BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
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Update on Draft Watersheds and Water Utility Five-Year Operations and Maintenance Plans.
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RECOMMENDATION: Recommendation
Receive Information on the Draft Watersheds and Water Utility Five-Year Operations and Maintenance Plans.
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SUMMARY:
The purpose of the Watersheds and Water Utility Five-Year Operations and Maintenance Plans (Plans) is to identify and document the resources needed for operations and maintenance activities and for asset renewals for the next five fiscal years, 2022 to 2026.
The Plans forecast the resources needed for operations and maintenance activities including corrective and preventive maintenance, operator labor, chemical costs, power, and engineering and environmental staff support. The Plans do not include resources needed for planning activities. With regards to asset renewal activities, the Water Utility Five-Year Operations and Maintenance Plan (Water Utility Plan) documents the planned asset renewal projects scheduled for the next five fiscal years. Asset renewals are asset replacements or rehabilitation to 'like new' condition. These projects are typically budgeted and executed in one of six water utility small capital improvement projects. Watershed asset renewal activities are challenging to forecast due to annual storm events that change project priorities, and therefore the Watersheds Five-Year Operations and Maintenance Plan (Watersheds Plan) does not forecast asset renewal projects. Instead, the Watersheds Plan discusses efforts on a new strategic planning approach to identify planned asset renewal projects. This strategic planning effort will be conducted under Safe, Clean Water project F8: Sustainable Creek Infrastructure for Continued Public Safety.
The Plans are rolling five-year plans and are updated annually. The Draft Plans were prepared using long term forecast data and unfunded needs requests as of December 1, 2020. The Fiscal Year 2022 budget reque...
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