Resolution 2021-011 approving a budget amendment to the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 adopted budget for a Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Grant to install a demonstration rain garden

Adopt Resolution 2021-011, approving a budget amendment to the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 adopted budget for a Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Grant to install a demonstration rain garden.

In January 2020, the Public Works Department submitted a $3,950 funding request to the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District (MPWMD) to implement a demonstration rain garden project that will showcase better practices in drainage management to reduce potable water use and runoff pollution, and to utilize native, drought-tolerant landscaping (Attachment 2). The funding request was approved at MPWMD’s February 19, 2020 Board Meeting (Attachment 3).

The project has been delayed as a result of COVID-19; however, it is now ready to move forward. The project will be located in front of the City’s Public Works building on Junipero Street. The proposed project will create a rain garden that collects building roof runoff and infiltrates it into the landscape. The rain garden and surrounding landscape areas will be vegetated with native drought-tolerant plants.

The project also includes installation of a 150-gallon rain barrel to collect roof runoff for supplementary irrigation of the new landscaping during dry periods. In addition, an interpretive sign will be installed recognizing the partnership of MPWMD and the City. In order to reduce costs and provide in-house training, the project was designed and will be constructed by Public Works staff.

The proposed budget amendment will increase the amount of Fiscal Year 2020-2021 budgeted revenue by $3,950 to offset increased expenditures up to the same amount within the Public Works Department’s operating budget to purchase rain garden materials and supplies.

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