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Stormwater Utility Planning and Implementation Consultant Contract Amendment and Budget Amendment No. 20BCC000032
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Date of BOCC Meeting: November 12, 2019
Request for Board Action:
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The Board is requested to approve Budget Ordinance Amendment No. 20BCC000032, which appropriates $200,000 of unrestricted General Fund Fund Balance to cover expenses for Consultant Contract with WK Dickson for the Stormwater Utility Planning and Implementation Project.
At the October 7, 2019 Work Session, County Staff and its consultant team presented an update on the Planning and Implementation of a County Stormwater Utility. During the session, Commissioners provided feedback on the methodology to date and identified three areas in which they desired more clarity and perhaps a new approach to the utility's development and implementation. Those three areas were public education, rate structure, and a crediting system.
A follow-up presentation at the November 4, 2019 Work Session provided Commissioners with additional information on these items as well as a project scope to further evaluate these areas, and a schedule by which to complete this work in order to provide Commissioners with the requested information allowing them to provide direction on the path forward.
The total request of the contract amendment is $200,000. However, the ultimate cost depends upon direction from Commissioners in the upcoming months. By January, the following activities will occur at a cost of approximately $50,000:
? Digitization of 1,000 total residential parcels
? Data distribution and evaluation of those 1,000 parcels
? Recalculation of the Equivalent Residential Unit (ERU) upon which the rate is based
? Development of Tiered Rate options
? Assessment of credit program options and their costs, challenges, and benefits
At the January Work Session, this information will be presented to the Commissioners, at which time the Board will be able to determine ho...
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