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Council prioritizes water/sewer meter upgrades, operator hire and redundancy projects
Summary
Council supported adding a certified water/wastewater operator and advancing AMI meter replacements and redundancy and effluent-line projects to protect service and revenue — staff flagged AMI as likely to change billed revenue and recommended a wastewater master plan.
Council reviewed water and sewer operations, staffing needs, and capital risk reduction. Staff said the AMI meter-replacement project is imminent and will both reduce billing inaccuracies and affect revenue estimates; managers asked for time to rework revenue projections before final adoption.
"The AMI project, which is going to start soon, once that's completed, there will be revenue that we know that we're losing because of older meters," Financial Director Lisa said, explaining why meter replacement changes near-term revenue projections. Public Works recommended funding a full‑time certified water/wastewater operator (estimated fully loaded at about $80,000) to handle new lift stations and plant expansions; council gave consensus to add the position funded from water/sewer. Staff also emphasized the risk from a single effluent/gravity line across I‑45 and recommended constructing a redundant line (design funded; construction estimated at $425,000–$500,000) and commissioning a wastewater master plan study (~$50,000) ahead of hitting permitted capacity thresholds.
Provenance: topicintro SEG 1720, topfinish SEG 6750.
