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EAST BAY DISCHARGERS AUTHORITY POLICY Page 1 of 2 POLICY NUMBER: 1.8 ______________________________________________________________________ NAME OF POLICY: Finance – Emergency Reserves ______________________________________________________________________ LAST REVISED: November 18, 2021 PREVIOUSLY REVISED: NA ______________________________________________________________________ PURPOSE: The purpose of the Finance – Emergency Reserves Policy is to ensure that EBDA will reliably and expeditiously be able to access funds in the event of an emergency. ______________________________________________________________________ POLICY: Each member of the EBDA Joint Powers Authority is financially responsible for its share of EBDA’s expenses and liabilities, as laid out in EBDA’s Amended and Restated Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement (JPA). As such, the Member Agencies serve as a financial backstop for EBDA, and it is key to EBDA’s continued efficacy that EBDA be able to efficiently access Member Agency funds in the event of an emergency. It is the policy of the Authority that each Member Agency and LAVWMA shall retain in its reserves sufficient assets to provide emergency funding to EBDA in the event that the Authority’s required expenditures exceed available funds. Such a request may be made, for example, if significant emergency repairs to Authority infrastructure are required as a result of an unforeseen event such as an earthquake. Section 10(c)(5) of EBDA’s Amended and Restated JPA governs “Allocation of Costs of Repairing Failure of the Transport System,” and states: “Depending on the extent of the Failure, it is likely that the Authority will not have sufficient funds in its reserve to pay for the repairs or abandonment and will require funds from the financially responsible Agencies, based on the allocations set forth above, in advance of performing any repair or abandonment. The Authority need not exhaust its reserve before requiring advance payment as described in this subsection.” Similarly, the Amended and Restated Master Agreement with LAVWMA states: “LAVWMA is responsible for its share of costs for any capital project that is intended to replace or repair any EBDA facility, except those costs