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The bonding related to this project does not impact the City's bond rating or ability to issue <br />municipal general obligation bonds. Also, the bonding associated with this project does not <br />require the Utilities, through bond covenants, to have dedicated reserves. The Utilities' <br />obligation for repayment on this bonding appears as an expense line item. And by design, the <br />revenue that ERMU will receive will exceed the expense of the bond repayment creating a <br />positive cash flow for the life of the asset. The amount of this cash flow will not be finalized <br />until the value of the asset is determined at the time it is put into service. This will likely be in <br />2015. <br />Shortly thereafter Delano Municipal Utilities (Delano), another participant in this project through <br />CMMPA, elected to transfer their allocation of this project to ERMU and five other municipal <br />utilities. Because of savings in the overall project, this increase to ERMU's percent ownership in <br />the project did not cause the investment amount to exceed the previously approved investment <br />amount. This allocation change was also approved in 2011 by the Commission and Council <br />through resolutions. <br />DISCUSSION: <br />The next phase of the CAPX2020 Brookings/Twin Cities Project was an extension from <br />Brookings to Big Stone. This is a significantly smaller project yet required all the same amount <br />of legal work associated with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) filings. <br />Because of the size of the project, the CMMPA Board of Directors elected to not extend an <br />invitation to a nonmember like ERMU to invest in their $2.5M eligible share of this project. <br />Because of the amount of work for such a small investment, CMMPA and the other upstream <br />investors have agreed to swap the investment rights for the Big Stone transmission project for an <br />increase in the Brookings project. The decision to swap creates a requirement for CMMPA to <br />offer ERMU, and other nonmembers participating in the Brookings project through CMMPA, <br />the opportunity to increase their Brooking project allocations based on their current entitlement <br />share. <br />The current ERMU entitlement share of the 3.6% CMMPA share of the Brookings project is <br />18.890%. This current project forecast is for ERMU's share to have a $4,649,874 value, well <br />below the approved not to exceed amount. The ERMU eligible allocation increase to the <br />Brookings project due to the Big Stone project swap would be $472,250. If approved to accept <br />the swap and increase our Brookings allocation, this would increase our current forecasted <br />Brookings transmission investment to $5,122,124. This is still well below the approved not to <br />exceed amount. <br />To approve the swap and allocation increase, ERMU will need a resolution appointing a <br />representative on the Transmission Project Coordinating Committee and authorize the <br />representative to vote in favor of the change in allocation. A similar resolution will be needed <br />from City Council authorizing the same representative and authority. The action request for the <br />City Council was requested on December 16, 2013. <br />1 ME <br />Reliable Public <br />Poway Provider <br />Page 2 of 3 <br />41 <br />P6WEREO 81 <br />(NAME <br />P.w E P EO TO S.0.VE <br />