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John Davidson, City Manager
City of Redlands
35 Cajon Street
Redlands, CA 92373
LETTER AGREEMENT
REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY OF SCE INFORMATION
Dear John:
In the process of briefing you regarding the potential for rotating outages this
summer, and the manner in which the Southern California Edison Company
(SCE) would conduct rotating outages should they become necessary, SCE
has provided you with boundary descriptions of the portions of circuit groups
(to be used in rotating outages) that affect the City of Redlands. In addition,
SCE has established a procedure by which we will provide you with advance
notification of possible rotating outages, including an estimate of the circuit
groups that will likely be affected. The boundary descriptions and the
advance notification procedure are hereinafter referred to as the `'Protected
Information."
As you know, the Protected Information could be used to identify- customers
who will be without power —it is very sensitive in nature and, in the wrong
hands, could be misused to harm your citizens and our customers.
Nevertheless, SCE is willing to provide this information to the City of
Redlands in order to assist you in your emergency planning efforts, to protect
the safety and security- of your citizens and our customers, since we recognize
that this information also can be extremely useful in developing emergency
response plans. By countersigning this letter agreement, you agree on behalf
of the City of Redlands and its employees and agents, to maintain the
confidentiality of the Protected Information, to use it only for your city's
emergency planning purposes, and to take reasonable steps to prevent its
public dissemination. If you are unable to agree to the terms of this letter
agreement, we will provide you with less detailed (and therefore less
sensitive) information for you to use in preparing your emergency response.
If the City of Redlands is requested or required by any third party pursuant
to the Public Records Act (the "PRS") to disclose the Protected Information,
then the City of Redlands agrees to provide prompt written notice to SCE of
that PRS request or requirement. SCE shall have the right to seek a
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protective order or other appropriate remedy concerning such disclosure, and
we will provide prompt written notice to the City of Redlands, either that we
intend to pursue such remedies or that we decline to do so. If, after adequate
notice of the PRA request or requirement, SCE informs the City of Redlands
that it declines to seek a protective order or other remedy concerning that
particular PRA request or requirement, then the City of Redlands'
subsequent disclosure of Protected Information in response to that PRA
request or requirement will not constitute a breach of the Letter Agreement.
CITY OF REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA
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Beverly Pow 1, Region Manager Pat Gilbreath, Mayor
Date Date January_ 16, 2001
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