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Consider approving Resolution No. 2020-56 authorizing Freese & Nichols, Inc. to develop a Capacity, Management, Operations and Maintenance (CMOM) Program for the City sanitary sewer system in the amount of $75,000; and take appropriate action
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BACKGROUND:
The Public Works Department negotiated a Professional Services Agreement with Freese & Nichols, Inc. to develop a CMOM (Capacity, Management, Operations and Maintenance) program for our sanitary sewer collection system. A CMOM program is a flexible, dynamic framework for municipalities to identify and incorporate widely accepted wastewater industry practices. The CMOM program will help manage, operate and maintain the sanitary sewer collection system.
Our sanitary sewer collection system was audited by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in June 2017 and the EPA recommended staff develop a CMOM program to supplement our SSOI (Sanitary Sewer Overflow Initiative) agreement with TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality). The development of a CMOM program will help staff prepare a new SSOI Agreement with TCEQ as the current agreement expires in December 2020. 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. for the development of a CMOM Program in the amount of $75,000.
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 $75,000.
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation by City Administration to approve Resolution No. 2020-56 authorizing an agreement with Freese & Nichols, Inc. for the development of a CMOM Program...
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