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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF UTILITY SERVICES Pass Date: April 20, 2018 To: Jason E. Brown, County Administrator From: Vincent Burke, P.E., Director of Utility Services Prepared By: Arjuna Weragoda, P.E., Capital Projects Manager Subject: West Wabasso Phase II Septic to Sewer— April 2018 Status and Update DESCRIPTIONS AND CONDITIONS: In regard to the West Wabasso Phase II Septicto Sewer project, on January 18, 2018, the Indian River County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) authorized staff to: 1. Move forward with Option 2: Solicitation of grant funding without soliciting Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Neighborhood Restoration (NR) funding. 2. Submit a grant application to the St. Johns River Water Management District Cost -Share Program in January/February 2018 and to the Local Funding Initiative FY 2018-19 through the Florida Legislature; and 3. Authorize an appropriation of up to $1 million in Optional Sales Tax funding. ANALYSIS: The County submitted an application to St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) FY 18/19 Cost Share Grant program on February 13, 2018. The SJRWMD received 61 applications. Of the 7 that did not qualify for various reasons, the remaining 54 were scored and ranked. Total funding requests of the qualified applications were $33,382,744. The District's available funding for this year's program is only $16 million. Therefore, out of the 54 applications only the top 27 applications were recommended to receive District cost share funds. The West Wabasso Phase II Septic to Sewer project ranked 9 in the top 27 applications eligible for funding. See Attachment 1 for the SJRWMD award selection notice. Applications for the Local Funding Initiative FY 18-19 through the Florida Legislature was submitted by Representative Erin Grall January, 2018. The 2018 State of Florida legislative session was held from January 9, 2018, to March 11, 2018. Per Assistant County Attorney Kate Cotner's report to the BCC on April 3, 2018, the final budget did not include funding of the West Wabasso Phase II Septic to Sewer project. . The County also submitted a grant application to the Indian River National Estuary Program (IRNEP) (FY 18-19) program under Category 1 (Restoration Project) on February 22, 2018. The program received 24 applications under Category 1. The evaluations were based on a point system with a maximum score of 200 points. A minimum score of 75% or 150 points was needed to be considered for funding. Eleven (11) applications out of the 24 were eligible for funding, but due to the monies allocated only the top 8 ranked projects could be funded. The West Wabasso Phase II Septic to Sewer ranked number 6, and therefore 256 C:\Users\legistar\AppData\Local\Temp\BCL Tech nologies\easyPDF 8\@BCL@D40D8C44\@BCL@D40D8C44.docu