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facing this issue; and many cities with even older infrastructure systems had been dealing with it for an even longer time. On a personal note, Chair DeBenedet noted that his initial interest in applying to serve on the PWET Commission, given his career experience, was to personally investigate whether Roseville was doing a good job maintaining its infrastructure systems in the most cost - effective manner; not necessarily the least expensive, but through providing the most value for the longest period of time for taxpayers. Chair DeBenedet noted that these pipe infrastructure systems lasted a long time, between 50 -100 years; and he had originally decided to base his capstone paper for his Master's program on this very issue. Whil initially, Chair DeBenedet noted his paper had project needed to be addressed sooner not la Following his extensive research of th his paper, Chair DeBenedet opined the City was proposing to handle i needs. While preparing his paper, p Miller and Public Works Director Sch initially thought it would While taking into conside management programs to Chair DeBenedet o fined technologies E ling a different idea him to realize that this system, and as part of agreement with how land infrastructure finance Director A Afted that he ' in ty (20) years. on projects and asset for the lowest overall cost, - materials and twenty (20) years, if his origi oncerns were whether the City of D,htful a ut i rastructure replacement; no Being pr e d providing good governan th diffic issues and push off those infra i However, Chair DeBenedet opined th that blem with its current elected official ss these CIP needs, with much of the Roseville at an 80 -90 life by the time they're scheduled for eBenedet opined that there was no question that new igies were better and would provide more years, even those Chair DeBenedet advised that he was all in favor of doing this and was more than willing to pay his fare share of the costs. Chair DeBenedet opined that sewer and water services were one of the best utility values received by residents today; and people didn't realize the value of safe water compared to what other countries faced, or what was faced by this country 100 years ago. While recognizing that these seem to massive issues today, Chair DeBenedet noted similar investments made when needed by previous generations, and the need to act similarly today for the benefit of current and future residents and generations. Page 10 of 18