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The Board considered the revised JPA at its June 25, 2025, meeting and adopted a resolution to <br />approve forwarding the JPA to the Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) for review and <br />then to the member communities. VLAWMO submitted the JPA to BWSR for review and then <br />made some revisions to respond to BWSR's comments. <br />City staff made some final comments on July 31,2025 which have since been incorporated into <br />the document. The finalized JPA is now before the City Council for consideration and approval. <br />While the wording was substantially updated to create the current JPA, there were relatively <br />few substantive changes. The primary changes from the previous agreement are: <br />The specific years each group of Board members are to serve was removed. <br />2. It was made clear the secretary -treasurer can delegate duties of the position as <br />currently occurs. <br />3. Requires a majority vote on matters coming before the Board. <br />4. The storm water utility and the authorizing special legislation is called out and is <br />recognized as the primary funding source for VLAWMO. <br />5. The process for capital improvement projects was more specifically spelled out. <br />6. Expanded the language on the Technical Commission to further detail its role and <br />authority. <br />7. The budgeting and funding processes were updated to reflect the current process and <br />to make clear Member assessments are no longer used to fund VLAWMO's operations. <br />Member assessments, which is the primary source of funding the operations of most WMOs, is <br />still in the agreement as a possibility if it ever needs to be relied on to help fund VLAWMO's <br />operation. <br />8. Revised the capital improvement language to reflect how projects are currently funded. <br />9. The appeal and arbitration process was replaced with a dispute resolution process that <br />focuses on mediation as the primary method to seek resolution. <br />10. Various miscellaneous provisions were added to address basic statutory requirements <br />(such as data practices and audit compliance) and other general agreement provisions <br />(governing law, etc.). <br />Page 584 of 617 <br />