Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session
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Continued Discussion of the Proposed FY2027–FY2031 Capital Improvement Program
16:49Matthew RiceI think one of our successes actually is sewers. It's wastewater sewer and the maintenance schedule that they're on. That's one of the most impressive things that I've seen about the city is the degree to which public works and the stormwater utility is able to diagnose problems before they become five times as expensive to fix. And we see that constantly. We get updates via text message every morning about roads that will be partially blocked based on some infrastructure that's being repaired, and that's being repaired at a fraction of the cost it would be if it were to crumble and need emergency help. I remember looking at Mr. Summers and recommending strongly that we do something to invest money in a surveillance capability,
James FeatherBut we have the stormwater utility now, and it's their job. We use an external funding source. We
Matthew Ricedo and it's it's been a great success and the sheer amount of money that we're saving the future versions of ourselves is just Mind-blowing. I talked to staff about this. It's some It's going very very well. It's important the infrastructure and the cost of the infrastructure if it were to be neglected would be huge and And things are going well. And I think there was some effort when I first joined the commission this in 2020 where we discussed this. And it's resulted in some changes. And obviously the stormwater utility is going very well. We definitely want this to continue, but maybe we don't include it at the same high level unless there's a threat to pulling funding from it. And I don't sense at all.