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r:J 00 ,.. C'": '- Base Price n ADD 1 ~-;ij The base p1ice, known as OM&R (Operations, Maintenance and Replacement), consists of two parts, fixed an energy. The fIxed cost, which pays for operating and maintaining the CAP, will rise from the current $17 per acre-foot of water to $22.50 on October 1. The energy costs, which pays for the electricity used to operate the CAP's pumps, will rise from the current $36 to $37 on October 1. Together, the fixed cost of $22.50 and the energy cost of $37 add up to the new base price of $59.50. --Hire former Reps. John J. (Jay) Rhodes III, R-Arizona, and Ray Kogovsek, D-Colorado, and the law fIrm of Birch, Horton, Bittner and Cherot of Washington, D.C., to represent the CA WCD in Washington. Rhodes and Kogovsek will be paid $6,000 per month. Birch, Horton, Bittner and Cherot will be paid $2,000 p~ month. Rhodes was a member of the CA WCD board of directors before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986. He was defeated for reelection last vear. --Participate in state demonstration water recharge projects in Pima and Maricopa couClties. In Pima County the Pin1a Mine Road Project will be in partnership with the city of Tucson and will COSI about $4 million to start, the CAweD's $2 million comin!, from already collected State Demonstration Proieet propeny taxes. Initially, the project calls for recharging 10,000 acre-feet of water per year at a site on P:ma Mine Road south of the San Xavier Indian Reservation and two miles east of the CAP terminus. In Maricopa County, CA WCD will participate with the city of Avondale in the fIrst phase of an under- ground water storage and recovery project in Avondale near the Agua Fria River. The CA WCD will provide $2 million of the $7 million cost. the CA WCD's funds also..,<;oming from pr~viol1sly collected State Demonstration Project property taxes. Initially, 5,000 acre-feet of water per year will be recharged into the ground. Over time, the plan is to expand the project to 40,000 acre-feet of water per year. --Develop a policy for providing CAP water for environmental enhancement. -end-