Attachment 1Attachment 1RESOLUTION NO. 23-121
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE CITY TO ENTER INTO A REGIONAL CONTRACT BETWEEN THE SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY WASTEWATER AUTHORITY (SOCWA), MILES CHEMICAL, INC., AND SOCWA ENTITIES FOR DELIVERY AND SUPPLY OF FERRIC CHLORIDE TO THE WATER RECLAMATION PLANT FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE CONTRACT, AUTHORIZING THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TO APPROVE UP TO FOUR ANNUAL RENEWALS, AND FINDING THE PROJECT CATEGORICALLY EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente provides maintenance and operation of the City’s sanitary sewer collection and treatment system infrastructure in order to ensure wastewater service to protect public health and safety, in compliance with all local, state and federal regulatory requirements; and WHEREAS, the City of San Clemente Water Reclamation Plant treats wastewater through a series of physical, biological, and chemical treatment processes to meet regulatory requirements; and WHEREAS, Ferric Chloride is a chemical that is necessary for wastewater treatment to maintain compliance with air quality regulations for sulfides in digester gas, control treatment plant odors, and ensure consistent settling in the wastewater treatment process; and WHEREAS, in the past, the City of San Clemente has partnered with SOCWA and other agencies that are collectively referred to as SOCWA entities in the joint contract (specifically, Santa Margarita Water District, El Toro Water District, and Moulton Niguel Water District) to purchase wastewater treatment chemicals; and WHEREAS, SOCWA staff reviewed recent Ferric Chloride requisitions from around Southern California, and reviewed two recently completed bidding processes in Southern California, and Miles Chemical, Inc. was the recent low bidder and SOCWA’s most recent Ferric Chloride provider; and WHEREAS, SOCWA has entered into an initial one-year contract with Miles Chemical for Ferric Chloride, with four optional annual renewals which will be negotiated at the expiration of each term; and WHEREAS, the City of San Clement and the other SOCWA entities can join the regional contract for the delivery and supply of Ferric Chloride; and WHEREAS, joining the regional contract with SOCWA, Miles Chemical, and SOCWA entities is in the best interests of the City and the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Clemente does hereby find, determine and resolve as follows:
Section 1. That the above recitals are true and correct and incorporated herein as findings.
Section 2. That this project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under Class 1 (Existing Facilities, 14 CCR section 15301) of the State CEQA Guidelines because it consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of existing or former use, and there is no reasonable possibility that the activity will have a significant direct or foreseeable indirect effect on the environment.
Section 3. That approval is hereby granted for the City to enter into the regional contract with SOCWA, Miles Chemical, Inc. and SOCWA entities for a one-year term for the delivery and supply of Ferric Chloride to the City’s Water Reclamation Plant (WRP). The City Manager is authorized and directed to execute that contract in a form substantially similar to that presented to the City Council on October 17, 2023. The Public Works Director is authorized to approve up to four annual renewals to such contract for amounts not to exceed the approved budget amounts for this Ferric Chloride in each appropriate fiscal year.
Section 4. That staff is authorized and directed to take such other and further actions and execute such other and further documents as may be necessary to accomplish the purpose of this resolution.
Section 5. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this resolution and enter it into the book of original resolutions.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this _____ day of ____________________, 2023.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk of the City of Mayor of the City of San
San Clemente, California Clemente, California
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) §
CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE )
I, LAURA CAMPAGNOLO, City Clerk of the City of San Clemente, California, do hereby certify that Resolution No. 23-121 was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of San Clemente held on the _______ day of _______________________, _________, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of San Clemente, California, this _____ day of _________________, ________. __________________________
CITY CLERK of the City of
San Clemente, California
Approved as to form:
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Elizabeth A. Mitchell, City Attorney
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