TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Kristoff Bauer, ICMA-CM, Deputy City Manager
FROM: Sheila Thomas-Ambat, PE, Public Services Director
DATE: January 14, 2020
RE:
Title
Stormwater Master Plan Update
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COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):
Council District(s)
All
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal 3: High Quality Built Environment
Goal 4: Desirable Place to Live, Work and Recreate
Executive Summary:
City Council directed staff to accelerate the City's stormwater capital improvement program by completing a stormwater masterplan for the entire City within five years. To support this effort, Council voted to increase the stormwater fee as part of the Fiscal Year 2019 budget. City staff selected the firm Freese & Nichols to serve as program manager for the project. The project began in Spring 2019 and the Freese & Nichols team has completed the high level modelling analysis that prioritizes the future focused study areas for the City. City Staff and Freese & Nichols will provide an update on the program.
Background:
The City's stormwater program and utility was initiated in 1995 to comply with the Clean Water Act to manage pollution in stormwater runoff and improve water quality. This program was tied directly to water quality requirements until 2007, when the Council increased the stormwater fee recognizing the need for new and retrofitted drainage infrastructure to solve issues with local flooding and to make system repairs. An active capital improvement program was developed at that time.
Initially, capital improvements were driven by citizen complaints and observations of flooded areas noted by City staff. Over time, the City started conducting watershed studies to look at large sections of the City and identify problems on a system-wide basis. Projects have been developed from these watershed studies and incorporated into the CIP list, along with those identified from complaints. The CIP development process is not, however, ...
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