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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, September 21, 2015 Page 3 There is a pretty solid dissent that essentially indicates that capital improvement projects that the District adopts for regional stormwater purposes need to be funded after the fact, not before the fact. We kind of expect that there will be, essentially anyway, further litigation on that issue. Right now about $20 million are in escrow with the Courts. The District is trying to pull that _" money_out,:~Time ..will tell just_exactly what will: be the methodology__that. the._District will.".- _ --employto be-able-to fund these projects. ---- - -- -~ -- """- -- -- From our standpoint, this is pretty critical. We have been on a waiting list for 5 years for restoration of Beecher's Brook upstream of SOM Center Road just north of Fisher's. That's our biggest drainage in the community. We have been tracking for about 2-3 years now, collecting data along with Burgess & Niple to track the erosion. You may recall that when we widened SOM Center Road, part of the project called for correcting downstream erosion on the east side of SOM. That's when we redirected the stream, created a manmade waterfall, all pretty dramatic change. The fault line in that area horizontally a few hundred yards drops about 100 feet. It's pretty severe. I may be overstating it, but it's a pretty impressive grade change in that area so the erosion has been an ongoing issue for quite a while. That correction worked for a while and we noticed upstream the stream started changing course. What is more critical is that it is bending northward closer to Parkledge. There's a pretty substantial grade change there. There's kind of a plateau. This is undercutting that bank gradually. Not something necessarily cause for alarm but it's something noticeable and something significant enough that it has to be worked on. We have looked at it. Our last study from a few years ago with URS projected roughly about a half million dollar capital improvement would likely be called for, a very rough estimate, but looking for stream revetment modalities that are not going to be cheap. We have already started communication immediately with Regional Sewer. It's something important for us to look at because if we are looking at next year's budget as we are, we need to include this as a capital improvement issue Whether it will be accomplished in 2016 or 2017 or even 2018 remains to be seen. A lot of that is we are looking for a substantial amount of funding and we think this project fits into the kind of capital improvement that even the dissent focused upon as an appropriate way for the District to act so we are going to try to leverage that, but I want Council know I am of course getting the timeframe and the potential ETA for this kind of project. It's just something you need to be aware of. COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT MARRIE There were no comments. DEPARTMENT HEAD REPORTS: SERVICE - Doug Metzun~ Mr. Metzung reported on this evening's vote on Klyn Nursery. I provided an exact number for that. It's not to exceed $8,372. We talked about it in Finance. Also, we close out our summer