AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the Director of Seattle Public Utilities to execute a wheeling agreement with Shoreline Water District, and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

WHEREAS, Shoreline Water District (Utility) contracts with Seattle Public Utilities (Seattle) for wholesale water supply, which includes the terms and conditions of delivering the water supply currently through the Seattle Regional Transmission System; and

WHEREAS, the Utility has constructed two new points of delivery that require use of a subset of Seattle's infrastructure to deliver the water, and that subset is not part of the Seattle Regional Transmission System; and

WHEREAS, the Utility and Seattle negotiated a wheeling agreement to establish the terms and conditions of wheeling the water supply through Seattle's Northwest Sub-regional System to the two new points of delivery and the Utility has executed it; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. The Director of Seattle Public Utilities is hereby authorized to execute a wheeling agreement between Shoreline Water District and the City of Seattle substantially in the form as the agreement attached hereto as Attachment 1.

Section 2. Any act consistent with the authority of this ordinance taken prior to its effective date is hereby ratified and confirmed.

Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days after its approval by the Mayor, but if not approved and returned by the Mayor within ten days after presentation, it shall take effect as provided by Seattle Municipal Code Section 1.04.020.

Passed by the City Council the ____ day of ________________________, 2013, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this

_____ day of ___________________, 2013.

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President __________of the City Council

Approved by me this ____ day of _____________________, 2013.

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Michael McGinn, Mayor

Filed by me this ____ day of __________________________, 2013.

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Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk

(Seal)

Sheila Claire Strehle SPU Shoreline Wheeling Agreement ORD December 5, 2012 Version #4

Attachment 1 -Agreement for Wheeling Water between the City of Seattle and the Shoreline Water District.