Be sure to check this out, and follow the link to the City’s Powerpoint provided at the end of the email.

From an email to Grace from Mr. Hansen:

Update on Stormwater Issues
Email from Dave Hansen, Deputy City Manager

Grace,

Here’s a link to the FY11 Stormwater Brief we gave 20 April 2010.  Several of your constituents have been very active in educating themselves about how stormwater O&M and CIP is resourced.  This brief lays out the huge requirements we face and the current revenues generated thru the stormwater fee and general fund supplement.  As the Cape Henry Drainage Project was cut in the budget several of your constituents have asked what it will take to bring it back.  For every one cent increase in the stormwater fee the stormwater enterprise fund receives @$850,000.

To reclaim the FY11 cuts (chart 21) totaling $16.6M in projects we have to add $2.75M back to the annual CIP budget to pay the long term debt for these initiatives.  $2.75M÷$850,000 =  3.25¢ increase to the stormwater fee (see chart 25).  That means each household’s annual stormwater cost would go from $87.96 to $99.83. An increase of $11.87 (less than a dollar a month). 

Why should everyone support this – just ask your neighbors in Lynnhaven Colony.  The residents along Atlantic Avenue have received their stormwater projects that took 20 years (the last pump station is going in this year and next at 61st Street).  Shadowlawn folks had their two projects with four phases each stopped in mid construction.  Cape Henry was just beginning.  And those inland neighborhoods have over 700 lakes and BMPs that we have no funding source to tackle the future dredging requirements.  They too will need to understand the stormwater business of the fees it takes to support a water based City.
The SDCC neighborhoods have many needs.  Stormwater issues rank very close to the top.  It is in everyone’s interest to understand how the Council funds stormwater management and the major gap that exists between actual resources and our publics expectations. As always, am available to meet and discuss how we try and keep VB moving forward. 

Here is the link:  http://www.vbgov.com/presentations/pworks/StormwaterWaterResourcesUpdate.ppsx

Regards,
Dave Hansen
Deputy City Manager