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Consider recommendation from the Finance/Administrative Committee to approve the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan FY2019 Funding Application Amendments submitted by the City of New Braunfels ($665,000) and the City of San Marcos/Texas State University ($1,957,166).
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RECOMMENDED MOTION:
Move the board adopt Resolution and Order No. 02-19-927 of the Edwards Aquifer Authority Board of Directors approving amendments to the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan (EAHCP) FY2019 Funding Applications for the City of New Braunfels and the City of San Marcos increasing the funding request from $565,000 to $665,000 for the City of New Braunfels and increasing the funding request from $1,647,560 to $1,957,166 for the City of San Marcos.
SUMMARY:
The purpose of this agenda item is for the board to consider a Finance/Administrative Committee recommendation to approve amendments to the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan (EAHCP) FY2019 Funding Applications for the City of New Braunfels and the City of San Marcos increasing the funding request from $565,000 to $665,000 for the City of New Braunfels and increasing the funding request from $1,647,560 to $1,957,166 for the City of San Marcos.
On November 13, 2018, the board approved initial Funding Applications for FY2019 for both the City of New Braunfels and the City of San Marcos. The budget amounts presented in the original Funding Application represented the costs contained in the original workplans. However, both cities experienced delays in 2018 projects and have requested to re-appropriate the savings associated with the project delays in 2019. For the City of New Braunfels, while engineering design for the bio-retention basin was completed in 2018, construction was not able to occur in 2018. This delay resulted in a savings of $100,000, which would be added to the 2019 Funding Application. For the City of San Marcos, the stream restoration engineering design was not completed in 2018, ...
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