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Laramie staff outline surface water drainage utility budget, projects and staffing ahead of July 1 start
Summary
City staff presented the new Surface Water Drainage Fund's 10-year financial plan, requested startup accounting and personnel, and detailed capital projects including pipe lining, outfall upgrades and potential NRCS-funded detention ponds.
City staff told the Laramie City Council on May 19 that the city’s new Surface Water Drainage Fund will begin July 1 with a $5,000,000 transfer from the general fund and a 10-year capital plan that staff say supports a $1.167 per 500-square-foot user rate.
The fund is intended to create a dedicated stormwater utility and local revenue source for drainage projects after the council approved the rate last December; staff described the May 19 presentation as placing that utility into the city’s formal budget framework.
Director Waite said the fund “as of July 1 is $5,000,000. That $5,000,000 is a transfer from the general fund, that the previous council approved when this rate was adopted” and that the 10-year plan includes a roughly $60,500,000 capital investment. Waite said staff deliberately underwrote grant assumptions in the plan and will adjust the mix of grants and rates annually.
City Engineer Eric Jep summarized…
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