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As required by the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), each groundwater sustainability agency held public hearings on the following dates in June 2017: June 1 (Santa Rosa Plain); June 7 (Sonoma Valley); and June 22 (Petaluma Valley). At these meetings, each of the boards of directors approved filing of the required documents with the State to become GSAs under SGMA. Staff filed these documents prior to the June 30, 2017 deadline. R2. Specifically instruct, through their JPA agreements that the three Groundwater Agencies pool technical resources and staff in order to avoid costly duplication. Response: Recommendation R2 has been implemented. The JPAs contain the following provisions regarding coordination: "WHEREAS, in order to promote efficiency and sharing of resources, the Members individually and collectively, encourage coordination between GSAs in Sonoma County". "Section 4.05 – Coordination between Basins. In order to maintain consistency and the efficient use of resources, to the extent feasible, the Agency shall endeavor to coordinate between and among the other Sonoma County GSAs for administration, matters involving public communication and outreach, and for developing frameworks to support groundwater management, which may include agreement to certain areas of coordination, provided that the Agency retain its own authority and that such