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City Council Regular Meeting

Meeting Date:

05/11/2021

BACKGROUND

The Corbett Elevated Storage Tank serves approximately 2,300 water connections (a population of approximately 5,800). The addition of the proposed 3.0 million gallon Corbett Ground Storage Tank will provide critical storage and redundancy at the Corbett Tank Site in order to provide water to customers on a daily basis and to a larger portion of the City in an emergency situation.

The Corbett Tank Site is one of two SSLGC connection points which provide continual water flow to the southern water zone. In addition to the design of a new ground storage tank, a pump station will be designed to feed the southern water zone through the existing elevated tank on site and to pump water to the Live Oak Tank Site. Generator design is proposed to run all of the pumps during an electrical outage as experienced during the sever Winter Storm in Texas during February 12-19, 2021. A Professional Engineering firm will provide services related to the design and construction phases of the Corbett Ground Storage Tank. City staff has worked with Ford Engineering, Inc. to develop a scope for these services and a budget adjustment is needed to fund this portion of the project. Proposed Ordinance 21-T-19 allocates $512,000 for the professional services needed to assist the City with the design of the Corbett Ground Storage Tank. That amount includes the consultant’s fee and a contingency amount of approximately ten percent.

Construction of the Corbett Ground Storage Tank, pump station, and generator will be funded separately after final design is complete. The estimated construction cost of this project is $4.5 million.

GOAL

The goal of this ordinance is to amend the fiscal year 2020-2021 budget to provide funding for the design of the Corbett Ground Storage Tank.

COMMUNITY BENEFIT

The proposed 3.0 million gallon Corbett Ground Storage Tank will provide critical storage and redundancy at the Corbett Tank Site in order to provide water to customers on a daily basis and to a larger portion of the City in an emergency situation.

SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDED ACTION

Approval of Ordinance 21-T-19 authorizing the budget adjustment.

FISCAL IMPACT

This ordinance will allocate $512,000.00 from the Water Capital Recovery Fees to engineering and professional services related to the Corbett Ground Storage Tank project. As of March 31, 2021, the Water Capital Recovery Fund had $8.4 million available for this project.

RECOMMENDATION

Staff recommends approval of Ordinance 21-T-19 on first reading.

Attachments
Ordinance 21-T-19