REPORTS- RULE 53

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▶ 1:08:04 Michael P. Zwirko: number 53 reports from committee are there any aldermen that have any committees they'd like to

▶ 1:08:13 Scott M. Forbes: share with us alderman forbes thank you mr president um i had some more organized notes that i left at home but i know that i can uh i can i can get through this at our water and sewer committee meeting we did have two new members we introduced mary werler and ken truesdale they participated in the meeting last week we had an update on the flushing program that was complete there was a leak detection study that found 12 leaks in an estimated 226 gallons of day that report has been returned and going to be addressed and fixed in the month of February for capital improvement projects there's one that is still ongoing to water main project in the Warwick Road neighborhood it's a $900,000 project weather permitting we're hoping to finish that project as the weather gets better that will supply better water pressure to that area of the neighborhood we talked about the 33 000 feet of sewer lining that's been done throughout the city in five sub areas there were cameras and data that was collected to identify faulty pipes lining the pipes will help quality in that area they're going to retest the flow to analyze the impact there were 2.1 million dollars in funds for mwr rra projects total these funds will be fully dispersed by the time those capital improvement projects are finished and they will be releasing the next phase of available funding in the upcoming fiscal year we talked about monthly billing four months into the billing option

▶ 1:09:51 Scott M. Forbes: see right now there's only about five to ten percent of people that are participating in monthly billing it's 280 accounts out of the 4 000. but this is an ongoing process there are certain sections of the city that haven't been introduced to that that is being cycled out and we'll get more data in the coming months uh we talked a little bit about the senior discount program in the condo credit right now there are 80 accounts that are taking advantage of the condo credit we expect that to grow on average there was 146 dollars in a credit the past year also

▶ 1:10:24 Scott M. Forbes: uh something of record reading this week our municipal accounts um they're going through monthly billing we're changing all those over to monthly billing right now uh the first read was a 65 day read so in the coming months there's going to be a lot more data that we can sit there and extrapolate from so we can identify certain flow rates and data and trends moving forward i think that's a great idea and finally uh just to for everybody here on the board to to know right now the water enterprise fund has a current balance of six hundred and eleven thousand nine hundred and twenty four dollars and eighty cents that's the reserves uh which equal ten ten percent of revenue sewer enterprise reserve fund eight hundred and sixty thousand three hundred and seventy dollars and seventy cents uh there's also approximately eight hundred thousand dollars in free cash between those two accounts that we voted on last year so there's going to be a discussion in the the next couple of months on how that free cash is going to be dispersed uh and what the usage of it is that'll be upcoming in the committee uh there was some discussion about capital improvement plans from the mwra side uh some improvements in the chelsea creek wastewater facility just things that are coming down the pike that could potentially increase our position that's always fund. And finally, preliminary assessments should be arriving in February, so we should get some hard numbers as far as our water and sewer percentages are concerned and how that's going to impact us for the next fiscal year. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you all for that update. Any

▶ 1:12:04 Speaker 4: other reports from committees? Seeing none, now go to the calendar. Madam Clerk. Order 2018-42,

▶ 1:12:07 Speaker 3: 2. Acceptance of MGL Chapter 60, Section 3D, Creating an Elderly and Disabled Tax Relief Fund for the Purpose of Defraying the Real Estate Taxes of Elderly and Disabled Persons of Low Income.