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Town manager presents $60 million septic-to-sewer planning estimate, says AI was used to update costs
Summary
Michelle said she updated a prior septic-to-sewer study using multiple AI tools and arrived at a planning-level estimate of $60 million, assuming roughly 30% grant support; she emphasized numbers are preliminary and phased.
The town manager described a planning exercise to update a prior septic-to-sewer study and said she used AI tools to modernize cost assumptions. "I put that into CHED GPT and then also a couple others, to a couple other AI programs and asked it to update with today's modern, figures," she said, and reported a planning-level estimate of about $60,000,000 for a phased, 10-year conversion.
Michelle said the study-level assumptions included typical grant support and that a 30% grant share is reasonable for planning purposes; under that assumption the town funding portion would be roughly 70% of the total (about $42 million) though she emphasized figures are preliminary and subject to change. Commissioners noted the estimate is high-level and asked for continued study and clarification in upcoming one-on-one briefings.
