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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 2001-121 IGA with tucson and hb land development for provision of water service F. ANN RODRIGUE~., RECORDER ~ DOCKET: 11648 P~ECORDED BY: VLJ /~_~ PAGE: 2327 DEPUTY RECORDER ~ NO. OF PAGES: 13 7995 ROOE SEQUENCE: 20011930630 SM~RA 10/04/2001 TOWN OF M~.RANA RES 16:47 ATTN: TOWN CLERK 13251 N LON ADAMS RD M~IL M~RANA AZ 85653 AMOUNT PAID $ 12.00 MARANA RESOLUTION NO. 2001-121 A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF MARANA, ARIZONA, AUTHORIZING THE APPROVAL OF AN INTERGOVERMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF TUCSON AND THE TOWN OF MARANA AND HB LAND DEVELOPMENT RELATING TO THE PROVISIONS OF WATER SERVICE IN CONTINENTAL RESERVE. WHEREAS, The City of Tucson currently owns and provides water service to customers within Sunset Ranch Estates which is adjacent to Continental Reserve; and WHEREAS, Sunset Ranch Estates is served via a 12" water main that connects to the City of Tucson Water Dism'bution System near the planned intersection of Continental Reserve Loop Road and Silverbell Road and then extends within existing right-of-way easements along Artesiano Road and Pima Farms Road as part of the development of Continental Reserve; and WHEREAS, IdB Land Development Company is arranging for the construction ora water supply and distribution system within Continental Reserve that will be transferred to Marana; and WHEREAS, this infrastructure will provide an additional point ofinterconnection between the City of Tucson water utility system and the Town of Marana water utility system, allowing exchange of potable water; and WHEREAS, the City of Tucson has agreed to abandon its easement for the 12" water main through Continental Reserve in consideration of $100,779.91, payable by FIB Land Development Company; and WHEREAS, the Town of Marana agrees to reimburse HB Land Development Company the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for each connection fee actually collected for new residential water connections within Continental Reserve until the $100,779.91 paid to City of Tucson by HB Land Development Company is paid ofl~ and WHEREAS, the Town of Marana agrees to then provide water service to Sunset Ranch Estates, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Intergovernmental Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council find that the terms and conditions of the Intergovernmental Agreement are in the best interests of the Town and its residents. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Council of the Town of Marana, Arizona, to authorize the approval of the Intergovernmental Agreement between the City of Tucson, the Town of Marana and HB Land Development Company, attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by this reference, for abandonment by City of Tucson of its easemem for the 12" water main through Continental Reserve, for construction of water facilities and provisions for water utility sen~ice by HB Land Development Company, for the reimbursement mechanism stated between the Town of Marana and HB Land Developmem Company, and for the liiture provision of water service to Sunset Ranch Estates. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the Town of Marana, Arizona, this 2~ day of October, 2001. ATTEST: ~JR. APPROVED AS TO/~J~ .~aniel J. Hochuli, Esq. As Town Attorney and not personally I ! 4 8 3 8 EXHIBIT A Exh. __ to Resolution # City of Tucson Contract #0257-02 CITY OF TUCSON - TOWN OF MARANA (INTERGOVERNMENTAL) HB LAND DEVELOPMENT CO. AGREEMENT RELATING TO WATER SERVICE This is an Intergovernmental Agreement dated this day of September,:. 2001, by and between the City of Tucson, Arizona, a municipal corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Tucson", the Town of Marana, Arizona, a town organized pursuant to A.R.S. § 9-231 e~ seq., hereinafter referred to as "Marana", and HB Land Development Co., hereinafter referred to as ("HB"), a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Arizona. SECTION I. RECITALS. The following recitals represent the general principles to which the parties have agreed. These principles are therefore incorporated in the specific covenants that follow. 1.1 Tucson and Marana are empowered by A.R.S. Title 11, Chapter 1, Article 3 to enter into this Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA). 1.2 Marana is authorized to own and operate a water utility and a sewer system pursuant to A.R.S. § 9-511 et seq. and an election held pursuant to A.R.S § 9-514. 1.3 Marana owns and operates a water utility system serving a portion of the area within Marana's incorporated limits. 1.4 Tucson is authorized by the Tucson Charter, Chapter IV, Section 1(7) "...to establish, maintain, equip, own and operate, works and appliances within and without city for supplying the city and its inhabitants also persons, firms and corporations outside Tucson, including other municipal corporations, with water..." 1.5 Tucson owns and operates a water utility both within and without the limits of Tucson, and presently provides water service to certain locations within the incorporated limits of Marana, including service to the customers located within Sunset Ranch Estates, which is located west of Silverbell Road on Pima Farms Road. 1.6 Tucson provides service to its Sunset Ranch Estates customers through a 12" main that connects to the City of Tucson Water Distribution System near the planned intersection of Continental Reserve Loop Road and Silverbell Road, and then extends within existing right-of-way easements along Artesiano Road and Pima Farms Road to the Sunset Ranch Estates. 1.7 HB is currently overseeing the construction of a development called "Continental Reserve" within the Town of Marana, and has submitted a development plan to Marana that calls for relocation of the Artesiano Road and Pima Farms Road alignments and related rights-of-way, within which Tucson's Sunset Ranch Estates Distribution Main is located. 1.8 The Continental Reserve Development Plan further contemplates abandonment of the current Pima Farms Road and Artesiano Road rights- of-way within the development, and abandonment of Tucson's Sunset Ranch Estates Distribution Main. 1.9 Marana has approved the relocation of road alignments and abandonment of road rights-of-way referred to in Sections 1.7 and 1.8 above. 1.10 HB is also arranging for the construction of a water supply and distribution infrastructure within Continental Reserve, which supply and distribution infrastructure will be transferred to Marana. 1.11 The Continental Reserve infrastructure will provide an additional point of interconnection between the Tucson water utility system and the Marana water utility system. These interconnections allow Tucson and Marana to exchange potable water. 1.12 Tucson, Marana, and HB wish to resolve certain matters posed by the relocation of the roadway alignments that will result in an abandonment of Tucson's Sunset Ranch Estates Distribution Main and its associated easements. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants contained herein, the parties covenant and agree as follows: SECTION II. PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO HB 2.1 HB shall pay for the costs to construct the Continental Reserve Water Supply and Distribution Infrastructure as described in Exhibit A. Specific components of the supply infrastructure necessary to the performance of this Agreement are: (1) The Silverbell Road interconnection between the Town of Marana's water system and the Tucson water distribution system identified in Exhibit A on Sheet 15; (2) the well and storage reservoir identified in Exhibit A at Sheet 15; (3) the Distribution System from the well and storage reservoir along Continental Loop Road to the intersection with Pima Farms Road, then west to Sunset Ranch Estates, which is identified at Sheet 15; and, (4) the interconnection between the Continental Reserve distribution system and Tucson's Sunset Ranch Estates distribution system identified at Exhibit B (Detail of Interconnection). The infrastructure noticed in these sections shall be 2 constructed in accordance with the plans and specifications noted in Exhibit A and Exhibit B and shall pass all final inspections that may be performed by Marana or Tucson. Marana and Tucson will evidence any such approvals in writing. 2.2 Following completion of the Continental Reserve infrastructure identified in Section 2.1, and transfer of the same to Marana as provided in Section 3.2, below, HB will pay the City of Tucson the sum of $100,779.91 as compensation for Tucson's abandonment of the Sunset Ranch Estates Distribution Main. This sum is based on the original cost of the Sunset Ranch Estates Distribution Main minus depreciation. SECTION III. PROVISION APPLICABLE TO THE TOWN OF MARANA 3.1 Marana shall ensure that HB constructs the Continental Reserve Infrastructure in accordance with the plans and specifications identified in Section 2.1, above. Marana will afford Tucson the opportunity to review any inspection reports for construction completed before the execution of this Agreement, and to inspect infrastructure completed after the execution of this Agreement, should Tucson so desire. 3.2 Marana shall assume ownership of the Continental Reserve infrastructure pursuant to an April 18, 2000 Agreement for Construction of Water Facilities and Provision of Water Utility Service, between Marana, Diamond Ventures, Inc., an Arizona corporation, and Continental Reserve, EL.C, an Arizona limited liability company. 3.3 Following the execution of Tucson's Abandonment of Easement, as discussed below in Section 4, Marana will assume the responsibility of providing potable water to Tucson's Sunset Ranch Estates customers through the Continental Reserve/Sunset Ranch Estates interconnection. 3.4 Marana will operate and maintain the Continental Reserve infrastructure, up to and including the Sunset Ranch Estates and Silverbell Road interconnections, and shall ensure that the Continental Reserve infrastructure meets its standard requirements and specifications for infrastructure used for the service of potable water. 3.5 The potable water Marana distributes to Tucson's customers through the Sunset Ranch Estates interconnection shall meet all Federal, State, and local regulations governing the provision of potable water. In the event of a conflict between the potable water standards applicable to Marana and Tucson, respectively, the water delivered to Tucson's Sunset Ranch Estates customers shall meet the standards applicable to Tucson. 3.6 Marana agrees to furnish Tucson's Sunset Ranch customers with any and all public water quality information that it is required to provide to Marana's Continental Reserve customers under any Federal, State, or local laws or 3 regulations. Marana shall furnish such information to those customers in the same manner as it provides information to Marana customers within Continental Reserve. 3.7 In consideration of HB's payment of $100,779.91 to Tucson, Marana will reimburse HB two hundred dollars ($200) for each connection fee actually collected by Marana for new residential water connections within Continental Reserve. This reimbursement obligation shall in no event exceed the amount actually paid to Tucson by HB. SECTION IV. PROVISIQNS APPLICABLE TO THE CITY OF TUCSON 4.1 The City of Tucson will provide water to its Sunset Reserve Estates customers through the existing Sunset Ranch Estates Distribution Main until: 4.1.1 Marana has taken ownership of the Continental Reserve Water Distribution System infrastructure identified in Exhibit A, and such infrastructure has been inspected and approved by Tucson; and 4.1.2 Tucson is in receipt of payment of $100,779.91 from HB as compensation for Tucson's abandonment of the Sunset Ranch Estates Distribution Main. 4.2 Upon fulfillment of the conditions specified in Section 4.1 above, Tucson will promptly execute the "Abandonment .of Easement," attached as Exhibit C to this Agreement. The "Abandonment of Easement" will relinquish Tucson's rights to the Sunset Ranch Estates Distribution Main and the associated utility easement. 4.3 Tucson will provide Marana with an annual consumption history in total ccf (100 cubic feet, or 748 gallons) for all accounts Marana may supply through the Sunset Ranch Estates interconnection, and will provide Marana with addresses and other information sufficient for Marana to meet the notification requirements established in Section 3.6, above. 4.4 For each calendar year, Tucson will report water delivered to its Sunset Ranch Estates customers as water received from Marana facilities; such t reporting will be made to Marana on or before March 31 of the following --~ calendar year. Marana may elect to require Tucson either to deliver the same quantity of potable water to Marana by the conclusion of the 8 calendar year following the reporting year, or to credit the amount of such deliveries against any obligations that Marana may have incurred to 3 deliver potable water or Stored Water Credits to Tucson during the reporting year. 4 4.5 Potable water delivered to Marana pursuant to Section 4.4 shall meet all Federal, State, and local regulations governing Tucson's provision of potable water. SECTION V. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 5.1 Force Majeure: In the event any party is rendered unable, wholly or in part, by force majeure reasons to carry out its obligations under this Agreement, the obligations of both the other parties so far as they are affected by such force majeure shall be suspended during the continuance of any inability so caused, but for no longer period; and such cause shall be so far as possible remedied with the best efforts of the disabled party and with all reasonable dispatch. The term "force majeure" as employed in this Agreement shall mean acts of God, strikes, lockouts or other industrial or labor disturbances, acts of the public enemy, wars, blockades, insurrections, riots, epidemics, land slides, lightning, earthquakes, fires, storms, floods, washouts, droughts, unavoidable interruptions in electric power to drive pumps, interruptions by government not due to the fault of parties, including injunctions, civil disturbances, explosions, well collapses, breakage or accident to machinery or transmission facilities, or action or non-action by governmental bodies in approving or failing to act upon applications for approvals or permits which are not due to the negligence or willful action of the parties. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as requiring any party to settle a strike or labor dispute against its will. Nothing herein shall prohibit any party at its own expense from using whatever self-help remedies may be available to it. 5.2 Default: In the event of default by any party for failure to perform pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, the non-defaulting parties shall notify the defaulting party of the default. Said notice(s) shall be in writing and shall state the facts constituting default, including the date and time (if possible) such default is deemed to have occurred, and shall further set forth what action is necessary in the non-defaulting parties' opinion to cure the default. If the non-defaulting parties deem no cure possible, the notice(s) shall so state. The defaulting party shall have a reasonable time from notice to cure the default. In the event the default is not cured within such time, the parties shall meet at least once to attempt to resolve said differences. It is agreed that at the time when the parties are attempting to resolve their differences with respect to an alleged default, the parties shall continue to fulfill their obligations pursuant to the balance of the provisions of this Agreement and such continuance shall not in any way waive the default. If, at the end of sixty (60) days from the date of notice of default, the parties are unable to resolve their differences, then the parties shall have all rights and remedies available to them under law including specific performance. 5 5.3 Attorney's Fees: In the event of any litigation between the parties to enforce any provision of this Agreement or any right of either party hereto, the unsuccessful party to such litigation agrees to pay to the successful party all reasonable costs and expenses, including reasonable attomey's fees, incurred therein by the successful party, all of which shall be included in and as part of the judgment rendered in such litigation. 5.4 Assiqnment of Aqreement: No party shall have the right to assign this Agreement nor any interest herein except to their respective successors. 5.5 Notices: All notices shall be in writing and together with other mailings pertaining to this Agreement shall be made to: FOR HB: David Goldstein 2200 E. River Road, #115 Tucson, Arizona 85718 FOR MARANA: Town Manager Town of Marana 13251 N. Lon Adams Road Marana, AZ 85653 WITH COPY TO: Marana Attorney Town of Marana 13251 N. Lon Adams Road Marana, AZ 85653 4 8 3 4 6 FOR TUCSON: Director Tucson Water P.O. Box 27210 Tucson, AZ 85726 With Copy to: City Attorney City of Tucson P.O. Box 27210 Tucson, AZ 85726 or as otherwise specified from time to time by each party. 5.6 Waiver: Waiver by any party of any breach of any term, covenant or condition herein contained shall not be deemed a waiver of any other term, covenant or condition, or any subsequent breach of the same or any other term, covenant, or condition herein contained. 5.7 Amendment: This Agreement shall not be amended except by written instrument mutually agreed upon and executed by the parties. 5.8 Entire Aqreement: This Agreement, its Exhibits and its recitals which are included herein, constitute the entire agreement between the parties, and includes all prior oral and written agreements of the parties. All warranties and guarantees and representations shall survive during the life of this Agreement. 5.9 Construction and Interpretation: All provisions of this Agreement shall be construed to be consistent with the intention of the Parties expressed in the recitals hereof. 5.10 Time of the Essence: Time is of the essence in the exercise of all rights and the discharge of all responsibilities and obligations by each of the parties hereto. ! 5.11 Authority: Each of the undersigned parties represents and warrants that it 6 has legal authority and capacity to enter into this Agreement upon the 4 terms and conditions provided within this Agreement, and has properly 8 and legally authorized and executed this Agreement. .--. 3 5.12 Leqal Jurisdiction: Nothing in this Agreement shall be considered as either 3 limiting Dr extending the legal jurisdiction of either Marana or Tucson. 5 5.13 Severability: In the event that any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof is held invalid, such invalidity shall have no effect on 7 other provisions and their application which can be given effect without the invalid provision, or application, and to this extent the provisions of the Agreement are severable. 5.14 Non-Precedential Effect: This Agreement is limited to its terms, and shall not be used by any party to establish any fact or any legal precedent that does not arise from this Agreement. In particular, this Agreement is irrelevant to any issue arising from the acquisition of any party's water supply or distribution infrastructure by another party after the effective date of this Agreement. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have hereunto set their hands the day and year first above written. TOWN OF MARANA By: MAYOR ATTEST: By:. Town Clerk CITY OF TUCSON By: MAYOR ATTEST: By: City Clerk HB LAND DEVELOPMENT CO. ~. By: 4 Its: 8 3 3 8 ATTORNEY CERTIFICATION TOWN OF MARANA The foregoing Intergovernmental Agreement, being an agreement between the Town of Marana and the City of Tucson, has been reviewed this. day of ,2001, pursuant to A.R.S. § 11-952 by the undersigned Town Attorney of the Town of Marana, who has determined that it is in proper form and is within the powers and authority granted under the laws of the State of Arizona to those parties to the agreement represented by the Town of Marana. By: Marana Town Attorney ATTORNEY CERTIFICATION CITY OF TUCSON The foregoing Intergovernmental Agreement, being an agreement between the Town of Marana and the City of Tucson, has been reviewed this __ day of ,2001, pursuant to A.R.S. § 11-952 by the undersigned Attorney for the City of Tucson, who has determined that it is in proper form and is within the powers and authority granted under the laws of the State of Arizona to those parties to the agreement represented by the City of Tucson. By:. Tucson City Attorney 1 work/cv/ca/01-09MaranaDiamondlGA.3d r(Tucson) 09/24/2001 1:51 PM ABANDONMENT OF EASEMENT An encumbrance against the titJe of that certain property described in the Deed recorded in the office of the Pima County Recorder in Docket at Page . This encumbrance on title has been made a matter of public record in the Office of the Pima County Recorder, and has been established by that certain document recorded in the Office of the Pima County Recorder in Docket at Page By the adoption of Ordinance No. $537 on July 10, 1995 ,the Mayor and Council of the City of Tucson have authorized, by this form, the abandonment and extinguishment of the City's interest in easements and/or restrictions which no longer serve as a public benefit. It has been determined that said encumbrance no longer serves as a public benefit, and it is the intent of the City of Tucson to release, quitclaim, abandon and extinguish its interest in the above referenced easement. It is not the intent of this document to waive, modify or override any law, code or ordinance that pertains to this action. By executing this document, the City intends only to release, quitclaim, extinguish and abandon its interest specifically referred to below and no other. Therefore, the City of Tucson hereby releases, quitclaims, extinguishes and abandons its interest in the easement(s) and/or restriction(s) established by that certain document recorded in the Office of the Pima County Recorder in Docket at Page__. and as described on the attached Exhibit "A" and no other. DATED this day of ,20__. CITY OF TUCSON, a municipal corporation By: Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: Assistant City Attorney STATE OF ARIZONA ) )ss. COUNTY OF PIMA ) This instrument was acknowledged before me this day of 20 , by as Mayor and as City Clerk of the City of Tucson, a municipal corporation, as the Act of said municipal corporation, Notary Public 6 4 3 RES # Sec -T S-R E