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482 November 22,1989 He said also Marysville is five miles from Everett end must build an intertle that will cost Marysville five million dollars. Because of the cost they re asking for a connection to the year 2020 end a specific o ittment to a quantity of water,.eighteen million gallons a day by 2020. This is the reason for the contract. The city has a contract with PUD drawn in 1981 and it has clear language in thectract that Everett, not PUD,is vested with the decision making Job to decide where and when water service for domestic and industrial uses will be provided. The PUO recently reaffirmed that when they passed Resolution No. 3280 on July 25th which states that Everett has the first priority to all domestic, industrial and commercial water usage. It further states that PUO will only serve domestic water service in areas that Everett chooses not to. Marysville,at one time during the negotiations 0,r the lest sixty days, offered to sell someof the excess of thisEverett intertle to to pipe artto use the water fullfilling thelrM1at wholeale Marysville roll, asinal water north purvet eo, but • want'the PUD declined and said they had no customers that would t that water. In the contract there is a paragraph that Marysville has agreed to • sign that says Marysville will indemnify the city against any SEPR issues in connection with the pipeline. Marysville is in the process of doing that SEPR compliance. They have made an application to DOH for a permit to con truct this pipeline and a contract from Everettdb included stating that • the city is willing to supply eater to Marysville. The issue being asked for today is whether Everett is willing and able to c mmitt serving water to Marsville for the next 30 years at eralnanceorates so that Marysville can proceed ahead with its five million dollar Investment. Ceuncilmember Niva asked if Marysville had to go through all the processes owithtl OH,Rllendarfel all the d permit., before beginning cons en answered.yes. Councilmember Morrow asked if the city will have enough water to serve the city and to cover this contract and Claire Olivers of the Utilities Department said there would be ample water to take care of the city and all present commlttments and the Marysville contract. Charles Earl,District Manager of the PUD,asked the council not to approve or provide authority to the Mayor to sign the contract with Marw Marysville. He said there were three points he wanted the council '- to consider, the first being adequate nvironmental revue has net • been done. Second, Everett and the PUD has a contract and working • relationships that is not.beingrespected and thd,it runs counter to the spirit of a coordinated water supply planning process. He said Everett end the PUD has had a contract for thirty years initiated in 1960 under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The license was refined signifcantly with additional detail in 1981 establishing Everett primary interest in water and PUD primary s interest in power. w p