12-081 - Cascade Water Alliance - Joint Municipal Utility Services

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providers and with state, county and city planning responsibilities under state law. The Board must adopt, and may from time to time amend, a Water Supply Plan that must be based on no less than a twenty- (20) year planning horizon. Cascade shall coordinate its planning effort with local and regional utilities and other appropriate agencies and work to encourage cooperative region -wide planning and coordination. Each Member shall actively participate in Cascade's water supply planning and shall provide to Cascade accurate data regarding its facilities and operations together with good faith estimates of future needs and a description of any involvement in the development of new Independent Supplies. Each Member's water comprehensive or system plan shall be consistent with any plans adopted by Cascade, and shall be consistent with applicable requirements of state law and comprehensive plans. Section 8.2 Watershed Management Plan. Upon the effective date of formation of the Authority under Article 3 of this Agreement, Cascade will no longer be a Watershed Partnership under RCW 39.34; and any Watershed Management Plans existing on the effective date shall become the plans of the Authority. Nothing herein shall limit Cascade's powers to adopt Watershed Management Plans or to enter into interlocal agreements thereafter. Section 8.3 System Reliability Methodology. Cascade shall develop and adopt a system reliability methodology for planning, operation, and management purposes. ARTICLE 9. Duration and Dissolution; Withdrawal. Section 9.1 Duration. Except as provided in Section 9.3, Cascade shall remain in existence for the longer of the following: (a) the period it holds any assets; (b) the period during which Bonds are outstanding; or (c) the period it continues to include Members. Section 9.2 Withdrawals. A Member may notify Cascade of its intent to withdraw by delivery to Cascade of a Resolution of its legislative authority expressing such intent. Upon receipt of such Resolution, the Member shall lose its right to vote and the Board shall determine (a) the withdrawing Member's allocable share of the cost of the then - existing obligations of Cascade; and (b) the withdrawing Member's obligations to Cascade. "Then- existing obligations of Cascade" means obligations or costs incurred by Cascade as of the date the Member's withdrawal notice is received, including but not limited to, Bond obligations, contract obligations, and cash financed capital projects; provided that a withdrawing Member's allocable share shall in no event include an obligation for future expenses for which Cascade has not incurred a legal obligation; and provided further, that to the extent the Member's obligation (with respect to such costs) is re -paid over time, the Member shall be entitled to a credit for supply abandoned by the Member and is otherwise used by Cascade. A "withdrawing Member's obligation to Cascade" includes but is not limited to, the Member's share of fixed operating costs, any other expenses contained in Cascade's adopted budget for that year, and any assessments or other similar charges lawfully imposed by Cascade. For purposes of the preceding sentence, "fixed operating costs" shall be determined in the year of withdrawal, and the Member's obligation with respect to such costs shall be limited only to that amount required to pay for supply abandoned by the Member and not otherwise used by Cascade. Joint Municipal Utility Services Agreement 21 March 28, 2012