At a June 15 meeting, participants said a grant-funded sanitary-sewer evaluation will pay for televising about 20,000–22,000 feet of existing sewer lines and engineering review to identify defects and prioritize repairs.

The grant will cover televising and the engineering work described in the grant work plan, but not repairs, officials said. "The grant is in place for the sanitary sewer evaluation," Trevor (staff member) said. "The next step is we're working on putting a quote package out to several televising contractors, to get pricing to do televising of about 20,000, 22,000 feet of your existing sewer lines."

Why it matters: televising produces line-by-line video that lets engineers spot cracks, roots, infiltration and inflow (I&I) contributors and set repair priorities. Trevor said the videos will be provided to SEH for a line-by-line review, with defects ranked by significance and cost ranges estimated to help the board decide next steps. "We'll rank them in importance and we'll put like a cost range together of what it would, typically cost to repair those defects," Trevor said.

Process and timing: staff will issue a request for quotes to multiple televising contractors, accept bids, then bring a recommended contractor to the board for contract award. Trevor said the work is expected to be completed by this fall, after which SEH will analyze the footage and prepare a summary similar to a prior report completed about two years earlier.

Funding limits and next steps: board members clarified that the current grant pays only for televising and the engineering review. "The grant money ... basically covers the televising and the engineering cost. Is that not correct?" one member asked. Staff replied that repairs identified by the televising would need separate funding — either additional grants or internal funds — and that the need and cost would not be known until the assessment is finished.

Related context: meeting participants noted that multiple grants were available and that the community's request was fully funded. One participant referred to a grant writer (Ali) who helped prepare the successful application.

What was not decided: no contract award or repair work was approved at the meeting. The board will consider a recommended televising contractor in a future meeting and would need to authorize repair funding if defects requiring intervention are identified.