Cedarberg and call the environmental uh committee to order today. Um first on the agenda, I'd like to acknowledge the Dakota land, Water, and People Acknowledgement, which we uh read this last month. And so we'll um uh just let people read that uh it's on the agenda and acknowledge that. Second thing is approval of the agenda. Um are there any comments or anything on the agenda? If not, then I will go ahead and approve that. I'd like to have a um motion to approve the environmental committee men minutes or if there's any comments. Council member Wolf. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. I would move the approval of the August 11th minutes with one correction. It has you calling the meeting to order and I called the meeting to order. So, >> thank you so much. Um, we'll make that change. And do we have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Council Member Morales. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. [clears throat] Opposed. That that is approved. Thank you. Um, at this time, there is no consent business this week. And we have two items on the non-consent business. Our first item is item 22 2026160S SW, storm water reuse grant program. and we'll invite uh Steve Christopher to come down and give us a presentation. Welcome. Thank you, Madam Chair and committee members. Uh before you I will be presenting the storm water reuse grant program. I'm Steve Christopher, environmental analyst within environmental services, work in water planning and policy. Just want to walk through a couple of the items that we'll be covering today. It includes a funding background. I'll be sharing some guidelines created for the program and then also provide an overview of the criteria that the grant program is designed around. So the Minnesota legislature in their 2025 regular session received funding the Met Council received funding from the legislature to support communities implementing projects that address emerging drinking water supply threats and overall water sustainability. And part of the activities that were approved for the council to work on include ways to reduce impacts on the groundwater system through storm water reuse grants that assist communities in reducing water use. The grant program goal is increase sustainability of the region's source water and the program is to support the construction of storm water reuse systems including the treatment of storm water for beneficial reuse to reduce the burden on source waters within the 7count metropolitan area. The grant program is consistent with the conservation and sustainability policy from the 2050 water policy plan, including working together to ensure the region's water is conserved and used efficiently. And also, we will work with water supply service providers and agency partners to pro to prioritize work within significant water users that may reduce water use, promote conservation, and implement reuse where applicable. So, the Met Council has $1 million of pass through funds that we received through the clean water, land, and legacy amendment, and we will provide up to 75% of the project cost where the grantee will provide the remaining 25%. Grants will be made available in the amounts of with a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $250,000. Grantees will be required to provide estimated water savings achieved through this program for clean water land and legacy reporting. As far as the eligibility entities include cities and townships, counties, wershed management organizations, as well as soil and water conservation districts. Those local government units need to be located within the 7count metropolitan area. The practices that are eligible include that the project must involve storm water or rain water intended for beneficial reuse. The difference there is rainwater only touches roofs whereas storm water might touch roads or other pavements. Um and then it can include the construction or expansion of any storm water reuse system for beneficial reuse. The projects must meet all local, state, and federal regulations. And then they also must meet state guidance, which is listed within the Minnesota Stormwater Manual as well as the Minnesota Department of Health. The selection criteria that we've identified includes technical merit, water supply and environmental benefits, community impact, economic and financial strength, project readiness, reporting and a monitoring plan, and then we have risk management as a past fail. The categories with more detail are listed within attachment A. So, the proposed action that I have before you is that the Metropolitan Council approves business item 2026 160SW on the process for the 2026 through 2028 storm water reuse grant program described in attachment A and authorizes staff to advertise the availability of grant funding and solicit applications. There is one correction that is needed to the business item. The dates for the program should be listed as through June 30th, 2028 and not June 30th, 2030. And with that, I'll take any questions. >> Council member Carter, >> I just wondering what's what is because I'm sure you guys uh created a scenario, different scenarios. Um what what is a typical uh use case for like a a smaller city uh in using uh in [clears throat] uh uh plugging into this grant? What typically um would they be involved in? Would they be more so involved in the storm water or in in terms of uh uh the rainwater uh used for drinking water or would it be more so storm water? What would be the use case typically? Madame Chair, Council Member Carter, the most common reuse that we see within the metro area is storm water capture and then reuse for irrigation. That is the most common because it's it has a different level of treatment than if it's for potable use. >> Okay, >> we do see some reuse for flushing toilets rather than being portable again. Um but that typically what we see the most prevalent cases are are for irrigation. >> Okay. >> What are we looking at as far as timing goes? Madam Chair, we would like to begin the application period in the middle of September and then we would keep that application period open until the end of October and then under ideal conditions we would be able to notify the grant recipients by the end of this calendar year. >> And then um how do you go about advertising it the engagement [clears throat] process? Uh, madam chair, this would be posted on our website and then we would also be reaching out to the people that receive water resources notifications and then we will also spread this through our kind of a agency partners to make sure that that network is being further distributed. >> Okay, great. And then I just suggest too that um when when it's all ready to go, I mean I because I could also in my district they'd be very interested and I can do a personal connection to to send it out as well if council members are interested in doing that. We can also let them know [clears throat] to go ahead and do that. Council member Jenkins. >> Yeah, thank you. Chair. Yeah, I I would mirror that. um we have the connections with the elected sometimes and sometimes they have no idea what's going on and it helps for them to be aware that this opportunity this funding opportunity especially is available to their city. So yeah, if you could include council members that'd be great. >> Thank you. Any more questions or anything? All right. The proposed action today is that the Metropolitan Council approves business item 2026-160SSW on the process for the 2026 to 2028 storm water reuse grant program described in attachment A and authorizes staff to advertise the availability of grant funding and solicit applications. Can I have a motion? >> So move second. >> Council member Jenkins, Council Member Lindstöm, Council Member Jenkins. Thank you. Any last questions, comments? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed. That passes unanimously. Thank you so much for coming and presenting today. Next on the non-consent business is business item 2026-164, St. Corey Valley Water Resource WWRF upgrade. I'm going to say that. contract 26P024 and Lee Zang and Renee Heftlin will be presenting. Thank you for coming up and being here today. Uh good afternoon, Madam Chair and members of the environment committee. My name is Renee Heftlin. I'm the manager of plant engineering. Um this business item will be presented by uh Leon and I'm here to introduce her. Um it's my pleasure to introduce her. She's a uh principal engineer with a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota. She is an experienced project manager. Um she has been with the council in the plant engineering group for four years. Prior to that she was with u Minneapolis water for 10 years. Um she worked um as a project in construction in project management and construction management and then prior to that she worked um 10 years with uh CDM. So um with that we will present the business item. >> Thank you. Um good afternoon madame chair and uh members of the environment committee. My name is Lie Jang. I am a principal engineer with um MCS plant engineering group. I'm here to present business island 2026 164 Sco Valley water resource recovery upgrades contract 26P 024. The Sco Valley water resource recovery facility serves the cities of Bayport Oak Park Heights and Stillwater and St. Co Valley was built in 1993 1994 and there have been no major construction at the facility since then. So this project Squis Valley water resource recovery facility upgrades include asset preservation work and safety improvements that are needed to ensure the facilities continued reliable operation. This slide shows the asset preservation and the safety improvements elements for this project. There are process equipment upgrades, HVLC inc imp improvements, electrical improvements, gravity thickener repairs and access upgrades, fiber upgrades, road reconstruction and carbon vessels for protection and erration basins safety gates. The invitation for bids was issued on April 17 of this year. The pre-bid meeting was held on May 6. Procurement open bids on June 11. Two bids were received. The bid amounts range from 18,762,797.32 to 20,396,800. This office of uh civil rights and small business programs assigned a metropolitan council under utilized business goal mcup go for this project. Map go was 9%. Rice Lake construction group was determined to be the low responsible responsive and responsible bidder and is recommended for award. This brings us to the proposed action that the Metropolitan Council authorized its regional administrator to award and execute contract 26P024 with Rice Lake construction group for the construction of the Seno Valley water resource recovery for city upgrades in amount not to exceed 20,396,800. This concludes my presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions. >> Council member Carter. >> Yeah. My my question is uh once these improvements are done, how much does that extend the life cycle of this facility by? >> Roughly 30 years. >> Okay. >> Any other questions? Council member Morales. The one question I have, you you have [clears throat] here that it ranged from 18.7 to 20.3. Um, but we're doing a not to exceed of 20.39. Them being the lowest responsive bidder, I take it there was one bidder lower than them, but this is why they were selected for other reasons. >> Yeah. Um, madame chair, committee members, um, two bids were received. One bid was determined to be nonresponsive. Rice Lake Construction Group was determined to be the low responsive and responsible bidder for the project. And uh Rob um Carrie um is with procurement here. Maybe Rob can further kind of elaborate. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Madame Chair and Council Member Morales, we um we received two bids and as stated uh the recommendation for award is based on three criteria being the low responsive and responsible bidder and the bid value that was recognized as the $18 million was the bid that was rejected as non-responsive. >> Thank you. Yes, >> thank you for that. Um I just was I had I had a question or a comment but it slipped to my mind. Um this is in my district [clears throat] in district 11. So um it's nice to see this come up and then as I go around and talk to my communities coming up in the winter and and next spring, I'll be able to bring this forward as well. Um there's a lot of things going on in the Stillwater community. A lot of growth, a lot of building, a lot of repurposing of um large [clears throat] parcels of land that's going to go on in the next 20 years. So I think that this this is [clears throat] good to get this going now and then uh look to see what the future brings for that area as well. It's definitely a a large an area of large growth that'll be happening over the next many years. So [snorts] thank you. Um, if there's no other comments, the proposed action we have today is that the Metropolitan Council authorize its regional administrator to award and execute contract 26P024 with Rice Lake Construction Group for the construction of the St. Corey Valley Water Resource Facility upgrades in an amount not to exceed $20 million, $396,800. >> Second, >> Council Member Morales. Thank you, Council Member Carter. Um, any other comments, questions? >> Council member Lee. >> Oh, Council Member Lee. So, Council Member Carter raised his hand, so that's what I saw. >> Yeah, I was trying to get [laughter] >> I did it. >> Thank you, Council Member Lee. Um, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? And that passes unanimously. Thank you so much for coming today and uh uh sharing the information. Thank you. Next on the agenda is our 2027 capital program and John Chilbeck, Renee Heftlin, and Adam Gordon will be coming up and presenting to us. So, thank you so much for coming today. >> There's a lot of information in this presentation, so it's really good. It's I went through it all. Um, uh, Chair Cedarberg and committee members. Hello. My name is John Clebec. I'm the assistant manager in the wastewater planning and community programs group at Met Council. And I'm here with our engineering managers. Renee already introduced herself [cough] >> and Adam Gordon. and we're here to present anformational item on the 2027 capital program uh to the environment committee tonight. Uh this is our annual update to the capital program and theformational item tonight is an opportunity for the environment committee to ask questions about the program and provide input um before it gets rolled into the unified council budget which ends up going to the full council for approval um in December. So, I'm going to provide an overview of the program. [clears throat] Um, and then Renee and Adam are going to provide information about the content of the program as it relates to our water resource recovery facility projects and our interceptor system projects. And then we'll have time for questions, but also welcome questions along the way, too. So, please interrupt if you have any. We start the presentation with our customer level of service framework. And this is a framework of priorities that was developed with input from our community partners, the cities that we serve in the wastewater system. Um it um it's one of the things that guides our work in environmental services and in particular as it relates to development of the capital program. It's a little hard to see on the slide here, but there's 13 priorities there. And I won't go through them all right now, but um [clears throat] some of the things I might point out is um on the top row uh it asks us to preserve our assets to maintain their value um to minimize impacts to communities and that could be from a failure of our systems or wastewater spilling into the environment or through our construction projects themselves. and to make sure they're done in a way that that minimizes impacts. Um and um also that we collaborate with cities um as we do this work um and with others to try to reduce costs and and minimize impacts as well. The capital program has three components shown here. Um on the left side of the plus sign on the slide at the bottom is the capital budget. That's the one-year authorized budget for the capital program. Uh that's defined by statute. Um and the authorized capital program, the ACP above that is an extension of the one-year capital budget and it's it's a multi-year authorization. The reason we do that is because we need to ensure that our projects are fully authorized before they're bid or contracted for. And so we have multi-year construction projects and uh we seek authorization for the entire amount of that construction project before it can move forward. And then on the right side of the plus sign on the slide is the capital improvement program or CIP. And that's the balance of the six-year program that we're not seeking authorization for um at this time. And those are projects that are not anticipated to go into construction in the next year. So, the 2027 capital program is a six-year program um going from 2027 to 2032. The bar chart here shows the estimated cost for capital expenditures for environmental services over that six-year period um by year. And so the dark blue in the bars is what's in the ACP or a authorized capital program. So, what we're seeking authorization for currently um for the projects that are coming up that are heading into construction and then the light blue is the CIP portion that's um not in the current authorization. The average for the six-year period in this capital program is 445 million. Um and the red line indicates an estimated spend and that's based on historic information. Um, typically we don't spend everything that's authorized in the program. And so if we like to point that out, um, the authorization request is the cost estimates for all the projects that are coming up in the program um, added together and that's the amount we request authorization for to make sure that there is authorization for um, all of the program amounts uh, for the projects that are included. So the proposed 2027 six-year capital program, the authorized capital program ACP is 2 bill238 million. Um the current program which runs from 2026 to 2031 is 2 bill177 million. Um and the difference is made up with adjustments to existing projects as well as new projects added into the program. And the total change there was an addition of 289 million roughly in projects and also over the last year we've closed projects um amounting to 228 million roughly um which is subtracted from the program. So the 2 bill238 million in the current ACP request um along with the uh capital improvement program or the un unauthorized portion of the program which was $998 million uh results in a total for the six-year program of $3 bill236 million. There are three objectives for the projects in our program and you'll see some of the details of that um from Adam and Renee uh in a couple more slides here. Um but those are preserving assets that includes things like lining pipes that are in the ground or replacing pumps and equipment that are reaching the end of their useful life. Meeting capacity needs as expansion to meet growth in the region. And so that can be expansion of treatment processes at plants or the construction of interceptor pipes to serve new areas in communities and improving quality um which could be adding processes to meet new regulatory requirements or projects that are geared toward improving reliability or environmental sustainability. For example, um you can see in the pie chart on the right at the top, um preserving assets continues to be the majority of the program spend in this six-year program. That's been the case for several years now. Um and it really is an indication of the age of our infrastructure and reflects a broader trend in the nation and in the in the world as well. um with a lot of aging infrastructure and it's requiring investment to make sure it continues to serve its purpose. Um meeting capacity needs um it's shown on the pie chart as expand and um quality improvements is shown as improve those make up about equally the remainder of the program and it's divided approximately half and half between the interceptor system and plants with a slightly more on the interceptor system. this time and that fluctuates um from year to year as well. But there are three um funding sources for the ES capital program. It includes public facility authority PFA loans. Um these are this is the clean water revolving fund loan program which is administered by the Minnesota public facilities authority along with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. It's a discounted loan discounted interest rate loan program. Um, and you can see uh for 2026 uh we had a loan of 44 million in that program with an interest rate of 1.87%. >> Um, generally we've targeted around 50 million for uh PFA funded loans. Um the reason for that is that they set a limit on the amount of the loan for Met Council and the intention of that is to make sure those funds are distributed across the state. And so there's an amount that PFA will set for us on an annual basis that we can take as a loan and receive the most advantaged interest rate. And so for 2027, we're looking at that likely to be in the range of 50 to 65 million, which is shown on the slide there. Um, we're still working out the details of that with PFA. The majority of our funding for the capital program comes from general obligation bonds in the middle column there. Um, >> Met Council retains or maintains a AAA bond rating, which is a high priority for us to minimize debt expense to the region. Um, and our current loan amount in 2026 is shown at 295 million. Um, that was at an interest rate of 3.5%. Um, we haven't determined yet what our bond offering will be for 2027. I think it's it's dependent on actual expenditures and kind of going back to the previous chart I showed with the bars and the red line where that red line falls really affects how quickly we spend our geo bonds uh our bond funds. And so um depending on when there's a need for additional bonding um we are anticipating that to happen in 2027 but it's the details are still to be worked out for that. And then our third category of funding is pay as you go or payo on the right and those are operational funds that are used to fund smaller capital improvement program or capital improvement projects. And so generally those are things that don't meet the criteria for geo bonds. And um the main criteria there is that it has to have a 10-year useful life and be valued at more than a $100,000. And so oftentimes that's used for smaller maintenance projects or uh planning projects and things of that nature. So, we're going to move into the water resource recovery facility capital programs and Rene is going to present that. I don't know if there are any questions currently on the overview before we move into more of the details. >> There any comments or questions from anybody? >> Thank you. >> Thank you, John. So, as John mentioned, I'm going to um present that portion of the uh proposed 2027 uh capital program that is associated with the council's uh nine water resource recovery facilities. As shown here, there are 11 >> existing programs for the water um resource recovery facilities um with total program budgets in parenthesis. A program is uh a group of related capital projects and they're typically associated with the facility plan. The total uh program budget for all uh programs shown here is about a billion dollars and 70% is tied to four rehabilitation and improvements projects at the Metropolitan Water Resource Recovery Facility. Those are items 1, 2, 5, and 10. We are building facilities to accommodate growth in the region. Um item two metro solids improvements includes the fourth incinerator which is currently under construction. The fourth incinerator will accommodate 500,000 new residential equipment uh excuse me residential equivalents expected um in its service area by 2050. Item uh seven is a large improvements program at the Blue Lake Water Resource Recovery Facility. Um within the next six years, we will construct a 25% increase in liquids treatment capacity, a 33% increase in solids digestion capacity. Um, and the plant will accommodate a 100,000 new residential equivalent equivalents by 2050. After Blue Lake will construct the Crow River water resource recovery facility, that one's item 8 on this list. It will replace the Rogers uh wastewater treatment facility um which will increase service to Rogers by 100% to accommodate 20,000 new residential equivalents um in its service area. Um one program will be closed that's item nine because planning activities associated with wastewater reclamation facilities are being moved to other programs. One new program will be added, item 12, to initiate planning activities at the Synica Water Resource Recovery Facility. Um, for this um information item, I will uh review just those specific programs that have significant um proposed uh changes either in scope or in budget for 2027. But before I go into the proposed changes for the 2027 program, I would like to acknowledge or highlight some of the um projects that were successfully completed uh this year. Metro services building project is a is a transformational project that provided permanent offices for staff that previously officed out of temporary uh trailers and rental um space. The Metro Electrical Distribution Renewal Project expanded the primary substation to improve reliability and safety. The new substation is shown in the photo um insert on this slide. Metro secondary treatment improvements, renewed aeration, uh the aeration system with an estimated uh savings in electricity of $300,000 per year. Um at the East Bethl uh water resource recovery facility, we're confi reconfiguring uh process tanks and uh getting new equipment to treat increased wastewater tc increase wastewater flow. So in uh 2014 when the plant um started the flow was 5,000 gallons per day. Um the current flow is 67,000 gallons per day. So that's that's good news. Um, we're replacing programmable logic uh controllers that monitor and control the treatment process systemwide. We completed Empire PLC replacement this year and this brings our PLC replacement which includes Empire, St. Croy Valley, Eagles Point and East Bethl um to 30% complete. Uh finally, we completed renewal of the existing uh drier at um um Blue Lake Water Resource Recovery Facility. Uh so now I'm I would like to turn attention to uh five of the programs that have significant proposed changes for 2027. So this first one is 8078 regional uh water resource recovery facility WRF improvements. This program uh delivers a capital project to meet near-term needs of the regional water resource recovery facilities. Typically the project objectives are um asset preservation and quality improvements, significant changes to the uh program are that we are closing uh East Bethl improvements which I just uh talked about in the previous slide and we are adding Eagle's Point solids process improvements. The solids process improvements will reduce wastewater uh solids produced at the plant to reduce off-site sludge hauling. Um the net impact of these uh changes on the authorized capital program or ACP uh is basically a wash. Um the current 2026 ACP is 85.5 million. The proposed 2027 ACP is 85 million. The affected communities by this program include all of the plant sites except Metro. So that's East Bethl, Cottage Grove, Stillwater, Empire, Hastings, Egan, Shakipi, and Rogers. Um the construction period uh shown here is for the added project, Eagles Point Solids Process improvements. I think I have 2028 through 2031. And that's kind of how all of these slides will be set up, kind of help us read those. [snorts] Um, program 8097 is Blue Lake Water Resource Recovery Facility Improvements. Uh, this program implements a facility plan adopted by the council February 2021. We're closing the drier renewal project and splitting liquids improvements into two projects. Aerration improvements will optimize secondary treatment process to get the facility ready to meet a new lower permit for phosphorus. The new uh permit limit is expected in 2037. Uh secondary clarifiers 9 and 10 will expand treatment capacity from 35 million gallons per day to to 44 million gallons per day. We're proposing to increase the ACP from 112 million to 160 million and that is based on engineering cost estimates obtained um during final design. The construction period uh shown here covers the entire planning window. Uh a lot of work at Blue Lake 2027 through 2032 and we plan to construct the the two projects listed here plus a fourth digtor. So that plant is going to be under continuous construction for six years. [snorts] The Crow River Water Resource uh recovery facility program 8099 constructs a new uh treatment facility in Rogers, Minnesota to replace the existing uh Rogers wastewater treatment facility. This program is documented in a facility plan adopted by the council in 2025. Consultant services um were were contracted this year. We're asking for an additional uh uh ACP to cover preliminary site work such as site surveys, assessments, and uh utility services. Uh program 8103 is a Metro WRF restoration and improvements. Um it will continue renewal work at the facility. The program is currently in the planning phase and the draft um facility plan is under development. An additional $18 million in ACP is requested to be able to solicit uh engineering services next year and that will include um planning a little bit of additional planning um design and construction support. This is our uh new program 8105 uh for Synica water resource recovery facility restoration improvements and the need for this work is identified in the 2050 water res uh water policy plan and the requested ACP is just a million dollars to um initiate planning activities. I don't know if there's um any questions on the plant program, but those are the >> Council Member Carter. >> Yeah, I did have a question or maybe I misread it. It was on uh uh page nine. Uh and I thought that you said that item number nine was being closed and it [clears throat] looks like item number six and but that's not what I was worried about. What what I was wondering about was why is the wastewater uh treatment reclamation facility being closed? Is it outdated or um >> y um madam chair and um committee members um it's being closed because there are small uh planning activities still occurring that we are putting in other programs. One example is that on the systems we're looking at uh um regional service and so southeast regional planning I believe um Adam will mention this that work is just uh redistributed to other programs. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Council member Jenkins. >> Thank you chair. Um my question is on 80078 which is the um regional water resource recovery facility improvements under communities and I'm presume it's referring to the new Eagles Point Solids process improvements. Um we've got Cottage Grove, Still Water, Empire, Hastings, Egan and so forth. How is Hastings and some of these other cities impacted by working at Eagle's Point or Bethl? Um, Madame Chair and committee members, so the regional uh plan improvements is a uh program uh geared to respond to immediate needs and what I summarize were just the differences. um those um there are projects uh ongoing at any of the regional plants besides Metro and Metro as you are probably aware by the programs is under continuous renewal. So those are all of the other plants except Metro um and I indicated the sites not the full service area as just an abbreviation. >> Okay. Thank you. That helps. >> Thank you. >> [snorts] >> So, uh, Madam Chair, with with, uh, that I can, uh, turn it over to Adam Gordon, who will present the interceptor portion of the capital program. >> Thank you, Renee. So, every year I come here and I have a map of current projects, construction projects or significant design projects that are heading towards construction. uh we came up with too many projects to list them all here. So I was going to attempt [cough] in this slide I've um shown how we've organized the program between the five primary areas the northwest south Minneapolis St. Paul areas and how many projects that we actually have in each of those areas. Uh it's distributed across the entire metro area. You can see that we have work occurring uh just about everywhere and in all the areas. Um the areas are constructed around our as I indicated around our operational areas. In addition, we have two remaining programs within the interceptor side uh that are project specific, which is the new list station L32A project and the 8041 Hopkins system improvements project. [clears throat] So those are individual projects. Um as well as we what you don't see in here is programs 8082 which is the St. Bonafacious L24 list station force main and the 8083 Wonia L70 force mains which closed in 2026 leaving approximately 27 million in ACP returned back to the budget. I also wanted to represent the slide on how projects are identified in the interceptor system and it's through our operators and maintenance staff and engineering staff that prepare condition assessments um on lift stations, meters and pipelines that feed condition assessment information along with a level service and the consequences of failure into a risk prioritization process. The condition assessment results and the consequences of failure um together um form basically the uh what we call the likelihood of failure which is a determination derived from condition assessments from excellent to failing and the consequence of failure or the severity which follows our organization's level of service and that's basically on a scale from manageable to unmanageable. And for example uh when we talk about pipeline assessment as poor um that is a uh predicted failure of 5 to 10 years as opposed to certain which is a structurally failed pipe uh that may or may not have collapsed may have severe defects and requires immediate action. Uh so the considerations for the consequence of failure includes potential property damage, proximity to major transit corridors, environmental sensitivity, and the operational impacts if we had a failure. So, I'm going to review each of the programs that are in the interceptor system and go through what changes we're anticipating for in the 2027 CIP. In the west area, we uh have identified no new projects. However, uh we have existing work going on including the new force main uh installation for 7113 and Orno which is starting up this next month. In addition, there's continued construction work at L48, L46, and L49. Our ACP is only changing a little bit from 103 million [snorts] to 102 million uh for the capital program. The uh Hawkins system improvements is one of like I said before two programs in the CIP that are project specific. Uh was initiated in 2010 with the last segment that needs still be constructed. That's along the mall in the East neighborhood. Uh we're coordinating the upcoming work closely with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and the East Isles Neighborhood Association. uh recently had a very successful meeting in the neighborhood with the neighborhood association which was attended by council member Lilligran which was very helpful. The ACP in this case has changed only slightly for 2027 for our list station improvements program. We have identified improvements needed at three list stations. L13 in Egan, L80 and Corkran and L19 at Excels here. The ACP uh for uh the list station program is reduced with the closure of completed projects in the program. You can see there that's gone from [clears throat] 149 million to 114 million. In the meter program, we've identified new projects uh that include eight existing meters that are slated for improvements along the addition of two new building meters for the cities of Oakdale and Lake Elmo. In addition, there's plans for the addition of upstream and downstream meters at water body crossings to better detect and quickly respond to potential spills. In this program, we're increasing the ACP or proposed to increase the ACP from 42 million to 54 million. one of our largest programs in the north area. We've had over 70,000 feet of existing port condition pipe identified this past year in the interceptor pipeline assessment program and we have new work expected in Mounds View, Blaine, Whitebear Lake, Gem Lake and Maplewood. In this case, we are proposing to increase the ACP from 236 million to 319 million. In the St. Paul interceptor system program, we have no new projects being added. Uh, however, I wanted to note the ongoing existing work we have in design. We've divided we've we're trying to conquer a lot of projects by uh grouping projects together, different u assets that or facilities that need to be um improved or rehabbed. We have the greater east side interceptor program which includes one SP 214, one SP 215 and one SP 216 as well as we have the westside sandstone tunnel rehab project which includes one SB230, one SP234 and one SB237. And the picture there is of one of our 1880 vision versions of a sandstone tunnel that's in the Westside Flats that needs to be rehabilitated. So very very old tunnels. Uh the ACP is proposed to be increased in this program from 52 million to 74 million to cover the construction cost of those projects. We have a uh single program which is our general program that supports systemwide projects, the 8090 program. These things include like odor control and city coordination uh predominantly changes to structures for city street improvements as well as support for the rest of the program. The ACP is being reduced from 73 million to 55 million with the completion of projects, most notably the reconstruction of the regional maintenance facility in Egan, which finished this last year. In the Minneapolis interceptor system improvements program, one MN344 is identified for inclusion and this involves removal of structures within the Miniha Creek channel which you might have remember the presentation that I had a little bit earlier this summer uh where we had damage uh due to the creek to uh the tunnel and we're going to review the remainder of the structures that are actually within the creek. and uh change those so that they're more resilient and won't be damaged in the future. Some of the other significant projects in this program and again we're in the process of bundling assets but we have 1 MN303 which is a pipe and pipe rehabilitation park our project near Columbia Park uh that's just initiating construction this month. We have the Northeast Minneapolis Rehab Program which includes 1 MN303, 1 MN 302 and 1 MN 300A. Uh this project is in preliminary design. And then we also have a major project 1 MN 346 in the Nakcomomas neighborhoods of Winona and Kiwen. Uh this project is about to be advertised and covers about uh three blocks of u neighborhood and the ACP is proposed to be adjusted slightly downward from 132 million to 129 million. The second remaining project that's or program that's project specific is the 8094 new list station L32A project uh to replace the 43 uh million gallons per day list station in Brooklyn Park with a new larger facility that's 67 million gallons per day uh sits across the Mississippi River and Fidley and rehabilitate the two existing river crossings um for that facility and the ACP is proposed to be adjusted from 226 million to 233 million >> and then last is the south area program where 3,000 ft of interceptors identified in poor condition primarily in Richfield and we're proposing ing to increase the uh ACP in that program [cough] [clears throat] from 109 million to 137 million to cover those two new or uh to cover those new projects. And with that, I believe we get into the capital program schedule, but maybe I should ask if there's any questions before we >> Council Member Lindst. Um, yeah. Uh, I'm curious on the I'm curious to know if it's accurate to say that all of the projects identified as major or severe will be taken care of in this capital budget. To the extent that we know and that we only get a glimpse of the system about 10% of the system each year >> to the extent that we know everything has been added to the to the capital program that needs to be addressed. I mean that's that's an important point of everything that we know that is major and likely to have a significant issue or severe where we we know for certain that it's going to have an issue. It will be addressed. Of course, these are all underground so and [clears throat] you know we can't we don't have >> cameras on them all the time. So things happen everything that we know. >> Yes. I always have to caveat. We only get a 10% glimpse every year because 600 miles of pipe can't be looked at all at once. So we we try to program better than 60 miles of pipeline inspections each year. And in addition, we're we're far exceed that on list stations and meters. We we see much more than that. But in terms of the pipelines themselves, we we try to hit that 60 mile a year mark and and so far we've been better than that in the last five years. That was a good point. Thank you, Council Member Lindstöm. Any other comments that anybody has or questions? So, just looking at where we've been and where we're headed in terms of schedule. Um, this sim a similar presentation to this went to the ISLT for environmental services, our executive team in July and we're here presenting thisformational item tonight. Um after this, the division's capital improvement program is due uh in that first week in September uh to be included in the council's budget. Um there's a presentation of the overall capital improvement program for the council on October 14th. Um, and then adoption or I think this is really approval to go out for public review on October 28th and then adoption of the budget in December. That's all we had tonight. you know, John and Renee and Adam and and all your teams. I just wanted to make a comment and um there's a lot of work and [snorts] and the attention to detail and I'm an engineer and that's this makes me happy as an engineer. This is fun work for an engineer. I mean, it is, you know, and just the dedication and the attention to detail and the keeping after things. I mean, it is hard work and I but when you love it and you're passionate about it, it just to let people know that your asset protection and infrastructure and maintaining it is just so important. And me personally, I can speak for the committee as well, but the confidence we have in you to continue this work and to keep at it and to bring things forward and to ask for our help when you need it. you know, anytime we can show up at a meeting that you need us to be at, we'll be there. Um, anything you need, please ask us for assistance as well. But thank you for your dedication and and the whole team that's behind you. um for for pulling this together and just you know keeping at it cuz I know I mentioned it before when I was in Forest Lake. They had no idea that when they flushed their toilet the water came to the metro plant and it was just this eyeopener like oh I'm going to turn my water off when I brush my teeth. I mean, it was just so this is great because I show all this work that we're doing to my communities and I think, you know, having this presentation that as we go out and talk to people, we can say this is what's happening out in in our neighborhood and in our part of the region. You know, we are investing and and keeping track of what's going on to give everybody confidence. So, I just like to appreciate everybody on the the team. So, thank you for that. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. Okay, great. Thank you so much for coming. Um, reports. Um, I don't have any reports. Um, committee members, anything going on? Water, climate, anything? >> Don't we have the fourth incinerator groundbreaking tomorrow? >> We do. I was waiting. Thank you. I was going to let the general manager speak on that. Speaking of spending capital dollars, there's [snorts] some pretty big dollars that are going to be celebrated tomorrow in a groundbreaking. And so hopefully you can get there. I think the weather's going to be great. Um there's going to be a lot of excitement. This will be our first groundbreaking that I've been around us to participate in and since I've been here a long time, it's uh might be almost our first. But I'm pretty sure somewhere in the early days there was some groundbreaking ceremonies. So, predate me. >> So, 10:30, right? >> 10:30. Um, we'll have some refreshments, so you come early. The program starts at 10:45, so give yourself a little extra time so you can look around a little bit while you're getting ready for the groundbreaking. >> Perfect. And we will have tours afterwards. So if anybody wants to tour a second time or it'll it's your first time, you're welcome >> to do that, too. >> Well, perfect. So I think that concludes our meeting and I will adjourn. Thank you so much for coming. >> I had 45. >> No, no, I was just passing it on to the general manager. >> Actually, we're glad to know you