Edwards Aquifer Authority - File #: AI 13-1409

• File #: AI 13-1409
• Version: 2
• Name: 2017 budget
• Type: Action Item
• Status: Passed
• File created: 10/4/2016
• In control: Board of Directors
• On agenda: 10/25/2016
• Final action: 11/8/2016
• Title: Consider recommendation from the Finance/Administrative Committee to adopt the annual budget for fiscal year 2017, and assessing aquifer management fee and program aquifer management fee rates for 2017.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/8/2016	2	Board of Directors	approved	Pass
10/25/2016	1	Finance/Administrative Committee

Title
Consider recommendation from the Finance/Administrative Committee to adopt the annual budget for fiscal year 2017, and assessing aquifer management fee and program aquifer management fee rates for 2017.

Body
RECOMMENDED MOTION:

Move the board adopt Resolution and Order No. 11-16-862 of the Edwards Aquifer Authority Board of Directors adopting the annual budget for fiscal year 2017, incorporating the amendments discussed, and assessing aquifer management fee and program aquifer management fee rates for 2017, as follows:

Non-agricultural aquifer management fee (General Fund) -- $44.00 per acre-foot
Agricultural aquifer management fee (General Fund) -- $2.00 per acre-foot
Non-agricultural program aquifer management fee (EAHCP Fund) -- $40.00 per acre-foot


SUMMARY:

The purpose of this agenda item is for the board to consider a Finance/Administrative Committee recommendation to adopt the proposed budget, and associated aquifer management fee (AMF) and program AMF rates for 2017. EAA staff presented the General Manager’s 2017 Proposed Budget to the board on September 13. Following the recommendation of the Finance/Administrative Committee, the board at its October 11 meeting, authorized staff to conduct public meetings on the proposed budget, AMF rate, and program AMF rate. EAA staff held three public meetings on the 2017 proposed budget as summarized below:

· Wednesday, October 12, 2016, at 6:00 p.m., Edwards Aquifer Authority Board Room.
· Friday, October 14, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., New Braunfels Civic Center.
· Monday, October 17, 2016, at 2:00 p.m., Uvalde SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center.

A total of seven individuals attended these public hearings. Staff answered general questions on the proposed budget, and the justification for increasing the non-agricultural aquifer management fee (General Fund) from $40 to $50 per acre-foot for 2017, and decreasing the non-agricultural program aquifer management fee (EAHCP Fund) from $44 to $34 per acre-foot for 20...