SUBJECT: CONSENT
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A Resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Erie Approving the Northern Integrated Supply Project Common Interest, Joint Defense, and Confidentiality Agreement Between the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, Through its Northern Integrated Supply Project Water Activity Enterprise, and the Town of Erie, Acting By And Through its Erie Water Activity Enterprise
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DEPARTMENT: Public Works
PRESENTER: Todd Fessenden, Public Works Director
FISCAL SUMMARY: N/A
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Adopt Resolution approving the Town to enter into the Northern Integrated Supply Project Common Interest, Joint Defense, and Confidentiality Agreement.
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SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND OF SUBJECT MATTER:
The Board of Trustees has approved numerous agreements with the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, acting by and through its Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District Northern Supply Project Enterprise, (NCWCD) to participate in the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP or the Project). The Town of Erie, acting by and through its Erie Water Activity Enterprise, (Erie) is participating in the Project for a permitted firm yield of 6,500-acre feet per year of water for future water demands. NISP is a water project coordinated by NCWCD to develop additional water resources for 15 participant water providers in northern Colorado. Erie has participated in this group for the past 17 years to cooperatively pursue the project. NISP is intended to provide a new water supply to meet part of the Town's anticipated future water demands, and it is an important project necessary to meet those demands.
At this time, NCWCD has requested all the participants in NISP enter into a Common Interest, Joint Defense, and Confidentiality Agreement (Agreement) with NCWCD, which would confirm the existence of a common interest among the participants and NCWCD for the purpose of NISP. This Agreement would provide the following ...
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