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Water Resources Advisory Board · regular
7-15-24 Water Resources Advisory Board Meeting
- Date
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- regular
- Status
- past
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- YouTube, via the Woven archive; YouTube's automatic captions
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AI-read · unreviewed22 mentions; quotes verbatim from the captions or agenda, chosen by a model, unchecked by a personthe east campus, the airport, and the planning reserve. All should not happen.
the east campus, the airport, and the planning reserve. All should not happen.
Because this place should never have been demolished. It isn't yet, but it will be.
So the 1st item we have tonight, as I just mentioned, is the public hearing on the capital improvement program, and we are seeking a board recommendation.
We also discussed our financial strategies with regards to reserves fund management and financing options.
We do plan to bond in q, 1 of 2025 for our South Boulder Creek. Storm and flood project
our financing strategies around capital projects will depend on the availability of cash market conditions and our financial position.
we talked about potentially bonding in 2028 or 2029 for projects within our water and wastewater funds.
This project is currently forecasted to begin construction in 2026 and will include channel improvement and culvert widening at road crossings.
and we may also consider another stormwater bond in 2028, although I'll mention that that's not currently modeled in our Fund financial
It is an 8% rate increase in our water rates, a 6% rate increase for our wastewater rates
we did wanna open it back up to the board for any other questions about the proposed capital improvement program.
I guess it just it's interesting to me that our that our water rates are so kind of not dependent upon volume.
Any more detail on the timing of the rate study other than just a couple of years.
like the airport, like the east campus, like the quantum business.
pushing all these major development projects like the planning area reserve area 3
And for one, you're going to have more and more higher and higher stormwater and flooding
I could have lead pipes. They could use that service through the State.
provide a brief update on the sustainable Grass Conversion project, sometimes known as Turf Replacement
There's 3 different versions of turf removal there, kind of a manual removal, and then a black plastic
that they're all heavy lifting on the capital improvement program.
is also doing a similar large scale turf replacement project, and so there could be opportunities to to learn