Item A: City of Coburg Request for Connection to Regional Wastewater Facilities

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Two scenarios are provided for discussion purposes. The scenarios would require significantly different levels of resources made available by MWMC and regional wastewater staff to support and be accountable to Coburg and its customers. They would result in significantly different levels of intergovernmental coordination and public policy accountability. It should be noted recent and past experience amending the MWMC IGA, or creating new agreements to provide service (i.e., the previously proposed Short Mountain Leachate connection), informs us that development and approval of IGAs by all parties on MWMC-related matters can be time consuming and resource intensive. This is reflected in the estimated time frame and costs for developing and adopting amendments to the MWMC IGA, as well as creating new IGAs, which are provided in Attachment A. Scenario 1: Coburg as a Customer Under a Service Agreement This scenario would require minor modifications to the IGA to allow for MWMC to serve customers (such as Coburg) other than the partners to the IGA and outside the UGB under a defined set of circumstances that comply with all applicable state laws and Metro Plan policies. Coburg would not be a signator to the MWMC wastewater discharge permit and would not have a role in developing MWMC policies, plans, budgets or user charges. The City of Coburg would be billed monthly for its combined discharge and would be responsible to provide all services, public information and accountability to individual Coburg sewer users. Coburg would be obligated to provide all necessary flow metering, monitoring, and analytical data necessary for MWMC to determine flows, strengths, and compliance with regulatory requirements. This scenario would require the least amount of time and resources on the part of the MWMC partner agencies to implement both initially and in the long term. It would place the responsibility for customer accountability and services within the City of Coburg organization, and would make Coburg’s relationship to MWMC similar to other regulated Significant Industrial Users (SIUs) within the service area. This scenario would require an IGA between MWMC and Coburg, which would outline the obligations and commitments of Coburg as conditions of being provided wastewater services. Additional IGAs also could be developed to enable contracted services to be provided to Coburg at the City’s request. Scenario 2: Coburg as a Limited Partner This scenario would require negotiations among the Governing Bodies to determine an appropriate/acceptable level of partnership Coburg would be extended, and the attendant levels of accountability, intergovernmental coordination, involvement in MWMC matters, and liabilities. Regional wastewater program staffing, budgets and review time frames would need to be expanded to serve MWMC administration and procedural requirements of the Coburg organization and City Council as a member organization. The issues that would need to be addressed under this scenario include, but are not limited to: ? Appropriate representation on the Commission or other means of accountability; ? Level of Eugene-Springfield staff involvement and/or ongoing coordination and provision of public information and basic customer services to Coburg customers; ? Coburg’s role in development and/or review of MWMC policies, plans, budgets, and user charges and how to recover the costs and address the impacts of this level of involvement if it is disproportionate to the customer base served; ? Coburg’s responsibilities and liabilities regarding the NPDES permit; and Page 15