1. Pumping credit ordinance was not adopted. The board voted 4–3 to continue work on Ordinance 2026-01 rather than adopt it. One draft proposed a pumping-credit storage cap of 10 times a groundwater user’s annual sustainable-yield pumping allocation, without an expiration date. The current Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) provides for credits to expire after five years. The board previously suspended the pumping-credit management action until the five-year GSP evaluation is submitted or an ordinance is adopted. Members debated how a different credit policy should be reconciled with the GSP but did not settle the sequence of an amendment and ordinance.
The chair opened and closed a public hearing during which a commenter challenged whether notice had been adequate. Members also raised concerns about competing ordinance versions and called for legal review before adoption. They discussed giving consultant Steve responsibility for version control at the next workshop; that handoff had not yet been made.
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