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Indian River County, Florida Department of Utility Services Board Memorandum Date: October 15, 2020 To: Jason E. Brown, County Administrator From: Vincent Burke, PE, Director of Utility Services Prepared By: Dwight Fulton, PE, Capital Projects Manager Subject: North Sebastian Water and Sewer Phase 2 - Approval of SJRWMD Cost -Share Agreement and Next Steps Descriptions and Conditions: Indian River County Department of Utility Services (IRCDUS) submitted applications for the following grants for the North Sebastian Septic to Sewer -Phase 2 project in Fiscal Year (FY) 19-20: • FY 19-20 Districtwide Cost Share — Saint Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) • FY 19-20 Appropriations Project Request The County had two applications for funding in the FY 19-20 Districtwide Cost -Share Program -- SJRWMD. In April of 2019, although successful in scoring high enough for a grant award, the County was notified that only one of the two applications submitted would be considered for funding. The County selected the Moorhen Marsh Project. The County was also notified in July 2019 that the FY 19-20 Legislative Appropriations request could only allocate $500,000 of the requested $1.6 Million, which was to be administered by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP). Therefore, due to the lack of funding, staff evaluated other options such as revising the project boundary. Since then, IRCDUS re -submitted applications for the following grants for the North Sebastian Phase 2 Water and Sewer Project: • FY 20-21 Districtwide Cost Share Grant -- SJRWMD • FY 20-21 Indian River Lagoon Natural Estuary Program (IRLNEP) Cost -Share Grant • FDEP Water Quality Restoration Grant • FY 20-21 Appropriations Project Request IRCDUS has been awarded funding from all four requested grant applications. On May 19, 2020, the Indian River County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) approved the FDEP Water Quality Restoration Grant LPQ0019 in the amount of $2,500,000, and the FDEP executed the same on July 2, 2020. On August 18, 2020, the Indian River County BCC approved the IRLNEP Cost -Share Grant in the amount of $204,017.69, and the IRLNEP executed the same on August 25, 2020.