ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager, Director of Public Works and Finance Director/Comptroller with a Request to ADOPT an ORDINANCE Amending the City of Peoria 2021 REVISED ANNUAL BUDGET Relating to the USE of the SEWER FUND BALANCE in the Amount of $800,000.00 For DESIGN, MONITORING and TELEVISING of SEWERS.
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BACKGROUND: On December 15, 2020, the City Council approved a Consent Decree with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) to remediate Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs). (Ref. Council Action 20-303). This mandate requires capital investments of approximately $109 million over an eighteen (18) year time frame, beginning in 2022, to remediate combined sewer overflows
To begin program construction in 2022 to comply with the consent decree, design, monitoring and televising of sewers will need to begin now. As the Consent Decree was formalized in December 2020, these design funds were not included in the 2021 City budget.
With the approval of this budget amendment, we will have the ability to plan for projects to commence in 2022 per the consent decree.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: The Sewer Fund Balance will be reduced by $800,000.00 to perform green infrastructure design, system modification design, flow monitoring and data analysis, project management and sewer televising.
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS: The CSO program is intended to improve our neighborhoods with the addition of green infrastructure.
IMPACT IF APPROVED: Funds will be available in 2021 to design the 2022 CSO program.
IMPACT IF DENIED: The mandated CSO program will be delayed and the City would be in violation of the consent decree.
ALTERNATIVES: None.
EEO CERTIFICATION NUMBER: N/A
WHICH OF THE GOALS IDENTIFIED IN THE COUNCIL'S 2017 - 2032 STRATEGIC PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION ADVANCE?
1. Financially Sound City
WHICH CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S) FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DOES...
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