City Council Meeting

Stefanie KupkastaffI can take that. So the Environment Sustainability Division works very closely with our stormwater utility staff.

with our monthly newsletters and social media posts, we try to share the stormwater utilities posts because there's usually information about only rain down the drain. So we've done initiatives to help educate schoolchildren on that. And there's Boy Scouts and Girl Scout events where they mark the storm drains. I think I believe if the stormwater utility credit is still has I think there's still a credit where if you do mark a drain that only rain goes down the drain you can get some stormwater utility credit I believe. I can check with on that but yeah we regularly work coordinate with stormwater utility to cross collaborate and share that information with the public. It's very important that we inform how to dispose of things properly especially household hazardous waste and battery.

Speaker 2most of the things that end up is trash and that's one of the projects we have in our stormwater utility is the outfalls. And we try and design the outfalls so if there is debris that gets into the storm sewer system it stays within the outfall and doesn't go downstream. It's kind of caught in like a four bay. So that's the design of the stormwater outfalls and Mr. Ito has some proposed upcoming, I think, in the next month or so for award. So having good outfalls that work, having markers on the storm drains, and education is the main reason how we keep debris out of the storm drains.