06/19/74 Board of Public Works Minutes

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11 1 1 REGULAR MEETING E. Sewer Service JUNE 19, 1974 - construction of trunk sewers could be commenced approximately l year after the effective date of the annexation and all trunk sewer comstruction could be completed within 2 years of the effective date of the ordinance. Local sewers can be installed to connect to these trunk sewers at any time after construction and within the 3 year period to serve residents as requested by them and upon arrangement for` payment of the prevailing share of cost of local sewer installation, the same being a 50% of the cost thereof. All local sewer construction, if so petitioned for, could be completed within 3 years of the effective date of the annexation ordinance., SECTION 5. The Board of Public Works now establishes and adopts the following fiscal plan for furnishing of such services: A. Street Maintenance and Traffic Control - The Bureau of Streets and Bureau of Traffic will assume the maintenance of all existing streets in the territory to be annexed. Maintenance of 45.4 miles of streets and roads at $2500 per mile would be an annual cost of $113,500. Approximately 8 miles of state highways and 4 miles of Indiana East- West Toll Road would be maintained by the state highway department and the Toll Road Commission respectively. Annual revenues, received by the City from per capita refund of state collected motor vehicle gas taxes at $8.85 would be applied to street maintenance. The balance of the cost of street maintenance for the additional year will be paid from appropriations from federal revenue sharing funds. Thereafter, street maintenance within the territory to be annexed will become a part of the annual budget of the City of South Bend for its general street maintenance program to be finances from the same sources as that budget is presently funded. B. Street Lighting - The annual cost of street liggting for the 45.4 miles of streets, roads and highways within the territory to be annexed is estimated at $775 per mile to furnish equivalent City street lighting at a total cost of $35,185 per annum. The first year of cost of operation of the street lighting program will be paid from appropriations from revenue sharing funds.. Thereafter, the cost of street lighting will be paid from tax revenues to be derived from the territory to be.annexed and from the same fund that finances the existing street lighting budget. C. Sanitation - This service is presently provided by the City to residents for a fee of $3.00 per month per family and is currently a self-supporting service. No City costs are assigned to this service. D. Sewer Service - Trunk sewers would be provided for the area by the construction of $864,300 of 12", 15", 18" and 21" diameter sewers. There are 27.69 miles of City streets and roads in the territory which would not contain trunk sewers. There are 6.14 miles of state highways in the territory not containing trunk sewers. Auten Road, Portage Road and Olive Road are perimeter roads that are not counted in the total road mileage, but would be subject to having local sewer construction thereon and would comprise 4.83 miles. Total mileage is.49 milesof which is calculated that 75% thereof would require local sewerage for a total of 36.75 miles. Based upon the 36.75 miles of sewer at $47,520 per mile, the construction cost of local sewers is estimated at $1,746,360. If the City participates in 50 of this cost, there would be a total cost to the City for local sewer construction of $873,150. Financing of this construction could be accomplished in several ways. First, federal water and sewer grants are expected in the near future for this.type of construction. Based on 75% federal participation, 10% state participation, and the remainder from local sources, the total cost would be $260,670.50. In the event this type of financing was unavailable, the general obligations bonds could be issued for the construction of trunk sewers in the amount of $864,300. Based on 5% interest and a 25 year term, the annual cost would be $61,324.21. The City has a bonding capacity to finance this amount.