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City council approves amendments to SFPUC wholesale water agreement after regional negotiations
Summary
Palo Alto joined other wholesale agencies to approve amendments that reset minimum purchase obligations, add a ‘family plan’ for penalties, and adopt a revised method for dividing wholesaler allocations during shortages; council members urged continued scrutiny of SFPUC drought modeling and alternative‑supply planning.
Palo Alto City Council voted 6–0 (one absence) on Aug. 11 to approve two resolutions amending the city’s wholesale water supply contract with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and to adopt a revised methodology for allocating wholesale‑system shortages among Bay Area agencies.
Staff described the package as a three‑part agreement negotiated among the Bay Area wholesale customers (the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency, BOSCA, member agencies) and San Francisco. Carla Daley, assistant director of utilities, told council the amendments reset minimum purchase obligations for four wholesale agencies that had been obligated to buy fixed minimum volumes, establish a transitional mechanism that eases those obligations following drought years, and create a “family plan” so that penalties apply at the collective level rather than automatically to an individual agency if the group meets its combined minimums.
Daley said the change…
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