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Water Forward 2024 project status update Water Forward 2024 (WF24) Project Tasks Task 1 - Project Management Task 2 - Community Engagement Task 3. Refine planning methodology Task 4. Forecast baseline water demands Task 6. Identify water resource needs Task 7. Identify, screen, and characterize strategies Task 8. Develop and evaluate 50-yr water resource portfolios Task 5. Update climate and hydrology analysis Task 9. Develop plan recommendations and 100-yr adaptive management plan WF24 Task Progress to Date & Next Steps Task Name Progress to Date Next Steps 1 Project Management • Updated project schedule to reflect mid- 2024 anticipated project completion • Continue scope development for targeted consultant support services 2 Community Engagement • Held two virtual public workshops to • Complete draft Education and Engagement Plan (EEP) • Hold equity trainings/groundings gather input on guiding principles and community values • Launched SpeakUp Austin Page • Continued planning for AW staff equity training and WF Task Force and Community Advisory Group member equity grounding WF24 Task Progress to Date & Next Steps Task Name Progress to Date Next Steps 3 Planning Methodology • Substantial completion of mission statement, guiding principles, and objectives • Substantial completion of modeling scenarios (hydrology, demands, supply) • Began planning modeling processes • Refine performance metrics, modeling processes, and parameters 4 Demand Forecast • Continued development of 100-year • Continue disaggregation of 100-yr population projections population projections • Substantial completion of Disaggregated • Complete DDM structural update work 5 Climate and Hydrology Analysis Demand Model (DDM) structural improvements • Substantial completion of hydrologic • Developed preliminary high-level climate • Held Climate Technical Advisory Group models trends takeaways meeting 5/19 • Develop monthly streamflow timeseries for use in the Water Availability Model • Continued coordination with other City departments on climate takeaways and external messaging WF24 Schedule Adjustments Key Takeaway: About a four-month delay in final plan completion. Approx. Target Date External-facing deliverables to be presented to Task Force and key stakeholders Sep. 2022 Nov. 2022 Jan. 2023 Mar. 2023 May 2023 Preliminary Climate and Hydrology Analysis results Population and employment projections at small-polygon level Draft Equity and Affordability Roadmap and Tool Disaggregated demand projections and updated WF18 strategy yields Preliminary needs analysis results WF24 Schedule Adjustments Key Takeaway: About a four-month delay in final plan completion. Approx. Target Date External-facing deliverables to be presented to Task Force and key stakeholders Sep. 2023 Nov. 2023 Water management strategies characterization 50-year portfolio construction and evaluation process Jan./Mar. 2024 Preliminary 50-year portfolio evaluation Mar./May 2024 Preferred 50-year portfolio and EAT evaluation May/Jul. 2024 100-year adaptive management plan and draft report Jul. – Dec. 2024 Boards and Commissions and Council approval process Equity-Related Activities  Using an equity lens in planning and execution of community engagement activities  Providing a virtual equity training for AW staff  Holding a series of virtual equity grounding sessions for Task Force Members and Community Ambassadors.  Developing an Equity and Affordability Roadmap and Tool Process Map Public input Equity Grounding for Task Force and CAG Input on Equity & Affordability (E&A) considerations Equity Training for AW staff Outreach recommendations to improve procedural equity Equity and Affordability Road Map (EARM) 1) Develop procedural equity recommendations for the plan development process 2) Develop a framework to evaluate distributive equity in plan outcomes E&A framework Education and Engagement Plan (EEP) Specific, tactical plan for how we will engage with the community Plan for engagement Potential Future Outreach Strategies to gather further input on E&A Identified in the EARM and planned in the EEP Questions and data to evaluate strategies & portfolios Equity and Affordability Tool Framework of questions and supporting spatial and other data that will be used to evaluate the distribution of benefits and burdens at the strategy and portfolio level Strategy Characterization & Portfolio Evaluation Individual strategies to be characterized in alignment with certain EAT components; Portfolios will undergo full EAT evaluation. August Task Force and CAG member Equity Grounding  August 16th from 4:30pm-7:30pm, agenda to include: • Water Forward context setting, presenter: Austin Water • Austin’s history and definition of equity, presenter: COA Equity Office  August 23rd from 5:00pm-7:00pm, agenda to include: • “Lightning” talks (~10 min) to describe how other City departments are addressing equity and affordability in their planning work. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion between each talk. • Speakers: Tymon Khamsi, Housing & Planning; Keree Brannen, Austin Energy; Katie Coyne, Watershed Protection  August 25th from 5:00pm-7:00pm, agenda to include: • Debrief session with Task Force and CAG members to gather key considerations to add to the WF24 Equity and Affordability Roadmap, facilitated by AW staff Questions