§ 2.40.030. Powers and duties.

The powers of the water board shall be advisory only and members of the board shall have the following duties:

A.

To adopt, revise and continually update a raw water master plan for the development of an adequate raw water supply;

B.

To develop, revise and continually update a policy pertaining to raw water requirements for annexations and other development activity;

C.

To develop procedures for the transfer of water rights attached to the land being annexed or otherwise developed;

D.

To review all annexations and recommend to the city council as to the adequacy of the water rights to be transferred. No annexation shall be recorded without review by the board;

E.

To review, at the request of an applicant, the sufficiency of water rights to meet the raw water requirement policy, chapter 14.05, for development activity on property that the board has not previously found to have fully satisfied the requirements of the policy;

F.

To review all requests for outside service areas and outside water taps and make appropriate recommendations to the city council;

G.

To review all matters, including pollution, concerning the city raw water supply;

H.

To recommend to the city council as to the uses, purchase or sale of any water rights;

I.

Upon designation by the public works and natural resources director, to vote the city's shares or other interests in ditch companies and reservoir companies; and

J.

Upon designation by the public works and natural resources director, to serve as a director or officer of ditch companies and reservoir companies in which the city has an ownership interest.

(Code 1981, § 1-12-3(A)—(G); Code 1993, § 2.40.030; Ord. No. O-94-53, § 1; Ord. No. O-2012-41, § 3, 7-10-2012; Ord. No. O-2012-73, § 2, 10-23-2012)