WHEREAS:

1. The official accounting records for the SWRCB are maintained on a statewide automated cost accounting system known as the California State Accounting and Reporting System (CALSTARS). CALSTARS provides detailed accounting of appropriations, expenditures, encumbrances and receipts. This data is used to manage program and organizational budgets as well as to report expenditures and receipts to control agencies.

2. The Department of Finance maintains CALSTARS and provides technical support.

3. The SWRCB accesses CALSTARS primarily through leased terminals in the Accounting Office. The lease of these terminals is incorporated into the HWDC Interagency Agreement.

4. Computer processing and large print jobs for the CALSTARS system are done at HWDC and couriered to the SWRCB's Accounting Office.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:

That the SWRCB authorize the Executive Director to negotiate and execute an Interagency Agreement with the Health and Welfare Data Center for data processing services in an amount not to exceed $229,000 during the Fiscal Year 1998-99.

The undersigned, Administrative Assistant to the Board, does hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board held on May 27, 1998.

/s/

Maureen Marché

Adminitrative Assistant to the Board