Res 2025-095 approving an agreement with the Edwards Aquifer Authority (EAA) for the installation of equipment on City of San Marcos property to facilitate automatic meter readings of the city’s regulated meters

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AGREEMENT between the EDWARDS AQUIFER AUTHORITY and CITY OF SAN MARCOS for PARTICIPATION IN THE EDWARDS AQUIFER AUTHORITY'S AUTOMATED METER READING PROGRAM AND THE INSTALLATION AND OPERATION OF ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT THIS USE AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") is entered into this 24th day of March 2025,between the EDWARDS AQUIFER AUTHORITY, a political subdivision of the State of Texas, with offices at 900 E. Quincy, San Antonio, Texas 78215, and the CITY OF SAN MARCOS for voluntary participation in the Edwards Aquifer Authority(EAA)Automated Meter Reading Program, including the installation of associated equipment. Throughout this Agreement, the City of San Marcos (COSM)and the EAA may be collectively referred to as "the Parties." RECITALS WHEREAS the EAA was created in 1993 by the Edwards Aquifer Authority Act, Act of May 30, 1993, 73rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 626, 1993 Tex. Gen. Laws 2350; as amended("Act"); and WHEREAS, under Section 1.02 of the Act, the EAA is a conservation and reclamation district created by virtue of Article XVI, Section 59 of the Texas Constitution, and is a governmental agency and body politic and corporate vested with the full authority to exercise the powers and to perform the functions specified in the Act; and WHEREAS, under Section 1.08(a) of the Act, the EAA has all the powers, rights, and privileges necessary to manage, conserve, preserve, and protect the Edwards Aquifer and to increase the recharge of, and prevent the waste or pollution of water in,the Edwards Aquifer; and WHEREAS, under Section 1.11(d)(2) of the Act, and other applicable law, the EAA may enter into contracts; and WHEREAS, COSM is the owner of an Edwards Aquifer Withdrawal Permit; and WHEREAS,the EAA uses data obtained from groundwater withdrawal reporting to help manage the Edwards Aquifer and to ensure compliance with withdrawal permit requirements; and WHEREAS, the EAA has established an Automated Meter Reading Program with a network of automated meter reading equipment throughout its jurisdictional boundaries that allows for the efficient collection of data; and WHEREAS, COSM desires to convert its existing regulated meter(s) into automated meters and to allow the EAA to obtain real-time readings at the EAA's discretion through its AMRP; and WHEREAS,the EAA desires to add COSM to its AMRP as a pilot project for municipal Page 1 of 7