Maintenance

Safe

Utilities

FY2024 Budget


Program Budget Overview

Description

  • The Utilities Maintenance work group includes maintenance crews for water, wastewater and stormwater and flood utilities. Currently, water, wastewater and stormwater crews are adequately staffed to achieve proactive maintenance on a routine basis. Current staffing levels for flood, only allow for partial maintenance of open channels and do not support completion of system-wide maintenance on a recurring basis with any regularity. As was recommended in the recently approved 2022 Comprehensive Flood and Stormwater Master Plan, this document describes proposed resources for flood maintenance to support increased frequency and proactivity of flood maintenance activities.

Summary of 2024 Budget Enhancements/Realignments:

  • Flood Control Maintenance 5FTE (Enhancement; $377,000; Ongoing). The Utilities Maintenance work group includes maintenance crews for water, wastewater and stormwater and flood utilities. Currently, water, wastewater and stormwater crews are adequately staffed to achieve proactive maintenance on a routine basis. The 2022 Comprehensive Flood and Stormwater Master Plan recommended enhanced resources for flood maintenance to support increased frequency and proactivity of flood maintenance activities. Under current staffing levels, the level of service for flood and drainageway maintenance is limited to irrigation ditch obligations and known open channel hot spot areas that may or may not be coincident with storm-driven events. The proposed staffing levels are based on analysis of resources needed to allow flood maintenance crews to cycle through proactive maintenance of the flood and drainageway system on a 10 to 20-year cycle and continue to allow for emergency response, which will result in improved protection of the community from flooding impacts during storm events.

Sustainability, Equity and Resilience (SER) Goals & Objectives: Safe

  • Objectives
    • Operates services necessary to support basic public health including safe drinking water, removal of snow, wastewater and stormwater, and a reliable multimodal transportation system.

Program Outcomes

  • Improved level of service for the water distribution system through regular maintenance and reduced service interruptions from events such as water main breaks.
  • Improved level of service for the wastewater collection system through regular maintenance and reduced service interruptions from events such as backups and blockages.
  • Improved community safety resulting from proposed maintenance enhancements through more effective conveyance of flood and stormwater.
  • Reduced flooding impacts to roadways and private property.

Measurements

  • Linear miles of open drainage total cleaned per year.
  • # of outfalls, sumps, trash racks, weirs and detention ponds cleaned per year.
  • Overall maintenance cycle - # of years required to cycle through various infrastructure features (channels, outfalls, sumps, trash racks, weirs and detention ponds.