SUBSTITUTE
Public Hearing: YES ? NO ? Department: Public Works - Roads & Drainage
SUBJECT:
Title
Commission District(s): All Districts
Proposed Stormwater Utility Fee Increase
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Information Contact: Peggy Allen, DDPW
Phone Number: (404) 294-2878
PURPOSE:
To approve the proposed Stormwater Utility fee increase. The resolution and supporting documentation are
attached. Out of these fees an annual fund of $700,000 from the Stormwater Utility Fund shall be established
for the purpose of supporting Green Infrastructure for stormwater purposes.
NEED/IMPACT:
Since the Stormwater Utility rate increase resolution passed in 2023, Roads and Drainage has been able to repair,
rehabilitate, resolve, or improve over one thousand six hundred stormwater infrastructure issues in their backlog.
The inventory continues to age and needs ongoing maintenance, upgrades, and/or replacements. The cost of
ongoing maintenance continues to increase. The successful reduction of the backlog has afforded the opportunity
to address recommendations in the Stormwater Master Plan, including the development of a Stormwater Capital
Improvement Plan (CIP). Additionally, the County is moving forward with an Army Corps of Engineers (Corps)
Water Infrastructure Financing Program (CWIFP) loan to repair and rehabilitate county dams. Roads and
Drainage requires additional funds in order to adequately maintain the existing stormwater infrastructure, support
the required activities of the County's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit (NPDES), fund
the CIP to pro-actively repair or upgrade critical stormwater infrastructure and ay its share of the CWIFP loan.
The current stormwater infrastructure inventory includes more than 4,500 critical pipes an estimated 714 of which
are in poor or inoperable condition. The current dam inventory includes 12 dams that are regulated by the Safe
Dams Program and all need repairs. The fee increase...
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