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Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission Budget Message <br />BUDGET MESSAGE <br />METROPOLITAN WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT COMMISSION MEMBERS: <br />Introduction <br />Consistent with the Intergovernmental Agreement, I am presenting an adopted budget for FY 05- <br />06 that fixnds operations, administration, and capital projects planned for the Regional <br />Wastewater Program (RWP). The Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission <br />(MWMC) administration and Capital Improvements Program (CIP) components of the budget <br />are reflected in the regionally funded portions of the City of Springfield's Environmental <br />Services Division, Public Works Administration and Finance Department budgets. The <br />operations, maintenance, equipment replacement, and major rehabilitation components are <br />reflected in the regionally funded portions of the City of Eugene's Wastewater, Engineering and <br />Maintenance Divisions' budgets. The Cities' Industrial Pretreatment Programs, managed locally <br />in compliance with the MWMC Model Ordinance, also are included in the RWP budget. <br />The CIP portion of the budget for FY OS-06 includes funding for several ongoing capital projects <br />that implement the Commission's Biosolids Management Plan (1997), Wet Weather Flow <br />Management Plan (2001), and .Facilities Plan (2004). Projects carried over from FY 04-05 <br />include: completion of phase one of Biocycle Farm; modifications to the lab expansion to <br />improve acid neutralization capability; improvements to the digester mixing, primary <br />clarification, secondary clarification, and south aeration basin facilities; and installationof <br />construction management facilities. Unexpended funds for these projects, which were budgeted <br />in FY 04-05, are being carried forward into FY OS-06 to support actual project schedules. New <br />capital projects in the FY OS-06 CIP and budget include additional improvements to the Regional <br />Wastewater Facilities, all of which implement the MWMC Facilities Plan, as adopted by the <br />Commission and the Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County Governing Bodies in 2004. The FY <br />OS-06 CIP projects are scheduled and budgeted in accordance with a phasing plan needed to <br />maintain compliance with the MWMC effluent discharge permit and to provide capacity on an <br />as-needed basis. The new FY OS-06 projects will primarily address the need for expanded peak <br />wet weather flow management capability (i.e. influent pumping and design for two new <br />secondary clarifiers), odor control, waste activated sludge thickening, continued implementation <br />of biosolids production enhancements to reduce capacity constraints in the facultative sludge <br />lagoons, as well as the adopted WWFMP strategies. Other Capital Programs, including Major <br />Rehabilitation, Equipment Replacement, and Major Capital Outlay also are funded in the <br />adopted FY OS-06 CIP and budget. <br />.The adopted FY OS-06 RWP Operating Budget includes a 0.3 FTE increase in the City of <br />Springfield staffing, which reflects the net effect of a minor reallocation of personnel -resources <br />between local and regional (MWMC) programs and recognizes minor organizational changes <br />implemented in FY 04-05. City of Eugene staffing will increase by 2.14 FTE to account for <br />reallocation of staff in regional versus local programs and the addition of one FTE to assist with <br />the increased workload at the Biosolids Management Facility/Biocycle Farm. Except for staffing <br />levels and non-discretionary personnel costs, RWP managers prepared budgets that absorb <br />unavoidable cost increases where possible. Most of the adopted budget increases associated with <br />Page 1 FY OS-05 BUDGET AND CIP <br />