TAMRMS#: B06
8.2
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STORM-001 Utility Master Plan
Notice given by: Councillor Biermanski
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BUDGET POSTPONED MOTION:
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That the Storm-001 is removed from 2023 10 Year Utility RMR Capital Plan.
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Administration’s Understanding of the Intent of the Motion:
This motion appears eliminate the entirety of the Stormwater Utility Master Plan (Storm-001) from the 10 Year Utility RMR Capital Plan
As the project is not scheduled until 2024, there is no ability to make a budget motion at this time as the 2024 RMR budget will not be considered until June of next year. However, the motion could be reworded to address only the timing or inclusion of the 2024 component in the 10 year plan. If this is the intent, the following alternate motion is recommended:
That the 10 year Utility RMR Capital plan be amended “to move STORM-001 Utility Master plan to a "20xx” OR “to remove the 2024 update to STORM-001 Utility Master plan”.
Operational or Organizational Impacts if Motion is Approved:
The City's stormwater model would not be fully updated to account for growth that has occurred since the last UMP or UMP update.
Regularly updated UMPs allow faster and more accurate development circulation response times. In the absence of updated UMPs, additional staffing would gradually need to be added to address the gaps in infrastructure planning, to update the City's stormwater model and to provide timely responses to developers.
In the absence of recently updated UMPs, developers would be required to provide more/larger engineering submissions. This would result in the duplication of effort for developers and is counter to focus on the needs of their own individual developments. It would also result in less collaboration between developers to reduce their servicing costs by working together. Ultimately, the City would inherit infrastructure that is more costly to maintain (additional lift stations and additional stormwater lines) which would resu...
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