HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-02-07-Resolution 2022-055_Central Iowa Water Works, FoundingTHE CITY OF WAUKEE, IOWA
RESOLUTION 2022-055
CENTRAL IOWA WATER WORKS FOUNDING RESOLUTION
IN THE NAME AND BY THE A UTHORITY OF THE CITY OF WA UKEE, IOWA
WHEREAS, the City of Waukee, Iowa is a duly organized municipality within Dallas County;
AND,
WHEREAS, the Board of Water Works Trustees of the City of Des Moines, Iowa considers it
desirable to explore establishing, with other water utilities and governmental entities, a shared
regional system of drinking water supply production facilities under regional governance to
meet all of its existing and future needs for safe, reliable, abundant, and reasonably priced
drinking water to be distributed to its customers; AND,
WHEREAS, certain existing water supply utilities in Central Iowa have defined a framework for
the organization of a new regional water authority as a separate public entity created under
Chapter 28E and Chapter 28F, Iowa Code, to be known as the "Central Iowa Water Works" to
act as a regional water wholesale production and supply authority under terms and conditions as
set forth in the Regionalization Outcomes Document as issued in April, 2021 and revised in
November, 2021 attached hereto as Exhibit A (the "Outcomes Document"'); AND,
WHEREAS, the the Board of Water Works Trustees of the City of Des Moines, Iowa desires to
participate as a founding agency of the Central Iowa Water Works as described in the Outcomes
Document, subject to certain terms and contingencies.
NOW, THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Board of Water Works Trustees
of the City of Des Moines, Iowa shall be, and agrees to become, a founding agency of the
Central Iowa Water Works on the terms as generally described in the Outcomes Document,
subject to the following:
A. Participation as a founding agency shall be subject to the preparation of a form of
Agreement under Chapter 28E and Chapter 28F of the Iowa Code that is in all
material respects consistent with the Outcomes Document and acceptable in form and
substance to the the Board of Water Works Trustees of the City of Des Moines, Iowa
and its counsel; and
B. Participation as a founding agency shall be contingent upon, and shall be effective
only if, water supply agencies representing a "critical mass", defined as a substantial
majority of the average total annual water consumption of the Des Moines
Metropolitan Area, execute this CIWW Founding Resolution by March 31, 2022; and
C. Participation as a founding agency shall be contingent upon the execution, delivery,
and filing with the Iowa Secretary of State of a 28E-28F Agreement by the requisite
agencies meeting condition B above on or before September 30, 2022.
RESOLVED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Waukee on this, the 71 day
of February, 2022.
Attest:
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Rebecca D. Schuett, City Clerk
RESULTS OF VOTE:
AYE
Anna Bergman Pierce
X
R. Charles Bottenberg
X
Chris Crone
X
Larry R. Lyon
X
Ben Sinclair
X
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urtney Clarke, Mayor
NAY ABSENT ABSTAIN