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Surf City moves forward on multi-million-dollar utilities projects, accepts $19.7M wastewater grant and adopts CIP update
Summary
Council gave consensus to move a public-utilities GMP and project ordinance to the March agenda, accepted a roughly $19.7 million wastewater grant for a subsurface phase and ultrafiltration/disinfection equipment, and voted to approve an updated Public Utilities capital improvement plan that splits the master plan into treatment and discharge components.
David Price, public utilities director (speaker 8), briefed the council on a series of capital items Feb. 19 including a guaranteed maximum price (GMP) recommendation for phase two of the Public Utilities facility expansion, an update to the utilities capital improvement plan (CIP), and acceptance of a large wastewater grant.
On facilities, staff requested consensus to place the GMP (approximately $4.9 million) and a project ordinance (approximately $5.2 million to cover financing costs and staff-built material allowances) on the March 3 agenda so the town can award the contract and finance the work. Price said the second phase provides three buildings for existing staff, equipment storage and workshops and that financing resolutions and a public hearing will be part of the March packet.
On wastewater, Price said the town had been awarded approximately $19.7 million to fund portions of the next wastewater plant expansion, including subsurface Phase 2 and ultrafiltration/disinfection equipment. "This will fund subsurface phase 2...and a portion of the new wastewater plant," he said, and staff recommended accepting the grant and creating a project ordinance.
Price also described a $1 million consultant-driven water-treatment/water-system H2O study to plan plant expansion (2.6 to 5.2 MGD), PFAS removal, tower siting and distribution improvements. Councilmembers asked for careful scoping and warned against premature full-scale expansion without options analysis; Price said the contracts are intentionally modular.
At the meeting—onclusion of the CIP discussion, a councilmember moved to approve the Public Utilities capital improvement plan as presented and the motion passed on a voice vote.
Council also authorized transfers and project-or dinance steps for smaller stormwater and forestry-related items discussed under the public utilities presentation. Staff said project financing steps and public hearings on loans will appear on the March 3 agenda.
