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Prescott City Council Regular Voting Meeting — October 28, 2008 Page 2 With regard to an activity taking place on Sunday, Mayor Wilson asked Councilman Luzius to read a proclamation, proclaiming November 2, 2008, as All Faiths, One Prayer Day. Councilman Luzius read the proclamation. At this time Major Trimmer of the Salvation Army arrived and gave the invocation. Councilman Luzius thanked everyone that called him and visited while he was in the hospital. He said that the Yavapai Regional Medical Center did a great job and he thanked Steve Blair for mentioning him on his radio station, and also thanked his wife, who was with him every day. Mr. Norwood reported that last weekend they had the Dump the Drugs on Saturday morning where they received over 100 pounds of prescription drugs for disposal. Also on Saturday, they had the Pumpkin Patch downtown, where they had between 5,000 and 6,000 people. PUBLIC COMMENT (Please limit your comments to five minutes) A. Citizens Water Advocacy Group with presentation on when Prescott may need Big Chino Water. Howard Mechanic, 309 Bloom Place, said that he was the Chairman of the Public Policy Committee of the Citizens Water Advocacy Group and he provided a written report from the group in the Council packet, but what he was saying today had not been approved by his Board. He said that the Big Chino Water Ranch project has many challenges; they have talked about the environmental, legal and financial challenges. This is the largest project the City of Prescott has ever done and the public should know who is going to pay for it and when. He said that the City of Prescott has a policy that 20% of the cost will be covered by the ratepayers which is fair to help reach safe yield. The other 80% of the cost of the project is to go to new growth, so new growth should pay 80% of the cost. Mr. Mechanic then gave a brief PowerPoint presentation that covered: ► Present conditions — As of August 2008, Prescott had 1,840 feet in its Alternate Water Supply portfolio. That amount of water is enough for nine years' water allocations at the 200 ac. ft. allocation that the City has set for approximately the last ten years. Of that, only 1,296 ac. ft. would provide enough water to build homes on all the remaining non-watered lots within the City limits at existing densities. That means they have approximately 50% more water than they need. So, the Big Chino is for new annexed areas, or possibly new annexed areas. 4