Item 18 - Agreement with the Municipal Water District of Orange County for Shared Programs

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Exhibit A July 23, 2025 19 conducted after the required post inspection. For post inspection, Metropolitan will pull random samples from MWDOC invoices. Metropolitan will conduct its own measurements and provide payment based on the following: For Residential Applications - If the measurement taken by Metropolitan is within 10 percent of the Participant Agency’s measurement, Metropolitan will pay the amount measured by the Participant Agency. If the difference is greater than 10 percent, Metropolitan will pay at the square footage measured by Metropolitan. For Commercial/Public Agency Applications - The following applies for commercial/public agency applications inspected by Metropolitan: Commercial/public agency turf replacement inspections will fall into the pool of all required inspections at any given time. Although special circumstances appear from time to time, in general no special considerations are given to individual applications. Any discrepancy found following a secondary inspection (i.e., an inspection of the inspector) or during an audit inspection will result in a Metropolitan staff and contractor resolution, and the financial liability associated with varied measurement of a site will not fall back on MWDOC or the Participant Agency for payment. For public agency projects, all plants must be counted within the first 50,000 square feet. For square footage above that amount, a minimum of 10% of the area must have a plant count. The total number of plants must be calculated from both numbers. For both residential and commercial/public agency projects, unless otherwise noted, once the LTP has been issued, the initial project area square footage may not increase; however, it may decrease if the customer decides to remove less turf than what was measured or converts some area into ineligible structures, i.e., a deck. Project Extensions In some instances, projects may experience delays. As all projects have a 90-day deadline to complete their project, an extension may be requested. Extensions are granted on a case-by-case basis and are not guaranteed. Extensions will only be granted to sites that are making progress toward completing their project. Documentation or a site visit may be required for the purposes of verifying that progress is being made at a site. Examples of documentation are signed contracts with a landscape contractor, photos of the site with turf removed and work underway, or canceled checks to a contractor. This is an important step; if a site is not showing progress and there is no motivation to complete, it may be cancelled to allow the funding of other, more motivated, rebate customers. Spray to Drip - Residential The residential portion of the Spray-to-Drip Rebate Program is a device-based program with different inspection requirements and criteria than other device-based inspections. The inspection requirements for residential Spray-to Drip Rebate projects are described below: Pre-Inspection Procedure After an application is received, a project cannot be approved and no funding can be reserved until a “pre-inspection” is conducted, as follows: "!#