← Appropriations & Oversight Committee · 2022-06-13 · Appropriations and Oversight Committee Meeting
ORDER-2022-145 : An Appropriation from Sewer Retained Earnings, account 6000-319000) in the amount of $1,123,629.51 (One Million, One Hundred Twenty-Three Thousand, Six Hundred Twenty-Nine Thousand and fifty- one Cents) to various Sewer accounts as set forth herein.
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ORDER-2022-145 Appropriation An Appropriation from Sewer Retained Earnings, account 6000- 319000) in the amount of $1,123,629.51 (One Million, One Hundred Twenty-Three Thousand, Six Hundred Twenty-Nine Thousand and fifty- one Cents) to various Sewer accounts as set forth herein. Ought to Pass City Council City of Melrose Page 2 6/17/2022 11:00 AM
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▶ 2:10:25 Speaker 1: Mr. Yes counselor Eccles. Yes. Counsel. Gerepe. Yes Council Jamal Dean. Yes counselor Stewart. Yes Castle crime tree. Councilor Williams. Yes president sonella. Yes and Cherry Gardens. Yes. It's 9
▶ 2:10:41 Jen Grigoraitis: yes 9. Yes. So that will be recommended to the full Council last but not least order 2022 - 145 and appropriation from sewer retained earnings account 6000-319000 in the amount of 1,123,000 629,051 cents to various sewer counts as set forth here in
▶ 2:11:06 Speaker 4: Thank you. Take it away.
▶ 2:11:09 Speaker 2: So similar to what we just discussed on water item a is just to cover the revenue shortfall potential in sewer. Again for $200,000 and item C in the memo. The 33,62951 is to fund the reserves up to that 10% threshold. Item B is 400,000 that we discussed last week at the that are budget hearing where we're proposing to use $400,000 of retained earnings to offset a bit of the rate to try to mitigate the rate impact for the for the ratepayers. This is not a sustainable approach to do year over year which is why we're not we did it last year in the water fund this year. We're readjusting to back to a sustainable rate in the water fund but we're proposing to do it the one time in the sewer fund so that we're not hitting people with a large water and sewer increased both in the same year and we are still hoping that we'll have a bit of a Readjustment as as covid. changes Where our usages on this on the water end, we pay based on the water use the prior year on the sewer end. We pay based on a three year average of the three prior years. So sewer's gonna take a little longer to readjust and And so this recommendation is consistent with that. We will. We'll try to readjust next year back into a sustainable rate on the sewer. Item, D is 400,000 for the design of construction of backup power generators at the album Street and Fellsway sewer pump stations. These are our two largest sewer stations. They were designed in the 50s or 60s with Backup generators that have not worked in decades the equipment still sits there. It is inoperable needs to be removed and replaced. These stations right now. If we lose power we have a portable generator that we're able to go and hook up at the station or were able to put a higher contractor to come in and put a hosed all the way down the stairs into the wet well and suck out the wet well and then transport that Wastewater elsewhere in the city, but that's not something that can be done consistently if we have a major power failure that lasts for days and we also only have one portable generator. So when we have a major power failure, we're running around from one station to the next and it's really not It's not an acceptable practice for the long term. It works right now, but these stations having worked in other communities both as a consultant and as an employee, I haven't seen stations of this size without backup power dedicated backup power in other communities. So it's really not the industry standard. We're trying to move toward the industry standard and that's why it was ranked. So highly on the CIP. As well and then finally the item e is 90,000 for the purchase of a jump truck to replace truck number 55 a 17 year old truck that's actively used by the sewer division.
▶ 2:14:19 Speaker 4: Thank you any questions.
▶ 2:14:24 Speaker 1: Councilor McMaster motion recommend manager second. We
▶ 2:14:26 Jen Grigoraitis: have a motion to recommend made by counselkmasters seconded by counselor Eccles any discussion
▶ 2:14:32 Speaker 4: seeing none Mr. Clark. Can you please call the roll?
▶ 2:14:35 Speaker 1: That's a requester. Yes. Councilor Eccles. Yes counsel your pay. Yes Council Jamal Dean. Yes counselor Stewart. Yes Council car Shady. Counselor Williams. Yes president sonella. Yes and chair Gratis. Yeah nine. Yes, and yes that