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'. CITY OF ARDEN HILLS e MEMORANDUM DATE: January 23, 1998 TO: Brian Fritsinger, City Administrator FROM: Dwayne Stafford, Public Works Superintendent 9;. SUBJECT: MCES Grants & Loans Background The Metropolitan Council Environmental Services (MCES) is offering grants again this year in amounts of up to $10,000, for inflow and infiltration (I & I) identification. These are matching grants where recipients must match dollar for dollar any amount received to be used strictly for I & I identification. The City applied for this grant in 1996 and received $5,000, so far and expects to receive another $5,000, now that the City has provided MCES with the necessary documentation of work completed. This money was used to clean and televise more than 20,000 linear feet of the City's sanitary sewer lines in 1996 and 1997, e MCES is also providing low interest matching loans of up to $40,000, to qualifying Cities for the repair of! & I problems, These loans will be at one (1) percent above the five (5) year Treasury Bond rate of March 19, 1998, No payment on these loans will be required if the repair work is annually certified to be effective by the City Engineer. This would need to be done for a period of five years. Two of the five years would also need televising video's substantiating the repairs are still effectively reducing the I & I. If repair work is found to have failed, the City has the option to do further repair or pay back the I & I loan. If the repairs hold and are certified for five years the loan will be forgiven with no strings attached, Staff intends to include the additional T.V, inspections in the repair contract along with a five year warranty, As a result of the televising done in 1996 and 1997, the City has identified several areas of immediate coneern in the City's sewer system, The worst of those areas are segments laying in the low land areas behind the Ogren Townhomes and the low lands west of the Chatham Development. One other area of immediate concern is the area near the Ramsey County Compost site on Hudson Road. The City Engineer is reviewing these problems and will make recommendations in the near future, as which repairs are feasible, Applications for MCES Grants and Loans must be submitted by February 10, 1998, to be eligible, Recommendation The Public Works Superintendent recommends adoption of Resolution #98-11, authorizing the application for a MCES Grant in the amount of $1 0,000 for further I & I studies of the City's sanitary sewer system. e The Superintendent further recommends adoption of Resolution #98-10, authorizing application for a MCES Loan in the amount of$40,000 for the repair of! & I problems within the City's sanitary sewer system, -..----