CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
                 CITY COUNCIL AGENDA



  Agenda Date:            June 6, 2022

  Action Required:        Public hearing, adoption of resolution

  Presenter:              Michael Rogers, City Manager

  Staff Contact:          Michael Rogers, City Manager
                          Lisa Robertson, City Attorney

  Title:                  Concurrent Resolution to Extend the Existence of the Rivanna
                          Water and Sewer Authority


Background:
The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) is an independent legal authority (public corporation)
created pursuant to state law. RWSA was originally created in June 1972 and, by statute, this type of
authority must be re-authorized every 50 years.

RWSA’s primary mission in relation to the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County is to provide a
safe and adequate supply of drinking water to the City’s water utility. The City’s water utility then
supplies that water to individual households, businesses, or other customers through metered service
connections. Like any corporation, RWSA has a governing board and decisions made by RWSA in
support of its mission, and projects undertaken to further its mission, are determined [voted on] by
RWSA’s Board of Directors. Three officials of the City of Charlottesville hold sears on RWSA’s board:
one City Councilor, the City Manager, and the City’s Director of Utilities.Separately, RWSA also
provides services to the City Council for state-mandated water supply planning. Following a severe
statewide drought in 2001-2002, the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted a law that required each and
every locality to produce a Water Supply Plan, either individually or as part of a regional planning unit. In
this undertaking, RWSA is analogous to a consultant, in that City Council (not RWSA) vote as to
whether or not to approve the state-mandated Community Water Supply Plan.

Discussion:
As noted above RWSA plays an important role in relation to the City’s current and future water supply.
The purpose of this agenda item is to bring forth a resolution that will re-authorize RWSA’s corporate
existence for an additional 50-year period.

Budgetary Impact: None.
Alternatives: None
Recommendation: Approval.
Suggestion: “I move the CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE
COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE, VIRGINIA TO EXTEND THE EXISTENCE OF THE RIVANNA
WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY”

Community Engagement: a public hearing is required.
Attachment (1): Proposed Resolution
                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF
   THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA AND
  THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE, VIRGINIA
     TO EXTEND THE EXISTENCE OF THE RIVANNA WATER AND SEWER
                             AUTHORITY

       WHEREAS, by concurrent resolution of the City Council of the City of Charlottesville,

Virginia (the “City”) and the Board of Supervisors of the County of Albemarle, Virginia (the

“County”) and a certificate of incorporation issued by the Virginia State Corporation

Commission pursuant to the Virginia Water and Sewer Authorities Act (currently enacted as the

Virginia Water and Waste Authorities Act, Virginia Code Section 15.2-5100 et seq.), the

Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (the “Authority”) was incorporated as a public body politic

and corporate on June 7, 1972; and,

       WHEREAS, pursuant to Virginia Code Section 15.2-5114, the Authority can only be

authorized to exist for a period of up to 50 years as a corporation, and for such further period or

periods as may from time to time be provided by resolution of the political subdivisions which

are members of the Authority; and

       WHEREAS, the City and the County, as the political subdivisions which are members of

the Authority, now wish to extend the existence of the Authority for an additional 50 years; and

       WHEREAS, pursuant to Virginia Code Section 15.2-5104, the City and the County

caused to be advertised in a newspaper of general circulation in the City and the County a

descriptive summary of this Concurrent Resolution with a reference to the location in the City

and the County where a copy of the Resolution could be obtained, and giving notice of the date

on which public hearings would be held on the proposed Concurrent Resolution; and,

       WHEREAS, public hearings on the proposed Concurrent Resolution were held by

the Charlottesville City Council and by the Albemarle County Board of

Supervisors, prior to consideration of this resolution.

       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Charlottesville, Virginia and the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County, Virginia that:

          (1)   The existence of the Authority is hereby extended for an additional fifty (50)

years from the date of approval and adoption of this Concurrent Resolution.

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City Council of the City of Charlottesville and the

Board of Supervisors of the County of Albemarle have extended the existence of the Authority

pursuant to Virginia Code Section 15.2-5114 in the name of the City of Charlottesville and the

County of Albemarle, respectively, by their presiding officers and attested by their Clerks as set

forth below.


CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA

By: ____________________________
     Lloyd Snook, Mayor


Attest:

_______________________________
Kyna Thomas, Clerk, City Council



COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE, VIRGINIA

By: ____________________________
     Donna P. Price, Chair


Attest:

_______________________________
Claudette K. Borgersen, Clerk, Board of Supervisors