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WHEREAS, under such authority, the water standby charge may be imposed on each acre of land or each parcel of land less than an acre within Metropolitan to which water is made available for any purpose by Metropolitan, whether the water is actually used or not; and WHEREAS, certain member public agencies of Metropolitan have opted in prior fiscal years to provide collection of all or a portion of their readiness -to -serve charge obligation through a Metropolitan water standby charge imposed on parcels within those member agencies; and WHEREAS, Metropolitan is willing to comply with the requests of member public agencies opting to have Metropolitan continue to levy water standby charges within their respective territories, on the terms and subject to the conditions contained herein; and WHEREAS, the readiness -to -serve charge applicable to each member public agency, the method of its calculation, and the specific data used in its determination are as specified in the Engineer's Report dated December 2007 (the "Engineer's Report"), on file with the Board Executive Secretary, WHEREAS, by Resolution 9055, adopted at its meeting held January 8, 2008, Metropolitan's Board resolved and determined that Metropolitan should develop a reliable source of revenues less susceptible to seasonal and annual variation, through imposition of a readiness -to -serve charge to be collected from MetropoIitan's member public agencies, and that the .readiness -to -serve charge should be in an amount sufficient to provide for payment of debt service and other appropriately allocated costs, for capital expenditures for projects needed to provide standby and emergency storage service needs; and WHEREAS, notice was given by Resolution 9055 to the public and to each member public agency of The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California of the intention of - MetropoIitan's Board to consider and take action at its regular meeting to be held on March 11, 2008, on the Board's intent to impose a readiness -to -serve charge as described in Resolution 9055; and WHEREAS, the Business and Finance Committee of the Board conducted a public hearing at its regular meeting on February 11, 2008, at which interested parties were given the opportunity to present their views regarding the readiness -to -serve charge and the Engineer's Report; and WHEREAS, notice of the proposed readiness -to -serve charge and of a public hearing on the date and at the time and location specified in Resolution 9055 was published prior to the hearing in various newspapers of general circulation within Metropolitan's service area; and WHEREAS, each of the meetings of the Board were conducted in accordance with the Brown Act (commencing at Section 54950 of the Government Code), for which due notice was provided and at which quorums were present and acting throughout; NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Directors of The Metropolitan Water District of Southem California does hereby resolve, determine and order as follows: Section 1. That the Board of Directors of Metropolitan hereby fixes and adopts a readiness -to -serve charge for the period from July 1, 2008 through December 31, 2009. P