Utility Committee Agenda and Packet 2019 07 19

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City Council Utility Committee Meeting Minutes Friday, April 12, 2019 Page 6 of 6 Initial Administrative Fee Review: Mr. Kowar said every year we try to set rates to cover cost and went on to discuss the 5 year spread sheet on page 15. Talked about costs for Hazardous Waste and recycling fees. Mr. Kowar continued saying he tries to set the administration fee to recover costs and stated that he and Mr. Watson have a goal to build this fund without having too high of an Administration bill. Mr. Watson stated that we need to be consistent with the allocations. The Committee continued discussing allocation between staff and agreed to defer to the Finance Committee. XII. Update — Water Resources • Water Supply Update — Mr. Peterson is happy to say everything is good and said things have increased about 4%. At this time drought restriction are not anticipated for 2019. • Windy Gap — Mr. Peterson stated that the parties against us did try to make a motion for adding to the record that they claimed we left things out in our analysis and the courts denied the motion so that brings us into briefs which will be about 5-6 months out. The plan is to prequalify contractors and we'll see more action late summer. The financing will be in 2 options, 1) We would be doing financing in 2020 that will fund everything or 2) If we can't get the financing done and it's more of a 2021 we'll do an interim payment again which would be about $14,000,000 for the group which is about $300,000 for us and that is well within the money that we are budgeting for Windy Gap payment and/or the 2,500,000 budgeted so we have it covered. XIII. Upcoming Projects and Council Action • SCWTP Disinfection CM and Construction — 3rd QTR • Windy Gap Financing - TBD XII. Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 4:15 pm. 8