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• Acquisition of trash capture devices • Installation of trash capture devices • Maintenance and monitoring of the installed devices To participate in the project, the City of San Leandro must enter into an agreement with ABAG and comply with CWSRF requirements. The City would also be required to purchase the trash capture devices from a pre - approved ABAG vendor and agree to maintain the devices for their useful life, not to exceed 25 years. City staff anticipates it will purchase between 150 — 230 full trash capture devices with these grant funds. The initial allocation to the City of San Leandro is 599,593. The allocation amount may be increased to reflect unused funds from other municipalities that choose not to participate in the grant program, as those funds will be redistributed to participating agencies. Concurrently, the City of San Leandro as part of the, the Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program ( "ACCWP ") joined with three other municipal regional stormwater programs to determine whether we as a penmittee and other permittees to the 2009 Municipal Regional Stomiwater Permit (MRP) may be eligible to recover costs associated with implementing new requirements imposed by the MRP under the State's "unfunded mandates" law. Careful analysis has concluded that several MRP requirements have a high probability of success for those ACCWP permittees that wish to pursue them. Filing of a "test claim" at the Commission on State Mandates would assert that the City is entitled to be reimbursed by the state for costs relating to the various obligations imposed on the City by the Municipal Regional Stormwater Permit issued by the Regional Water Quality Control Board, including the installation and maintenance of trash capture devices. The current pursuit of the unfunded mandate claim against portions of the MRP will take years. Conversely, there is a limited opportunity to take advantage of the grant funding needed to meet current and future requirements of the stormwater permit. The grant will allow the City to procure more than enough devices to meet the 216 acre minimum area needed to comply with the new permit and help us meet the phased in total trash reduction requirements for stormwater collection systems. Staff believes that the cost of maintaining the limited number of devices can be absorbed without undue fiscal impact, even if the test claim fails. Current City Council Policy N/A Previous City Council Action(s) N/A City Council Committee Review and Action N/A Applicable General Plan Policy