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DocuSign Envelope ID: 7DOD574C-B1E5-4A94-98CC-C2B16DDD7DC6 <br />EXHIBIT 5 <br />Grant Agreement No. 4600013642 <br />Page 61 of 71 <br />EXHIBIT E <br />AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION <br />RESOLUTION NO.21119.1 <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF THE SANTA ANA WATERSHED <br />PROJECT AUTHORITY AUTHORIZING THE GENERAL MANAGER, OR <br />DESIGNEE, TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL AND EXECUTE THE NECESSARY <br />AGREEMENTS FOR THE: PROPOSITION 1 ROUND I INTEGRATED REGIONAL <br />WATER DIANAGEMRNE' IMPLEMENTATION GRANT <br />WHEREAS, the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority is the accepted Regional Water <br />h4amgcment Group within the Santa Am Funding Area of the California Integrated Regional Water <br />Management Program; <br />WHEREAS, the One Water One Watershed Plan Update 2015, adopted by the Commission <br />an February 19, 2019, has the subtitle `Moving Forward Together" which n0ects the OWOW <br />Progmm's commitment to ensuring that in the Santa Am River Watershed no one is left behind as <br />progress is made, and that progress somewhere in the watershed does not cause any undue burden <br />elsewhere in the watershed; <br />WHEREAS, SAWPA recently cenducted a collaborative and competmise procoss with all <br />interested watershed stakeholders and OWOW pojea applications as pan of its One W atcr Onu <br />Watershed Proposition 1 Round 1 Implementation grant solicitation to identify the nroo bemeOeial upper <br />watershed and watershed -wide projects; <br />WHEREAS, the One Water One Watershed pmecss drew 30 project submittals thin included <br />projects focused on generating new source of water for the watershed, improving important aquatic <br />habitat, removing poll omits from the region's groundwater r6aruce , improving siormwater abatement <br />in a disadvantaged cortnunity and preventing the spread ofestastrophic wildfurs; <br />WHEREAS, SAW -PA deferred to the Orange County parties, which include the County of <br />Orange, Orange County War" District, and Orange County Sanitation District, identified in the recently <br />adopted Cooperative Agreement far Integrated Regional Water Management Funding in the Santa Am <br />Funding Aren to develop their list of Orange County projects for the Proposition 1 Round I <br />Implementation grant sulienalion; <br />WHEREAS, SAWPA and the (range County parries have worked together to combine the eight <br />upper watershed and watembed-wide projects, with the three Orange County projects in order to dcvcltp <br />a complete One Water One Watershed Proposition I Round I Implementation grant proposal to the <br />Department of Waster Resources: <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Commission of the Santa Am <br />Watershed Project Authority, pursuant to Section 22030 of die California Public Contract Code. <br />herebv resolves that: <br />The Gcmeral Manager, or Designee, is authorized to prepare the necessary data, conduct <br />imestigntimns, file such pmposal, and execute a grant agreement with the State of California, <br />Department of Water Resources, and associated sub -agreements, to aceept and conduct the <br />work of Proposition 1 Round I Integrated Regional Water Management Implementation and <br />Grant pursuant to the Water Quality. Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2614 <br />(Wider Code Section 79700 et seq.) <br />ADOPTED THIS 10day of October 2019, <br />