The weighted vote at 2022 San Diego County Water Authority board meetings will increase for the Otay Water District, the Padre Dam Municipal Water District, and the Lakeside Water District but will decrease for the Helix Water District.
The Nov. 18 SDCWA board meeting approved the Calendar Year 2022 weighted vote allocations for the CWA member agencies. The Helix share will be 6.657 percent, Otay will have a weighted vote of 6.041 percent, Padre Dam will have 2.701 percent of the weighted vote, and the Lakeside weighted vote will be 0.741 percent. For the 2021 board meetings Helix had 6.685 percent, the Otay allocation was 5.932 percent, the Padre Dam share was 2.685 percent, and Lakeside was given 0.739 percent of the weighted vote.
The member vote entitlement is calculated based on the total cumulative financial contribution from each agency since the CWA was formed in 1944. The contribution amount includes all taxes, assessments, fees, and charges paid to or on behalf of the CWA by property located within the member agency’s boundary by the June 30 end of the previous fiscal year. The cost of water treatment is not included in the total financial contribution, but the totals include standby charges, capacity charges, infrastructure access charges, readiness-to-serve charges, connection and maintenance fees, and annexation fees as well as charges for water delivered and sold to CWA member agencies.
The total cumulative financial contribution of all 24 CWA member agencies was $15,420,418,340 for the period ending June 30, 2021, an increase from the 2019-20 cumulative total of $14,735,459,810.
