ORDINANCE NO.51 
Adopted 04/08/2025

 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING MUNICIPAL GROUNDWATER ASSESSMENTS, AGRICULTURAL GROUNDWATER ASSESSMENTS, DOMESTIC GROUNDWATER ASSESSMENTS, CHARGES FOR STREAM-DELIVERED WATER AND CHARGES FOR OUT-OF-DISTRICT WATER FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2025

 The Board of Directors of Stockton East Water District does hereby ordain as follows:

Section 1: The Municipal Groundwater Assessment for calendar year 2025 shall be Four Hundred Fifty-Five Dollars and Nineteen Cents ($455.19) for Rate Equalization and Three Dollars and Sixty Cents ($3.60) for base Groundwater Production Assessment for a Total Municipal Groundwater Assessment of Four Hundred Fifty-Eight Dollars and Seventy-Nine Cents ($455.19 + $3.60= $458.79) per acre-foot of water. 

Section 2: The Agricultural Groundwater Assessment for calendar year 2025 shall be Six Dollars and Fifty-Six Cents ($6.56) per acre-foot of water. 

Section 3: The Domestic Groundwater Assessment for calendar year 2025 shall be Fifty-Five Dollars ($55.00) per Domestic Use Unit. 

Section 4: The rate for sales of Stream-Delivered Water for calendar year 2025 shall be Twenty-Three Dollars ($24.00) per acre-foot of water. 

Section 5: The rate for sales of Out-Of-District Water shall be the cost of water designated under the purchase contract PLUS a charge up to the New Melones Conveyance System wheeling rate of Twenty-Seven Dollars and Eighty-One Cents ($27.81) per acre-foot of water. 

Section 6: The rate for sales of Non-Agricultural Stream-Delivered water shall be Sixty Dollars ($60.00) per acre-foot of water. 

Section 7: This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its final passage, and shall be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation within fifteen (15) days after its final passage, with the names of the members of the Board of Directors voting for and against the same. 

AYES: Atkins, McGurk, Panizza

NAYES: Sanguinetti, Watkins

ABSTAIN: None

ABSENT: Cortopassi, Nakaue