructure will be constructed by either the developers of new projects or the City of Gonzales. The anticipated expenses of infrastructure are relatively modest compared to the development as a whole, and financing is not expected to create a barrier to implementing the water supply plans identified in this WSA.

4.3.2 Regulatory Approvals and Permits
Prior to drilling new municipal wells, the Proposed Project will need to acquire permits from the County as detailed in the County’s municipal code. The Proposed Project will likely be subject to at least the following regulatory approvals and filings for new wells:
 City Permit for Water System Design Standards98
 California Statues Related to the creation of a Drinking Water System99  Well Completion Report must be filed with the Department of Water Resources100  Meter permit required through City Public Works Department  Certification for operating a municipal well from the California SWRCB’s Division of Drinking Water.
96 City of Gonzales (2019), Existing City Plus Sphere of Influence Water Master Plan 97 City of Gonzales (2019), Existing City Plus Sphere of Influence Water Master Plan 98 City of Gonzales Code § 10.04, et seq.
99 Water Code § 14300, et seq.
100 Water Code § 13750, et seq.

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SECTION 5 – SUFFICIENCY ANALYSIS & CONCLUSIONS
In conformance with WSA Law, this section includes an analysis of sufficiency of identified groundwater supplies to serve the Proposed Project, considering variations in supply and demand characteristics under normal, single-dry and multi-dry year hydrologic conditions. 101 The WSA
provides a reasoned analysis of the likely availability of the identified supplies to serve the Proposed Project, while considering the demands of existing and other planned future land uses.102

5.1 WSA LAW SUFFICIENCY ANALYSIS
The WSA Law sufficiency analysis integrates the water demands details in Section 2 and Section 3 with the groundwater supplies characterized in Section 4.

The Proposed Project will be served by the City of Gonzales, which is in turn supplied entirely by groundwater from the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin. 103 The City will be responsible for
serving the Proposed Project, its existing customers, and the City’s other planned developments including the Puente Del Monte, Rianda Cooler, D’Arrigo, and Franscioni projects. The demand for each of these components totals to 6,493 acre-feet per year (Table 5-1).

Table 5-1: Total Combined Demand at Build-Out to be Met by City of Gonzales 101 CWC § 10910 (c)(4) provides that “the water supply assessment for the project shall include a discussion with regard to whether the total projected water supplies, determined to be available by the city or county for the project during normal, single dry, and multiple dry water years during a 20-year projection, will meet the projected water demand associated with the proposed project, in addition to existing and planned future uses, including agricultural and manufacturing uses.” 102 Vineyard Area Citizens for Responsible Growth, Inc. v. City of Rancho Cordova (2007) 40 Cal.4th 412, 430-32.
103 The City overlies portions of the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin (Basin No. 3-004.01), the Eastside Subbasin (Basin No. 3-004.02), and the Forebay Subbasin (Basin No. 3-004.04). Water from any of these subbasins could be used to serve the demands considered in this WSA.

Indoor Outdoor Misc Subtotal Loss Factor Grand Total
Residential 901 283
Non-Residential 36 131
1,182 869 N/A 2,051 205 2,257
Residential 676 267
Non-Residential 72 102
Rianda Cooler Industrial 225 9 N/A 234 23 258
SOI 268 119
Rincon 183 37
Industrial 304 12
Franscioni Industrial 176 7 N/A 183 18 202
5,877 615 6,493
1,015
Vista Lucia -
Combined Total
1,351 150 1,501
Sector
Acre-Feet per Year at Full Buildout
Existing City
Puente Del Monte 18 1,135 126 1,262
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The Combined Total demand presented in Table 5-1 represents all expected water demands to be served by the City of Gonzales (Proposed Project, existing City, and other planned uses) at full buildout. The projected pacing of these demands is presented in Table 5-2.

Table 5-2: Demand Pacing by Source (acre-feet/year)
Demand Source 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050
Vista Lucia 286 527 917 1,312 1,485 1,501
Existing City 2,010 2,127 2,127 2,257 2,257 2,257
Puente 182 369 637 848 1,266 1,262
Rianda - 258 258 258 258 258
D'Arrigo 121 416 591 591 591 1,015
Franscioni - 101 202 202 202 202
Normal Year Total 2,599 3,798 4,731 5,467 6,058 6,493
To fully evaluate water supply sufficiency, it is necessary to evaluate the phased timing of these demands in various hydrologic year types. Table 5-3 presents the Combined Total Demand to be served by the City beginning in 2025 and continuing through 2050 in 5-year increments. The analysis assumes that the Proposed Project and other planned developments are fully constructed by 2050. Table 5-2 and Table 5-3 incorporate the following analysis previously presented in this WSA:
 The Proposed Project’s potable water demand projection from Table 2-5  The existing City’s demand projection from Table 3-5
 The buildout schedule for other planned developments presented in Table 3-6  Puente Del Monte’s demand projections, as detailed in Attachment A and summarized in Section 3.2.1 and Table 3-7.
 The Rianda Cooler’s demand projections described in Section 3.2.2  The three D’Arrigo Developments (SOI, Rincon, Industrial) demand projections from Table 3-8
 Franscioni demand projections described in Section 3.2.2 Prior to consideration of sustainable yields as defined by GSAs under SGMA, Table 5-3 represents that sufficient groundwater physically exists in the saturated aquifers of the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin to meet the needs of the Proposed Project. While this may demonstrate passing of a basic test regarding the physical availability of groundwater, it does not address the requirements of SGMA, which is a more applicable legal test of water supply sufficiency for purposes of this WSA. That analysis follows in the next subsection.

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Table 5-3: Assessment of Physical Sufficiency for Water Demands As summarized in Table 5-3, the total combined demand of the existing Proposed Project, existing City, and other planned developments at buildout in 2050 is estimated to be 6,493 acrefeet annually under normal conditions – varying slightly during single and multiple dry years, ranging from 5,844 acre-feet to 6,818 acre-feet. Table 5-3 demonstrates that sufficient groundwater physically exists in the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin to meet the needs of the Proposed Project, City, and other planned developments.

Year
Total Combined
Water Demand
Groundwater
Extracted
Sufficient
Groundwater
Physically
Available?
2,599 2,599 Yes
2,729 2,729 Yes
2,729 Year 1 2,729 Yes
2,599 Year 2 2,599 Yes
2,339 Year 3-5 2,339 Yes
3,798 3,798 Yes
3,988 3,988 Yes
3,988 Year 1 3,988 Yes
3,798 Year 2 3,798 Yes
3,418 Year 3-5 3,418 Yes
4,731 4,731 Yes
4,968 4,968 Yes
4,968 Year 1 4,968 Yes
4,731 Year 2 4,731 Yes
4,258 Year 3-5 4,258 Yes
5,467 5,467 Yes
5,741 5,741 Yes
5,741 Year 1 5,741 Yes
5,467 Year 2 5,467 Yes
4,920 Year 3-5 4,920 Yes
6,058 6,058 Yes
6,361 6,361 Yes
6,361 Year 1 6,361 Yes
6,058 Year 2 6,058 Yes
5,452 Year 3-5 5,452 Yes
6,493 6,493 Yes
6,818 6,818 Yes
6,818 Year 1 6,818 Yes
6,493 Year 2 6,493 Yes
5,844 Year 3-5 5,844 Yes
2030
Normal
Single Dry
Muliple Dry
Hydrologic Year Type
2025
Normal
Single Dry
Muliple Dry
2035
Normal
Single Dry
Muliple Dry
2040
Normal
Single Dry
Muliple Dry
2045
Normal
Single Dry
Muliple Dry
2050
Normal
Single Dry
Muliple Dry
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5.2 SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT ACT COMPLIANCE
As discussed in Section 4, the State of California has passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), which outlines necessary steps for local groundwater agencies to reach long-term sustainable groundwater use. The City of Gonzales and the Proposed Project overlie three subbasins within the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basins. This WSA has used each subbasin’s GSP as well as the Valley-Wide Integrated Groundwater Sustainability Plan (VWIGSP) to assess the availability of groundwater to serve the demands presented in Table 5-

2. Crucial to SGMA compliance is the demonstration that the total combined demands do not exceed Sustainable Yield. This is primarily accomplished by evaluating total groundwater pumped versus the net groundwater consumed – with the difference returning to the groundwater basin through purposeful or incidental recharge. As discussed later, in conjunction with the lowwater demanding land-use and landscaping attributes described in Section 2, wastewater from the Proposed Project will be collected by the City of Gonzales, treated, and recharged back to the basin, consistent with current wastewater treatment operations.

5.2.1 Sustainable Yield in each Subbasin
As presented in Section 4.2.1, none of the subbasins’ GSPs have expressed sustainable yield on a per-acre or per-entity basis. In the absence of defined pumping allocations, this WSA assumes that sustainable yield on a subbasin-wide basis is the best available indicator to develop a proxy value for groundwater supplies sustainably available to the Proposed Project. As detailed in Section 4, each subbasin’s sustainable yield has be translated to an estimated sustainable yield on a per-acre basis for net consumption, which then provides a definable sustainable yield available to the City and the Proposed Project. The GSPs assume that land use is static over the 30- and 50-year planning periods, aside from crop seasonality, therefore the existing irrigated agricultural acres represent the irrigated acres expected in both the 2030 and 2070 future conditions.

Crucially, the water budget assumes no urban growth, with future municipal pumping equal to current municipal pumping.104 The GSPs states that if “urban growth replaces agricultural irrigation, the impact may be minimal because the urban growth will replace existing agricultural water use.”105
In order to determine the supply available to the Proposed Project and the City of Gonzales’ other planned developments, this WSA divided the sustainable yields attributed for irrigated agriculture for each subbasin by the number of irrigated acres in each subbasin to arrive at peracre consumptive sustainable yield values. As a conservative assumption, this WSA assumes that the most restrictive subbasin’s sustainable yield estimate will limit the groundwater supply available to the proposed project. Therefore, the sustainable yield of 1.37 acre-feet/acre/year for 104 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin GSP, Eastside Subbasin GSP, and Forebay Subbasin GSP all present this assumption in Section 6.4.3.
105 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin GSP, Eastside Subbasin GSP, and Forebay Subbasin GSP all present this assumption in Section 6.4.1.

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net consumptive water use calculated for 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin is assumed to represent the water supply available to the Proposed Project and the City’s other planned developments.

As noted previously, this 1.37 acre-feet/acre/year limit applies to consumptive water use, not total water use, because some water used indoors returns to replenish the basin as treated wastewater. With a total acreage of 2,239, the total sustainable consumptive groundwater supply available to the Proposed Project and the City’s other planned developments is estimated to be 3,072 acre-feet per year (Table 4-2).

As presented in Section 4.2.1, the groundwater use of the existing City is considered a municipal use that will remain static across the planning period of the GSPs. The current net consumptive use of the City was calculated as 874 acre-feet per year. Consistent with the planning approach presented in the GSPs, this WSA assumes that the City’s current net consumptive use is the best available indicator of the sustainable yield available to the existing City customers in the future.

By summing together the sustainable yield available to the Proposed Project and the City’s other planned developments with the sustainable yield available the City’s current customers, a total sustainable yield of 3,946 acre-feet per year of net consumptive use is available (Table 4-2).

5.2.2 Proposed Recharge of Treated Wastewater
When water is used indoors in urban settings, much of that water is collected as wastewater and conveyed to a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). In the City of Gonzales, treated wastewater is disposed of through percolation ponds that infiltrate treated water back to the groundwater aquifer (see Section 4.2.2). As the City grows, it is anticipated that industrial wastewater flows will be separated from domestic flows and conveyed to a new Wastewater Treatment Plant. At both the City’s existing WWTP and the City’s planned new WWTP, the primary method of treated effluent disposal is percolation ponds. In these percolation ponds, the majority of water returns to the groundwater basin and a fraction evaporates. As presented in Table 3-4, approximately 12 percent of the inflow to the GWWTP currently evaporates during the treatment and infiltration process, while the remainder is assumed to return to the groundwater basin. This WSA assumes that this is a good indicator of expected future conditions, when the GWWTP also receives wastewater from the Proposed Project and other planned developments.

Thus, the total combined demand for groundwater at build-out to be served by the City of Gonzales (see Table 5-1, Table 5-2, and Table 5-3) is partially offset from a groundwater sustainability perspective by the treated wastewater returned to the basin – water that is used but never consumed and remains available to the basin. Under the full buildout condition, it is estimated that five percent of flow in industrial facilities for indoor use in “consumed” by industrial processes, with the remaining 95 percent flowing to the GWWTP.106 This WSA estimates that one percent of flow into all non-industrial facilities (both residential and nonresidential) for indoor use is “consumed” through incidental evaporation and human 106 Personal Communication, June 17, 2022 Zoom meeting with City Staff.

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consumption,107 with the remaining 99 percent flowing to the GWWTP. Of the 4,008 acre-feet estimated to be demanded for indoor uses at build-out, 3,940 acre-feet would be conveyed as wastewater to the GWWTP. After 12 percent of this influent is lost to evaporation during treatment and infiltration process, 3,467 acre-feet of treated effluent will return to recharge the basin via the existing and future permitted percolation ponds (Table 5-4).

Table 5-4: Wastewater Produced and Returned to the Basin

5.2.3 Groundwater Balance Determination at Buildout
To ensure compliance with SGMA and consistency with the Sustainable Yield calculations presented in Section 5.2.1, the total combined demand at buildout, minus recharge, must be less than the sustainable yield of the Basin. In this calculation, total combined demand at buildout minus recharge is equivalent to Net Consumptive Use, or the net loss through evaporation and evapotranspiration from the Basin. Mathematically, this is expressed by the following formulas:
“Total Combined Demand” – “Recharge” < “Sustainable Yield” or
“Net Consumptive Use” < “Sustainable Yield”
Where:
“Total Combined Demand” is 6,493 acre-feet per year, as shown in Table 5-1. “Recharge” is water returned to the groundwater basin via system losses (see Table 5-1), and infiltration of treated effluent at the GWWTP (see Table 5-4). These values are 615 acre-feet and 3,480 acre-feet respectively, for a total recharge of 4,095 acre-feet per year. 107 Data regarding this percentage is not readily available. However, this estimate would represent water that is consumed by residents and visitors – either in locally made foods or drink – and taken offsite. Using a larger percentage would just add to the estimated net consumptive use, but would not affect the gross withdrawal.

Indoor Demand Indoor Loss Factor Wastewater Produced Loss at WWTP Returned to GW Basin Residential 901 9 892 107 785
Non-Residential 36 0 36 4 31
1,182 12 1,170 140 1,030
Residential 676 7 669 80 589
Non-Residential 72 1 72 9 63
Rianda Cooler Industrial 225 11 214 26 188
SOI 268 3 265 32 233
Rincon 183 2 181 22 159
Industrial 304 15 289 35 254
Franscioni Industrial 176 9 167 20 147
Combined Total 4,023 68 3,955 475 3,480
Sector
Acre-Feet per Year at Full Buildout
Vista Lucia
Existing City
Puente Del Monte
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“Sustainable Yield” is 1.37 acre-feet/acre/year of consumptive use for all new land uses on land currently supporting irrigated agriculture. Across the total area of 2,239 acres occupied by the Proposed Project and other Planned Developments, the total sustainable consumptive groundwater supply available to the Proposed Project and the City’s other planned developments is 3,072 acre-feet per year. The net consumptive use of the Existing City of Gonzales is calculated as 874 acre-feet per year. Together, the sustainable yield available to all uses to be served by the City of Gonzales at buildout is 3,946 acre-feet per year (Table 4- 2).

Using this WSA’s specific information, the equation becomes:
(6,493 acre-feet) – (4,095 acre-feet) < (3,946 acre-feet) Which equates to
(2,398 acre-feet) < (3,946 acre-feet)
“Net Consumptive Use” is therefore 2,398 acre-feet per year, which is less than the available sustainable supply of 3,946 acre-feet per year. This demonstrates that the Proposed Project complies with SGMA and does not generate net consumptive demands which exceed the sustainable yield of the basin. Figure 5-1 graphically presents a detailed flow diagram of the Proposed Project, Existing City, and other planned uses’ extraction and use of groundwater and associated return flows and other recharge elements that achieve groundwater balance. Each of the Specific Values presented in Figure 5-1 is detailed here:
a) 6,493 acre-feet per year – This total pumping quantity represents the City’s gross production of groundwater from the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin, as shown in Table 5-1.
b) 615 acre-feet per year – This represents the City Distribution System losses back to the basin through leaks, estimated at 10 percent of total metered deliveries, as detailed in Section 3.1.1 and Section 5.2.2.
c) 1,351 acre-feet per year – This represents the subtotal demand for the Proposed Project (Vista Lucia), excluding system losses, as shown in Table 5-1. d) 937 acre-feet per year – This represents the total indoor water use (residential and nonresidential) of the Proposed Project (Vista Lucia), as shown in Table 5-1. e) 9 acre-feet per year – This represents the one percent loss rate from indoor water use of the Proposed Project (Vista Lucia), as shown in Table 5-4. f) 414 acre-feet per year – This represents the outdoor water use of the Proposed Project (Vista Lucia), as well as miscellaneous water use, as shown in Table 5-1.

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g) 928 acre-feet per year – This represents the wastewater produced by the Proposed Project (Vista Lucia), as shown in Table 5-4.
h) 423 acre-feet per year – This represents the net consumptive use of the Proposed Project (Vista Lucia).
i) 2,051 acre-feet per year – This represents the subtotal demand for the Existing City of Gonzales, excluding system losses, as shown in Table 5-1. j) 1,182 acre-feet per year – This represents the total indoor water use of the Existing City of Gonzales, as shown in Table 5-1.
k) 12 acre-feet per year – This represents the one percent loss rate from indoor water use of the Existing City, as shown in Table 5-4.
l) 869 acre-feet per year – This represents the outdoor water use of the Existing City of Gonzales, as shown in Table 5-1.
m) 1,170 acre-feet per year – This represents the wastewater produced by the Existing City of Gonzales, as shown in Table 5-4.
n) 881 acre-feet per year – This represents the net consumptive use of the Existing City of Gonzales.
o) 234 acre-feet per year – This represents the subtotal demand for the Rianda Cooler project, excluding system losses, as shown in Table 5-1. p) 225 acre-feet per year – This represents the total indoor water use of the Rianda Cooler project, as shown in Table 5-1.
q) 11 acre-feet per year – This represents the five percent loss rate from indoor water use of the Rianda Cooler Project, as shown in Table 5-4.
r) 9 acre-feet per year – This represents the outdoor water use of the Rianda Cooler project, as shown in Table 5-1.
s) 214 acre-feet per year – This represents the wastewater produced by Rianda Cooler project, as shown in Table 5-4.
t) 20 acre-feet per year – This represents the net consumptive use of the Rianda Cooler Project.
u) 1,135 acre-feet per year – This represents the subtotal demand for the Puente Del Monte project, excluding system losses, as shown in Table 5-4.

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v) 748 acre-feet per year – This represents the total indoor water use of the Puente Del Monte project, as shown in Table 5-1.
w) 8 acre-feet per year – This represents the one percent loss rate from indoor water use of the Puente Del Monte Project, as shown in Table 5-4.
x) 387 acre-feet per year – This represents the outdoor water use of the Puente Del Monte project, as well as miscellaneous water use, as shown in Table 5-1. y) 741 acre-feet per year – This represents the wastewater produced by the Puente Del Monte project, as shown in Table 5-4.
z) 395 acre-feet per year – This represents the net consumptive use for the Puente Del Monte project.
aa) 922 acre-feet per year – This represents the subtotal demand for the three D’Arrigo developments (SOI, Rincon, and Industrial), excluding system losses, as shown in Table 5-1.
bb) 755 acre-feet per year – This represents the total indoor water use of the D’Arrigo developments, as shown in Table 5-1.
cc) 20 acre-feet per year – This represents the five percent loss rate from the industrial indoor portion of D’Arrigo and the one percent loss rate from the other indoor water uses of the D’Arrigo developments, as shown in Table 5-4.
dd) 168 acre-feet per year – This represents the outdoor water use of the D’Arrigo developments, as shown in Table 5-1.
ee) 735 acre-feet per year – This represents the wastewater produced by the D’Arrigo developments, as shown in Table 5-4.
ff) 188 acre-feet per year – This represents the net consumptive use for the D’Arrigo developments.
gg) 183 acre-feet per year – This represents the subtotal demand for the Franscioni project, excluding system losses, as shown in Table 5-1.
hh) 176 acre-feet per year – This represents the total indoor water use of the Franscioni project, as shown in Table 5-1.
ii) 9 acre-foot per year – This represents the five percent loss rate from indoor industrial water use of the Franscioni project, as shown in Table 5-4.

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jj) 7 acre-feet per year – This represents the outdoor water use of the Franscioni project, as shown in Table 5-1.
kk) 167 acre-feet per year – This represents the wastewater produced by the Franscioni project, as shown in Table 5-4.
ll) 16 acre-feet per year – This represents the net consumptive use of the Franscioni project. mm) 3,955 acre-feet per year – This represents the total inflow to the Gonzales WWTP from all development at buildout, as shown in Table 5-4. This includes the Proposed Project (Vista Lucia), the Existing City, and the other planned developments. nn) 475 acre-feet per year – This represents the evaporation from the GWWTP ponds during treatment and percolation of wastewater, as shown in Table 5-4. oo) 475 acre-feet per year – This represents the net consumption of water by the GWWTP. pp) 3,480 acre-feet per year – This represents the volume of treated wastewater returned to the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin by percolation at the WWTP under the buildout condition, as shown in Table 5-4.
qq) 2,398 acre-feet per year – This represents the total net consumptive use of all development at buildout, including the Proposed Project (Vista Lucia), the Existing City, and the other planned developments.

As illustrated in Figure 5-1, the total net consumptive use of the Proposed Project, Existing City, and other planned developments is 2,398 acre-feet per year. The sustainable yield available to serve these uses is 3,946 acre-feet per year. Therefore, this WSA finds that there is sufficient groundwater available to sustainably supply the Proposed Project, Existing City, and other planned uses.

5.2.4 Existing Onsite Water Demand
As detailed in Section 2.3.2, currently approximately 768 acres of truck crops are growing on the Proposed Project site, irrigated with groundwater from multiple on-site deep wells. A conservative estimate places the existing consumptive demand of the applied irrigation water at approximately 1,100-1,280 acre-feet annually. More water could be extracted, depending on the efficiency of the irrigation system, and some of the crops’ demands are met by effective rainfall.

Upon construction of the Proposed Project, this water demand will cease.

5.3 SUFFICIENCY ANALYSIS CONCLUSIONS
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the Proposed Project, and other planned developments, the net consumptive use is only approximately 2,398 acre-feet. This value represents the amount of groundwater extracted that will primarily leave the basin through evapotranspiration and evaporation.

Also, during single and multiple dry years, the total combined demands are expected to increase extraction to as much as 6,818 acre-feet as a result of increased demand for irrigation water, but also decrease to as low as 5,844 acre-feet when temporary shortage provisions are instituted. Net consumptive use is expected to increase and decrease by equal proportions during single and multiple dry years, but will remain well below the available sustainable yield, as shown in Table 5-5.

Table 5-5: Net Consumptive Water Use and Sufficiency in Dry Years Even absent the Proposed Project’s efforts to achieve groundwater sustainability, the reduced consumption compared to the existing consumption from agricultural irrigation on the land proposed for development demonstrates that there is sufficient groundwater in the Basin to meet the estimated net consumptive demand of the Proposed Project and other planned uses. With the addition of the Proposed Project’s efforts to achieve efficient use of water through droughttolerant landscaping and efficient plumbing, the conclusion of sufficiency is further bolstered.

The conclusion that sufficient water is available to meet the Project water demands rests on the following:
 The Proposed Project is constructed following the water-efficiency design and low-water use objectives articulated in the Vista Lucia Specific Plan.  Actual groundwater conditions match the representations by DWR (see Section 4), including the freshwater base existing about 800 to 1,400 feet below the City and Proposed Project site, with freshwater occurring at about 60 to 90 feet below the project site. This offers at least 800 feet of usable aquifer depth.  The City’s wastewater treatment plants will direct all effluent to percolation basins, where the majority of water will recharge to the aquifer to offset the City and Proposed Projects groundwater use.

Total Combined
Water Demand
Net
Consumptive
Use
Available
Sustainable
Yield
Sufficient
Groundwater
Available?
6,493 2,398 3,946 Yes
6,818 2,518 3,946 Yes
Year 1 6,818 2,518 3,946 Yes
Year 2 6,493 2,398 3,946 Yes
Year 3-5 5,844 2,158 3,946 Yes
Hydrologic Year Type
Normal
Single Dry
Multiple Dry
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February 2023 – Public Review Draft
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 The authorized GSAs will meet the long-term sustainability objectives articulated under SGMA such that current groundwater levels in the Basin are maintained or improved.108  The three underlying GSP’s Sustainable Yield values, interpolated on a net consumption per acre basis, are consistent with this WSA’s assumed value of 1.37 acre-feet per acre per year. 109,110,111
 The Proposed Project will use 423 acre-feet of consumptive water annually, which is far less than the 1,100-1,280 acre-feet consumed by the crops currently being irrigated on the Proposed Project site.
 When considering the combined total net consumptive use of the Proposed Project, the Existing City of Gonzales, and the other planned uses (Rianda Cooler, Puente Del Monte, D’Arrigo, and Franscioni), all uses to be served by the City of Gonzales at buildout will sum to 2,398 acre-feet per year of net consumptive use. This is less than the sustainable yield available for these uses estimated to be 3,946 acre-feet per year, as calculated by this WSA based on the underlying subbasins’ GSPs. Therefore, the construction of the Proposed Project is consistent with the groundwater sustainability goals of SGMA and long-term groundwater sustainability.
108 California Water Code Section 10727.2(b)(4) establishes that groundwater conditions as of January 1, 2015 become the baseline from which “undesirable results” will be assessed and objectives for improved sustainability will be measured. This essentially sets conditions as of January 2015 as being the point from which improvements will be made (although groundwater levels may fluctuate periodically below this baseline as may be determined in a GSP, but should not measurably continue downward from this point). 109 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021).
110 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Eastside Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021).
111 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Forebay Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021).

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Attachment: Vista Lucia WSA (Public Review Draft) (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) ATTACHMENT A – PUENTE DEL MONTE WATER USE DEMAND

FACTORS
In earlier drafts of this WSA, the Puente Del Monte (PDM) Specific Plan1community was considered part of the Proposed Project, and detailed analysis of its expected water demands was performed by Zanjero. Ultimately, the Proposed Project description was revised to include only the Vista Lucia Community, with the Puente Del Monte Community analyzed as one of the Other Planned Uses to be served by the City of Gonzales. The detailed analysis of Puente Del Monte’s future water demands is included in this WSA as Attachment A.

The Puente Del Monte community will be developed on 585 acres located partly within the City of Gonzales and partly within the City’s Sphere of Influence in Monterey County. The developable areas will contain low to high density housing, open space, commercial, light industrial and school uses. An agriculture buffer bounds a majority of the Specific Plan area providing transition from farmlands to the built environment. The remainder of this attachment described the methodology used to calculate the indoor and outdoor residential and nonresidential water demand associated with the PDMSP community.

A.1 LAND USE AND CONSTRUCTION PHASING
The PDM community includes several residential and non-residential land-use classifications including market rate housing, mixed use commercial and residential elements, public facilities such as schools, parks (including trails and plazas), and open space (including storm water retention and agricultural buffers). The construction of the PDM community will be conducted in phases, as depicted in Table A-1. The land use of the PDM community at full buildout is represented as the condition in 2050.
1 WHA, Land Concern, Ruggeri-Jensen-Azar (2021) Puente Del Monte Specific Plan August 2021.

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Attachment: WSA - Appendix A (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) Table A-1 – Puente Del Monte Construction Phasing.

Category 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050
Residential (dwelling units)
Low Density 0 80 163 163 596 596
Medium Density 281 444 519 619 619 619
Medium-High Density 108 285 524 794 794 794
High Density 0 0 292 292 569 569
Mixed Use Residential 0 21 45 45 45 45
Non-Residential (acres)
Elementary Schools 0 0 10 20 20 20
Light Industrial 0 0 0 0 21 21
Highway Commercial 0 0 0 0 0 38
Parks 3 4 9 23 23 23
Central Drainage Trail 0 0 0 19 19 19
Streetscape Landscaping 0 0 0 0 63 66
Other Miscellaneous Uses (acres)
Agricultural Buffer 8 13 13 13 63 75
A.2 RESIDENTIAL WATER USE DEMAND FACTORS
The PDMSP community anticipates five general residential land use designations. The size of the lot generally has the greatest impact on the annual per-lot demand for water as the irrigation needs for landscaping generally increase with larger landscaped areas. However, as discussed previously, the PDMSP includes defined plant material selection and design that significantly reduces the outdoor component of the forecast residential water demands compared to more conventional landscape designs, thus limiting, but not eliminating, this traditional lot-size effect.

In contrast, indoor water demands remain relatively consistent regardless of lot size, but do vary slightly based on the number of people per dwelling unit. Distinct demand factors are provided for the following residential uses:
 Indoor Residential Use – this category identifies the generally anticipated water use for the varied residential housing types.
 Outdoor Residential Use – this category addresses the landscape water demands for the various planned lot sizes.

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Attachment: WSA - Appendix A (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) A.2.1 Indoor Residential Water Use Factors
The PDM residential elements would be built in accordance with all applicable building codes including the Cal Green Code discussed previously, as it may be further modified prior to Proposed Project implementation.

The indoor demands are estimated using an assumed value of 55 gallons-per person per day, multiplied by the assumed occupancy rates for conventional and high-density residential classifications.

For purposes of this WSA, conventional housing assumes an average occupancy rate of 4.4 people per house, while the high-density and mixed-use classifications assume 3.4 persons per house.2 The assumed per-person rate of 55 gallons per day is derived from California Water Code Section 10608.20(b)(2)(A), which states a value of 55 gallons per capita (i.e., per person) per day (“gpcd”) be used for estimating indoor residential use targets. When multiplied, the perperson use results in a per-dwelling unit demand of 0.27 acre-feet per year for conventional and mixed-used housing and 0.21 for high-density housing.

The 55 gpcd indoor use value has been confirmed through analyses of residential water meter data and is reflective of new suburban single-family dwelling units and older homes retrofitted with new water efficient fixtures and appliances.3
A.2.2 Outdoor Residential Water Use Factors
Outdoor water use is primarily a factor of lot size and the type and extent of landscaped area.

The PDM community includes up to 2,623 residential lots with five average lot sizes for the single-family classifications: 9,163 sf for LDR; 5,483 sf for MDR; 3,769 sf for MHDR; and 1,389 for HDR.4 Outdoor demands for the multi-family classification are calculated using net acreage values, which accounts for a street allowance as detailed below.

Outdoor demands for PDM are calculated based on a number of factors including the regulations and calculation methodologies contained in MWELO. The MWELO provides for determining the Maximum Applied Water Allowance (“MAWA”) where the maximum is determined as 55 percent of the reference evapotranspiration for the area, resulting in the following equation:5 2 City of Gonzles 2015 Housing Element indicates an average occupancy of 4.4 people per household for conventional housing (low – medium-high densities). 3.4 persons per household is assumed for high density and mixed-use housing.
3 With the increasingly stringent requirements of building codes as well as water and energy efficiency codes, it is likely that the actual indoor demand of the Proposed Project may be below the stated 0.23 af/yr. Recently, the Governor issued Executive Order B-37-16 that, among other orders, directed state agencies to develop new urban water use targets including a standard for indoor residential per-capita water use. These new targets are to “build upon the existing state law” that requires a 20% reduction in urban water use by 2020 – which already includes the suggested 55 gallons-per-person per day planning guidance. 4 Certain lots may be slightly larger or smaller, depending on the grading and final layout of the Proposed Project.

However, those variations will be nominal and will not materially affect the Proposed Project’s total demand. 5 This formula reflects the latest revision to the MAWA that became mandatory as of December 1, 2015.

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Attachment: WSA - Appendix A (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) MAWA = (ETo) (0.62) (0.55 x LA), where ETo is the reference evapotranspiration in inches per year, and LA is the landscape area in square feet. 0.62 is a conversion factor to gallons. The resulting value is in “gallons per year”
A primary factor in this calculation is evapotranspiration (“ET”). The methodology directs the use of ET from a reference crop, such as maintained grass – a value referred to as ETo. For PDM, the average ETo is 52.50 inches per year (or over 4.4 feet per year).6 Besides the ETo value, the primary factor driving outdoor water use on a per-lot basis is the square footage of landscape area. In addition to MWELO, the PDMSP relies on landscaping restrictions that exceed the MWELO maximums. Specifically, the PDMSP restricts turf to 25 percent of the landscaped area, and restricts plant choices to a majority of low and very-low water use species. More information about these restrictions is discussed in Section 2.1.1 of the main WSA document.

The calculations for water use are based on specific restrictions and the water efficient character as presented in the PDMSP. This WSA utilizes individual calculations for each parcel type based on typical landscape areas, plant types, and average plant water use factors defined in the PDMSP. The following assumptions form the basis of the residential landscape unit demand factors:
 Plant Factors (PF) – based upon the plant palette of the PDMSP, the following factors are assumed:
o Turf = 0.6 (assumes use of certain Fescues, Bermuda Grass, and some other turf varieties with relatively low irrigation requirements. Some grass varieties, such as St Augustine, Zoysia, and Buffalo grass, may have factors less than 0.6.)
o Shrubs and Trees = 0.3
 Because much of the landscape area will be trees and shrubs, the landscape area is reduced by 3 percent to reflect the “open/non-irrigated” space between plants. This area does not receive irrigation when using drip irrigation systems, which will be used for irrigating the trees and shrubs. This small deduction is reflected in the demand calculations for each residential lot category.

Using the plant factors and the MAWA equation, demand factors for each residential lot category are presented here:
6 ETo is consistent with California Irrigation Management Information System data available for the region.

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Attachment: WSA - Appendix A (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan)  Low Density – The proposed 596 single-family dwellings will be built on lots with an average gross size of 10,181 sf, minus a 10 percent street allowance. For purposes of this WSA, an average of 6,163 sf of the lot is assumed to be landscaped7. Based on the MAWA equation, the resulting outdoor demand factor is forecast to be 0.23 acre-feet per dwelling unit.
 Medium Density – The proposed 619 attached and detached single-family dwelling units in this classification will be constructed on lots with an average gross size of 5,960 sf minus an 8 percent street allowance. Other configurations within this classification, as described in the PDMSP, may include conventional small lot homes, alley, duplex, triplex, or townhomes. For purposes of this WSA, an average of 3,183 sf of the lot is assumed to be landscaped,8. The resulting outdoor demand factor is forecast to be 0.12 acre-feet per dwelling unit.
 Medium-High Density – The proposed 794 multifamily and single-family attached dwelling units in this classification will be constructed on lots with an average gross size of 4,010 sf minus a 6 percent street allowance. Other configurations within this classification, as described in the PDMSP, may include duplexes, triplexes, townhomes, or flats. For purposes of this WSA, an average of 1,819 sf of the lot is assumed to be landscaped,9. The resulting outdoor demand factor is forecast to be 0.07 acre-feet per dwelling unit.
 High Density – The proposed 569 units will include a variety of attached and multifamily dwellings on lots with an average gross size of 1,462 sf minus a 5 percent street allowance. Buildings can be configured as townhomes or flats. This dwelling unit type is typically associated with community controlled outdoor spaces so the average outdoor demands are quite low per unit. For purposes of this WSA, an average of 139 sf of the lot is assumed to be landscaped10. The resulting outdoor demand factor is forecast to be

0.01 acre-feet per dwelling unit.
7 Assumes net lot is 9,163 sf with 2,500 sf building footprint with 500 sf hardscape including driveway and patio. 8 Assumes net lot of 5,483 sf with 1,800 sf building footprint with 500 sf hardscape including driveway and patio. 9 Assumes net lot of 3,769 sf with 1,700 sf building footprint with 250 sf hardscape including driveway and patio. 10 Assumes net lot of 1,389 sf with 1,000 sf building footprint with 250 sf hardscape including driveway and patio.

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Attachment: WSA - Appendix A (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan)  Mixed Use Residential. – The proposed Mixed-Use Area is primarily residential in character, with some homes also containing neighborhood commercial uses, as discussed below in section A.2.1. The entire Mixed-Use Area will be designed with the same specifications as the Medium Density residential area described above, including outdoor landscaping. It is forecast that the Mixed-Use area will have an outdoor demand factor of

0.12 acre-feet per dwelling unit for its 45 dwelling units, using the same calculation methodology as was used to calculate the Medium-Density outdoor residential demands.

A.2.3 Summary of Residential Water Use Demand Factors
Table A-2 provides a summary of the unit water demand factor used to estimate the PDM water use.

Table A-2 – Summary of Residential Demand Factors for PDMSP Water Demand Category
by Dwelling Unit (du) Type
Average Density
(du/ac)
Indoor
Factor
Outdoor
Factor
Total
Demand Factor
(af/du)
Low Density 5.0 0.27 0.23 0.50
Medium Density 7.0 0.27 0.12 0.39
Medium-High Density 12.0 0.27 0.07 0.34
High Density 20.0 0.21 0.01 0.21
Mixed Use 7.0 0.27 0.12 0.39
A.3 NON-RESIDENTIAL WATER USE DEMAND FACTORS
The PDM community has several non-residential features ranging from a mixed-use neighborhood center, two schools, landscaped promenades, community gardens, and storm detention facilities. Many of these proposed land-uses are unique, requiring specific demand forecasts for each component.

For purposes of this WSA, the demand for non-residential classifications is described as either “the acre-feet of water use annually per acre of land,” acre-feet/acre (af/ac), or as a single demand projection for a demand category such as the indoor uses for the elementary schools, acre-feet/unit (af/unit). These values reflect indoor or outdoor water needs expected for typical non-residential use for each of the following classifications:
 Mixed-Use Overlay Indoor
 Elementary School Indoor
 Light Industrial Indoor
 Highway Commercial Indoor
 Non-residential Outdoor
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Attachment: WSA - Appendix A (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) o Parks and Open Space
o Agricultural Buffer
o Elementary School
o Streetscape Landscaping
 Other miscellaneous uses, including temporary irrigation to establish open space landscaping, and temporary construction water.

The method and basis for determining the unit water demand factor for each of these classifications is detailed in the following subsections.

A.3.1 Mixed-Use Overlay Commercial Indoor
The proposed Mixed-use area is anticipated to include up to 10,000 square feet (sf.) of commercial space spread across approximately 6 acres. The Mixed-Use area is expected to be primarily residential, but will allow for live/work arrangements within homes, such as salons, tax accountants, florists, and real estate agents, etc. These commercial activities will primarily include service, professional, and office uses, with some retail also possible. Commercial activities will occupy approximately 0.23 acres of the 6-acre zone. Based upon meter studies conducted on existing neighborhood commercial facilities elsewhere in California, coupled with the on-going commitment toward more efficient water use, the indoor unit demand factor for this classification is estimated at 1 acre-foot/acre for the purposes of this WSA. 11 The majority of the
Mixed-Use area’s land and water use will be residential, as discussed above in section A.2.

A.3.2 Elementary School Indoor
The PDMSP community includes two 10-acre elementary schools, totaling 20 acres. Based upon meter studies for existing elementary schools, total school use – indoor and outdoor – ranges from 20 to 30 gallons per day per student. Depending on the schools’ landscape design and operation, 60 to 70 percent of this demand is used to meet outdoor needs.12 Therefore, for purposes of this WSA, indoor demands are based upon an assumed use of 10 gallons per day per student. The total number of students per dwelling unit is estimated to be 0.4331 students/DU for elementary school (grades K-6).13 With a total of up to 2,623 dwelling units in the Puente Del Monte community, the estimated total elementary school student body is 1,136. This unit demand factor would reflect all administrative, teacher, student, cafeteria, and janitorial uses for the school, averaged on a per-student basis. The result is a forecast indoor demand of 12.7 acrefeet/year for the two proposed elementary schools, rounded up to 13 acre-feet/year for purposes of this WSA.
11 Zanjero, Inc. has performed several meter studies in California’s Central Valley. Specific small and large mixeduse commercial developments were analyzed and found to range from 0.78 af/ac/yr to 1.22 af/ac/yr for the total indoor and outdoor area (hard space such as parking and sidewalks). The majority of this use is from indoor needs, which do not significantly vary regionally between the Central Valley and the Salinas Valley. 12 This is an estimate of indoor use per acre derived from a 2015 study of school demand in Folsom, California. A 2016 review of school demands in El Dorado Hills, California confirmed these numbers for newer schools. 13 Based upon values from the Gonzales Unified School District Facilities Management Plan.

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Attachment: WSA - Appendix A (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) A.3.3 Light Industrial Indoor
The PDM community’s proposed Light Industrial area consists of 21 acres. Examples of permitted uses in this area include retail, appliance repair, laundromat, professional services/ office space, medical, laboratory, wholesale, and light industry uses such as contracting, limited manufacturing, paint supplies, janitorial services. The exact level of indoor water use in this portion of the community will depend on the specific businesses that occupy each parcel. For the purposes of this WSA, the indoor unit demand factor for this classification is estimated at 1 acrefoot/acre.

A.3.4 Highway Commercial Indoor
The PDMSP proposed 39 acres of Highway Commercial area which entails “commercial areas that cater to highway travelers and/or regional markets, including gas stations, big-box retail, fast-food restaurants, lumber yards, motels, auto malls, building contractor storage yards, and other uses that serve local and regional needs for goods and services.”14 This area is subject to a maximum Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 0.5. Based upon meter studies conducted on existing highway commercial facilities elsewhere in California, coupled with the on-going commitment toward more efficient water use, the indoor unit demand factor for this classification is estimated at 1 acre-foot/acre for the purposes of this WSA.

A.3.5 Elementary School Outdoor
Quantifying outdoor water demands for schools depends on many factors including campus landscaping, size and type of play fields, student population, and other factors. Puente Del Monte’s proposed two 10-acre elementary schools are assumed to follow designs typical in the Salinas Valley. Turf play fields are expected to occupy 12.96 percent of the total schools’ area, or approximately 130,500 sf (2.99 acres) for both elementary schools combined. The remaining landscape area at each school will be trees and shrubs with lower water demands maintained by drip irrigation. The low water use landscaping is expected to occupy approximately 26 percent of the total schools’ area, or approximately 263,070 sf (6.03 acres). Using the MWELO formula, the total landscaping outdoor demand from the two elementary schools is estimated to be a total of 20.9 af/year. On average, the school sites are estimated to use 1.05 af/acre of total site area.

A.3.6 Parks and Open Space Outdoor
The PDM community includes several distinct outdoor landscaping areas including traditional parks and open space, a central drainage trail (greenway), and an agricultural buffer. 15 The
landscape architect for Puente Del Monte has provided estimates regarding the percentage of each acre that is hardscape, unirrigated drainage basins, or irrigated landscaping, and the percentage of irrigated area that is turf versus shrubs and trees.16 Appendix A of the PDMSP provides details on PDM’s landscaping direction and plant selection. 14 WHA et al. (2021) Puente Del Monte Specific Plan, page 2-6 15 More information on the agricultural buffer is presented in section A.4. 16 Personal communication, 4/14/22 email from Garett Bustos, Landscape Architect at Land Concern.

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Attachment: WSA - Appendix A (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) The primary assumptions used to estimate the outdoor demand for these features include:
 The assumed reference evapotranspiration (ETo) – as discussed previously, an ETo of

52.5 inches per year is assumed.
 Plant Factors (PF) – The evapotranspiration adjustment factor (ETAF) of 0.6 was used for turf play areas, and 0.3 for all other irrigated landscaping, which will be planted with low water use plants.
 The estimated square footage of each type of planting within each land-use category (LA) These assumptions are combined in the following formula:

Demand = (ETo) (0.62) (PF x LA), where ETo is the reference evapotranspiration in inches per year, PF is the plant factor, LA is the landscape area, and IE is the irrigation efficiency for each planting type by land classification. 0.62 is a conversion factor to gallons. The resulting value is in “gallons per year,” which is converted to acre-feet per year Table A-3 presents the assumed percentages of irrigated land per each planting designation.

Table A-3 – Parks and Open Space Outdoor Water Use
Open Space
Type
Total
Open
Area
(acres)
% of
Total
Open
Area
Irrigated
Total
Irrigated
Area
(acres)
Max
Allowable
Plant
Factor
Turf
Area
(acres)
Low Water
Use
Landscapin
g Area
(acres)
Average
Demand
Factor
(AF/yr)
Average
Demand
Factor
(AF/acre)
Neighborhood
& Community
Parks

23 76%

17.8 0.6 for
turf, else

0.3 7.1

10.63 32.5 1.40
Central
Drainage Trail

19 95%

18.1 0.3 -

18.11 23.6 1.24
Agricultural
Buffer

75 3% 2.5*

0.3 -

2.49 3.3 0.04
*The agricultural buffer includes 2.5 acres of landscaping that will receive irrigation on an ongoing basis, called “enhanced pedestrian nodes”. An additional 63 acres will be landscaped with drought tolerant plants that require irrigation during establishment only, which is expected to require 82 acre-feet/year for the first five years and zero applied water thereafter.

A.3.7 Other Non-Residential Outdoor (Landscaped Areas)
Other features include the landscaping for the elementary school, highway commercial and light industrial areas, and streetscape landscaping along the 66 acres of roads. The primary assumptions used to estimate the outdoor demand for these features are the same as those used to calculate outdoor demand for Parks and Open Space as described above in Section A.3.6.

Table A-4 presents the assumed percentages of irrigated land per each planting designation.

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Attachment: WSA - Appendix A (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) Table A-4 – Other Non-Residential Landscape Demand Factors17 Public Use Element
Total Open
Area
(acres)
% of Total
Open Area
Irrigated
Total
Irrigated
Area (acres)
Max
Allowable
Plant
Factor
Average
Demand
Factor (AF/yr)
Average
Demand
Factor
(AF/acre)
Schools 20 45% 9.0

1.0 for
SLA, else

0.30 20.9 1.05
Neighborhood Mixed Use
Commercial 6 10% 0.6

0.30 0.8 0.13
Light Industrial 21 10% 2.1

0.45 4.1 0.20
Highway Commercial 39 10% 3.9

0.45 7.6 0.20
Streetscape Landscaping 66 10% 6.7

0.45 13.1 0.20
A.3.8 Summary of Non-Residential Water Use Demand Factors Table A-5 provides a summary of the non-residential unit water demand factor used to estimate the PDM community’s water use.

Table A-5 – Summary of Non-Residential Demand Factors for PDMSP Water Demand Category Acres
Indoor Use
(acre-feet
per year)
Outdoor Use
(acre-feet per
acre)
Total Demand
(acre-feet
per year)
Neighborhood Center Mixed Use 0.23 0.23 0.00 0.23
Elementary Schools 20 13 1.05 34
Light Industrial 21 21 0.20 4
Highway Commercial 39 39 0.20 8
Neighborhood Parks & Open Space 23 - 1.40 33
Street Landscaping 67 - 0.20 13
Central Drainage Trail 19 - 1.24 24
Agricultural Buffer* 75.0 - 0.04 3
*Agricultural Buffer includes 75 acres total, of which 63 acres will require applied water for establishment only.

Only 2.49 acres will require irrigation on an ongoing basis. Most of the remainder is hardscape or drainage basins.

A.4 OTHER MISCELLANEOUS USES
The PDM community has additional miscellaneous land uses with water demands, albeit only temporary demands. These uses have minimal impacts to the overall forecast water use due to their limited duration.
17 Irrigated area and turf area percentages are further discussed and detailed in the Puente Del Monte Specific Plan.

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The PDM site would include site grading and infrastructure installation during early phases of construction that will require dust suppression and other incidental water uses. These would not continue beyond the construction phases of the PDM community. For purposes of identifying incremental water demands, construction water is conservatively assumed for purposes of this WSA to be 3 acre-feet per year (this is about 900,000 gallons – or about 225 fill-ups of a 4,000- gallon water truck per year).

Agricultural Buffer Establishment
The PDM Specific Plan includes “agricultural buffers” consisting of roadways, passive open space including trails, community gardens, stormwater quality basins, drainage features, and solar panel installations. The buffers are intended to provide a softer transition from the surrounding land uses into Puente Del Monte. Of the 63 acres in this land use category, 75 percent (47.25 acres) will be landscaped. These areas will be seeded with native or droughttolerant water use plants, with the majority of landscaping requiring irrigation during establishment only. A small subset of the Agricultural Buffer, called “enhance pedestrian nodes”, would have low water use plants using drip irrigation on an ongoing basis. The enhanced pedestrian nodes would be spread throughout the agricultural buffer, totaling 2.49 acres. The agricultural buffer is expected to require 1.31 acre-feet per acre during the first five years of establishment, then only 0.04 acre-feet/acre to irrigate the enhance pedestrian nodes every year thereafter. Note that the development of the agricultural buffer is phased, as shown below in Table A-6.

A.4 SUMMARY OF PUENTE DEL MONTE WATER DEMANDS
Combining the Puente Del Monte Specific Plan’s land use details and phasing with the demand factors presented in Table A-1 through Table A-5, the water demands for the PDM community from implementation to build-out can be estimated. Upon completion of buildout, the demands are conservatively estimated at 1,135 acre-feet of water annually, excluding considerations of non-revenue water (see below), and up to approximately 1,262 acre-feet of water annually when considering of non-revenue water (see Table A-6).

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Category 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 Low Density 0 80 163 163 596 596 0 22 44 44 162 162
Medium Density 281 444 519 619 619 619 76 120 141 168 168 168 Medium-High Density 108 285 524 794 794 794 29 77 142 215 215 215 High Density 0 0 292 292 569 569 0 0 61 61 119 119
Mixed Use Residential 0 21 45 45 45 45 0 6 12 12 12 12
105 225 400 501 676 676
Low Density 0 80 163 163 596 596 0 18 37 37 134 134
Medium Density 281 444 519 619 619 619 33 52 60 72 72 72 Medium-High Density 108 285 524 794 794 794 7 19 35 53 53 53 High Density 0 0 292 292 569 569 0 0 1 1 3 3
Mixed Use Residential 0 21 45 45 45 45 0 3 5 5 5 5
40 91 139 168 267 267
Mixed Use Overlay 0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 Elementary Schools 0 0 10 20 20 20 0 0 7 13 13 13
Light Industrial 0 0 0 0 21 21 0 0 0 0 21 21
Highway Commercial 0 0 0 0 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 38
0 0 7 13 34 72
Neighborhood Center (Mixed Use) 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 Elementary Schools 0 0 10 20 20 20 0 0 10 21 21 21
Light Industrial 0 0 0 0 21 21 0 0 0 0 1 1
Highway Commercial 0 0 0 0 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 7
Parks 3 4 9 23 23 23 4 6 12 32 32 32
Central Drainage Trail 0 0 0 19 19 19 0 0 0 24 24 24
Agricultural Buffer (ongoing) 8 13 13 13 63 75 0 1 1 1 3 3 Streetscape Landscaping 0 0 0 0 63 66 0 0 0 0 12 13
5 7 24 78 93 102
Other Miscellaneous Uses
Agricultural Buffer (establishment) 8 13 13 13 63 75 11.0 6.2 0.0 0.0 65.8 15.2 Construction Water 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3
14 9 3 3 69 18
105 225 408 514 710 748
59 107 165 249 429 387
Total 164 332 573 763 1,140 1,135
Non-revenue water at 10% 18 37 64 85 127 126
Total Puente Del Monte Demand 182 369 637 848 1,266 1,262 Indoor Total
Outdoor Total

0.23 Demand Factor
(af/du or af/ac)
Residential

0.27 0.27

0.27 0.21

0.27 Indoor Subtotal

0.12 0.07

0.01 0.12
Outdoor Subtotal
Non-Residential

1.00 1.00
Indoor Subtotal
Outdoor Subtotal
3 Outdoor Subtotal
N/A

1.00 1.05

0.04 0.20

1.40 0.20

1.24 1.31

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Administrative Draft: January 2018
B-1
ATTACHMENT B – GROUNDWATER BASIN AND SUBBASIN

DESCRIPTIONS
This attachment provides detailed descriptions of the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin and its subbasins that underlie the Proposed Project, which are summarized in Section 4 of the WSA. If a project’s water supply includes the use of groundwater, the WSA must include: a description of any groundwater basin or basins from which the proposed project will be supplied, a detailed description and analysis of historical and projected groundwater pumping, and an analysis of the sufficiency of the groundwater from the basin or basins from which the proposed project will be supplied to meet the projected water demand associated with the proposed project.

The Proposed Project is located in the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin, near the intersection of three subbasins: the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin (Basin No. 3-004.01), the Eastside Subbasin (Basin No. 3-004.02), and the Forebay Subbasin (Basin No. 3-004.04), as defined by DWR Bulletin 118.1 The subbasins cover areas of of 140 square miles, 90 square miles, and 147 square miles respectively. In the area around the City of Gonzales, the subbasins are general bounded by the Gabilan Range to the east and the Sierra de Salinas to the west. The 180/400- Foot Aquifer Subbasin and Eastside Subbasin are both characterized as high-priority basins under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), while the Forebay Subbasin is characterized as medium-priority. 2 All three subbasins have produced Groundwater Sustainability Plans, which were used by this WSA to evaluate the long-term reliability of groundwater supplies for the Proposed Project and the City of Gonzales. The Salinas ValleyWide Integrated Groundwater Sustainability Plan was also used to evaluate conditions across subbasin boundaries.

While current supply wells for the City of Gonzales are located only in the 180/400-Foot Aquifer and Eastside Subbasins, a portion of the City and the Proposed Project also overlies the Forebay subbasin. It is possible that water from any of the three subbasins would ultimately be used to serve the Proposed Project. Therefore, each of the three subbasins is described in turn below. See Figure B-1 for DWR’s representation of the Groundwater Basins in the Salinas Valley near Gonzales.
1 California Department of Water Resources, California’s Groundwater Update 2020 Highlights (2020). 2 CA Department of Water Resources. (2022). Basin Prioritization. water.ca.gov. Retrieved from https://water.ca.gov/programs/groundwater-management/basin-prioritization Packet Pg. 103 Attachment: WSA - Appendix B (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) Vista Lucia – Water Supply Assessment
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Figure B-1 – Location of Salinas Valley Subbasins
B.1 180/400-FOOT AQUIFER SUBBASIN GEOLOGY3
The 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin lies in northwestern Monterey County and includes the northern end of the Salinas River Valley. The Subbasin covers an area of 89,700 acres, or 140 square miles (DWR, 2004). It is bounded by the Eastside Aquifer and Langley Area Subbasins to the east, the Forebay Aquifer Subbasin to the south, the Monterey Subbasin to the west, and the Monterey Bay to the north. The 180/400-Foot Aquifer subbasin is located at the northern, downgradient end of the larger Salinas Valley Basin. Land surface elevations in the Subbasin range from approximately 500 feet above sea level along its border with the Sierra de Salinas to sea level at Monterey Bay.4 The geology of the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin is characterized by alluvium, terrace deposits, the Paso Robles Formation, and the Aromas Red Sands Formation.

The geology is a result of both fluvial sedimentary deposits from the Salinas River and its 3 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021)
4 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin GSP (2021), Chapter 4.

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tributaries and marine deposits from the Pacific Ocean. The majority of the sediments in this subbasin are a mix of sands, gravels, and clays.5
The stratigraphic succession of geologic formations in the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin include, from oldest to youngest: Cretaceous basement rock; Tertiary Deposits including the Purisima Formation, Santa Margarita Sandstone, and Monterey Formation; Quaternary-Tertiary Deposits including the Paso Robles Formation; and Quaternary Deposits including terrace deposits, alluvial fans, Aromas Red Sands and similar, and alluvium form streams and small drainages.

The shallowest water-bearing sediments are thin, laterally discontinuous, and do not constitute a significant source of water for the Subbasin. These shallow sediments are therefore not considered a principal aquifer. These sediments are generally within 30 feet of the ground surface and are part of the Holocene Alluvium unit. Beneath the shallow sediments, the following series of aquitards and principal aquifers have long been recognized in a multitude of studies and reports. They are the distinguishing hydrostratigraphic features of this Subbasin:
 Salinas Valley Aquitard
 180-Foot Aquifer
 180/400-Foot Aquifer
 400-Foot Aquifer
 400-Foot/Deep Aquitard
 Deep Aquifers
Salinas Valley Aquitard
The Salinas Valley Aquitard is the shallowest, relatively continuous hydrogeologic feature in the Subbasin. The aquitard is composed of blue or yellow sandy clay layers with minor interbedded sand layers (DWR, 2003). The Salinas Valley Aquitard correlates to the Pleistocene Older Alluvium stratigraphic unit and was deposited in a shallow sea during a period of relatively high sea level. Most of the Salinas Valley Aquitard is generally encountered at depths of less than 30 feet. The Salinas Valley Aquitard overlies and confines the 180-Foot Aquifer. 180-Foot Aquifer
The 180-Foot Aquifer is the shallowest laterally extensive principal aquifer in the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin. This aquifer consists of interconnected sand and gravel beds that are from 50 to 150 feet thick. The sand and gravel layers are interlayered with clay lenses. This aquifer is correlated to the Older Alluvium or upper Aromas Sand formations. 180/400-Foot Aquitard
The base of the 180-Foot Aquifer is an aquitard consisting of interlayered clay and sand layers, including a marine blue clay layer similar to the Salinas Valley Aquitard, known as the 180/400- 5 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin GSP (2021), Section 4.2 Packet Pg. 105 Attachment: WSA - Appendix B (2639 : Water Supply Assessment for Vista Lucia Specific Plan) Vista Lucia – Water Supply Assessment
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Foot Aquitard. It is widespread in the Subbasin but varies in thickness and quality, and areas of hydrologic connection between the 400-Foot and 180-Foot Aquifers are known to exist. In areas where the 180/400-Foot Aquitard is thin or discontinuous, seawater in the 180-Foot Aquifer can migrate downward into the 400-Foot Aquifer in response to pumping. The 180/400-Foot Aquitard overlies and confines the 400-Foot Aquifer.
400-Foot Aquifer
The 400-Foot Aquifer is a hydrostratigraphic layer of sand and gravel with varying degrees of interbedded clay layers. It is usually encountered between 270 and 470 feet below ground surface. This hydrogeologic unit correlates to the Aromas Red Sands and the upper part of the Paso Robles Formation. Near the City of Salinas, the 400-Foot Aquifer is a single permeable bed approximately 200 feet thick; but in other areas the aquifer is split into multiple permeable zones by clay layers. The base of the 400-Foot Aquifer is the 400-Foot/Deep Aquitard. 400-Foot/Deep Aquitard
The 400-Foot/Deep Aquitard is primarily comprised of several blue marine clay layers. This aquitard can be several hundred feet thick (Kennedy-Jenks, 2004; Brown and Caldwell, 2015), consisting of mostly clay with sand and gravel lenses. The heterogeneous nature of the aquitard indicates there may be potential pathways for downward migration of water from the 400-Foot Aquifer to the Deep Aquifers. The 400-Foot/Deep Aquitard overlies and confines the Deep Aquifers.

Deep Aquifers
The Deep Aquifers, also referred to as the 900-Foot and 1500-Foot Aquifers, are up to 900 feet thick and have alternating sandy-gravel layers and clay layers which do not differentiate into distinct aquifer and aquitard units (DWR, 2003). The Deep Aquifers correlate to the lower Paso Robles, Purisima, and Santa Margarita formations where they exist. The Deep Aquifers overlie the low permeability Monterey Formation. While the Deep Aquifers are relatively poorly studied, some well owners have indicated that there are different portions of the Deep Aquifers with different water qualities. No public data exists to substantiate these statements.

B.2 EASTSIDE SUBBASIN GEOLOGY6
The Eastside Subbasin lies in northeastern Monterey County. The Subbasin covers an area of approximately 57,500 acres, or 90 square miles. The Eastside Subbasin lies along the east side of the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin. It is bounded by the Gabilan Range to the east, the Forebay Subbasin to the south, the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin to the west, and the Langley Area Subbasin to the north. Land surface elevations in the Subbasin range from approximately 900 feet above sea level along its border with the Gabilan Range to approximately 20 feet above sea level where it meets the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin along State Highway 101 near the 6 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Eastside Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021).

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City of Salinas. The geology of the Eastside Subbasin is dominated by alluvial fan deposits.

Surface-water drainages originating in the Gabilan Range deposited a series of interconnected alluvial fans that extend from the Gabilan Range in the northeast to the fluvial deposits that define the 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin in the southwest. There are no known structural features that restrict groundwater flow within the Eastside Subbasin, such as geologic folds or faults. However, groundwater flow from the Eastside Subbasin to various other subbasins may be restricted due to lack of continuous sediments. Usually, groundwater flow follows the topography of the valley northwest toward Monterey Bay.

Major geologic units present in the Eastside Subbasin are described below, starting at the surface and moving down through the geologic layers from youngest to oldest:
 Quaternary Deposits
 Older Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
Quaternary Deposits
The Quaternary Deposits are made of alluvium in streambeds and small drainages, hillslope deposits, alluvial fans, Aromas Red Sands and similar, and terrace deposits. Poorly to moderately sorted gravel, sand, and silt with discontinuous lenses of clay in some areas generally characterize these deposits. The Eastside Subbasin lacks the confining aquitards found in the adjacent 180/400-Foot Aquifer Subbasin.

Older Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
The eastern border of the Subbasin is defined by the contact between the Quaternary sedimentary units described above and the Cretaceous igneous and pre-Cretaceous metamorphic rocks of the Gabilan Range. Hard rocks like these also form the basement below the aquifer.

B.3 FOREBAY SUBBASIN GEOLOGY7
The Forebay Subbasin lies in the middle of Monterey County, and the middle of the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin. The Forebay Subbasin is bounded by the Gabilan Range to the east, the 180/400-Foot Aquifer and Eastside Subbasins to the north, the Sierra de Salinas to the west, and the Upper Valley Subbasin to the south. Land surface elevations in the Subbasin range from approximately 1,800 feet along the Sierra de Salinas alluvial fans to less than 200 feet at the boundary with the 180/400-foot Aquifer Subbasin. The geology of the Forebay Subbasin is characterized by 2 intersecting geologic facies: the fluvial and marine dominated deposits of the main Salinas Valley; and the Arroyo Seco alluvial fan originating in the Sierra de Salinas on the west side of the Subbasin. In general, the alluvial sediments encountered in the Arroyo Seco Cone are more coarse-grained than those found in the main valley’s fluvial and marine deposits. 7 Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Salinas Valley: Forebay Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan (2021).

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Major geologic units present in the Forebay Subbasin are described below, starting at the surface and moving down through the geologic layers from youngest to oldest:
 Quaternary Deposits
 Quaternary-Tertiary Deposits
 Tertiary Deposits
 Cretaceous Rocks
Quaternary Deposits
The Quaternary Deposits consist of flood plains and stream channel deposits, alluvial fans, and landslide and terrace deposits. The flood plains and stream channel deposits consist of unconsolidated, relatively fine grained, mixed deposits of sand and silt. There are thin, discontinuous layers of clay present. The thicknesses of the youngest deposits are generally less than 20 ft. The alluvial fan sediments consist of weakly to moderately consolidated, moderately to poorly sorted sand, silt, and gravel deposits. Gravel content increases toward the head of the alluvial fans, particularly the Arroyo Seco Cone which is the most prominent alluvial fan in this subbasin. Finer sediments such as clay and silt increase towards the furthest extents of the Cone, interfingering with the silts and clays often found in floodplain and stream-channel deposits.

The landslide and terrace features occur as erosional remnants of former stream channels of the Arroyo Seco and consist of weakly consolidated to semi-consolidated, moderately to poorly sorted, fine- to coarse-grained silty sand with gravels and cobbles. Their thickness is highly variable. These quaternary deposits are sometimes grouped together in other reports as Alluvium or Valley Fill Deposits.

Quaternary-Tertiary Deposits
The Quaternary-Tertiary Deposits consist of the Paso Robles Formation. This Pliocene to lower Pleistocene (1.6 million to 5 million years ago) unit is composed of lenticular beds of sand, gravel, silt, and clay from terrestrial. The depositional environment is largely fluvial but also includes alluvial fan, lake, and floodplain deposition. The alternating beds of fine and coarse materials typically have bed thicknesses of 20 to 60 feet.

Tertiary Deposits
The Tertiary Deposits consist of the Pancho Rico Formation and the Monterey Formation. The Poncho Rico Formation is a Pliocene (1.6 million to 5 million years ago) unit consisting of sandy marine strata and interbedded finer grained rocks. This unit conformably underlies the Paso Robles formation and conformably overlies the Monterey Shale, or non-comformably overlies the basement rocks northeast of King City. The Monterey Formation is a Miocene (5 million to 24 million years ago) unit consisting of shale and mudstone, with lower deposits being slightly sandier and deposited in a shallow marine environment.

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Valley Groundwater Basin. The Sierra de Salinas, which borders the Subbasin to the southwest, is composed of metamorphic and sedimentary rocks and is important as a geologic boundary in the Subbasin and greater Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin as well.

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MINUTES

JOINT MEETING OF THE

GONZALES CITY COUNCIL AND

GONZALES SUCCESSOR AGENCY
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2023
6:00 P.M.

CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 6:00 PM by Mayor Jose L. Rios.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
The flag salute was recited by all present.

ROLL CALL
Attendee Name Title Status
Jose L. Rios Mayor/Chair Present
Scott Funk Mayor Pro Tem/Vice Chair Present
Liz Silva Council/Agency Member Present
Lorraine Worthy Council/Agency Member Present
Maria Orozco Council/Agency Member Present

YOUTH COMMISSIONERS
Sherlyn Flores.

Absent: Luke Naegle.

STAFF PRESENT
City Manager Trevin Barber, City Attorney Michael F. Rodriquez, Director of Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Carmen Gil, Community Development Director Taven Kinison Brown, Executive Assistant to the City Manager/Deputy City Clerk Mary Villegas, Development Services Technician/Admin. Analyst Alejandra Flores, Administrative Assistant II Marisol Gomez, Public Works Director/City Engineer Patrick Dobbins, Fire Chief Jason Muscio, and Police Chief Keith Wise.

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PUBLIC NOTICE
This meeting is being conducted consistent with State of California Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020, regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The public may participate in person or online via zoom at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85408226381 or call 1-1669-900-6833 and use Meeting ID: 854 0822 6381. If you wish to make either a general public comment or to comment on a specific agenda item, please use the Raise Hand function. You will be allowed three minutes for your comments.

PRESENTATIONS

2. Presentation of Resolution No. 2023-05 to Carmen Gil (Approved at the January 17, 2023 Meeting)
Mayor Pro Tem Funk read the resolution and Mayor Rios presented it to Director of Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Gil.

Mayor Rios thanked her for all her help.

Director of Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Gil thanked everyone, especially all staff for being so supportive and encouraging. She wanted to make sure all those who were not present tonight like Public Works, Fire Department and Police Department that they are appreciated. She said the whole team came together during this time and she was really appreciative of that.

3. Certificates of Recognition to Gonzales High School Volleyball Team Mayor Rios and Mayor Pro Tem Funk passed out the certificates to the players and coaches and congratulated them for becoming the 2022-2023 Cypress Division Champions.

4. Consider Approval of, and Present Resolution No. 2023-06 Recognizing the Gonzales Medical Center
RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Maria Orozco, Council Member
SECONDER: Lorraine Worthy, Council Member
AYES: Jose L. Rios, Scott Funk, Liz Silva, Lorraine Worthy, Maria Orozco No one was present to receive the resolution.

5. Introduction of Administrative Assistant II Marisol Gomez Mayor Rios introduced Marisol Gomez who was assisting tonight with the zoom equipment, welcomed her and said he looked forward for her to stay for a long time.

BUSINESS FROM THE PUBLIC

6. Business from the Public not on the Agenda; any member of the Public may address the Council for a period not to exceed three minutes on any subject not on the Agenda. The Council will listen to all communications, but may take no action.

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Henry Martinez Sr. asked about the redistricting in Gonzales because he was pushing for the north side of Fifth Street to the freeway as one district. He commented about what was happening in his neighborhood; issues with the Police Department; and representation on the north side.

City Attorney Rodriquez indicated that we have had two joint meetings with the City of Soledad and from this point forward, the districting process will just be a series of meetings exclusively for the City of Gonzales. He announced the next districting meeting on February 27th, and stated a public notice will be issued and any materials will be distributed.

Roman Barba, 123 Second Street, congratulated Mr. Barber and told him he hoped he gets the Community Center going since it’s been too long. He also talked about the noise from parties and loud music from cars and homes during the day and night. He wondered if the Police Department was citing people. He also talked about tents next to people’s homes.

CONSENT AGENDA

7. Approve the Joint City Council, Successor Agency, Successor Housing Agency, Electric Authority, and Municipal Electric Utility Boards - Regular Meeting - January 10, 2023 Minutes

8. Approve the Joint City Council and Successor Agency - Regular Meeting - January 17, 2023 Minutes

9. Approve City Accounts Payable Warrants #48096-48159

10. Approve Successor Agency Warrants #1673-1677

11. Consider Approval of Resolution 2023-07, A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Gonzales Establishing an On-Call Consultant List for Professional Services

12. Consider Approval of Resolution 2023-08, A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Gonzales Authorizing Execution of Amendment No. 1 to the Agreement with Polaris Consulting for City Surveyor Services in an Amount Not-to-Exceed $120,000, and Extend the Term of the Agreement to June 30, 2026

13. Consider Approval of Resolution No. 2023-09, A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Gonzales Authorizing the Establishment and Maintenance of Bank Accounts for Municipal Funds and Repealing Resolutions in Conflict Herewith

14. Consider Approval of Resolution No. 2023-10, A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Gonzales Authorizing Investment of Monies in the Local Agency Investment Fund

15. Consider Approval of Resolution No. 2023-11, A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Gonzales Approving an Amendment to the City of Gonzales Classification Plan for the Fiscal Year 2022-2023

16. Consider Approval of Resolution No. SA-2023-01, A Resolution of the Successor Agency to the Former Gonzales Redevelopment Agency Approving the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule 2023-2024 for the Period of July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024 RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Lorraine Worthy, Council Member
SECONDER: Liz Silva, Council Member
AYES: Jose L. Rios, Scott Funk, Liz Silva, Lorraine Worthy, Maria Orozco

REGULAR AGENDA

17. Consider Adoption, Waive Reading, and Read by Title Only Ordinance No. 2022-135, An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Gonzales Amending Portions of Title 11 of the Gonzales City Code, Titled “Building Regulations” By Adoption And Referenced Amendments:
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2022 California Administrative Code, Title 24, Part 1; 2022 California Building Code, Title 24, Part 2, Volumes 1and 2; 2022 California Residential Code, Title 24, Part 2.5; 2022 California Electrical Code, Title 24, Part 3; 2022 California Mechanical Code, Title 24, Part 4; 2022 California Plumbing Code, Title 24, Part 5; 2022 California Energy Code, Title 24, Part 6; 2022 California Fire Code, Title 24, Part 9; 2022 California Green Building Standards Code, Title 24, Part 11; 2022 California Referenced Standards Code, Title 24, Part 12; 2021 International Property Maintenance Code; Small Residential Rooftop Solar Systems; and deleting Chapter

11.48 of the City of Gonzales Code Titled “Deconstruction, Demolition, and Construction Material Recovery and Diversion from Landfills”
Staff Report: Community Development Director Kinison Brown presented the staff report via powerpoint presentation.

Public Comment: Henry Martinez Sr. commented about the Fire Department's safety for dealing with Tesla cars burning and talked about training for these types of fires.

Council Discussion: Council Member Worthy asked about new housing projects being eliminated from gas entirely since being electrical ready is all in discussion now.

Community Development Director Kinison Brown responded that is being discussed but doesn't know how present it is, and at this point the City is as progressive as the State.

RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Liz Silva, Council Member
SECONDER: Maria Orozco, Council Member
AYES: Jose L. Rios, Scott Funk, Liz Silva, Lorraine Worthy, Maria Orozco

BUSINESS FROM CITY COUNCIL

18. City Council Board/Committee Reports
a. Transportation Agency for Monterey County
Mayor Rios reported on the new leadership on the TAMC Board; awards for years of service; and Caltrans report on the roads affected by the storms. b. Mayor Selection Committee
Mayor Rios reported that Mayor Velasquez was on the Homeless Coalition now. c. Salinas Valley Recycles
Council Member Silva announced the next meeting on February 16th at 6pm and will be via zoom. They will be back in person in the Council Chambers in March. d. Measure K Oversight Committee
Council Member Worthy asked Carmen if she will be on this committee again. Community Engagement & Strategic Partnerships Director Gil responded that it depends on who the City Manager Barber wants to assign that to, and a meeting is being set up in mid-March. e. South Salinas Valley Broadband Authority
Mayor Rios reported they haven't met for a while and asked City Manager Barber if he had an update. City Manager Barber added that they were doing the interviews for legal counsel for the Broadband Authority, and City staff is assisting.

19. Oral Communications
Youth Commissioner Flores reported on the guest speakers they had at last Thursday's meeting from Ecology Action who gave a presentation on improving pedestrian safety and ways to partner with the school. She announced the next meeting on March 2nd at 3:30pm with the Superintendent and Principal.

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Council Member Orozco mentioned about FEMA staff assisting quite a few residents which included assistance to some of the residents from Corda Camp who were evacuated. She shared that one of the challenging things was no arrangements for restroom facilities but they were able to use her business. She reported on the Annual CHISPA Dinner she attended where she met with their staff and incoming board members, which three of them were from Gonzales. She announced the St. Theodore’s Church Annual Valentine Dance this Friday. She also thanked Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Director Gil for filling in while the recruitment process of the City Manager.

Mayor Rios asked who the Board Members from Gonzales were.

Council Member Orozco responded it was Sonia Jaramillo, Jose Chavez and Anna Mae Gazo.

Mayor Rios asked if they found a replacement for Alfred.

Council Member Orozco responded they were going through a long recruitment process and they were down to the final interviews.

Mayor Pro Tem Funk thanked Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Director Gil for her time and efforts in leading us through a number of things for the second half of the year. He also thanked the Public Works and Public Safety Departments for all their efforts this last month.

He said it was great to hear nice things from neighbors who were very appreciative that things went smoothly and not a lot of water was built up in areas that would flood in the past.

Council Member Silva thanked Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Director Gil for jumping in with audacity. She announced the Adventures Seeking Seniors event on February 16th at 11am at St. Theodore’s Hall. She encouraged everyone to stop by and say hello since there were a lot of seniors in our community that enjoy these events.

Council Member Worthy thanked City Manager Barber for helping out with the food pantry. She announced the food pantry continues every third and fourth Fridays of the month. She thanked Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Director Gil for doing a great job and she really appreciated it. She also thanked Public Works Director Dobbins.

Mayor Rios thanked Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Director Gil for not only handling the City staff but her family as well as it is definitely challenging, but he admired her for being able to do both. He hoped staff will work with the County Sheriff and address the issues of the Alpine and Corda Camps because if these camps are in danger of flooding, Gonzales is as well.

He felt that the people that can least afford to move anywhere, were the ones being pushed out, and the new Sheriff overstepped her authority because he could see no need to vacate these camps. He hoped staff will work with the Sheriff since that was totally uncalled for.

BUSINESS FROM CITY MANAGER

20. Oral Communications
City Manager Barber reported that staff was coordinating using the owl equipment with the Solid Waste Authority and staff will be doing some trial and practice runs to be ready by the next Council meeting. He congratulated Anixia Davila, who took second place in the annual county wide poetry event and her recital is on the School District's website, and Mia Flores also participated from Gonzales High School. He thanked Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Director Gil and Public Works Director Dobbins for their work with the Safe Routes to School project with the Youth Council. He also thanked Mayor Rios for leading at today’s Packet Pg. 114 Minutes Acceptance: Minutes of Feb 6, 2023 6:00 PM (CONSENT AGENDA)

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Mayors and Managers meeting to talk about the County's new Ag Mitigation policies and the Ag Element in the county general plan. He also thanked Community Development Director Kinison Brown and Consultant Slama for supporting those efforts. He informed about the responses for the request for proposal for grant writers due this Friday, and a contract will be coming back to Council in March. He also mentioned Super Bowl was coming up and it is a great opportunity to support small businesses.

Public Works Director Dobbins reported on the Skate Park Phase II being completed and announced the ribbon cutting ceremony this Saturday at 2pm; and the Community Center milestone of releasing the RFP last Tuesday for the three design build teams.

Fire Chief Muscio reported on the evacuation maps with the County that the Mayor discussed, and he has a meeting with OES this week regarding that; reported on the bridge repair project out to bid and hopefully completed by mid-March; FEMA requesting access to Wi-Fi but not mentioning anything about restrooms when they brought their unit; and Active Shooter Training workshop he attended with Officers and the school administration staff.

Community Development Director Kinison Brown announced the Planning Commission joining the Council at their February 21st meeting for a report and an update on the Water Supply Assessment Study and the Sphere of Influence; and he reported on getting back together to assemble the Ag Mitigation Committee.

Mayor Rios elaborated on the meetings he has been having with David Armanasco and several farming operations and local businesses regarding the Community Center, and said it sounds very promising.

Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Director Gil added that we received a donation from Tanimura & Antle today.

Police Chief Wise reported on the school’s active shooter training and the collaboration over the last few years with the school district, and elaborated on the Department training goals.

CLOSES SESSION
Any member of the public may address the Council on a closed session item appearing on the agenda.

Speakers shall have a limited time of three (3) minutes. Please be brief and to the point.

There was none.

21. The City Council will recess to closed session pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(A) to confer with its Attorney regarding pending litigation which has been initiated formally and to which the City is a party: Claim of J. Madera.

The Council unanimously denied the claim of Madera and provided direction to legal counsel. No other reportable action taken.

22. The City Council will recess to closed session to confer with its attorney regarding litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(2) and is hereby of the opinion that a significant exposure to litigation exists.

Council conferred with legal counsel. No other reportable action taken.

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ADJOURNMENT
RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Liz Silva, Council Member
SECONDER: Lorraine Worthy, Council Member
AYES: Jose L. Rios, Scott Funk, Liz Silva, Lorraine Worthy, Maria Orozco The meeting was adjourned at 7:25 PM.

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48161 02/03/23 Printed 3893 March 2023 I.T. Services
48162 02/03/23 Printed 137 AMERICAN SUPPLY CO. Janitorial Supplies 507.75 48163 02/03/23 Printed 86 AT&T Telephone Charges 12/19/22-1/18/23 1,490.34 48164 02/03/23 Printed 3168 AUTOZONE INC. Oil for Pumps 230.01 48165 02/03/23 Printed 3805 BADGER METER INC. Meter Reads 100.10 BANUELOS ENTERPRISES, 329.80
INC.
48166 02/03/23 Printed 1054 Fuel
CAL COAST AUTOMOTIVE 180.00

REPAIR &
48167 02/03/23 Printed 3831 Vac Con Maintenance
48168 02/03/23 Printed 1095 CALED Membership Renewal 350.00 48169 02/03/23 Printed 4119 CANNON CORPORATION Truck Route Support 2,632.50 CASNER EXTERMINATING, 260.00
INC.
48170 02/03/23 Printed 889 Extermination Services
CHALLENGER TEAMWEAR 2,648.83
LLC
48171 02/03/23 Printed 3984 Youth Basketball League Jersey 48172 02/03/23 Printed 4128 JOSE CHAVEZ Travel - Local Assist. Center 1/23/23 - 91.17 1/26/23
48173 02/03/23 Printed 212 CITY OF GONZALES Utilities - December 4,661.44 48174 02/03/23 Printed 4062 COUNTY OF MARIN CAL-SLA Street Light Assoc. Dues 630.00 48175 02/03/23 Printed 1821 CSK AUTO, INC. Vehicle Maint./Repair Supplies 388.81 CYPRESS COAST FORD 312.00

LINCOLN
48176 02/03/23 Printed 4063 Vehicle Maintenance
DE LAGE LANDEN PUBLIC 23,748.83

FINANCE
48177 02/03/23 Printed 2895 Solar Loan
48178 02/03/23 Printed 3752 DUDEK IW System Design 76,958.65 48179 02/03/23 Printed 3348 EAST BAY TIRE CO Mower 205.57 48180 02/03/23 Printed 4135 GUILLERMINA FLORES Travel - Local Assist. Center 1/22/23 - 125.76 1/26/23
48181 02/03/23 Printed 4323 MARIA FLORES Travel - Local Assist. Center 1/23/23 - 25.15 1/26/23
GONZALES ACE HARDWARE 522.91
INC.
48182 02/03/23 Printed 3274 Face Shields
GONZALES TIRE & AUTO 2.96
SUPPLY
48183 02/03/23 Printed 3477 Spark Plug
48184 02/03/23 Printed 1109 GONZALES UNIFIED SCHOOL Clinical Social Worker April - June 2022 19,199.26 GRANITE CONSTRUCTION 8,747.72

COMPANY
48185 02/03/23 Printed 1411 Levy Materials
48186 02/03/23 Printed 4071 GREAT AMERICA FINANCIAL Copier Lease 1,036.08 GREEN VALLEY FARM 39.16
SUPPLY
48187 02/03/23 Printed 1319 Squirrel Abatement
48188 02/03/23 Printed 4292 GVP VENTURES, INC. Background Search 464.56 HILL BROTHERS CHEMICAL 4,300.25
CO
48189 02/03/23 Printed 4120 Chlorine
48190 02/03/23 Printed 2215 HINDERLITER, DE LLAMAS & Sales Tax Audit Services 377.93 48191 02/03/23 Printed 4321 KIRK KENNEDY, INC. Project Sign-Community Center 1,770.26 48192 02/03/23 Printed 3828 LYNN A. KOVACH Easements for IW System 6,000.00 48193 02/03/23 Printed 2888 LUCKY BAMBOO SV Mayors & City Mgrs. Mtg. 105.56 48194 02/03/23 Printed 72 MISSION UNIFORM SERVICE City Hall Mats 728.39 48195 02/03/23 Printed 245 MONTEREY COUNTY HEALTH Pretreatment Testing 1,619.00 MONTEREY COUNTY 6,624.55

SHERIFF
48196 02/03/23 Printed 23 CJIS for Oct. - Dec.

PINNACLE MEDICAL GROUP, 130.00
INC.
48197 02/03/23 Printed 4324 New Hire Medical Screening
PITNEY BOWES GLOBAL 742.03

FINANCIAL
48198 02/03/23 Printed 93 Postage Machine Lease
PUBLIC AGENCY 491.95

RETIREMENT
48199 02/03/23 Printed 3194 PARS Admin Fees
48200 02/03/23 Printed 4288 MONICA RICO Travel - Local Assist. Center 1/23/23 - 68.38 1/26/23
48201 02/03/23 Printed 4313 SAFETEQUIP, INC Barricade Lights 522.65 SALINAS VALLEY SOLID 28,546.92
WASTE
48202 02/03/23 Printed 258 Tonage Fees - November
48203 02/03/23 Printed 2449 SMITH & ENRIGHT Landscape Maint. - January 6,430.00 AGENDA
ITEM
Packet Pg. 117 Attachment: Warrants #48160-48219 (2644 : Approve City Accounts Payabel Warrants #48160-48219) 5 City Of Gonzales
Check Register Report
Check
Date
Check
Number
Status Amount
BANK:

Vendor
Number Vendor Name Check Description
RABOBANK Page: 2
Time: 2:23 pm
Date: 02/03/2023
Void/Stop
Date
Reconcile
Date
RABOBANK Checks
48204 02/03/23 Printed 3670 T-MOBILE Cellphone Charges Acct # 963044810 953.62 48205 02/03/23 Printed 4276 THE PAPE GROUP INC. Forklift for Skate Park 386.73 48206 02/03/23 Printed 3718 TRINI'S PLUMBING Vosti Center - Misc. Maint. Supplies 188.72 48207 02/03/23 Printed 3287 TIFFANY TWISSELMANN Reimb. for Buckles-Smith Purch Relays 80.67 for Lift Station
48208 02/03/23 Printed 3581 TYLER BUSINESS FORMS W-2s & 1099 Forms 876.38 48209 02/03/23 Printed 3577 U.S. BANK 1/6/23 Carmen Gil Acct # 4866 9145 665.42 5550 8537
48210 02/03/23 Printed 3577 U.S. BANK 1/6/23 Jason Muscio Acct # 4866 9145 190.08 5550 8537
48211 02/03/23 Printed 3577 U.S. BANK 1/6/23 City of Gonzales Acct # 4866 9145 2,570.60 5550 8537
48212 02/03/23 Printed 3471 VERIZON WIRELESS Cellphones - December Acct # 304.08 742128049-00001
48213 02/03/23 Printed 99 VOSTI'S, INC. Vehicle Maintenance 1,082.90 48214 02/03/23 Printed 4305 VSS INTERNATIONAL INC. Slurry Seal Contract 18,962.15 WINZER FRANCHISE 408.37

COMPANY
48215 02/03/23 Printed 3615 Vehicle Maint. Supplies
Total Checks: 56 Checks Total (excluding void checks): 234,711.92 Total Payments: 56 Bank Total (excluding void checks): 234,711.92 Total Payments: 56 Grand Total (excluding void checks): 234,711.92 Packet Pg. 118 Attachment: Warrants #48160-48219 (2644 : Approve City Accounts Payabel Warrants #48160-48219) City Of Gonzales
Check Register Report
Check
Date
Check
Number
Status Amount
BANK:

Vendor
Number Vendor Name Check Description
RABOBANK Page: 1
Time: 1:36 pm
Date: 02/07/2023
Void/Stop
Date
Reconcile
Date
RABOBANK Checks
ARMANASCO PUBLIC 7,399.00

RELATIONS,
48216 02/07/23 Printed 3284 PR Services
48217 02/07/23 Printed 4325 TAYLOR RIVAS Per Diem - Radar/Lidar 2/13/23 - 2/16/23 200.00 48218 02/07/23 Printed 2685 SC FUELS Fuel 362.86
48219 02/07/23 Printed 4326 ERIC SERRANO Per Diem - Radar/Lidar 2/13/23 - 2/16/23 200.00 Total Checks: 4 Checks Total (excluding void checks): 8,161.86 Total Payments: 4 Bank Total (excluding void checks): 8,161.86 Total Payments: 4 Grand Total (excluding void checks): 8,161.86 Packet Pg. 119 Attachment: Warrants #48160-48219 (2644 : Approve City Accounts Payabel Warrants #48160-48219) City of Gonzales

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

ACTIVITY REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor Rios and City Council
DATE: February 21, 2023
FROM: Taven Kinison Brown, Community Development Director THROUGH: Trevin W. Barber, City Manager
SUBJECT: Community Development Department Activity Report

BUILDING DIVISION ACTIVITY
From January 1, through January 31, 2023, (reporting 31 days) the city issued 10 permits from the Building Division for an ADU and electrical associated with solar roof projects, The estimated valuation of all improvements was $329,837.5.

BUSINESS LICENSES
The City has 305 active business licenses as of January 23, 2023. These licenses represent our longstanding agricultural businesses, downtown businesses, commercial district businesses, home occupation businesses, as well as consultants and other contractors who conduct business within the City.

CODE ENFORCEMENT
The City presently has several active Code Enforcement cases and other calls that we field responses to that do not rise to official “cases.” These involve rubbish in yards that need to be removed, vehicles parked on residential lawns, RVs not regularly moved, or RVs being connected to house utilities while in driveways and streets.

POTENTIAL COMMERCIAL PROJECTS (No changes or updates since December 2022) Mann Packing has expressed a desire to double the size of its Gonzales facility. Their architect is advancing designs and site plans and on September 28, 2022, staff met face-to-face to discuss the matter.

Pending potential language adjustments in the City’s standard Reimbursement Agreement, Mann Packing AGENDA
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may be ready to execute a Reimbursement Agreement soon. Such would allow the City to craft an RFP to begin an environmental review process while the project description gets further refined. Such a project will be dependent on the City’s infrastructure capacity to serve existing and future developments.

Staff has fielded a few calls regarding the HC Highway Commercial property on the corner of Fifth and Fanoe Road. There appears to be an interest to develop a moderate-sized hotel with provisions (potentially half of the units) to allow worker housing during the high activity agricultural seasons. Such a facility could serve tourists and visitors, as well as worker housing.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Regarding the Rianda Agricultural Cooler proposal on Gloria road. The City is making every effort to expedite and shorten the time frame for review and processing of this proposal, which includes environmental review, City Review and “Pre-entitlement,” the LAFCo application, and hearing processes.

The City has also agreed to allow the processing and City review of the construction plans and building permit documents and the applicant is aware that plans may need to change as the development review process unfolds. We are working to have all City entitlements in place for the cooler upon incorporation into the City; the applicant just needs to meet conditions of approval and any mitigation measures that may be in place.

Helping restart the City of Gonzales Chamber of Commerce. The city is at the table and ready to assist with outreach or other efforts for our local business community.

Potential Freestanding Electronic-Display Freeway-Oriented Billboard. Following the holiday break, staff will be outlining the tasks ahead to potentially modify the zoning and sign codes to allow such as structure on public property. Other items, mainly Housing related efforts and the Rianda Agricultural Cooler appear to have precedence.

HOUSING
Sphere of Influence Area
City staff continues to work with Pembrook Development Group (Vista Lucia Specific Plan: VLSP) and Jackson Family Investments (Puente Del Monte Specific Plan: PDMSP) and the Rianda Family Trust on developments in the City’s Sphere of Influence.

1. Vista Lucia Specific Plan
a. Pembrook recently submitted the response to staff comments on the Administrative Draft of the Vista Lucia Specific Plan. Once reviewed by staff, we will schedule a meeting to work out any outstanding items.
b. The Water Supply Assessment (WSA) is being presented to a joint meeting of the City Council and Planning Commission, Tuesday, February 21, 2023 prior to incorporation in the Vista Lucia planning and environmental documents and other studies underway for proposed new development.
c. Willdan Financial Study. On Tuesday, February 7, 2023, staff met with Willdan to discuss refinements to the draft Financial Study underway. The report will be determining future staffing service needs for Fire, Police, Public Works, Parks, Building and Planning, and Administrative Services needs for the annexation areas and as the City has in-fill. Staff will meet internally soon before presenting to Council and sharing with our development applicants. It is the staff’s intent to present the status report to Council on March 20, 2023. Such study will inform the City’s coming negotiations with the County for revenue neutrality, and assessment districts or other financial structures that may be employed in the areas to be incorporated.
d. The VLSP representatives delivered a draft Development Agreement on November 16, Packet Pg. 121
2022, to the City. Such an Agreement needs to be negotiated with City leadership and is inseparable from the Specific Plan Preparation and Environmental Review Documents under preparation. Administrative staff convened in January to determine City needs and responsibilities in the matter and to flesh out the phasing of the VLSP project among a host of activities such as infrastructure installation and costs, Affordable Housing, Agricultural Mitigation, and other business details.
e. The City’s coming Agricultural Mitigation Ordinance and recently adopted Vehicle Miles Travelled policy will have a bearing on this project.

2. PDMSP. The Rianda Cooler project proposal will reshape the PDMSP once more is known and certain about how the Rianda Cooler moves through city development review and LAFCo processes.

Housing Within the City
DR. Horton continues in their due diligence and exploration of development of the 138 acre D’Arrigo property. Staff is considering how impact fees apply to the project and is fully engaged in keeping the interest and project feasibility viable for the applicant, yet not compromising on affordable housing or service cost recovery over time.

Housing Element Preparation.

A kick-off meeting with 4-Leaf consultants was scheduled in January, and a presentation with the Planning Commission is scheduled for March 13, 2023.

Housing Element Funding.

Staff was successful in aligning the Housing Element task preparation with available funding resources,

PLANNING COMMISSION ACTIVITY
At their September 12, 2022, public meeting, the Planning Commission recommended that the City Council consider engaging an update to the City’s parking ordinances city-wide.

On October 10, 2022, The Planning Commission conducted a workshop on the practice of abiding by parliamentary procedures / Roberts Rules of Order.

On November 14, 2022, staff presented the Community Development Department Master Task list, to inform the Commission of the present activities and duties of the department, projects under review, next steps, and items expected to come under the Commission’s review.

The December and January 2023, Planning Commission meetings were canceled due to a lack of development review items. Planning Commission activity is expected to ramp up again with the Housing Element getting underway and the Agricultural Mitigation Ordinance. Staff is also expecting to introduce additional planning division resources (Brent Slama Consulting) to the Planning Commission for LAFCo and other applications that are gaining momentum. Staff will introduce and outline the bureaucratic pathways ahead for the projects in the specific plan areas and the ties to the necessary LAFCo applications.

The Planning Commission will be joining City Council this February 21, in a joint session to receive a report on the Water Supply Assessment for the Vista Lucia Specific Plan.

March 13, 2023 is targeted for Planning Commission consideration of the City’s Ag Advisory recommendation on the Ag Mitigation Ordinance under preparation. A community kick-off meeting for the Housing Element is also planned.

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OTHER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES
Agricultural Mitigation Ordinance. (A requirement of the 2014 MOA with the County) • Anticipated schedule is February 22, 2023 for the Ag Advisory Committee to consider, • March 13, 2023 for the Planning Commission to consider and • Approximately April 3, 2023 for the City Council to consider the first reading of a new Ordinance.

On August 29, 2022 (and coming February 22, 2023) the Gonzales Agricultural Committee met to discuss the City’s previous efforts to craft an Ag Mitigation Program. Staff and the Committee addressed the timing of agricultural mitigation, the ratio of mitigation, how easements are appraised and secured, and potential exemption to not deter the construction of affordable housing units. The Agricultural Land Trust has expressed a willingness to work with the City to develop an ordinance that meets the test of environmental law as well as practicality.

Anticipated Ordinances and Policies that are needed and are being worked into the department’s work program:
a. Agricultural Mitigation Ordinance
b. Housing Element Update
c. Safety Element Update
d. Environmental Justice Element (a new state requirement) e. Electric Vehicle Charging Ordinance / Policy
f. Administrative Citation /Code Enforcement Ordinance strengthening, g. Water Efficiency Landscaping Ordinance (update to the 2015 effort) h. Parking Regulations (potentially, if directed)
i. Sign Ordinance revisions (potentially, if directed)
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City of Gonzales

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & STRATEGIC

PARTNERSHIPS

ACTIVITY REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor Rios and City Council
DATE: February 21, 2023
FROM: Carmen Gil, Community Engagement & Strat. Partnerships Dir.

THROUGH: Trevin W. Barber, City Manager
SUBJECT: Community Engagement and Strategic Partnerships Report Gonzales Youth Council
• The Gonzales Youth Council reconvened in January and are scheduled to continue with their biweekly meetings. On Saturday, January 14th they held a leadership training session from 9:00am11:30am. Nine GYCers attended and worked on action items for their priority projects of 1).

City/School Beautification 2). Mental Health 3). Pedestrian Safety. They are continuing to move the work forward and are excited about some opportunities presenting themselves around pedestrian safety.
• They are also planning for meetings with the school Superintendent and partners from TAMC and Ecology Action.

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Community Engagement
• Staff continues to work on closing out the rental assistance program. Reports are due and we are working to compile all that information for our donors and the state. • The Gonzales Community Health Workers (CHWs) provided tremendous support during the recent floods. They connected with local community members including those living in Camp Corda and Alpine Camp to inform them of important information and resources. They also worked to establish relationships with individuals needing additional support. • The CHWs also provided support to the County and worked out of the FEMA resource center in Spreckels for a week and a half. There they helped guide people through the available resources and learned how to go about completing forms so that they could come back and help individuals in Gonzales that had questions on the process. The team continues to be highlighted for their work and appreciated by local and state officials.
• CHWs also continue to provide support at food distributions and are still available to test individuals for COVID-19.

Gonzales in the Spotlight
Staff is working with Armanasco Public Relations to submit a comprehensive application to the AllAmerican City Award. We were encouraged to apply given our intentional community engagement and the inclusive nature of our work with the Gonzales Youth Council, the Community Health Worker Program, and the work on our Gonzales Community Center Project.

Staff also presented to Rotary on the Community Center Project. Rotary members had a lot of questions which led to a good discussion. Rotary president invited staff to come back as the project continues to advance.

Staff also worked hand-in-hand with the Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce to showcase Gonzales in a super issue.

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City of Gonzales

FIRE DEPARTMENT

ACTIVITY REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor Rios and City Council
DATE: February 21, 2023
FROM: Jason Muscio, Fire Chief
THROUGH: Trevin W. Barber, City Manager
SUBJECT: Fire Department Activity Report

RESPONSES
There were 60 calls for service during the month of January. The majority of calls were medical emergencies; however, there were two serious vehicle accidents, one of which resulted in a fatality, and the other with significant injuries. There were no incidents directly related to the winter storms within the City limits, but there were several storm related service calls in the Rural Fire District. The Fire Chief coordinated response with Monterey County OES and other agencies for hazard mitigation in the Rural Fire District, and with Gonzales Public Works for mitigation within the City limits.

STAFFING
Staffing stands at seven full time personnel and three active Volunteer Firefighters. The Fire Chief received an application for Volunteer Firefighter but the individual is not currently qualified. The applicant was advised to apply after completing additional training.

TRAINING
Training for the month of January consisted of annual refresher training in required subjects such as EMS legal policies, sudden infant death syndrome, and mass casualty incidents.

EQUIPMENT
All apparatus remains in service without the need of significant repair. The roof of the Fire Station office area was temporarily sealed to stop water leaks around the skylights. A full roof repair is planned for later in the spring.

AGENDA
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PREVENTION
Residential rental and business inspections were conducted on a regular basis. The Fire Chief worked with the Recreation Department to prepare and practice fire and other emergency plans and drills for the Kid Power program.

GRANTS
Grant opportunities continue to be explored as they become available.

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POLICE DEPARTMENT

ACTIVITY REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor Rios and City Council
DATE: February 21, 2023
FROM: Keith Wise, Chief of Police
THROUGH: Trevin W. Barber, City Manager
SUBJECT: January 2023 Activity Report
Crime and Arrests
The Gonzales Police Department investigated 10 Part I Crimes (Homicide, Robbery, Theft, Burglary, Rape, Assault and Motor Vehicle Theft) during the month of January 2023. During the same time last year, there were 14 Part I Crimes investigated.

During the month of January 2023, Officers made 10 arrests. During the same time last year, there were a total of 21 arrests.

Calls for Service
The Department responded to 581 calls for service in January 2023. There were 67 crime, accident, and information reports taken during the month.

Animal Control
During the month of January 2023, the Animal Control Officer (ACO) provided the following services:

Animal
Control
Trapped/Stray Dead Injured Bite Cases Returned to
Owner
Transported
to the SPCA
Cats 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dogs 7 0 0 2 4 3
Total = 7 0 0 0 4 3
Significant Cases
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Although the Police Department responded to 581 calls for service during the month of January 2023, the most significant cases involved 10 Part I crimes. 1- Homicide 0 - Rape, 0 - Robbery, 2 -Assault, 3 -Burglary, 2 -Larcenies, and 2 -Stolen Motor Vehicle Thefts.

Training
The Department continues to conduct in-house training.

Corporal Castillo attended an 80 hour Standardize Supervisory Course provided and hosted by The South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium on January 23 - February 3, 2023, in San Jose.

Other
On January 3, 2023, I attended the swearing in of the new Monterey County Sheriff Nieto at the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office.

On January 23, 2023, the Department hosted Police Officer interviews for an Officer candidate who is now in the final stages of the background hiring process.

On January 26, the Gonzales Police Department participated in a Maximum Deployment Operation. The mission of the allied law enforcement operation was to ensure compliance with court orders on active probationers, PRCS, and parolees, and obtain Intelligence, on criminal street gangs and illegal activity occurring within the South Cities of Monterey County. Additionally, document and photograph all criminal street gang activity. The operation aimed to reduce gang and criminal activity in South Monterey County and ensure safety in our communities.

In total, allied law enforcement agencies conducted 66 Probation compliance checks, 19 parole compliance checks resulting in 17 arrests.

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PUBLIC WORKS / CITY ENGINEER DEPARTMENT

ACTIVITY REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor Rios and City Council
DATE: February 21, 2023
FROM: Patrick Dobbins, Public Works Director/City Engineer THROUGH: Trevin W. Barber, City Manager
SUBJECT: Public Works Activity Report

BUILDINGS

1. Community Center Complex Project – A Tree Removal Contract was approved at the 10/03/2022 Council meeting and the field work began on November 1 and was completed by November 23 (two weeks early). Staff provided a progress report at the 1/17/2023 Council meeting. On 1/31/2023 the Request for Proposals was issued to the three short-listed Design/Build Teams. Current schedule is:

MILESTONE COMPLETION BY
Issue RFP to shortlisted Design/Build teams January 31, 2023 Mandatory Preproposal Meeting & Site Walk February 7, 2023 Proposal Submittal deadline April 7, 2023
Interview each Design/Build team regarding their proposed design Week of April 17, 2023 Select “Best Value” Design/Build proposal Week of April 24, 2023 Negotiate Final Scope, Fee, and Schedule with “Best Value” Design/Build team Week of May 1, 2023 City Council Award of Design/Build Contract May 15, 2023 Design phase and receive building permit (10 months) June 2023 - March 2024 Construction & commissioning (14-16 months) April 2024- Nov 2025 Grand Opening of Phase 1 December 2025
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2. Emergency Generator Replacements – The city received a $150,000 grant from Cal OES in 2021 to replace the emergency generators at City Hall and the Police Station. At the 2/07/2022 City Council meeting, a $175,000 contract with Alltech Services was approved. The generator at the Calif Breeze Sewer Lift Station will also be replaced under this contract and will be funded with Sewer Impact monies. All three generators have been installed, inspected, and tested. The 80KW generator at the Police Station required permitting from the Monterey Air District which was issued on 12/22/2022.

WASTEWATER
Industrial Wastewater (IW) System/Reclamation Plant – Dudek completed the final design for the IW Conveyance and Treatment Facility construction documents. Staff and the city surveyor are finalizing the temporary and permanent easements needed for the project. City staff continues to coordinate with the State Water Resources Control Board regarding the city’s State Revolving Fund loan application (last virtual meeting was 11/17/2022). Staff provided a progress report at the 11/07/2022 Council Meeting.

WATER

1. Well 7 – In mid-July, staff began manually operating the well under our permit from the State Drinking Water Division while completing the electronic and remote controls. At the 12/05/2022 Council meeting, the Equip Well 7 Contract was accepted as complete.

2. Alpine Court Water/Sewer Service – Grant agreements with the State Water Resource Control Board (SWRCB) to fund the preliminary and final design of extending water and sewer service from Gonzales River Road to Alpine Camp were approved at the 7/06/20 City Council meeting. Staff prepared a draft agreement with the property owner and the City Attorney is coordinating with staff to finalize it. All plans and reports were provided to SWRCB staff by 11/30/2022 deadline.

3. Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency – Staff is an alternate on the SVBGSA Technical Advisory Committee (Soledad staff is the representative for South Valley cities).

PARKS

1. Skate Park Improvements – Phase Two improvements to the skate park were funded by the 2018 Parks Bond Act. The contract with American Ramp Company was approved at the 9/19/2022 Council meeting. The contractor began installation on 1/23/2023. The project was substantially completed on 2/02/2023 and a ribbon cutting was held on 2/11/2023.

2. Meyer Park – Staff has coordinated numerous maintenance items over last several months including fixing light fixtures, replacing uplifted sidewalk, pruning trees, and replacing the rubber mulch under the swings with wood fiber. We are working with MST on installing a bus shelter that the city and MST will split the cost for.

SOLID WASTE

1. California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (“Cal Recycle”) Coordination – Our annual meeting with staff from Cal Recycle, Salinas Valley Solid Waste Agency, Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling, and the cities of Greenfield, Soledad and Gonzales was held on 8/02/2022.

2. Quarterly Tri-Cities Franchise Agreements Meetings – Staff from the Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority, Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling and the cities of Gonzales, Soledad, and Greenfield meet on a quarterly basis to discuss the various waste collection programs (commercial accounts, food Packet Pg. 131
waste, organic waste), compliance with latest state regulations, public outreach and education, customer surveys, etc). Most recent meeting was 8/10/2022.

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

1. Vista Lucia Development (City’s Sphere of Influence - East of US 101) a. City staff reviewed the Admin Draft #1 and Admin Draft #2 of the SEIR and provided comments to the Community Development Director.
b. City staff is holding bi-weekly Zoom meetings with Pembrook Development and their consultants.
c. Psomas developed a capital program of improvements to convey sewage from the SOI to the City WWTP for treatment and provided the draft technical memo in Mid-November for staff’s review.

Final Technical Memorandum was submitted in April 2022. d. Staff and our on-call traffic engineer have coordinated with Caltrans District 5 staff on the process for preparation of a Project Study Report/Project Development Support (PSR-PDS).

Staff will issue a Request for Proposals to engage a consultant to prepare the PSR-PDS documents.
e. On 3/28/2022 Staff met with Monterey County PW staff and discussed the applicant’s preliminary offsite roadway design. Staff met with Monterey County staff on 10/7/2022 and discussed executing a Maintenance Agreement for the city to be responsible for maintenance of Associated Lane when it’s widened as part of the Vista Lucia Development (maintenance will be funded by an assessment district formed as part of the development).

2. Rianda Cooler Development Project (Gloria Road) – The CEQA documents are underway. Staff is coordinating with the applicant’s site civil engineer on frontage improvements along Gloria Road.

We participate in weekly coordination meetings with the applicant’s consultant team.

3. In June 2022, DR Horton executed an agreement with D'Arrigo Bros to look at the feasibility of developing the 130 acre parcel in the city. A kick-off meeting with DR Horton and city staff was held on 7/07/2022 and DR Horton made a presentation at the Joint Planning Commission/City Council meeting on 8/01/2022. Staff provided a brief progress report at the 11/07/2022 Council Meeting.

OTHER PROJECTS

1. GIS – City staff continues to work on a GIS mapping system by inputting field data for water, sewer and storm drainage systems. Our water and wastewater consultants are using the GIS to develop capital improvement projects to serve the proposed development projects in the SOI. We hold monthly coordination meetings with a GIS Consultant.

2. FEMA Flood Map Updates – Over the two years, FEMA and their consultants have been remapping seven watersheds in the Gabilan Mountains in the vicinity of South Salinas, Chualar, Gonzales and Soledad to update their Flood Maps. Preliminary flood insurance maps were released for public review on 10/21/2021. At the 12/06/2021 City Council Meeting, City staff made a presentation on this effort along with a letter to be sent to FEMA with our comments and questions on their mapping effort. A 90-day appeal period began on 5/12/2022 and we emailed our comment letter to FEMA staff on 7/26/2022.

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3. South Salinas Valley Broadband Joint Powers Authority – Staff is supporting the efforts of this newly formed JPA. This includes preparing a Request for Proposals for Legal Counsel Services, coordinating with MBEP staff on preparing the agenda packet for the 9/29/2022 Board Meeting.

Staff attended the 9/29/2022 Board meeting and presented the agenda item for Request for Proposals for Legal Counsel Services

PUBLIC WORKS OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

WASTEWATER
January was a wet month! The wastewater treatment plant was not affected by the flooding thanks to the proactive efforts of Keith Day Trucking who owns the property between the WWTP and the Salinas River. Staff helped Keith Day to build and reinforce their levy. The river came onto some of Keith Day’s property but did not breach the treatment plant. Staff sandbagged the O&M Building to try to keep water out of the electrical equipment in the event of the worst case scenario.

Staff continue to take samples and daily tests and inspection of the treatment plant. Staff was in constant contact with the Water board and the county during the floods.

WATER
Staff monitor the four city wells and sampling stations around town. Staff responds to water leaks as soon as possible. Staff continues to replace meter registers on the east side of town.

Staff joined the Water Awareness Committee of Monterey County. Staff will be utilizing information from WAC for utility billing stuffers to educate the residents on water awareness.

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STORM WATER
Staff spent a lot of time in January dealing with the winter storms. Staff set up detours when and where flooding happened. Staff cleaned storm drains daily to keep water flowing. Staff worked with the winery to clean storm drains and keep flooding on Alta Street to a minimum.

Flooding on Fanoe Road
Flooding on Barbera
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Johnson Canyon Creek during the floods
PARKS
Staff just purchased a product to help with the squirrel infestation at Meyer park. We will be trying it out in February. If it works, we will use it at Central Park also. This product in OSHA approved and NOT a pesticide. It is supposed to be a deterrent that will chase them from the park.

Staff seeded and fertilized Centennial Park in preparation for little league to begin.

Staff helped to unload and assist the contractor at the skate park.

Staff unloading the skate park pieces
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The new skate park being completed
Staff is gearing up to prepare the Community Pool to operate this summer.

GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
Staff performs regular maintenance on the HVAC systems in the city buildings.

STREETS
• Staff continues Traffic Control at the Fifth Street Bridge every morning. • Staff began filling potholes after the winter storms stopped. • PW purchased a new striping machine and staff will begin around town this spring. • Staff removed a large tree on Herold Parkway that falling over Tree was lifting the sidewalk
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Staff set-up traffic control and removed the tree

TRAINING
Staff will be participating in Confined Space Training in February. Gonzales will host the training put on by California Rural Water Association.

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City of Gonzales

PARKS & RECREATIONDEPARTMENT

ACTIVITY REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor Rios and City Council
DATE: February 21, 2023
FROM: Carmen Gil, Community Engagement & Strat. Partnerships Dir.

THROUGH: Trevin W. Barber, City Manager
SUBJECT: Recreation Activity Report
Current Activities
Kid Power
• The first week of January was the last week of our Winter Camp Session before resuming Kid Power. Our group for Winter Camp was on the smaller side for the final week. Due to the rain, we were unable to go outside, nevertheless, the kids were able to have fun by learning about winter animals and hibernation.
• Kid Power started back up the second week of January. We had 37 kids in the program and one of the first activities we did was ask the kids what their goals were for the New Year. • Kid Power resumed “Fun Fridays” in January which included using a Wii and playing just dance with each other. Some of the younger kids were also able to make slime, while 4th and 5th graders did some team building and played boards games.

AGENDA
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• Kid power ended the month of January with a fire drill in collaboration with Fire Chief, Muscio.

Kid Power staff and kids executed the plan well. They exited quickly, got to the meeting location, and counted all of the kids within two minutes of the fire alarm going off.

City Sports
• 2023 has started off very well for our Sports programming. January is when we start our Youth Basketball League. Our participation numbers for this year are the highest they have been in years. We currently have 180 registered participants.
• There are 5 grade divisions within the Youth Basketball League. Our divisions are: PreK-TK, Kinder - 1st, 2nd- 3rd, 4th- 5
th and all boys 6th – 8th. We were not successful in getting enough girls for an all-girls 6th-8
th grade team, but we did get more than usual numbers in PreK-TK and 4 th
-5
th. This is the first time in over 5 years that our PreK-Tk division has had 4 teams, and our 4th - 5
th division consists of 4 teams of 12. Late registrations came in and they were not turned away.

This year our 6th- 8
th grade team travels and competes against Soledad.
• We have 14 head coaches. Three of which are coaching multiple teams. We have 8 assistant coaches, 3 team parents and 5 referees for our Youth Basketball program. • Registration for Girls South County Softball and Gonzales Mini Tee-ball opened at the end of January. Our numbers for Mini Tee-ball are always pretty strong. We are hoping for higher numbers in our softball league this season.

Activities in the Planning Phase
• In February, Kid power will be celebrating Valentine's Day with the kids, some of the activities include making lots of fun arts and crafts. We hope that the kids will enjoy themselves. • We are also starting to identify our staff for our summer programming and taking care of the pool needs to get ready for the summer season.

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City of Gonzales

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & STRATEGIC

PARTNERSHIPS

STAFF REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor Rios and City Council
DATE: February 21, 2023
FROM: Carmen Gil, Community Engagement & Strat. Partnerships Dir.

THROUGH: Trevin W. Barber, City Manager
SUBJECT: Agreement with Armanasco Public Relations - Capital Campaign

RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council 1) Approve a retroactive Agreement between the City of Gonzales and Armanasco Public Relations Inc. (APR) from January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023, for services rendered to support the Community Center Capital Campaign not to exceed $90,000; and 2) Amend the FY 2022-2023 City Budget by increasing the Measure X Budget (Budget Unit 100-800), Other Contractual Services (Object Code 6245) by $45,000.

BACKGROUND
Gonzales is excited about the progress made on the Gonzales Community Center Complex. For years it was a vision/dream, and today we are making real strides towards it becoming reality. The passage of Measure X along with the $5 million dollars from the State budget, the $1.8 million from Monterey County for the Gonzales Library and the generous private donations that we have received to date, have allowed this project to become a reality.

Currently, through the support and guidance that APR has provided, we have been able to secure just over $6 million dollars in pledges for the community center bringing us more than halfway to our goal of $10 million dollars. APR is currently working on following up with prospective donors and is continuously meeting with those that have shown interest in the project. The firm has proven to be a reliable partner and has succeeded in getting generous donations for the center. There is outstanding work to be done to reach the goal of $10,000 million dollars but we are confident that we will get there with APR’ s support.

REVIEW AND ANALYSIS
AGENDA
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Gonzales deserves to have a state-of-the-art community center, one that the community feels connected to, can grow with, and one that it will treasure for years to come. The fact that Phase 1 is in the works and that soon the Library and the Teen Innovation Centers will be built, will entice others to want to be part of the project. Having the relationships in place and working to keep the project at the forefront, will continue to build momentum attracting more donors to the table.

If approved, APR will continue to support staff with the execution of a successful capital campaign in which the actions below will be carried forth:

1. Donor Prospect Meetings: APR will continue meeting with the donor prospects. The database will be upkept, and meetings will be scheduled and followed up on.

2. Grant Writing: APR is supporting grant writing for the project. Currently there are pending grant opportunities with the Community Foundation for Monterey County and the Monterey Peninsula Foundation which will be conducting a site visit on March 13th.

3. Community Outreach: APR will continue to reach out to potential donors, will work with Rotary and will support staff in developing flyers, direct mail pieces, ads and social media graphics as needed to communicate the status of the community center project and the fundraising campaign.

4. Media Outreach: APR will send press releases about the community center project and progress of the capital campaign as needed. Newsworthy opportunities on the horizon include press releases announcing the selection of the design/build team and other Phase 1 milestone announcements. A “hats and shovels” groundbreaking ceremony will also be coordinated with staff.

5. Campaign Administration: APR will continue with administrative tasks for the campaign which includes database management for donations and pledges, preparing thank you letters acknowledging donations received, and preparing pledge letters and donation forms as commitments are received.

6. Monthly Coordination Meetings with Staff: APR will hold regularly scheduled meetings with city staff and the Leadership Cabinet to coordinate efforts.

Explain Recommendation and How it Supports the Vision
Gonzales will continue to be a safe, clean, family-friendly community, diverse in its heritage, and committed to working collaboratively to preserve and retain its small town charm.

Explain: It is imperative that the city continues to conduct a successful capital campaign to help materialize the community’s vision of establishing a local community center that can increase community opportunities and access to safe spaces for families and residents.

Explain how the Recommendation Directly Implements the Mission The City Council and Staff of the City of Gonzales will realize our Vision by providing the leadership, commitment, and resources necessary to provide excellent services that enhance the quality of life of our diverse community.

Explain: Armanasco Public Relations, Inc. will help to ensure the city meets the goal of establishing a Gonzales Community Center Complex.

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City services will be delivered in a cost-effective, respectful, and friendly manner to insure the safety and wellbeing of the residents and the promotion of business, recreational, housing and employment opportunities in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Explain: Staff believes this Agreement with APR will help us reach our fundraising goal for the Gonzales Community Center Complex.

Strong fiscal policies allow us to provide appropriate infrastructure for:
• Public Safety X Yes No N/A
• Housing Yes No X N/A
• Recreation X Yes No N/A
• Environment X Yes No N/A
• Education X Yes No N/A
Explain: Staff believes using experts in this area is critical and having APR on for additional support will ensure that the funding needed for the center is secured.

ALTERNATIVES
Alternative 1 – The City Council could direct staff to modify the Agreement to change the amount or period of time covered. Staff will modify as directed. The compensation proposed is just and the proposed effort is proportional to the contracted amount.

Alternative 2 – The City Council could deny the contract making it harder to reach the $10 million dollar goal of the capital campaign.

Alternative 3 – The City Council could direct staff to identify another firm that can provide the support.

However, that would delay the capital campaign and thus, the project even more.

BUDGET IMPACT
The total cost of the contract is $7,500 per month for a total of $90,000 for the period of the contract, unless extended. If approved, the Cost for FY 2022-2023 would be $45,000, and for FY 2023-2024, $45,000, which would be reflected in next year’s budget.

CONCLUSION
Staff recommends that the City Council 1) Approve a retroactive Agreement between the City of Gonzales and Armanasco Public Relations Inc. from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023 for an amount not to exceed $90,000 for services rendered to support the development and execution of a capital campaign for the Gonzales Community Center Complex; and 2) Amend the FY 2022-2023 City Budget by increasing the Measure X Budget (Budget Unit 100-800), Other Contractual Services (Object Code 6245) by $45,000.

Attachments:

1. Agreement with Armanasco - Capital Campaign
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Consulting Services Agreement between February 14, 2023 City of Gonzales and Armanasco Public Relations, Inc. Page 1 of 12

CONSULTING SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN

THE CITY OF GONZALES AND
ARMANASCO PUBLIC RELATIONS, INC. FOR

GONZALES COMMUNITY CENTER COMPLEX CAPITAL CAMPAGIN SUPPORT THIS AGREEMENT for consulting services is made by and between the City of Gonzales (“City”) and Armanasco Public Relations, Inc. (“Consultant”) (together referred to as the “Parties”) as of January 1, 2023.

Section 1. SERVICES. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, Consultant shall provide to City the services described in the Scope of Work attached as Exhibit A . In the event of a conflict in or inconsistency between the terms of this Agreement and Exhibit A, the Agreement shall prevail.

1.1 Term of Services. The term of this Agreement shall begin on the Effective Date and shall end on Dec. 31, 2023, unless the term of the Agreement is otherwise terminated or extended, as provided for in Section 8. The time provided to Consultant to complete the services required by this Agreement shall not affect the City’s right to terminate the Agreement, as referenced in Section 8.

1.2 Standard of Performance. Consultant shall perform all services required pursuant to this Agreement according to the standards observed by a competent practitioner of the profession in which Consultant is engaged.

1.3 Assignment of Personnel. Consultant shall assign only competent personnel to perform services pursuant to this Agreement. In the event that City, in its sole discretion, at any time during the term of this Agreement, desires the reassignment of any such persons, Consultant shall, immediately upon receiving notice from City of such desire of City, reassign such person or persons.

1.4 Time. Consultant shall devote such time to the performance of services pursuant to this Agreement as may be reasonably necessary to meet the standard of performance provided in Section 1.1 above, and to satisfy Consultant’s obligations hereunder.

Section 2. COMPENSATION. City hereby agrees to pay Consultant a sum of $7,500 per month over the duration of this contract, notwithstanding any contrary indications that may be contained in Consultant's proposal, for services to be performed and reimbursable costs incurred under this Agreement. In the event of a conflict between this Agreement and Consultant's proposal, attached as Exhibit A, regarding the amount of compensation, the Agreement shall prevail. City shall pay Consultant for services rendered pursuant to this Agreement at the time and in the manner set forth herein. The payments specified below shall be the only payments from City to Consultant for services rendered pursuant to this Agreement.

Consultant shall submit all invoices to City in the manner specified herein. Except as specifically authorized by City in writing, Consultant shall not bill City for duplicate services performed by more than one person.

Consultant and City acknowledge and agree that compensation paid by City to Consultant under this Agreement is based upon Consultant's estimated costs of providing the services required hereunder, Packet Pg. 143 Attachment: Agreement with Armanasco - Capital Campaign (2640 : Agreement with Armanasco Public Relations - Capital Campaign) Consulting Services Agreement between February 14, 2023 City of Gonzales and Armanasco Public Relations, Inc. Page 2 of 12 including salaries and benefits of employees and subcontractors of Consultant. Consequently, the parties further agree that compensation hereunder is intended to include the costs of contributions to any pensions and/or annuities to which Consultant and its employees, agents and subcontractors may be eligible. City therefore has no responsibility for such contributions beyond compensation required under this Agreement.

2.1 Invoices. Consultant shall submit invoices, not more often than once a month during the term of this Agreement, based on the cost for services performed and reimbursable costs incurred prior to the invoice date. Invoices shall contain the following information:
▪ Serial identifications of progress bills; i.e., Progress Bill No. 1 for the first invoice, etc.;
▪ The beginning and ending dates of the billing period; ▪ A Task Summary containing the original contract amount, the amount of prior billings, the total due this period, the balance available under the Agreement, and the percentage of completion;
▪ The total number of hours of work performed under the Agreement by Consultant and each employee, agent, and subcontractor of Consultant performing services hereunder, including a brief description of work that was completed; ▪ The Consultant's signature;
▪ Consultant shall give separate notice to the City when the total number of hours worked by Consultant and any individual employee, agent, or subcontractor of Consultant reaches or exceeds 800 (eight hundred) hours within a 12-month period under this Agreement and any other agreement between Consultant and City. Such notice shall include an estimate of the time necessary to complete work described in Exhibit A and the estimate of time necessary to complete work under any other agreement between Consultant and City, if applicable.

2.2 Monthly Payment. City shall make monthly payments, based on invoices received, for services satisfactorily performed, and for authorized reimbursable costs incurred. City shall have 30 days from the receipt of an invoice that complies with all of the requirements above to pay Consultant.

2.3 Final Payment. City shall pay the last 10% of the total sum due pursuant to this Agreement within 60 days after completion of the services and submittal to City of a final invoice, if all services required have been satisfactorily performed.

2.4 Total Payment. City shall pay for the services to be rendered by Consultant pursuant to this Agreement. City shall not pay any additional sum for any expense or cost whatsoever incurred by Consultant in rendering services pursuant to this Agreement. City shall make no payment for any extra, further, or additional service pursuant to this Agreement.

In no event shall Consultant submit any invoice for an amount in excess of the maximum amount of compensation provided above either for a task or for the entire Agreement, unless the Agreement is modified prior to the submission of such an invoice by a properly executed change order or amendment.

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2.5 Payment of Subcontractors. Consultant is solely responsible for payment to all subcontractors that complete work under the terms of this Agreement.

2.6 Reimbursable Expenses. Reimbursable expenses are specified below and shall not exceed $5,000 per fiscal year. Expenses not previously approved are not chargeable to City. Reimbursable expenses are included in the total amount of compensation provided under this Agreement that shall not be exceeded.

2.7 Payment of Taxes. Consultant is solely responsible for the payment of employment taxes incurred under this Agreement and any similar federal or state taxes.

2.8 Payment upon Termination. In the event that the City or Consultant terminates this Agreement pursuant to Section 8, the City shall compensate the Consultant for all outstanding costs and reimbursable expenses incurred for work satisfactorily completed as of the date of written notice of termination. Consultant shall maintain adequate logs and timesheets to verify costs incurred to that date.

2.9 Authorization to Perform Services. The Consultant is not authorized to perform any services or incur any costs whatsoever under the terms of this Agreement until receipt of authorization from the Contract Administrator.

Section 3. FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT. Except as set forth herein, Consultant shall, at its sole cost and expense, provide all facilities and equipment that may be necessary to perform the services required by this Agreement. City shall make available to Consultant only the facilities and equipment listed in this section, and only under the terms and conditions set forth herein.

City shall furnish physical facilities such as desks, filing cabinets and conference space, as may be reasonably necessary for Consultant's use while consulting with City employees and reviewing records and the information in possession of the City. The location, quantity and time of furnishing those facilities shall be in the sole discretion of City. In no event shall City be obligated to furnish any facility that may involve incurring any direct expense, including but not limited to computer, long-distance telephone or other communication charges, vehicles, and reproduction facilities.

Section 4. INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS. Before beginning any work under this Agreement, Consultant, at its own cost and expense, unless otherwise specified below, shall procure the types and amounts of insurance listed below against claims for injuries to persons or damages to property that may arise from or in connection with the performance of the work hereunder by the Consultant and its agents, representatives, employees, and subcontractors. Consistent with the following provisions, Consultant shall provide proof satisfactory to City of such insurance that meets the requirements of this section and under forms of insurance satisfactory in all respects, and that such insurance is in effect prior to beginning work to the City. Consultant shall maintain the insurance policies required by this section throughout the term of this Agreement. Consultant shall not allow any subcontractor to commence work on any subcontract until Consultant has obtained all insurance required herein for the subcontractor(s) and provided evidence that such insurance is in effect to City. Verification of the required insurance shall be submitted and made part of this Agreement prior to execution. Consultant shall maintain all required insurance listed herein for the duration of this Agreement.

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4.1 Workers’ Compensation. Consultant shall, at its sole cost and expense, maintain Statutory Workers' Compensation Insurance and Employer's Liability Insurance for any and all persons employed directly or indirectly by Consultant. The Statutory Workers' Compensation Insurance and Employer's Liability Insurance shall be provided with limits of not less than $1 million dollars per accident. In the alternative, Consultant may rely on a self-insurance program to meet those requirements, but only if the program of selfinsurance complies fully with the provisions of the California Labor Code. Determination of whether a self-insurance program meets the standards of the Labor Code shall be solely in the discretion of the Contract Administrator. The insurer, if insurance is provided, or the Consultant, if a program of self-insurance is provided, shall waive all rights of subrogation against the City and its officers, officials, employees, and volunteers for loss arising from work performed under this Agreement.

4.2 Commercial General and Automobile Liability Insurance.

4.2.1 General requirements. Consultant, at its own cost and expense, shall maintain commercial general and automobile liability insurance for the term of this Agreement in an amount not less than $100,000 per occurrence, combined single limit coverage for risks associated with the work contemplated by this Agreement.

If a Commercial General Liability Insurance or an Automobile Liability form or other form with a general aggregate limit is used, either the general aggregate limit shall apply separately to the work to be performed under this Agreement or the general aggregate limit shall be at least twice the required occurrence limit. Such coverage shall include but shall not be limited to, protection against claims arising from bodily and personal injury, including death resulting therefrom, and damage to property resulting from activities contemplated under this Agreement, including the use of owned and non-owned automobiles.

4.2.2 Minimum scope of coverage. Commercial general coverage shall be at least as broad as Insurance Services Office Commercial General Liability occurrence form CG 0001 (most recent edition) covering comprehensive General Liability on an "occurrence" basis. Automobile coverage shall be at least as broad as Insurance Services Office Automobile Liability form CA 0001 (most recent edition), Code 1 (any auto). No endorsement shall be attached limiting the coverage.

4.2.3 Additional requirements. Each of the following shall be included in the insurance coverage or added as a certified endorsement to the policy:
a. The Insurance shall cover on an occurrence or an accident basis, and not on a claims-made basis.
b. City, its officers, officials, employees, and volunteers are to be covered as insureds as respects: liability arising out of work or operations performed by or on behalf of the Consultant; or automobiles owned, leased, hired, or borrowed by the Consultant.

Packet Pg. 146 Attachment: Agreement with Armanasco - Capital Campaign (2640 : Agreement with Armanasco Public Relations - Capital Campaign) Consulting Services Agreement between February 14, 2023 City of Gonzales and Armanasco Public Relations, Inc. Page 5 of 12 c. For any claims related to this Agreement or the work hereunder, the Consultant's insurance covered shall be primary insurance as respects the City, its officers, officials, employees, and volunteers. Any insurance or self-insurance maintained by the City, its officers, officials, employees, or volunteers shall be excess of the Consultant's insurance and shall not contribute with it.
d. Each insurance policy required by this clause shall be endorsed to state that coverage shall not be canceled by either party, except after 30 days' prior written notice has been provided to the City.

4.3 Professional Liability Insurance.

4.3.1 General requirements. Consultant, at its own cost and expense, shall maintain for the period covered by this Agreement professional liability insurance for licensed professionals performing work pursuant to this Agreement in an amount not less than $1 million dollars covering the licensed professionals' errors and omissions. Any deductible or self-insured retention shall not exceed $250,000 per claim.

4.3.2 Claims-made limitations. The following provisions shall apply if the professional liability coverage is written on a claims-made form:
a. The retroactive date of the policy must be shown and must be before the date of the Agreement.
b. Insurance must be maintained, and evidence of insurance must be provided for at least five years after completion of the Agreement or the work, so long as commercially available at reasonable rates. c. If coverage is canceled or not renewed and it is not replaced with another claims-made policy form with a retroactive date that precedes the date of this Agreement, Consultant must purchase an extended period coverage for a minimum of five years after completion of work under this Agreement.
d. A copy of the claim reporting requirements must be submitted to the City for review prior to the commencement of any work under this Agreement.

4.4 All Policies Requirements.

4.4.1 Acceptability of insurers. All insurance required by this section is to be placed with insurers with a Bests' rating of no less than A:VII.

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4.4.2 Verification of coverage. Prior to beginning any work under this Agreement, Consultant shall furnish City with complete copies of all policies delivered to Consultant by the insurer, including complete copies of all endorsements attached to those policies. All copies of policies and endorsements shall show the signature of a person authorized by that insurer to bind coverage on its behalf. If the City does not receive the required insurance documents prior to the Consultant beginning work, it shall not waive the Consultant's obligation to provide them. The City reserves the right to require complete copies of all required insurance policies at any time.

4.4.3 Deductibles and Self-Insured Retentions. Consultant shall disclose to and obtain the written approval of City for the self-insured retentions and deductibles before beginning any of the services or work called for by any term of this Agreement. At the option of the City, either: the insurer shall reduce or eliminate such deductibles or self-insured retentions as respects the City, its officers, employees, and volunteers; or the Consultant shall provide a financial guarantee satisfactory to the City guaranteeing payment of losses and related investigations, claim administration and defense expenses.

4.4.4 Wasting Policies. No policy required by this Section 4 shall include a "wasting" policy limit (i.e., limit that is eroded by the cost of defense).

4.4.5 Waiver of Subrogation. Consultant hereby agrees to waive subrogation which any insurer or contractor may require from vendor by virtue of the payment of any loss. Consultant agrees to obtain any endorsements that may be necessary to affect this waiver of subrogation.

The Workers' Compensation policy shall be endorsed with a waiver of subrogation in favor of the entity for all work performed by the consultant, its employees, agents, and subcontractors.

4.4.6 Subcontractors. Consultant shall include all subcontractors as insureds under its policies or shall furnish separate certificates and endorsements for each subcontractor. All coverages for subcontractors shall be subject to all of the requirements stated herein.

4.5 Remedies. In addition to any other remedies City may have if Consultant fails to provide or maintain any insurance policies or policy endorsements to the extent and within the time herein required, City may, at its sole option exercise any of the following remedies, which are alternatives to other remedies City may have and are not the exclusive remedy for Consultant's breach:
▪ Obtain such insurance and deduct and retain the amount of the premiums for such insurance from any sums due under the Agreement;
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Section 5. INDEMNIFICATION AND CONSULTANT'S RESPONSIBILITIES.

Consultant shall indemnify, defend with counsel acceptable to City, and hold harmless City and its officers, officials, employees, agents and volunteers from and against any and all liability, loss, damage, claims, expenses, and costs (including without limitation, reasonable attorney's fees and costs and fees of litigation) (collectively, "Liability") of every nature arising out of or in connection with Consultant's negligent performance of the Services or its failure to comply with any of its obligations contained in this Agreement, except such Liability caused by the sole negligence or willful misconduct of City.

The Consultant's obligation to defend and indemnify shall not be excused because of the Consultant's inability to evaluate Liability or because the Consultant evaluates Liability and determines that the Consultant is not liable to the claimant. The Consultant must respond within 30 days, to the tender of any claim for defense and indemnity by the City, unless this time has been extended by the City. If the Consultant fails to accept or reject a tender of defense and indemnity within 30 days, in addition to any other remedy authorized by law, so much of the money due the Consultant under and by virtue of this Agreement as shall reasonably be considered necessary by the City, may be retained by the City until disposition has been made of the claim or suit for damages, or until the Consultant accepts or rejects the tender of defense, whichever occurs first.

With respect to third party claims against the Consultant, the Consultant waives any and all rights of any type to express or implied indemnity against the Indemnitees.

Notwithstanding the forgoing, to the extent this Agreement is a "construction contract" as defined by California Civil Code Section 2782, as may be amended from time to time, such duties of consultant to indemnify shall not apply when to do so would be prohibited by California Civil Code Section 2782.

In the event that Consultant or any employee, agent, or subcontractor of Consultant providing services under this Agreement is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or the California Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) to be eligible for enrollment in PERS as an employee of City, Consultant shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless City for the payment of any employee and/or employer contributions for PERS benefits on behalf of Consultant or its employees, agents, or subcontractors, as well as for the payment of any penalties and interest on such contributions, which would otherwise be the responsibility of City.

Section 6. STATUS OF CONSULTANT.

6.1 Independent Contractor. At all times during the term of this Agreement, Consultant and any subcontractor shall be an independent contractor and shall not be an employee of City. City shall have the right to control Consultant only insofar as the results of Consultant's services rendered pursuant to this Agreement and assignment of personnel Packet Pg. 149 Attachment: Agreement with Armanasco - Capital Campaign (2640 : Agreement with Armanasco Public Relations - Capital Campaign) Consulting Services Agreement between February 14, 2023 City of Gonzales and Armanasco Public Relations, Inc. Page 8 of 12 pursuant to Subparagraph 1.3; however, otherwise City shall not have the right to control the means by which Consultant accomplishes services rendered pursuant to this Agreement. Notwithstanding any other City, state, or federal policy, rule, regulation, law, or ordinance to the contrary, Consultant and any of its employees, agents, and subcontractors providing services under this Agreement shall not qualify for or become entitled to, and hereby agree to waive any and all claims to, any compensation, benefit, or any incident of employment by City, including but not limited to eligibility to enroll in the California Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) as an employee of City and entitlement to any contribution to be paid by City for employer contributions and/or employee contributions for PERS benefits.

6.2 Consultant Not an Agent. Except as City may specify in writing, Consultant or its subcontractors shall have no authority, express or implied, to act on behalf of City in any capacity whatsoever as an agent. Consultant shall have no authority, express or implied, pursuant to this Agreement to bind City to any obligation whatsoever.

Section 7. LEGAL REQUIREMENTS.

7.1 Governing Law. The laws of the State of California shall govern this Agreement.

7.2 Compliance with Applicable Laws. Consultant and any subcontractors shall comply with all laws applicable to the performance of the work hereunder.

7.3 Other Governmental Regulations. To the extent that this Agreement may be funded by fiscal assistance from another governmental entity, Consultant and any subcontractors shall comply with all applicable rules and regulations to which City is bound by the terms of such fiscal assistance program.

7.4 Licenses and Permits. Consultant represents and warrants to City that Consultant and its employees, agents, and any subcontractors have all licenses, permits, qualifications and approvals of whatsoever nature that is legally required to practice their respective professions. Consultant represents and warrants to City that Consultant and its employees, agents, any subcontractors shall, at their sole cost and expense, keep in effect at all times during the term of this Agreement any licenses, permits, and approvals that are legally required to practice their respective professions. In addition to the foregoing, Consultant and any subcontractors shall obtain and maintain during the term of this Agreement valid Business Licenses from City.

7.5 Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity. Consultant shall not discriminate, on the basis of a person's race, religion, color, national origin, age, physical or mental handicap or disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, or sexual orientation, against any employee, applicant for employment, subcontractor, bidder for a subcontract, or participant in, recipient of, or applicant for any services or programs provided by Consultant under this Agreement. Consultant shall comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, policies, rules and requirements related to equal opportunity and nondiscrimination in employment, contracting, and the provision of any services that are the subject of this Packet Pg. 150 Attachment: Agreement with Armanasco - Capital Campaign (2640 : Agreement with Armanasco Public Relations - Capital Campaign) Consulting Services Agreement between February 14, 2023 City of Gonzales and Armanasco Public Relations, Inc. Page 9 of 12 Agreement, including but not limited to the satisfaction of any positive obligations required of Consultant thereby.

Consultant shall include the provisions of this Subsection in any subcontract approved by the Contract Administrator or this Agreement.

Section 8. TERMINATION AND MODIFICATION.

8.1 Termination. City may cancel this Agreement at any time and without cause upon written notification to Consultant.

Consultant may cancel this Agreement upon 60 days' written notice to City and shall include in such notice the reasons for cancellation.

In the event of termination, Consultant shall be entitled to compensation for services performed to the effective date of termination; City, however, may condition payment of such compensation upon Consultant delivering to City any or all documents, photographs, computer software, video and audio tapes, and other materials provided to Consultant or prepared by or for Consultant or the City in connection with this Agreement.

8.2 Extension. City may, in its sole and exclusive discretion, extend the end date of this Agreement beyond that provided for in Subsection 1.1. Any such extension shall require a written amendment to this Agreement, as provided for herein. Consultant understands and agrees that, if City grants such an extension, City shall have no obligation to provide Consultant with compensation beyond the maximum amount provided for in this Agreement. Similarly, unless authorized by the Contract Administrator, City shall have no obligation to reimburse Consultant for any otherwise reimbursable expenses incurred during the extension period.

8.3 Amendments. The parties may amend this Agreement only by a writing signed by all parties.

8.4 Assignment and Subcontracting. City and Consultant recognize and agree that this Agreement contemplates personal performance by Consultant and is based upon a determination of Consultant's unique personal competence, experience and specialized personal knowledge. Moreover, a substantial inducement to City for entering into this Agreement was and is the professional reputation and competence of Consultant.

Consultant may not assign this Agreement or any interest therein without the prior written approval of the Contract Administrator. Consultant shall not subcontract any portion of the performance contemplated and provided for herein, other than to the subcontractors noted in the proposal, without prior written approval of the Contract Administrator.

8.5 Survival. All obligations arising prior to the termination of this Agreement and all provisions of this Agreement allocating liability between City and Consultant shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

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8.6 Options upon Breach by Consultant. If Consultant materially breaches any of the terms of this Agreement, City's remedies shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

8.6.1 Immediately terminate the Agreement;

8.6.2 Retain the plans, specifications, drawings, reports, design documents and any other work product prepared by Consultant pursuant to this Agreement;

8.6.3 Retain a different consultant to complete the work described in Exhibit A not finished by Consultant; or

8.6.4 Charge Consultant the difference between the costs to complete the work described in Exhibit A that is unfinished at the time of breach and the amount that City would have paid Consultant pursuant to Section 2 if Consultant had completed the work.

Section 9. KEEPING AND STATUS OF RECORDS.

9.1 Records Created as Part of Consultant's Performance. All reports, data, maps, models, charts, studies, surveys, photographs, memoranda, plans, studies, specifications, records, files, or any other documents or materials, in electronic or any other form, that Consultant prepares or obtains pursuant to this Agreement and that relate to the matters covered hereunder shall be the property of the City. Consultant hereby agrees to deliver those documents to the City upon termination of the Agreement. It is understood and agreed that the documents and other materials, including but not limited to those described above, prepared pursuant to this Agreement are prepared specifically for the City and are not necessarily suitable for any future or other use. City and Consultant agree that, until final approval by City, all data, plans, specifications, reports and other documents are confidential and will not be released to third parties without prior written consent of both parties.

9.2 Consultant's Books and Records. Consultant shall maintain any and all ledgers, books of account, invoices, vouchers, canceled checks, and other records or documents evidencing or relating to charges for services or expenditures and disbursements charged to the City under this Agreement for a minimum of three years, or for any longer period required by law, from the date of final payment to the Consultant to this Agreement.

9.3 Inspection and Audit of Records. Any records or documents that Section 9.2 of this Agreement requires Consultant to maintain shall be made available for inspection, audit and/or copying at any time during regular business hours, upon oral or written request of the City. Under California Government Code Section 8546.7, if the amount of public funds expended under this Agreement exceeds $10,000, the Agreement shall be subject to the examination and audit of the State Auditor, at the request of City or as part of any audit of the City, for a period of three years after final payment under the Agreement.

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10.1 Attorneys' Fees. If a party to this Agreement brings any action, including an action for declaratory relief, to enforce or interpret the provision of this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to reasonable attorneys' fees in addition to any other relief to which that party may be entitled. The court may set such fees in the same action or in a separate action brought for that purpose.

10.2 Venue. In the event that either party brings any action against the other under this Agreement, the parties agree that trial of such action shall be vested exclusively in the state courts of California in the County of Monterey or in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

10.3 Severability. If a court of competent jurisdiction finds or rules that any provision of this Agreement is invalid, void or unenforceable, the provisions of this Agreement not so adjudged shall remain in full force and effect. The invalidity in whole or in part of any provision of this Agreement shall not void or affect the validity of any other provision of this Agreement.

10.4 No Implied Waiver of Breach. The waiver of any breach of a specific provision of this Agreement does not constitute a waiver of any other breach of that term or any other term of this Agreement.

10.5 Successors and Assigns. The provisions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and shall apply to and bind the successors and assigns of the parties.

10.6 Use of Recycled Products. Consultant shall prepare and submit all reports, written studies and other printed material on recycled paper to the extent it is available at equal or less cost than virgin paper.

10.7 Conflict of Interest. Consultant may serve other clients, but none whose activities within the corporate limits of City or whose business, regardless of location, would place Consultant in a "conflict of interest," as that term is defined in the Political Reform Act, codified at California Government Code Section 81000 et seq.

Consultant shall not employ any City official in the work performed pursuant to this Agreement. No officer or employee of City shall have any financial interest in this Agreement that would violate California Government Code Sections 1090 et seq.

Consultant hereby warrants that it is not now, nor has it been in the previous 12 months, an employee, agent, appointee or official of the City. If Consultant was an employee, agent, appointee or official of the City in the previous twelve months, Consultant warrants that it did not participate in any manner in the forming of this Agreement. Consultant understands that, if this Agreement is made in violation of Government Code § 1090 et seq., the entire Agreement is void and Consultant will not be entitled to any compensation for services performed pursuant to this Agreement, including reimbursement of expenses, Packet Pg. 153 Attachment: Agreement with Armanasco - Capital Campaign (2640 : Agreement with Armanasco Public Relations - Capital Campaign) Consulting Services Agreement between February 14, 2023 City of Gonzales and Armanasco Public Relations, Inc. Page 12 of 12 and Consultant will be required to reimburse the City for any sums paid to the Consultant.

Consultant understands that, in addition to the foregoing, it may be subject to criminal prosecution for a violation of Government Code § 1090 and, if applicable, will be disqualified from holding public office in the State of California.

10.8 Solicitation. Consultant agrees not to solicit business at any meeting, focus group, or interview related to this Agreement, either orally or through any written materials.

10.9 Contract Administration. This Agreement shall be administered by René L. Mendez ("Contract Administrator"). All correspondence shall be directed to or through the Contract Administrator or his or her designee.

10.10 Notices. Any written notice to Consultant shall be sent to:

David Armanasco
Armanasco Public Relations, Inc.
585 Abrego Street
Monterey, CA 93940
Any written notice to City shall be sent to:

Trevin Barber, City Manager
P.O. Box 647
Gonzales, CA 93926

10.11 Integration. This Agreement, including the scope of work attached hereto and incorporated herein as Exhibit ‘A’ represents the entire and integrated agreement between City and Consultant and supersedes all prior negotiations, representations or agreements, either written or oral.

10.12 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one agreement.

The Parties have executed this Agreement as of the Effective Date.

CITY OF GONZALES CONSULTANT
Trevin Barber, City Manager David Armanasco, President
Attest:

Mary Villegas, Deputy City Clerk
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EXHIBIT A

SCOPE OF SERVICES
Armanasco Public Relations (APR) has been working alongside the City of Gonzales on the capital campaign to build the Dennis and Janice Caprara Community Center. Together we have been successful in raising $6,186,000.00 in donations and pledges to date. Outlined below are the tasks that APR will continue to implement to successfully meet the $10 million dollar goal.

1. Donor Prospect Meetings: APR will continue meeting with the donor prospects. The database will be upkept, and meetings will be scheduled and follow-ed up on.

6. Monthly Coordination Meetings with Staff: APR will hold regularly scheduled meetings with city staff and the Leadership Cabinet to coordinate efforts.

PROFESSIONAL FEES & EXPENSES
APR will provide professional services for the scope of work outlined above for a fee of $7,500 per month.

Out-of-pocket expenses such as graphic design, printing, website design, advertising costs and other expenses are an additional cost. APR will gather bids for expenses and no out-of-pocket expense will be incurred without prior approval.

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Gonzales City CouncilFebruary 21, 2023

Gonzales City Council
February 21, 2023