SID Purchases Sewer Jetter and sets levy notice publication dates

Post date: Jul 17, 2009 1:53:15 PM

The SID Board selected a demo O'Brien Sewer Jetter, to be supplied by Rose Equipment of Lincoln during Wednesday's monthly board meeting. A purchase contract was issued for the total purchase price with tax of $48,916.13. The Jetter will be used for routine flushing of the gravity mains, manholes and pump stations as well as any emergency main line cleaning that might happen. It will be operated by the contract maintenance operator, Ken Gardner, who is entering his second year of service with the SID.

In other actions, the SID Board accepted and approved the project total costs submitted by engineer Jim Olmsted, of Olmsted & Perry CE of $3,892,254 for the Wastewater Treatment Facility (Lagoon); $372,939.00 for the SID Maintenance/Office Building and $14,573,941 for the Sanitary Sewer Collection System. In total there are 938 Assessment Units (Equivalent Residential Units)-{ERU} in the project; and 917 Sewer Main Connections were completed on a total of 876 Parcels of land. The total General Obligation cost for the project is $7,609,866 and total amount that will paid by Assessment is $11,229,268. The average total assessment per {ERU} unit calculates to be $11,972; however, this will vary for each individual assessment and connection based on the total of all items making up that service connection. It is anticipated that the General Obligation portion will continued to be levied at an annual rate between $550 and $575 per $100,000 valuation; however, that will be determined and levied every year in September by the Board as part of the annual budget process.

The Board also authorized the official Publication of the Notice of all costs and the proposed levy of the individual assessments for July 22nd & 29th and August 5th in the Elwood Bulletin and Tri-City Tribune. A Public Hearing has been set for 2:00 p.m. on August 12th. Notices will be mailed to all property owners within the next two weeks, along with a detailed breakdown of the proposed assessment for their property. Anyone desiring to file an objection on account of errors, irregularities or inequalities must file a written notice of such with the Clerk prior to August 11th. Objections which are filed shall then be considered by the Board during the August 12th meeting; after which all assessments will be levied, as of that date. These will then be billed by the respective counties, and must be paid to the county, either in full or 1/15th of the total amount by October 1st. If only 1/15 is paid, the balance will be payable annually with annual interest to be determined on the unpaid balance.

Sewage Flows exceeding 225,000 gallons per day were noted during the 4th of July Holiday period, with the daily average exceeding 100,000 gallons per day for the summer season.

NDEQ advised that they would provide an additional $734,961 in low interest CW-SRF loan funds to assist in the financing of the project; so the Board directed the Chairman and

Clerk to execute the necessary Loan Amendment. This brings the total CW-SRF loan amount to $15,484,961 or 82% of the total cost. The balance will be financed by the sale of

bonds by the District's fiscal agent, in order to retire the interim warrant financing.