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Consider approving Resolution No. 2020-132 authorizing Freese & Nichols, Inc. to prepare a Wastewater Master Plan for the City sanitary sewer system; and take appropriate action
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BACKGROUND:
The Public Works Department negotiated a Professional Services Agreement with Freese & Nichols, Inc. to prepare a Wastewater Master Plan for our sanitary sewer collection system. This master plan is required as part of the CMOM program and the SSOI (Sanitary Sewer Overflow Initiative) agreement with TCEQ.
Our sanitary sewer collection system was audited by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in June 2017 and the EPA recommended staff develop a CMOM (Capacity, Management, Operations, Maintenance) program to supplement our SSOI (Sanitary Sewer Overflow Initiative) agreement with TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality). The development of a CMOM program is underway and Phase 2 of this program is the preparation of the Wastewater Master Plan. The master plan is required in order to prepare a new SSOI Agreement with TCEQ. Cities that participate in a SSOI are not subject to formal enforcement for sanitary sewer overflows by the TCEQ as long as they are addressed by the agreement which is negotiated and signed by the City and TCEQ
DISCUSSION:
The Public Works Department has negotiated a professional services agreement with Freese & Nichols, Inc. to prepare a Wastewater Master Plan in the amount of $324,850.
This item supports the City's core value to provide functional, sustainable, and well maintained infrastructure, facilities and equipment.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Budgeted Financial Impact: Capital Improvement Program (CIP), Utility Improvements Fund in the amount of $324,850.
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation by City Administration to approve Resolution No. 2020-132 authorizing an agreement with Freese & Nichols, Inc. to prepare a Wastewater Master Plan in the amount of $324,850.
POSSIBLE COUNCIL ACTION:
1. I move to approve Resolution No. 2020-132 aut...
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