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GOAL AND INTRODUCTION © 2025 Fischer Compliance, LLC. All rights reserved. Sewer System Management Plan licensed for San Leandro use only. Page 11 of 57 Specifications 5.7 – Allocation of Resources WDR REQUIREMENTS Specification. 5.7 (pg. 22) “The Enrollee shall comply with the following requirements: • Establish and maintain a means to manage all necessary revenues and expenditures related to the sanitary sewer system; and • Allocate the necessary resources to its sewer system management program for: • Compliance with this General Order, • Full implementation of its updated Sewer System Management Plan, • System operation, maintenance, and repair, and • spill responses.” COMPLIANCE In 2024, the City's Water Pollution Control Division completed a Needs Assessment to better understand the projects required to maintain the City's wastewater infrastructure. The City's Water Pollution Control Plant went into operation in 1939 and most recently completed an upgrade in 2017. The sewer collections system which includes 125 miles of sewer pipeline and 12 lift stations throughout the service area is also in need of maintenance and upgrades. The Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for Wastewater Treatment and Collections 10 Year Plan was presented to and approved by City Council at the October 21st, 2024 City Council Meeting. The City hired Bartle Wells Associates to perform a Sewer Rate Study to evaluate and project financial requirements in order to operate and maintain the wastewater system. This study took into consideration the proposed CIP costs, increases in operational costs, as well as costs that will be incurred due to new state regulations to propose rates to adequately meet needs. A Proposition 218 rate increase was completed and finalized in June 2025. New rates will be effective after July 1, 2025, and will increase each subsequent year until 2029. The City relies almost entirely on revenues from wastewater rates to fund the costs of providing wastewater service. As such, wastewater rates must be set at levels adequate to fund the costs of operating and maintaining the wastewater system, fund necessary capital improvements to keep the wastewater system in good operating condition and pay for debt service. A secondary source of revenue is from capacity fees that funds the installation of facilities to areas not yet served and to upsize pipes to ensure adequate capacity and other capital needs. The Proposition 218 increase in funding will allow the budget for sewer repair and replacement to increase from $750,000 annually to $2,100,000 annually. The City is generally adequately staffed, although there is one collection system vacancy as of mid-2025. The City is in the process of replacing its vac truck and otherwise owns and operates the necessary equipment to effectively maintain its collection system.