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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between the Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District and the Euclid Creek Watershed Council This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is made and entered into by and between the Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District, hereinafter refen ed to as SWCD, and the Euclid Creek Watershed Council, hereinafter referred to as the Council. Background and Purpose in 2000, ten municipalities in the Euclid Creek Watershed organized informally with the assistance of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) to form a Euclid Creek Watershed Council to address common environmental, stormwater and development concerns in the Euclid Creek Watershed. In 2001, NOACA obtained a grant from the Ohio Lake Erie Protection Fund to develop a regional stormwater program model and to undertake a demonstration of the use of this model with Euclid Creek Communities. Nine of the communities in Euclid Creek agreed to provide matching funds for and to cooperate with this effort. NOACA contracted with the SWCD to serve as watershed coordinator for this demonstration effort. In 2002, the SWCD obtained a grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) for a Watershed Coordinator position for Euclid Creek, this six-year declining matching grant expired December 31, 2008. In 2004, the Council established by-laws as an operational organization with governance. Since 2004, the program has developed a Euclid Creek Watershed Action Plan (WAP), established an annual public involvement and education program work plan, a volunteer water monitoring program, and brought in over $5.23 million to implement its programs and plan recommendations for improvement. In 2008, planning and organizational development decreased and WAP implementation continued to rise. From 2008 to 2014, the SWCD obtained two, three-year matching implementation grants from the ODNR for the Watershed Coordinator position for Euclid Creek that expired in December 31, 2014 and these funds are no longer available. The purposes of this agreement are to: Facilitate implementation of the 2006 State of Ohio fully endorsed Watershed Action Plan for the Euclid Creek; Encourage participation in the 2017 update of the WAP, in the form of the Ohio Nonpoint Source Pollution Implementation Strategies (NPS-IS) update and facilitate implementation of the NPS-IS once approved by the State of Ohio; Promote coordinated participation of local units of government in the implementation of the plan; and, Euclid Creek Watershed Council Memorandum of Understanding 2017-2020 February 2, 2017 -Final Document