City staff and the lead consultant Applied Sciences presented a citywide stormwater master-plan update and a related briefing on maintenance and equipment. The council directed staff to return with quarterly updates, build a public dashboard for basin-level data and files, and hold neighborhood meetings for each drainage basin under study.

Yuan Li, the city’s stormwater manager, said the project will consolidate decades of disparate basin studies into a single program that updates drainage models, identifies flood risks under current conditions and standards, and produces prioritized projects. Eli Uraj, president of Applied Sciences Consulting, described a multi-consultant effort covering the city’s 46 drainage basins, with an initial patch of modeling work scheduled for completion in February 2026 and a program goal of identifying projects by June 2027. Council previously approved roughly $5,000,000 for the master-plan work.

Uraj and Applied Sciences described the “life cycle” of stormwater projects: complaint-driven investigations, basin-wide modeling, feasibility reviews, design and permitting, construction, and long-term operation and maintenance. Consultants said the study will examine both classical infrastructure (box culverts and conveyance upgrades) and green/innovative solutions, and assess real‑time flood forecasting and active stormwater management where gravity systems are insufficient.

Council members and dozens of public commenters pressed staff on near-term maintenance, equipment shortages, pump station readiness and generator plans, and public outreach. Mobility staff reported April and May maintenance metrics (ditch grading, inlet and pipe cleanings, pond maintenance, pump‑station checks), noted added emergency contracts for cave-in repairs and pipe jetting, and said many items will be submitted for FEMA reimbursement where allowable.

Council adopted two follow-up requests: a written schedule and equipment inventory for stormwater maintenance to be prepared by the council budget analyst and staff (requested by Councilwoman Hertek and scheduled for delivery July 31, 2025), and a review of stormwater revenue and expenditures over time (requested by Councilman Carlson) to be prepared with Revenue and Finance. Staff also said they will post a public dashboard in early summer and receive complaints and photos through that portal.

No ordinance or budget appropriation was adopted at the workshop; the council’s actions were directions to staff to improve public access to data, to present quarterly updates, and to provide a detailed equipment and spending schedule for council review.