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budget, or suggestions for the following year’s budget, as changing conditions may warrant. (This
section may not be needed based upon finalization of the Equitable Allocation formula.)

5. COUNCIL POWERS AND DUTIES

5.1 The GC shall exercise the following powers:

5.1.1 To adopt rules, regulations, policies, bylaws and procedures
governing the operation of the GC.

5.1.2 To produce an Annual Basin Groundwater Report, using as may be
appropriate data regarding groundwater conditions available from the Watermaster, the
Conservation District, or other sources.

5.1.3 To monitor groundwater production and extractions in coordination
with BTAC and pertinent local groundwater management agencies.

5.1.4 To make, after consultation with BTAC, annual recommendations
for the amount of additional artificial recharge for the Basin from imported sources as a
complement to native sources, and to plan for the development and application of such additional
sources of recharge.

5.1.5 To establish as-needed Ad Hoc and Standing advisory committees
for the purpose of making recommendations to the GC. Committees shall exist for the term
specified in the action creating the committee, and the GC may dissolve a committee at any time
through an eighty percent (80%) majority vote of Equitable Allocation voting weight.

5.1.6 To contract for the services of engineers, attorneys, planners,
financial consultants, and separate and apart therefrom, to appoint agents and representatives to
employ such other staff persons as necessary. The BTAC will provide technical support for the
GC, upon such terms as the GC and BTAC shall agree in writing. Ex Oficio members shall not
be responsible for BTAC costs.

5.2 In addition to the above-referenced powers, the GC may, by an eighty
percent (80%) vote of the Equitable Allocation, decide to activate and exercise any or all of the
following additional powers:

5.2.1 To collect and monitor all data related and beneficial to the
development, adoption and implementation of appropriate groundwater level management for the
Basin.

5.2.2 To collect charges from GC members as authorized in the approved
budget.

5.2.3 To cooperate, act in conjunction, and contract with the United
States, the State of California, or any agency thereof, counties, municipalities, public and private
corporations of any kind (including without limitation, investor-owned utilities), and individuals,

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