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Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission Budget Message <br />• Current National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) discharge permit <br />requirements will be addressed operationally and in planning/development of CIP projects, <br />and all permit conditions are intended to be met. <br />• New environmental challenges (e.g. Clean Water Act regulations) will be monitored and <br />responded to. <br />• The Commission's first sale of revenue bonds, and use of other potential cost-beneficial <br />I financing tools, require a Debt Service line item, a Debt Service Reserve, and budgeted <br />''' expenses associated with the bond sale. <br />~ Adopted annual cost of living wage adjustments include a 2.9% increase in base salaries for <br />Eugene union members, a 2% increase in base salaries for Eugene non-represented <br />employees, and a 2.6% increase in base salaries for Springfield. <br />• Property and liability insurance costs are expected to increase at a slower rate for FY OS-06, <br />and the budget has been reduced from prior years to recognize this slower-than-expected <br />growth. <br />• Contractual Services costs -will increase to fund ongoing Commission activities such as <br />regional flow monitoring, increased public outreach and public documents associated with <br />the MWMC Facilities Plan, technical assistance needed for NPDES permit compliance; and a <br />review of MWMC's user rate cost centers. <br />• Litigation Expense is again budgeted to address legal suits and appeals filed by the Home <br />Builders Association of Lane County. <br />~' '' • Working Capital remains budgeted at $200;000 for Springfield and $500,000 for Eugene. <br />~. <br />• The Commission targets for funding the Operating Reserve, Capital Reserve and Equipment <br />(. j Replacement Reserve are met. <br />;- ~ • CIP projects budgeted in FY 04-OS will be partially completed in that timeframe; however, <br />~. I approximately $15,900,000 in carryovers to FY OS-06 are anticipated as a result of <br />~: <br />contractual commitments spanning both fiscal years. <br />,; <br />', • Projected FY OS-06 revenues are as follows: User fees - $16,150,000 ;Interest -$606,900 ; <br />.and System Development Charges (SDC) - $1,774,800 . <br />• The revenues and projects budgeted for FY OS-06 assume that the MWMC SDC <br />methodology and the Facilities Plan will be upheld in the courts. However, a contingency <br />~ reserve has been established within the Capital Reserve in the event the. SDC methodology is <br />~ ~ remanded. <br />~- - <br />_. ;. <br />-; Page 3 FY OS-06 BUDGET AND CIP <br />